Hey idle curiosity, but did LR ever say there wouldn't be a post tonight?
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
- Start date
- Location
- Illinois
We're on an every-other-week schedule now. The next chapter isn't due until the 10th. (When he pushes back the chapter for a week, as he did recently, it pushes the schedule too.)
The updates are biweekly, so we won't be getting an update this week but next week we should be getting one.
Ah that makes sense thanks for the update
- Location
- St. Petersburg
I will don my foil cap and suggest... Could it be that these "wrong conclusions" are "projected" by Aisha's Shard which - I will remind - still retains its directive to promote conflict? It can't push Aisha in that direction, but it can push others in the direction of Aisha...
Worse this might push Joe to very publicly crucify Coil as fast as possible to clear a threat from around Taylor to focus on damage control.
Would be funny if right as it's happening they kill the Nine.
MagicalAmbitions
the rose in your vase
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- She/Her
Coil shouldn't have access to this information? unless either Piggot, Miss Militia, or one of the agents who discovered it are his moles. actually, i think the two agents might've been temporarily confined in order to avoid them being able to spread the information to anyone, so we can discount that possibility.
unless your post was suggesting Joe attacking coil being a potential consequence of this information getting out? i.e. Coil leaks taylor's identity online and Joe responds by publicly punishing him for this behavior in order to deter people who would use this information to attack Taylor?
couldn't they just use Lethe + call gem to make people forget about the association between Taylor Hebert and Lady Khepri? the only potential consequence of that action i can think of would be the potential for taylor to also forget about the fact that she is Lady Khepri, which would be silly.
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Yes, that's literally what Piggot decided the Borgle accident was threatening
More Survey discovers that the PRT/Protectorate has Taylor's identity either by the file being entered into the computer system or an increased presence in her neighborhood. This leads to Joe doing what to him is a just a push forward with a plan that is half-baked without Lisa to try and put on the breaks. The idea for Joe being the PRT/Protectorate would pullback to have to deal with Coil, a sudden void, and let him evac Taylor and maybe her dad(cannot remember if Joe has an opinion on Danny).
As for the Call Bead idea... as indiscriminate as the big uses are would Joe want to risk poking Taylor's brain that way. Add on his power going Taylor + Brain Tweaks= OH SHIT RUN! Aisha so far is the only (unmodified)person who remembers what she hides using her power that way, she would need a lot of practice before editing personal information across the worlds. Adding on the potential knock on effects like the Undersiders not remembering Taylor is a teammate and I don't see them playing that card this way.
MagicalAmbitions
the rose in your vase
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... why would they do either of those things? Piggot is avoiding violations of the unwritten rules (increasing presence in Taylor's neighborhood in response to learning her civilian identity could easily be read as an attempt to target her in her civ. identity) because of Apeiron and is explicitly doing her best to keep this information from spreading (i.e. keeping the document in her office instead of entering it into their PRT database).
What would even be the purpose of "increasing presence in Taylor's neighborhood" in response to learning her secret identity? holding out some hope of like.. Catching her, by way of this increased presence would be an obvious unwritten-rules violation (as above). and also extremely unlikely to work, given that they know she has Apeiron tech. the only other thing i could think of would be like... to protect her? which is obviously unnecessary given that she's already associated with Apeiron and an extremely capable fighter.
the rest of this scenario is also confusing. I don't think that Joe would come up with a "half-baked" plan when he has the ability to craft a divine artifact specialized for any purpose in only a few minutes, and if he Did come up with a "half-baked" plan I can hardly see how tattletale would make it Less half-baked (especially considering he has the rest of the Forge to run things by)? or less willing to go through with it?
and i Really don't understand how Coil is suddenly to automatically factor into this scenario? is Joe's theoretical 'half-baked plan' to rile up Coil as a distraction from Taylor? why would he do that instead of something like memory-erasure tech or using the same sort of "divinely cursed knowledge" thing he did for his own secret identity?
a sudden void? like a power-vacuum? or a hole in reality? where is this void coming from? is it related to Coil? is it related to Noelle? is it Void_Cowboy from PHO?
Why would Taylor and Danny need evacuation? is Joe deploying an S-class threat as a distraction from Taylor's secret identity? Joe has an endless variety of ways to protect them from scrutiny by any party by way of artifacts like Chen's scarf, his elven-invisibility cloak thing, etc.
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Coming back to this story after a 2.5 year break, people need to be reminded of the glory in the Media tab starting with this.My answer to the question: "explain Taylor and Joe's next interaction but only using incorrect terms"
Hmm, what if Joe actually went all-out on the Maldrone and "improved" it to the limit of his current abilities?
"Joe, how can I see through this thing's eyes? Wait, no, better question, how is it able to see better than I can? It's not even an inch long!
And… are those electrical currents? Bio fields? What the hell did you do?"
"Joe, how can I see through this thing's eyes? Wait, no, better question, how is it able to see better than I can? It's not even an inch long!
And… are those electrical currents? Bio fields? What the hell did you do?"
Joe's "Work things like Iron" skill could probably make some scary chitin, and seamless cyborg capability.
Supersonic Inch long bug with telephoto eyes...
- Location
- United States
Yeah, Joe could easily kit Taylor out with some insane stuff but unless his opinion of her changes drastically that is very unlikely to happen. Which is a shame, it'd be really interesting to see what insane things Taylor comes up with if she had access to some of Joe's really cool toys.
Dragonflys modified for speed and thrust towing her reinforced nano thread, in a vast spiral of blender death!
Taylor managed to munchkin her mystical armor plates into reinforcing her spider silk garrotes. Could she somehow use the upcoming nanites to upgrade/reinforce her bugs?
Atlas was awesome. If it wasn't Taylor then I would love to see what kind of vehicle/mount Apeiron could give her.
Also, I know that it is a common trope in Worm fanfics for Amy to touch the protagonist and go into a blue-screen of bliss and awe... but could Amy even get anything from Joe at this point? His Perks absolutely block most Thinker abilities at this point. Does that include Shaper?
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
How did they get to those numbers anyway? Like did they go in order all the way to 67 before recent events or skip around like with the SCP Foundation?
TriviaFreak
Time of reluctance.
See here.
Since Case 69 was never really explicated upon in canon, neither in "Worm" or "Ward", I'm guessing LordRoustabout just decided to use that number for a far more significant (and amusingly rude and immature) parahuman related event.
I'm guessing that Knot (one of the canon Case 70s) will end up being the Case 70 pioneer, considering they were referred to as Birdcage residents in "Worm" (but not explicitly as Case 70s) and was admitted to the Birdcage some time before the canon timeskip...
He's got a Hindu Cyborg Godbody. Before even accounting for other perks, it's unclear exactly how much of him is still organic enough for Shaper to affect.
I think Joe's body is too different for Amy to do anything. not to mention she would be either horrified what she see's or be to interested in what she see's to do anything. which is the norm reaction when comes with Joe.
I actually think that she would get a Blue Screen considering everything that Joe has added to himself along with the Forge.
Just the fact that he is a Life Fiber Hybrid due to the Transmutation to seperate him from Tetra would lead to her getting that Blue Screen before the other enhancements, his heart, and whatever the Forge have given him that can be biologically looked at.
24-hour Delay Announcement
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I'm announcing a 24-hour delay so I can fully close out the in-story day. I have the chapter mostly completed, but I realized that with a little more work it would be able to cover everything I wanted to address for the current day. Once again, I am very sorry for these frequent delays, but I would rather get everything wrapped up in one go rather than have to worry about dragging out the events of the evening over another chapter.
Don't worry about a delay. Worry when you think it'll be an inferior product if you release ahead of "when it's done".
Just take your time. It's worth the wait every time.
TriviaFreak
Time of reluctance.
Some moar...
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At this point, is it really just expected of me?
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