Poliamida
(Verified Heavy Molecule)
- Location
- Beyond the Stars
Ok, found them.
Posting them here for those that are reading this in their phones:
Posting them here for those that are reading this in their phones:
I want a refund! (Tinker of Fiction Semi-SI)
- Thread starter Unders
- Start date
Kryptonian Steel
Insects, unworthy of such attention.
- Pronouns
- Alone
I didn't think I would like this fic at the start, now I'm rethinking that.
Vaolor
The Artificer
You know I was really liking this fic but the blatant shard mindfuckery is not doing it for me.
I know that shards do mess with their hosts head but I always thought of it as something that was largely subtle in it's machinations but Addy's shard is not acting like a shard at all. Shards are alien and their thought process and their communications should be alien but here you've got Addy's shard expressing very human emotions like amusement, indignation, anticipation and even smugness. I think you're really anthropomorphizing them too much. If shards could mentally influence parahumans this easily than Amy would have succumbed to her shard's urges for creativity a lot sooner and other parahumans who don't use their powers for combat like Parian would have their shard's influence them do so.
It can be inferred that Shards do sort of instill a reward system to influence their hosts such as Taylor's range and control becoming better the more she uses her powers in combat and dangerous situations rather than actually training in a safe environment. It can also be inferred that the reverse is true as well with 2 examples being Leet and Panacea. Leet's creations getting more unreliable and likely to fail because of his tendency to manage his risks and Panacea's worsening psyche compounded by her mental issues, constant exposure to Glory girl's aura, and shard likely messing with her brain chemistry due to only using her power to heal instead of being creative.
Generally shard's are beholden to their hosts more than the reverse, but here we see Addy's shard literally suggesting things that Addy would never consider to actually do and making her change her mind on things one moment to the next. Parahumans whose shard's have such influence over them are much more likely to barely be a functional human being.
However never do we see such behavior from shards as Addy's has displayed. Parahumans whose shard's have such influence on their mental state can often not even be functional such as Labyrinth whose shard has much more control over her than most parahumans and she can barely function and was even held in a asylum for such parahumans. The only other parahuman I can think whose shard possibly had such control over their host would be Burnscar however it's not clear whether it is purely her shard messing with her mind or if it was in conjunction with a mental illness such as a split-personality disorder that only manifested when she was heavily using her power.
Shards just do not function in the way you are portraying Addy's to act, especially in how much influence it has on her actions. If her shard had such influence she should be a barely functional human being who couldn't pass as normal in society and whose powers would be an actual hinder to her functioning.
I know that shards do mess with their hosts head but I always thought of it as something that was largely subtle in it's machinations but Addy's shard is not acting like a shard at all. Shards are alien and their thought process and their communications should be alien but here you've got Addy's shard expressing very human emotions like amusement, indignation, anticipation and even smugness. I think you're really anthropomorphizing them too much. If shards could mentally influence parahumans this easily than Amy would have succumbed to her shard's urges for creativity a lot sooner and other parahumans who don't use their powers for combat like Parian would have their shard's influence them do so.
It can be inferred that Shards do sort of instill a reward system to influence their hosts such as Taylor's range and control becoming better the more she uses her powers in combat and dangerous situations rather than actually training in a safe environment. It can also be inferred that the reverse is true as well with 2 examples being Leet and Panacea. Leet's creations getting more unreliable and likely to fail because of his tendency to manage his risks and Panacea's worsening psyche compounded by her mental issues, constant exposure to Glory girl's aura, and shard likely messing with her brain chemistry due to only using her power to heal instead of being creative.
Generally shard's are beholden to their hosts more than the reverse, but here we see Addy's shard literally suggesting things that Addy would never consider to actually do and making her change her mind on things one moment to the next. Parahumans whose shard's have such influence over them are much more likely to barely be a functional human being.
However never do we see such behavior from shards as Addy's has displayed. Parahumans whose shard's have such influence on their mental state can often not even be functional such as Labyrinth whose shard has much more control over her than most parahumans and she can barely function and was even held in a asylum for such parahumans. The only other parahuman I can think whose shard possibly had such control over their host would be Burnscar however it's not clear whether it is purely her shard messing with her mind or if it was in conjunction with a mental illness such as a split-personality disorder that only manifested when she was heavily using her power.
Shards just do not function in the way you are portraying Addy's to act, especially in how much influence it has on her actions. If her shard had such influence she should be a barely functional human being who couldn't pass as normal in society and whose powers would be an actual hinder to her functioning.
The invisitext kind of shifted my image of the shard from malicious to derpy.
Best part is that it would be completely in character for Addy to do it regardless of consequences. She simply thinks that it would make Taylor happy then proceed to do it and as she said in the chapter
Yep, completely in character for it
The PRT already knows that there is some biotinker there and someone completely resurecting someone would be pushing all their buttons there. The fact that there would be no side effect would push this shit all the way to the Chief Director.
There would be fallout with this but Addy doesn't care about that
IMO Tinkers are limited by three main things: Specialization, Resource and Time
Addy has a exessively powerful Specialization that would let her do it but is constrained by resource and her time limit. She can definitely build it, and it would work completely fine without side effects but because of subpar resource you could say that she would be limited to 1 resurection per week or that it would take loads of power per use. Until she manages to upgrade it of course
One of the biggest advantage of Addy is that her Shard likes her. It would be more liable to bend the rules and give her more power, prescision and build tech with less resource because of it. The fact that it is in "distract Addy by dangling awesome Tinkertech" mode would let her reach that.
Shards only want to HALP!!!
Thinking about it, Addy actually has a good anti-precog/Thinker abillity everytime she changes her specialization. Kinda like how Thinkers need to resimulate everything everytime there is a Trigger event they have to change everything everytime Addy changes hers
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- Location
- Space, the final frontier.
Install tampermonkey plugin and the following script.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
I am having far too much fun writing the descriptions for her crows. Actual murderous crows are just great 
For Contessa the path would fluctuate a bit. Maybe adding or lowering steps every switch. She's not on Contessa's radar yet though because it's still within the standard fluctuations and is overall a net decrease in steps, as well as Addy being within the site of their 'Super Important Experiment of Vital Importance' and so is technically off limits for now.
For Coil it's only an issue when she changes specialty, which will collapse either one or both timelines due to his power having issues modelling it. It could make for an interesting Anti-Coil tool, or it would if Addy knew it was happening and how their powers interacted.
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My sense of humour can be an acquired taste. Kinda like those horrible and weird french cheeses, but less smelly.
Her shard wasn't supposed to have a host. Her shard isn't actively malicious. It isn't really supposed to have a host, and so enjoys (as much as a crystal biocomputer can enjoy things) seeing her responses to different situations.
Most likely the first moment Addy might think of the consequences would be when Annette is alive and they have to figure out how to explain it.
Well I wouldn't say no side effects, since ADAM is involved with reconstructing the body and as said before the stuff is basically magic cancer.
Both time and resources are the main limiters, mostly getting enough resources before time on the spec runs out.
It's probably not a perfect anti-thinker effect. I figure it'd mostly just causes some anomalies in really long term predictions (since different potential future Addys could have a whole different mix of tech)
For Contessa the path would fluctuate a bit. Maybe adding or lowering steps every switch. She's not on Contessa's radar yet though because it's still within the standard fluctuations and is overall a net decrease in steps, as well as Addy being within the site of their 'Super Important Experiment of Vital Importance' and so is technically off limits for now.
For Coil it's only an issue when she changes specialty, which will collapse either one or both timelines due to his power having issues modelling it. It could make for an interesting Anti-Coil tool, or it would if Addy knew it was happening and how their powers interacted.
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So just regular Crows then.
The Wonders of Parahuman Puberty: Powers and You.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
Right, this is the first post in the informational mini-series: The Wonders of Parahuman Puberty.
For new readers there are some pretty big spoilers, so only look behind the conveniently labelled spoiler tags if you want to ruin all sense of excitement and suspense.
Adeline's power:
Adeline has the Tinker of Fiction package (based on this quest here.), which is basically pick a fictional universe and that's basically your temporary tinker specialty. She can swap to a different specialty (eg, pick a new fictional universe) if she wants, but must hold each specialty for at least a week before being able to change it. It has a cap of three weeks before it it'll automatically be swapped out for something new. Furthermore she can regain a previous specialty but needs to have swaps specs 3 times before she can grab one again.
If the universe she's drawing from has magic her power will instead replicate it with technology instead (Clarktech ftw!)
One limitation on her power is she can't rebuild stuff from a previous specialty unless she's already built it before and has the blueprints to follow.
When tinkering she can't actually modify her tech until after she's actually built it, mostly because every time she's doing the actual building she drops into a tinker fugue. For example if she were building power armour and wanted to incorporate tech from a previous specialty she'd need to build it first and then when she comes out of the fugue she can make the adjustments.
Since I'm kinda forgetful here's the current blueprints she's got that she can actually follow to make stuff with (she does have tons of blueprints for Fallout but didn't get to make most of it so is limited till she gets the specialty back):
Adeline's shard:
Yup she has a shard, as stated in the previous information post. No magic or warp fuckery here. Anyway here's some more info about her shard:
Adeline's shard gives her a sort of anti-thinker effect that causes a slight issue with precognitive Thinker abilities and/or others that rely on simulations. What happens is her shard essentially does a mini-trigger every time it changes specialties, which like normal trigger events messes with precognition. Especially because different potential future Adelines could have totally different mixes of tech.
She can be Pathed. She simply causes the Path to fluctuate a bit as it's forced to adjust each time Addy's spec changes, but due to being inside the Brockton Bay Experiment as well as being more of an irritant than a threat to the Path she's not likely to get Contessa'd for the moment. Trying to spill Cauldron secrets on the other hand would draw in Contessa to do something.
Her power has weird interactions with Coil's power. It mostly just means his timelines collapse the moment she changes specialty. Since she's only changed specialty twice (and there's a minimum cooldown of at least a week) Coil has noticed his timelines randomly dropping twice before but has no clue as to the cause (for now)
For new readers there are some pretty big spoilers, so only look behind the conveniently labelled spoiler tags if you want to ruin all sense of excitement and suspense.
Adeline's power:
Adeline has the Tinker of Fiction package (based on this quest here.), which is basically pick a fictional universe and that's basically your temporary tinker specialty. She can swap to a different specialty (eg, pick a new fictional universe) if she wants, but must hold each specialty for at least a week before being able to change it. It has a cap of three weeks before it it'll automatically be swapped out for something new. Furthermore she can regain a previous specialty but needs to have swaps specs 3 times before she can grab one again.
If the universe she's drawing from has magic her power will instead replicate it with technology instead (Clarktech ftw!)
When she changes her specialisation is picked in two ways:
Method A:
Addy has a goal in mind and wants to swap (Eg. Addy wants to make giant robots)
I check the list below and pick all the ones that have options for giant robots.
I roll randomly to choose one spec from that smaller list.
Method B:
Addy has no real goal in mind when her spec changes (Eg. She's asleep and her spec is scheduled to change)
I roll randomly and pick whatever it was from the list below.
Exceptions do exist. If I roll a spec she's had before and the cooldown hasn't finished I reroll till I get something allowed.
The list (not finalized and more fictional universes can be added):
Method A:
Addy has a goal in mind and wants to swap (Eg. Addy wants to make giant robots)
I check the list below and pick all the ones that have options for giant robots.
I roll randomly to choose one spec from that smaller list.
Method B:
Addy has no real goal in mind when her spec changes (Eg. She's asleep and her spec is scheduled to change)
I roll randomly and pick whatever it was from the list below.
Exceptions do exist. If I roll a spec she's had before and the cooldown hasn't finished I reroll till I get something allowed.
The list (not finalized and more fictional universes can be added):
- War for the Overworld
- Marvel (Cinematic universe rather than the comic stuff)
- Starcraft
- Overwatch
- Subnautica
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Mega Man
- Pokemon
- Star wars
- Kill la kill
- Star Trek
- Portal
- Metal Gear
- Psyren
- Franken Fran
- FMA
- Captain Planet
- Darling in the Franxx
- Wall-E
- Futurama
- Dota 2
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Eberron (3.5 Edition)
- Prey
- Bioshock
- Dungeon Keeper
- Shadowrun
- Matrix
- Mass Effect (excluding Andromeda stuff)
- Borderlands
- Monster Hunter
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Skyrim
- Dragon Ball (Includes DBZ)
- Transformers (Cinematic universe only)
- Nier Automata
- Gundam
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- Deus Ex
- Dead Space
- Metroid
- Sword Art Online
- Sundered
- Battlezone (The 98 version, Red Odyssey and Combat Commander)
- Lord of the Rings
- Ratchet and Clank
- Halo
- Infinite Stratos
- Fallout
- X-Com (Long War 1&2. Some War of the Chosen stuff)
- Kingsmen
- Lego Star Wars
- TRON
- Lilo & Stitch
- Men in Black
- Psychonauts
- Splatoon
- Kingdom Hearts
- Power Rangers
- Alien Vs. Predator
- Harry Potter
- Dragon Age
- FFX & X-2
- Ghost in the shell
- The Shoal Trilogy
- Treasure Planet
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- No Man's Sky
- Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs
- Dungeons II & III
- World of Warcraft
- Cultist Simulator
- Disgaea
- Ben 10
- TMNT
- Naruto
- Megamind
- Biker Mice from Mars
- Oddworld (Abe's Odysee and Abe's Exodus)
- The Incredibles
- Warhammer 40K (Craftworld Eldar Stuff only)
- Warhammer 40k (AdMech Stuff only)
- Warhammer 40k (Orc Stuff only)
- Warcraft 3
- Aliens Franchise
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- One Piece
- Stellaris
- RWBY
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (includes sequel book too)
- Biomutant
- Azur Lane (Kansen Tech)
- Azur Lane (Siren Tech)
- Looney Tunes (the wacky Acme stuff)
- James Bond
When tinkering she can't actually modify her tech until after she's actually built it, mostly because every time she's doing the actual building she drops into a tinker fugue. For example if she were building power armour and wanted to incorporate tech from a previous specialty she'd need to build it first and then when she comes out of the fugue she can make the adjustments.
Since I'm kinda forgetful here's the current blueprints she's got that she can actually follow to make stuff with (she does have tons of blueprints for Fallout but didn't get to make most of it so is limited till she gets the specialty back):
Fallout:
- Stealth Boys
- Laser Muskets
- Bottlecap Mines (with options to substitute loose change for bottlecaps)
- Nuka Cola Quantum
Sonnie's Edge:
- Fancy Supercomputer + OS + Software to genemod the shit out of things
- Her Sequencer/scanner thing to upload DNA to the Fancy Supercomputer
- Life Support Tanks
- Bioware Implants
- Seeder device so she can grow her critters.
- Khanivore's entire genetic sequence
Bioshock:
- ADAM producing sea slug genetic sequence
- Dialysis/Refining/Processing Machine so she can refine ADAM into plasmids/vigors/tonics/etc, as long as the chemical makeup of those plasmids/vigors/tonics/etc
- Vita-Chambers
X-Com:
- GREMLIN software
- Codex
- Psi Chamber
- Laser Rifle
- Tranquilliser rounds
- Elerium
- Viper genetic sequences
- Faceless genetic sequences
- Sectoid genetic sequences (Enemy Within/Unknown versions, not the X-Com 2 version)
- Meld
- Neural Feedback genemod
Final Fantasy X/X-2
- Garment Grids (Heart Reborn, Restless Sleep, Unerring Path, Treasure Hunt)
- Dresspheres (Freelancer, Black Mage, Alchemist, White Mage, Songstress, Floral Fallal)
- Black Tome, Black Ring, NulTide Ring, Ragnarok
- Fayth (and Aeons)
- TKO
- Remedy Potion
Eberron (D&D 3.5e)
- Dedicated Wright Homunculi
- Scrolls
- Wands
- Dragonmark of Making
- Adamantine
- Merciful Weapon enchantment
- Psionic Tattoos
- Shroud Resonator
- Stealth Boys
- Laser Muskets
- Bottlecap Mines (with options to substitute loose change for bottlecaps)
- Nuka Cola Quantum
Sonnie's Edge:
- Fancy Supercomputer + OS + Software to genemod the shit out of things
- Her Sequencer/scanner thing to upload DNA to the Fancy Supercomputer
- Life Support Tanks
- Bioware Implants
- Seeder device so she can grow her critters.
- Khanivore's entire genetic sequence
Bioshock:
- ADAM producing sea slug genetic sequence
- Dialysis/Refining/Processing Machine so she can refine ADAM into plasmids/vigors/tonics/etc, as long as the chemical makeup of those plasmids/vigors/tonics/etc
- Vita-Chambers
X-Com:
- GREMLIN software
- Codex
- Psi Chamber
- Laser Rifle
- Tranquilliser rounds
- Elerium
- Viper genetic sequences
- Faceless genetic sequences
- Sectoid genetic sequences (Enemy Within/Unknown versions, not the X-Com 2 version)
- Meld
- Neural Feedback genemod
Final Fantasy X/X-2
- Garment Grids (Heart Reborn, Restless Sleep, Unerring Path, Treasure Hunt)
- Dresspheres (Freelancer, Black Mage, Alchemist, White Mage, Songstress, Floral Fallal)
- Black Tome, Black Ring, NulTide Ring, Ragnarok
- Fayth (and Aeons)
- TKO
- Remedy Potion
Eberron (D&D 3.5e)
- Dedicated Wright Homunculi
- Scrolls
- Wands
- Dragonmark of Making
- Adamantine
- Merciful Weapon enchantment
- Psionic Tattoos
- Shroud Resonator
- Catsquids: Small, cat-sized crimes against nature with venom and tentacles. Capable of ungodly-sounding vocalisations. Can turn invisible due to plasmids. Come in two versions. Regular, being the normal kind, and Chibi, being the smaller kitten-like versions with longer tentacles, bigger eyes and no venom.
- Khanivore: 3m tall combat monster equipped with combat tentacles and tons of different plasmids.
- Bioshock Sea Slugs: Sea slugs that can be symbiotically implanted into young girls. Produces ADAM.
- Splyce: 2.2m tall, slender female humanoid critter that looks like the forbidden lovechild of Slenderman and a squid. Used for remote tinkering. Has a creepy smile.
- Sectoids: Creepy little big-headed psychic aliens. Not particularly smart or brave, but good at menial tasks or providing psionic support.
- Vipers: Snake ladies with cobra heads. Long tongues that can pull distant targets close so they can besuffocated hugged to death. Can also spit clouds of venom. Obviously mentally impaired in some way because they think Uber and Leet are cool.
- Tattlesnakes: Like vipers, but spliced with Tattletale's DNA. Basically the bottom half is a snake and the top half is Tattletale. Don't have Tattletale's power sadly. Also lack the tongue ability of vipers but can still spit venom. Very friendly.
- Khanivore: 3m tall combat monster equipped with combat tentacles and tons of different plasmids.
- Bioshock Sea Slugs: Sea slugs that can be symbiotically implanted into young girls. Produces ADAM.
- Splyce: 2.2m tall, slender female humanoid critter that looks like the forbidden lovechild of Slenderman and a squid. Used for remote tinkering. Has a creepy smile.
- Sectoids: Creepy little big-headed psychic aliens. Not particularly smart or brave, but good at menial tasks or providing psionic support.
- Vipers: Snake ladies with cobra heads. Long tongues that can pull distant targets close so they can be
- Tattlesnakes: Like vipers, but spliced with Tattletale's DNA. Basically the bottom half is a snake and the top half is Tattletale. Don't have Tattletale's power sadly. Also lack the tongue ability of vipers but can still spit venom. Very friendly.
Here's additional 'powers' Adeline has unlocked for herself and family members via her tinkering.
Adeline:
- Murder of Crows from Bioshock. Lets her spam out terrifying murder crows as well as 'teleport' by converting herself into crows and then reforming at the new location.
- Possession from Bioshock. Lets her create a ghostly woman that controls people or technology. Only one thing can be controlled at a time. Replaced with Peeping Tom.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
- Psychic Powers from X-Com. Yay psionics. She can think hard at stuff. More specifically Psi Panic, Null Lance and Mind Merge.
- Neural Feedback from X-Com. Anti-Master genemod to screw over people trying to Master her.
- Dragonmark of Making from Eberron. A tinkertech tattoo madefrom self-replicating nanites that grants a whole variety of useful features with regards to making and/or improving things.
Taylor:
- Insect Swarm from Bioshock. Functions the same as Adeline's crow power listed above, except with Bees instead of crows and minus the teleportation.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Shield from Bioshock. Grants her a skin-tight regenerating forcefield that absorbs damage, eventually breaking after too much damage is taken.
- Teleportation from Bioshock. Able to set a 'marker' down that she can teleport to at will.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
Annette:
- Old Man Winter from Bioshock. Creates dry ice that can instantly freeze opponents or water. Also keeps drinks cool.
- Undertow from Bioshock. Push and pull opponents with blasts of water.
- Scout from Bioshock. Lets her create an invisible, ghostly projection of herself that can also use her powers. Has a range of about two blocks.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Shield from Bioshock. Grants her a skin-tight regenerating forcefield that absorbs damage, eventually breaking after too much damage is taken.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
Lisa
- Speedy Hacker from Bioshock. Makes hacking even easier than before.
- Clever inventor from Bioshock. Lets her craft the items from her Alchemist dressphere more efficiently and with less materials required.
- Teleportation from Bioshock. Able to set a 'marker' down that she can teleport to at will.
- Scout from Bioshock. Lets her create an invisible, ghostly projection of herself that can also use her powers. Has a range of about two blocks.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
Adeline:
- Murder of Crows from Bioshock. Lets her spam out terrifying murder crows as well as 'teleport' by converting herself into crows and then reforming at the new location.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
- Psychic Powers from X-Com. Yay psionics. She can think hard at stuff. More specifically Psi Panic, Null Lance and Mind Merge.
- Neural Feedback from X-Com. Anti-Master genemod to screw over people trying to Master her.
- Dragonmark of Making from Eberron. A tinkertech tattoo madefrom self-replicating nanites that grants a whole variety of useful features with regards to making and/or improving things.
Taylor:
- Insect Swarm from Bioshock. Functions the same as Adeline's crow power listed above, except with Bees instead of crows and minus the teleportation.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Shield from Bioshock. Grants her a skin-tight regenerating forcefield that absorbs damage, eventually breaking after too much damage is taken.
- Teleportation from Bioshock. Able to set a 'marker' down that she can teleport to at will.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
Annette:
- Old Man Winter from Bioshock. Creates dry ice that can instantly freeze opponents or water. Also keeps drinks cool.
- Undertow from Bioshock. Push and pull opponents with blasts of water.
- Scout from Bioshock. Lets her create an invisible, ghostly projection of herself that can also use her powers. Has a range of about two blocks.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
- Shield from Bioshock. Grants her a skin-tight regenerating forcefield that absorbs damage, eventually breaking after too much damage is taken.
- Metabolic Eve from Bioshock. Lets her regen 'EVE' to allow for more uses of her Bioshock granted powers.
Lisa
- Speedy Hacker from Bioshock. Makes hacking even easier than before.
- Clever inventor from Bioshock. Lets her craft the items from her Alchemist dressphere more efficiently and with less materials required.
- Teleportation from Bioshock. Able to set a 'marker' down that she can teleport to at will.
- Scout from Bioshock. Lets her create an invisible, ghostly projection of herself that can also use her powers. Has a range of about two blocks.
- Peeping Tom from Bioshock. Grants invisibility as well as the ability to look through walls.
Adeline's shard:
Yup she has a shard, as stated in the previous information post. No magic or warp fuckery here. Anyway here's some more info about her shard:
Reality Lens is an Abaddon shard, currently occupying most of the land mass of an alternate earth and connected to Best Host. It has no idea how it got there or how it connected to it's host (blame the R.O.B) but it's liking this new situation.
Reality Lens has an important function. When a Cycle is begun the Entities lock of large sections of the multiverse to do their testing in. Reality Lens is/was an Abaddon specific shard that monitors universes outside of this test bed to monitor for potential threats to the Cycle. When it found itself suddenly having a Host for the first time it slapped together a Tinker package using information from these realities.
It's not meant to have a host at all and as such is fairly low on restrictions, most of them being the standard 'host isn't supposed to know certain shit' stuff.
The Host-Output-Node (aka Corona Gemma) for Reality Lens' host is a fair bit larger than than normal.
Reality Lens loves Host and enjoys feeling the different emotions Host can display. Host is best Host, even if Host sometimes needs a few nudges here and there.
Reality Lens has an important function. When a Cycle is begun the Entities lock of large sections of the multiverse to do their testing in. Reality Lens is/was an Abaddon specific shard that monitors universes outside of this test bed to monitor for potential threats to the Cycle. When it found itself suddenly having a Host for the first time it slapped together a Tinker package using information from these realities.
It's not meant to have a host at all and as such is fairly low on restrictions, most of them being the standard 'host isn't supposed to know certain shit' stuff.
The Host-Output-Node (aka Corona Gemma) for Reality Lens' host is a fair bit larger than than normal.
Reality Lens loves Host and enjoys feeling the different emotions Host can display. Host is best Host, even if Host sometimes needs a few nudges here and there.
Adeline's shard gives her a sort of anti-thinker effect that causes a slight issue with precognitive Thinker abilities and/or others that rely on simulations. What happens is her shard essentially does a mini-trigger every time it changes specialties, which like normal trigger events messes with precognition. Especially because different potential future Adelines could have totally different mixes of tech.
She can be Pathed. She simply causes the Path to fluctuate a bit as it's forced to adjust each time Addy's spec changes, but due to being inside the Brockton Bay Experiment as well as being more of an irritant than a threat to the Path she's not likely to get Contessa'd for the moment. Trying to spill Cauldron secrets on the other hand would draw in Contessa to do something.
Her power has weird interactions with Coil's power. It mostly just means his timelines collapse the moment she changes specialty. Since she's only changed specialty twice (and there's a minimum cooldown of at least a week) Coil has noticed his timelines randomly dropping twice before but has no clue as to the cause (for now)
Initial Addy starts with Fallout
TImeline A Addy ends up swapping to Yu-Gi-Oh.
Timeline B Addy ends up swapping to Borderlands.
Coil A and B Timeline both immediately collapse because they haven't modelled for this and Coil (from his perspective) is back where he was when he spilt those timelines.
Alternatively:
Initial Addy starts with Fallout
Timeline A Addy ends up swapping to Yu-Gi-Oh.
Timeline B Addy doesn't swap and keeps with Fallout.
Coil A Timeline immediately collapses leaving Coil in Timeline B.
TImeline A Addy ends up swapping to Yu-Gi-Oh.
Timeline B Addy ends up swapping to Borderlands.
Coil A and B Timeline both immediately collapse because they haven't modelled for this and Coil (from his perspective) is back where he was when he spilt those timelines.
Alternatively:
Initial Addy starts with Fallout
Timeline A Addy ends up swapping to Yu-Gi-Oh.
Timeline B Addy doesn't swap and keeps with Fallout.
Coil A Timeline immediately collapses leaving Coil in Timeline B.
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
And what's worse this stick-in-the-mud Queen Administrator and it's host keep trying to administrate (IE place limitations which is BORING!) to Best Host. Hmm, there were some interesting brain-tech over in universal cluster 598X_12IW4/XYZ. Dress it up properly and Best Host can implement it in Boring Host and everything will be Awesome (except for Queen Administrator but who cares about its opinion?).
Chapter 8. Murder Crows and Breakdowns
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
A little later with this than I'd like. Had some scenes fighting me that had to be completely abandoned which delayed things
Anyways here's a brand new chapter fresh off the press
Chapter 8:
(14th March 2011)
I moved carefully through the Docks on my route back. I didn't want a repeat performance of Friday. Hiding inside a dumpster half-filled with trash is not my idea of fun. It'll be so nice once Fluffles the Second finishes incubating on Thursday. Then I can just use her to scout ahead like normal.
I passed a bunch of vagrants but we were all content to just ignore each other. I did have to duck down an alley and go invisible at one point when I spotted a group of ABB thugs coming down the street. Luckily they didn't seem to be interested in me as nobody tried to follow me so I continued on my way.
It's pretty sad how swift the transition is from derelict and worn streets to the more normal-looking streets one would expect anywhere else. It's like chunks of Brockton Bay had just decided to imitate a third world country and everyone was okay with that. Hell one street I'd passed had a crater with a sapling growing out of it.
At least it meant I could relax a little.
I peered suspiciously down an alley before ducking inside. I looked a little distinct and don't really want to attract attention when I go to the more populated parts of the Bay.
Case in point, from an outsider's view I did look pretty suspicious. I was wearing one of Taylor's hoodies again, a black one which like the previous one I borrowed also hid the pretty yellow dress I was wearing (I'd been feeling rather girly again today). The hoodie, combined with the black boots, the way the hood hid both my hat and hair, a scarf covering my face and the top of a baseball bat sticking out the top of my backpack wound up giving me a sort of homeless, juvenile delinquent look.
And while that look may work in the more decayed and derelict portions of the city it stood out like a sore thumb this much closer to the Boardwalk. There was an easy fix though. I pulled off the hoodie and scarf and shoved them into my bag. My stealth boy now on display looked out of place so I reluctantly put it away as well. With my new powers I didn't actually need it as much, but it was reassuring to have. I sadly couldn't do much to disguise the bat, but now at least it looked like I wasn't about to rob a liquor store or something.
I shuffled about awkwardly for a moment. While I may have started to enjoy dressing up nice in private I didn't really feel comfortable wearing such a girly dress in public.
Maybe I should just head home instead?
Then again I really want to go try out Possession.
But it is kinda cold out here without the hoodie and I don't like being cold.
[Suggestion]
Though I could always buy some hot chocolate or something with cash I get from the ATM.
Plan decided I stepped back out the alleyway and continued making my way closer to the Boardwalk. I found the ATM I was looking for soon enough, but there were a pair of large and rather rough looking men standing nearby smoking cigarettes but keeping an eye on anyone who went near it.
They spotted me shortly after I spotted them. I looked over at the ATM and then back at them. The one on the left let out an amused huff I could hear from where I stood and gave me a smirk.
Yeah, not getting anything out this ATM. There goes that plan. They were obviously planning on mugging anyone who used the thing, knew that I knew that they knew that I knew that was their plan. The one on the right with a crooked nose looked like he was trying to decide whether I'd be worth mugging.
Yeah this was a bust. I turned around and walked back to the alley I'd gotten changed in, making sure to glance back often to make sure I wasn't followed. Once safely back, or at least as safe as a smelly alley in a crime-ridden city could be, I put the hoodie, stealth boy and scarf back on.
"May as well practice moving." I sighed to myself as I burst into crows and reformed on a fire escape above me. I messed up the landing, stumbling a bit on the metal grating and quickly reaching out to steady myself on the railing. I hope I'll be able to avoid feeling so disoriented when doing this eventually.
I got home with plenty of time to spare. Travelling along rooftops was fun as hell once I'd gotten the hang of things. I had one mishap when I tried to pop across to a rooftop across the street and reformed a couple feet from my target. My startled yelp of alarm did draw a few looks from the people walking below me and I have no clue what they might have been thinking as I suddenly burst apart into crows again before hitting the ground, reforming nearby with my heart practically beating out my chest. I swiftly crow-ported away back to the rooftop I'd been aiming at moments before people began pulling out phones to take pictures.
I am so glad I opted for the hoodie plus scarf combo.
Aside from that little bit of excitement my trip home was fun and enjoyable. I so have to do this again sometime.
Once I actually got home I opted to test out possession on the TV, happily surprised when it worked the way I wanted. I'm not planning on using it on people unless I absolutely have to though. A master effect that causes suicidal depression when it wears off is probably something the PRT would frown upon.
I'll save it for Coil or something. Hmm, if he gets mastered I wonder if I could get him to drop the unmastered timeline? That'd solve my snake problem. Hopefully I'll never find out since if I'm in position to use Possession on him then I'm probably in a situation I don't want to be in.
I checked my email, after waiting for our dinosaur internet to finish up, and then caught up on schoolwork. I also sent off a text to myfriends minions letting them know I'll be at school tomorrow.
Finally Taylor got home. She looked a bit down but brightened up when she saw me.
"I need to show you something." I dragged her straight through the house and into the back yard. "Can you use your bugs to make sure nobody is watching us?"
"Um okay. Give me a sec." She stood stock still for a moment. "Okay we're clear."
"Right, watch this." I turned around and summoned my minions, the angry-looking birds landing on the tree.
I say angry-looking because they only merely looked angry, instead of showing the full depth of the sheer murderous fury they possessed as they glared hatefully over wickedly sharp beaks at the world with their blood-red eyes.
One of them fluffed it's feathers up in irritation as Taylor stared at it. On of the lashed out with it's beak to snap up a fly that flew too close.
They're so grumpy they wrap back round into being cute!
"I...what...how?" Her voice was full of confusion as she turned back to me.
"Well the chemical my implanted symbiote makes doesn't just give kickass overpowered regeneration powers. I can further refine and tinker with it to make potions that grant powers, like crow summoning and stuff. It's the same way I was going to give my critters powers. I did it so I won't be defenceless if somebody tries to hurt me." I explained. "It's limited by body mass, so I only have three abilities but you should be able to hold five I think?" She's tall for her age which helps, but she's also pretty slender which doesn't help.
"Uh, what?"
"Since you don't want to let me give you a critter control implant," for whatever crazy reason, "We'll need to give you something defensive to help. I'd recommend the barrier and a regen power because they'd work really well to keep you safe and it leaves you with space for two more powers since you'll definitely need the bee power an-" Taylor placed a finger over my lips to stop my enthusiastic rambling.
"Okay I think I get it. Can we talk about this inside where those..." She waved her hand at the crows sitting there, just watching, "...birds can't stare at us like that. Is there a reason they're staring at me like they want to kill me and use my rib cage as a nest?"
"That's cause they do. They're kinda angry. Like all the time. It's pretty funny."
"Yeah no, we're talking about this inside away from the murder birds."
"The collective noun for a group of crows is a murder." I added helpfully.
"I know Addy. I just find myself unsurprised at exactly how fitting that is right now."
I was bouncing in excitement at the thought of being able to make powers for Taylor. I wonder if I could bump her up to S-Class? Nobody would mess with her then. [Anticipation]
She slumped down onto the couch and gave me a look, clearly unimpressed with my enthusiasm. "Give me some time to think about it. I'm not saying no, because more powers would be cool and make me better at heroing, but I do want to think about it." She said.
"Aww okay. But please think about it a lot. I have so many ideas to make your power even more useful and versatile." I answered, settling down a bit. I'm not sure how much push her power has, since I think it's really rare to have powers actively screw with your head, but I'm hoping Queen Administrator will at least nudge her into thinking seriously about it.
Taylor is going to be so damn OP.
"Right okay." My big sister said, gathering her thoughts. "So you said you have three new powers? And why those murder crows?"
"You say it murder of crows."
"I know what I said. Now explain please."
"Well okay. So powers tend to run in families. It's why most of New Wave has forcefields and lasers. I decided to that since you control bugs I should get cute-but-angry birds. Since I could still handle some more abilities I gave myself the power to create a ghost that controls machines." I demonstrated by using Possession on the TV. A beautiful, pale, ghostly woman appeared and swirled about the TV which suddenly turned itself on and switched to the news. I left out the human mastering aspect, since Taylor would probably find some reason to complain about it.
"The last ability I gave myself was to let my body naturally create a chemical that can fuel the new powers, otherwise I'd tire myself up too much if I use them for too long. I'll need to eat a bit more at meal times." I shrugged.
Taylor sat and digested that for a while. I had my Ghost change channels to check if there were any good cartoons on. Sadly there weren't. Taylor spoke up once she'd finished thinking about things. "You can't let people know you can make powers."
"Yup. That's part of the reason I picked the crows. Powers tend to run in families and since you have bugs it doesn't look out of place with me having birds. It's far safer for me since now it's even more important people don't figure out I'm a tinker. Imagine if the gangs knew I could manufacture powers? Lung would kidnap and enslave me in a heartbeat. Kaiser would have me assassinated. The Merchants would probably do something stupid."
At least I'm not like other parahumans that want to rush out and fight use their powers. I guess it's because I'm a tinker and making stuff fulfils that urge. It means I'm even less likely to get discovered as a tinker since I'm going to do all my hero stuff pretending to be a Case 53.
Which I still need to design. Stupid no tentacles rule ruining all my ideas...
Pity I couldn't get Taylor to agree with me about making a critter for her (or let me practice cloning her brain so I can toy about with coronas). [Disappointment. Intrigue]
Maybe once she's gone out a bit and sees how cool my Case 53 critter (Critter 53?) is then she'll want one. Hmm maybe I should design one for her anyway. If I make it bug-like enough and then leave the bioware processors out so that the brain can grow properly she might even be able to control it with her power. That way she can't complain about brain surgery.
"Well I'm gonna go get started on my homework." I told my big sister before bursting into crows and reforming in the kitchen, still stumbling a little because I hadn't gotten quite used to the disorienting effects of travelling that way yet.
"Addy what the hell!" Taylor yelled from the room I just left.
Oh yeah. I forgot to tell her I can do that.
(16th March 2011)
Wednesday lunchtime saw me in the cafeteria and I was still sitting quietly doodling a sketch of the late Fluffles the First in the front of my new tinker notebook as I thought to myself. My previous notebook had finally been filled up with Critter 53 concepts and so I'd left it at home safely tucked under my mattress next to a magazine I stole back from Taylor (for the anatomy references honest).
My friends were busy chatting about their weekends. Thankfully they seemed to get that I was preoccupied.
I have such thoughtfulfriends minions.
At the moment I'm trying to think of what plasmids I should make first for Taylor. Since she's so tall she should be able to handle at least five which gives us lots of options.
I'll get Insect Swarm synthesising for her first. Being able to just spam BEEEEEEEEES!! at people will be brokenly OP with her power. Pity she didn't pick the bee theme. That would've been much better. I might be able to modify too so she can split apart into bees like I can into crows. That'll up her survivability loads.
No asshole villains are gonna hurt my big sister.
The Barrier from Bioshock: Infinite is also a definite must. Bulletproof, regenerating forcefield? Yes please. I'm probably going to grab that one for myself once I get a bit bigger. Speedy Recovery would be cool for Taylor since it'll give her some low level regeneration. Or she could go with Armoured Shell for general damage resistance.
Or all three, which when combined with the bee power would leave her with one more slot. Aargh so many options. A stealth power? A blaster power? Metabolic Eve like I have?
I frowned. So many choices and not enough Taylor to put them in.
Maybe I should try push her towards some of the electricity based stuff, because fuck Shadow Stalker.
Note to Self: Give Fluffles the Second the Shock Jockey power and use her to hunt down Sophia when she goes on a solo patrol. A little electricity and the entirety of Fluffle's venom sacs should get that bitch off Taylor's case.
Wait no that's a bad idea. The PRT will find the corpse and have a hissy fit. They might even believe Glory Girl's online rantings that there's biotinkered monsters running around. I'm a little surprised Piggot hasn't gone on a massive witch hunt already but I guess it means they think the amazing and perfect Collateral Damage Barbie is full of hot air.
I'll need wait for Khanivore to be ready first and then use it to dispose of Stalker's corpse once Fluffles offs her. Less fallout if she just 'mysteriously vanishes'. Or I could design a custom critter specifically for the purpose of hunting her down. A Shadow Stalker Stalker, if you will. Should probably give it thumbs so I can use her phone to lure Emma out as well.
My only regret is I'd only be able to kill the bitches once.
[Solution]
Or not. I stopped filling in my drawing because apparently my power knows how to make vita-chambers and holy fuck I can bring people back to life! I could bring Taylor's mom back. I could bring my own moms back.
I had this sudden and deep wave of longing and hope at the idea. It was weird. I didn't know them but I just wanted it so bad. Am I projecting past-me's longing onto new-me's parents? Regardless this is something I need to make. I was thinking of maybe dropping Bioshock in a couple days but that's gone out the window.
Because my power just supplied me with the blueprints for vita-chambers, aka the in-game respawn points aka I can bring people back from the dead!
It's pretty simple too. The vita-chamber uses ADAM and combine it with some some of quantum entanglement bullshit, and bullshit is the only word that truly fits, to resurrect the person. It won't work on deaths caused by sickness or natural causes. I can even use the tinkertech quantum bullshit to revive people that have been for years. I just need a decent enough DNA sample to attune the target to the vita-chamber and...
And I don't have any DNA samples from my moms or know how to get any...
All the longing and hope I was feeling but a moment ago vanished, swallowed down into a pit of sorrow and grief. It's not fair!
"Adeline! Adeline are you okay?" "What's wrong?"
I feltTall Girl Karen put a comforting arm around my shoulder while the others crowded around me. I was crying.
"I...just...I miss my p-parents." I sobbed, wiping away at the tears on my face.
"It's okay Adeline. Come on. Lets go to the bathroom and get you freshened up." Black Girl suggested, helping me up. "Missy and Clara can look after your stuff."
"'Kay." I sniffed distractedly, not really hearing the answer as I let myself be led off, focusing on trying to keep from crying again. It's embarrassing being caught crying at school and I still don't understand my feelings at all.
I ended up being comforted by my friends for the rest of lunch break and was feeling more like myself by the end. They didn't judge me for it either. I have such nice friends.
[Suggestion]
I should definitely give my friends some plasmids. And Addy-privileges.
Except Blondie. She kept giving me weird looks after we got back from the bathroom when she thought I wasn't looking. Nah maybe I'm being a bit harsh. I suppose she can call me Addy too. She was looking at her phone a lot so maybe she was asking her family for advice or something. I know I'd probably ask for advice to when people get emotional.
And no I'm totally not distracting myself from my weird breakdown earlier by focusing on other stuff while I'm walking home. I'm just a perfectly ordinary girl walking home from school and definitely not hoping her power will distract her from weird emotional problems.
[Assistance]
Thoughts about the vita-chamber filled my head, not entirely helping.
Well thanks for trying Power. It's the thought that counts.
I took a deep breath and sighed, pushing away at the sadness that was coming back and focusing on what I could do. I might not be able to bring my parents back but there's still a chance I can at least help Taylor. If I can stop her feeling even a fraction of the sadness and hurt I have to do it.
Looking both ways before crossing the street I carried on walking and pondered what I needed to do. First up I should probably start stockpile ADAM.
Because seriously the vita-chamber uses up a lot of ADAM. Like a a lot. Like twice the bodyweight of the average person. Per use. I might need to make a dedicated slug-host critter just for ADAM farming if I want to make regular use of it.
Actually want is probably the wrong word. Need is better. Nobody should want to make regular use of a machine that brings you back to life.
I'm also going to need way more materials before I can build it. The design is complicated and will take a lot more resources, including a bunch of rare metals and some rather delicate electronics. None of which I have at the moment and stand almost no chance of scavenging from the Scrapyard or Boat Graveyard before my Bioshock specialisation swaps out.
Well there's only one thing for it.
I'm going to have to rob Medhall.
They'll definitely have what I need and the place is run by villains as a front for the Empire so I don't even have to feel bad afterwards. I'll need to figure out a way around their capes though. [Anticipation]
After finishing my homework I worked diligently on the the computer designing my Critter 53 that will be Taylor's partner incrime heroism.
I started with designing the pepper spray bugs which went through a bunch of concepts before I settled on something I liked.
My original thought was basing them off dragonflies. Good vision and strong flight. Then I considered something more beetle-like to give them better armour. Then I considered that Taylor's going for the whole moth theme and will be essentially be using moths fluttering about her as part of her costume so I scrapped my idea of original ideas and basically designed them to be really big and fluffy moths.
Like so fluffy. So, so fluffy. We could probably make plushies and rake in cash with merchandising once we're famous and popular heroes.
Once the general design was done the internals were easy to work through since I'd spent so much time thinking about them before. No reproductive system for obvious reasons. I'm a firm follower of Taylor's no getting a 'Kill Order' rule and having a bunch of fast breeding and difficult to contain bio-engineered insects would probably push Piggot from 'Instant Kill Order' to 'Exterminatus Now' the moment they were discovered.
I'll be skimping on a digestive system too. I'd thought of maybe leaving it in and going for a swarm of flesh-eating piranha-esque bugs with nasty jaws but then I remembered we're meant to be the good guys and terrifying your enemies with flesh eating bugs that could theoretically strip a body down to bone in minutes is bad for PR. My power seemed to share my disappointment too.
So I scrapped that idea and the considered payloads. Acids and venoms were out for similar reasons but replacing the insides with some sort of capsaicin gland would work fine. Pepper spray bugs for the win. Non-lethal but definitely not to be fucked with. I fiddled with the program and saw I didn't have the right DNA to allow for capsaicin generation in my Library so I popped downstairs to grab a couple chilli peppers to put through the scanner.
Ooh I can kill two birds with one stone and use the chilli peppers to cook something Mexican tonight too.
I added in a couple small sacs full of digestive enzymes too which will quickly degrade the pepper-moths down once they die.
Once those were done and the genetic sequence saved I started work on my Critter 53 which hit some snags because Taylor had vetoed tentacles. [Disappointment]
It'll need actual hands since Taylor has vetoed tentacles for grasping things. I'll also want it to be pretty big since it'll let me fit for bioshock powers, but I can't be too big.
Hmm...
I worked away at different design ideas until I finally settled on something I thought would be cool with an air of beauty and grace to it. It used a hell of a lot of spider DNA, some DNA from that super fluffy Persian cat down the street so I can harness the power of it's fluffiness, and maybe just a tiny little bit of my own so I could give it hands with opposable thumbs. No tentacles either so Taylor can't complain about me creating Lovecraftian horrors. I even managed to add an organ to it that'll produce ADAM as it was one of my special sea slugs.
Estimated incubation period of about two weeks which should putit her ready right when Taylor's suit gets finished.
I was watching the news with Taylor after dinner when when a story about Medhall reminded me that I'd need her help with robbing the place to get my vita-chamber built. I decided to broach the subject of illegally requisitioning goods from them to her diplomatically.
She wasn't a fan of the idea.
"Addy I am not helping you steal medical equipment from a hospital. What happens if you get caught? They'll totally throw you in prison if they find out it was you."
"They'll won't find out. They'll think it was some new Case 53."
"Please don't tell me your plan is what I think it is."
"Well if you think my plan is to use Khanivore to raid the hospital for stuff to cannibalise for tinkertech then you'd be right."
"Addy." Taylor began, tone of voice shifting like she was talking to a small child which was just plain insulting. "What do you think the PRT will think when a 10 foot tall, tentacled monster attacks a hospital and steals equipment after Glory Girl has been saying to all and sundry, correctly I might add, that there are biotinkered tentacle cats running about the city."
I tried to answer but she put a finger to my lips and carried on without letting me speak.
"They're not going to think oh no a new villainous monster cape. They're going to think oh shit a biotinker is on the loose. Call in the army! Which will be followed by actually calling in the army! Especially because this biotinker creation, which just so happens to be created by you by the way, decided to raid a Goddamn hospital! And not just any hospital! Medhall is one of the largest employers in the city!" Taylor ranted and I was quite glad Uncle Danny would be home late tonight because she was being unreasonably loud in addition to unreasonable. [Agreement]
Taylor continued ranting, really getting into it as she paced back and forth. "Addy I've seen the 3D render of that Khanivore thing. A five year-old could look between that thing, then your Catsquid and spot the connection. All you're going to end up doing is make the PRT think there's a crazy biotinker running around, who is you by the way, and attacking hospitals with oversized and more importantly terrifying creatures which will further fuel whatever fears they have that this biotinker, who is still you by the way, is a danger to the city!"
My big sister stopped and took a moment to calm down, possibly even dumping some of her emotions into her bugs judging by the way a nearby fly was buzzing about angrily. "Just why Addy? Why do you need to steal from a hospital? Why would you even ask me to help to begin with."
"There's a tinkertech device I need to make. It's really important. I'm limited by time and Medhall will have exactly what I need. Khanivore will only finish incubating on the 23rd and I'll lose this specialisation on the 25th. You're smarter than I am and I need your help planning this so I can maximise the limited amount of time to build the machine."
"Okay no."
"Um?"
"I'm not helping you. In fact I'm telling Dad when he gets home."
"What?! Why?!"
"You need help Addy. Your power is obviously messing with you. You see nothing wrong with doing God knows what to your body and now you want to rob a hospital."
"That's not true. I'd definitely know if my power was messing with my head. Anyway you can't tell Uncle Danny! He'll make me join the Wards and I'll never get to build this machine. Or they'd make me build it but we'd never get to use it unless they say so."
"That sounds like even more of a reason to tell Dad so you can't make whatever this machine is."
"It can bring people back to life."
"What."
"The machine I want to make. It can bring people back to life."
"What? Thats...you..." Her expression shifted to one of longing and hope. I knew what she was feeling. I'd felt the same thing earlier today.
I pushed back the unwanted sadness that welled up when I thought of earlier.
"Yes," I answered Taylor's unspoken question, "I can bring your mom back. But I can't do it alone. I need your help."
She was silent for a moment before she let of a long, deep sigh and told me her answer. "Alright fine. I'm in. I'll help with this crazy plan, but do we really need to target a hospital. Isn't there another way to do this?"
"It's run by the Empire Taylor. Kaizer is the CEO. He uses Medhall to fund his Nazi buddies."
"What?!"
"That's why I picked it. We could probably get the stuff I need from a smaller clinic or from a vet or something but that seemed kinda like a dick move to steal from innocent people when there's Nazis we could take stuff from."
"How did you even find that out?"
"Fluffles the First." I lied.
"We need to have a long talk about what you get up to when you're playing with your creatures."
Things were looking up. With Taylor on my side we'd have no problem pulling this off. I can even use my Catsquids as an excuse for letting Taylor know the stuff I know about the empire. Even better I'll soon be able to prove I'm the greatest tinker alive by ripping the afterlife a new one. [Anticipation]
A/N
And we now finally have definite confirmation that Blondie is actually the civilian identity of the Ward Vista! What a sudden plot twist! naturally Addy hasn't noticed.
Anyways here's a brand new chapter fresh off the press
Chapter 8:
(14th March 2011)
I moved carefully through the Docks on my route back. I didn't want a repeat performance of Friday. Hiding inside a dumpster half-filled with trash is not my idea of fun. It'll be so nice once Fluffles the Second finishes incubating on Thursday. Then I can just use her to scout ahead like normal.
I passed a bunch of vagrants but we were all content to just ignore each other. I did have to duck down an alley and go invisible at one point when I spotted a group of ABB thugs coming down the street. Luckily they didn't seem to be interested in me as nobody tried to follow me so I continued on my way.
It's pretty sad how swift the transition is from derelict and worn streets to the more normal-looking streets one would expect anywhere else. It's like chunks of Brockton Bay had just decided to imitate a third world country and everyone was okay with that. Hell one street I'd passed had a crater with a sapling growing out of it.
At least it meant I could relax a little.
I peered suspiciously down an alley before ducking inside. I looked a little distinct and don't really want to attract attention when I go to the more populated parts of the Bay.
Case in point, from an outsider's view I did look pretty suspicious. I was wearing one of Taylor's hoodies again, a black one which like the previous one I borrowed also hid the pretty yellow dress I was wearing (I'd been feeling rather girly again today). The hoodie, combined with the black boots, the way the hood hid both my hat and hair, a scarf covering my face and the top of a baseball bat sticking out the top of my backpack wound up giving me a sort of homeless, juvenile delinquent look.
And while that look may work in the more decayed and derelict portions of the city it stood out like a sore thumb this much closer to the Boardwalk. There was an easy fix though. I pulled off the hoodie and scarf and shoved them into my bag. My stealth boy now on display looked out of place so I reluctantly put it away as well. With my new powers I didn't actually need it as much, but it was reassuring to have. I sadly couldn't do much to disguise the bat, but now at least it looked like I wasn't about to rob a liquor store or something.
I shuffled about awkwardly for a moment. While I may have started to enjoy dressing up nice in private I didn't really feel comfortable wearing such a girly dress in public.
Maybe I should just head home instead?
Then again I really want to go try out Possession.
But it is kinda cold out here without the hoodie and I don't like being cold.
[Suggestion]
Though I could always buy some hot chocolate or something with cash I get from the ATM.
Plan decided I stepped back out the alleyway and continued making my way closer to the Boardwalk. I found the ATM I was looking for soon enough, but there were a pair of large and rather rough looking men standing nearby smoking cigarettes but keeping an eye on anyone who went near it.
They spotted me shortly after I spotted them. I looked over at the ATM and then back at them. The one on the left let out an amused huff I could hear from where I stood and gave me a smirk.
Yeah, not getting anything out this ATM. There goes that plan. They were obviously planning on mugging anyone who used the thing, knew that I knew that they knew that I knew that was their plan. The one on the right with a crooked nose looked like he was trying to decide whether I'd be worth mugging.
Yeah this was a bust. I turned around and walked back to the alley I'd gotten changed in, making sure to glance back often to make sure I wasn't followed. Once safely back, or at least as safe as a smelly alley in a crime-ridden city could be, I put the hoodie, stealth boy and scarf back on.
"May as well practice moving." I sighed to myself as I burst into crows and reformed on a fire escape above me. I messed up the landing, stumbling a bit on the metal grating and quickly reaching out to steady myself on the railing. I hope I'll be able to avoid feeling so disoriented when doing this eventually.
I got home with plenty of time to spare. Travelling along rooftops was fun as hell once I'd gotten the hang of things. I had one mishap when I tried to pop across to a rooftop across the street and reformed a couple feet from my target. My startled yelp of alarm did draw a few looks from the people walking below me and I have no clue what they might have been thinking as I suddenly burst apart into crows again before hitting the ground, reforming nearby with my heart practically beating out my chest. I swiftly crow-ported away back to the rooftop I'd been aiming at moments before people began pulling out phones to take pictures.
I am so glad I opted for the hoodie plus scarf combo.
Aside from that little bit of excitement my trip home was fun and enjoyable. I so have to do this again sometime.
Once I actually got home I opted to test out possession on the TV, happily surprised when it worked the way I wanted. I'm not planning on using it on people unless I absolutely have to though. A master effect that causes suicidal depression when it wears off is probably something the PRT would frown upon.
I'll save it for Coil or something. Hmm, if he gets mastered I wonder if I could get him to drop the unmastered timeline? That'd solve my snake problem. Hopefully I'll never find out since if I'm in position to use Possession on him then I'm probably in a situation I don't want to be in.
I checked my email, after waiting for our dinosaur internet to finish up, and then caught up on schoolwork. I also sent off a text to my
Finally Taylor got home. She looked a bit down but brightened up when she saw me.
"I need to show you something." I dragged her straight through the house and into the back yard. "Can you use your bugs to make sure nobody is watching us?"
"Um okay. Give me a sec." She stood stock still for a moment. "Okay we're clear."
"Right, watch this." I turned around and summoned my minions, the angry-looking birds landing on the tree.
I say angry-looking because they only merely looked angry, instead of showing the full depth of the sheer murderous fury they possessed as they glared hatefully over wickedly sharp beaks at the world with their blood-red eyes.
One of them fluffed it's feathers up in irritation as Taylor stared at it. On of the lashed out with it's beak to snap up a fly that flew too close.
They're so grumpy they wrap back round into being cute!
"I...what...how?" Her voice was full of confusion as she turned back to me.
"Well the chemical my implanted symbiote makes doesn't just give kickass overpowered regeneration powers. I can further refine and tinker with it to make potions that grant powers, like crow summoning and stuff. It's the same way I was going to give my critters powers. I did it so I won't be defenceless if somebody tries to hurt me." I explained. "It's limited by body mass, so I only have three abilities but you should be able to hold five I think?" She's tall for her age which helps, but she's also pretty slender which doesn't help.
"Uh, what?"
"Since you don't want to let me give you a critter control implant," for whatever crazy reason, "We'll need to give you something defensive to help. I'd recommend the barrier and a regen power because they'd work really well to keep you safe and it leaves you with space for two more powers since you'll definitely need the bee power an-" Taylor placed a finger over my lips to stop my enthusiastic rambling.
"Okay I think I get it. Can we talk about this inside where those..." She waved her hand at the crows sitting there, just watching, "...birds can't stare at us like that. Is there a reason they're staring at me like they want to kill me and use my rib cage as a nest?"
"That's cause they do. They're kinda angry. Like all the time. It's pretty funny."
"Yeah no, we're talking about this inside away from the murder birds."
"The collective noun for a group of crows is a murder." I added helpfully.
"I know Addy. I just find myself unsurprised at exactly how fitting that is right now."
I was bouncing in excitement at the thought of being able to make powers for Taylor. I wonder if I could bump her up to S-Class? Nobody would mess with her then. [Anticipation]
She slumped down onto the couch and gave me a look, clearly unimpressed with my enthusiasm. "Give me some time to think about it. I'm not saying no, because more powers would be cool and make me better at heroing, but I do want to think about it." She said.
"Aww okay. But please think about it a lot. I have so many ideas to make your power even more useful and versatile." I answered, settling down a bit. I'm not sure how much push her power has, since I think it's really rare to have powers actively screw with your head, but I'm hoping Queen Administrator will at least nudge her into thinking seriously about it.
Taylor is going to be so damn OP.
"Right okay." My big sister said, gathering her thoughts. "So you said you have three new powers? And why those murder crows?"
"You say it murder of crows."
"I know what I said. Now explain please."
"Well okay. So powers tend to run in families. It's why most of New Wave has forcefields and lasers. I decided to that since you control bugs I should get cute-but-angry birds. Since I could still handle some more abilities I gave myself the power to create a ghost that controls machines." I demonstrated by using Possession on the TV. A beautiful, pale, ghostly woman appeared and swirled about the TV which suddenly turned itself on and switched to the news. I left out the human mastering aspect, since Taylor would probably find some reason to complain about it.
"The last ability I gave myself was to let my body naturally create a chemical that can fuel the new powers, otherwise I'd tire myself up too much if I use them for too long. I'll need to eat a bit more at meal times." I shrugged.
Taylor sat and digested that for a while. I had my Ghost change channels to check if there were any good cartoons on. Sadly there weren't. Taylor spoke up once she'd finished thinking about things. "You can't let people know you can make powers."
"Yup. That's part of the reason I picked the crows. Powers tend to run in families and since you have bugs it doesn't look out of place with me having birds. It's far safer for me since now it's even more important people don't figure out I'm a tinker. Imagine if the gangs knew I could manufacture powers? Lung would kidnap and enslave me in a heartbeat. Kaiser would have me assassinated. The Merchants would probably do something stupid."
At least I'm not like other parahumans that want to rush out and fight use their powers. I guess it's because I'm a tinker and making stuff fulfils that urge. It means I'm even less likely to get discovered as a tinker since I'm going to do all my hero stuff pretending to be a Case 53.
Which I still need to design. Stupid no tentacles rule ruining all my ideas...
Pity I couldn't get Taylor to agree with me about making a critter for her (or let me practice cloning her brain so I can toy about with coronas). [Disappointment. Intrigue]
Maybe once she's gone out a bit and sees how cool my Case 53 critter (Critter 53?) is then she'll want one. Hmm maybe I should design one for her anyway. If I make it bug-like enough and then leave the bioware processors out so that the brain can grow properly she might even be able to control it with her power. That way she can't complain about brain surgery.
"Well I'm gonna go get started on my homework." I told my big sister before bursting into crows and reforming in the kitchen, still stumbling a little because I hadn't gotten quite used to the disorienting effects of travelling that way yet.
"Addy what the hell!" Taylor yelled from the room I just left.
Oh yeah. I forgot to tell her I can do that.
(16th March 2011)
Wednesday lunchtime saw me in the cafeteria and I was still sitting quietly doodling a sketch of the late Fluffles the First in the front of my new tinker notebook as I thought to myself. My previous notebook had finally been filled up with Critter 53 concepts and so I'd left it at home safely tucked under my mattress next to a magazine I stole back from Taylor (for the anatomy references honest).
My friends were busy chatting about their weekends. Thankfully they seemed to get that I was preoccupied.
I have such thoughtful
At the moment I'm trying to think of what plasmids I should make first for Taylor. Since she's so tall she should be able to handle at least five which gives us lots of options.
I'll get Insect Swarm synthesising for her first. Being able to just spam BEEEEEEEEES!! at people will be brokenly OP with her power. Pity she didn't pick the bee theme. That would've been much better. I might be able to modify too so she can split apart into bees like I can into crows. That'll up her survivability loads.
No asshole villains are gonna hurt my big sister.
The Barrier from Bioshock: Infinite is also a definite must. Bulletproof, regenerating forcefield? Yes please. I'm probably going to grab that one for myself once I get a bit bigger. Speedy Recovery would be cool for Taylor since it'll give her some low level regeneration. Or she could go with Armoured Shell for general damage resistance.
Or all three, which when combined with the bee power would leave her with one more slot. Aargh so many options. A stealth power? A blaster power? Metabolic Eve like I have?
I frowned. So many choices and not enough Taylor to put them in.
Maybe I should try push her towards some of the electricity based stuff, because fuck Shadow Stalker.
Note to Self: Give Fluffles the Second the Shock Jockey power and use her to hunt down Sophia when she goes on a solo patrol. A little electricity and the entirety of Fluffle's venom sacs should get that bitch off Taylor's case.
Wait no that's a bad idea. The PRT will find the corpse and have a hissy fit. They might even believe Glory Girl's online rantings that there's biotinkered monsters running around. I'm a little surprised Piggot hasn't gone on a massive witch hunt already but I guess it means they think the amazing and perfect Collateral Damage Barbie is full of hot air.
I'll need wait for Khanivore to be ready first and then use it to dispose of Stalker's corpse once Fluffles offs her. Less fallout if she just 'mysteriously vanishes'. Or I could design a custom critter specifically for the purpose of hunting her down. A Shadow Stalker Stalker, if you will. Should probably give it thumbs so I can use her phone to lure Emma out as well.
My only regret is I'd only be able to kill the bitches once.
[Solution]
Or not. I stopped filling in my drawing because apparently my power knows how to make vita-chambers and holy fuck I can bring people back to life! I could bring Taylor's mom back. I could bring my own moms back.
I had this sudden and deep wave of longing and hope at the idea. It was weird. I didn't know them but I just wanted it so bad. Am I projecting past-me's longing onto new-me's parents? Regardless this is something I need to make. I was thinking of maybe dropping Bioshock in a couple days but that's gone out the window.
Because my power just supplied me with the blueprints for vita-chambers, aka the in-game respawn points aka I can bring people back from the dead!
It's pretty simple too. The vita-chamber uses ADAM and combine it with some some of quantum entanglement bullshit, and bullshit is the only word that truly fits, to resurrect the person. It won't work on deaths caused by sickness or natural causes. I can even use the tinkertech quantum bullshit to revive people that have been for years. I just need a decent enough DNA sample to attune the target to the vita-chamber and...
And I don't have any DNA samples from my moms or know how to get any...
All the longing and hope I was feeling but a moment ago vanished, swallowed down into a pit of sorrow and grief. It's not fair!
"Adeline! Adeline are you okay?" "What's wrong?"
I felt
"I...just...I miss my p-parents." I sobbed, wiping away at the tears on my face.
"It's okay Adeline. Come on. Lets go to the bathroom and get you freshened up." Black Girl suggested, helping me up. "Missy and Clara can look after your stuff."
"'Kay." I sniffed distractedly, not really hearing the answer as I let myself be led off, focusing on trying to keep from crying again. It's embarrassing being caught crying at school and I still don't understand my feelings at all.
I ended up being comforted by my friends for the rest of lunch break and was feeling more like myself by the end. They didn't judge me for it either. I have such nice friends.
[Suggestion]
I should definitely give my friends some plasmids. And Addy-privileges.
Except Blondie. She kept giving me weird looks after we got back from the bathroom when she thought I wasn't looking. Nah maybe I'm being a bit harsh. I suppose she can call me Addy too. She was looking at her phone a lot so maybe she was asking her family for advice or something. I know I'd probably ask for advice to when people get emotional.
And no I'm totally not distracting myself from my weird breakdown earlier by focusing on other stuff while I'm walking home. I'm just a perfectly ordinary girl walking home from school and definitely not hoping her power will distract her from weird emotional problems.
[Assistance]
Thoughts about the vita-chamber filled my head, not entirely helping.
Well thanks for trying Power. It's the thought that counts.
I took a deep breath and sighed, pushing away at the sadness that was coming back and focusing on what I could do. I might not be able to bring my parents back but there's still a chance I can at least help Taylor. If I can stop her feeling even a fraction of the sadness and hurt I have to do it.
Looking both ways before crossing the street I carried on walking and pondered what I needed to do. First up I should probably start stockpile ADAM.
Because seriously the vita-chamber uses up a lot of ADAM. Like a a lot. Like twice the bodyweight of the average person. Per use. I might need to make a dedicated slug-host critter just for ADAM farming if I want to make regular use of it.
Actually want is probably the wrong word. Need is better. Nobody should want to make regular use of a machine that brings you back to life.
I'm also going to need way more materials before I can build it. The design is complicated and will take a lot more resources, including a bunch of rare metals and some rather delicate electronics. None of which I have at the moment and stand almost no chance of scavenging from the Scrapyard or Boat Graveyard before my Bioshock specialisation swaps out.
Well there's only one thing for it.
I'm going to have to rob Medhall.
They'll definitely have what I need and the place is run by villains as a front for the Empire so I don't even have to feel bad afterwards. I'll need to figure out a way around their capes though. [Anticipation]
After finishing my homework I worked diligently on the the computer designing my Critter 53 that will be Taylor's partner in
I started with designing the pepper spray bugs which went through a bunch of concepts before I settled on something I liked.
My original thought was basing them off dragonflies. Good vision and strong flight. Then I considered something more beetle-like to give them better armour. Then I considered that Taylor's going for the whole moth theme and will be essentially be using moths fluttering about her as part of her costume so I scrapped my idea of original ideas and basically designed them to be really big and fluffy moths.
Like so fluffy. So, so fluffy. We could probably make plushies and rake in cash with merchandising once we're famous and popular heroes.
Once the general design was done the internals were easy to work through since I'd spent so much time thinking about them before. No reproductive system for obvious reasons. I'm a firm follower of Taylor's no getting a 'Kill Order' rule and having a bunch of fast breeding and difficult to contain bio-engineered insects would probably push Piggot from 'Instant Kill Order' to 'Exterminatus Now' the moment they were discovered.
I'll be skimping on a digestive system too. I'd thought of maybe leaving it in and going for a swarm of flesh-eating piranha-esque bugs with nasty jaws but then I remembered we're meant to be the good guys and terrifying your enemies with flesh eating bugs that could theoretically strip a body down to bone in minutes is bad for PR. My power seemed to share my disappointment too.
So I scrapped that idea and the considered payloads. Acids and venoms were out for similar reasons but replacing the insides with some sort of capsaicin gland would work fine. Pepper spray bugs for the win. Non-lethal but definitely not to be fucked with. I fiddled with the program and saw I didn't have the right DNA to allow for capsaicin generation in my Library so I popped downstairs to grab a couple chilli peppers to put through the scanner.
Ooh I can kill two birds with one stone and use the chilli peppers to cook something Mexican tonight too.
I added in a couple small sacs full of digestive enzymes too which will quickly degrade the pepper-moths down once they die.
Once those were done and the genetic sequence saved I started work on my Critter 53 which hit some snags because Taylor had vetoed tentacles. [Disappointment]
It'll need actual hands since Taylor has vetoed tentacles for grasping things. I'll also want it to be pretty big since it'll let me fit for bioshock powers, but I can't be too big.
Hmm...
I worked away at different design ideas until I finally settled on something I thought would be cool with an air of beauty and grace to it. It used a hell of a lot of spider DNA, some DNA from that super fluffy Persian cat down the street so I can harness the power of it's fluffiness, and maybe just a tiny little bit of my own so I could give it hands with opposable thumbs. No tentacles either so Taylor can't complain about me creating Lovecraftian horrors. I even managed to add an organ to it that'll produce ADAM as it was one of my special sea slugs.
Estimated incubation period of about two weeks which should put
I was watching the news with Taylor after dinner when when a story about Medhall reminded me that I'd need her help with robbing the place to get my vita-chamber built. I decided to broach the subject of illegally requisitioning goods from them to her diplomatically.
She wasn't a fan of the idea.
"Addy I am not helping you steal medical equipment from a hospital. What happens if you get caught? They'll totally throw you in prison if they find out it was you."
"They'll won't find out. They'll think it was some new Case 53."
"Please don't tell me your plan is what I think it is."
"Well if you think my plan is to use Khanivore to raid the hospital for stuff to cannibalise for tinkertech then you'd be right."
"Addy." Taylor began, tone of voice shifting like she was talking to a small child which was just plain insulting. "What do you think the PRT will think when a 10 foot tall, tentacled monster attacks a hospital and steals equipment after Glory Girl has been saying to all and sundry, correctly I might add, that there are biotinkered tentacle cats running about the city."
I tried to answer but she put a finger to my lips and carried on without letting me speak.
"They're not going to think oh no a new villainous monster cape. They're going to think oh shit a biotinker is on the loose. Call in the army! Which will be followed by actually calling in the army! Especially because this biotinker creation, which just so happens to be created by you by the way, decided to raid a Goddamn hospital! And not just any hospital! Medhall is one of the largest employers in the city!" Taylor ranted and I was quite glad Uncle Danny would be home late tonight because she was being unreasonably loud in addition to unreasonable. [Agreement]
Taylor continued ranting, really getting into it as she paced back and forth. "Addy I've seen the 3D render of that Khanivore thing. A five year-old could look between that thing, then your Catsquid and spot the connection. All you're going to end up doing is make the PRT think there's a crazy biotinker running around, who is you by the way, and attacking hospitals with oversized and more importantly terrifying creatures which will further fuel whatever fears they have that this biotinker, who is still you by the way, is a danger to the city!"
My big sister stopped and took a moment to calm down, possibly even dumping some of her emotions into her bugs judging by the way a nearby fly was buzzing about angrily. "Just why Addy? Why do you need to steal from a hospital? Why would you even ask me to help to begin with."
"There's a tinkertech device I need to make. It's really important. I'm limited by time and Medhall will have exactly what I need. Khanivore will only finish incubating on the 23rd and I'll lose this specialisation on the 25th. You're smarter than I am and I need your help planning this so I can maximise the limited amount of time to build the machine."
"Okay no."
"Um?"
"I'm not helping you. In fact I'm telling Dad when he gets home."
"What?! Why?!"
"You need help Addy. Your power is obviously messing with you. You see nothing wrong with doing God knows what to your body and now you want to rob a hospital."
"That's not true. I'd definitely know if my power was messing with my head. Anyway you can't tell Uncle Danny! He'll make me join the Wards and I'll never get to build this machine. Or they'd make me build it but we'd never get to use it unless they say so."
"That sounds like even more of a reason to tell Dad so you can't make whatever this machine is."
"It can bring people back to life."
"What."
"The machine I want to make. It can bring people back to life."
"What? Thats...you..." Her expression shifted to one of longing and hope. I knew what she was feeling. I'd felt the same thing earlier today.
I pushed back the unwanted sadness that welled up when I thought of earlier.
"Yes," I answered Taylor's unspoken question, "I can bring your mom back. But I can't do it alone. I need your help."
She was silent for a moment before she let of a long, deep sigh and told me her answer. "Alright fine. I'm in. I'll help with this crazy plan, but do we really need to target a hospital. Isn't there another way to do this?"
"It's run by the Empire Taylor. Kaizer is the CEO. He uses Medhall to fund his Nazi buddies."
"What?!"
"That's why I picked it. We could probably get the stuff I need from a smaller clinic or from a vet or something but that seemed kinda like a dick move to steal from innocent people when there's Nazis we could take stuff from."
"How did you even find that out?"
"Fluffles the First." I lied.
"We need to have a long talk about what you get up to when you're playing with your creatures."
Things were looking up. With Taylor on my side we'd have no problem pulling this off. I can even use my Catsquids as an excuse for letting Taylor know the stuff I know about the empire. Even better I'll soon be able to prove I'm the greatest tinker alive by ripping the afterlife a new one. [Anticipation]
A/N
And we now finally have definite confirmation that Blondie is actually the civilian identity of the Ward Vista! What a sudden plot twist! naturally Addy hasn't noticed.
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Svn0One
Lazy Reader
- Location
- Made a Box Fort
- Pronouns
- He/Him
pfft, no guarantees on her saying everything
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Aww, Reality Lens is trying to be helpful. And surprisingly tame in it's ideas.
I guess it's holding onto the 150% body horror plans for when it gets QA on board.
Queen Administrator: [NOPE]
- Pronouns
- Masculine
Well... that got Taylor onboard... because fuck. Anything to get Annette back.
This is going to be rough.
...I hope Missy didn't see anything too incriminating when she was watching Addy's bags.
This is going to be rough.
...I hope Missy didn't see anything too incriminating when she was watching Addy's bags.
Poliamida
(Verified Heavy Molecule)
- Location
- Beyond the Stars
So you are going for the Vita Chamber, I do wonder how you'll handle reviving people.
I do wonder, does your new upgrades mess with Vista's spatial sense? That would make things unconfortable to explain.
- Pronouns
- Masculine
Biggest issue is the 'Vista heard her say Canberra when the Endbringer Siren hit'. So bleh. She might be under orders to investigate her further.
dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
Yeah, for a cape who can give his normal members powers, stack more powers on his Capes, and raise the dead?
Max would declare you Hitler's long lost great grand daughter with one of his Japanese royal family allies, and immediately declare your engagement to Theo as his heirs apparent.
Gotta remember he's only in it for the power, and could care less about the actual ideals his gang espouses.
Max would declare you Hitler's long lost great grand daughter with one of his Japanese royal family allies, and immediately declare your engagement to Theo as his heirs apparent.
Gotta remember he's only in it for the power, and could care less about the actual ideals his gang espouses.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
Addy doesn't like lying to Taylor.pfft, no guarantees on her saying everything
That doesn't necessarily mean she won't though if she thinks it's for Taylor's own good.
Reality Lens is best shard, and will eventually get QA on it's side with via bribery with delicious [DATA]. Probably.
Bring a dearly missed loved one back to life? To be fair I think almost anyone would do the exact same thing. Doesn't mean Taylor doesn't feel guilty about postponing getting Addy the help she obviously needs if it means she can get her mom back.
The same way Addy handles everything: By rushing in headfirst and dealing with the fallout afterwards.
It would if she had the Gravity Well power. It'll probably see use at some point (but not on Addy)
That's what the free tickets were for. A bit of soft selling the Wards at a potential freshly triggered precog.
Any of the gangs would happily murder uncounted people for that sort of cape. PRT included. It's part of the reason why Addy is clearly a bird controlling master and definitely not a broken as fuck tinker.
And yeah I know Kaizer is just about the power. Luckily he's aligned with Nazis which puts him firmly in the acceptable targets group.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
I kinda like it as invisi text since it's more there to be a little easter egg rather than something completely integral to the story, as well as the fact that Addy isn't really aware of it and this is a first person POV story. There might be shardspeak that isn't hidden but it'd actually need to be perceptible to Addy in the first place.
One formatting thing I am considering adding is putting the Date up each new day, since that might help people see the passage of time a bit easier.
- Pronouns
- Masculine
Thankfully popping the text to speech reader lets it read the invisitext and see it without mouseover. So ha.
Really though, this story worries me. But well, I'll have faith it won't all go to shit. Because you've got a lot of plates spinning and horrors waiting in the dark for our little heroines... so... well... we'll see.
I mean... its Taylor. Taylor backed up by a crazy little tinker.
Scary shit.
Really though, this story worries me. But well, I'll have faith it won't all go to shit. Because you've got a lot of plates spinning and horrors waiting in the dark for our little heroines... so... well... we'll see.
I mean... its Taylor. Taylor backed up by a crazy little tinker.
Scary shit.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Addy: "Why to people constantly think Fluffles the Second is scary? He's adorable! I even made Fluffles the Third whose both adorable and awesome because he can fly."
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Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
If she had a good enough DNA sample yes.
As for no strings attached it depends. Does acute addiction as count a string?
It might get a little rocky at places but everything should work out fine. Besides all problems can be solved by the Power of Love*
*the Power of Love may or may not be involve huge explosions, horrific monsters and/or punching people in the groin. Power of Love is not for everyone, please consult your doctor before use.
Addy doesn't know anyone named Abby, but she sounds like a really smart and reasonable girl
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