My Random Fiction Bits and Pieces

PhoebusArtemis · Nov 6, 2024

NightTalon65 said:
im sure that you'd eventually find one without a Taylor... hopefully... possibly... maybe?

Do you want to be another alt Chris?

Itypeslow · Nov 6, 2024

Keldin145014 said:
That is, in fact, what Follow is for. I did get notifications when mpπ posted. If you didn't get notifications, maybe check your forum preferences.

Note: A caveat here is it will only hit you up when the thread STARTS. Subsequent threadmarks won't trigger unless you set them up. (In short, the new threads have something like nine and five threadmarks each, but I only got one notification for each.)

(Actually, looking for the link above showed me it can also automatically Watch new threads and send E-mail for them. So thanks for asking!)

I read through the preferences you linked to and not one of them says anything about people I follow

Unless I missed it

Keldin145014 · Nov 6, 2024

Itypeslow said:
I read through the preferences you linked to and not one of them says anything about people I follow

It's under 'Watch Options,' specifically the checkbox next to 'Automatically watch content on creation.' At least, I got posts from mpπ and that's what I had selected.

mp3.1415player · Nov 7, 2024

Ace Dreamer said:
You might find one where the Taylor had left? But, could you be sure she wasn't going to come back?

Remember, if you can't see a Taylor, all that means is there is a hidden Taylor somewhere. Possibly behind you.

You are never far enough away for comfort from a Taylor

Poor Chris.

Ace Dreamer · Nov 7, 2024

mp3.1415player said:
Remember, if you can't see a Taylor, all that means is there is a hidden Taylor somewhere. Possibly behind you.

You are never far enough away for comfort from a Taylor

Poor Chris.

So. Chris turns-up in a Brockton Bay. All is peaceful. No Merchants, ABB, E88. Uber and Leet run a popular puppet theatre, with Parian. The PRT have been disbanded. The bay is clear, there's a Ferry running.

But. He can feel he's being... Watched.

Kinsfire · Nov 7, 2024

Funny thing always has been for me is that Taylor is described as physically the kind of girl I would have been pining over when I was in high school. Tall, slight figure (never quite got the desire for something bigger than a giant's head), and most importantly, INTELLIGENT. So knowing that there was always a Taylor somewhere? YAY! *laugh*

My problem is that she probably would have thought of me like Greg Veder. I have never in my life even REMOTELY looked like Brian Laborn. I had a runner's body (please, no jokes about giving it back ... *laugh*), so some muscles, but I was always a bland looking person. It's why I have the mustache and goatee these days - to actually have SOME character to my face.

NightTalon65 · Friday at 6:58 AM

PhoebusArtemis said:
Do you want to be another alt Chris?

that would be funny so... yes kinda

M. H. Fuzzball · Friday at 2:58 PM

PhoebusArtemis said:
Do you want to be another alt Chris?

I think I've made it clear enough that I'd rather be the anti-alt-Chris...

Ace Dreamer · Friday at 3:18 PM

M. H. Fuzzball said:
I think I've made it clear enough that I'd rather be the anti-alt-Chris...

I think you should be considering the possibility of a Huginator... Or more than one? There's a lot of multiverses, out there, and wider coverage might be helpful...

I do recommend them not always arriving nude, though. It might... unduly interfere with their mission...

PhoebusArtemis · Friday at 4:22 PM

M. H. Fuzzball said:
I think I've made it clear enough that I'd rather be the anti-alt-Chris...

You have, yes. I quite liked your story when I read it a bit ago.

M. H. Fuzzball · Saturday at 1:41 AM

Ace Dreamer said:
I think you should be considering the possibility of a Huginator... Or more than one? There's a lot of multiverses, out there, and wider coverage might be helpful...

I do recommend them not always arriving nude, though. It might... unduly interfere with their mission...

I'm no Tinker, and neither is Nathan. Nathan has exactly one dimension hopper, and it's not exactly accessible.

Ace Dreamer · Saturday at 6:57 AM

M. H. Fuzzball said:
I'm no Tinker, and neither is Nathan. Nathan has exactly one dimension hopper, and it's not exactly accessible.

Did it come with a manual? Has Nathan read it?

(Also. Tinker-tech. Doesn't it need maintenance/always break, sooner or later? Desire for a thousand-dimension service?)

PossiblyEnos · Saturday at 7:04 AM

Ace Dreamer said:
Did it come with a manual? Has Nathan read it?
(Also. Tinker-tech. Doesn't it need maintenance/always break, sooner or later? Desire for a thousand-dimension service?)

It needs maintenance, the same as non-tinker tech does. It does not necessarily break sooner. It just requires specialist maintenance only a tinker can provide.

M. H. Fuzzball · Saturday at 7:46 AM

Ace Dreamer said:
Did it come with a manual? Has Nathan read it?

It absolutely did not come with a manual. It also came without such niceties as a control interface or consent to have it implanted into him.
As for maintenance issues, it is starting to have some issues with delivering him at ground-level.

Vianca · Saturday at 8:43 AM

mp3.1415player said:
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Just hope that one day, you can do something with a post-Worm, Taylor.
A story where she gets back in the game, even if it's a different game.

With all the Edchina(?) clones of Skitter, I never really got that one Worm epilogue, you know.
Should have been easy for Contessa, to use those death clone bodies, to repair Taylor her body.
Maybe even enhancing it, in some way(s).
Thus don't get why she was still arm-less.
Contessa & Bonesaw, both should have had the ability to used those clones, to restore Taylor her limb, at the minimum.
Hell, even Panacea should be able to do that one.

We never saw a clone with more then two powers, there must have been a reason for that one, I bet.
So which power would actually well in terms of supporting Taylor her original bug control?
Transportation, but who had such a power & was cloned or killed in a way that their corona's, where saved???
Too bad, Squeeler is out, right???
Implants & the like, like Bonesaw her power, had?
Uber his skill mastery ability?
Kid Win his multipurpose modulairity?

I for one, would love a Taylor, who used her bug control more in the crafting ways of things.
In canon, she used bug-shells & spider-silk, to get a Dragon Skin like armor setup, which thanks to natural products, don't have as much heat & cold problems, as a bonus.
I bet she could do waaay more then that.
Just think of using Termites for wood working.
What Laminated Bug Shell Plates could mean for say crafting a bow, or else going back to the Termites, spider-silk for the bow-string.
And that's without going for bug made cement alternatives.

I think that if Taylor really wanted it, she could do quite a lot, in terms of crafting her own things.
Do we know a setting, where we could let a post-Worm, restored Taylor, be stranded at?
Like say a island or so?
But which one?
Do we have any setting we can drop her in, that is like Gulliver's Island & The Mysterious Island, so we can have her all alone, for a while?
Bonus if any of the nearby locals, will force her to pull a Vandread Female Demon(ic) Armor look, just to scare them away, better.

Would laugh if she made a spider-silk version of Muslin, though., but considering it's still see-true, it might be something for the eye pieces, as a extra glas/visor protection.
I think the Vesta Taylor fusing could do with a good cloak, you know.
Might survive the transformation.