That was QA pretending to be Taylor. This is Taylor running on QAs hardware (and also high on drugs) playing haunted house.
I mean, it's pretty easy to conclude that someone's fucking with them just with the fake cores. Probably not the only conclusion since they have transhuman think-tanks and can consider all the possibilities but it'd would definitely rank highly, especially when it's taken into account that the only point of consistency is the emotions of the observers.
Why? You can just ask her, and she herself would be the first to tell you that her status is adequate. It's not like repeating the question would have her insisting the same thing over and over as she gets worked up about it for some reason as though she really doesn't want to be thought incapable of living up to demands, right? Perish the thought.
I think people are supposed to conclude that the cultists are obsessed over the cores and just went all the crazier when they got a real one. That, and the fakes might not necessarily actually stay fake, or at least stay sufficiently fake to tell such.
I spent entirely too long trying to decide whether the stings were delivered by holding the wasps between the fingers and punching the opponent, by carefully gluing/strapping them to the knuckles, or just throwing handfuls of wasps and hoping.
I mean, that is clearly a gender struggle metaphor, with the pillar representing masculinity fatally oppressing women.
It's barely evil at all! And only slightly eldritch.
But Taylor/QA are in Sydney, right? How is she monitoring the bunker in... Turkey (?) live?
QA is in sydney, Taylor is in another dimension/universe and is capable of manifesting effects wherever she wants.
Taylor is doing a multidimensional continent-sized crystal supercomputer cosplay. Distances below interplanetary don't bother her.
Not quite. There are far FAR too many goodies, tech and weapons for it to just be someone fucking with them. Most likely they will conclude that the people in charge of the facility went nuts at one point.
... And it's totally gotten to the point of giving Valkyrie Cores horror. Then more horror, if it's the sort of 'origin' from Cultists. Going from "aha, I knew there's something off, she's artificial" to "wh... Oh fucking core, they did industrialized sacrifices on a regular basis?!"
I expect that the therapist will hear that she was known as Queen Administrator in the bunker. Taylor wants QA to stop pretending to be her.
Hold up, where was that said?
This is only a fraction of a fraction of how much trauma QA has actually gone though. It isn't a competition, but if it was a competition QA would win the most trama in backstory competition with Anna by a few orders of magnitude.
In the other cross.
"I know this may be a sensitive topic, but among all of your fellow subjects-"
