Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)

Wonderful interlude, Tetra is really selling the sisters act well and seems to be having fun. Nice to have explicit confirmation that everyone knows about Parian/Sabah except Joe (by choice, of course). The mild dunking on Emma and the dressing room talk was endearing.

Not really surprising Glow Worm which is effectively a canon bridging piece between worm and ward and the ward prologue showed that Glory Girl knew of the trio even by 2015 because what they had done was horrible enough for Vicky to remember. Specifically, at a fashion event where the theme was capes dress as civilians and civilians (models) dress as capes the trio were there and were mocking and bullying a girl in a wheelchair for being in a wheelchair so it's really no surprise Emma isn't liked in the industry.
 
Apparently it takes proper tools to place them inside of/upon a persons mind but it might be possible to write them since that seems to be a acquirable ability; the Milkweed Rune wasn't actually written by Caryll after all.
Are the tools needs to use the runes at all, or are they what allows someone to safely write and erase tools from the mind? It may be that without the proper tools the rune gets written but is permanent or has side effects.
 
I mean, Joe has Unnatural Talent:Runes, I am pretty interested what he can do with that and Caryll Runes, maybe he is able to discover new Caryll Runes, or he can make them way more effective, maybe he is even able to discover a process for increasing insight without the risk of losing your sanity, that would be pretty awesome and useful.
 
I get the feeling Tetra's will may be crucial in wielding Spiral energy.

Her boundless enthusiasm and confidence to push ever further, form new connections and truly transcend limits is very useful.

I'm fascinated by her relatable but alien perspective, she also just comes across as just a nice person.
 
Joe hasn't rolled Truth yet.
That perk is still one of the more highly anticipated ones.
That was why I made the time loop comment. WoG is Truth will know what's happening when the perk is rolled similar to Spekkio in 73 Head Trip. So my thought was that since Truth is You/God he is omnipresent, or at least knows how he influenced Joe because meeting Joe would be meeting his own past actions as Truth, and would have been at the future point in time meeting Joe for the first time when he rolled the perk at the same time he allowed Joe to be healed. Both events were happening simultaneously for Truth (just like Spekkio meeting Joe for the first time during his jump and Joe rolling to meet Spekkio for the first time) but formed a closed time loop form a linear causality perspective.
 
I mean, Joe has Unnatural Talent:Runes, I am pretty interested what he can do with that and Caryll Runes, maybe he is able to discover new Caryll Runes, or he can make them way more effective, maybe he is even able to discover a process for increasing insight without the risk of losing your sanity, that would be pretty awesome and useful.
Well as far as I can tell they seem to be primarily supernaturally able to capture and describe concepts and specialize in describing supernatural phenomena, in a way that seems almost to be the opposite of Correspondence sigils, and internalizing them seems to help one embody or manifest principles related to those concepts and phenomena. I almost expect Joe or his clones to make a Biangbiang-noodles-looking Rune that describes some highly convoluted but ultimately rather useless idea or to translate some Shard Speech.

If I had to guess I would say that placing a Correspondence sigil upon a persons mind would, firstly burn them a bit but also, make them capable, very very capable, of performing something that was already possible. It would probably look like a pale imitation of a Solar Exalted.
 
I hope the nice police officers make sure Emma gets a cell where she can see the warden's TV (tuned to the gala of course) from the door. Wouldn't want her to get bored after all…
 
It really is amazing how Tetra is pulling off the sisters routine. You can definitely imagine events that never took place in the weeks of her existence, but believable in how Tetra and Delphine Mertens would've lived as sisters.
They are sisters.
Protag is their dad to both of them, in all ways that matter.
Fleet is the chill older brother, dependable and always there when you really need it but otherwise just hagging around.
Matrix is the geek little brother, always happy to help ,but more than a little completely invested in his own area of interest.
Aisha is kind of like the absentee neighbor's daughter who is kind-of-but-kind-of-not adopted.

I don't feel Kataklysm really meshes in the family scenario here... maybe as the cool uncle? Army returnee. Has zero fucks left to give. And nothing left to prove, to anyone. Is just catching up on years of lost sleep. Preferably in a good slot of sunlight.
 
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They burned a soul (well, part of a soul), so Truth might have considered it an equivalent exchange.
The closer description of what happened is that Joe's clones took a piece of soul, duplicated that piece to make multiple perfect souls, and asked those souls if they would volunteer to being turned into a Philosopher's Stone.

One volunteer was enough to make a Philosopher's Stone worth a dozen perfect souls, and then said Philosopher's Stone was used to enable chimeric fission between Tetra and Joe. In the process of using up the stone, the souls within the Stone were released into the afterlife, where presumably the process made even more souls as it probably counted as an act of creation.

No wonder Joe had an existential crisis over it. He was creating souls like a goddamn factory, and he still has leftover souls lying around from the process!
 
That was why I made the time loop comment. WoG is Truth will know what's happening when the perk is rolled similar to Spekkio in 73 Head Trip. So my thought was that since Truth is You/God he is omnipresent, or at least knows how he influenced Joe because meeting Joe would be meeting his own past actions as Truth, and would have been at the future point in time meeting Joe for the first time when he rolled the perk at the same time he allowed Joe to be healed. Both events were happening simultaneously for Truth (just like Spekkio meeting Joe for the first time during his jump and Joe rolling to meet Spekkio for the first time) but formed a closed time loop form a linear causality perspective.

Lord had a WoG on this and it was that the chimera fission operation was skirting the bounds of the Taboo close enough to give Joe a drive by of Truth, but not enough to cross the threshold for Truth to get involved any more then a jump scare. Interesting thing is though, Joe never mentioned the White Room. Only the man with the smile. Tetra however does mention the White Room.
 
They are sisters.
Protag is their dad to both of them, in all ways that matter.
Fleet is the chill older brother, dependable and always there when you really need it but otherwise just hagging around.
Matrix is the geek little brother, always happy to help ,but more than a little completely invested in his own area of interest.
Aisha is kind of like the absentee neighbor's daughter who is kind-of-but-kind-of-not adopted.

I don't feel Kataklysm really meshes in the family scenario here... maybe as the cool uncle? Army returnee. Has zero fucks left to give. And nothing left to prove, to anyone. Is just catching up on years of lost sleep. Preferably in a good slot of sunlight.
More like a helpful older brother who raised you, think Yang from RWBY, Joe's not down to sloppy human levels of coding, so his AIs have nice stable relationships and thought processes, Aisha's the stray cat, and Tybalt is that one uncle who exudes cool vibes and never mentions his job. What would his biological family think?
 
I don't feel Kataklysm really meshes in the family scenario here... maybe as the cool uncle? Army returnee. Has zero fucks left to give. And nothing left to prove, to anyone. Is just catching up on years of lost sleep. Preferably in a good slot of sunlight.
Kataklyzien is Joe's first cousin, so he'd be Joe's children's first cousin once removed.
 
I thought
That shouldn't be an issue, like was said in the chapter no alterations were made to the dress, and the replica that Tetra made had all the same details down to the thread, so there should be nothing that would standout as an outside alteration to Parian. It would just look like Tetra was wearing it well.
But, wouldn't Parian notice the difference with her powers? She clearly can't control Tetra, so she shouldn't be able to control the dress, as Tetra didn't say anything about specifivally allowing her power in or anything. She'd notice that to her telekinesis, Tetra is naked.
 
But, wouldn't Parian notice the difference with her powers? She clearly can't control Tetra, so she shouldn't be able to control the dress, as Tetra didn't say anything about specifivally allowing her power in or anything. She'd notice that to her telekinesis, Tetra is naked.
As the chapter has shown, Parian hadn't been able to tell any difference despite using her powers on Tetra's "dress". If you think about it, it makes sense - Tetra's emulation is perfect down to the atomic level, and you can't even say that life fibers aren't textiles because they are. So when Parian attempted to use her power...
Tetra stepped out of the dressing room and made a point of swishing the dress around her. Just the slightest level of control through her fibers was enough to ensure the perfect movement of the cloth for the display.

"It fits perfectly!" She exclaimed. She could feel the pride coming from Parian as she turned to Survey's droid.

"Your modifications to the dress were flawless. This is excellent work." The droid said as Survey had it examine Tetra. In reality the modifications weren't quite flawless, but they were close enough and performed faster than any unpowered designer could hope to emulate.

"Well, I'm just lucky to have found someone to fill in at the last moment." Parian's power flowed over the dress, checking fit and making tiny shifts. It made Tetra glad they hadn't attempted any modifications. As it stood, her fibers had copied the dress down to individual threads, even including some quirks of the design that had been very tempting to alter.

Apparently finding everything in order, Parian turned to Tetra.
Parian saw no issues because Tetra's copy was that good. Which is terrifying if you think about it - Tetra can probably replace anyone's clothes with herself and no one would be any wiser if even a Shard hadn't been able to detect any weirdness to any degree that its host could pick up on.
 
I thought

But, wouldn't Parian notice the difference with her powers? She clearly can't control Tetra, so she shouldn't be able to control the dress, as Tetra didn't say anything about specifivally allowing her power in or anything. She'd notice that to her telekinesis, Tetra is naked.
Tetra isn't naked though; she's wearing herself. Also there's no reason why Tetra wouldn't be able to both allow herself to be controlled by Parian's power or, after as much observation of the effect as she had been able to do, faked the control of herself.
 
We don't see an angry Tetra here, but she's dropped enough hints to infer that a fight against Tetra as an individual - rather than an unspooled Life Fiber network - would be like an Endbringer fight in hard mode. Not only will the Thread not Break, but there's more Tetra elsewhere to draw on and grow to giant size. She has a Behemoth-like kill aura with longer reach; if she so much as feels potential victims through the Dragon Pulse, she can connect and drain them dry at any future time. For the requisite mass destruction, she has technological emulation of Joe's sci-fi weaponry.

Oh, and the hard mode? If you've entered her connection aura and she's spared you for the moment, she can teleport to you later in the fight and doom everyone near you.

(E) On a second look, I overstated the level of threat of Dragon Pulse connections. She doesn't get the full connection for draining unless she touches you:
direct contact was needed for a full connection to form. Introductions, observation, and even scans through the Dragon's Pulse could create connections, though each was weaker than the last.
 
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Lots of talk about the position of Family members. But what about Garment?

Will she end up with powers similar to the ones from Super Smash?

She is very expressive in her gestures.

Will it help heal the Rift between Sabah/ Pariah? Joe/ Aperion?

... Is Joe going to get a letter from helpful Demons from Fallen London?
 
Lots of talk about the position of Family members. But what about Garment?

Will she end up with powers similar to the ones from Super Smash?

She is very expressive in her gestures.

Will it help heal the Rift between Sabah/ Pariah? Joe/ Aperion?

... Is Joe going to get a letter from helpful Demons from Fallen London?

Platonic life partner (for now, Joe's a shy boy)

I didn't make that garment/crystal pelham/josef meme for shits and giggles, I genuinely ship it lol
 
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