I do want to explain the situation to Taylor eventually, but I admit that I'm a pretty cautious person. I like feeling out the risks and testing things out instead of jumping straight into things, but that sometimes means missing out opportunities or getting stuck on the wrong idea.
Ain't that life in a nutshell.
Also, us just sending her a dream out of the blue to amaze and overwhelm her can come across as manipulative as well. I would like to come up with a plan that everyone can agree with though because not many people are voting so I guess that people aren't really satisfied with either set of votes. Maybe people can speak up about what they don't agree with, and we can all come up with a compromise?
Yeah that is very much a possibility, I am hoping that the in your face quality of it would offset how manipulative it is. So let's try to bridge out methods since the current voter base is so small. I have a few idea on what we could do to consolidate our methods.
The first idea I came up with after you mentioned trying to come to a compromise was to hype ourselves up to Taylor through prophetic dreams. Idea is basically to give Taylor prophetic dreams that are meant to give Taylor further insight into the world, while also playing with her senses as to create anticipation.
I will give an example of a scenario for this idea, Taylor goes to sleep, then we manipulate her dream to show her the perspective of Danny and his interaction with her, let her see herself from the third person maybe it is enough to just show her how she shuts Danny out of her life. Later in the dream the Taylor (the dream Taylor not Taylor, Taylor) could begin crying or something and confess what has happened these last years, then we show that Danny will reach out and give her comfort that she wants, but always denies herself. As she wakes up and gets ready for the day, she will notice will notice that on her calendar there is something written on all the days of that week, on the previous day it is written High Priestess upside down (meant to signify the secrets Taylor keeps from Danny, her silence and how she is unable to trust her father unlike a regular child).
Today there is written Death (Endings, change, transition and transformation) upright and this night's dream will be about Emma, her encounter with the ABB, Shadow Stalker and finally her ending their friendship.
On the next day Wheel of Fortune is written upside down (Bad luck it is also meant in this case that the world is out of order), the dream on this night will focus on Blackwell, more or less do a version of the Blackwell dream that was written earlier in the thread.
Day four is signified by an upside down Justice (unfairness), the dream this time will focus on Canary and her sham trial, how she ended up arrested, how she freely surrendered and is now in chains and waiting for an unfair judgement, the dream will end with Canary being sentenced to the Birdcage.
Day five has The Empress written upside down, the dream of this day will focus on Eidolon, how he tries to give it his all, that his powers are growing weaker and there is nothing he can do to halt its progress other than a serum (try to avoid directly showing Cauldron, maybe ha can drink one before he goes to work or to an endbringer battle) the serum is delivered by a lady in a suit with a fedora.
Day six will have The Emperor written upside down, the dream will start with appearing in front of the Simurgh, playing an invisible instrument, the dream will continue by going into the Simurgh, when passing through her there will be shown a kaleidoscope of futures for a moment before Taylor arrives floating over a landscape made from crystal (specifically not us), then the dream ends.
On the seventh and final day will have The Tower written right side up and the dream will be the vote with the giant library and us finally meeting Taylor.
Some notes on this idea: It is important that they are all major arcana, since in tarot reading getting many major arcana means that you will experiencing life changing events, the reason they are all major arcana are because they are meant to signify that the end of the week will be the most important in all her life (and secretly for the whole world too
).
I was going to give more ideas, but this took a decent amount of time to write, what does everyone think about this suggestion. If we do this I would recommend doing a time skip so we can go trough the dreams quickly.
I really don't like the idea of just jumping into eating Emote. I'd rather contact some of the Cauldron Shards that aren't connected to heroes and figure out whether we'd like to eat them. I'm more flexible about the dream section, depending on what everyone wants.
Yeah, the whole eating Emote is probably unnecessarily hasty. I mostly just want to get the ball going, but we could just as easily do everyone a favor and eat Coil or Shatterbird or Siberian (High Priest should have that). So I will probably switch vote on that before the voting ends. Though we should probably signal to all Telekinetic and Gaea that we will recycle them when we do, since they need Emote's help.
On whether to fight Scion with parahumans or Shards, it's hard to decide, but it feels more original to attack him as a Shard, and I really want to do some of the esoteric options. I don't want to leave Taylor out of things though.
I feel that it is a bit early to decide even if it is not too early to discuss, it will have a lot to do with the data-aberrance economy I talked about previously.
