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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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SlickRCBD said:
I don't know what's with the spacing issue, it looks fine in Word 2003, but when I paste it I have to go over it all over again or it winds up like the above.
What is the fix for that? It makes absolutely no sense. If ALL the paragraph breaks inserted extra newlines consistently, I would understand, but it is only SOME of the paragraphs, which makes absolutely no sense.
The rest, I'll put your corrections into the file, but I'm really tired and might not get back to the rest of the editing tonight.
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Have you tried looking at the post with the BB code editor, to see if there's anything funky showing up in that? Might give you a clue as to what happened in the copy/paste.


I have heard some forums don't work well with some versions of Word, no clue if this is that issue or not though.
 
Was somewhat hoping for a Buster Rust Shooter version(would have been a great antimaterial weapon), but alas.

I guess it'd have made some things too easy.
 
Would the Burst skill we still haven't learned help solve that issue of "rust shooter too small to harm machines without precision aim" , or would it bursting on contact mean it doesn't get at the internals past the armor? Wonder if Taylor could modify it with a delay, so the original small-sphere penetrates a few inches before the burst.... (that would be a rather scary tweak to Lethal-mode Flare shooter, for that matter).
 
Racoras said:
Would the Burst skill we still haven't learned help solve that issue of "rust shooter too small to harm machines without precision aim" , or would it bursting on contact mean it doesn't get at the internals past the armor? Wonder if Taylor could modify it with a delay, so the original small-sphere penetrates a few inches before the burst.... (that would be a rather scary tweak to Lethal-mode Flare shooter, for that matter).
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I think the issue was mostly the Rust Shooter not having enough power to punch through the magic shield and still be worth any damage. So any +damage, +speed, + direction change stunts would have dealt with that...but simply put it was not a favorable fight when you're facing superior numbers of very well armed opponents with enough defense that you can't just oneshot them.
 
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Silently Watches said:
Just so you know, this is NOT the reason Rust Shooter was ineffective. It was ineffective because the bullets were small enough and few enough that they did not damage any vital systems.
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Except that SW's original response to the question (before they went back and checked when the Shield came into play) was that the individual rust shooters were too small to hinder the targets without hitting a critical point. So even if it didn't happen to be relevant this time, isn't it still an issue? If we'd stuck around longer after smashing the one mage with a shield for example.

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Dragon's avatar watches you with a wary expression when the bullets reach Saint and the other guy's suits, but she keeps shooting her energy pulses at them nonetheless. You would think she would be a little happier that you're melting their armor off them.
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And since we did still hit them with normal Flare Shooters, but only melted at the armor (and the line before shows we maneuvered some of them around the shield to secondary targets at the same time as breaking the shield) it really does look like Flare and Rust both suffer the same problem on a big target like that.

So its mainly a question of why angry Taylor used (lethal?) Flare Shooter back in that fight instead of charging Solar Flare, and how burst+Flare would compare. Maybe the skill isn't a priority, as we should be using Solar on Armor targets like that, but its something to consider.


Edit: Going back to look at the sheet description of Burst, now I'm wondering...
" Can be cast simultaneously with any other non-Shooter spell. Can be used with Homing Bullet but not other Shooter variants."
Theres a shooter variant besides Burst and Homing? Wonder what shiny we've got further down that tree (or maybe I'm misunderstanding. None of the others seem 3-deep, including the one fully-unlocked bit of Void tree with recursion field).
 
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Racoras said:
Would the Burst skill we still haven't learned help solve that issue of "rust shooter too small to harm machines without precision aim" , or would it bursting on contact mean it doesn't get at the internals past the armor? Wonder if Taylor could modify it with a delay, so the original small-sphere penetrates a few inches before the burst.... (that would be a rather scary tweak to Lethal-mode Flare shooter, for that matter).
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Burst turns Shooter spells from tennis-ball-sized bullets to foot-diameter explosions, so yes, that could have helped.
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So its mainly a question of why angry Taylor used (lethal?) Flare Shooter back in that fight instead of charging Solar Flare, and how burst+Flare would compare. Maybe the skill isn't a priority, as we should be using Solar on Armor targets like that, but its something to consider.
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Solar Wrath would have hit Dragon, too.
 
Here's another omake, this one starting a yet another mini-collection.

Sources of Inspiration

As Leonardo da Vinci might have attested, it becomes increasingly difficult at times to find an idea sufficiently enticing, and this truth applies both in art and in invention design. These were Tim's slightly morose thoughts as he was working out the kinks on his latest power armor, the actions honed by repetition and requiring little conscious supervision. Why is it that I can help a girl with a replacement arm nearly comparable to her original one, yet still be stuck on this task? he ruminated while finishing the last of half dozen suits he had been preparing.

Deciding his slump needed a bit of shaking up, he called up Paul on his phone. An hour later, both of them were nursing a beer in one of the local bars.

"So, why the long face?" Paul decided to break the silence. Hearing no answer, he prodded Tim's leg. Tim shook away his thoughts, focusing on his drink partner.

"It's the work. I've more or less finished the latest order, but I just can't find it in me to work on anything else. Nothing strikes me any fancy, there's no task or anything that needs doing..." Tim trailed off before taking a swig.

"What about that expansion project?" Paul inquired in general terms, mindful of the fact they weren't anywhere secure.

"Well, there's two I might be involved in, actually. Unfortunately, the issue is that both of them require quite a bit of setting up, AND the designs aren't finalized either. Also, it's beginning to look more and more like the designs themselves will have a major overlap - so pushing through with just one of them isn't exactly feasible," Tim alluded to the difficulties with setting up a proper power plant and the industrial grade 3D printer and foundry. Paul nodded in understanding.

Another hour and two more rounds of mead - the house's special - later, the Gadgeteer and his friend decided to cut short their outing , heading to their respective homes. Paul swayed noticeably as he rose from the stool.

"You okay?" Tim asked, steady on his feet and watching his friend oscillate. Paul nodded, leaning in his friend's direction for a second before straightening up. Unconvinced, Tim leaned his shoulder to Paul, who slumped semi-gratefully before cursing with a surprisingly coherent voice.

"Dammit. I've just remembered - it's said that mead is hell on coordination but leaves the head mostly clear. AND it's stronger than I expected to boot."

Tim pondered this in his head, looking for a reason for his own well-being, then mentally shrugged. Probably a part of that you-are-now-fit package from the Sextant. "Right, I'm taking you home."

Half an hour later, at Paul's modest apartment, Tim had unloaded his friend in his bedroom. After checking that his slightly unsteady friend would be fine, Tim has retreated to the coach before the TV set. Absent-mindedly, he turned it on, idly flipping the channels, only half-paying attention to what he was watching. Revenge of the Sith had provided him with a few minutes of diversion as Obi-Wan dueled the two-then-four lightsaber wielding robot... no, cyborg, Tim noted absently. However, once the shots were fired and the cyborg fell, he grew bored and continued browsing his channels, eventually flipping to one with old cartoon reruns. It was, apparently, the ending credits for some weird kind of show, where a brightly colored creature leaped forth from a red-and-white sphere in a beam of light. As he was readying to flip to the next channel, Tim caught the start of the announcement trailer for the next two shows, and froze in the middle of his movement. This has promise, he thought as the trailer ended and the ads began, before activating the recording and note-taking functions in his Storage Device. It wouldn't do to miss a second of this... Also, I can't believe I'm taking cues from a kid's show. Ah well, beggars can't be choosers.

An hour later, Tim checked there wasn't anything else interesting on the TV, and switched off. He then stopped the recording function, and reviewed the notes he'd made on the Device.
  • Combining Armor. Largely unfeasible, requires dedicated equipment... On the other hand?
  • Multi-purpose Limbs. I can actually do that with arms that are also cannons... Wonder if there's more?
  • Splitting Limbs (thanks Grievous!) - falls under multi-purpose limbs, but might be interesting...
  • And speaking of Grievous... What about the droid armies?
  • Size change... Didn't Taylor's device do something slightly similar with her sarcophagus?
  • Oh, and let's put the hide-in-another-form-or-object to the list. Might as well be thorough.
  • There's no need to stay in the box either. Just because it looks like something, doesn't mean it's other form must have a humanlike shape.
Tim nodded to himself, and saved the notes for later perusal. This has promise, he reassured himself, before turning to lay on the coach he'd been sitting on for the last hour.

Omake End.

AN: The first omake in the new group. As you can probably guess, @Always Late was the beta. And, in case someone is wondering, the shows Tim took inspiration from were, in this particular order: Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Pokemon, Voltron, and Transformers G1.

I have two more omakes on this sequence already written. They will be posted tomorrow. The point is... hoarded for now, please.


ShadowAngelBeta said:
That's what the Shift series of spells are. Not sure if we have that in our database, but we should be able to make one.
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Might be interesting... Won't be too surprised if it's locked behind one or more of the options we have. Or we can, indeed, create one.
 
edale said:
Have you tried looking at the post with the BB code editor, to see if there's anything funky showing up in that? Might give you a clue as to what happened in the copy/paste.

I have heard some forums don't work well with some versions of Word, no clue if this is that issue or not though.
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I have Word 97 on my Windows 98SE computer, Word 2003 on my XP and Vista/7 computer, and I've got 2007 on my Vista/7 computer, but I really like 2003 or 2000 more than any other version, although I do not own a copy of 2000.
I also have LibreOffice, and an outdated version of OpenOffice on the XP machine. Outdated because I can't remember the last time I used it and hence it hasn't been updated in 2d4 years. If any of those would work better for posting to SV, I can use them instead.
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I don't see any BBcode when I invoke the BBCode editor, so that did not help.
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I'm also getting a headache, and thinking of going to bed early. It is 8:30 and I only now got some down time.
 
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Silently Watches said:
Burst turns Shooter spells from tennis-ball-sized bullets to foot-diameter explosions, so yes, that could have helped.
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As I've pointed out before, during, and after several fight scenes so far...
SlickRCBD said:
I have Word 97 on my Windows 98SE computer, Word 2003 on my XP and Vista/7 computer, and I've got 2007 on my Vista/7 computer, but I really like 2003 or 2000 more than any other version, although I do not own a copy of 2000.

I also have LibreOffice, and an outdated version of OpenOffice on the XP machine. Outdated because I can't remember the last time I used it and hence it hasn't been updated in 2d4 years. If any of those would work better for posting to SV, I can use them instead.
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You have a problem, and it's not the copy/paste thing, lol.:p

Why would you need so many different versions of Word? And if you have Word, why bother with OpenOffice?

And wow, 3 years outdated... that's... not too bad...;)
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Well, since nobody seems to be posting much, here's a double salvo of omakes!

Sources of Inspiration Part 2 - Extradimensional Storage

For the next two weeks, Tim had devoted additional time testing out various concepts he garnered from his late night inspirational TV marathon. His ever-reliable wingman, Paul, was keeping watch, ensuring his Tinker friend didn't forget to eat and sleep.

The first concept Tim had decided to investigate was one that was most readily available. As such, he decided to put in a bit of figuring out the principles by which the Devices concealed parts of themselves Elsewhere. The results were certainly educational, being encouraging and discouraging in equal measure.

In the first place, that particular piece of technology was never intended for general storage. In fact, in functioned specifically because it was meant for dedicated storage. Not only did each major category of stored objects require calibration to enable storage, but the wider selection of items the category used, and the more disparate it was, the greater were the difficulties in maintaining the storage. Size and weight also mattered.

The end result was that dedicated storage of "chemically pure iron" could store hundreds of tons of material, however recalibrating the storage to "98-2 ratio iron-carbon alloy" would have the capacity lowered by at least an order of magnitude, and changing it further to "98% iron with traces of any other elements" cut the final capacity by at least half - even if it was the same 98-2 ratio carbon alloy in storage. The consequences of using such a fiddly method were also easy enough to determine. Modern technology was sufficiently advanced to included materials made up of dozens of various elements in widely varied concentrations and combinations, drastically lowering the available volume and mass that could be stored.

Storage Devices, being pieces of highly advanced technology with a full-fledged transformation sequence included in their basic features, turned out to be an excellent case study on overcoming the limitations inherent to the methods used to achieve Extradimensional Storage. Most of the components concealed within the Device had been measured in material composition, size and mass, with the specifics recorded inside the components enabling Extradimensional Storage to be set up and maintained. In addition, the Storage Device turned out to include low-key matter analyzers, providing the small compartment meant for "personal items" with the information necessary to store the belongings of the user upon activation of the Hazard Jacket and its derivatives. The Hazard Jacket itself was also a method of bypassing the limitations of Extradimensional Storage, ensuring the user would retain their modesty, rank insignia, and pockets upon transformation.

The inner workings of the Storage Device were certainly fascinating. Sextant, a relatively simple example of such, could be unfolded into enough components to fill at least three cabinets of stuff, each large enough to hold a standing human within - and that wouldn't even be enough to house a half of it's components either!

Upon further investigation by Tim, Perfect Storm had admitted to having created something of an integrated Intelligent Device equivalent for Calamity Witch shortly after their first meeting, repurposing a number of its own components to allow for the dedicated processing capacity. Components that were since replaced by Perfect Storm's own integrated repair systems. Apparently, it was the aforementioned integrated Device that needed to be briefly expelled by the Perfect Storm to make way for the sarcophagus. Hearing that was sobering, because the collection of components filling the larger part of a warehouse was, more or less, the tip of the iceberg as far as Perfect Storm was considered.

Another point of interest that Tim received from Perfect Storm, was the explanation on the difference between mages with Devices and mages without them. Apparently, the former had a much easier time maintaining spells, could nearly double the number of spells that were readily available, and often managed to cast spells with greater effectiveness in comparison. Almost half of normal mages, Perfect Storm explained, could barely manage a single spell on their own, and that at a much lower effectiveness than they could while using a Storage Device.

Finally, Perfect Storm had also mentioned that the older mage bloodlines often had spells inherent to them, and even mentioned that Template Devices used something not dissimilar to bestow upon the users a wider potential selection of spells.

Bewildered by the new information, Tim retreated to his workshop for a while. Paul, being the practical sort, had long since brought a couple of armchairs and set them up near the entrance, providing a decent view of the entire worksop. after a few minutes of staring at the air, Tim's eyes began to skim over the workshop's equipment.

I think I can now understand how Storage Devices probably came to be, and why they are named as such. It's rather likely that the components of Storage Devices were previously used by the weaker mages to bolster the effectiveness of their spells - however, they were cumbersome enough that their use was limited to stationary locations, such as workshops, hospitals, or... or entrenched battle positions. Also, the stronger and more influential mages were likely the ones to invest their efforts into developing the inherent spells, trusting in their bloodline to give themselves and their descendants the raw power necessary to cast them. The first Storage Device was probably named for being exactly what it was - a Device meant to store the other devices, the ones responsible for augmenting the abilities of weaker mages, in Extradimensional Storage. Once it was developed, however, stronger mages were likely to adopt the use of such Devices, ensuring they retained - and even widened - the gap between them and the weaker mages. Still, it was a revolution of sorts, there's no doubt in that. The convenience of portable magic augmentation technology alone guarantees that.

Tim stood up and stretched, plans to use this idea coming up in his mind. Now then, while using the Extradimensional Storage is finicky, there's no reason why I can't copy the idea for the same purposes, he pondered while eyeing the cumbersome 3D printer. Nodding to himself, he activated the Sextant's matter analyzer and directed it to scan the 3D printer in front of him. As he did so, Shipwright allowed himself one last errant thought.

Still I wonder - how difficult would it be to safely store a living human?

Omake End

AN: There you go, the second (of three currently written) omakes under Sources of Inspiration header. Beta-ed by @Always Late. Now, since I trust you all to notice some glaring gaps in the analysis, let me assure you - some of them I've addressed in the third omake. I also trust you to guess that the last line is foreshadowing the Unison Devices - the only Devices known that can both fully merge within a human body, AND fully store (several) humans within themselves.

Disclaimer: we neither know how Storage Devices originally came to be, nor do we know the specifics of the "where does clothing go" aspect of transformation sequence. And even if we do, it's Tim musings on the subject in the omake, AND we need Silently Watches' confirmation or clarification either way.
 
This side story uses a slightly unusual format. Think of it as a form of an interview. Without further ado:

Sources of Inspiration Side Story - On Sealing

The limitations of the chosen medium of the Extradimensional Storage omake - Tim's perspective - disallow the answer of a number of questions relevant to Extradimensional Storage. The Jewel Seed Incident, the Jewel Seeds themselves, and Sealing - are also topics that need to be covered so as not to leave wide gaps at the lore suggested. I am, therefore, asking a canon character I believe to have the necessary knowledge on the matters of Device intricacies to give us all a good answer. For your reading pleasure, presenting Amy Harlaown nee Limietta!

"Hi-hi! Glad to meet you everyone!"

So, Amy, can you please tell us how Sealing works, and how it's different from the Extradimensional Storage.

"..."

Assume it works like I described in the omake, and that canon MGLN stories are entirely possible as far as we're concerned. Also, pay no attention to the fourth wall, it's an omake so it doesn't matter here! Also, feel free to be OOC!

"Okay-dokey-lokey! Soooo, Extradmensional Storage and Sealing, especially with Lost Logia, the unexplained McGuffins of dead civilizations. I can do that!

"Let's start the explanation with a certain important piece of difference between the two:
  • Extradimensional Storage is explicitly designed to allow the stored objects to function.
  • Sealing is explicitly designed to suspend the ability of sealed objects to function.
"This would give us one of the main differences as far as we're concerned. However, the limitations of the Extradimensional Storage as you have described them should make us ask question - just how was it possible for Raising Heart and for Bardiche to store the sealed Jewel Seeds within themselves? The Seeds ARE Lost Logia, after all.

"Well, the answer would have to be this: modern Sealing method are designed to interact with Extradimensional Storage, and spoof the measurements and the requirements of the extradimensional Storage alike. In other word, assume that Sealing encases the sealed objects within a barrier that not only suspends the ability of such objects to function, but also isolates the object from the Extradimensional Storage in such a way that the broad category of whatever is being stored changes from "object", that just so happens tobe sealed, to "seal with an object inside" - therefore making the composition of the sealed object mostly irrelevant as far as Extradimensional Storage is concerned."

Amy, a question then. Since Sealing so handily removes the limitation on needing to calibrate the Extradimensional Storage for all the different variations of stored items, why doesn't everyone use it for everything? In fact, why not use it so seal a spaceship and release it whenever needed?

"Oh, like the Final Fantasy summons? Well, as I've said in the beginning, Extradimensional Storage is explicitly designed to allow the stored objects to function, while Sealing is designed to suspend the ability of sealed objects to function. Or in other words, we Store something we want to stop taking up so much place, but we still want to be in working condition. We Seal something we want stopped, and it's just a fringe benefit for the unlikely situation we might later want to move it elsewhere.

"Also, it's probably going to go without saying that "seal with an object inside" is going to be a category of objects that Extradimensional Storage simply refuses to play ball with. There are two main concerns - the first is that "seal" is a sufficiently broad category of objects to limit the storage capacity. The other is that while storage of sealed objects is allowed, it becomes the equivalent of putting an active containment spell, cast on something that is otherwise volatile, both out of sight and out of the range of effortless or easy maintenance."

Sooo, to give an analogous example, let's pick Angels and Demons - where a battery powered container of antimatter is smuggled underneath the Vatican. A sealed Lost Logia in Extradimensional Storage would be similar - it's out of easy access, it's not very reliable, and it can explode spectacularly if the containment fails the the Logia is inclined to do so. Is it like that?

"Exactly! It's best not to put sealed objects into storage, especially if they are unpredictable. Jewel Seeds are surprisingly amenable to the treatment though - they absorb energy from their surroundings before unleashing it in a vaguely chaotic manner, unless properly harnessed that is. If a Jewel Seed becomes unsealed while contained within Extradimensional Storage, it's going to have to start its energy collection from zero, within a location that isn't exactly brimming with free magic to absorb."

Okay. that's nice to know. How large a sealed object can be contained in the Extradimensional Storage anyway?

"Well, I don't think it's a good idea to put any hard limits on this one. No sense in writing yourself into corner, right?"

Yeah, you're right. Oh my, would you look at the time! Everyone, please thank our guest for participation! Amy Harlaown nee Limietta!

Omake End

AN: Proofread by the ever-reliable beta, @Always Late. This has been (until recently) the last omake I've written in Sources of Inspiration to date, and addresses some of the gaps I've alluded to in the Part 2.

Disclaimer: we still don't know how Storage Devices, Transformation Sequences, and Sealing works. Anyway, we need Silently Watches' confirmation or clarification on the subject.

So, @Silently Watches, how does extradimensional storage work? How does sealing work? Where does clothing vanish to during the transformation sequence, and how does it return? And finally, do you have anything specific to say on the topic of how Storage Devices came to be and why they're called as such - or we can just assume whatever we want?

P.S. The points are to be hoarded as well.
P.P.S. There might be more omakes in store.
 
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So, @Silently Watches, how does extradimensional storage work? How does sealing work? Where does clothing vanish to during the transformation sequence, and how does it return? And finally, do you have anything specific to say on the topic of how Storage Devices came to be and why they're called as such - or we can just assume whatever we want?
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Disclaimer to start: this is not something I've thought about, but when it comes to the mechanics of the Nanoha-verse I take a lot of inspiration from Aleph.

I always considered extradimensional storage to basically be a box. It's built into the "subspace" components of the Device, it has a finite volume, and its entire purpose is to serve as a real-life file folder. When a mage calls for something she's previously put in storage, such as clothing, her Device knows where in its innards it would have been placed, which drastically decreases the amount of time and effort it takes to retrieve it. I don't know that the composition of the material would play any roll.

How clothing actually vanishes and returns I think is just an application of a teleportation spell. The Device records how the clothing is arranged before teleporting it into storage, and when it's time to switch back the clothing is teleported out and returned to the exact configuration it had prior to going in.

Sealing is something that is very much NOT covered in depth in canon. The Sealing Spell or whatever itself I expect is just a piece of borderline-malicious shutdown code, maybe adaptive so it can work on a number of Lost Logia. Once the Logia is Sealed, it can be treated just like any other object as far as storage is concerned.

Why are Storage Devices called that and how they came to be? I've honestly never thought about it, but I very much like your interpretation.
 
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    • After-Action Report for Arc 6: Maskless

    Not much to say. This arc was a whirlwind, that's for sure! :)

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    • Had Samantha died at the end of Arc 5, you would have only been able to pick one quest per week for the first two weeks. There would have been a choice following that mourning period in which you could vote to create a new Guardian Beast(s).
    • Had Danny died, you would have been stuck with one quest per week for all five weeks. Again, two weeks until you could make a new Guardian Beast should Samantha have died as well.
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    • You told Chevalier about the statue, and he passed the info up the chain until it reached Legend himself. And then you let him watch the conversation with Epoch where the truth about magic was revealed. If you were going for a controlled release of information, this wasn't it. After all that drama, though, you never followed up and just left them hanging. That's not very nice.
    • Letting Legend see that talk did inspire 6.a, so that's something. Neither of the special interludes were planned this time around, by the way. They just sort of happened.
    • If you hadn't spoken with Epoch by the end of the quest, he and the Adepts would have decided you wanted nothing to do with them. I'm glad you didn't kiss those Linker Cores goodbye forever.
    • Only one spell could be learned in this quest, but it came at the expense of fighting Epoch and ending the rest of it early.
    Back in the Saddle
    • After discovering that the Beasts were using the storm sewers to get around, you grabbed Miss Militia and learned that there were a whole lot more Beasts than first expected. Then you never did anything else with it, and as I hinted at in 6.v, things aren't going so hot. Uh-oh. :(
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    • A maximum of three spells could be learned in this quest. You chose Charge Cartridge.
    • I was going to let the Beast thing be only a two-arc quest, but since you procrastinated… Hoo, boy. Arc 8 isn't going to be funny unless I decide to throw you a major bone.
    Chef's Specials
    • How did everyone like the "one special event a week" thing? Told you you were gonna be busy this arc!
    • Had you gone with Danny to New York, you would have found out that oh yeah, he's meeting with the same guy who called him all the way back in 1.x. You know, his contact in the Mafia. That might have been important. Had you stayed home in Arc 5, you would have been there when they called, and he would have been… not okay, but agreeable to Calamity Witch joining him in the meeting. There was also a story about Annette waiting for you to explain a few things.
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    • You joined Dragon for her salvage operation, and you decided to bring Tim along, too. It's just bad luck the Dragonslayers decided to crash the party. I rolled a die to figure out what you would retrieve from the Agharti, but I felt so bad about the low rolls you had gotten during the MS-13 fight that I rerolled. That's why you found a Storage Device in addition to a few momentos.
    • Thankfully you took the hint when Vista got fed up waiting for your call. Plus you gave her the arm (about time!), which meant you got a special interlude about the world's most adorable cyborg. Oh God, her and Cassiel together would be squeeee!
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    Back to Our Scheduled Programming
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    • In case you were wondering, there were a few plot-relevant events that you could have found only if you went on patrol. I was even going to be nice and give two of them to you no matter whom you patrolled with provided you did so at the right time. The last, though? You had to join the right group.
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    • You spent time to scan the Privateers and gave Tim the Transcendent Gadgeteer template. Probably the best choice of templates right now, all told.
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    • Danny now knows about the TSAB. Too bad it all went to hell in a hand basket right afterwards. And in case you were wondering, no, I only planned for him to be suspicious of the TSAB. The ferry and "how much of you is my daughter" comments were a surprise to me.
    Nose to the Grindstone
    • Yet another training option that no one wanted to do. Yes, this was going to be available every subquest arc, but with how many omake you guys have come up with, it looks like it really isn't necessary.

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    I was going to let the Beast thing be only a two-arc quest, but since you procrastinated… Hoo, boy. Arc 8 isn't going to be funny unless I decide to throw you a major bone.
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    ...I knew that putting off the Beast quest for so long would come back to bite us. *sigh*

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    Well, crap. That's an unfortunate thing to miss.

    Silently Watches said:
    . Sam, on the other hand... Well, the forensics agents might have made a few Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th references when they were cataloguing evidence.
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    Silently Watches said:
    A Whole New World
    • No one wanted to do this? Awww. :( I even had some prizes ready for you if you did.
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    Unfortunate, but you gave us too many interesting and/or time-critical events closer to home imo for this to have gained much momentum.

    Silently Watches said:
    Back to Our Scheduled Programming
    • No patrols, huh? You lazy-butts are awful at this heroing thing.
    • In case you were wondering, there were a few plot-relevant events that you could have found only if you went on patrol. I was even going to be nice and give two of them to you no matter whom you patrolled with provided you did so at the right time. The last, though? You had to join the right group.
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    Well, the dice forcing us to eat an RPG in the face knocked off a couple weeks' worth of opportunities to risk this. =\
     
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