Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
More a continuation of what they've mostly done previously. I don't know if you can really say something's sandbagging when it's still working on diving humanity to extinction.
Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
- Start date
- Location
- Erebus
They could erase the earth in a week, but they fuck around killing a few parahumans and maybe killing a city every 4 months.
Your post said that because of how scion stopped cauldron, the shards involved are low on power and not going to be refilling by their regular method.
Worse for them because they're no longer connected to Eidolon who's quaffing shards like twinkies to maintain his power against he degredation of having them running.
Perhaps I'm reading things wrong, but it looks like a reason for them to sandbag furhter? B/C with what I understand they're a short lifespan now, but arent going to take the post eidolon death actions of fucking off completely, helping with the final battle and then doing...nothing moving forward. those who survived.
No, the Endbringers purpose isn't to destroy the Earth. They're Stress Agents. They put society in a pressure cooker to accelerate the parahuman experiment, and increase triggers, force parahumans to innovate to cope with worsening situations. The dead and ruined are merely the means by which the pressure is applied.
They're working as if it was still on the clock. Civilization would break down, but unless civilization ends entirely and it all dissolves into tribal states, theres no reason for them to sandbag harder than they have been.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
Hora, comrade!1 January 2018 just started over here, so Happy New Year, everyone!
Fun fact: in the previous new year congratulation I posted Teana charging Starlight Breaker. It turned out to be prophetic.
Let's hope next year our relations with TSAB will be... less painful for us.
Glory to Galea
Glory to the great Regency of Neo-Galea, a.k.a. Earth Bet!
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
I don't think he's actually discovered that trick in-story. If he had, he'd have basically killed everyone in the Birdcage, save Fairy Queen.
... @Silently Watches, how has Ciara taken the death of pappy Zion and the scattering of Shards that weren't supposed to be handed out?
Probably not well.
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
Probably not well. I haven't peeked into the Birdcage to find out. It's a scary place.
She sees me.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
Can she see us?
...Yes.
*waves awkwardly to GU*
LancerisDead
Definitely not a cat
- Location
- Buenos Aires
That sounds like your Arc 10 plot right there!
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No offense meant but you got a lot of flak from this post didn't you?
I know that most of you would say that it won't work but what if 'Scale to Threat' shard comes from the data observing dragons? And that Dragon Tamers have 'leverage' against dragons?
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ON another note since Taylor tamed a class-1 Extinction Level Event Lost Logia. Does she have a planet destroying spell like the Tome of the Night Sky? Not entirely sure on that. I kept thinking that the tome destroys worlds. Or that Taylor is more like the Bubonic Plague right now or possibly a combination of both? Ragnarok as you said is just a city killing spell not a World Shatterer.
You sounded a lot like director Tagg especially like on that fanfic where Taylor managed to summon Anima from Final Fantasy.SirKaid said:
No offense meant but you got a lot of flak from this post didn't you?
I think that turning everyone into mages would end up benefitting the government and allow social and legal systems to be stabilized since magic can be taughed and learned. Unlike parahuman powers.LancerisDead said:
I hope that arc 10 would be a vacation arc featuring Taylor on various parts of Mid Childa. On another note what would happen if we bring that Dragon Tamer to Lung.Spectral Waltz said:
I know that most of you would say that it won't work but what if 'Scale to Threat' shard comes from the data observing dragons? And that Dragon Tamers have 'leverage' against dragons?
I'm more wondering about what would Kaiser say about an actual Kaiser? Yes. I'm talking about her.Silently Watches said:
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Hence why Immortal Assimilation Engine tend to have people torn apart then put back together. The useful bits anyway.Solusandra said:
ON another note since Taylor tamed a class-1 Extinction Level Event Lost Logia. Does she have a planet destroying spell like the Tome of the Night Sky? Not entirely sure on that. I kept thinking that the tome destroys worlds. Or that Taylor is more like the Bubonic Plague right now or possibly a combination of both? Ragnarok as you said is just a city killing spell not a World Shatterer.
RoninSword
Sky God
- Location
- Canada
I think its just a matter of degree. Another Lost Logia may shatter the planet or the dimensions the world is sitting on itself. Whereas IAE will 'simply' convert the populace into an army bent on singular conquest.
IAE can mass produce Ragnarok casters
Exactly why I mentioned Bubonic Plague and mentioned both.
We're both saying the same thing you know. When I said bubonic. I mean each virus 'cell' is a calamity witch with the human body its infecting is the planet.
1eragon33
an Island of crazy in a sea of normality
- Location
- dallas
Okay I think I obsessed with this quest I dreamed about it last night granted the dream was basically Taylor and Perfect Storm being EXTREMELY confused about a Planeswalker Taylor from another fic on spacebattles showing up. I think I need a small break from this quest before it gets weirder.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
Or maybe (hint hint wink wink nudge nudge
) you need to get this out of your system. Write an omake on just that! Bonus, we get a point for further development!
Alayne
The Reader
- Location
- Home of the Vikings
Huh, I think that's the first time I've seen that actually forbids omakes. Sure, going "Only things created by the Author is canon" is standard but actually forbidding omakes?
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
Not sure why you think you're obligated to tell those folks you made a thing.
AAR: Civil War
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
After Action Report for Arc 8: Civil War
Facing the Future
Fire and Ice
Fairy Lights
Confessions
First Contact
Those Who Hunt Monsters
Facing the Future
- You had three options from the start: side with the gangs, fight everybody, or stay out of it entirely. You chose to side with the non-Mexican villains.
- Had you decided to fight indiscriminately, you would have earned points with the Privateers, but at the expense of the PRT/Protectorate. Loose cannons are destabilizing forces at the best of times, and this wasn't.
- Staying out of the fight would have let you take social activities in place of the first few fights. No spell points for you until the very end when you and the alliance completed both the MS-13 storyline and the Beast storyline, which was unavoidable. Miss Militia would be disappointed on a personal level, but the PRT's official opinion of the matter would be "Your involvement would have made things worse? Then thank you for staying out of it".
- In case you're wondering, you did pick the best option. The villains know you can set aside the "game" and work with others against the real monsters, and the PRT sees you're reliable. Yay. The only downside is that you might have lost some cred with the Privateers, so boo…?
Fire and Ice
- The first fight of the arc, Winter Hill vs MS-13. Also known as 4 Brutes versus 20 mooks. I'll let you in on a little secret: this was only going to end one way. None of the options I gave you would end up with you failing. Even the dice rolls were not so much a win or lose but a "do you send all the Maras to jail or the morgue or do some escape via fighting retreat?". I was going to give you a bonus because you had a good plan, but you wound up not needing it.
- You chose to stay nonlethal, which was fine. Probably better for Taylor's mental state to do that. Going lethal would have earned you cred with Winter Hill, on the other hand, which you might want in the future considering…
- You voted to show Wide Area Search to Jotunn, the head of Winter Hill, and even have Samantha explain how it works?! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! It made later fights easier because it was already out in the open, but oh god, that was not what I thought anyone would suggest.
- The other choices for that fight were mixing it up with hand-to-hand (i.e., massive plasma scythe) or play evasion tank. Instead you just went straight-up tank. Which, you know, worked out just fine.
Fairy Lights
- I want to talk about the conversation with Ramirez real quick. The war against MS-13 was going to happen regardless, but remember how in Arc 7 you had the chance to hang out with the Privateers instead of fighting Behemoth or the Dragonslayers? Had you done that, Ramirez and co. would have targeted the Warlocks rather than Winter Hill. By the time you figured out what was going on and chased them down, they would be waiting on the sidelines because they saw the real Maras hit Knievel's workshop and kill him and Cutie, the Warlock's other cape. You could have fought them then and salvaged some of Knievel's Tinkertech to give Tim an Inspiration point.
- So, the fight against Mysterio. Your strategy worked, and it played on one of his weaknesses: that without constant impacts, his Brute rating decreases. The Privateers' tactics hinged on this too, hence locking him down. Had you waited for them to arrive, they would have wrestled him down.
- Honestly, that wasn't how I thought you would try to take Mysterio out. See, his power builds off impacts, but I have already said in and out of story that you can modify Flare Shooter any number of ways. I would have set the bullets to be almost entirely heat with minimal kinetic force and then set him on fire (or at least drive him away).
- If you had chosen to fight all the gangs at once, this would have been much messier as the Fairyland capes wouldn't trust you at their backs, turning it into a three-way fight.
Confessions
- So now you know what I decided to do with Danny's two 'post-Endbringer' rolls. He might return, but when and how I haven't decided yet.
- You chose to tell Alexandria everything. That… may not have gone so well? Or maybe it did? Eh. If you haven't realized, any interlude that doesn't end in ".x" is unplanned and inspired by your decisions. Now you just have to deal with the Triumvirate trying to hunt down the TSAB's "superweapon" McGuffin… that you're carrying around your neck.
- When Kayleigh confronted you, you told her the truth about your identity, and you got a bonus interlude out of it! Had you lied and claimed to be Circus, you would have found out about a different connection she has to Winter Hill. Denying your cape status would have gotten you nothing.
First Contact
- Hoo boy.
- So, yeah. The vote on how to fight the strange attackers, who turned out to be the TSAB fighting who they thought was an IAE puppet, included using Solar Wrath, which Teana knows can melt through ship bulkheads and pump out lethal amounts of radiation. That was the big reason why 8.10 initially featured Taylor dying, because the TSAB switched to lethal force at that point from a sheer self-preservation standpoint. But because I prefer not to get my head bitten off from every direction, that idea was tossed out.
- Even though the quest would have continued with Taylor as the main character had she died, just so you know. She just needed to be rebuilt.
Those Who Hunt Monsters
- The Protectorate called multiple capes from both sides of the hero–villain line to work together to fight MS-13 and drive them out of Philadelphia for good. If you missed my explanation to Always Late, Chevalier's reasoning for this strategy was that not only was it likely to work, it might build a strong enough rapport between some individuals that more villains volunteered for Endbringer fights, which are currently skewed heavily to the hero side. More heroes fighting, more hero deaths, and therefore a higher and higher villain–hero ratio, which makes law enforcement more difficult. In the best case scenario, more villains fighting could mean fewer deaths in total; in the worst case, more villains fighting means a larger proportion of villains dying. Plus, that gives the chance to try to flip villains into being heroes after the fight. All in all, a very big-picture political maneuver.
- Jotunn's reasoning for supporting this strategy is his own and will remain so for a while yet. All I'll say right now is that he sees the writing on the wall and wants to rearrange the board for a better chance of winning.
- You chose to fight as part of Miss Militia's team against the unpowered gangbangers, and when Plan A to breach the compound all at once wouldn't pan you, that team split into four groups. You then sided with Cailleach and Circus to round up the Maras. Once Cadejo realized he wasn't fighting his way out, he ran into the storm sewers, and the heroes gave chase. Too bad you ran into the Beasts in the process, who snagged a couple of capes and tried to escape. That near-disaster turned into an unexpected windfall because it let you follow them and end the nightmare that was Typhon once and for all.
- Had you chosen to go with Chevalier, you would have seen the fight against Cadejo, but things went fine enough without you.
- When you chose to help out Cailleach, it kept you from spending time with Miss Militia, Gush, or Shard. Gush and Shard in particular have interesting histories that should come out in the near future. Had you sided with Miss Militia, she would have explained the reasoning behind the politicking of this alliance, which you guys now know but Taylor does not and therefore cannot consider when making decisions (hint, hint). But Cailleach and Circus were a ton of fun to write, so I consider it a win.
- The decision of whether to back Chevalier and co. up immediately or wait? You made the right choice. Waiting and trying to bring everyone along would have caused the nine of you to teleport to Samantha's side while they were actively fighting the Beasts, at which point not only would there be more injuries due to unwittingly warping into an active combat zone, but there very easily could have been some friendly fire. I wasn't decided on that when I put it up to a vote.
- Some people guessed that the Beasts were related to the Travelers, but somewhere along the way the idea that Typhon was a bio-Tinker working alongside canon Noelle became entrenched. No, Typhon was an OC with Noelle's shard the whole time, just as Breakdown and Phantasm were previously described. Remember that Scion's death in this quest happened before the Simurgh fight when the Travelers were brought over from Earth Aleph, and in this case it means that their shards were still part of Eden when he found her and scattered her shards far and wide. I just didn't have the heart to break up their team too much.
- The Rats didn't have a shard. They were just tough because of their body structure.
- The Slimes had Trickster's shard.
- The Spiders had Cody's shard.
- The Gaunts had Genesis's shard. If you had worked on the Back in the Saddle quest during Arc 6 quickly enough, you would have found the Beasts attacking Matryoshka, the Tinker who previously held that shard. She was an independent hero, too. But to be honest, I didn't actually have a role in mind for her besides being a shard-bearer, so don't feel too bad.
- The Turtles had Ballistic's shard. Earlier it belonged to Bouncer. He didn't run away, though he definitely wished he had once he been captured. Remember also back at the end of Arc 6 when I said Protectorate and Winter Hill went after the Beasts and refused to tell the Wards what they found? That was the first time you could have seen the Turtles. They knew Bouncer's full capabilities, and that was the piece of the puzzle they needed to realize Typhon was building monsters that used other capes' powers.
- I couldn't figure out what creature I could give Sundancer's shard to without making life a hell of a lot harder (her power is nasty), which is why Solaire was grabbed when there was no chance of her being assimilated.
- It took too many arcs, but finally the Philadelphia special quest is complete. Yay!
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
He's going to have to work his butt off to get back in. If he treats his long-time friends in the Privateers the way he did us, he's going to be out on his ear. Likley the Protectorate decides to convince him to start a new life as one of their capes.
Said win better involve Winter Hill going legit.
Or Else.
... wow I feel like an idiot for not putting that bit of chronology together.
Oops.
Honestly, this is an excellent summary of this particular event imo.
We knew that, but you had said on more than one occasion that we would not like the consequences of said rebuilding/resurrecting. *shrugs*
MetaChthonia
Disco Inferno: ⌈I Learn Through Suffering⌋
- Location
- Somewhere, Elsewhere, Nowhere. Maybe. Probably.
If the Protectorate succeeds at recruiting Danny then they'll find out about Taylor when they start asking or looking for her so that'll be an Intriguing interaction and possible attempt to try and convince her to join...
Eh, or probably not, hopefulness for a Narrative that probably won't happen.
Eh, or probably not, hopefulness for a Narrative that probably won't happen.
Also I still say that's not Taylor but Perfect Storm refusing to let go of Taylor. It'll be the Taylor version of Calamity Witch but without it spreading: copies overwriting a person but not the original in any way beyond appearences and memories and that's if Perfect Storm keeps the new Host's memories as well. It's more comparable to the Butcher and saying a Butcher X talking and acting through Butcher XV (whom is Butcher X twin sister) means that Butcher XV is Butcher X. It's less like the Ship of Theseus and more like ripping off the name plaque and gluing it on a ship that looks the same. It would be Perfect Storm that's the Protagonist from then on and Taylor only exists as a simulcrum that can operate independently and is Narrating from her perspective but in the end all our decisions are just being funneled through PS to Taylor.
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