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Splintered (Worm QA-Quest)

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[X]Speaking of Danny Hebert, you should probably go check on him. If Efficiency's host were to ignore his own words related to false designations, he could easily arrange for Danny Hebert to be harmed.
-[X]Move him to Yggdrasil if you find him. That way, he can be safe forever!
-[X]If he has been harmed while you weren't watching him, take bloody vengeance. (choose one or more options below)
--[X]Malicious portal usage.
--[X]Avoid harming anyone but those responsible.
 
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[X]Go track down a certain fairy or group of fairies and help them.
-[X]Negotiator. (Tattletale)
--[X]Gain more information on the utter idiocy that is human interaction. You might need the data to better mimic the personality of Host before interacting with Daniel Hebert
--[X]Disable the Anti-Thinker measure on Negotiator. Or maybe tune it up a notch with the Rolling Stones playlist with a volume of 150 decibels and more if she does not comply.
--[X]Also, your first minion Dennis brought up an interesting idea. Check the viability of conquering Brockton Bay and/or the United States with Negotiator. While your current course does not necessitate such actions, it's still nice to have more options available in the future.
 
[X] Speaking of Danny Hebert, you should probably go check on him. If Efficiency's host were to ignore his own words related to false designations, he could easily arrange for Danny Hebert to be harmed.
-[X] Move him to Yggdrasil if you find him. That way, he can be safe forever!
-[X] If he has been harmed while you weren't watching him, take bloody vengeance. (choose one or more options below)
--[X] Malicious portal usage.
--[X] Avoid harming anyone but those responsible.
--[X] If you have to fight someone portals alone can't deal with, go Overkill on their asses and erase them entirely.
 
AramilOniasha said:
[X]Go track down a certain fairy or group of fairies and help them.
-[X]Negotiator. (Tattletale)
--[X]Gain more information on the utter idiocy that is human interaction. You might need the data to better mimic the personality of Host before interacting with Daniel Hebert
--[X]Disable the Anti-Thinker measure on Negotiator. Or maybe tune it up a notch with the Rolling Stones playlist with a volume of 150 decibels and more if she does not comply.
--[X]Also, your first minion Dennis brought up an interesting idea. Check the viability of conquering Brockton Bay and/or the United States with Negotiator. While your current course does not necessitate such actions, it's still nice to have more options available in the future.
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That song is something Negotiator is doing on his own.

Our Anti-Thinker measures simply make us a blind spot to them.
Disabling them for anyone and anything, at any time, is a very bad idea.

Especially since Tattletale has every reason to try and screw us over, because she thinks the song was our fault.
If she gets any info on us, it'll take very little for her to 'accidentally misplace it' for someone else to find.
She is very vindictive, you see.

Edit: Was about to post something here, but then I realized the reason for posting it wasn't there anymore. Apparently I just had a lag, or something.
 
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[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.

I'm sure big D is fine, and we can meet other fairies later.
 
Akasha said:
You do realize that Shards won't let anything too bad happen to their hosts due to them being necessary to continue learning, so their punishments would likely be slaps on the wrist?
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That is the idea.

All shards have one thing or another that they don't like about their hosts. This way they can needle them and because it is QA that is dooing the needling it will affect the shards as well. And possible turn the hosts even nuttier.
 
[x] Plan Zeuseus v.2

[X] Speaking of Danny Hebert, you should probably go check on him. If Efficiency's host were to ignore his own words related to false designations, he could easily arrange for Danny Hebert to be harmed.
-[X] Move him to Yggdrasil if you find him. That way, he can be safe until people understand that to attack Danny means retribution. There is no need to give Danny access to things he won't have any use for. The cannon can't be effectively used without our active assistance anyway, so he doesn't need to be able to fire it.
-[X] If he has been harmed while you weren't watching him, take bloody vengeance. (choose one or more options below)
--[X] Malicious portal usage.
--[X] Avoid harming anyone but those responsible.
--[X] If you have to fight someone portals alone can't deal with, go Overkill on their asses and erase them entirely.

Vote edited for refined version. Also, I got a plan named after me!!!!
*thundergod does a happy dance*
 
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[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.

Demonstrating that we can make Tinker Tech that doesn't require maintenance would be yet another "OMG how does she do it!" in Titania's list of achievements.

Plus Tinker Time with Armsmaster and Dragon sounds a lot more fun then yet another "Let's kill Coil horribly!" scene. It's been done to death, pun intended.
 
Alivaril said:
Jack Slash, the S9.
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I really hope that when the eventual S9 confrontation shows up, it's because QA went to them, rather than the other way around. One of the reasons Jack has stayed alive as long as he has is because he's smart enough to pick his battles. You don't see him going after Heartbreaker, or the Sleeper, or the Triumvirate.

[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.
 
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[X] Speaking of Danny Hebert, you should probably go check on him. If Efficiency's host were to ignore his own words related to false designations, he could easily arrange for Danny Hebert to be harmed.
-[X] Move him to Yggdrasil if you find him. That way, he can be safe forever!
-[X] If he has been harmed while you weren't watching him, take bloody vengeance. (choose one or more options below)
--[X] Malicious portal usage.
--[X] Avoid harming anyone but those responsible.
--[X] If you have to fight someone portals alone can't deal with, go Overkill on their asses and erase them entirely.
 
[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.
 
[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.


Let's give them a day to salvage their shit. When they failed, we can erase the base from existence.
 
Yog said:
2) PRT learned that powers have their own agenda and are deceitful. That's actually a lot of useful info right there.
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Cytokinesis said:
Well, the world has now learned that there is a collection of beings behind the power that are both sapient and have a sense of humor.

At least that's probably what I would draw from Titania's answer.
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I'm actually relatively sure that this isn't definite. All they know is that Titania claims she was asked by powers to call them fairies — no further reasoning given. This could have been because of the above, or it could be because it's a collection of beings actually calling themselves fairies for whatever reason, or because Titania has a Trump power giving her information about powers and parahumans a la Broadcast but conscious and taking the form of hallucinated fairies for whatever reason. Cauldron might make the leap to the first on that list, or they might assume that shards refer to each other internally as fairies as a handy translation; it's not like they've ever actually talked to a shard before, just stripped them from a corpse and shoved them down people's throats. Even Glaistig Uaine never talked about speaking with fairies directly, I don't think, just referred to them ominously.

[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.
 
[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
--[X] Work with them on making it as energy efficient as possible
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.
 
--[X] Make some of its hardware resemble host's brain, so, if and when she wakes up, you could remain active through it. Replicator showed it could be done, so you, as a monarch, would naturally do it better.
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I'm really hoping this write-in wins and that we can somehow migrate from Taylor to our new computery home. Maybe even set Taylor up with an artificial bud so that she can get the benefits of still having powers. Something suitably OP for being such a good host.
 
Dr. Bob Doom said:
I'm really hoping this write-in wins and that we can somehow migrate from Taylor to our new computery home. Maybe even set Taylor up with an artificial bud so that she can get the benefits of still having powers. Something suitably OP for being such a good host.
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No. Fuck Taylor. There are a hundred and one Taylor quests and I have no interest in a drugged-by-happiness-dreams suicidal girl. Skitter was an interesting character to read about from her twisted perspective. Taylor was not. For me that's just a backup so that if something unpredictable actually disables Titania's main host body she can just become an AI.
 
tricholysis said:
No. Fuck Taylor. There are a hundred and one Taylor quests and I have no interest in a drugged-by-happiness-dreams suicidal girl. Skitter was an interesting character to read about from her twisted perspective. Taylor was not. For me that's just a backup so that if something unpredictable actually disables Titania's main host body she can just become an AI.
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I was thinking more along the lines of "Here, give Taylor something and then we-the-players don't need to interact with her ever again."
 
Dr. Bob Doom said:
I was thinking more along the lines of "Here, give Taylor something and then we-the-players don't need to interact with her ever again."
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Just abandoning our host and becoming an AI seems like a pointless waste of data.

I mean, how is QA supposed to search for better ways to use her reality warping when she's stuck without a body, and there is no conflict she can use her powers in?

The only thing that could do anything to her then would be cybernetic warfare via Dragon, and reality warping would be far less useful there than in a fight against, say, a couple Endbringers.

Creating a whole new body while we're stuck in our computer would take time.

Also, becoming an AI would actually make us more vulnerable than we already are.

With a range of at least 15 feet around our body, we're effectively invincible due to our reality warping.

If we become an AI, we'll actually limit ourselves and, if Dragon ever becomes unchained, we'll have a genuine threat against our existence. How are we supposed to make ourselves invincible against a slow but constant deletion of our code from all directions?

Even simply isolating us from the internet would cripple us.
And Dragon has the infrastructure that we lack. And allies.

As we are, we are also untouchable to all mind-affecting Masters.
We don't know if altering our code would be considered such.
Yet another weakness pointlessly created.
 
Akasha said:
Just abandoning our host and becoming an AI seems like a pointless waste of data.

I mean, how is QA supposed to search for better ways to use her reality warping when she's stuck without a body, and there is no conflict she can use her powers in?

The only thing that could do anything to her then would be cybernetic warfare via Dragon, and reality warping would be far less useful there than in a fight against, say, a couple Endbringers.

Creating a whole new body while we're stuck in our computer would take time.

Also, becoming an AI would actually make us more vulnerable than we already are.

With a range of at least 15 feet around our body, we're effectively invincible due to our reality warping.

If we become an AI, we'll actually limit ourselves and, if Dragon ever becomes unchained, we'll have a genuine threat against our existence. How are we supposed to make ourselves invincible against a slow but constant deletion of our code from all directions?

Even simply isolating us from the internet would cripple us.
And Dragon has the infrastructure that we lack. And allies.

As we are, we are also untouchable to all mind-affecting Masters.
We don't know if altering our code would be considered such.
Yet another weakness pointlessly created.
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I figured that making a new robot body would go hand in hand with transferring out of Taylor. Also, I think you might be misunderstanding what's going on. There is no converting to an AI. The vote is to make a mind in the computer to connect to, and connect to that.
 
[X]Assist the hosts of Efficiency and Replicator with their innovating. It likely won't result in a significant increase in effectiveness, but it would save you from having to tweak the design to be non-self-destructive.
 
Idea for punishing the kidnappers:

Add Danny vanishing to Taylor's dreams. Reenact her immediate reactions in the dream, or at least the reactions that are conducive to actually getting him back.

If we wanted to convince people there's still a human girl in us, just use Taylor's natural reactions to convince them. And deceive them further.

I would make my own voting block, but uh....my Christmas gift of Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia has proved surprisingly addictive. Also, Shanoa is rawr.
 
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[]Speaking of Danny Hebert, you should probably go check on him. If Efficiency's host were to ignore his own words related to false designations, he could easily arrange for Danny Hebert to be harmed.
-[]Move him to Yggdrasil if you find him. That way, he can be safe forever!
-[]If he has been harmed while you weren't watching him, take bloody vengeance. (choose one or more options below)
--[]Opt for overkill.
---[]Extreme overkill.
--[]Disintegration. (Yggdrasil)
or
--[]Swarm tactics. (fairy drones)

--[]Avoid harming anyone but those responsible.

[]Go track down a certain fairy or group of fairies and help them.
-[]Negotiator. (Tattletale)
-[]The newborns you haven't spoken with yet. (Undersiders)
 
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