- Location
- Canada
Hmm... nah. They know what they're getting in to, after all.
Taylor Varga (Worm/Luna Varga)
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- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Toledo
Yet another Varga color mistake.
- Location
- Existance
This is fairly hypocritical, considering they're discussing a handlebar sized collection of multiple vehicles that only works at all and doesn't fall apart because of Taylor's efforts, not hers.
At this point it's stretching the imagination that she hasn't started killing the drivers or at least firing at the trucks. She's been nothing but incredibly frustrated and annoyed by these people, she's hardly a restrained sort of person, and she definitely has the means to go on the offensive.
Then there's the question of how they're following, or finding, her in the first place. She's a random person in a random car going to random places across a large expanse of land. Stumbling across her one or two times makes sense, sure, but I think you might have prolonged the joke a bit much.
It could be made to work by anyone with the appropriate grounding in Family math; Vista can do it and others are making some progress along those lines as well having been studying; of course we haven't seen them fold space on screen.
She's trying to stay below the radar and you don't do that in the age of cellphones and GPS being in every single truck by firing on them or attacking drivers.
You can see straight down into every other vehicle's windows when you're driving a big rig. All it takes is one guy doing so and using the secure band to report back for the whole damn company to know exactly where she is and then Antonio can direct the trucks to keep eyes on her. Some trucking companies have hundreds of trucks; the one I worked with for a bit had 30x 18 wheeler rigs and at least a dozen small rigs and it was a small organization that only hauled in three states.
One of the chicken companies around here hires out haulage to six or eight different small companies and has work for every truck every day. Walmart has 6,100 trucks on the road every day, Fedex has 60,000 ... You see where I'm going with this? It depends on exactly how big a haulage concern is for how much territory they can cover; Emerald Isle is backed by Antonio so they likely don't lack in funds, trucks or drivers.
There's also the point that truckers are generally known to communicate across company lines. How many trucks that aren't green have been able to see her as she passed them, and happily informed the nearest Emerald Isle truck?
That too; on long haul drives talking to people is sometimes the only thing you can do to break up the fookin' monotony and stay awake.
- Location
- Existance
Seeing as the last chapter specifically calls out the Varga's matter creation as something no one else will ever be able to do, and that's the only reason why her things don't screw up like regular Tinkertech as she's complaining about Armsmaster's, your 'explanation' falls a little short. Armsmaster's not going to have parts breaking on him if his own things are borderline literally unbreakable either. And regardless, even if Vectura was the one doing the math, which she's not as far as I'm aware, it's still not her actual work.
Yes, because these are the only options available to Shadow Stalker.
In addition, that just ignores the fact that she's not staying under the radar. Restraint goes out the window when you're being tracked down every day, and when someone finds her she's already past the point she needs to keep her head down.
How do these random people keep recognising her through whatever disguise she's wearing from whatever angle they see her from? Why are they scrutinizing literally every single black driver in every car they see in a general area? How are there not a dozen false alarms reporting her to be travelling to X when she's actually slipped past and gone to Y?
And maybe it's just me, because I'll freely admit I've never sat up in a truck before, but...really? Being up that high let's you get a clear view of someone's face through the back window of a car? Through the driver side window? For half a second through the front going the opposite way? Because while I've never been in a truck my entire working life has been around them in some way, and the down-to-up view of truck drivers has never been that clear while stationary, let alone while moving.
I'm in a car right now, parked next to a truck, and I can't even see the passenger side window without bending down a bit, and that's the passenger side. Seems to me you'd have an easier time of it looking for her from the seat of a car than a truck, since all that would take is turning your head slightly.
- Location
- Kansas
I'm more worried about the Naga-form's laugh, you know that annoying one.
- Location
- Ukraine
With such prominent features, most men won't pay attention to it but will be enthralled by... erm... ah yes, "eyes".
She's probably talking about how Armsmaster's stuff simply isn't as reliable as hers is to start with; Armsmaster packs a lot more things into one item than it can reliably hold and there are tradeoffs involved. IIRC he was rebuilding his halberd earlier in the fic to get something less than 3 percent increase in something. As Squealer she built stuff out of scrap that could compete on the same level. Sure, the Varga's matter creation helps her build stuff that's more awesome, which I'm not denying but for the omnivehicles it's the space expansion that allows her to pack everything in.
She uses her powers and he lives or sees her sabotaging a truck or whatever other crazy shit she did long enough to get a single message out after he's seen her (and her powers were broadcast all over the television IIRC - and even if they haven't the PRT ENE was full of leaks and Antonio damn sure knew who she was and what her powers were) all he has to do is broadcast on an open channel where she is right now and she'll have a major manhunt on her hands instead of a random trucking company that seems to always show up around her.
I don't recall her taking the time to actually build a disguise and she's been televised after she escaped PRT custody IIRC or if not remember Emerald Isle is one of Antonio's affiliates and PRT ENE leaked like a sieve.
Peering down into the cars is a lot easier than peering up into the truck. It all depends on angles and what's in the way, but it's not only her face it's the fact that her behavior is getting more and more erratic every time she sees an Emerald Isle truck that also helps identifying her.
Jadesteele
Out of my Mind - Back in 5 Minutes
- Location
- half-way between 'Crazy' And 'Eccentric'
Of course, it's primary coloration is white, so the empire might like that...
On the other hand, her new friend tends to freak out Family flyers, especially members who breath fire...
On the other hand, her new friend tends to freak out Family flyers, especially members who breath fire...
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- Location
- Not where I want to be
Actually that's just one device with one purpose doing one thing. It's a hardlight projector. Nothing more, nothing less. Armsmaster puts dozens to hundreds of subsystems into his gear. All Vectura does is load different programs into the computer controlling the hardlight projectors. She doesn't use the computer to do anything else nor are there other subsystems.
Now if she needed attachments or hardware modifications to load the extra forms, that'd be comparable.
- Location
- The State of Denial
Not only are the suits sterile to prevent Nilbog oopsies, but there are no 'naughty bits' on the current female models. Of course, with their healing tentacle abilities, it would not surprise me to see Metis and Ianthe cuddling up to a new baby lizard one day, because life... life finds a way.
The Amy: I swear I did not do that. I'm not ready to be a grandmother!
- Location
- england
...did you just...Just a lizard? Could be worse. I've heard tell someone is carelessly leaving Guyver units just lying around all over the place...
...wow!
Thanks, Ed.
Also, if anyone wants to use it as a basis, I did a Guyver!Taylor one-shot that could use expanding...
Since we were there anyway.
I also did a Guyver!HarryPotter one-shot. Used the same opening...
It occurs to me that if some ability to create and control Family fractally dimensional shenanigans could be built into the biosuits, this could potentially be used to create a spacewarp link between operator and bio-suit.
This would allow each operator full time access to the enhanced brain in the construct and allow remote control which would be a fruitful avenue for trolling and confusing the issue, not to mention the actual link between operator and "Family Cousin".
Given the existence of the spacewarp link and the ability of the bio construct to control same and to create others, this could potentially allow a variant of the pseudo-teleport ability.
As well as an easier way to get into the bio construct in the first place.
Other possibilities abound.
Two that immediately spring to my somewhat diseased mind are...
This would allow each operator full time access to the enhanced brain in the construct and allow remote control which would be a fruitful avenue for trolling and confusing the issue, not to mention the actual link between operator and "Family Cousin".
Given the existence of the spacewarp link and the ability of the bio construct to control same and to create others, this could potentially allow a variant of the pseudo-teleport ability.
As well as an easier way to get into the bio construct in the first place.
Other possibilities abound.
Two that immediately spring to my somewhat diseased mind are...
- allow emulation of totally overboard changer abilities by keeping alternate bio constructs tucked away in folded space and brought out as desired...
- emulation of matter creation by communicating via a space warp to Varga and him passing back the created item via space warp (could be distance limited?)
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
Well, the onion bin is usually kept topped off, and while they can't create EDM foam bones for the skeleton, the biosuits do have the borosilicate extrusion capability that could probably let them pull off a discount version of the same thing.... But with their primary purpose as an augmentation organism, the child would come equipped with a non-fractally augmented pouch. Plus, I would expect the "baby" to have been formed at full size, since they wouldn't see a purpose for a unit that can't accommodate a normal operator.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
Excuse me if someone already asked this and i just overlooked it, but does anyone have any idea what happened to Crawler?
I can faintly remember him being on the way to Brockton Bay after the whole S9 got blown to bits and haven't really seen it mentioned after that.
Ignore me if i'm being dumb
Crawler obviously took Wrong Turn At Albuquerque
More seriously, he is going to BB underground, and while he can tunnel pretty well, it seems unlikely his consistent speed is that high.
Crawler was mumbling something about a reptilian cape on the east coast in Jake and Jack... No guarantee he even knows where they actually are; he doesn't have a humanoid form and it's understandably hard for him to get much news without the rest of the S9. Jack was sure he could be tracked by the news as well, so it's very doubtful he's tunneling.
Without the support of the other S9 members Crawler is much more easily dealt with and there's no telling whether he's been dealt with off screen or is in some form of hibernation or just wandering aimlessly. Most people on the planet can't navigate without a GPS these days though so he could very well have taken that wrong turn you're talking about.
Without the support of the other S9 members Crawler is much more easily dealt with and there's no telling whether he's been dealt with off screen or is in some form of hibernation or just wandering aimlessly. Most people on the planet can't navigate without a GPS these days though so he could very well have taken that wrong turn you're talking about.
- Location
- Not where I want to be
With the S9 killed, Cauldron has very little reason to leave Crawler be; he's probably been captured by Eidolon or Contessa by now.
On another note, it's about time that Kaiju returns to BB and complains to Raptaur about not getting enough onions. Afterwards there won't be any questions about where tons of onions disappear to. It might give certain people the impression that the Family has become active now because of a food shortage at home; which would probably calm them down a bit, now that I think about it.
On another note, it's about time that Kaiju returns to BB and complains to Raptaur about not getting enough onions. Afterwards there won't be any questions about where tons of onions disappear to. It might give certain people the impression that the Family has become active now because of a food shortage at home; which would probably calm them down a bit, now that I think about it.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
I think with the addition of the fractal storage to the biosuits the Family now have an ideal way to deal with Sophia... Stick her in an immortal, nearly indestructible, pink-furred tribble - with speech morphed into tribble sounds.
- Location
- Barcelona, Catalunya, EU (for now)
Oh, that explains Weird Al's song, Albuquerque. Here, have it, but you need to be a lizard to make sense of the... lyrics?Crawler obviously took Wrong Turn At Albuquerque
- Location
- Launceston, Tasmania
There is one very distinctive feature that would be VERY visible from a trucks point of view...
She has a very bad (and possibly infected by now) burn on her wrist/hand. Steering wheels are very visible when looking down from a truck as you go past.
All that needs to be seen to start of with is the bandaged wrist against a dark skin and they would then take a closer look.
Once she is seen in an area, almost every truck driver would be on the lookout for the bandaged wrist and be reporting it on the CB network.