Scrabbling claws caught her attention as she painted the outline and a couple of stripes, and Sunny hopped off the wall and trotted back over to her.

Unless I'm reading this wrong, Taylor just saw that Sunny was walking on the wall spiderdog style, and ran with it. There's a point at which willful ignorance because unfazed acceptance, and I think she's crossed it.

You might be reading it wrong. It's entirely possible you are right, but if there's a border wall around Medhall or next to it, it's entirely possible for a dog to jump on top, especially one as large as Ammy appears to be.

 
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You might be reading it wrong. It's entirely possible you are right, but if there's a border wall around Medhall or next to it, it's entirely possible for a dog to jump on top, especially one as large as Ammy appears to be.


I'm fairly sure the reaction would be the same either way.
 
The dog lunged for its prey again, then lost its supposed footing and plummeted away from Max's office. Max didn't feel the need to check on it, and see if it really had fallen or was just waiting a story below. Instead, he calmly sat at his desk, turned on his computer, and prepared for a very long night.
*facepalm*
I have no words for this level of derp.
 
Though at this point Taylor seems a mite Cloud Cookolander. "Yeah, my dog is Spiderdog. But I'm not a parahuman. And it's not a paracanine."

Suuuure Taylor. Sure.

She never said Sunny isn't a paracanine. She's always insisted the strange things that happen are all the result of Sunny's power. She technically could be right. Being friends with a kami isn't a superpower, is it?
 
You might be reading it wrong. It's entirely possible you are right, but if there's a border wall around Medhall or next to it, it's entirely possible for a dog to jump on top, especially one as large as Ammy appears to be.


Tiiiiiiiiiny detail on that, mate. :D

The phone rang, unanswered and unnoticed even by Max. The phone slowly drifted with his hand, away from his ear, as he stared at the dog outside his window. Outside his twentieth story window.

SpiderDog, SpiderDog!~ Friendly Neighborhood SpiderDog!~ Does whatever, a SpiderDog does!~ Is she a Derp? Yes she is!~ She's SpiderdooooooooG!~
 
I forgot all about the Catwalk celestial brush technique, I guess this explains how she got to Armsmaster's cameras.

Hm, what techniques haven't shown up yet? We've seen Bloom, but not the other Greensprout techniques. I don't think Waterspout, Inferno, or Blizzard have been used. Crescent would have been obvious if it had been activated. Veil of Mist is pretty subtle, but I don't think it's come up yet. Ammy could have used it to sneak around Yuuta in chapter six, though.

I wonder if any Okamiden techniques will show up here.
 
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Omake: Houseguest
Ashes pittered down from the end of Lung's cigarette, having burned itself out as the man stared at the television in his living room with dawning horror. Oni Lee, standing behind the couch and watching as well, said nothing. Lung's hand twitched, then pawed for the remote, and he cut off the newscaster before she could spell his fate any further.

"Well, shit."
The doorbell of Lung's apartment rang not five minutes after he saw the news.

"Lee. Tell whoever that is to leave. Now." He spat out.

He didn't need to turn his head to know Lee would do as he said. Despite his attachment to the Miko and his superstitious beliefs about that damn wolf he could still count on him to follow his orders without-

"Lung." His old friend's voice sent that train of thought out of its rails. "You really should receive this guest."

He quickly walked to his front door and almost wasn't surprised when he saw the enormous white wolf sitting on the other side of his door, staring him in the eye. Lung matched the beast's stare (and it was just a beast dammit!), for he would not concede defeat just yet, least of all in his own home.

Minutes passed, and the staring contest continued. Oni Lee quietly made his way back to the living room.

...

Kenta idly noted he didn't have to tilt his head down much to stare into the Wolf's eyes.

...

Wait, were those red tattoos on it's fur?

Kenta blinked and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things, and when he finished the red markings were, predictably, gone. The Wolf, however, was looking at him with what he could only call smugness.

Kenta grumbled and stood aside to let the Wolf in, but it only whuffed and shook it's head.

He raised and eyebrow, which was soon joined by its pair when the Wolf produced an envelope from over its shoulder and offered it to him.

He grabbed the envelope from the Wolf's mouth, silently thanking the gods that there wasn't any slobber on it. Then the Wolf barked at him and turned around to leave.

...Kenta refused to acknowledge the grass and flowers that seemed to briefly spring from its paws as it dashed around the corner. It's just the stress and the weirdness of the past weeks getting to him.

Just stress.

Lung closed the door just a bit too quickly, with just a bit too much force. Made his way back to his living room and opened the envelope along the way. Inside he found a letter in written in japanese, the characters clearly written with a brush by very skilled hands, criticizing his manners and behaviour during his meeting with the Miko in a way that was as polite as it was scathing, signed by the... Neighborhood's Elderly Women Association?

The letter went on to politely (but emphatically) suggest he brush up on his Tea Ceremony skills and procure appropriate attire before the Miko called a meeting with him again.

...

Kenta read the whole letter again, just to make sure he wasn't seeing things again and sunk into his couch. This was just too much.

He jumped back to his feet when he felt he had sat on something large, flat and most certainly not comfortable.

It was a book.

A large hardcover book, written in Japanese. A book a that detailed the various intrincacies and variations of the Tea Ceremony. Wait, scratch that, the entire book was only an introductory piece meant to teach the basics, while other, more advanced books would get into the details.

Lung immediately dismisses the book and looked carefully through his apartment. Whoever left this here must have a very powerful Stranger power to be able to sneak past him and-

Were those ashes at the foot of the couch?

...

"Lee, you god damned bastard!"
 
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YESSSSS... aw, dammit! I should have made a Catch-22 joke last chapter! Well. MOVING ON.

"Max, I asked you not to call me."

"I know, Kayden. But this is important. We need you."
"I don't care how you beg, that bed will NEVER be big enough for FOUR."

"Rumor paints them as a neutral rogue,
What you did there. I see it.

"What? They love their Rig, why would they remove their prisoners from Brockton?"
Because, as near as I can determine from canon, their prisoner holding facility might as well just be equipped with a revolving door.

"I know, dear Kayden. And I know that this would make you uncomfortable, so all I need from you is a distraction."
So... he just needs her to flash them? ...with her power, that is.

The bright red arch was clearly visible, especially from a bird's-eye view like Purity had.
...wait. Wait, hold on a second. Did... did Kaiser and/or Krieg just ask Purity, who as I recall from canon is at least partially solar-powered, to... attack the... shrine of....


Where was the twangy, plucking-sound thing?
I... am actually kind of impressed that Purity even knows what a shamisen sounds like, honestly.

Recognition slammed Purity so hard she dropped a couple feet out of the air, and the dog perked up her ears
*hopeless laughter* Kaiser, your social fu is WEAK compared to Sunny's. Suck it, Nazi boy.

Purity drifted lower, like a slowly-deflating balloon.
Man, I can FEEL the awkward from here.

Also, let's not forget that this is currently being RECORDED AND/OR OBSERVED BY THE PRT. They may not have cameras in the shrine, but they almost certainly replaced the ones outside and kept people assigned to surveillance.

She imagined, for a moment, if she had blasted down the red arch and the little buildings, and then flying down to find the nice girl and her dog crushed in the rubble.
Just out of Kayden's sight, Sunny is eyeballing Worm's canon grimderpness... and flipping it the bird. Somehow.

Flanking him, the twins began their growth.
I want you to know that I resisted the urge to make a great many jokes about "the twins" growing. Most of them were related to puberty, in the interests of full disclosure.

I did this because I'm trying to be the kind of person that Sunny believes I can be.

It was insulting; Chessman didn't even intend to fight them, just leave them to uselessly smash his sacrificed Pawns.
The fact that the Protectorate cape mooned them the entire time he was driving away was just insult to injury, really.

She wasn't answering her phone, either, and if she didn't have a very good excuse for ignoring him
Sunny (very sarcastically): "Woof."

The phone rang, unanswered and unnoticed even by Max. The phone slowly drifted with his hand, away from his ear, as he stared at the dog outside his window. Outside his twentieth story window.
The window, the window! His twentieth story window! (Dammit, that song will be stuck in my head for DAYS now.)

It had come out of nowhere, and had played a role in capturing a third of the Empire's powered forces on some inscrutable whim.
It wasn't inscrutable! Taylor asked nicely! Asking nicely is VERY scrutable!

Max took a breath and canceled the phone call. He could put an iron spike through the wall and the window, if need be, but if the dog's pattern held there would be a Protectorate response somewhere every close by, just waiting for him to out himself by using his powers.
Max is an asshole... but he can recognize a pattern!

Max could read the writing on the wall.
"Woof."

She hadn't even mentioned capes or the Empire at all, which at least put her above Lung for courtesy.
When you're LESS polite than the white supremacist.... Wow, Lung. You have TERRIBLE manners.

Sunny hopped off the wall and trotted back over to her. Taylor stared--so that's where she'd gone-- but then shook her head with a smile.
And Taylor has gone all the way around to "numb to the weirdness." She's on the downhill side of the insanity mountain and is enjoying the fact that she no longer needs to pedal!

Ashes pittered down from the end of Lung's cigarette, having burned itself out as the man stared at the television in his living room with dawning horror. Oni Lee, standing behind the couch and watching as well, said nothing. Lung's hand twitched, then pawed for the remote, and he cut off the newscaster before she could spell his fate any further.

"Well, shit."
*wild, hysterical laughter* You glorious beast, US.

Sunny: "Bark." (Translation: "Your move, jackass.")
 
Wait Kayden run,

errrrrrrrrr.

The Ba-chan squad pull up.

The PRT don't know how to react to Purity being given child rearing advice from Asian pensioners and being advised to leave her relationship as Kaiser is emotionally abusive, her being advised to call a number and 'young Kenta' would pay her legal costs.

Later.

"Mam I think Purity just joined the ABB." a trooper stated.
"Dah fuck?" was Director Piggots eloquent reply.

Elsewhere with a certain dragon man
"I recruited WHO!"
 
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Very nice chapter, for a moment I thought Kaiser was going to ask Purity to actively help with the jail break, something that I figure would have exceeded even her vast capacity for hypocrisy.

One thing that bothered me about the E88's attack - Spikes puncturing the tires should not have worked and the E88 should not have expected it to work. Even without Tinkertech I'd expect even a minimally competent PRT to have their vehicles equipped with some form or other of run flat tires or airless tires, and that goes double for the tires on any vehicle used for prisoner transport. That said it doesn't really matter since Kaiser could have had his spiked extend long enough to punch through the tires into the wheels or even the vehicle's undercarriage.
 
Timeline 1
dog.
Timeline dropped

Timeline 2
Dog.
Timeline dropped

Timeline 3
Dog?
Timeline dropped

Timeline 4
Dog?!?:o
Timeline dropped

Timeline 5
doG!o_O
Timeline dropped

Timeline 6
DoG!:confused:
Timeline dropped

Timeline 7
doG.:mad:
Timeline dropped

Timeline 8
doG.:cry: (starts rocking back and forth in a corner crying)

Timeline 9-TRUE
"I don't even know what I'm doing with my life anymore," Thomas lamented as the white wolf approached him once more. "I got powers, sure I owed some favors, but taking over a city doesn't seem too bad, right?"

Thomas sat down heavily, leaning against the wall, "It's a return to feudalism, really. Not the best, but it's one of the possible stable societies involving parahumans."

The wolf padded up to him, staring deep into his eyes. Thomas stared back, unable to look away, even as the wolf opened its mouth wide.

The wolf yawned and lay down next to Thomas.

Thomas blinked. "I don't even know what's going on in this city anymore."

Reaching down to pet the wolf, Thomas let go of the other timeline. For a moment it appeared as though the wolf was painted with red.

The wolf was soft.

Lee, you god damned bastard!"

"Blessed, sir."
 
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Which is all well and good, right up until you remember Coil's power is all simulations an the timeline he "chose" is actually the one his power predicted he would be using in the first place and the simulated one is the one it knew would be dropped from the start.

Kind of borks it when it has something it can't simulate. Like Exaltations or Gods sdoG and celestial brush techs.
 
Which is all well and good, right up until you remember Coil's power is all simulations an the timeline he "chose" is actually the one his power predicted he would be using in the first place and the simulated one is the one it knew would be dropped from the start.

Kind of borks it when it has something it can't simulate. Like Exaltations or Gods sdoG and celestial brush techs.
Just because his shard can't stimulate what she does, doesn't mean it can't stimulate the observed effects.
Of course any simulation based on that will be completely wrong, but that just means Coil's "second timeline" will be wrong.
And depending on the interpretation, he might act in completely illogical ways as his power puppets him through the 'chosen' simulation, which is unfortunately wrong. But as I said, that would depend on the author's interpretation of Coil's power.
 
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