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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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Always Late said:
You're not convincing us this isn't a catastrophe. Berserk monsters among a population that cannot run or resist will result in massive casualties, above and beyond the Endbringer norm, among the heroes and civilians, even within the 30 mins you outlined for power loss. If the casualties are less than 40-60%, I will be extremely skeptical.
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Oh, there's the other issue. Knew I forgot one.

Do not assume that the thirty-minute power negation has any bearing on the length of the fight.
 
Guys, voting to attack is stupid. We have consistently turned down and chosen support abilities over direct attacks. We have nothing that can meaningfully hurt her in any way, and the few abilities we do have she can dodge with ease. WE CANNOT FLY. She can kill Taylor with her telekinesis with ease by simply lifting a bunch of cars and throwing them at us.

This is NOT the time to attack. This is the time to pick up your shit and go. Have Sam and you take out the cape, grab the kid and Vista and retreat to base. Then begin making plans to leave the bay.
 
...well, things have happened and we're pushed into another lose/lose choice. Fuck.

It's really hard to make the moral choices when we keep constantly getting shot in the foot for it, you know.

Also, I agree with AlwaysLate about Ziz's motivations. There's very little point to try and make a point when everyone on Earth Bet knows that she can pretty much do anything she wants. And it's not even all that clear IC who she's after anyway, so your reasoning confuses me.
 
Here goes nothing:

[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.

[X] Skill tree. I will arrange your skills into trees with multiple branches, and you choose which branch to progress down each time you have an opportunity to learn a spell. You will see the next available spell on each branch so you know what you're voting for. Each spell has at least one prerequisite. Slow progression to the powerful spells, but you get a lot of control over how your character develops.
 
[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.
-[X] Try to find other affected 'monsters'- see if your can occupy a group of them instead of just one...maybe they'll attack each other, freeing you up to do something else?
[X] Skill tree.
 
[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.
-[X] Try to find other affected 'monsters'- see if your can occupy a group of them instead of just one...maybe they'll attack each other, freeing you up to do something else?
 
I'm not convinced there is such a thing as a good idea within fifteen miles of Ziz :V


which is to say: aaaaaaaaaaaa
 
kokuenDG said:
...well, things have happened and we're pushed into another lose/lose choice. Fuck.

It's really hard to make the moral choices when we keep constantly getting shot in the foot for it, you know.

Also, I agree with AlwaysLate about Ziz's motivations. There's very little point to try and make a point when everyone on Earth Bet knows that she can pretty much do anything she wants. And it's not even all that clear IC who she's after anyway, so your reasoning confuses me.
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Lose/lose seems to be the flavor of the day whenever Endbringer fights roll around. Yet another reason I'm not a fan of them.

As StormBringer and landcollector said, I don't believe anyone bar maybe Cauldron suspected just how much the Endbringers were holding back at this point in canon. It wasn't really until 1) Tattletale revealed that Leviathan wasn't getting hurt and 2) they lashed out after Behemoth's death that it was clear that the world-ending monsters still had more tricks up their sleeves.

As for who she's after, that should become clear next update, which I have decided will be the last chapter of this arc, followed by an interlude and then the AAR where I will spell it out to anyone who hasn't figured it out. Originally I was going to have one more choice where death was a possibility, but I'm honestly tired of this arc and the tempers that Endbringer fights always seem to inflame.
 
Out of curiosity, is Brockton Bay getting quarantined a guarantee, or still up in the air, depending on how the rest of the fight goes?

I mean, Taylor and Danny are still pretty focused on the city, so it won't exactly cut off a number of interesting plot oppurtunities in the short term, but that's gonna be a pretty big issue either way.
 
Always Late said:
*shrug* OK, so I'm wrong. I stand corrected.
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'Tis fine. If the world had already known the Endbringers were holding back, my explanation would have made zero sense, so I see where you were coming from. I'm just glad it's cleared up now. Thanks for the info, landcollector!
B.B. Rain said:
Out of curiosity, is Brockton Bay getting quarantined a guarantee, or still up in the air, depending on how the rest of the fight goes?

I mean, Taylor and Danny are still pretty focused on the city, so it won't exactly cut off a number of interesting plot oppurtunities in the short term, but that's gonna be a pretty big issue either way.
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The Simurgh created a device that pumped her Scream up to a much higher volume, which the PRT can only assume increases the rate of exposure and the chances that someone caught within has been turned into a Ziz-bomb. The fighters' wristbands are all fried, so there's no way to track how close anyone got to the threshold. Yes, BB is getting quarantined, though not everyone is going to be stuck there. The Protectorate does have other methods to clear someone as being safe to let go.

And you did mention that you're immune to the Scream, with a treatise on telepathy to back you up. That'll help matters.
 
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B.B. Rain said:
Out of curiosity, is Brockton Bay getting quarantined a guarantee, or still up in the air, depending on how the rest of the fight goes?

I mean, Taylor and Danny are still pretty focused on the city, so it won't exactly cut off a number of interesting plot oppurtunities in the short term, but that's gonna be a pretty big issue either way.
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By the time canon begins, Brockton Bay was in a tenuous position anyway. A Simurgh attack is likely the death knell for it, given the general nature of her strikes. Though it does depend on how Silently Watches wants to go with the plot.
 
[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.
-[X] Try to find other affected 'monsters'- see if your can occupy a group of them instead of just one...maybe they'll attack each other, freeing you up to do something else?
[X] Skill tree.
 
[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.
-[X] Try to find other affected 'monsters'- see if your can occupy a group of them instead of just one...maybe they'll attack each other, freeing you up to do something else?
[X] Skill tree.
How bad can it be?
 
Silently Watches said:
And you did mention that you're immune to the Scream, with a treatise on telepathy to back you up. That'll help matters.
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So Danny would likely be forced to stay in the city as it's quarantined and Taylor and Sam would be out of it.

...Nah, I'm not going to do this. I'm too good at thinking of worse case scenarios after worse case scenarios that I'm afraid I give people ideas to implement them.

But the fact of the matter shall be that the Bay is done for and everything we did there, and Taylor's main motivation became irrelevant because of Ziz. :(
 
This may sound a little off topic, but is it canon that people are aware that the Simurgh is Prescient or is that just us overthinking things again if so I think I have an idea about what she is after and it was not a good feeling.
 
OverReactionGuy said:
So Danny would likely be forced to stay in the city as it's quarantined and Taylor and Sam would be out of it.

...Nah, I'm not going to do this. I'm too good at thinking of worse case scenarios after worse case scenarios that I'm afraid I give people ideas to implement them.
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You are certainly living up to your name. :grin:
Steelhooves said:
This may sound a little off topic, but is it canon that people are aware that the Simurgh is Prescient or is that just us overthinking things again if so I think I have an idea about what she is after and it was not a good feeling.
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I believe, though I could be wrong, that by this point many people assume she's precognitive, probably because she has to be able to see the future to derail everyone's strategies about how to deal with her as much as she does and the fact that precog interferes with precog and no one can predict the Simurgh. It almost certainly isn't known, though.

I'm curious what you think she's after.
 
[X] Be a diversion – You don't know how well you can fight right now, but you should still be able to fly. Draw her away from the area while Samantha gets Vista and the kids to safety.
-[X] Try to find other affected 'monsters'- see if your can occupy a group of them instead of just one...maybe they'll attack each other, freeing you up to do something else?
[X] Skill tree.
 
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