Always Late
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Actually, you don't make any comments about Behemoth or Leviathan.
Just that attacking Ziz at the then-current level turned Taylor into a red smear.
Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
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- Kansas
For Leviathan with our current skill set, I think we would be most useful with the Blasters under Legends command and Sam on Search and Rescue.
One possible thing that we might consider is using Wide Area Search to keep track of the Endbringer. If I remember correctly one of the dangers of Leviathan is loosing track of him, which lets him then ambush the capes. If Wide Area Search can keep track of him, that would at least prevent as many ambushes from happening.
One possible thing that we might consider is using Wide Area Search to keep track of the Endbringer. If I remember correctly one of the dangers of Leviathan is loosing track of him, which lets him then ambush the capes. If Wide Area Search can keep track of him, that would at least prevent as many ambushes from happening.
DonLyn
Verified Soulless Bureaucrat
Yay! That's pretty much exactly how I pictured that going.
Agree. Agree. Disagree.
1. Spell – either Telekinesis or Knight Armor. The former can help us to arrest Cadejo, to disarm gangsters, to lifting the rubble at Endbringer fight. The latter is obvious.
2. Back in the Saddle – we declared Truce, better resolve the situation before it starts to fall apart... more than it already did.
3. Fishies! – good time to talk with Dragon about aliens and magic... And maybe to fend off Saint, if he'll have a bad idea about wrecks.
But I really want to Hang Out with Vista...
Taylor has busted ribs and a (major?) Concussion. Going back into combat next week seems like a seriously bad idea to me. Especially since we have no healers on call, so we will have to knit ourselves back together the old-fashioned way.
I think next week should be called "Plan: R&R".
As in we take a Hang Out action with Vista to install her arm, provided that we can get Shipwright the surgical suite in time. If SW gives us the go-ahead for that then I think we should make it a weekend deal with sleep-over. That way we can attach the arm, she can rest the night and spend the next day practicing with the Tinker on hand for support and trouble-shooting. Depending on how cooperative Silently Watches is feeling we might scan her and/or show her the magic that is Charge Cartridge at the same time.
Going fishing with Dragon would help build our relationship with her further and to figure out more about those TSAB people, their technology and what exactly they were doing with Immortal Assimilation Engine.
The most important part of both of those options is that there will (probably) be no combat involved.
Remember: Taylor is a 15 (16?) year old girl who just had a close enough brush with Death that it might be considered sexual harrassment. She needs time to decompress and deal with it, or at least to do things that don't put her into the same situation again. Relaxing with a friend and going on a scientific excursion is probably the closest our Workalholic!Taylor can get to that.
In the same vein: Taylor just almost died because her Barrier Jacket wasn't quite strong enough. I think that in-story it would make the most sense for her to choose Knight Armor as the next spell she learns. OOC I think it also makes sense, since she won't have room to dodge should we choose to go into the sewers. Also, the Endbringers are fast. It might simply not be possible for Taylor to dodge all of their strikes, so being tanky enough to at least have a chance of surviving might be a good idea.
@Silently Watches : If the installation of Vista's arm as a Hang Out action next week is a no-go, would it be possible to do something like "Hang Out action: Cape Psychologist"? Do we have enough clout with the PRT to go to one of theirs, provided we trust them enough to use one of their people?
I don't think that it would be useful in an Endbringer fight. Targeting Leviathan himself would be useless, since he would either break out or use it as cover against attacks while he uses waves to destroy his target. Using it against the waves would require the beam to be equivalent in size to Solar Wrath or even Ragnarök in order for it to make a difference. Not to mention the canon concerns with using ice against the hydrokinesis-themed Endbringer:
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Doesn't even need to be a "Cape" Psychologist if the issue is forced, a normal one will suffice.
LancerisDead
Definitely not a cat
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Wow, you weren't kidding with us being busy this arc, Silently Watches. The canon Leviathan fight took place in May 15, that gives us two more weeks, take or give a few days.
As for spells, I think Knight Armor and Blitz Action are our best choice. Not only it gives us a permanent boost to defense, but last update revealed the threshold at which we are incapacitated. It'd be usefule to keep that ace on our sleeve.
As for Blitz Action? Bombardment specialists are more or less human sized jet fighters. Being able to flash step in a situation where we are surrounded or in an aerial fight is a really nice pace breaker. That plus Flare Blade, and you only need to look at Fate to see how effective that combination is. In the end is a decision in what adds more overall to our combat capacity.
Going with Dragon seems only logical, but there's something needs our attention a lot more than Typhon right now: we need to make contact with the TSAB. We have the radio, we have the battery, we still haven't told our dad that we are talking with aliens; which is kinda depressing, given that we already told the rest of the Privateers already.
But seriously! In a few more votes we are going to be dealing with either Leviathan or Behemoth, and we are in the possesion of a Lost Logia the TSAB has already clashed with, we need to contact the ASAP to avoid needless misunderstandings and getting on their bad side.
@Silently Watches, I have two questions.
As for spells, I think Knight Armor and Blitz Action are our best choice. Not only it gives us a permanent boost to defense, but last update revealed the threshold at which we are incapacitated. It'd be usefule to keep that ace on our sleeve.
As for Blitz Action? Bombardment specialists are more or less human sized jet fighters. Being able to flash step in a situation where we are surrounded or in an aerial fight is a really nice pace breaker. That plus Flare Blade, and you only need to look at Fate to see how effective that combination is. In the end is a decision in what adds more overall to our combat capacity.
Going with Dragon seems only logical, but there's something needs our attention a lot more than Typhon right now: we need to make contact with the TSAB. We have the radio, we have the battery, we still haven't told our dad that we are talking with aliens; which is kinda depressing, given that we already told the rest of the Privateers already.
But seriously! In a few more votes we are going to be dealing with either Leviathan or Behemoth, and we are in the possesion of a Lost Logia the TSAB has already clashed with, we need to contact the ASAP to avoid needless misunderstandings and getting on their bad side.
@Silently Watches, I have two questions.
- Did Teana make it through her recovery roll?
- What did the previous roll did exactly? Was it the RPG, mana poisoning or Sam's Berserk rage?
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Actually, we haven't told the Privateers either. We just told Tim we needed a power source for something without specifying what it was exactly.
Once Dragon's done with her First Contact packet, we can contact them.
We can't make contact with them until Dragon is ready. And until we get the Mana Reactor to support the radio.
So either way we have to do the Fishies quest.
Actually Leviathan can manipulate ice and water vapor just fine. You'd be just giving him a bigger weapon.
Alternatively we set Shipwright to building the surgical suite this turn and then get Vista equipped next turn? That will 100% work.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
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... nah, Taylor's had similarly close brushes with death. Remember the Simurgh battle? We can keep chugging along.
Which we have.
Then we just gotta do this quest to kick things into gear then. Maybe.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
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The Dragon angle for the next radio call is and has always been the Endbringer packet. We can have Perfect Storm just take the info, but if Dragon herself hands the info over to them, that sets a different tone for the aid mission: It's no longer just one girl and her Lost Logia. It's about saving a world on the brink of disaster.
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For the short term, I agree. We would get the most use out of those two spells
For the long term, I think it is important that we get Telekenesis and Frost Beam sometime soon as those are the only basic spells in their trees that we don't have. Learning those will likely unlock some more options that could be useful down the line.
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Welcome!
@Silently Watches has a vote moratorium for 24 hours after an update is posted to promote discussion, so tomorrow morning he'll open up voting and you can cast your votes.
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
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The burns are somewhat limited in scope. The shockwave is limited. But Flare spells also has radiation, and that means fallout.
Taylor needs to talk to her about the arm, which takes a Hanging Out vote. The surgery would have to wait until the suite is done, and it would be a couple of days after the surgery that she could attach the arm for the first time. You can't do both this week.
MM could swing something for you.
1. You just have to wait and see!
2. I did a bunch of roles to determine people's general effectiveness. The PRT got 2s, the Protectorate got middling numbers except for Chev (a 10, as did Jotunn). The villains did better. In comparison, you crit failed. So on the one hand, you couldn't be effective, but on the other, you had good ideas. The RPG came to mind out of the blue, and then I remembered Samantha's threats to anyone who hurt Taylor back in Arc 5, and well…
Always Late
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So that's what it takes to handle Cadejo.
We eat a HEAT round to the face, and Sam burns more PRT goodwill.
Screw you too, dice. I'm beginning to notice a recurring theme for us wrt MS-13 encounters. =\
Well, we'd have to see if an 8 or a 9 would work too.
Maybe not as much as you fear. The mooks escalated when they broke out the anti-armor weapons that would likely pulp any Brute below a 7 or 8 Rating, and Sam responded to that escalation. How unfortunate for them.
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LancerisDead
Definitely not a cat
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Could we have done better with a different approach? Was it a failure of our strategies or do we just have really bad luck with the MS-13?
Also, has Dragon already compiled the first contact package, or do we need to do Fishies as a requirement? Could we bring Tim along to see if he can glance something of the Agarthi?
And as a completely relevant note, is Taylor's, uhm, noticing Cailleach just a random comment, or a hint of
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Always Late
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The author's been banging her head on the keyboard at us not taking the Callie subplots.
It's shipping.
...So odd question, but how would you describe Taylor's current personality Silently Watches? Like, in comparison to canon Taylor I suppose.
I've been curious about that for some reason.
I've been curious about that for some reason.
LancerisDead
Definitely not a cat
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The author's been banging her head on the keyboard at us not taking the Callie subplots.
It's shipping.
An ice-slinging villainess with a frozen heart, and a fire-blooded heroine who plays by her own rules! A chilled friendship against a burning rivalry! Will our heroine's fire melt Cailleach's heart, or will the villainess' cold extinguish Calamity's passion dragging her into darkness!?
Is Samantha going to finally going to hook up with Danny!?
Love! Action! Friendship! All this and more, next time on Magical Girl Escalation Taylor!
Well, I'm not the GM, but between reconnecting with her father, been giving an obviously strong powerset, Perfect Storm and Samantha being near her, having an overall healthy body image and, you know, not having a battle-hungry alien brain parasite actively mind-fucking her, I'd say she's handling pretty well.
In all seriousness, it's one of the things I like the most about this quest and AUs in general. So much Worm fanfic starts with canon Taylor being a brooding, depressed, isolated mess and keeps it that way, nevermind improvement to her circumstances or just an attempt to break from the status quo, leading to stories that just seem to not go anywhere, character-wise at least. I mean, I get that a lot of people enjoy reading that kind of stuff? But I think the point of stories in which the character goes through hell and back is that somewhere along the line they get better, one way or the other, and without it I just can't help but feel the story grows stale.
But really, those are just my thoughts.
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Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
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I personally hope it an ongoing effect of Taylors self image and body issues. Seeing her still being affected by long running personal problems is much more interesting then say, pointless fucking yuri for yuri's sake.
But besides that, how long for those ribs to heal? Normally it's like a month, but with Perfect Storm able to rewrite our genetics without notice, it should be a bit quicker then that.
But besides that, how long for those ribs to heal? Normally it's like a month, but with Perfect Storm able to rewrite our genetics without notice, it should be a bit quicker then that.
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Hopefully going fishing with Dragon will give us enough time to recover from the RPG before we hit Typhon. Hopefully we will still have one more weak for some down time after this before the Enbringer hits.
Edit: Actually speaking about the nearing Endbringer date, that would be a good reason for Tim to get the surgery suit set up. It could be a good PR boost if Shipwright could offer to make some replacement limbs for some of the capes that get injured during the fight. Plus it would give the PRT a sample of the synthetic limbs to observe before we approach them about giving Vista a replacement arm.
Edit 2: I was way overestimating how fast we could recover from that injury. I guess I was assuming our healing rate was far higher. With that clarified, I'm removing my vote for going after Typhon. I bet Sam would likely sit on us if we even suggested trying in our current state. Plus after eating a RPG in the face, I don't think anyone will blame us for sitting it out.
Hopefully going fishing with Dragon will give us enough time to recover from the RPG before we hit Typhon. Hopefully we will still have one more weak for some down time after this before the Enbringer hits.
Edit: Actually speaking about the nearing Endbringer date, that would be a good reason for Tim to get the surgery suit set up. It could be a good PR boost if Shipwright could offer to make some replacement limbs for some of the capes that get injured during the fight. Plus it would give the PRT a sample of the synthetic limbs to observe before we approach them about giving Vista a replacement arm.
Edit 2: I was way overestimating how fast we could recover from that injury. I guess I was assuming our healing rate was far higher. With that clarified, I'm removing my vote for going after Typhon. I bet Sam would likely sit on us if we even suggested trying in our current state. Plus after eating a RPG in the face, I don't think anyone will blame us for sitting it out.
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