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Horologist (Worm AU/Altpower)

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This is going to be interesting! Also, just thought of something; if Taylor were to master her newfound skill of manipulating time, she could, theoretically, create an entire universe within the space between plank time units!
 
Loki-L said:
or, once Bakuda makes an appearance, her timestop bombs.
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Are Bakuda's bombs and Clockblocker's power actually time effects?
I read one fan explanation that Bakuda's bombs were something about increasing the friction to the point where nothing can move in the field, and Clockblockers effect had something to do with creating an 'energy sink' that makes whatever he uses it on inviolable and unable to be moved from it's relative position.
 
There is no way the PRT wont at least suspect her for to be the new cape


that said, her decision to become a hero feels like a bit out of nowhere for me and im surprised she doesnt just become like a tip off person

see bad things happen and tip off the authorities by going back in time
 
Swiftwolfbeta said:
shes not parahuman right which mean we need an obligitory wait wtf From the prt for what is essentially magic be used in front of them because taylor is not a parahuman but she warping a law of reality on a daily basis
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As Danny noted, from the outside what Taylor's doing looks enough like Tinkering that the difference may not be picked up on for quite some time.
 
mickeysofine said:
Are Bakuda's bombs and Clockblocker's power actually time effects?
I read one fan explanation that Bakuda's bombs were something about increasing the friction to the point where nothing can move in the field, and Clockblockers effect had something to do with creating an 'energy sink' that makes whatever he uses it on inviolable and unable to be moved from it's relative position.
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I'm not terribly familiar with Ward, but by my understanding in it the time-stop field thrown at leviathan got cancelled out and Dauntless was still alive, so. If that wasn't actually time stuff then at the very least it had some sort of stasis effect too.
 
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Huh, wasn't velocity's whole thing being that he could accelerate his personal time to get his speedster powers? I have to wonder if she can recreate Grey Boy's immortality or even timelock objects while being able to move them herself. Seems like she could do some major damage with little more than a cheese wire if she really felt like it.
 
Ryune said:
Huh, wasn't velocity's whole thing being that he could accelerate his personal time to get his speedster powers? I have to wonder if she can recreate Grey Boy's immortality or even timelock objects while being able to move them herself. Seems like she could do some major damage with little more than a cheese wire if she really felt like it.
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I think we can safely say that any time based powers she can fuck with to varying degrees
 
Kagemoto said:
There is no way the PRT wont at least suspect her for to be the new cape


that said, her decision to become a hero feels like a bit out of nowhere for me and im surprised she doesnt just become like a tip off person

see bad things happen and tip off the authorities by going back in time
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New? Taylor has access to time travel as the bottom tier of her tech tree. If the mysterious Time Lady hasn't been the unofficial member of the triumvirate since at least the late eighties, I'll be very surprised.
 
Yog said:
New? Taylor has access to time travel as the bottom tier of her tech tree. If the mysterious Time Lady hasn't been the unofficial member of the triumvirate since at least the late eighties, I'll be very surprised.
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thats is she does time travel to do such

we have no indication of it happening yet so...
 
This Taylor would officially be classified as both a parahuman and a Tinker, by pretty much everyone except Cauldron. No one else has any idea where powers come from, so they just assume any powers they encounter are the same thing and use the same label for all of them. And the the whole 'oops, I started using time as a watch component and didn't notice' think is classic Tinker shennanigans - it's impossible to do that sort of thing with actual technology, because an engineer has to think about and intentionally add each component in a device she's designing. The lack of a trigger event is a curious anomaly, but even so Taylor really ought to be concluding that she somehow became a parahuman at some point and didn't notice.

Unless, of course, there's a reason why she's instinctively convinced that she's something entirely different...
 
Yog said:
New? Taylor has access to time travel as the bottom tier of her tech tree. If the mysterious Time Lady hasn't been the unofficial member of the triumvirate since at least the late eighties, I'll be very surprised.
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She can't move further back than the point in time that she built a time travel device... yet. I would assume that if she got herself personal time travel that she could do without tools she would then be limited by her own date of birth.
 
Ryune said:
She can't move further back than the point in time that she built a time travel device... yet. I would assume that if she got herself personal time travel that she could do without tools she would then be limited by her own date of birth.
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That shouldn't be the case. The method she is using currently just sends her physically through time, so she is literally in two (or more) places at once. There is no non-arbitrary reason such a method would have a limit on distance travelled through time.

The self birth limit is for meta-physical time travel (ex. sending memories or "souls" through time to merge with or displace past selves).
 
Bigshot0910 said:
That shouldn't be the case. The method she is using currently just sends her physically through time, so she is literally in two (or more) places at once. There is no non-arbitrary reason such a method would have a limit on distance travelled through time.

The self birth limit is for meta-physical time travel (ex. sending memories or "souls" through time to merge with or displace past selves).
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Except that when she went past the point in time that her timetravel watch was constructed, it deconstructed itself. I would assume something similar would happen to her if she went past her own birth. More likely she has a limit of when she learned to manipulate time.
 
Ryune said:
Except that when she went past the point in time that her timetravel watch was constructed, it deconstructed itself. I would assume something similar would happen to her if she went past her own birth. More likely she has a limit of when she learned to manipulate time.
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That is an arbitrary limit. The author has decided to limit her, so this happens.

It makes more sense with the wall clock since it doesn't travel with her. It can't go further back than when it was made because it ceases to exist past that point.

A wrist or pocket watch device that physically time travels with her shouldn't be affected by when it was made, as it exists in the same reference frame of time as she does.

Think of it this way. The wall clock moves the user through time, but doesn't move itself. There is only ever one wall clock so going past when it was made is impossible as it unmakes itself.

The wristwatch moves the user and itself through time. There are as many wristwatches in existence at any given time as there are Taylor's using them. Going back to before the "original" wristwatch was made should not invalidate the one traveling backward in time because there is nothing linking the two together.
 
Bigshot0910 said:
That is an arbitrary limit. The author has decided to limit her, so this happens.

It makes more sense with the wall clock since it doesn't travel with her. It can't go further back than when it was made because it ceases to exist past that point.

A wrist or pocket watch device that physically time travels with her shouldn't be affected by when it was made, as it exists in the same reference frame of time as she does.

Think of it this way. The wall clock moves the user through time, but doesn't move itself. There is only ever one wall clock so going past when it was made is impossible as it unmakes itself.

The wristwatch moves the user and itself through time. There are as many wristwatches in existence at any given time as there are Taylor's using them. Going back to before the "original" wristwatch was made should not invalidate the one traveling backward in time because there is nothing linking the two together.
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I feel that the reason the wristwatch disassembled itself was because it was less a physical construction and more because of the spacetime contained in it's construction wasn't stationary in relation to her own timeline. Think of it less like an object in 3d space that allows for movement through time and more like an object in 4d space. She builds something that exists like a rail in the timeline. You can move forward and backward along that rail but you can't go farther back than its initial construction.

That said, she could probably get around that issue if she could build something that actively existed before she made it. But at that point you get her doing the Vex and you don't ever want to go full Vex.
 
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I just write said:
So, I drew Taylor's new watches from Gearing Up.
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I was going to say you should add one more digit for the year to express that the watch itself was perfect enough to work past the year 9999, even if Taylor wouldn't want to travel past that date.

Then I thought that just adding one more digit means that the perfection of the watch is limited to 5 digits... I guess it's better to say that the watch will last however long it's needed, and if Taylor wants to travel past that date she will create something to do it with.

Nice watch face. Nice and clean.
 
Hope she got some smudge resistant glass... or wears gloves I guess. The inner ring and center button are going to result in quite a few fingerprints otherwise.
 
I just write said:
WoG: Taylor does not have a total monopoly on time shenanigans. That said, she is almost certainly the most potent and versatile source of such.
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Kagemoto said:
As a human in bet or as a normal non-parahuman?
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I just write said:
Period, full stop.
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Well. Things are definitely going to get interesting!

Yog said:
New? Taylor has access to time travel as the bottom tier of her tech tree. If the mysterious Time Lady hasn't been the unofficial member of the triumvirate since at least the late eighties, I'll be very surprised.
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The group would be nicknamed the Quattromvirate or some such in that case. I think it'd be far more feasible if she was openly (read: outside the group) regarded as an honorary member of the team, with only her father and those already in the team knowing of her founder-level membership status.

And Time Lady? Surely there's a better, more suitable name than that! Maybe Ch/Kronos (Ancient Greek Titan/God of Time)? Khonsu (Ancient Egyptian God of the Moon and Time)?

Also, I just can't wait for the rest of the world's WTFH?!?! reaction when it finally sinks in that a NORMAL PERSON(!!!!) is bending Time itself to her design through nothing but sheer, bloody-minded determination!
 
TerrorCooper said:
Also, I just can't wait for the rest of the world's WTFH?!?! reaction when it finally sinks in that a NORMAL PERSON(!!!!) is bending Time itself to her design through nothing but sheer, bloody-minded determination!
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If that happens then something has gone terribly wrong at some point. Now, if Armsmaster ends up with a piece of Taylor-Time-Tech or TTT and starts looking at it I want his shard to go [Error: Cheese String in the Gears] Or such and such because it can't see how this is possible and thus gives a nonsensical error message equivalent.
 
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