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Splintered (Worm QA-Quest)

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[X]Leave it as it is. Terror is a legitimate weapon for demoralizing your enemies. Being known as a possible future terror drone can only inspire more of that in your enemies and confidence in your allies.
-[X] But set their minds at ease: "I am far greater than a mere Terror Drone could ever hope to be." There. That should help.
-[X] Find out what a Jack Slash is. 2-15 years is hardly any time for data gathering!

[X]Hand back control over to Host. She responded really well to the dreaming and you think it's possible to do so now.
-[X]Um... oops? No, wait, you didn't mean to do tha-
--[X] Mind merge, QA's adorifyingness augmented with Taylor's human creativity.

[X]Head out to chat with the local shards and their hosts.
-[X] Find Queen Shaper and several shards at a school. Draft them to go with you to do stuff. You have human creativity now without having to rely solely on host, so it's your job as QA to guide the other shards.
-[X]You just became the first shard to kill Terror-Drone #7. Time to go rub this fact in Queen Objective's face while Queen Shaper and new shards witness your awesomeness.
--[X] Recall host's memory of rumors hosts of Adept and Queen Shaper may be romantically involved.
---[X] It's obvious from the various props and costumes Adept and Queen Shaper's hosts are using to play with the nonhosts around that you've interrupted their wedding. Being a magnanimous Fairy Queen, you tell Adept and Queen Shaper's hosts that you will perform the marriage ceremony for them and they should feel honored by QA's generosity.
----[X] Other hosts and nonhosts who are around take phone videos of ceremony for posting to PHO later as Adept and Queen Shaper's hosts are too trilled/terrified to tell QA no.
 
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You know, for PHO interlude... And an interlude in general - this kind of event (and revelations involved) pretty much necessitates people like heads of state, major religious figures and heads of national parahuman agencies making statements. And not everyone knows about PHO. And not everyone has internet. What I am saying is that, while it could be fun to see POTUS posting on PHO in that thread, stuff like brief views of video briefings, public announcements and such would look very appropriate if there's an interlude coming.

Also, I wonder if UN (and USA) will officially recognize Titania as a head of her own sovereign state. Ie would officially recognize her as a queen and ruling monarch of her tree / Brockton Bay / fairies. Because she's clearly crazy, is capable of going Nilbog, and, on the other hand, already destroyed one Endbringer. So, appeasing her, by granting her recognized title and such, could occur to politicians.
 
Oh yeah. Based on what she has done, Titania will probably be even more terrifying than the Fairy Queen. She was terrifying for being like the boogeyman of parahumanity but now that is augmented by the general fear of living natural disasters and heightened even more by the fact that unlike Endbringers she has no attack cycle and does whatever the fuck she wants.
 
I expect reactions to vary between 'kill her now before she kills us all' to 'give her whatever she may want', including 'this should become Titania day', 'we should all worship her', 'who cares if she is crazy, she just saved us'. There may be separate threads for 'Stop the apocalypse', 'Was that really The Simurgh posting', 'The Simurgh is dead!!!', 'Jack Slash will start the apocalypse', 'Endbringers or Terror Drones?' and 'Possible new Endbringer'.

It could be interesting if this results in opposing groups trying to 'kill the potential endbringer' fighting against those trying to 'protect our savior' all happening round a QA which pays no attention to it all.
 
Mannan said:
Oh yeah. Based on what she has done, Titania will probably be even more terrifying than the Fairy Queen. She was terrifying for being like the boogeyman of parahumanity but now that is augmented by the general fear of living natural disasters and heightened even more by the fact that unlike Endbringers she has no attack cycle and does whatever the fuck she wants.
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Of course she has not attacked anything except the Simurgh yet and she has gone out of her way to keep those PRT agents alive for all their presence displeased her somehow. Diplomacy won't look impossible.
 
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Mannan said:
Oh yeah. Based on what she has done, Titania will probably be even more terrifying than the Fairy Queen. She was terrifying for being like the boogeyman of parahumanity but now that is augmented by the general fear of living natural disasters and heightened even more by the fact that unlike Endbringers she has no attack cycle and does whatever the fuck she wants.
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But... we're halping!
 
Erehwon said:
It could be interesting if this results in opposing groups trying to 'kill the potential endbringer' fighting against those trying to 'protect our savior' all happening round a QA which pays no attention to it all.
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Their is nothing in this world that can go around the defenses that QA has set up. Her clothes? They are as tough as an endbringers, bear in mind that no one has ever broken through them. Her body also automatically reflects all force that can actually harm her, and all non-organic matter simply phases through her making most tinkertech worthless, not to mention the fact that people need to go through her reality alteration field and that thinkers do not work on her at all.
 
DragonParadox said:
Of course she has not attacked anything except the Simurgh yet and she has gone out of her keep those PRT agents alive for all their presence displeased her somehow. Diplomacy won't look impossible.
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Indeed. I am quite serious that I expect her to be hastily recognized as a Queen of her own kingdom, with official ambassadors (all high level thinkers, of course) sent to her "court" to try and negotiate.
 
Yog said:
Indeed. I am quite serious that I expect her to be hastily recognized as a Queen of her own kingdom, with official ambassadors (all high level thinkers, of course) sent to her "court" to try and negotiate.
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I wonder if we can have a real court? Invite parahumans who wish to do so to swear allegiance and the non-Hosts can be the peasants. I think we could manage to ensure a standard of living that would get people to stay or immigrate

That would be fun for the world to deal with.
 
DragonParadox said:
I wonder if we can have a real court? Invite parahumans who wish to do so to swear allegiance and the non-Hosts can be the peasants. I think we could manage to ensure a standard of living that would get people to stay or immigrate

That would be fun for the world to deal with.
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Well cauldron did want feudalism.
 
For future reference: would people prefer if QA talked to shards out loud most of the time? And if so, should she avoid treating the host/the shard as two separate entities?

In other news, I just decided to make this while waiting for voting to end. (35 minutes from now)

"Hello, fairies. Look at your host, now back to me, now back at your host, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me, but if you stopped trying to kill him and switched to helping out, he could act like he's me. Look down, back up, where are you? You're on a boat with the host your host could act like. What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it's two newborns pursuing that concept you love. Look again. The newborns are now monarchs. Anything is possible when your host acts like me and not a scrub. I'm on a whale."
*whistling*
 
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sainen said:
thank you, though I find that sort of disappointing as I feel Merging is the option that would lead to maximum shenanigans, and that you'd pull it off quite well
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If anything it could give us a new view of humanity, maybe even convince us to try to save them from the cycle.
 
Alivaril said:
For future reference: would people prefer if QA talked to shards out loud most of the time? And if so, should she avoid treating the host/the shard as two separate entities?
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Well, I personally would say that QA should talk to shards at least a bit outloud, so people could guess that she's talking to the shards. As to two separate entities... I would say she is smart enough to recognize the two as separate, but treat them as deeply connected. So, yeah, treat them as separate entities, at least to an extent. Because that's what the purpose of the hosts is, isn't it?
DragonParadox said:
I wonder if we can have a real court? Invite parahumans who wish to do so to swear allegiance and the non-Hosts can be the peasants. I think we could manage to ensure a standard of living that would get people to stay or immigrate

That would be fun for the world to deal with.
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Well, I expect at least some people to want to swear fealty immediately.
 
[X]Delete it and purge all records. Even if you don't know who Jack Slash is, if Terror Drone #7 wanted to say something about him as her last words, odds are it isn't anything good.

[X]Head out to chat with the local shards and their hosts.
-[X]You just became the first shard to kill Terror-Drone #7. Time to go rub this fact in Queen Objective's face.

[X] Keep Host asleep. This is a novel experience and will provide great data for later cycles.
 
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