- Location
- Home
People, remember, the Demonic Duck's simply a distraction.
People, remember, the Demonic Duck's simply a distraction.
- Location
- Beyond the Unknowable Veil
DUCK!
*Random waterfowl whizzes past*
Well that was random.
*Random waterfowl whizzes past*
Well that was random.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
The news switched to the weather. Blinking in near unison, Amy and Taylor turn to stare at each other, utterly confounded.
A: What the fuck did you just do?
T: What the fuck did you just do?
R: QUACK! Muah-ha-ha-ha!
T: What the fuck did you just do?
R: QUACK! Muah-ha-ha-ha!
Richardson
CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
- Location
- Yes
"WARNING: SHAKING PACKAGE RESULTS IN HAZARDS TO PERSONAL HEALTH! HAND-CARRY ONLY!"
"What in the devil is this label? Hey, Jim-Bob, have you ever heard of a hand-carried package before?"
"The last one was some kind of laser-crab built by Armsmaster, I think. They really mean it."
"Laser-crab."
"Yeah."
"Why in the hell would Armsmaster make a laser-crab!!!!?"
"It was an efficient design, supposedly. Mobile attack platform that could climb and pinch."
"But---"
"It's a dork age he doesn't like talking about."
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
- Location
- Ylisse
No, a villain makes AI vacuum cleaners he can set on his enemies, A supervillain gives them the power to fly.
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- Location
- Earth
Now I'm imagining this duck being "upgraded":
The eggs are explosive, among other things.
- Location
- Washington State
Maybe Riley should skin taylors spider bot to look like a Starcraft 2 Spider mine, they can be so damn adorafying imagine the look on uber and l33ts faces, running from spider mines.
- Location
- USA
You're right, I'd forgotten Shaper's potential for those aspects.... though I don't think either of them have come up with the idea to use it in that way as far as this story goes, so may not count yet.
Spiderbot Delivery (Lord of Dragons)
- Location
- Not where I want to be
Not my best work, but it is late here and this wouldn't let me sleep.
Spiderbot Delivery
[Arcadia, lunch]
Taylor was about to start her lunch when suddenly something appeared in front of her; it appeared to fall from the ceiling, but she was fairly certain that nothing like THAT had been present when she entered. Then again Riley might have installed some form of cloaking device - it certainly sounded more palatable than a teleportation device.
She wasn't sure how many people recognized what it was, but the exaggerated falling noise attracted the attention of the whole room. Nobody was screaming yet, so they probably didn't recognize what this was. Small mercies.
"Hey Taylor," Riley's voice came from the spiderbot that was not standing in her lunch. "I've seen the defense of your paper and I was impressed. I hope you'll keep up the great work. Anyway, even I've heard that Brockton Bay isn't the safest place to live, so I've send you this little fellow to protect you. He doesn't like the PRT or capes in general, but he'll rip everything that threatens you apart just fine. After all you couldn't come up with any more interesting ideas if something happened to you. I'll be sure to forward the results of my experiments into triggers during our next celebration.
"Oh, and before you worry about Amy, the little one obviously won't hurt her despite being a parahuman. Her powers are much too fascinating. She's like the perfect big sister for me and I wouldn't want her to come to any harm before I can persuade uncle Jack to recruit her. Hey, if your girlfriend joins, would you join as well? It'd be really interesting to have a non-parahuman member around and I could get an aunt as well! It'd be a lot of fun. Please think about it. Have a fun day. All the best from Bonesaw."
The bot fell silent as everyone just starred at it.
"Well, it's at least somewhat cute, right?" Amy said as she prodded it.
Taylor starred at her for a moment, "It could be worse, I guess."
"Think we should call the PRT?"
"I don't think Bonesaw is known for lying, is she? So this thing should be safe as long as we don't call the PRT. How dangerous are these things if they get aggressive?"
"Very. More dangerous that many parahumans and that's if Bonesaw didn't include anything special."
"Which is unlikely."
"Yeah."
Taylor sighed and placed the bot on her shoulder. Surprisingly it seemed to have a great grip and had no problem keeping in position. "I guess I'll have to take care of you now, don't I little fella?"
It chirped in response and somehow Taylor knew that it was a positive reply. She really should have mentioned the box moving snark when she was talking with Riley. Now everyone would be worried about the Nine coming to Brockton Bay and recruiting both her and Amy. She could just tell that it would get annoying very quickly.
Spiderbot Delivery
[Arcadia, lunch]
Taylor was about to start her lunch when suddenly something appeared in front of her; it appeared to fall from the ceiling, but she was fairly certain that nothing like THAT had been present when she entered. Then again Riley might have installed some form of cloaking device - it certainly sounded more palatable than a teleportation device.
She wasn't sure how many people recognized what it was, but the exaggerated falling noise attracted the attention of the whole room. Nobody was screaming yet, so they probably didn't recognize what this was. Small mercies.
"Hey Taylor," Riley's voice came from the spiderbot that was not standing in her lunch. "I've seen the defense of your paper and I was impressed. I hope you'll keep up the great work. Anyway, even I've heard that Brockton Bay isn't the safest place to live, so I've send you this little fellow to protect you. He doesn't like the PRT or capes in general, but he'll rip everything that threatens you apart just fine. After all you couldn't come up with any more interesting ideas if something happened to you. I'll be sure to forward the results of my experiments into triggers during our next celebration.
"Oh, and before you worry about Amy, the little one obviously won't hurt her despite being a parahuman. Her powers are much too fascinating. She's like the perfect big sister for me and I wouldn't want her to come to any harm before I can persuade uncle Jack to recruit her. Hey, if your girlfriend joins, would you join as well? It'd be really interesting to have a non-parahuman member around and I could get an aunt as well! It'd be a lot of fun. Please think about it. Have a fun day. All the best from Bonesaw."
The bot fell silent as everyone just starred at it.
"Well, it's at least somewhat cute, right?" Amy said as she prodded it.
Taylor starred at her for a moment, "It could be worse, I guess."
"Think we should call the PRT?"
"I don't think Bonesaw is known for lying, is she? So this thing should be safe as long as we don't call the PRT. How dangerous are these things if they get aggressive?"
"Very. More dangerous that many parahumans and that's if Bonesaw didn't include anything special."
"Which is unlikely."
"Yeah."
Taylor sighed and placed the bot on her shoulder. Surprisingly it seemed to have a great grip and had no problem keeping in position. "I guess I'll have to take care of you now, don't I little fella?"
It chirped in response and somehow Taylor knew that it was a positive reply. She really should have mentioned the box moving snark when she was talking with Riley. Now everyone would be worried about the Nine coming to Brockton Bay and recruiting both her and Amy. She could just tell that it would get annoying very quickly.
ScottotheUnwise
Verified Crack (fic) Dealer
- Location
- Mulberry, Fl
Huh? Does Director Piggot know Tattletale? Or is this supposed to be Dallon?
Good read as always. Was wondering when the Thinker assumptions would start biting them.
I was always keying in on Dinah and Coil. "Chances I am fatally shot?" "22%" "Chances I am shot once?" "32%" "Oh, that's all right." (Uhuh, but you didn't ask the chances she will shoot out both your knees and leave you to watch a timebomb on a high shelf tick down...)
Well, considering that Taylor recruited the Undersiders as Wards, and Tattletale got rebranded as a local Ward known as Insight, yeah, Director Piggot probably knows Tattletale.
That would be equal parts amusing and annoying for anyone read in on the Nine.
- Location
- Australia
Hazardous
- Location
- Canada
*groans* Did all your brains disappear when you triggered or something?
Unless Riley convinces Amy to join in. To be honest, I'm actually rather interested to see what they can come up with together.
- Location
- Canada
For some reason, I always thought Doormaker and Clairvoyent remained together and were immobile stuck in a trance-like state doing their jobs... not sure why I thought that but I did.
Also, since Doormaker can remotely make a portal from one destination to another, he would not show up on Taylor's Snark-sense unless he personally was going in to pick it up. Those two combine made me believe Contessa asked for a portal to the box location, took the box then asked for a portal to the destination.
Even if Doormaker isn't immobile like I thought, allowing him to leave the Cauldron base to pick up / drop off packages is probably a risk. Especially since without him Cauldron gets very limited in their inter-dimensional travel. Not to mention Clairvoyant stays with him and never grew out of a child-mentality.
So ya, I can understand it not being Contessa, since she's got plenty of stuff to do, and picking up the boxes wouldn't need her Path telling her when it's ready since Clairvoyant can tell people when it's time, but I still think it'd be someone other than Doormaker.
Hmm... Another reason is Taylor's Snark sense would likely propagate on the other side of the portal and since Clairvoyant stays near Doormaker if it was him doing the pickup then she should be sensing two snarks not one.
Maybe it's the Custodian who does the pickup? Though she usually stays in the Cauldron base...
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Techno-Organic bluetooth organ.
Or, possibly, a storm...
Which could well be a Simurgh plot, of course. Everything is.
FALSE! Sometimes it's a Contessa plot.
While this may seem like a logical rule, it is in fact a BAD RULE, because it leads to this:
"Tinkers gotta tink."
And yes, I have seen that. Along with references to things modified by a tinker being 'tinked', and the modification itself being a 'tink'.
I cringed so hard. (I wanted to react appropriately, but apparently I'm not supposed to strangle people, something something murder charges.)
That would be a Thinker power (additional sense), not a Stranger power -- a Stranger power would be e.g. if she figures out a way to tell someone's snark to not let them realize who she is, or alternately that she's there at all.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Bonus points if it looks like an eldritch horror.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Well, we don't know what it looks like. Not really. However there's now 3 people with such an organ. Sophia just has a bluetooth device implanted in her brain.
wkz
Probably on the other side of the world from you
That's not the correct phrase, simply because it runs afoul of another rule: "nothing about Tinkers is ever simple."
You might think that powerarmor is simple, but ask Armsmaster about it and he'll give you a hundred page instruction manual at bare minimum... only for the helm...
Itsune
Eldritch horror, Ship's Cat, Emergency Gunner.
- Location
- Somewhere in King County Washington
And then if you ask Maul, she'll write up a maintenance and repair manual That Armsmaster didn't think to provide.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
No he wouldn't. He'd give you a one hundred page list of features and capabilities, for the helmet. But he couldn't give you a one page instruction manual since that would require actually documenting things and fully understanding how and why it works.
- Location
- USA
Ok, I can see your reasoning now and how you got to Contessa and where I made my mistake. You were thinking of who would actually be THERE picking up the boxes as they fell through the portals, and I was thinking of who would actually be MAKING the portals and assuming that would be the Snark that Taylor picked up. I think we're both right then just from opposite sides of the issue. From that angle, however, I think it would more likely be a thinker of one kind or another she's picking up on the otherside... possibly Numberman or someone with a similar ability to his or Accords who's power would aid with dealing with keeping track of all the beauracratic paperwork that an organization like the PRT and a clandestine one like Cauldron would generate. More likely a similar but less powerful thinker though, since I doubt one of the 'inner circle' as it were would spend so much time on that unless it were specifically necessary. I still say it's 'Doormaker/Clairvoyent' who is actually doing the moving, and as far as I know you're right about their status of immobility, but I now agree its unlikely she's sensing their snarks on the other end.
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