Memoirs of a Human Flashlight Thread 2: Now with more Arguments! [Exalted/Worm]
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Golden Lark
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Fixed!
Hmmm. An analysis of canon (with a search for "Clockblocker" and "bullshit") actually reveals that Triumph is the original. He yells it (in 18.3) when Tattletale hypothesizes that Noelle/Echidna is a nascent Endbringer. I'm pretty sure that Clockblocker doing it is merely a fanon meme. For all my future "Bullshit!" needs, I think I'll go back to the source and use Triumph instead of Clockblocker.
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IIRC It originated in Silencio with people making Omakes about stuff that had Clockblocker calling bullshit (like Marceau's "tinkertech horn") or at least I only saw stories/omakes/snips using Clockblocker going BULLSHIT! after that.
I thought the original was from an short on the SB Worm Index where Taylor gets the ability to make people yell bullshit.
Finagle007
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Oh, for the...
Also, IT LIVES!! And it seems Taylor's discovered her personal mote pool...
Finagle007
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Just reread Under The Rose, and found a very useful Solar Charm:
Seems perfect for helping Panacea re: Glory Girl's emotional aura, among other things...
Seems perfect for helping Panacea re: Glory Girl's emotional aura, among other things...
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It's a great charm, though I'm not sure that it would actually help Panacea. Her issues run much deeper than mere UMI and it might not even remove her attraction to Victoria, which was an indirect effect that no one else experienced, not straight up magically enforced love. This is academic, however, as Taylor is unlikely to learn a charm deep in the Solar Brawl tree.
What she really needs is the Essence 4 Presence/Medicine charm Hastening Night's End. It would allow her to permanently heal any and all mental derangements of her patients. That includes ones caused by Shards. This is hilariously OP in Worm considering how many of the problems are caused by crazy parahumans. Just imagine Accord without his crippling OCD.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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What? Borked is perfectly acceptable to describe the state of the links before GL fixed them.
That said, Swedish Chef is awesome.
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Golden Lark
The First Fiction User
This is canon.
And for that, we thank you.
More fun to use on Ziz's victims, or on Ziz?
pheonix89
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Won't work. Ziz's MO is rewriting the target's motivation and intimacies in mechanical terms. There's no long-term UMI in play.
Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
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Colored it. I would have shaded it, but I never actually learned how to do that.
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I like the color job.
Jeez I understand Dennis's terror.
That face, it's the face of HARD DECISIONS.
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Alexandria approves.
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Altering someone's motivation, intimacies and memories in a few minutes by twiddling with their brainmeats is a textbook example of UMI. The UMI remains as long as its effects do. Removing it will remove the effects. If UMI is used to effectively turn someone into a new person, then using Thunder Breaks Clouds on them is essentially murder.
The Simurgh's influence is remarkably similar to the Alchemical charm Personality Override Spike, except she can affect thousands of people at the same time and at range. Tiny difference, that.
It is important to note that TBC is super expensive, to the point where Taylor could probably only afford to use it a couple of times a day at best. She would need weeks to months to process even just the capes at a Simurgh fight. A huge strategic advantage, but it won't stop them from having to quarantine cities or anything like that.
kinda outside her perview... Wouldn't it make more sense to just take those prayers and fashion a god devoted to recovering from major disasters? That would include endbringer attacks and other big stuff easy.She could use it more often when the prayers of people begging for salvation from the Simurph give her a Cult rating.
Finagle007
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NO. Cult ratings = GOOD, a god/gods running around instead of Cult rating = BAD.
You know that just made me realize something, and I am not sure if this has already been brought up, but how are the Abrahamic religions going to affect the Yozi (or Creation in general) I mean once the essence and souls really start pouring into Earth Bet?
The impression I got from how the Exalted stuff in being woven into the story was that to use prayers a god had to be involved on some level. I don't see how 'bureaucracy' gives Taylor the power to affect 'holy crap an endbringer is attacking this very second' and as such there would be a huge amount of desperate heartfelt prayer being lost. Seeing as she gets a tax of all incoming prayer anyway this just seems like good bureaucratic delegation. I fail to see both how she could readily develop a cult around an area she can't affect, and why she wouldn't just pick a different more accessible group to make into a cult. I get there are plenty of people in things like the US Gov't that could be tapped for that sort of thing.