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I want a refund! (Tinker of Fiction Semi-SI)

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It makes perfect sense to me that a biotinker would have a different aesthetic taste than normal people.

Edit: it's worth remembering that when pan-pan turned Victoria into a shoggoth, a nightmarish forest of lithe limbs, mounds of Venus and delicate necks, she was making something her passenger-addled brain thought was attractive.
 
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Before reincarnating she was 8 years old, mental illness, drug addict?

Even though I enjoy all the chaos and climbing I hope a good result comes out, there is a reason why one reads about an SI rather than just an Alt. Power.
What I expect from someone in this situation is something better than canon grimdarkx10.
 
Eibon_Alain said:
Before reincarnating she was 8 years old, mental illness, drug addict?

Even though I enjoy all the chaos and climbing I hope a good result comes out, there is a reason why one reads about an SI rather than just an Alt. Power.
What I expect from someone in this situation is something better than canon grimdarkx10.
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There won't be grimdark. Some drama and situations blown out of proportion, but overall I am aiming for a happy ending.
 
deadlyham said:
Pfft. Typical overblown Piggot worries. Nilbog this, Bonesaw that. You know, Piggot stuff.
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To be fair, she does have a very good reason. Tinkers are one of the most dangerous of power classes and Biotinkers are worse than that since all they potentially need is a bit of DNA. That said, the immediate jump to the assumption of malicious intent on behalf of the new Biotinker is stupid and likely to become a self fulfilling prophecy. After all, just because their creation is technically gendered, that doesnt mean it can reproduce. Infertility is a thing and simply making one of a gender (so long as you dont pull a whoopsie and include something like frog DNA) would also prevent breeding. I do understand the need for caution, but assuming villainous intent when the people who died were attacking someone and Glory Girl was threatening to harm the creation is jumping the gun big time.
 
Unders said:
This should hopefully be the worst of the biotinkering for a while since I've already rolled what her next spec is going to be. There might be more later, but for now a couple critters and the bioshock stuff is it.
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How many days with this specialization are left? I half hope she can move in a more safe specialization in time.

That said, reactions to the chapter:
The first part of PHO and victoria was amusing, even if the PHO part lacked any real information or progression (unless you are going to shoot Weld with spoons)
The second part was interesting, and i liked that.
Obviously Piggot knowing the danger of biotinkers mad and/or lacking forethought reacts accordingly, specially as the creature attacked letally and has a presumed trump power.
I am a bit less certain about the kill order, but in a way it makes sense in-universe, even if i suppose the Chief director is going to wait until they have a bit more info about the biotinker, maybe through the think-tank.
About tattletale, the only element that i felt a bit off was the part about the young girl in the deduction.
For the young part i understand completely, but the girl part makes no sense.
She has simply not enough data to restrict the field so much.
The aesthetically pleasing aspect can be both herself or an alteration of her tastes because of her power, but it has no correlation with the physical gender of the tinker .

Also, connected to that, there should be no way even for armsmaster to be sure that the creature is female (unless she left some sort of genetic traces?)
 
Axel said:
About tattletale, the only element that i felt a bit off was the part about the young girl in the deduction.
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It was due to the presence of the bow on Fluffles I that got lost during the scuffle. Its a bit of a leap of logic, but thats what Tats is all about.

Axel said:
Also, connected to that, there should be no way even for armsmaster to be sure that the creature is female (unless she left some sort of genetic traces?)
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I'm pretty sure he got that from either the bit of tentacle Fluffles I left behind or potentially a venom sample. I'm not sure if venom contains DNA or not, but Tinkertech is bullshit enough that I'm fairly sure that wouldnt be an issue.
 
wormfan1990 said:
Your SI makes a monster cat that is obviously horrifying for most normal people. She does this in a city where she knows that two of the most influential people absolutely hate biotinkers or any sort of biology based creatures. Does she not think about the consequences?
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She is, literally, immature. But I am also starting to think she is called Addy because she has ADD.
 
I do find it hilarious that the exact thing Addy did to make sure she wouldn't be seen as making self-replicating biocreations - make them all female - is the exact same thing that freaks out Piggot and the PRT. That they're female.

On a completely unrelated note, this exact same method of making sure your creations can't reproduce has been tried before, most notably by Ingen Corporation on Isla Nublar.

 
Axiomatic said:
I do find it hilarious that the exact thing Addy did to make sure she wouldn't be seen as making self-replicating biocreations - make them all female - is the exact same thing that freaks out Piggot and the PRT. That they're female.

On a completely unrelated note, this exact same method of making sure your creations can't reproduce has been tried before, most notably by Ingen Corporation on Isla Nublar.

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So long as she doenst use DNA from a species that can spontaneously swap sexes in a single sex environment, it should be fine. I dont...think shes done that, but I'm no biologist.
 
With the squid and spider parts to Catsquid I was surprised that Taylor wasn't getting feedback from it or able to control it herself.
 
PrinceOfDoom said:
God, I... don't know who I pity more? I mean... whats next? Dead Space with Necromorph tech? Total War: Warhammer 2 and start producing Skaven tech?
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Those both sound boring. Why go for such kiddy tech. She should go full Necron, or maybe she should go full Old One. They could build entire species. Is Tyranid a tech tree? That could be fun.
(don't actually do this Addy. Those are all terrible ideas.)
 
I kind of want to see what Addy can do with Zerg Biotech.....

Smol Queen of Blades!

Ooh! Biotinker up the Bugs from Starship Troopers too!

Taylor with Uber Swarm!
 
People keep going: 'waaa, why are you complaining that she's way too childish and impulsive, 12 yr old brain btw!'.
Irrelevant.
She/he should at best be suffering from some loss of impulse control and harder to control emotions (depending on how hard the hormones hit, they don't hit the same for everyone regardless of what stereotypes about teenagers say).
She/he should still have all the experience, wisdom and metaknowledge she/he had before being transferred over. And yet she's acting like an 8 year old autist more often than not.

What I'm trying to say is, the SI part is completely missing. Might as well just cut out that part if you're having her act like the in-verse little girl she got transferred into.
 
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Hope that's the last of this kind of biotinkering, as for the Canberra thing in class, I would expect it to be Dinah more than Addy.
Looking at this, I'm getting wary of what faction Addy, hope its not Uber and Leet, Toybox or the Guild would be quite interesting and rare to see which would be all good as I don't want Addy to cut off ties with Vista and her friends.
 
Jrin said:
Hope that's the last of this kind of biotinkering, as for the Canberra thing in class, I would expect it to be Dinah more than Addy.
Looking at this, I'm getting wary of what faction Addy, hope its not Uber and Leet, Toybox or the Guild would be quite interesting and rare to see which would be all good as I don't want Addy to cut off ties with Vista and her friends.
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Canberra is just one of many cities. For too many for Dinah who can only really do percentages. She'd be splitting her head with the ache from trying to hey what city. I imagine she'd just rattle off a number for Brockton. But as far as I am aware she can't cog Endbringers directly.
 
I want to say I enjoyed the story so far, but I agree with the criticism that the SI seems to have lost their chapter one maturity and forethought. It seems she acts more childish as she goes on which may be the intention. Though mental degradation is not something I wish to see.
 
I mean the only way i see this not ending in blood is if addy weponizes her tragic backstory of a young girl who lost her parents and saw the only life she knew crumble around her in the span of a week with her only escape being powers she she couldn't understand the implications of.

Be sure to mention that you are the tinker love child of dauntless and eidolon and that you are bound to make hero look like an amateur within a year, that should make doctor mother and rebecca moist, (don't let armsie hear you though).
 
Doccer said:
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Both work but I'll admit hear works better in context so I'll change it in a moment.
Dis Lexic said:
I do understand the need for caution, but assuming villainous intent when the people who died were attacking someone and Glory Girl was threatening to harm the creation is jumping the gun big time.
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Well so far the only to tell them their side of the story was GG and she'd just had a rather humiliating encounter so...
Andorxor said:
I think she got the girl from the ribbon
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Yup. The ribbon combined with the tone of Addy's posts on PHO were enough info for Tatt's shard to asspull the correct answers.
Chabu said:
What I'm trying to say is, the SI part is completely missing. Might as well just cut out that part if you're having her act like the in-verse little girl she got transferred into.
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I'll might change it since people seem to really not like it. I will say though that I personally would totally descend in immaturity if given the chance. Being an adult sucks. I'll try to cut back on the it a bit since people seem to be hating it, but thinking random tangents and generally being (what I think is) an amusing idiot is a core part of who I am.
ChaosTheVoid said:
Though mental degradation is not something I wish to see.
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Outright mind control and changing thoughts is fine though right? :whistle: Her shard is definitely innocent and this statement is not a lie
supermou3ad said:
Be sure to mention that you are the tinker love child of dauntless and eidolon and that you are bound to make hero look like an amateur within a year, that should make doctor mother and rebecca moist, (don't let armsie hear you though).
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With plasmids Addy has access to other powers which she could use to prove that she clearly isn't a crazy and insane power tinker. She clearly has bird control powers and it might be possible that the new bug cape that has a build suspiciously similar to her cousin could actually be her cousin since family members almost always have similar powers. Definitely no biotinkers here :whistle:

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Oh yeah, probably no update tomorrow since I'll be back at work. Update schedule is going to suffer now that xmas holidays are over :cry:
 
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