I said in an ideal perfect world for a reason haha
Fate/In Glory Of (Worm)
- Thread starter Jefardi
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- Crossover Modern Superhero
I said in an ideal perfect world for a reason haha
SaberFail
All Ideas. No Skills. a bit hungry
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Have the giant toss it near the Rig and wipe your hands of this whole thing.
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
- Location
- Oklahoma
[X] Have the giant toss it near the Rig and wipe your hands of this whole thing.
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
--[X] At ca. 6am
--[X] Only make the giant visible once it changes course
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
--[X] At ca. 6am
--[X] Only make the giant visible once it changes course
[X] Have the giant toss it near the Rig and wipe your hands of this whole thing.
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
--[X] At ca. 6am
--[X] Only make the giant visible once it changes course
-[X] Before yeeting the wing have the giant jump into the ocean from a very isolated spot, swim out to sea and then swim back onto shore (near the boardwalk or close to the Rig) from the direction of Australia (south-south-east) with the wing held in his teeth.
--[X] At ca. 6am
--[X] Only make the giant visible once it changes course
Voting for 04.06 deadline and current tally
Voting total is currently thus;
13 to Yeet it near the Rig and call it a day.
10 to ask Gravwell to organize a drop off via the power of a throwaway PHO account
2 to message the PRT ENE directly via the power of a throwaway PHO account
1 to try a different PRT department
Voting will close in roughly 15 hours.
13 to Yeet it near the Rig and call it a day.
10 to ask Gravwell to organize a drop off via the power of a throwaway PHO account
2 to message the PRT ENE directly via the power of a throwaway PHO account
1 to try a different PRT department
Voting will close in roughly 15 hours.
KindredVoid
Shard Whisperer
Might I suggest we meet with Gravwell? Not only is it safer for Taylor but it might lead to her actually interacting with capes and I really want to get the ball rolling in that matter.
Also, Gravwell helped Taylor not get a bodycount by stopping the giant from smashing through a building.
She's a good independent that can apparently make Purity take the hero thing seriously. Let's message her.
Also, Gravwell helped Taylor not get a bodycount by stopping the giant from smashing through a building.
She's a good independent that can apparently make Purity take the hero thing seriously. Let's message her.
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- He
Mentioned this before, but I don't think Gravwell can take the kind of heat that just has her delivering Endbringer parts to the PRT, which has Coil.
KindredVoid
Shard Whisperer
and I've replied that she's spent five years as a hero in BB dealing with the gangs and she's slowly built herself up as a pillar of the independent community.
Coil looking at her isn't the end of the world, cause otherwise he's already knowing that the Giant is in BBrockton because of the Undies fight
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- He
There's a difference in knowing that the Giant is in Brockton Bay, and having it as an ally that you can direct.
Even as a pillar of the independent community, it only takes a bad night for her to get fucked up if sufficient force comes down.
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- He/Him
You have convinced me.
[x] Contact Gravwell and have her handle the drop off arrangements
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That's the spirit.
You say that as if Gravwell is winning. Because she isn't.
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- He
I'm just saying that if Gravwell does win and she ends up dead, I reserve the right of 'I called it'
- Location
- Europe
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- He/They
The problem isn't Gravwell, it's Thinkers. Currently, there is no Thinker-detectable connection between Taylor and the projection (because it is a blindspot), if we tell Gravwell, there will be, and suddenly we have to deal with Coil, Cauldron and the like. Better to stay safely anonymous.
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- He
Oh good point, didn't even think about that. Should probably mention this on the SB thread too if you can.
- Location
- Europe
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- He/They
Already did (Fate/In Glory Of (Worm))
Deadweight Hero
I can't beat the demon lord help-
[X] Message the PRT ENE directly to arrange a drop off.
Parodos 04.06
[X] Have the giant toss it near the Rig and wipe your hands of this whole thing.
What it ultimately came down to was that Taylor just wanted to be done with this.
She didn't feel like she should materialize the giant while he held the wing but the longer she didn't, the antsier she got. She wanted it gone.
She had considered Gravwell but in the end, urgency won out.
Originally she would just manifest the giant and have him toss the wing at the Protectorate ENE headquarters off the shoreline… except the problem was she didn't know if he would be able to get it close enough without being able to see it from within the city. Or toss it far enough.
However, she had an idea.
It was stupid and perhaps a little silly.
What if she had the giant emerge from the bay like he had just swam back from Australia, and then toss it towards the Protectorate HQ and then re-enter the water before being demanifested?
Taylor could use some silly.
Plus it sort of implied that the giant was out of country and had been spending the past four and a half days swimming back and therefore clearly was not Taylor who multiple people had seen in the intervening time. Impeccable logic.
Taylor blinked as she rolled over to her nightstand and pulled out a notepad; figure out how the hell the giant got to and from Australia. That was for later.
She pulled the notepad to her and started to scribble on it.
When Taylor had first realized she had a power, she had wondered if it was possible to give him nested directives, like programming if/elif/else conditional statements. She hadn't been able to exactly get that to work during testing but she had figured out that the giant could follow a line of directives.
Normally, this wouldn't help- from the few cape fights she had been present for she had seen they were too chaotic to do this kind of thing.
But this?
Telling the giant where to go and to toss something near a structure and then leave?
That was fine.
She finished writing on the notepad before opening her phone and starting an image search and a map search. After a few minutes, she had everything she wanted pulled up.
"Hey, uh, so I know you have a wing but we need to get rid of it."
The shadowed spectre in the room did not respond.
Truthfully it was hard for Taylor to distinguish any of his individual features like this. Her usual strategy to have him nod or shake his head wouldn't work.
"Do you remember the bay and the big, uh… glowing half dome in the bay?" she flashed her phone's screen with an image of it to the giant for a dozen seconds. "Stand there," she pointed to one part of the room, "for yes and there," she pointed to the opposite corner, "if you don't."
The shadow moved/glided/transitioned to the yes corner.
"Good, good." She was really glad her dad was taking a shower right then. "Can you please go into the Bay, wait until I manifest you? Stay where you are at if you can, where you were if you don't understand and the other corner if you can't." No change in position. "When you manifest can you walk up to the shoreline and throw the wing near the half dome structure in the water? Same position for yes, original spot for don't understand and other corner for no." Once more, no change. "It has to be near it but you can't hit it." Taylor stressed the word. "Or hurt anyone. You shouldn't have to hurt anyone today, okay?"
The giant didn't respond and it took Taylor an embarrassingly long amount of time to remember that he couldn't or wouldn't. "Move if you can't, stay still if you can." No disagreement.
"After you throw the wing, I want you to go back into the water, at least make sure you get, uh, double, no, four times…? Yeah, four times deeper than you are tall and wait to get demanifested. Move if you can't, stay still if you can."
Taylor nodded to herself after a moment. Good, all the individual components seemed to work. She didn't want to give a long directive to the giant and then figure out where in it he disagreed with it's feasibility.
"Can you please go into the Bay, to a spot at least four times deeper than you are tall, wait until I manifest you, get to shore, throw the wing towards the half dome structure in the center of the Bay, do not hit it or hurt anyone and then go back into the original spot you were at until I demanifest you and then come back here? Wave your arm if you can and do nothing if you can't."
The shadow seemed to reach out for a moment in an abortive movement.
That seemed like agreement.
"Then, um… go do it?"
It came out as a question but it evidently was enough for the giant whose presence slipped away from the room.
Taylor waited nearly three hours before manifesting him.
Was it overly cautious? Probably.
At one point she jolted with the realization that he could be drowning only to then realize that if the giant could pass through solid objects when he was unmanifested, it probably was a non-issue.
Mostly she spent the hours trying to read and succeeding in reading the same five pages on repeat. She didn't even remember those pages now. A waste of time.
A minute later some aspect of her connection to the giant, a part that she couldn't name but knew within her heart existed changed. Not for the worse or better, but just… changed. A feeling she didn't know she had even been feeling since she passed out left her.
Before she had even fully processed that, a number of dull, low thuds rumbled out.
She blinked.
The giant didn't seem to be using up any more of the gauge than normal. He didn't seem to be in combat.
Those were unrelated, right?
A siren started to ring out before being cut off after a few seconds in the distance.
Right?!
Her stomach clenched in an unpleasant manner.
Oh shit, what did he do?
Within thirty seconds she untensed the muscle.
A minute later the spectre of a shadow was back in her room.
The muscle tensed again.
He stood before her none worse for wear.
It was a wounded up part of Taylor that finally unclenched at the sight of him. Her jaw relaxed- she didn't even realize it had been tensing. A small smile tugged at her lips.
All was right once more.
The next day, Tuesday, came in what felt like the blink of an eye.
Taylor had been given several extensions on her homework for understandable reasons. It also helped that she knew her homework wasn't going to get wrecked when it came to motivation. Still, she wasn't able to finish all of it up- only an errant worksheet left for Biology.
She very, very pointedly did not look on PHO or the news to see what had happened. She would deal with that later. Like after her homework. Totally.
It was with a somewhat good mood she went back to class. She even arrived a whole ten minutes early! As such she was able to find her friends.
"-don't know. It's slightly panicking." Joanna sighed.
"I doubt any such ill will come to this city." Nikki replied. "Perhaps the giant parahuman only wished to deliver it here?"
"Deliver what?"
"I was at the Boardwalk yesterday." Joanna answered. "And the fucking missile defense system they had on it went off!"
"What?!" That most assuredly wasn't related to the giant- she had told him not to start anything. Taylor was pretty certain she would have realized if the giant had gotten hit by a missile.
"It is all over PHO." Nikki noted.
"Yeah. My mom and I were there because we were going to a frozen yogurt place my mom likes-because of you know what freaks her out." Joanna started. "Then none other than this giant dark-as-coal parahuman walks out of the water, throws a goddamn white thing at the Protectorate headquarters and walks back into the ocean! The fucking missile system shot at it!"
Oh. Oh fuck.
"Capes on PHO have identified the unknown parahuman as 'Madlad' and the object he threw as a wing of the Simurgh." Nikki piped up.
Joanna shuddered. "Jesus H Christ."
"Yes, quite a few capes from the Simurgh fight are undergoing Quarantine apparently." Nikki added.
"Oh. That's bad." Her brow furrowed. "Did... did he swim here with that thing?" That sounded like someone who didn't know he was probably standing on the seabed for three hours would say, right?
"Swim? No he just walked up the beach and threw it before walking back into the Bay! It was like he was carved out of stone!" Joanna pressed a hand to her forehead. "God this is giving me a headache."
"I have some tylenol?" What the hell else do you say to that? Sorry my power scared the crap out of everyone and threw a Endbringer piece so badly the missile defense system for the governmental heroes activated?
"It's fine." Joanna sighed. "So, what is it like to be healed by Panacea?" She asked. "Heard it tingles."
"A little." Taylor worried at the corner of her mouth as she tries to think about how to describe it. "Imagine your insides squirming and moving around and you can tell it's not your body doing that. For half a second." She shivered at the recollection. "I felt it in my bones."
"Sounds like a parasite." Joanna noted "Well, that makes me a bit happier about never being able to get her healing services. God only knows how that would feel all over. Though, it might be nice to feel anything from my hips down."
"Perhaps you should revisit Limbsmaster and upgrade whatever it is that she gave you?" Nikki asked
Joanna snorted, turning her head to Taylor. "Want some tinkertech in you? Heard Limbsmaster does 2 for 1 deals." She asked, though her tone of voice was clearly sarcastic.
"I've always wanted my hand to have USB accessibility." Taylor stated flatly as Joanna's lips twisted up into an amused smirk before turning to Nikki, "what would you want?"
"I would not mind a robot arm. I could be like that side character from the movie we watched. Silver Touch." Nikki stated with a soft smile.
"Why?"
"It is cool." Nikki nodded as if that explained all. "Be like a movie star."
"Yeah, well have fun with that. I'd just like to feel carpets with my toes again." Joanna sighed, this time it sounded more longing than frustrated.
"Limbsmaster couldn't do better?" She made a gesture, "that seems... not good." She struggled with describing her thoughts for a moment – she didn't think Joanna's mom would skimp when it came to something like this, "I thought someone with limbs in their name would be better."
Joanna blinked as Nikki turned to look at Taylor. "Oh. Uh. Yeah, obviously. This was the least invasive option, also not the greatest in terms of function. She has a range of tinkertech for medical functions."
"Oh." That made sense.
"Yeah. So I'm thinking of going for a… more invasive surgery. Moving under my own power is... I can't explain it. Not really. But I miss numb toes in the cold, and the warmth of a heated seat." Joanna explained. "It's the little things."
"I wish you the best of luck then." Nikki stated as she slid her hand into Taylor's. Somehow she didn't jump at the action. The warm fingers felt nice. "Perhaps, if you do so, we can visit a beach together."
"Maybe."
Whatever Nikki replied with was lost as the warning bell rang and Taylor had to hustle to her locker.
After school, Taylor decided to…
[] Patrol – Go search for trouble [+1. QA would like some data, thank you very much.]
[] Research Local – Find out what's going on with the cape scene in Brockton Bay
[] Power experimentation – Taylor is going to mess around with her power/prep for exciting part of cape life
[] Preparations – Taylor doing prep work for the boring part of being a cape
[] Cape social (Taylor doesn't know any capes yet) – Talk to another cape
Author's note: Another few days, another chapter!
The vote was pretty close until yeet just pulled away at the end.
I'm realizing Nikki and Taylor have golden retriever and black cat energy. Weird but funny.
I… got nothing really to add to the author's note today. Please vote and discuss as always!
What it ultimately came down to was that Taylor just wanted to be done with this.
She didn't feel like she should materialize the giant while he held the wing but the longer she didn't, the antsier she got. She wanted it gone.
She had considered Gravwell but in the end, urgency won out.
Originally she would just manifest the giant and have him toss the wing at the Protectorate ENE headquarters off the shoreline… except the problem was she didn't know if he would be able to get it close enough without being able to see it from within the city. Or toss it far enough.
However, she had an idea.
It was stupid and perhaps a little silly.
What if she had the giant emerge from the bay like he had just swam back from Australia, and then toss it towards the Protectorate HQ and then re-enter the water before being demanifested?
Taylor could use some silly.
Plus it sort of implied that the giant was out of country and had been spending the past four and a half days swimming back and therefore clearly was not Taylor who multiple people had seen in the intervening time. Impeccable logic.
Taylor blinked as she rolled over to her nightstand and pulled out a notepad; figure out how the hell the giant got to and from Australia. That was for later.
She pulled the notepad to her and started to scribble on it.
When Taylor had first realized she had a power, she had wondered if it was possible to give him nested directives, like programming if/elif/else conditional statements. She hadn't been able to exactly get that to work during testing but she had figured out that the giant could follow a line of directives.
Normally, this wouldn't help- from the few cape fights she had been present for she had seen they were too chaotic to do this kind of thing.
But this?
Telling the giant where to go and to toss something near a structure and then leave?
That was fine.
She finished writing on the notepad before opening her phone and starting an image search and a map search. After a few minutes, she had everything she wanted pulled up.
"Hey, uh, so I know you have a wing but we need to get rid of it."
The shadowed spectre in the room did not respond.
Truthfully it was hard for Taylor to distinguish any of his individual features like this. Her usual strategy to have him nod or shake his head wouldn't work.
"Do you remember the bay and the big, uh… glowing half dome in the bay?" she flashed her phone's screen with an image of it to the giant for a dozen seconds. "Stand there," she pointed to one part of the room, "for yes and there," she pointed to the opposite corner, "if you don't."
The shadow moved/glided/transitioned to the yes corner.
"Good, good." She was really glad her dad was taking a shower right then. "Can you please go into the Bay, wait until I manifest you? Stay where you are at if you can, where you were if you don't understand and the other corner if you can't." No change in position. "When you manifest can you walk up to the shoreline and throw the wing near the half dome structure in the water? Same position for yes, original spot for don't understand and other corner for no." Once more, no change. "It has to be near it but you can't hit it." Taylor stressed the word. "Or hurt anyone. You shouldn't have to hurt anyone today, okay?"
The giant didn't respond and it took Taylor an embarrassingly long amount of time to remember that he couldn't or wouldn't. "Move if you can't, stay still if you can." No disagreement.
"After you throw the wing, I want you to go back into the water, at least make sure you get, uh, double, no, four times…? Yeah, four times deeper than you are tall and wait to get demanifested. Move if you can't, stay still if you can."
Taylor nodded to herself after a moment. Good, all the individual components seemed to work. She didn't want to give a long directive to the giant and then figure out where in it he disagreed with it's feasibility.
"Can you please go into the Bay, to a spot at least four times deeper than you are tall, wait until I manifest you, get to shore, throw the wing towards the half dome structure in the center of the Bay, do not hit it or hurt anyone and then go back into the original spot you were at until I demanifest you and then come back here? Wave your arm if you can and do nothing if you can't."
The shadow seemed to reach out for a moment in an abortive movement.
That seemed like agreement.
"Then, um… go do it?"
It came out as a question but it evidently was enough for the giant whose presence slipped away from the room.
Taylor waited nearly three hours before manifesting him.
Was it overly cautious? Probably.
At one point she jolted with the realization that he could be drowning only to then realize that if the giant could pass through solid objects when he was unmanifested, it probably was a non-issue.
Mostly she spent the hours trying to read and succeeding in reading the same five pages on repeat. She didn't even remember those pages now. A waste of time.
A minute later some aspect of her connection to the giant, a part that she couldn't name but knew within her heart existed changed. Not for the worse or better, but just… changed. A feeling she didn't know she had even been feeling since she passed out left her.
Before she had even fully processed that, a number of dull, low thuds rumbled out.
She blinked.
The giant didn't seem to be using up any more of the gauge than normal. He didn't seem to be in combat.
Those were unrelated, right?
A siren started to ring out before being cut off after a few seconds in the distance.
Right?!
Her stomach clenched in an unpleasant manner.
Oh shit, what did he do?
Within thirty seconds she untensed the muscle.
A minute later the spectre of a shadow was back in her room.
The muscle tensed again.
He stood before her none worse for wear.
It was a wounded up part of Taylor that finally unclenched at the sight of him. Her jaw relaxed- she didn't even realize it had been tensing. A small smile tugged at her lips.
All was right once more.
The next day, Tuesday, came in what felt like the blink of an eye.
Taylor had been given several extensions on her homework for understandable reasons. It also helped that she knew her homework wasn't going to get wrecked when it came to motivation. Still, she wasn't able to finish all of it up- only an errant worksheet left for Biology.
She very, very pointedly did not look on PHO or the news to see what had happened. She would deal with that later. Like after her homework. Totally.
It was with a somewhat good mood she went back to class. She even arrived a whole ten minutes early! As such she was able to find her friends.
"-don't know. It's slightly panicking." Joanna sighed.
"I doubt any such ill will come to this city." Nikki replied. "Perhaps the giant parahuman only wished to deliver it here?"
"Deliver what?"
"I was at the Boardwalk yesterday." Joanna answered. "And the fucking missile defense system they had on it went off!"
"What?!" That most assuredly wasn't related to the giant- she had told him not to start anything. Taylor was pretty certain she would have realized if the giant had gotten hit by a missile.
"It is all over PHO." Nikki noted.
"Yeah. My mom and I were there because we were going to a frozen yogurt place my mom likes-because of you know what freaks her out." Joanna started. "Then none other than this giant dark-as-coal parahuman walks out of the water, throws a goddamn white thing at the Protectorate headquarters and walks back into the ocean! The fucking missile system shot at it!"
Oh. Oh fuck.
"Capes on PHO have identified the unknown parahuman as 'Madlad' and the object he threw as a wing of the Simurgh." Nikki piped up.
Joanna shuddered. "Jesus H Christ."
"Yes, quite a few capes from the Simurgh fight are undergoing Quarantine apparently." Nikki added.
"Oh. That's bad." Her brow furrowed. "Did... did he swim here with that thing?" That sounded like someone who didn't know he was probably standing on the seabed for three hours would say, right?
"Swim? No he just walked up the beach and threw it before walking back into the Bay! It was like he was carved out of stone!" Joanna pressed a hand to her forehead. "God this is giving me a headache."
"I have some tylenol?" What the hell else do you say to that? Sorry my power scared the crap out of everyone and threw a Endbringer piece so badly the missile defense system for the governmental heroes activated?
"It's fine." Joanna sighed. "So, what is it like to be healed by Panacea?" She asked. "Heard it tingles."
"A little." Taylor worried at the corner of her mouth as she tries to think about how to describe it. "Imagine your insides squirming and moving around and you can tell it's not your body doing that. For half a second." She shivered at the recollection. "I felt it in my bones."
"Sounds like a parasite." Joanna noted "Well, that makes me a bit happier about never being able to get her healing services. God only knows how that would feel all over. Though, it might be nice to feel anything from my hips down."
"Perhaps you should revisit Limbsmaster and upgrade whatever it is that she gave you?" Nikki asked
Joanna snorted, turning her head to Taylor. "Want some tinkertech in you? Heard Limbsmaster does 2 for 1 deals." She asked, though her tone of voice was clearly sarcastic.
"I've always wanted my hand to have USB accessibility." Taylor stated flatly as Joanna's lips twisted up into an amused smirk before turning to Nikki, "what would you want?"
"I would not mind a robot arm. I could be like that side character from the movie we watched. Silver Touch." Nikki stated with a soft smile.
"Why?"
"It is cool." Nikki nodded as if that explained all. "Be like a movie star."
"Yeah, well have fun with that. I'd just like to feel carpets with my toes again." Joanna sighed, this time it sounded more longing than frustrated.
"Limbsmaster couldn't do better?" She made a gesture, "that seems... not good." She struggled with describing her thoughts for a moment – she didn't think Joanna's mom would skimp when it came to something like this, "I thought someone with limbs in their name would be better."
Joanna blinked as Nikki turned to look at Taylor. "Oh. Uh. Yeah, obviously. This was the least invasive option, also not the greatest in terms of function. She has a range of tinkertech for medical functions."
"Oh." That made sense.
"Yeah. So I'm thinking of going for a… more invasive surgery. Moving under my own power is... I can't explain it. Not really. But I miss numb toes in the cold, and the warmth of a heated seat." Joanna explained. "It's the little things."
"I wish you the best of luck then." Nikki stated as she slid her hand into Taylor's. Somehow she didn't jump at the action. The warm fingers felt nice. "Perhaps, if you do so, we can visit a beach together."
"Maybe."
Whatever Nikki replied with was lost as the warning bell rang and Taylor had to hustle to her locker.
After school, Taylor decided to…
[] Patrol – Go search for trouble [+1. QA would like some data, thank you very much.]
[] Research Local – Find out what's going on with the cape scene in Brockton Bay
[] Power experimentation – Taylor is going to mess around with her power/prep for exciting part of cape life
[] Preparations – Taylor doing prep work for the boring part of being a cape
Author's note: Another few days, another chapter!
The vote was pretty close until yeet just pulled away at the end.
I'm realizing Nikki and Taylor have golden retriever and black cat energy. Weird but funny.
I… got nothing really to add to the author's note today. Please vote and discuss as always!
Well, that was a compliment waste of time and Endbringer flesh.