The Eldritch One (Celestial Forge)

Caseworker going in the red
When are the surgeons moving in to get her kidneys?
Cause she doesn't have enough money in the world to pay that settlement
 
They killed Sophia's family and her family didn't deserve to be killed. When Taylor tested different methods in the alternate universe, did she ever check to see if Sophia's family were affected? That's very careless, and people died from it.

Well...yeah, she was directly told that Sophia's little brother was killed in a forked timeline after outing her, then proceeded to out Sophia again in the same manner, but for real this time.

She definitely has blood on her hands now.
 
Y'all are both misremembering; Taylor didn't actually die in those timelines and Taylor didn't seem to think anything at all of Sophia's family.

In a fke timeline, that she exposed Stalker, SS came to her house which ended up with Taylor's death, in one of the first tries to expose SS, Her handler was about to kill Taylor, she did not die only because the timeline ended first.

As for the whole blood on her hands, this Taylor thinks that the trio tried to kill her (from the trio's perspective it ws problably a prank but it was still attempted murder). Right now she is cting to preserve her life, which is unrelted to being a hero or villain. Her ctions may be wrong, but she is choosing her life nd that of her father above those of her tormentors.
 
Environmental Tolerance IV (Essential Body Modification Supplement) (400CP) (200CP)
You are not damaged by hazardous environments, though this does not provide you a method of propulsion.
I: You no longer need to breathe and do not suffer from temperatures between -100C and +100C (-150F to +200F). You are immune to most radiation (up to about 1,000 mSv; the amount experienced during unshielded exposure to space).
II: As tier I, plus you do not suffer from temperatures below 1500C (+2700F) or the effects of pressure lower than 1000 atmospheres (including the effects of vacuum). You are immune to the effects of radiation at all levels.
III: As tier II, but the protection extends to any non-magical environmental source.
IV: As tier III, but the protection extends to magical environments such as energy planes.
Why the last two are crossed if it's the Tier IV?
 
I wonder how many powers it will take before she realises that she is mainly a tinker
Considering how many non-tinker perks are in the CF, probably never. The weirder perks will always be more obvious, while the tinker perks will kinda just blend together, especially if she gets a broad or strong one early.

More likely, she'll come to the conclusion that her one tinker power is stupidly versatile.
 
I'm pretty sure this isn't a thing she can do retroactively.

If memory serves qualified immunity is what law enforcement gets 'in the course of their duties' so Piggot is just doing something legal that says our agent Smith wasn't performing her duties for over a year.

It doesn't particularly matter if it can't be done IRL it's happening here in fiction.

In a fke timeline, that she exposed Stalker, SS came to her house which ended up with Taylor's death

No no, she didn't actually die there either. Just spent multiple hours bleeding, in pain, and in a cramped hiding space.

I wonder how many powers it will take before she realises that she is mainly a tinker

Uhh, quite a while. I prerolled quite a bit, and she doesn't have any building perks yet. She'll have a walking speed of 3,000 MPH though!
 
If memory serves qualified immunity is what law enforcement gets 'in the course of their duties' so Piggot is just doing something legal that says our agent Smith wasn't performing her duties for over a year.

It doesn't particularly matter if it can't be done IRL it's happening here in fiction.
As a extension of Dereliction Of Duty?
Uhh, quite a while. I prerolled quite a bit, and she doesn't have any building perks yet. She'll have a walking speed of 3,000 MPH though!
*Googles* Well with a running speed of about six Miles Per Hour for the average person and a Slimes ability to apparently have twenty times as much of that as a equivalent person she should already have a running speed of about a hundred and twenty, with that going up quickly with training or at a dead-sprint, and a walking speed of about eighteen Miles Per Hour.
 
They killed Sophia's family and her family didn't deserve to be killed. When Taylor tested different methods in the alternate universe, did she ever check to see if Sophia's family were affected? That's very careless, and people died from it.
Yes. She knew the Empire attacked there and went and found Sophia lived there and knew her brother was killed.
 
This is definitely a villainous Taylor. I don't mean worm's Villain/Hero crap, I mean in the classical sense. Selfish, uncaring of those she doesn't care about, etc.

I see her more as the Fate/Stay type of "Hero." You try killing me or mine? I'll kill you and yours. Hero and Villain really doesn't come into things. It's more how legendary an impression she makes.

Her dad may be miffed. Taylor at this point doesn't care. I'm more backing Taylor in theory on that. Sophia was shown to have backup that would try the lethal options on the slightest whim/excuse. The only drawback to putting Sophia wasn't for Sophia's family to die. It was for her to be still loose running around.

No one other than Sophia cared about her family. Then again only Taylor cares about Danny.

The E88 must be loving this. They don't have to chase Sophia at all. They just need to use Sophia as an example of what black folks do to white girls.

I loved how Assault was worried about his position due to Sophia's actions.
 
I see her more as the Fate/Stay type of "Hero." You try killing me or mine? I'll kill you and yours. Hero and Villain really doesn't come into things. It's more how legendary an impression she makes.

Murdering two innocents unnecessarily doesn't make a hero. Not even in Fate. It only really becomes societally acceptable in times of war, and even then they try to avoid civilians. Taylor never bothered to try. Never cared to try.

You can dress it up as much as you want, but from both Emiya and Emiya Alter (mister "kill 100 to save 1000"), would take the opportunity to save unrelated people from his killings. At least he would check.
 
It's amazing how quickly a CF story moves when the author doesn't write a a protagonist that's as passive as lichen.


Cool story 😎

I really appreciate just the wtf reaction at all the weird shit the CF throws at Taylor.
 
I see her more as the Fate/Stay type of "Hero." You try killing me or mine? I'll kill you and yours. Hero and Villain really doesn't come into things. It's more how legendary an impression she makes.

Her dad may be miffed. Taylor at this point doesn't care. I'm more backing Taylor in theory on that. Sophia was shown to have backup that would try the lethal options on the slightest whim/excuse. The only drawback to putting Sophia wasn't for Sophia's family to die. It was for her to be still loose running around.

No one other than Sophia cared about her family. Then again only Taylor cares about Danny.

The E88 must be loving this. They don't have to chase Sophia at all. They just need to use Sophia as an example of what black folks do to white girls.

I loved how Assault was worried about his position due to Sophia's actions.
I don't know if I would call Sophia's family "hers" in that sense.
Murdering two innocents unnecessarily doesn't make a hero. Not even in Fate. It only really becomes societally acceptable in times of war, and even then they try to avoid civilians. Taylor never bothered to try. Never cared to try.

You can dress it up as much as you want, but from both Emiya and Emiya Alter (mister "kill 100 to save 1000"), would take the opportunity to save unrelated people from his killings. At least he would check.
Yeah but that's because he's reasonably functional; he's effective enough to plan and execute a plan with minimum casualties. Taylor is...Not effective. Or at least she's not efficient about what she does.
 
From what I've been able to determine it's mostly just a matter of public opinion as soon as there's a Jury involved.
Immunity means the jury can't render a valid guilty verdict on the question, so the judge decides whether she qualified. Piggot, as her boss, can strip Smith of qualified immunity for future actions by relieving her of duty, but whether she's covered for past actions depends on what her duties were at the time and it's too late for Piggot to revoke those.
 
Immunity means the jury can't render a valid guilty verdict on the question, so the judge decides whether she qualified. Piggot, as her boss, can strip Smith of qualified immunity for future actions by relieving her of duty, but whether she's covered for past actions depends on what her duties were at the time and it's too late for Piggot to revoke those.

Qualified immunity actually means that the police are not held responsible for violating someone's rights unless it was clearly established.

(Which may be needed if the police are truly in unusual situations where there's no way to know how a court will rule. Unfortunately the standard for "clearly established" is ridiculously biased in favor of the police.)
 
Environmental Tolerance IV (Essential Body Modification Supplement) (400CP) (200CP)
You are not damaged by hazardous environments, though this does not provide you a method of propulsion.
I: You no longer need to breathe and do not suffer from temperatures between -100C and +100C (-150F to +200F). You are immune to most radiation (up to about 1,000 mSv; the amount experienced during unshielded exposure to space).
II: As tier I, plus you do not suffer from temperatures below 1500C (+2700F) or the effects of pressure lower than 1000 atmospheres (including the effects of vacuum). You are immune to the effects of radiation at all levels.
III: As tier II, but the protection extends to any non-magical environmental source.
IV: As tier III, but the protection extends to magical environments such as energy planes.
Um, this can read as a little ambiguous. I would recommend an edit to spell out that it was Environmental Tolerance II that was bought, not IV, presumably due insufficient points being stored.

As it is currently written, another interpretation could be that such perks are bought with a discount but need to " charge up" to full effectiveness. Thus IV was bought, but initially only works at II level.
This is not yet contradicted by the story either, as inertia of self was bought whilst Taylor was unconscious, and thus had time to charge.
 
*Thinks with malicious intent* *Researches* Actually apparently anti-matter, or rather annihilated matter, "only" has a TNT-Equivalence of roughly twenty-one-billion-to-one, or a ratio of one to two-point-one-to-ten-to-the-tenth-power (2.1e+10 or 21e+9) or twice as much as ten orders of magnitude, so, if I'm reading this unit-conversion correctly, that means that a single Microgram of Antimatter is equivalent to twenty-one Kilograms of TNT.

Wait, no, twice that because the Matter that it's mutually annihilating with would also contribute. So forty-two Kilograms which looks a bit more like this.


Theoretically it would be possible to fire a gun using, if I did the math on orders of magnitude and converting between Grams and Grains correctly, sixteen Picograms of Antimatter.

I'd figure out how much you would need for each piston-ignition of a internal-combustion-engine but figuring out the TNT-Equivalency of fuel, the amount of fuel injected into each piston for each combustion-cycle, and then converting that into the Metric System is being a bitch so I'm not going to do it.

Edit: based on that TNT-to-Antimatter ratio I found and the Joules produced in a engine, and how much of that is lost when converted to torque, and dividing that between several pistons I get a number somewhere between seven and zero-point-two Picograms, which is 1e-12 or Ten-to-the-negative-twelfth-power Grams, of Antimatter. That's very few Grams of fuel.

Edit: also I found a unit-converter able to convert between Picograms and a unit used to measure the weight of individual atoms, in a way that really seems like it counts neutrons worth of atomic weight, and from there was able to calculate that a Picogram of Carbon comes out to about fifty-billion individual atoms.

Now that's Carbon atoms and if you're using Anti-Protons instead of Anti-Particles, as you bloody-well should, that gets multiplied by twelve, or thereabouts if you want to be precise enough to account for a Electron's worth of mass, to get you something like three-hundred-billion Anti-Protons, paired with the same number of Protons for a total of six-hundred-billion Protons worth of particle/anti-particle annihilation, per piston-stroke.

To be fair while the energy is impressive the form is less so, you are going to get a lot of it as gamma radiation and neutrinos making the event significantly less explosive.

Positrons or anti-electrons without high kinetic energy produce gamma radiation in photon pairs and more rarely neutrinos which despite coming in neutrino and antineutrino pairs basically do nothing aside from maybe letting someone far away with a sensitive detector know that something is happening.
If you increase kinetic energy significantly then for a while you simply get more neutrinos but eventually you should get heavier particles that will more readily deposit their energy into the surrounding environment and/or annihilate to produce their own less impressive products.

Anti-protons during annihilation readily produce more interesting things due to being large composite particles.

Generally one of the quarks will meet its opposite counterpart and the annihilation usually releases a pair of Z bosons which will likely decay into their own particle and antiparticle pairs.

This annihilation can even come from contact with a neutron.

The loss of a quark from each side releases a significant quantity of energy normally supported between the original three quarks while the remaining 4 rearrange themselves into mesons and potentially experience further annihilation.

How many mesons are produced depends how how much kinetic energy is initially put in, which quarks first make contact as different quarks have different masses, and a little luck.

Heavier mesons may first decay into lighter mesons but they are all unstable under all observed conditions so far and will ultimately produce more gamma rays, neutrinos, and free flying leptons and anti-leptons.

Leptons include electrons, muons, and tauons though only the electrons are stable and the other two will release neutrinos and in one or two steps decay into electrons.

Down quarks are much heavier than up quarks.
Mesons are unstable particles made of equal parts quarks and antiquarks.

Assuming the normal atom has more than a single proton and has plenty of neutrons then it will almost certainly be destabilised and release some energy as it decays.

Needless to say, while annihilation of even a small amount of anti-matter will produce a lot of heat, a lot of energy will lost as free flying gamma rays and neutrinos.
 
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