Marika Oniki
[Verified Hotel]
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
Also Predaking in Transformers Prime.
Scaling Up
- Thread starter Kryslin
- Start date
- Location
- Neptune
This is not a Transformers thread. What they did or did not in those shows has no bearing on this fic.
In other news, Hunts-The-Ice could have a bright Hollywood career before him. He could even start out in a remake of Pete's Dragon or Dragonheart. And a recurring appearance in Deadliest Catch.
In other news, Hunts-The-Ice could have a bright Hollywood career before him. He could even start out in a remake of Pete's Dragon or Dragonheart. And a recurring appearance in Deadliest Catch.
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Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
- Location
- Mythic Iowa
My knowledge of orbital mechanics is spotty at best. However, a perfectly vertical impact, as in N dot -V, N being an the normal vector at the point of impact, and V being the vector of approach, should rarely = 1 exactly; The asteroid is moving, at both an angle to the earth's rotation, can be prograde or retrograde, as is the Earth. Granted, while I know of steeply inclined orbits, I don't know of any that would be perfectly polar, either.
Basically, said rock's path was altered by Ziz, who we all know is sandbagging fiercely, and whipped that chunk of iron nickel down through the atmosphere so fast - 15 km/s, 27 secs flight time - and at such an exact angle, that by the time the warning went out to AWS Alert from Dragon, it had already impacted. The fact that it did so little damage had a lot to do with the vaporization of most of it's mass early on, leaving a impactor 150mm in diameter, which still carved out a sizable crater, with a perfectly circular crater and ejecta pattern, as precise you can get.
My point being : Perfect anything does not exist in nature. This has so much precision on it that it smacks of Endbringer Shenanigans. That was the point I was trying to get across. It also makes everyone involved wonder whether or not Ziz will just grab a city killer rock and loop it into orbit, then drop it at 12 km/s onto random cities... (Which we know will never happen, since the Endbringers, allegedly, were summoned by Eidolon to provide him with worthy opponents, amoing other things).
This is exactly correct. She'll be practicing both as things progress.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The local experts will also speculate if Ziz did it like this to make it obvious that it was not a natural phenomenon. And why.
- Location
- Bosnia
If that's the case, then Simmie actually wanted them to figure out it was her plan. Otherwise, I'm sure she could've made it look more natural. So, she knows they know, and we can extrapolate that she knows we know she knows we know, but does that mean she knows we know she knows we know she knows we know she knows?? And is this just the 7th or 307th step in her plan??
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
I imagine so.
Remember, entities travel the universe regularly and meet up with aliens of all descriptions, most of which apparently have some very strange abilities. The entities themselves are Lovecraftian abominations akin to elder gods. There's nothing so alien about dragons that they would be considered out of context problems for shards.
And yet, when Coil tried to model Taylor, it gave him such a Thinker headache that he wound up literally dying...
Shulta
Verified Omake writer
- Location
- My room
Isn't she a bit.... Big for Spyro? Unless she is one of the sealed dragons.
There.... Is perhaps gargoyles as well....
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Not just Coil. Every Thinker who's tried to directly analyze Taylor for any reason has gotten a severe headache which convinced them to not do that. Coil's problem was that he was straining his power by running it 24/7 (something he normally doesn't do) while ignoring the warning his Thinker headache was trying to give him then he tried using it to directly model Taylor. Not that he likely knew this was the case.
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
These are true statements.
Does Taylor have mind blank up? Perhaps it's being cast by the dragons and dragon gods she's been meeting up with regularly. It wouldn't work against some things (see: the metafaculty power, and possibly hypercognition), so Lisa's ability works to some extent, but we don't really know how powers mix with magic.
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
- Location
- Mythic Iowa
IF Taylor had just stuck to the normal suite of powers that are typical of Worm - slower shapeshifting, breathing fire, flight, fear aura - Coil would have had no problems modeling Naureling. In trying to model things that his shard had no data on (And note that QA isn't sharing at all) during his kept 'timeline' where he masters himself an applies a shaker effect to insure the results of the kept simulation... His shard kept pushing harder and harder until >splurch!<.
It's the heavy magic component of Taylor's powers that gives Thinker shards a fit. Most just go "Nope!" and add Naurelin to an exception list to keep their host alive.
For Dinah, she'd get #NaN. Contessa, as noted, is getting Thinker headaches, especially when paths start looping.
A couple of people here will probably go "Squeee!" with delight when the magical trinkets in the chests get Identified.
Axel
Tenno Wax
- Location
- Italy
- Pronouns
- He
third person
refusing instead of thanking and without the second part works better
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
It seems like "is a dragon" is the primary reason for the problems Thinkers are having. They have the same issues with Hunts-The-Ice.
As long as one of them isn't a Deck of Many Things.
"Thank you for the offer, but I think I'll make my own way."
Hmm, such a statement would suggest you are thanking someone for the offer, but declining it. Just refusing is more rude. And among other things, dragons (and half dragons) tend to be charismatic. Thus a flat refusal is less likely to occur when they want to be polite.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Belt of physical perfection, Headband of Mental Superiority, Mindblank amulet, Ring of Regeneration?
So, Dinah's shard can't even tell her that there's a 100% chance of being safe while she's around Taylor?
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Taylor is a dragon, with all that entails. Even a friendly dragon is not safe. And most importantly, a dragon is not a number or statistic. It's a dragon.
Axel
Tenno Wax
- Location
- Italy
- Pronouns
- He
It does not mean that you answered rudely, but that Taylor is doing it implicitly.
The readers automatically read that events based on how you previously depicted her personality.
A couple of quick messages to her father later to explain that she wouldn't be home for dinner, after thanking Dean for the offer of a ride but refusing as she preferred making her own way there, and she was slowly soaring her way to the Dallon household.
Here a middle ground if you like? it is not the best but i think it is a little better?
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
- Location
- Mythic Iowa
She'd get the #NaN if Taylor asked her a question, or if she tried to answer a question that involved Taylor directly.
As for being safer... A dragon as your friend is a whole lot safer than one who is your enemy.
Likewise, "A dragon who is your friend from whom you've stolen something from may ask nicely (with extra ALL THE TEETH) for it's return, and may not blast you where you stand if you do so."
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That must be an extremely good (former) friend with a really good reason. Going for a dragon's hoard is classically a surefire method to make yourself memorable in a bad way.
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
- Location
- Mythic Iowa
Exactly.
Note that if it's not a very good reason, you will probably just get blasted. And that's with good dragons. Take this Red Great Wyrm under some mountain in the middle of nowhere - someone stole a few hundred GP from his hoard, and he had to go burn an entire city-state down to vent his anger at the deed, and he wound up with a Arrow of Red Dragon Slaying in him for his troubles.... (or a ballista bolt, if you like the movie version).- Location
- Neptune
It's not the shard's fault that the host's primitive brain can't understand simple messages like "Still gathering data, please ask again later."
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Are you sure it's not "please provide more data, model inconclusive, see [MODEL]"?
Itsune
Eldritch horror, Ship's Cat, Emergency Gunner.
- Location
- Somewhere in King County Washington
This ^^
Although she could have Countered with an Offer of a ride as well.
Cue Eyebrows getting permanently attached to the local ceiling. ...
"Armsmaster would you happen to have a Lance I could borrow? Naurelin, Offered me a ride, I think I should be propperly equipped for it." ...