Mauling Snarks (Worm) (Complete)

We've known how she does it. The shard didn't know, so apparently had subsumed dangerous amounts of her brain in an effort to figure it out.

How panicked do you think Costa-Brown will be over having her eye back?
 
No, we didn't. We had no idea that the connection from the snark to her passed through a gravity manipulation component.
Before people start getting too excited about certain things:
Her connection is a little screwy and her snark doesn't realize that it is, in fact, what allows her to fly. In particular, it doesn't realize that when she focuses the right way she's offloading gravity down the connection.
It was mentioned, but under a spoiler.
 
Curiosity had gotten to her, and she'd not disconnected the cat. Its use of its partner to frequently escape and give others hell when they chased it was actually generating more data than expected.
... Tora? Is that a Naruto reference I spy?
Oh good, so I wasn't the only one who thought that!

I was kinda hoping after reading that though, that we would get a Raccoon as well though.
The one remaining connection was, however, quite oddly formed, and the shard had subsumed far too much of the host's thought processes to be safe. Apparently without trying to take over, just wanting to understand what the host was doing, because the shard stupidly discounted that the host connection was passing through a gravity offloading component.
Oh, hello Rebecca.
Helvetia sighed as she sat there, taking a break. Mostly she was waiting for the already queued up deployments to occur so that she could get to the next layer in, but things were slightly delayed due to a higher-priority task involving several moons being shifted. Why they were being shifted hadn't been distributed, just that they were and deployments were being slowed down so as to not interfere with the process.
I can totally see Zion with a Snidely Whiplash mustache as he moves the moons into place.
'The fool will just swim right in, be pelted by moons, forced to dodge them, then dodge AGAIN as they suddenly change direction, as soon as it feels safe from moving juuuuuuussst right to avoid them all, BAM! SUN TO THE CORE!'
This was after the deployment shards were all suddenly tasked with moving several shards out of a specific instance of the star system. Something big was going on, and she had no clue what it was. Just that high-level orders that she couldn't override were involved. Granted, she could still do some work despite the layer of undeployed shards that were in the way, but she had directives to physically examine each shard anyway and thus it made more sense to just wait for the surface layer to be cleared away.
Well of course he would move them out of the line of fire. This isn't Canon Zion after all.

I wonder if making the perfect pop-corn is on the list of high-level orders?
 
At last, I Live again!

After 6 months without a laptop while it seesaws in and out of repair because they keep botching the job until it has to be declared DOA, i'm back.

so, now that i'm getting caught up, expect a few posts ahead... page 923 so far...

Having Princess Celestia, or one of the pony powers, show up to save the Worm Universe by turning everyone into ponies and having all the new ponies go WTF
I think there is actually a ficca over on fimfic where this happened - one of the conversion stories I think...

they'd almost lost the bird that she'd caught for them
Possibly the only time Maul has been able to give someone the bird and be thanked for it - and they almost LOSE it?

That last water gun sounds lethal. 5kg of water
To be frank, a Pint of water can be lethal if given the right situation - I wonder if anyone told her about high-pressure micro stream surgery yet?

Missy shrugged. "So what are we doing this afternoon?"
"The same thing we do every afternoon maul - confuse the starch out of the world"

"I'm fairly certain that it was the last time the PRT approved testing of something like that in a Children's hospital. The only good thing was that they couldn't open the morgue doors."
Yowwch, that could have gone really bad. the really scary thing though? Child Zombies.

they dragged in a woman who'd apparently been left for dead in a dumpster a few blocks over.

A wild Plot Bunny Appears!

the President started to have complications from a replacement kidney.
Wait, did Bonesaw just almost Kill the President? That's gotta be worth more points the a capist Pope..

So, who has enough information about Lung to design a second trigger for him?
King Gidora? (i'd call him Kaiser Gidora, but max might sue...)
 
Though that did leave him with a question. "Do you still plan on going by Glaistig Uaine?"

Ciara blinked. "Er. I hadn't actually decided, but given the drastic shift in my faerie it may be best to take on a new name."

Sidhe seems like a good choice… Unless she wants something more Disney? Like Pixie or Twinklebell?

"Works for me," Taylor agreed. "Eric will just have to deal with not having chocolate chip cookies."

"Come to the Darkside. We have cookies with chocolate chips."
 
However, the idea of line-elements as a matrix of connections being the relevant aspect of reality, as opposed to the 'objects' connected, or outlined by such, has some merit. Particularly in some of the more recent attempts to unify quantum mechanics and relativity.

Did I mention that I may not know what I'm talking about? :)

That's loop quantum gravity, in a particularly succinct nutshell. And yes, it's highly non-Euclidean; Riemannian geometry makes boosts - effectively "rotations" involving the time aaxis - act hyperbolically rather than spherically. [*]

Dave, good show, old man!

[*} 'You got a minus sign in my peanut butter!' "Well, you tried to divide my chocolate by zero!" but with algebra
 
My name is Rin, the other names I'm known by are either impossible for you to pronounce or not properly descriptive of my human personality.
What is Rin supposed to describe anyways? Rin Tohsaka?
shard stupidly discounted that the host connection was passing through a gravity offloading component
I despise you. I hope you know that.
The Shard in the previous chapter already gave me the feels riminding me of the Giving Tree and now you gave a perfectly mundane and rational explanation for (in my opinion) the best reference in the story so far
... Tora? Is that a Naruto reference I spy?
I agree
 
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