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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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I was wondering about the swarm summons. Once Missy creates them, what level of control can she exert over them? Can she reach direct control levels in a similar manner to canon Taylor? Does she have to give verbal or telepathic commands for every action? Also, is she aware of the position of the swarm members?
 
Pinklestia said:
Could Tim and Dragon just ask for the data to Perfect Storm? Tim might not have an easy time with it but Dragon really has been pushing herself to learn manatech.

Granted that will probably mean a penalty about the tech taking longer but is worth a try.
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No, no it is not worth a try. Trying to piss off the QM intentionally by repeating questions and trying to wheedle around restrictions that have been plainly stated is never worth a try.

I've seen the 'powered by a linker core' thing at least three times before this, and it's always had the same answer. It's something available if we choose that path. We have not, and did not, choose that path, in preference of something else. We don't have that shiny thing, we got a different shiny thing instead.

Please learn to take no for an answer; it's an incredibly useful skill.
 
kamkong said:
I was wondering about the swarm summons. Once Missy creates them, what level of control can she exert over them? Can she reach direct control levels in a similar manner to canon Taylor? Does she have to give verbal or telepathic commands for every action? Also, is she aware of the position of the swarm members?
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She doesn't have direct instant control like Skitter. She will send directions and receive data through a screen, or she can give verbal commands. I MIGHT let her give telepathic commands, mostly because I might have her pull a little prank on Laura. Haven't decided yet.
Tzardok said:
We'll never find out. Her summoning something will always happen in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome. Her summons are an eternal noodle incident. :lol:
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That WASN'T the plan, but now I'm tempted. :evil: :rofl:
 
Silently Watches said:
She doesn't have direct instant control like Skitter. She will send directions and receive data through a screen, or she can give verbal commands. I MIGHT let her give telepathic commands, mostly because I might have her pull a little prank on Laura. Haven't decided yet.
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Reading that, I'd vote for RTS game level control, personally, but that's just because I like that sort of game.
 
Silently Watches said:
A non template magiengineer could learn to do it. It would probably have to come after learning how to build generators,
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Clearly, we need Taylor to Incorporate as a subcity under DargonTech, get some staff, and start training magiengineers!

Too many irons in the fire!

Edit: could Tim postulate on this idea to Dragon? Get some professional feedback on it?
 
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Silently Watches said:
You are just… REALLY bad at following directions, aren't you? And you wonder why we treat you like you're an idiot.

EDIT: I also fail to see where you get the idea that Cast Fist is Brute rated unless you're accidentally combining CF and Strike Boost. Because they don't affect each other.
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Likely, the fact it boosts the force behind attacks This is in line with such things. In my opinion, it wont be assigned itself as having that. It is likely going to be defined as being somewhere around a Trump 1-3 gives to most people an increased Brute and/or Striker Rating.. Maybe if we are trying to be extremely fucking cheeky, a increased mover rating for some brutes who have good running posture.

If Jon Doe just uses it on Bystander McStander with no form of combat training, congrats, they are a Striker 1 Brute 1 threat and are probably just as likely to hurt themselves as someone else.

If Jon Doe uses it on a trained Boxer, he is likely around a Striker 2 or in the worst case 3. The Lightweights are still Brute 1 because they are Lightweights for a good reason. Heavy Weights might be Brute 2. Outliers in both will eixst of course.

Actual Parahuman Brutes and Strikers? Honestly, I see the biggest impact on the lower rated, who have more space above them to become dangerous. As the assessments go higher in number, they tend to get more subjective and a little bit fearmongery based on very incomplete pictures of the threat in question. 3-6s likely get a 1 or 2 bump on average. But many 7-9s are likely only going to get a 1 bump at most, with several 8s or many 9s potentially not even getting a bump up. They are already considered to be dangerous enough that more force behind them isnt going to really change things. If a Brute can already bunch a hole through most things, it aint going to matter if the force he punches with was increased by 20%. The PRT might legitimately not realize the boost even happened unless he was beating up an endbringer. Even then, they might not connect the 2 unless they find out his buddy that was helping him has Strike Boost. The 10s and higher...by this point, increasing raw force isnt going to do shit expect against endbringers.

Now, as for why I said it might be a mover? This is me being really fucking cheeky. After all, it increases the force behind something, right? SW, is there anything stopping someone from trying to use it to increase your running speed by applying more force to your feet to push yourself forward? At least, anything other than breaking your legs or the shoes slipping?
 
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ReaperofInterest said:
So, now that Missy and Laura are officially magical girls, what skills do you think they should try to get next? I'm personally in favor of getting Missy's Champion and Siege Summons next, while for Laura saving up for her Buster spell sounds pretty good, even if we'd have to wait a while.
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Guardian Beast. The summon that only has to be cast once, the eternal partner, fuzzy muscle that is also good for cuddles.

Silently Watches said:
That makes more sense. You'll be saving for a while if you want her Breaker considering she's already in XP debt. You might also want some kind of Mastery to get more bang for your buck, which will put you further behind.

She can learn Strike Boost, but keep in mind that would be her using her time to enhance another Brute rather than herself. Unless you want her to have an "enchant item" spell like Mac's but more specific to Strike Boost. That would require her to talk to him directly, which… would be interesting.

There's an Informational post with the spell tiers. Many, many questions that have been asked can be answered either in one of those posts or in the FAQ.
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Ah, you've moved it. I started to ask for a better link, as I'd been accessing it through links within informational spells, but checked first, et voila!. Now I'm just left wondering whether it was ever hidden and I was just staring at it and not registering it.

Pinklestia said:
Didn't she complain about being pushed into the Wards/ Protectorate by Alexandria or that was just comments? This quest is over 500k words in story posts and Informational only, I am not going to read it again from start unless I have a few days with nothing else to do.
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She at several points did either say or think that she did not want to join the Wards. So far as I recall, none of those moments were in response to Alexandria. There have been a lot of player comments over the past few weeks that are likely why you think there was more to it. I do not recall if you were one of the originators, though I'm pretty certain you've said it at least once before this. As I recall, there was no clear reason for it to show up when it did, so I think somebody got their fanfics mixed up, and things snowballed from there.

Alexandria and Legend both want her as a closely allied affiliate in hopes that she will join the Protectorate, not as a minion, but as the heir apparent to the Triumvirate. They're not ready to tell her that yet, as she still needs to prove herself. The thing is, team Arcana is a great way for her to demonstrate leadership, with a soon to be member/liaison on good terms with the Protectorate, Standstill.

Pinklestia said:
Could Tim and Dragon just ask for the data to Perfect Storm? Tim might not have an easy time with it but Dragon really has been pushing herself to learn manatech.

Granted that will probably mean a penalty about the tech taking longer but is worth a try.

Edit: Actually I am surprised Dragon has not asked for more data about magitech in general, I guess she is too busy with what she is already doing.
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To almost quote Perfect Storm*, "I do not possess the records of my creation".
Even if he did have the records, he would probably need a sovereign override to give those files out. Taylor IS registered as his current sovereign, true, but she does not know this, nor that she could get around a number of issues that have shown up over the course of the quest by saying 'sovereign override'. This has shown up almost exclusively in invisitext, so it is really easy to miss.

As for Dragon, she HAS all the files Tim has access to. There is a line of cargo ship loaded up with stuff for her to look through, so she'll be a few centuries mastering it all. She's also focused right now on converting Tinkertech to Manatech so it becomes reproducible, steadily increasing her and Tim's knowledge base and getting Earth Bet tech advancing so fast saint would think it was the Singularity come to devour humanity. There's only so much she can do, as one of the only restrictions she still has is not being able to make multiple copies of herself.

*I'm not going to go digging for it, but I believe I have the spirit intact.
 
Wyrd said:
Tinkertech to Manatech
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If she can do Black box tech to manatech, she can do perfectly reproducible "Timtech" that doesn't use mana and convert it to use mana. She does have the schematics after all and unlike Tinkertech, they aren't blackboxed.

Granted, there is no hurry at all. All Missy has to do to keep her arm working is eating more sugar.

Is not a priority after all.

Now, I can totally see the girls going to an amusement park in their Aleph vacations. What would be the best one that existed in that year?
 
kamkong said:
So it will resemble the screen that Taylor/Samantha use for Wide Area Search then? Can she use the screen to see through her swarm or to locate the individual members?
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Correct on all counts.
Daedwartin said:
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What are you even talking about here? It's like you started typing in the middle of a thought and never came back around to explain anything.
Pinklestia said:
If she can do Black box tech to manatech, she can do perfectly reproducible "Timtech" that doesn't use mana and convert it to use mana
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I… don't understand what you're trying to say.
 
Silently Watches said:
I… don't understand what you're trying to say.
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Read it thrice to parse it:
1) Missy's arm runs on a Glucose To Mana To Motive Force system
2) Tim cannot build a Linker Core to Mana To Motive Force system without an Extinction Knight multiclass, as super combat cyberwear is a Gadgeteer Knight thing.
3) Since Dragon can convert Tinkertech to Manatech
4) ???
5) Dragon can convert Tim's Glucose reactor to a direct mana tap.

No Limits Fallacy, basically.
 
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Silently Watches said:
Gun Nut – By combining her knowledge of firearms and magic, she can condense mana into semi-stable bullets with magical effects. She can produce 15 elemental pistol bullets or 8 non-elemental pistol bullets per day.
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Silently Watches said:
Infusion Mastery – Increases mage's capability with spells that store or transfer mana like Divide Energy, Vampire Ray, or Charge Cartridge.
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@Silently Watches, would Infusion Mastery power up Gun Nut?
 
FictionPack said:
@Silently Watches how much faster would Movement Mastery make Missy? Would it also improve Haste Mode?
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Missy is a special case for that because Haste Mode has that more or less built in. Learning Movement Mastery proper would let her use Blitz Action and Aerial Combat at full capacity no matter which mode her Barrier Jacket is in. It would do nothing to Haste Mode itself.
 
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