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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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Hm... on Gray Boy bubble quandary, if we can find the worst cases, i.e. a person burning alive in a loop, talk to any family member that can give the go ahead and release of liability, make damn sure that the parahuman law covers Tim, and before that trying to find any bubbles that trapped a animal instead of a human to test it out first.

And frankly, even being erased is better than being trapped in a endless loop of pain.
 
With 30 new capes as the PRT understands it and about half of them random Gears (even if half of them are non-combat), the Philadelphia PRT is about to become the best equipped in the nation should they allocate the necessary resources.

And the local Protectorate will now have a preponderance of force as well as coverage against the local villain population. Especially once the C rank and above mages start training in combat magic and get their own Devices. Hell, they've even got a AA rank who if fully trained would be just a few steps below Nanoha. And of the new mages 6 of them in total will eventually be flight capable.

Of the Gear beasts' masters, they most likely won't ever be assigned to patrol duty or response teams as they'd be too valuable to risk it.

Hell, with this number of Gears the local PRT should be kitted out all in powered armor pretty quickly.

Anyways. For our build order... I wonder if we can have anything that will help against Behemoth or Leviathan. Or at least help deal with the after effects of those fights.

@Silently Watches can Tim build a drone that can go around decontaminating radioactive areas?

Or a linked mobile teleport pad system that can be deployed in disaster areas to move people out of a evacuation point to safety instead of having to physically be driven to a safe location?
 
This chapter... rubbed me wrong. We just gave 30 ish people responsibilities they hadn't planned for. I've stayed out of the whole lets make guardian beasts to find kn stea thing but that feels disastrous.

For Tim's worry on the time bombs, failing and killing them is still better than their current existence. Somebody should convince him of that (or steal the solution and fo it behind his back to save him all tge guilt.)

That crawler bomb, how did Bakuda's power give her that kind if knowledge? And how do we manipulate such a thing? Start small with animals like mice to learn what we are doing then have a "Who wants to be a case 53?" Post on some site replacing Cauldron... we already have become cauldron 2.0 this might not be good.
 
Archer1eye said:
We just gave 30 ish people responsibilities they hadn't planned for. I've stayed out of the whole lets make guardian beasts to find kn stea thing but that feels disastrous.
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Probably a good idea that for now Philadelphia is the only city we're doing this in. Even as test run, it'll be a long time before the PRT as a whole can decide to do this for the rest of the organization.
 
Silently Watches said:
"Mutagenics" added to Exotic Physics.
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I don't suppose he could direct the mutagenic effects towards specific alterations? There's a LOT of catgirl fans out there. Though, personally I favor foxfgirls.

Honestly,, the mere fact that it mutates stablelly enough to make a monster is already massivly impressive. The biggest WSOD issue with stuff like that is that it should kill you instantly either from heat or cell rejection.
 
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aceraptor said:
Anyways. For our build order... I wonder if we can have anything that will help against Behemoth or Leviathan. Or at least help deal with the after effects of those fights.
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I was still thinking of the teleporting, hardlight-projecting, 3D-coordinating drones. Particularly with Leviathan, it might help mitigate his damage/secure key locations, and with Behemoth, a forceshield just might be able to keep a cape alive long enough for Dragon to teleport them out.
 
Well the kill aura is radiation based. Make a mutation in certain people to be strongly resistant (immunity is hoping too much) to such attacks. How would the body even change to resist fire, radiation, lightning, and whatever else Behemoth can fire?
 
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Mmmm... If you can come up with a possible method to do so, I'll let you know.
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Hm... can we make a sensor precise enough to target the radioactive materials and have a sort of a mini teleport gun to get those radioactive materials out?

Or another way could be if there's no living people and nothing of value to be lost in the area... speed up time in select areas to make the radioactivity go away 'naturally'. As unless Behemoth has bullshit never ending radioactive stuff, the most dangerous radiation causing materials have relatively short half lives (Caesium-137 for example has a half life of 30 years).
 
Guys. You're not thinking about the mutagenic effects the right way.

If we modify it to, in essence, apply the "human" template to things, removing things which would not be considered human in nature, we can, in theory, provide a cure for Case 53s. Now, this might (read: probably will) take their powers away if they're inherently physiological, and the severe changes might disconnect the Shard, but if we can offer a group of people who feel distanced and cast out by their very physical appearance a way to not be? As well as a way to include specific gender templates in it to better aid in people transitioning? That's one way to get good PR

EDIT: Ooh, I wonder if we can crib a chrysalis-style thing from a catterpillar/butterfly's DNA - create two forms, one of which is a mutated up monster that can chrysalis into a human, and one that's a human that can chrysalis into the aforementioned monster.
 
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Solusandra said:
I don't suppose he could direct the mutagenic effects towards specific alterations? There's a LOT of catgirl fans out there. Though, personally I favor foxfgirls.

Honestly,, the mere fact that it mutates stablelly enough to make a monster is already massivly impressive. The biggest WSOD issue with stuff like that is that it should kill you instantly either from heat or cell rejection.
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Yes, you can direct mutations like this. Unlike Crawler, whose adaptions were REACTIVE, mutagenics is PROACTIVE.
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...it could make people surive the aura?
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Archer1eye said:
Well the kill aura is radiation based. Make a mutation in certain people to be strongly resistant (immunity is hoping too much) to such attacks. How would the body even change to resist fire, radiation, lightning, and whatever else Behemoth can fire?
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You can make people immune, but that doesn't strictly speaking neutralize the aura itself.
aceraptor said:
Hm... can we make a sensor precise enough to target the radioactive materials and have a sort of a mini teleport gun to get those radioactive materials out?

Or another way could be if there's no living people and nothing of value to be lost in the area... speed up time in select areas to make the radioactivity go away 'naturally'. As unless Behemoth has bullshit never ending radioactive stuff, the most dangerous radiation causing materials have relatively short half lives (Caesium-137 for example has a half life of 30 years).
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Either of these plans is feasible.
Hoyden said:
What about a lifesign detecting mutagenic "health pack". Better mutated than dead maybe?
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You mean giving a regeneration mutation? Doable.
 
Archer1eye said:
This chapter... rubbed me wrong. We just gave 30 ish people responsibilities they hadn't planned for. I've stayed out of the whole lets make guardian beasts to find kn stea thing but that feels disastrous.
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Yeah, it occurs to me that we really, really didn't get informed consent from these folks before giving each of them an *extremely* co-dependent and very permanent life-partner.

EDIT: I just flicked back to the Triumvirate chapter to pull out the relevant quotes:

Silently Watches said:
"Cat Sith and I? We aren't Case 53s. We were never human in the first place. We are Guardian Beasts, animals uplifted through ritual to serve and support our mages. Unlike you humans, at the end of the day there is only one thing that matters to me: Calamity's safety and happiness. Nothing – not my own safety, nor the interests or concerns of anyone else – is more important than that.

"As a corollary to that, we need to be assured of our mages' safety. You just said you tried to separate Cat Sith and Standstill. She will never accept that, regardless of the reasons you provide. She is young, only in the first few weeks of her new life. It is no surprise that she responded poorly. Instead of being upset, what you should do is thank your lucky stars that all she did in response was apparently curse you out. It could have been much worse."
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We now have 30 Guardian Beasts devoted to the safety and happiness of their bonded mages above *all* else, and apparently happiness often comes second to safety. This is going to have *significant* impacts on the future, happiness, careers, and general day-to-day life of the mages in question. The Guardian Beasts of the Shield/Tome in particular, but the rest as well most likely, are going to be pretty recitent to separate from their new partners even if their partners ask them to. How exactly are they going to explain this to family, friends, husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends/etc.? "Hey honey, surprise, there's going to be a third person sleeping in our bed from now on" is distinctly unlikely to go down well the vast majority of the time.

EDIT 2: ...... ah hell. Remember what Samantha said to Legend about her immediate, instinctive response to anyone trying to separate her and Taylor? What happens to the first bigoted/jealous/freaked the fuck out person who says "No, fuck this, you stay away from my daughter/brother/spouse/etc., stay the hell away forever!"? We're going to need to give all these new GBs a crash course in "no, really, your human will be super upset if you murder people", because they will not instinctively get that.
 
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NotInventedHere said:
How exactly are they going to explain this to family, friends, husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends/etc.? "Hey honey, surprise, there's going to be a third person sleeping in our bed from now on" is distinctly unlikely to go down well the vast majority of the time.
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Simple.
"Honey? I got a dog! It's very friendly and perfectly house trained! Don't worry about it shitting everywhere while I'm out, it's a working pooch."
 
landcollector said:
While true to a certain extent, it is hard to deny that we didn't perform a good enough education of the new mages under after they all performed the ritual. By which point, it's too late to undue things.
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Actually, even the "consent" we did get was flawed, given their commanding officer was in the room and telling them to, and this is a military organization.
 
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