Kathy's Brockton Bay Adventures (Worm/Tinker of Fiction)
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Kryptonian Steel
Insects, unworthy of such attention.
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- Alone
Oh boy that girl was lucky!
Dolly Fail Fail
Boss Leader
- Location
- Within dreams and memories
There's only really three options this could be:
1. Chevalier D'Eon(yes please)
2. Saber Astolfo(also acceptable)
3. A new Servant/Servant in a new Class
1. Chevalier D'Eon(yes please)
2. Saber Astolfo(also acceptable)
3. A new Servant/Servant in a new Class
Ridli Scott
(Verified acid sweater mutant)
- Location
- The Periphery
Oh, Chevalier D'Eon! My first servant above 3 starts and my first saber class.
Apart from being bullshit as all servants Chevalier D'Eon has another advantage if he/she is the servant summoned: a Stranger ratting.
We are lucky and at the same time unlucky that the servant isn't Jean.
We were unlucky because she could one-shot ANYTHING, but we were lucky because that power needs her to die.
Apart from being bullshit as all servants Chevalier D'Eon has another advantage if he/she is the servant summoned: a Stranger ratting.
We are lucky and at the same time unlucky that the servant isn't Jean.
We were unlucky because she could one-shot ANYTHING, but we were lucky because that power needs her to die.
Dolly Fail Fail
Boss Leader
- Location
- Within dreams and memories
D'Eon, while wonderful, is probably one of the more awkward ones to have in Worm though. Here's hoping that people don't take Their Noble Phantasms being effectively Master Powers too negatively considering that people already don't have too high an opinion of Kathy.
But They are, nicely enough though, moderately master-proof as well(moreso than other Servants that is), with their self-suggestion skill
But They are, nicely enough though, moderately master-proof as well(moreso than other Servants that is), with their self-suggestion skill
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Ridli Scott
(Verified acid sweater mutant)
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- The Periphery
Of! I forgot about the charm effect. Pity that the PRT is very hostile against Kathy if not she could play the GG aura as shaker effect card.
I wonder if she could make peace with Taylor in time to convince her to receive magical circuits. Taylor needs a husbando, but with her actual behavior would summon Arash.
Also, could Kathy create mystic codes? Adding bits and bots to the costumes could be very nice. And the same with Craft Essences, some are very OP including some that could revive them if they die, regenerate wounds, or never fail a shot.
I wonder if she could make peace with Taylor in time to convince her to receive magical circuits. Taylor needs a husbando, but with her actual behavior would summon Arash.
Also, could Kathy create mystic codes? Adding bits and bots to the costumes could be very nice. And the same with Craft Essences, some are very OP including some that could revive them if they die, regenerate wounds, or never fail a shot.
- Pronouns
- Masculine
D'Eon? Awesome! Though I almost wish it was Astolfo more. Because Astolfo is love.
Going to be a hell of a ride. And yeah... giving herself magic circuits... mages in another world are facepalming... but hey, Tinker bullshit!
Glad she has herself a Servant who will be at her side for the coming conflicts. Either of them would be perfect.
Going to be a hell of a ride. And yeah... giving herself magic circuits... mages in another world are facepalming... but hey, Tinker bullshit!
Glad she has herself a Servant who will be at her side for the coming conflicts. Either of them would be perfect.
Well this is a very interesting Servant she got, having a prof. spy to be her eyes and ears would be amazing plus they are a perfect bodyguard, especially knowing Taylor's angst is reering it's ugly mug.
Also @Hydralisk TYPO's
Also @Hydralisk TYPO's
Actually it does, using a streamlined and proper summoning helps the quality and connection between Master and Servant plus you can rig that the Class that comes out using specific words and lastly, invoking the Second's name is not merely an afterthought, dude basically was one of the primary reasons the Heaven's Feel ritual is even a thing.
Is she using the Tokyo Grail War's Command Seals?
Does Kathy know that brandish wasn't acting in her best interests?
She might still think that brandish was trying to help her. Just not well either because brandish couldn't think of anything or because brandish didn't want to piss off the PRT.
I don't think Kathy has gotten a second opinion since brandish was telling her that she was doing all she can.
So Kathy might be convinced that on this screwed-up world she really has nothing she can do about it.
Maybe it'll come up if kathy ever makes an AI. Though even then, she might not want to get into more of a fight with the PRT.
Depending on how much about the previous situation she can pressure the PRT and/or Brandish on, she might be able to get the same sort of treatment.
As for 'hostile', thats mostly Piggot from what I remember, and she has already warned them about piggot's biases. Might be salvageable.
Whant to know how much Magic circuits and what cuality she have, i mean to sustain a Servant to retain actual figthing and noble phantasm capability she have to at least be at Rin Thosaka at the very least, and rely love to hear she explain why the hell she can't/don't give herself a Magic core.
H341ZP1Z
3-20 Op-L337_T4NK boi
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- Right behind you, I got your back bud.
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- He/Him
Taylor continues to be the most difficult and unreasonable person in the setting, and so we must escalate. Seriously she drags the protagonist back into her life only to immediately push them away? That's very in character I suppose, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating.
Honestly this entire fanfic has kind of been swirling on its way down the sink for me ever since the protagonist decided to go full stupid with self modifications. Trans-humanism is awe-something or rather, perhaps even rather cool at times, but there's getting a replacement limp and there's mutilating yourself so your body can unfold into a plethora of sharp utensils and various tools. One of them is full on cup on head crazy and the other is rather acceptable if not completely 'normal' for a given generality of passably average and somewhat expected.
Then again I am enjoying watching the train come into station with flames all about and flaming people jumping out the windows, their horribly burned bodies broken and battered as they roll to a stop far behind the uncontrollable speeding train of pain. By this point my continued reading is more fueled by the sort of morbid fascination you feel when you see something and realize something horrible is going to happen, and no matter how much you might want to, you can't bring yourself to look away.
That said, I honestly do hope things don't explode in a flaming ball of terrible. But I'm bracing myself for it.
Honestly this entire fanfic has kind of been swirling on its way down the sink for me ever since the protagonist decided to go full stupid with self modifications. Trans-humanism is awe-something or rather, perhaps even rather cool at times, but there's getting a replacement limp and there's mutilating yourself so your body can unfold into a plethora of sharp utensils and various tools. One of them is full on cup on head crazy and the other is rather acceptable if not completely 'normal' for a given generality of passably average and somewhat expected.
Then again I am enjoying watching the train come into station with flames all about and flaming people jumping out the windows, their horribly burned bodies broken and battered as they roll to a stop far behind the uncontrollable speeding train of pain. By this point my continued reading is more fueled by the sort of morbid fascination you feel when you see something and realize something horrible is going to happen, and no matter how much you might want to, you can't bring yourself to look away.
That said, I honestly do hope things don't explode in a flaming ball of terrible. But I'm bracing myself for it.
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It is Deon indeed.
1. Kathy has no idea that Brandish was not acting in her best interrest.
2. She can't afford to fight her right now
3. Even if she could those resources could be invested far better in problems that actuall matter to her as a person.
Kathy is a nexus of self interrest, she realy can't be arsed to care what the others think of her unless she herself thinks they matter.
As for the PRTs opinion of her. They are currently much more scared of Tattletale then to have some serious issues with Kathy, so they watch her but only with the so far apropriate amount, that of course will change in the future.
Thanks!
And for the Tinker of Fiction version it doesn't matter because in essence everything was already build into the summoning itself, she could have litterly listed of the ingreedients to a pasta recipy and the results would have stayed the same.
It would be to broken, the conflict that exists right now would just go out the window with a caster, there is certain tech trees that are just to powerfull.
For example Starcraft, its a bit of a joke between me and Poli that if Kathy where to ever get Starcraft she would insantly become the main antagonist of the crisis of infinite tinkers of fiction.
That information is not that importand to be honest, if you want me to pull some numbers out of nowhere, then lets say Kathy has 20 circuits.
Also for the magic circuits you kinda need a magic core I suppose? She has that to just that it wasn't activly mentioned as theoreticaly one would have to go into the nature of a magus soul so that she could make the magic circuits flow out of.
But yeah, I am not even attempting to go hard into the fate lore. TLDR: Kathy can now do magecraft because Tinker bullshit and sustain a servant.
Yeah, it's why I wasn't looking forward to writing this part, I can't in good concince just have things 'work out' Kathy is a difficult person to get along with, so is Taylor, they clash.
Two things, one, she didn't actuall direclty modfiy herself until now, I should probably elaborate that more. She in essence has a bio suit that she wears at all times that has 90% of her modificiations, the magic circits are the third hard self modification. First being the cocktail of optimazation genes, second was manualy shutting down her woman problems, and thrid the magic circuits. Those problems as far as I can tell are realy just Kathy being herself.
And I have to ask you to clarify, did I do something wrong with writing or do you simply not like the way the story is progressing, because there is a heavy diffrence there.
If there is one think that I can tell you 100% its that I hate bad endings. Bittersweet are okish, but bad endings never, things will get better and that train will arive not on fire. Even if Kathy has to drag it there herself.
She is finaly starting to be active rather the reactive rigth now and that is the point I have been looking forward to.
Also thanks for the feedback! That is something that I always look forward to.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
I think the person your referring to is talking about how difficult it is to sustain a servant without the holy grail taking most of the burden.
If I remember correctly rin can barely sustain saber without the grail, but she has help from shirou and is more limited by funds anyway so its not too crippling.
And the actual summoning of the servant + the servant fighting often would be even tougher.
However 'tinkertech' is just a good enough excuse to me. Especially considering what kathy built before.
Well if she needs energy she could probably make Ruby .
dunno why shegot dEon though compatibility wise.Half expected her to get prisma illya due to the fate Ilya style surgery and those magical girl like orbs of friendship n whatnot. Medea Lily n DaVinci Lily n Helena B something also seems more probable .
dunno why shegot dEon though compatibility wise.Half expected her to get prisma illya due to the fate Ilya style surgery and those magical girl like orbs of friendship n whatnot. Medea Lily n DaVinci Lily n Helena B something also seems more probable .
20 circuits is... kinda piddly though. Shirou was a 3rd rate magus with 25.
Are magic cores even a thing in Nasuverse? I mean, there is the Dragon Core that Arthuria has but I think a majority of a Magus's power comes from metabolic processes and the power in the air.
That said, I have to wonder just how far she can take her magic crest. They are all kinds of bullshit as far as personal enhancements go. Even as just an invention database it could be incredibly useful but they have a bevy of other functions. One of the big ones is that they imensely add to their host's survivability. Rin got herself impaled in one of the Fate routes and she was up and running around again a little bit later.
Ok *shrugs* your call bossman. Still even if it is a bit jarring on my end I would still read this fic, it's just that interesting and I anticipate what shennanigans she would do with the mushroom's powers.
I am not an expert in Fate lore. I just have enough of an idea to get the scale and context.
But here an overview:
Magic-Circuits transform Od (the smaller source/lifeforce) into prana.
The number of circuits AND the quality of the circuits matter, both determining maximum output and control available to the magus.
The maximum energy available to a magus is determined by their Od reserves.
A skilled magus can use their circuits to mix in Mana (the greater source) to increase the energy available to them.
A Magic-Core is something that is magnitudes more powerfuls than a few Magic-Circuits.
If one Magic-Circuit is the equivalent of a burning candle, then a Magic-Core would be a furnace used for melting/forging steel.
I am not aware where it gets its energy from, as a Magic-Core enables one to recover one's spent energy extremly fast as opposed to using Magic-Circuits.
Servants are stupidly expensive to maintain, because Gaia and the Common Sense of Mankind try to correct the impossible thing out of existence.
The Common Sense of Mankind is basically reality warping done by the collective unconcious of mankind and interferes here, because "Magic is not real"(rejected but known -> slight weakening) + "what the heck is a heroic spirit?"(ignorance -> delete).
And Gaia just wants to get rid of the parasites which are overwriting its mind, which resulted in Alaya being born and siding with the humans to stalemate Gaia.
Fate humans are essentially reality-acid, anything they don't know, as in not even being able to speculate about it because they lack the concept, gets slowly erased from existence. This is the reason why any alien that is weaker than the planet normally chooses to take the form of a human, because humans are aware that there are other humans from so far away that they never heard of the place, but not of a being they never heard of.
Another thing, Magic-Circuits are an artificial creation of Solomon using a planet-wide foundation/server he created to provide the function of magecraft to Magic-Circuit users. Solomon wanted to give humans a form of magic, that is independant from the gods.
However this server has a limited bandwidth and if more people try to access the same resource, then this resource is split between everyone requesting it. Therefore disinclining magi to share their Mysteries/Access-Codes with others. Ironically this secrecy has most likely led to the decline of magecraft, because The Common Sense of Mankind does science and not magic.
Before you ask at which range magecraft stops to work, just keep in mind that Fate planets are not a giant ball of matter but rather a pocket-universe the size of the galaxy with their own laws of physics/reality.
You think you see Mars, but that is actually still Gaia, to be more precise, it is where Gaia and Mars interact with each other.
Fate planets are essentially eldritch abdominations.
Also do not confuse True Magic with Magecraft.
True Magic is esentially having a self-contained foundation that is mostly independant from whichever reality you are currently in.
But here an overview:
Magic-Circuits transform Od (the smaller source/lifeforce) into prana.
The number of circuits AND the quality of the circuits matter, both determining maximum output and control available to the magus.
The maximum energy available to a magus is determined by their Od reserves.
A skilled magus can use their circuits to mix in Mana (the greater source) to increase the energy available to them.
A Magic-Core is something that is magnitudes more powerfuls than a few Magic-Circuits.
If one Magic-Circuit is the equivalent of a burning candle, then a Magic-Core would be a furnace used for melting/forging steel.
I am not aware where it gets its energy from, as a Magic-Core enables one to recover one's spent energy extremly fast as opposed to using Magic-Circuits.
Servants are stupidly expensive to maintain, because Gaia and the Common Sense of Mankind try to correct the impossible thing out of existence.
The Common Sense of Mankind is basically reality warping done by the collective unconcious of mankind and interferes here, because "Magic is not real"(rejected but known -> slight weakening) + "what the heck is a heroic spirit?"(ignorance -> delete).
And Gaia just wants to get rid of the parasites which are overwriting its mind, which resulted in Alaya being born and siding with the humans to stalemate Gaia.
Fate humans are essentially reality-acid, anything they don't know, as in not even being able to speculate about it because they lack the concept, gets slowly erased from existence. This is the reason why any alien that is weaker than the planet normally chooses to take the form of a human, because humans are aware that there are other humans from so far away that they never heard of the place, but not of a being they never heard of.
Another thing, Magic-Circuits are an artificial creation of Solomon using a planet-wide foundation/server he created to provide the function of magecraft to Magic-Circuit users. Solomon wanted to give humans a form of magic, that is independant from the gods.
However this server has a limited bandwidth and if more people try to access the same resource, then this resource is split between everyone requesting it. Therefore disinclining magi to share their Mysteries/Access-Codes with others. Ironically this secrecy has most likely led to the decline of magecraft, because The Common Sense of Mankind does science and not magic.
Before you ask at which range magecraft stops to work, just keep in mind that Fate planets are not a giant ball of matter but rather a pocket-universe the size of the galaxy with their own laws of physics/reality.
You think you see Mars, but that is actually still Gaia, to be more precise, it is where Gaia and Mars interact with each other.
Fate planets are essentially eldritch abdominations.
Also do not confuse True Magic with Magecraft.
True Magic is esentially having a self-contained foundation that is mostly independant from whichever reality you are currently in.
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Could a summon be powered by one of the elements she has lying around?
Oh god....you want an epic Levi fight? Summon Achilles and have him powered by the Element of Honesty/Strength.
Anyway, yeah there needs to be some blowblack on Brandish the Bitch. While Kathy might be unaware of his lawyer's duplicitous nature, which he sure as fuck should be aware of since he already knows this setting and the people in it, Danny "The Union Man" Hebert is not unfamiliar with the law. 2 fucking weeks in PRT lockup being held without charges is illegal as fuck. That is a clear cut case of "false imprisonment" and anyone would know that. Hell, the lack of funds/resources has been brought up in this very chapter...and is something that Lisa is well aware about. She wants to keep Kathy happy since she is a source of power in the back pocket for her, as well as a source of entertainment to Tt, so why wouldn't she drop a few words into Danny's ear and get him thinking, "huh, you know what, Carol really was a shit lawyer. And we haven't heard jack shit from her since Kathy was released, which is very fucking weird since she told my pre-teen charge that she was taking the case as a cause of PRT overreach. Yet here we are, almost a month later and that bitch hasn't even called us once. Maybe I should talk to the boys/girls in legal and see what they think about this."
Oh god....you want an epic Levi fight? Summon Achilles and have him powered by the Element of Honesty/Strength.
Anyway, yeah there needs to be some blowblack on Brandish the Bitch. While Kathy might be unaware of his lawyer's duplicitous nature, which he sure as fuck should be aware of since he already knows this setting and the people in it, Danny "The Union Man" Hebert is not unfamiliar with the law. 2 fucking weeks in PRT lockup being held without charges is illegal as fuck. That is a clear cut case of "false imprisonment" and anyone would know that. Hell, the lack of funds/resources has been brought up in this very chapter...and is something that Lisa is well aware about. She wants to keep Kathy happy since she is a source of power in the back pocket for her, as well as a source of entertainment to Tt, so why wouldn't she drop a few words into Danny's ear and get him thinking, "huh, you know what, Carol really was a shit lawyer. And we haven't heard jack shit from her since Kathy was released, which is very fucking weird since she told my pre-teen charge that she was taking the case as a cause of PRT overreach. Yet here we are, almost a month later and that bitch hasn't even called us once. Maybe I should talk to the boys/girls in legal and see what they think about this."
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
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- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Heh. Elements of Harmony... Summon the Mane Six!
Oh gawd. What would a nasuversion of the mane six be like? Twilight Sparkle would obviously be the caster but the rest? Or would they be an Equestrian version of the 7 types?
@Sleeping Moon any ideas?
The crest also comes with circuits inside. Plus since no one else uses magic his magecraft on the plant his will be more powerful. Plus all the mana in the world is not being used by anyone, so it sort of balances out on cost of servant.
Also the gems from my little pony might cause word shit that increase ambient mana.
DeclanDSI
Touhou 「 」 Youkai of 「Akasha」
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- the Boundaries betwixt Fact and Fiction
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- ???
Essentially you can consider Kathy a wide scale breaker/shaker with her shard acting as a multiversal emulator that has its own laws of physics. Practically, with Tinker of Fiction being able to emulate the Nasuverse, it has surpassed the laws of equivalent exchange. With the way it is able to emulate technologies/physics from other multiverses, to put it in Nasuverse terms, it probably has access to 「 」, the Root AKA the Akashic Records or at least partial access. This is all of course assuming it is a complete emulation and not just an imitation that looks real on the surface, but its inner workings are faking the emulated reality.
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Thanks as always mate!
Trust me, I thought long and hard on who to get and why, I hope you will like the end result.
I will dig up a bit more on fate lore as my knowhow is a tad outdated and rework the section then.
I suppose I could make it so that Kathy builds something similar to Artorias dragon core and build that into herself with a few circuites so that she can do basic magecraft.
Also as for the summoning itself I supposed I could have the elements help empower the summoning itself.
And no, the shard can't break the laws of physics yet, so far it is just pretending it can, and get access to multiversal concepts, can't make it that easy on kathy.
You lot are all way to focused on this but I will see what I can do...
Edit: Also the situation with brandish is way more complicated then you all like to think it is, this would not be some easy thing to do at all.
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