I really don't see how the PRT is incompetent. Taylor is very much an Out of Context Problem in this Fic.
Sure. But
1)The fact she is an OOC problem doesn't mean everything she does is completely OOC.
2)The people testing her should react appropriately when Taylor demonstrates a brand new power with huge potential, not simply ignore it.
3)People with any brains who find they can't perform test X would not simply sit around waiting until they can perform the next test in the schedule, theytry and think of other wys to get the information, and consider how this new information affects the testing schedule. Simply ignoring it and moving on is a sign that either the people involved are incompetant morons, or the organization forbids any sort of initiative. Either way it translates to the organization being completely incompetent.
they're used to a single powerset,
Even if this was true, which it's very clearly NOT (Counter examples include Aegis, GG, Laserdream and Shielder, Lung, Legend, etc...) this would just make their testing even stupider, and not have anything to do with my points.
My point is basically mountains out of molehills in this case.
Maybe, but if they're incompetent in this case, it's because they are incompetent, not because of some OOC issue since all the incompetence is about things that should have been very much in context for them.

So they've probably decided 'you know what, next bout of testing for the matter transformation thing'.
That would be possible, except:
1)There was no mention of that much less anyone asking Taylor to come in for further testing.
2)Asking Taylor if she can repeat the transformation while conscious, would take a few seconds.
3)There were a number of tests they could have done while Taylor was out of it (testing if the effect wears off at range, testing the materials she transformed, various medical tests other than blood tests, etc...)
4)And most importantly - the issue isn't any specific stupidity. Even quite bright and competent people ocasionally act idiotically. The issue was that they kept acting idiotically again and again.
 
This was a nice chapter and it's great to see you writing more of this story, but I want to bring up something that nobody else has commented on yet.
It's fairly minor, but Danny calls Taylor "little owl" way too often and in situations where he really wouldn't call her that. I think he called her that at least four times, which is at least three too many. Moreover most of them take place when they're in public with heroes and PRT where he wouldn't be using a pet name for her.
As an aside calling her "little owl" feels more jarring in this story than in others because she's actually part fox, so referring to her as another animal is weird. Like I said this is a minor issue and overall this was a good chapter. I just wanted to bring it to your attention.
 
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I did like how Beardmaster and Ms.Gun where very clear in pointing out that this was excatly what the ward program was started for.

And ever one was noticing piggy over reacting.
 
Taylor isn't going to look older than she is, she's just going to be beautiful for her age. Like Emma or Victoria, though perhaps more so. *wiggles tails* its a grey area that I'm not going to elaborate too much on. Point is she's going to be model-worthy at the end. She's still going to look like a teenager, however. Though it may be that 'she looks eighteen' which I will point out isn't the same as being eighteen. As I said, this is a touchy subject and I'm going to have to handle it carefully.

She gains a passive bonus as part of one of her domains that wards off creepy stalkers and makes her more wholesome, she choose to have it running subconsciously until she is 21.

This gives her a permanent stranger effect where any compromising photos never turn out right and always have something blocking part of it, her costume morphs and stays classy without showing a a lot of skin also.

Finally, Danny as the father of a Goddess has gained God level Dad-glare to ward off boyfriends along with a magical shotgun that he has no idea how it always ends up in his hands when he is protecting his little girl from boys of all types.
 
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Glenn, thank you for joining us." Costa-Brown said with a nod as Piggot turned to him. "We were just going over the latest information on this latest parahuman in the Bay.
-why are the director and the head of pr involved in this? Having them dealing with Taylor is like having the CEO of a multi billion dollar company running every single interview personally. Taylor didn't do anything that would necessitate their involvement untill the storm, and on paper untill she was tested she really wasn't impressive.-
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-Given her jumping ability(putting a human sized hole in leather is not easy)seventy seems a bit tame-
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Ok. So we have seen our goddess get high.....what about rage? What can she do when being berserk? Or ravenously hungry?
 
"Pressurized water, hmm?" Taylor asked Inari, tapping a nail against her lip thoughtfully while looking at the plates. Well, they hadn't said she couldn't get closer to them, though they probably wanted to know how accurate she could be as well.

"I've seen it used for cutting before," Inari replied, scratching the dirt out of her fur. But that would require her to compress water, wouldn't it? She seemed to recall something in her science class about that being impossible, or at least very, very difficult.
Actually pressurized water cutters, like the one in Waterjet Channel on YouTube, works by using abrasive (usually sand) in the water. Pure water would have not much of cutting power, I don't think. Though pond water should have some sand / mud in it...
 
In that case they'd want to do tests about that, not simply ignore how Taylor transformed the stuff and go on with the scheduled tests. The point is - the only way the PRT's actions make sense if if they're incompetent idiots, and didn't bother thinking about stuff like "She can transform objects to a completely different form" and will be calling Taylor for additional tests once someone with two brain cells to rub together gets the report.
The problem is you need to prepare tests, especially for such esoteric capability. So not having test previously unknown power is plausible; not prepring to test it in the future perhaps less so.
 
I am most satisfied. By principle all foxy!Taylor must be inspected for the greater glory of vulpine fluffiness :3 All my yes here! <3
 
The PRT probably have a relatively standard physical testing set, that being strength, endurance, speed and possibly impact resistance along with a standard mental set, namely the puzzles mentioned. Those are likely easy to set up and are generally readily available at all branches. Basic medical, ala GP's office, doctor's surgery, school nurse or hospital outpatient's is probably commonly used as well, so once again it's likely to be ready to roll as soon as someone requests power testing.

The other area, actual brute rated medical tools, target range, tinker's workshop, etc, are likely things that have to be requested days or even weeks in advance depending on what's known and how mobile/local the testing tools are. From reading Taylor's testing, they used the onbase swimming pool for her hydrokinesis test – which they knew about due to their people watching her and probably had confirmed either by her, Inari, Danny or Carol when setting things up – not knowing at the time that she had the same issue as several 'wild animals' in that chlorine can get her high. That knocked them off course because they couldn't realistically test anything showing up whilst she was high because she'd have basically no control and no way of knowing what she did. There's probably notes made somewhere by Dr Chambers and her crew about things, but we as readers don't have access to that. Likewise, they knew about potential for lightning control or electrokinesis due to Battery and Vista hearing about it from Inari, they didn't know about the full storms thing. Once again, offscreen there were discusions that we didn't see due to following Taylor through her first use of her ability and getting swept up in the storm she called, then passing out due to that draining her.

The next bit we see is the directors meeting and Emily having an issue due to what they knew at the time, that meeting in itself didn't bring up what was done whilst Taylor was 'under the influence', potentially because matter rearranging and pyrokinesis were pretty minor compared to the 'hurricane from nowhere that shut down half the city' issue. We know that Taylor has other abilities, and if I recall Japanese myth right, standard kitsune have on average one special ability for each tail they have, so a nine-tailed kitsune or a kyuubi would have potentially 9+ main abilities, certainly she's got the potential for shape-shift, fairy lights/foxfire, mind mucking and illusions prior to taking divine abilities into account, but in story they're not around bar maybe foxfire - that could explain the needles spontaneous combustion while she was stoned.

The author decided to stop things there, and yes we can argue circles about what should happen, my personal vote is sometime in the next couple of chapters or if Taylor joins the Wards for some reason or another then they'll call her back in both to do the tests that got sidelined due to her being stone/unconscious/riding the storm, and to look at her other displayed abilities. Thing to note though is that Dr Chambers, Glenn and Piggot are side characters, ones we get POV on once in a while but not enough to see everything they're juggling. Taylor is our primary viewpoint and our protagonist, so most of what we know is filtered through her. She at the time of finishing the chapter is unaware of further testing and it's entirely possible that the PRT/Protectorate are undecided as to what/how to test everything or even that it's not something that is dealt with in management meetings usually, particularly with other things showing up. That doesn't mean we're not going to find a few chapters down the line that Taylor's getting another request for a return to testing so they can finish things and check the newly spotted stuff, or they might request she come in to visit another branch that's got equipment that can't be shipped to the Bay.

Bottom line, fic's ongoing and what we've seen didn't cover everything we're aware of, but that doesn't mean what we've covered is going to be something that comes around to what we're talking about now. We know Glenn's trying to work on Taylor's outfit, we might get a scene next chapter for his daughter and her group going over the results properly and calling Taylor in, or we might skip the meeting and see the results. Only the author can actually say at this point and us yelling in circles isn't going to help. Heck the backseat writing might result in things being delayed or cancelled if it goes too far.
 
Well put and very well thought out. To be perfectly honest, I generally consider things that I notice may be missing as something that the author is planning on getting to in the future. We don't need to know or see everything now and, while it might be useful to point things out because the author may have genuinely not realised or forgotten about it, spending three pages of a thread arguing about it is much less useful. Especially when perfectly logical reasoning for the topic of the argument have been brought forth.
 
Pure water would have not much of cutting power, I don't think. Though pond water should have some sand / mud in it...
You'd be wrong. High pressure water can cut through pretty much anything. High pressure water with an abrasive suspended in it simply does so faster.

The problem is you need to prepare tests,
And there are a bunch of tests they should have prepared as part of the testing we know they had planned, that they didn't. There are more tests that would take seconds to prepare that they should have thought about as soon as they saw Taylor demonstrating applicable powers, and then there's the fact that they continued with the sceduled tests as if nothing was wrong after one of their tests ended up accidentally drugging the subject.
 
I'm liking this so far. And also wondering if she'll end up being the head and most powerful of her Pantheon, being the first and having been blessed by four oothers. It should also be interesting how Inari's other domains of Industry, Agriculture, and Fertility manifests in her.
 
I'm liking this so far. And also wondering if she'll end up being the head and most powerful of her Pantheon, being the first and having been blessed by four oothers. It should also be interesting how Inari's other domains of Industry, Agriculture, and Fertility manifests in her.
Well the last one is already changing how she looks so we can say that she will be stunning.
 
I can see Agriculture giving her another Shaker effect, and Industry giving a Tinker effect. Inari did mention using a device to precog the coming Entities, so they must have some tech still about. Her intelligence has been raised and she can sense at least water over a very wide area. This is going to be so good :D
 
Volume wasn't the issue, precision was. She brought an orb of water the size of a family car over to her. Compared to the pool from earlier it didn't weigh on her mind the same way. She reached a hand out towards it in a gesture to help her focus and slowly squeezed, applying her will to the water before her.

A ripple ran around the orb. Then another. It quivered and shook like the surface of the sea in a storm, but it shrank. She could feel the force that was restraining the water's natural inclination to take up as much space as possible as it pushed back against her. It pressed on her mind like she was holding a far greater volume than she had called up. She pushed more. The orb shrank, wavering erratically as it reached the volume of a basketball.
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that this is completely absurd. Releasing a ball of water compressed that much would look more like a nuclear bomb than a pressure-cutter. For some context: At this pressure, the density of water is increased by 4.96% (Wikipedia article on the Mariana Trench) Compressing a car sized sphere to a basketball sized one is much more like a 10,000% density increase. You're going to end up with a ball that's denser than the core of Jupiter.
Of course it could just be blatant magic and/or the world working the way Taylor expects it to rather than the way it would naturally but when water is described as "incompressible" it's really not a joke.
 
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I'd just like to take a moment to point out that this is completely absurd. Releasing a ball of water compressed that much would look more like a nuclear bomb than a pressure-cutter. For some context: At this pressure, the density of water is increased by 4.96% (Wikipedia article on the Mariana Trench) Compressing a car sized sphere to a basketball sized one is much more like a 100,000% density increase. You're going to end up with a ball that's denser than the core of Jupiter.
Of course it could just be blatant magic and/or the world working the way Taylor expects it to rather than the way it would naturally but when water is described as "incompressible" it's really not a joke.
Taylors a Goddess, not a Parahuman. Her powers dont have to obey the laws of physics if they dont have to, not even the severely abused laws Parahuman abilities follow.
 
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that this is completely absurd. Releasing a ball of water compressed that much would look more like a nuclear bomb than a pressure-cutter. For some context: At this pressure, the density of water is increased by 4.96% (Wikipedia article on the Mariana Trench) Compressing a car sized sphere to a basketball sized one is much more like a 100,000% density increase. You're going to end up with a ball that's denser than the core of Jupiter.
Of course it could just be blatant magic and/or the world working the way Taylor expects it to rather than the way it would naturally but when water is described as "incompressible" it's really not a joke.
Or she just IS capable of handling that much pressure.
 
A directed fusion torch would definitely cut the steel plate in half and send it flying, though. :)
 
All too true, I'm afraid. Still, the danger space would be directly in the line of fire, for several kilometers, and things not immediately reduced to component atoms would melt nicely on the fringes...
 
3)People with any brains who find they can't perform test X would not simply sit around waiting until they can perform the next test in the schedule, theytry and think of other wys to get the information, and consider how this new information affects the testing schedule. Simply ignoring it and moving on is a sign that either the people involved are incompetant morons, or the organization forbids any sort of initiative. Either way it translates to the organization being completely incompetent.
They moved on with what they could.


1)There was no mention of that much less anyone asking Taylor to come in for further testing.
Such a question would normally happen near the end of the testing day. Like, say when they were in the bunker or when Taylor fell asleep after the hurricane. Neither of which Taylor would have been privy to due to either not being there or being unconscious.


*insert concerns about nuclear fusion from water*

erm... ^^; *sheepish kitsune* So Science may be an area where I am not as well-read as I should be, and where I've forgotten a lot. Going to give that particular incident some thought. I may change it, I may run away with the implications. Haven't decided yet.
 
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