The source is my poor imagination, I'm afraid.
I want a refund! (Tinker of Fiction Semi-SI)
ChaosTheVoid
Beyond the Outer Gates
Well, this gives her alot more time to tinker as Splyce.
Become the new Gang Boss of Brockton!
Become the new Gang Boss of Brockton!
Ashkari
(Verified Ink-slinger)
- Location
- United States
Point of order: your assertion is incredibly disingenuous.
First, Dragon did not want to unmask Taylor. She was *ordered* to by a governmental body, which means her restrictions *forced* her to. She literally had zero choice in the matter.
We know this for a fact, as it was the PRT making use of Dinah's power that forced the situation.
Secondly, Dragon hated that situation so much that when things escalated, she had Armsmaster pull the trigger on trying to release her restrictions and it almost killed her, damaging her mind to the point that she was a shell of her former self for months afterwards.
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Raiseth
I Find Your Lack of Memes Disturbing
- Location
- Russia
Which means that she cannot make her own decisions when it matters, because she is frequently controlled by outside forces that could, for example, order her to manipulate Addy after noticing the already established rapport.
I'm not saying Dragon sucks, I'm saying Dragon cannot be trusted, although it's not her fault.
dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
Well hopefully Codi is in the process of fixing this, assuming that she is BS OP enough to win a fight with Dragon's Shard.
How much leeway you can give dragon is debatable tho sure she didn't want to do it like that but to be clear in her interlude when regent has sophia dump her phones stuff everywhere about what she'd done dragon wondered why and concluded it was possibly because taylor was skitter and since skitter had spoken to the dragon suit that died but the backup meant those memories weren't transferred dragon spent a fair amount of effort confirming this by tracking multiple sources for a photo of taylor and eventually finding an old one she analysed to skitter which is how the id was likely obtained.
Now dragon still didn't want to go along with it and was forced to but she can't exactly claim to be blameless because she specifically hunted down her civ id and was going to use it.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
Wow. Gotta say I love all this discussion. It makes me feel like a real author. Now for some replies. Sadly I couldn't reply to every post since I need to keep some things to my chest so as not to spoil the upcoming chapters too much.
conquering shardspace doing her thing.
Good news: No more mutant starfish
Bad news: Huge psychic tentacle-fish with illusion powers re-enacting Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth, complete with fish people.
Addy's general chain of logic is that if those people are gonna die anyways then she doesn't want to get bogged down reviving them afterwards.
Honestly they're some of my favourite monsters to use. You can really do a fun Lovecraftian adventure if you use them right. Not to mention their illusion powers can let them punch above their challenge rating if used correctly.
To be honest I think Cauldron is also in a bit of a sunk cost fallacy at the moment. They're done so much evil just to keep their path going that they have to hope it pans out or all that evil they caused won't have been worth it.
Especially after Echidna shows up.
Poor Simmy.
Also in case people are wondering why Addy doesn't seem to care that Codi has vanished: It's because it's only been a couple of days and Codi has gone longer stretches without being in contact, so Addy just assumes everything is fine and Codi is doing Codi things.
Writing Dragon is fun. She's filling in a lot for Codi while Codi is off
I love Aboleths.
Good news: No more mutant starfish
Bad news: Huge psychic tentacle-fish with illusion powers re-enacting Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth, complete with fish people.
Bear in mind that without a shard connection Addy would be in a coma due to a large part of her brain currently being brain tumour. Reality Lens is running part of Addy's mind on it's own hardware to compensate for that.
We also can't read Taylor's thoughts on the matter (except in interludes ofc).
Pretty much this.
Addy's general chain of logic is that if those people are gonna die anyways then she doesn't want to get bogged down reviving them afterwards.
Aboleths are great. Eldritch abominations from the dawn of time with racial genetic memories are loads of fun. They can also enslave humans and turn them into fish people to do their bidding in the surface world. There's also grafts that can be added to their minions too (such as the tentacle Addy mentioned).
Honestly they're some of my favourite monsters to use. You can really do a fun Lovecraftian adventure if you use them right. Not to mention their illusion powers can let them punch above their challenge rating if used correctly.
It's a humorous tale of a cute girl doing cute things. Wrapped around a core of horror and unfortunate implications, because it is a Worm fic after all.
Try rereading the fic without the interludes that inject sanity into this mess. It basically turns into pure crack XD
And now I'm kinda regretting that I made her middle name Serenity instead of Alice.
There's stuff going on in the background. Addy is just an absolutely terrible narrator. An upcoming Annette PoV should help clear things up, though it's gonna be a while.
Well it was meant to be funny, as well as unsettling, but mostly meant to be funny.
Basically this. Addy has my morals, which mostly equate to 'try not to be an asshole to people'. If I had a valid enough reason to do something 'evil' I probably would. I also don't like people. I can also say for certain that if I had the power to kill people with my mind there'd probably be a lot less people around.
Anyone can use her stuff at the moment. She's got some countermeasures lined up in future, since cursed items as well as gender/race/alignment/class restrictions etc are a thing in D&D. She just needs time to make it. The end goal of course is for only her family (and Lisa and the Tattlesnakes) to be able to use her super powerful stuff.
But they have to protect their precious Path so it's fully justified and therefore not evil.
To be honest I think Cauldron is also in a bit of a sunk cost fallacy at the moment. They're done so much evil just to keep their path going that they have to hope it pans out or all that evil they caused won't have been worth it.
Amusingly enough due to the mindlink with Simmy, Addy now has the same anti-precog defences that Eidolon has. Meaning she could in theory remove the third eye and still be unpathable.
Yup. Also she's waiting till after the whole Echidna thing, since she promised Simmy she wouldn't derail that whole Simurgh Plot. She also wants to deal with Contessa asap, which fortunately doesn't interfere with the whole Echidna plot and thus means she can start making plans to take her out (so far I have a couple scene ideas, still trying to settle on which one will cause maximum amusement to the audience).
Truly, being Simmy is Suffering.
Especially after Echidna shows up.
Poor Simmy.
Symbionts are great fun. It's just such a pity the majority of them aren't really worth it to make from Addy's PoV. Aside from the armour and the tentacle whip everyone else is just outperformed by plasmids.
Or it could even have been Simmy being manipulative by making Addy think Dragon was being manipulative, in some sort of 5D chess manoeuvre.
A lot of the problem is miscommunication, as well as all sorts of issues also cropping up that also demands their attention. It probably also didn't help that I cut the chapter there, though unfortunately that was the best way of splitting the massive chunk of writing I'd churned out.
The I'm telling mom bit is more that this is Taylor's way of dealing with Addy when Addy is being too Addy. Passing the buck to an adult who should be able to deal with whatever it is Addy has done.
Thankies :)
Obviously Contessa had interacted with Bitch's foster mother earlier during the day that Bitch triggered.
Just wait. It gets even better. Or worse, depending on your point of view. Piggot is definitely in the second camp.
A whole lot of this. Of course since we've just had a huge interlude we won't be seeing other PoVs for a while.
Addy's list of crimes is surprisingly high, though mostly it'd be various flavours of assault with a parahuman power, manslaughter and/or murder. Every time I think about her actual body count I giggle, because it's way higher than she thinks it is.
Yeah, I opted for Staffs since it's Addy. So many times I have to dumb down the grammar because that's how Addy talks/thinks. Somewhere, each time I have to change 'Taylor and I' into 'me and Taylor', an English teacher cries.going to be making
(I would mention Staves, but using Staffs is so very Addy...
There's a Codi segment in the upcoming interlude. Suffice to say, there's a reason AIs are supposed to be restricted.
Also in case people are wondering why Addy doesn't seem to care that Codi has vanished: It's because it's only been a couple of days and Codi has gone longer stretches without being in contact, so Addy just assumes everything is fine and Codi is doing Codi things.
Oh your alive....
I thought you died again
I thought you died again
DeclanDSI
Touhou 「 」 Youkai of 「Akasha」
- Location
- the Boundaries betwixt Fact and Fiction
- Pronouns
- ???
Addy decided to revive Unders for the lulz.
In Addy's defense, they had it coming.
Annette: I need to wrangle this girl and stop her from descending into a psychotic Bonesaw. Clearly she learned her views on the value of men's lives from my extremist sister.
Also Annette: Chopping up bodies and starting a gang war
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Of course, it screws with Simmy so she's not going to stop wearing the thing.
You know what would be funny?
if the slaughterhouse 9 somehow managed to get a hold of addy and simmy just descends and be like "dafuq you doing to my child?"
if the slaughterhouse 9 somehow managed to get a hold of addy and simmy just descends and be like "dafuq you doing to my child?"
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Again, I'm just hoping that the cycle of 'Addy did a thing' 'you're grounded' will come to an end soon. As a joke, its worn thin, and in character terms, Addy's just treading water.
I mean, by all indications it's not so much an individual Path to the future that they care about as much as their GPS that makes paths to the future. After all, PtV has to immediately recalculate it every time a new Trigger happens near a critical point
Norr
Misophist
- Location
- Any chair
Nope, she gave Simmy a bypass for her Third Eye 'cause "besties".
The_Rocketeer
(Likely friendly, but hopefully sane...)
Just a suggestion. Ghost in The Shell tech line for Addy. Watch as she hijacks Dragon and shoves her into a full body that can, well, experience things humans can better than any of her suits can ever do under the pretense of doing something nice for the cinnamon roll...
And I can't wait for the critters in action that Addy dishes out sooner or later.
And I can't wait for the critters in action that Addy dishes out sooner or later.
- Pronouns
- It
What is Addy's body count anyways?
Off the top of my head
15-20 unpowered nazis
4-6 powered nazis
2-3 dragon slayers
That one rapist
Herself x4
Rat casualties ??? Probably a lot
Am I missing anyone?
Off the top of my head
15-20 unpowered nazis
4-6 powered nazis
2-3 dragon slayers
That one rapist
Herself x4
Rat casualties ??? Probably a lot
Am I missing anyone?
Do we count the glacial slam? I am all for ignoring the devil rabbit as she had no reason to be able to predict the outcome, but turning a tsunami into a glacier and not expecting the laws of motion to continue to apply was very short sighted.
- Location
- The House of Moon and Star
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm pretty sure there were multiple people killed in the first catthulu incident
- Pronouns
- It
Most people got out from that due to the early warning. Some capes and very few people probably. But if I remember right most of those got resurrected after the fact so they don't really count. It's a body count not a kill count.
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Probably, but this line made me laugh, so the heck with them, it's worth it.
OMG, I almost couldn't breathe, this made me laugh so hard.
We def count all the people the rats got to - she should take better care of her "industrial" byproducts. Ditto the starfish.
The glacier is a wash, in my opinion. You can say she was responsible for any deaths it caused, but a Tsunami that size would be just about as destructive, and she was doing her best - she just forgot the water pressure behind it would not stop. Or was it that ice is still H2O and Behemoth doesn't actually care if water is liquid or solid? I forget.
There are so many ways that caldrons plans can backfire and without ptv they are limited in what can be done. If they manage to mingle there demands through the courts there going to need someone on the level of Mile MC Doesn't Exist to get her to do anything.
I need this in my life, even if it's only an omake, the giggle I elicited at the mere thought is worrying. And wonderful.
Non-Canon: Not Today
Here you go:
That Time Jack Slash was thinking about kidnapping "the best tinker alive, bitches!"
Conflict Engine #17: [INTERDICTION]
Broadcast: [ACCEPTANCE]
Reality Lens: *smugness*
And Jack suddenly decided that he's not going to kidnap the tinker, after all.
Addy happily kept developing ice cream tentacles, because why bother wits spoons when your food has self-locomotion? Everyone was going to see her genious this time, and heap tons of praise on her! Oooh, she might even be able to tinker while eating!
fin.
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