[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)
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[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
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[x] Love and light. Something so precious that it drives the breath from you.
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[X] A yearning ache- so cavernous and hollow that its pain echoes over you, again, again, again...
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- Mt. Holly, North Carolina
[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
[X] Love and light. Something so precious that it drives the breath from you.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
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[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
Jaune is going to need that fire to tackle what lies ahead.
Also the shear wtf factor of that hand scene. Why did that happen? How? Ozpin has to be told about this; he'd find it wonderful for something so remarkable to happen with one of his new students.
Also also, I thought the Process also takes up the strain of Jaune's semblance now, but that didn't happen here. Did Jaune do that intentionally?
Jaune is going to need that fire to tackle what lies ahead.
Also the shear wtf factor of that hand scene. Why did that happen? How? Ozpin has to be told about this; he'd find it wonderful for something so remarkable to happen with one of his new students.
Also also, I thought the Process also takes up the strain of Jaune's semblance now, but that didn't happen here. Did Jaune do that intentionally?
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
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IIRC we had just barely finished the interface when the Transistor got itself barely back online, and never actually tested it or got it into a properly functional state after that.
[X] Love and light. Something so precious that it drives the breath from you.
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[X] Love and light. Something so precious that it drives the breath from you.
I'm so thorn. On one side, between Love and Rage, I'm ideologically mandated to choose Love, but come on: "A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine." What part of this isn't cool as fuck. It's like jamming together three metaphors, each of them awesome to get something that's awesome³, awesome in the classical sense, something that inspires awe and terror in equal parts. A god-machine fueled by an ever burning soul. I'm imagining an old testament angel here, guys.
I'm so thorn. On one side, between Love and Rage, I'm ideologically mandated to choose Love, but come on: "A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine." What part of this isn't cool as fuck. It's like jamming together three metaphors, each of them awesome to get something that's awesome³, awesome in the classical sense, something that inspires awe and terror in equal parts. A god-machine fueled by an ever burning soul. I'm imagining an old testament angel here, guys.
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Solarshade
Friendly Local Dyson Swarm
[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
SirLagginton
Shadow Cabal Caerbannog Bun-Bun
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[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Just re-read orientation, and. Did we ever decide on a course of action to take regarding the Process' over-reliance on the Transistor?
Because if we didn't, that's probably something Jaune should add somewhere near the upper half of his priority list. Our godling probably shouldn't have such a distinct failure point.
Because if we didn't, that's probably something Jaune should add somewhere near the upper half of his priority list. Our godling probably shouldn't have such a distinct failure point.
[X] A sacred rage- her motive force. Fuel for the great engine.
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
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It's Sanyati, from Star Fetchers! A lovely little free game on Steam that recently resurfaced from the dead with a lunchtime-price DLC and a complete overhaul of the game down to rebuilding it in Lua, so there's never been a better time to play it besides yesterday.
Jaune managed, in a barely-lucid fugue state, to code out a very inefficient, barebones program for interfacing with other hardware in a less destructive way than just them rawdogging his Semblance. In theory, it could be connected to the Process, but in practice that would probably just kill him thanks to the sheer backlash. The Transistor is a Ferrari, it's a nice car, maybe a bit too much car for most people, but in this comparison, the Process is one of those cars lunatics build to go as fast as possible across the Utah Salt Flats.
In short, that you managed to code anything at all is a miracle, but it needs a lot more work and polish to actually do what it was supposed to- and Jaune's been a busy little bee since he entered Beacon, even outside of the fact that every day is a new exercise in coping with the horrors. Either way, it's not been implemented because of that, but it will turn up as a downtime thing around Candlemas, when things (mostly) quieten down.
(fun fact: when I started using Candlemas as a replacement winter holiday, I didn't actually know it was a full-on Christian feast, but also I don't think anyone else knew that either so hopefully no expectations have been set about it)
Anyway, Sacred Rage is the runaway winner, and to quickly address some of the theories about what just happened; go back and read the last part of the update again up to the voting choices, carefully. I think you all managed to miss a couple key words that might guide you in the right direction.
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Eh, if my speculation was wrong, that's fine. I'm pretty sure I half wrote that post in a fugue state after a day of half aware recovery from working 36 hours in 3 consecutive days (don't let anyone tell you that doing afterhours work is easy). While it's too late to change my vote, if I wanted to, I can certainly apply a slightly finer toothed comb to the post.
What with this being our first time seeing Jaune intentionally disconnected from the Trransistor in a non-combat situation, it's understandably different than him running on 'attempting first aid and process combat forms' or 'navigate a forest full of Grimm and try not to die in the process'. The first thing of interest? The Transistor (now running not in Safe Mode) openly defies gravity when it's not connected to Jaune. Furthermore, the disconnection from Jaune does the job of our favorite piece of math made into physical form appearing as... itself. It doesn't give the impression of being broken, or not whole, just not the impression of being alive. Which leads down a fun rabbit hole of... well, why?
The journey down that particular rabbit hole takes some turns. The Transistor is typically physically away from Jaune when it's disconnected so it drops doing things that would help it register as nonthreatening. It also seems to become snarkier and/or less laid back, which once again, could be less of a problem when it's away from Jaune. But the personality change hit within less than a minute, so that's a bit odd. The Transistor raises a metaphorical eyebrow and takes some prodding from Jaune to acknowledge that something's weird. We find out that it's actually using Jaune for an important part of how ( as far as anyone can tell, psychology gets weird ) humans do empathy. Disconnecting from Jaune removes his Semblance from the system. We hit two important things here, and as one of them leads into the other, we're going to hit them in a different order than they are written. First, the Transistor isn't able to run the mirror neuron hardware without the connection; It's a hardcoded limit that they haven't even seen the error codes from before.
The other important thing is Jaune's dull mental pain intensifies at about this point. Let's step back a bit, because throughout all this, Jaune's had some sensations happening. The disconnection being slow makes it go from a blackout inducing sensation to 'merely' giving him absurd tingles through his entire body. Jaune's Calculation doesn't start doing anything immediately as it turns out, getting rid of all the technology in his perception seems to have actually done the trick. The conversation continues, and Calculation seems to initially settle for timing how long it is between Yang or the Transistors statements. It starts as pressure instead of pain, and we get an initial idea that it's because Jaune is still stressed. Calculation doesn't do anything until Jaune's stressed. And we've heard before that the Transistor helps Jaune handle the load while they are connected. But it isn't connected, so we're looking at... Calculation being a very sleepy dog with entirely too much fur rousing itself from a comfy nap in the middle of the winter. So it's not doing a lot yet, but it's getting there.
Jaune ticks over from pressure to a dull pain when Yang asks the important question about whether our newly revealed-to-be slightly emotionally impaired physical math friend can run the mirror neurons. Calculation interestingly spits out a coherent answer to Yang's question, something it usually doesn't do. Whether this is because Calculation is more familiar with The Transistor or just because it isn't attempting to do something with technology is still up for debate. The pain intensifies when he accidentally catches a glimpse of Yang's notes in a reflective surface and processes them... But the pain doesn't stay physical. The pain instead of going in is heading out, and it's forming into... something. He can tell that much, but he can't tell what it's doing beyond that. When he moves in response to Yang's request, and then flares his aura, Yang and the Transistor confirm that the pain is forming into something: A hand, connected to an arm, and it seems to be searching for something. And out of everything in the room it picks Yang.
Okay catdreaming, we're 700 odd words into your rambling here, get to the point. And I think that I was wrong about Calculation misfiring on technology. I think that what we're seeing here initally is Calculation waking up without anything to really calculate, he's familiar with everything here, and so instead Calculation latched onto something that was providing questions. That being Yang. But Yang has an Aura, so Calculation is limited by it's ability to analyze her. Keywords here, being Aura and Calculation. We've been told that Calculation is an exceptionally strong Semblance in terms of raw potency. Based on the end of the post, we also get a tidbit. A Semblance is a manifestation of the soul, just like Aura, but perhaps it isn't the whole soul. So when Calculation's thing of... percieving? Searching? Let's go with searching for now backed up the raw power finds another Aura with absolutely nothing else it's being directed at it does what it is meant to do. It reaches out, meets with Yang's Aura and thereby her Soul, and makes connection.
It's not misfiring with technology, that's probably just a case of information overload on the steriods you hear about that make people into insane rampaging superhuman monsters, but what it did here is probably a combination of Jaune and Yang both trusting each other immensely in the moment, both having strong souls, and Calculation essentially stretching a muscle that it hasn't had the opprtunity to ever really use before. I don't think this is something that will happen again easily, or even soon. It's something that Ozpin is almost certainly aware of the possibility of occuring. And it's a moment that will invariably stick with Jaune and Yang for the rest of their lives.
Edit: Brother gods, I just wrote 1000 odd words of this, that's a thing.
Omnious Hmm...
Nah, it'll be fine. Part of being the CEO of a new god.
Semblance trying to to be a little loot gobbo, I approve!
She's gonna walk us through how she Hulks up now?
...Curious what's she gonna pick from Jaune tho? Hospital stays? The Birth of a New God?!
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You know, one wonders if Jaune's Semblance isn't actually Calculation, but actually Searching; it just searches everything, everywhere, all at once, or at least tries to.
What is it searching for, you might ask? Well that, detective, is the right question.
What is it searching for, you might ask? Well that, detective, is the right question.
