I rather you keep the shard communication silent.
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Splintered (Worm QA-Quest)
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Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
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Both. It's not nearly all of them, but it's enough to lead to some serious identity confusion.
That wasn't a seperate vote?
I think I goofed.
You mean the Thinkers who literally can't get shit about us on account of hearing a certain song whenever they're near us?
They'd be terrible ambassadors with all the constant screaming.
And I'd like the communication to
be verbal and for QA to differentiate between shards as hosts.
NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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Well Terror Drone 7 seemed pretty sure that there was about 15 left.
Beyogi
and a fairy
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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.
-[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.
Quantumsheep
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Ah. I thought we were dong both, as most people have been including both of them, but that does make sense. And there's no rush anyway.
As for addressing hosts as their shards and vice versa? I think free form works best. Whatever flows or is funniest in any given scene. Hosts being aware of what we're saying to shards can be great, but so can talking about their dirty laundry behind their backs. In this AU the shards are fairly clearly distinct sapient entities from their hosts, but the very nature of the bond means that there's significant identity overlap, and the extent of it varies from pair to pair, so we can get away with referring to them separately or together depending on the phrasing and topic. Also, we're hardly under constraints to be consistent.
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Well she was predicting Zion suicideing not the end of the Cycle. Right now the Cycle is broken as hell.
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Them being mutually exclusive does make sense. I mean QA-chan can't really go over and taunt Queen Objective if Taylor's awake now can she? In fact any of the options, besides Taylor continuing to sleep, would easily cause enough distractions to prevent that from occurring.
We Just Write
Blatantly Plural
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Why can't we try waking up Host just after talking to QO? After all, multitasking is one of the things we're good at.
I'd rather we only start getting Shard and Host mixed up if we merge with Host.
sainen
Elder Lich
I assumed that waking Taylor would happen some time after the righteous Taunting of QO
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The communication should be out loud, and she should have problems remembering that they are separate entities.
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Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
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The options are mostly mutually exclusive. That, and no form of interacting with Host has gotten even 1/3rd of voters to go for a given option.
Hell, specifically choosing to leave Taylor asleep is almost (2 votes below) tied with the wake-up-merging option. And people shouldn't even need a vote for keeping her asleep.
On that note: Voting is CLOSED. Winners are:
[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]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.
Leet interlude might be coming next. Depends on if I find it easier to write insane troll logic/alien mindset (QA) or Leet trying to back away slowly. Either way, PHO interlude comes after.
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Yeah, I also didn't realize we were doing either hand control back to Host or taunt QO. Not sure why we can't do both though. Try to hand control back over, but upon failing and merging, go hang out with other shards/hosts and taunt QO while the other shards/hosts watch. Would be nice to have an audience and the creativity gained from Taylor gives you all sorts of ideas as to how to best taunt QO.
Upon "realizing" you've interrupted Adept and QO's hosts wedding (them in the middle of one of their themed crimes), you try to be halpful to them by presiding over their wedding, which gets legally recognized because no one wants to piss off the cape that just took down an Endbringer single-handedly. And the videos of Uber and Leet forcing themselves to kiss each other gets made into an animated gif and used as a profile pic for many people on PHO.
As far as talking to the shards out loud or not, I say mix it up as to whatever gives the most humor at the time.
Upon "realizing" you've interrupted Adept and QO's hosts wedding (them in the middle of one of their themed crimes), you try to be halpful to them by presiding over their wedding, which gets legally recognized because no one wants to piss off the cape that just took down an Endbringer single-handedly. And the videos of Uber and Leet forcing themselves to kiss each other gets made into an animated gif and used as a profile pic for many people on PHO.
As far as talking to the shards out loud or not, I say mix it up as to whatever gives the most humor at the time.
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Unless Mother was brought back from the Dead by Accident.
Seeing as a full Entity could not do it on purpose, we certainly can't do it by accident.
We are going to have to reinvent the wheel here people.
Alivaril
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But no, QA can't do it by accident. It'd take quite a bit of work.
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That is what I meant by reinventing the wheel. We are probably going to have to break Zion down for parts because he is too specialized and build a new Entity.
The horrifying thing is that since Scion is that depressed he would be willing to do so since even as he might die, the cycle will continue and all that he has worked for is not wasted.
And it is perfectly IC for Entities. When two unrelated Entities meet the weaker generally allows itself to be cannibalized by the stronger.
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Not... really? Go grab Harvest. Have a chat with it. Go grab Queen Shaper. Gather up the shards and poke Mother's body.
The only reason Scion can't do it himself is because of the nature of the cycle. He literally cannot gather the shards without his partner. QA's unique circumstances should allow for a... while I hesitate to call it easy, it certainly wouldn't be difficult to do. Just mildly time consuming.
Eden's body has already been butchered by Cauldron which has lead to the improper bonding of many Shards including Core Shards. I do not think Eden is recoverable. Even if she were it could be argued that the two Entity Cycle has been shown to be too flawed to be permitted to continue, after all it was blind chance that allowed QA to act independently
Nah just put a redundancy to always keep any shards needed to do the cycle.
The reason the manton limit and shard restrictions exist is partly because Entites learned from experience that letting hosts have access to a shards full power is a terrible idea.
This is exactly the kind of thing that will go on the cycle checklist.
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So? We know that Harvest works just fine on improperly bonded shards and core ones.
That's fine, and revamping the cycle is a perfectly reasonable course of action. The Entities would even go for it, since they have no ego.
I would argue that such a fundamental change would require abandoning the specialization of paired Entities.
