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Carrnage said:
If QAylor is about to replace her frame and Taylor is gonna need a new frame Symbie might decide to recycle the old frame for taylor.

Which will raise so many questions for the valkyries.
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Only best for Taylor-mommy! No obsolete leftovers.

Also they are not that incompetent at pretending to be Valks. And QAs biological frame and systems come from her parahuman Friendmaking power, Taylor would not need to restrict herself so. And probably would want to try some new super cool thing instead of the old tried super cool thing too.

But it does raise a question. As I highly doubt that the Nameless Girl will want her avatar to be a normal human when she could be a (fake)Valk, will Symbie be getting a sibling?

Or will she split between them?

Given Symbies desire for more mommy time, my bet is on her being the Valk Core of them both. Which is sure to result in some weirdness for the UN I would think, even if they manage to keep the shared "core" thing secret.
 
Enerael said:
Taylor would not need to restrict herself so. And probably would want to try some new super cool thing instead of the old tried super cool thing too.
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>Tea is hot water with plantmatter usually leaves dissolved in it
>when water is heated sufficiently the oxygen and hydrogen seperate thus hydrogen oxygen plasma is hot water
>some plants leech heavy metals and rare earths from the soil and have it in their structure thus heavy metals and rare earths are plantmatter
>a plasma beam primarily of hydrogen and oxygen wih heavy metals and rare earths mixed in is therefore Tea.
 
powergoat said:
I'm pretty sure Annan getting 'Only bread' is not for herself to eat, but for the chance to spend lunchtime feeding bits of it to her miniature pony Friend.
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The real reason Anna has only bread is because when she first spent lunch at one of the cafeterias in Perth, the sheer variety of options left her in choice paralysis until someone(Yukari I believe) suggested that she go through the options a bit at a time, meal by meal until she's tried everything and could decide on her favorites. Anna, being Anna, came to the conclusion that she should go through each food alphabetically by type and proceeded to start with Bread. It took a while before someone suggested she do it by culture/region instead.

So honestly, the fact that she has so much bread to feed her Friend is more a happy coincidence than anything.

Edit: my phone's slide keyboard word chooser gave me gator instead of happy and the worst part is that I can visually grok how it came to that conclusion
Edit2: see post below mine for more accurate details to the bread situation
 
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euroteres said:
The real reason Anna has only bread is because when she first spent lunch at one of the cafeterias in Perth, the sheer variety of options left her in choice paralysis until someone(Yukari I believe) suggested that she go through the options a bit at a time, meal by meal until she's tried everything and could decide on her favorites. Anna, being Anna, came to the conclusion that she should go through each food alphabetically by type and proceeded to start with Bread. It took a while before someone suggested she do it by culture/region instead.
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Close. An unnamed third year cadet told Anna to "try a little of everything" during breakfast on the first school day, and Anna took the suggestion literally. Yukari simply thought it was hilarious.

The next morning, Anna decided to reorder The List so she had more variety each meal:
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You stare down the rows of food, eyes narrowed. You feel a brief shudder pass through you as your eyes slide over the selections of breads.

It had been a grave mistake to attempt to sample the entire breadth of selection upon the tables in order.

You need to reorder The List. Each sub-list of food is to be merged into a Great List. Poached eggs, porridge, potatoes. This should keep an order to the food, while having more variety.
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I hope Taylor will be supportive for Anna in her very important Research of various kinds food. Gathering data is important!

Alivaril said:
Wut

...Brown and white, versus red and white...? Not even Durga's colors match. *confuzzled*
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There is 2 possible explanations - either something warped my memories or someone warped the reality itself and I remember reality before the change
 
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Carrnage said:
Is it white bread? Because a valkyrie just deciding that technically they only really need carbohydrates to fufill their daily energy intake, and any needed nutrients will be more efficient in measured supplement form, seems like a big ol' red flag for valkyrie syndrome.
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There is a joke from the source material that Anna is trying every type of food in alphabetical order...starting from every type of bread in alphabetical order.
 
Memory Gem said:
I wonder if Taylor will be the Hell's Hand Arcology.

Also, can arcologies move?
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Or how about they find Taylor the Core!
Playing the role of a Bizzare/Experimental Valkyrie Core would help facilitate Taylor getting away with things, and the fact that she wouldn't need to hide her actions would help differentiate the situation from how she is in Danmachi.
The concept that QAylor was the core before they swapped places due to the experiments is a good cover story, and facilitates Shardlar sharing information.

Just imagine the Cores Reactions:
That core is talking to the humans!
... I feel like an idiot - we already display data for our users, so why can't we text them?​
 
I am suddenly curious, with the impending arrival of Taylor Edition 2.0, Version 1.0. Will they share Symbie, or will she have a new Core, possibly one that she didn't make? I don't see any reason not to make another DIY Core, considering that they have the tech and apparently materials for whatever eldritch Shoggoth-inspired frame they use, but it is already clear that they have access to regular Cores too.

I'm not sure if I want to see another anomalous Core (which may or may not be for the same reasons, since I don't imagine they want to repeat that "repair" thing since they know to have cameras watching this time), see them somehow sharing the same Core (Symbie), or watch the fallout from a regular Core getting stuck with an apparent genius with more insight and knowledge than the Cores do!

I get the impression that sharing a Core is particularly impossible, so why not let the bullshit continue? On the other hand, I kinda want to see the reaction of another character, too (whether or not they are a source or recipient of the confusion).

Edit: Or apparently she might somehow pretend to be a Core. I'm not sure how this would work (does she bond to "Taylor"? Or some other person there? Can anyone have multiple cores?), but that would certainly win out on the "how can we confuse people the most" scale! Actually, being a Core that wanders around on its own, and that apparently fabricated a body would work the best there. It would also be an excellent distraction from QA, who's also doing the same thing, just more incomprehensibly.
 
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Carrnage said:
Is it white bread? Because a valkyrie just deciding that technically they only really need carbohydrates to fufill their daily energy intake, and any needed nutrients will be more efficient in measured supplement form, seems like a big ol' red flag for valkyrie syndrome.
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Read the source of the crossover. Pure-chan and her roommate were supplied with food by Bread-chan.
Memory Gem said:
I wonder if Taylor will be the Hell's Hand Arcology.

Also, can arcologies move?
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Arcologies are Valkyries Cores that have expressed and/or connected to a (usually underground) self-sustaining habitation and work complex. As such, Arcologies cannot move. However, any Valk Core that is attached to an Arcology can just as easily be taken off that arcology and applied to a spaceship or a normal Valkyrie.
SanguisAnima said:
NGL, this reminds me of Mauling Snarks...

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I sorta remember something about CW's conversion process, Text>Rot13>Base64 IIRC.
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As far as I can tell, it is just a random string.
V01DRei said:
That core is talking to the humans!
... I feel like an idiot - we already display data for our users, so why can't we text them?
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What do mean Durga is already doing that for User-Anna?​
LostArchivist said:
I am suddenly curious, with the impending arrival of Taylor Edition 2.0, Version 1.0. Will they share Symbie, or will she have a new Core, possibly one that she didn't make? I don't see any reason not to make another DIY Core, considering that they have the tech and apparently materials for whatever eldritch Shoggoth-inspired frame they use, but it is already clear that they have access to regular Cores too.

I'm not sure if I want to see another anomalous Core (which may or may not be for the same reasons, since I don't imagine they want to repeat that "repair" thing since they know to have cameras watching this time), see them somehow sharing the same Core (Symbie), or watch the fallout from a regular Core getting stuck with an apparent genius with more insight and knowledge than the Cores do!

I get the impression that sharing a Core is particularly impossible, so why not let the bullshit continue? On the other hand, I kinda want to see the reaction of another character, too (whether or not they are a source or recipient of the confusion).

Edit: Or apparently she might somehow pretend to be a Core. I'm not sure how this would work (does she bond to "Taylor"? Or some other person there? Can anyone have multiple cores?), but that would certainly win out on the "how can we confuse people the most" scale! Actually, being a Core that wanders around on its own, and that apparently fabricated a body would work the best there. It would also be an excellent distraction from QA, who's also doing the same thing, just more incomprehensibly.
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Taylor is most likely going to be Taylor-Shaped, in order to best achieve therapy. Her core is probably going to be Symbie, as multitasking is not difficult when Symbie has taken over a large number of buds.

Sharing a core is technically possible, depending on what you mean. You can sync with a Valk Core, desync, hand it to someone else, and the sync with it. That is technically sharing. However, only one person can be synced with a core at a time, and only one core can be synced to each person at a time. Early on in Valk training, the cadets often swap out cores until they find one that "fits" properly. The boy in the group is constantly being recommended to swap to another core, but refuses as his current core feels right to him. The 300 all use 300-class cores, which are somehow better than other cores (probably by having better tech in storage, and more experience in how to deal with a user).
 
300 Cores are special because they have cutting-edge tech (as in, a Valkyrie's tech approaches asymptotically "the same as 300-core tier" if pushed - Anna may well be as close to there as to be imperceptible otherwise) and perfect compatibility for all users, as well as gobs of Impeller...But they come with the downside of being fixed loadout.
 
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A Brief Summary of 'Cores and the 300
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    • TheBiggerFish said:
    Durga's color is "Darker-Than-Vantablack". Or "Shiny". You may be confusing Durga with the nominal PVC protagonist's frame, Kandakara IIRC, which is red-and-white.
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    Ah, I think you may have replied to the wrong person there. I do admit I could've phrased it better, though; those are two separate thoughts. "It isn't Brown and white" (which are arguably Anna's colors), "OR Durga's colors."

    Jordisk said:
    The 300 all use 300-class cores, which are somehow better than other cores (probably by having better tech in storage, and more experience in how to deal with a user).
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    There's a pile of WoG on the subject, but I'm well aware of how intimidating that is. So, an OOC summary: Under ordinary circumstances, Valkyrie Cores need to have equipment synced to them from scratch; they don't come with their own gear. Even the Frames are generally just high-spec infantry power armor fed to Valkyrie Cores. That equipment is then sloooowly upgraded by the Valkyrie Core based primarily on usage and need. Additionally, specific individuals may have different synchronization % levels with different Valkyrie Cores; Anna, for example, is at a full 100% with Durga, although WoG says Anna started out pretty damn low with Durga and worked her way up.

    The 300 toss all that out the window. They were found (EDIT: around the same area) with preset gear that cannot be changed out, constantly upgrade their gear regardless of use or need, have a binary [Will Sync? Y/N] with no percent compatibility thresholds, and are obscenely powerful for their tonnage compared to almost all* standard Valkyrie Cores.

    *Literally all of them but Durga: The Core your Core could be like.**

    **The requirements for this are     not recommended.
     
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    • Splintered+Sanctioned Shard Name/Host List
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    • Enerael said:
    Hm. I recognize Modular, thats Kid Win, and Charge looks like battery, but who are the rest?

    Warp seems like it could be Vista and Radiance makes me think of Glory Girl, but no idea about he rest.
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    Those are, indeed, correct. A look through Sanctioned and Splintered yields more names (guesses questionmarked):
    Adapt - Crawler
    Adept - Uber
    Alternative - Coil
    Architect - ? (potential host)
    Arsenal - Miss Militia
    Broadcast - Jack Slash
    Charge - Battery
    Chirurgeon - Bonesaw
    Coruscant - Legend?
    Countdown - String Theory?
    Disposition - Gallant
    Efficiency - Armsmaster
    Element - Shatterbird
    Escalation - Lung
    Focal - ?
    Frenzy - Burnscar
    Guardian - Siberian
    Harvest - Glaistig Uaine
    Havoc - Three Blasphemies
    Hierarchy - ?
    Instant - Clockblocker
    Maker - Nilbog
    Modular - Kid Win
    Negate - Hatchet Face
    Negotiator - Tattletale
    Nurture - Mannequin
    Perfection(ist) - ? (potential host)
    Phantasm - Shadow Stalker
    Prelate - Eidolon?
    Pyroclasm - ? (shard too dumb to live)
    Queen Objective - Leet
    Queen Shaper - Panacea
    Radiance - Glory Girl
    Replicate - Dragon
    Steadfast - ?
    Sting - Flechette
    Substitute - Aegis
    Supplant - ?
    Terror Drone #1 - Behemoth
    Terror Drone #7 - Simurgh
    Terror Drone #11-B - Tohu
    Terror Drone #16 - Leviathan
    Transfer - Assault
    Warp - Vista
    (unnamed damaged shard) - ? (assisting Coruscant & co. vs. S9)
    (unnamed newborn) - Laserdream

    New in Calibration: Ambassador, Contamination, Cultivator, Conductor, Animation, Dilation, Razor, Inheritance.
     
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    • Kellcat said:
    Heck, if I remember the source material, Durga is repeatedly leaving Anna messages "from herself" to try to help her be more normal.
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    "Shower, Brush Teeth, Get Dressed, Eat Breakfast, Do Other Normal Things", yeah.
    Alivaril said:
    There's a pile of WoG on the subject, but I'm well aware of how intimidating that is. So, an OOC summary: Under ordinary circumstances, Valkyrie Cores need to have equipment synced to them from scratch; they don't come with their own gear. Even the Frames are generally just high-spec infantry power armor fed to Valkyrie Cores. That equipment is then sloooowly upgraded by the Valkyrie Core based primarily on usage and need. Additionally, specific individuals may have different synchronization % levels with different Valkyrie Cores; Anna, for example, is at a full 100% with Durga, although WoG says Anna started out pretty damn low with Durga and worked her way up.

    The 300 toss all that out the window. They were found with preset gear that cannot be changed out, constantly upgrade their gear regardless of use or need, have a binary [Will Sync? Y/N] with no percent compatibility thresholds, and are obscenely powerful for their tonnage compared to almost all* standard Valkyrie Cores.

    *Literally all of them but Durga: The Core your Core could be like.**

    **The requirements for this are not recommended.
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    That...doesn't make sense. The boy's core came with a pre-set loadout, but allowed anyone to sync with it, to the point it was used to test for compatibility with Valk Cores. It just wouldn't accept other weapons, and kept the weapons it DID have locked away unless it deemed the user ready for/worthy of them.

    I also remember that people that didn't qualify for the 300, after gaining experience with Valks, did qualify, so if nothing else the "Yes/No" option can change later.
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    Coruscant - Legend?
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    Coruscant can be found in canon Worm as one of the shards that the Fairy Queen names: the Coruscant Knave, AKA Chevalier, leader of the Chicago Protectorate. Legend is often quoted as Pilot, as his primary shard was supposed to be part of the FTL method the Entities used, with the additional effects his beams can have coming from the various supporting shards.
    Edit: It apparently is Legend after all, with Chevalier being "Destroyer".
     
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    ...wait, didn't Battery get her powers from Cauldron? Does she have a shard name?
    Jordisk said:
    That...doesn't make sense. The boy's core came with a pre-set loadout, but allowed anyone to sync with it, to the point it was used to test for compatibility with Valk Cores. It just wouldn't accept other weapons, and kept the weapons it DID have locked away unless it deemed the user ready for/worthy of them.

    I also remember that people that didn't qualify for the 300, after gaining experience with Valks, did qualify, so if nothing else the "Yes/No" option can change later.
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    Koujirou's core is Special because he is a Protagonist.

    "Qualifying for a 300 core" is different from "could, if given a 300 core, use that core", because the UN isn't stupid and doesn't just hand them out willy nilly - they trade them out between their various Aces on the front lines. Anyone who is Valk-compatible can use a 300 core.
     
    Kellcat said:
    That's... actually, I would guess that Radiance is Purity. IIRC, Glory's shard is "Waste" or "The Wretch" or "The Fragile One". (Though I guess that could be a difference from canon, here.)
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    Radiance is specifically Glory Girl, a recent shard that is all about projecting outward, whether that be projecting the forcefield that gives Glory Girl her Alexandria package, or projecting emotions as her "Shaker" power.


    TheBiggerFish said:
    I thought Cauldron capes were like, made of ground up dead shard bits.
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    Vials are made from a few ounces of shard-bits in alcohol. That allows for a connection to form to a specific shard, and other shards to ping with that shard to form the power.
     
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    curiosity said:
    -Painstaking compilation-
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    Thaaat's a threadmarkin'. Nice job!

    Kellcat said:
    IIRC, Glory's shard is "Waste" or "The Wretch" or "The Fragile One". (Though I guess that could be a difference from canon, here.)
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    1: Splintered predates Ward. 2: I haven't and won't read Ward, so no content from my stuff should be interpreted as being based on it. I'm actually sometimes weirded out by some similarities. :p

    Jordisk said:
    Coruscant can be found in canon Worm as one of the shards that the Fairy Queen names: the Coruscant Knave, AKA Chevalier, leader of the Chicago Protectorate. Legend is often quoted as Pilot, as his primary shard was supposed to be part of the FTL method the Entities used, with the additional effects his beams can have coming from the various supporting shards.
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    Yeah, I remember throwing some stuff out the window. :p Keep in mind that Shaper was a bud in canon, so "Queen Shaper" should be a pretty big red flag that some stuff has been changed. EDIT: That apparently wasn't one of the things I tossed, though. Legend was the Coruscant Knave.

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    I thought Cauldron capes were like, made of ground up dead shard bits.
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    They are, and that was itself a very very minor plot point in Splintered. Keep in mind that QA will cheerfully interpret incoming data according to what she perceives to be the closest fit. (See: Pseudo-hosts and pseudo-pseudo-hosts in INW, Antagonists and Valkyrie Cores in this)
     
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