- Location
- The City
After all, properly designed, she will have more than enough dakka for every day use (note, she could always use more dakka)
Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]
- Thread starter ensou
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- U.S.
The Fog is all about Historical Models. Then filling them with fuck-you amounts of dakka. And sometimes superweapons.
DemiRapscallion
Apathetically Excited
- Location
- California
God, you are honestly one of my favorite authors. Other than a some minor confusion on where Leah went when she woke up, this chapter was perfect.
- Location
- Internet, The
Looking forward to terminator Lia shenanigans. She's going to need a new name. Kind of sad she could not invite Victoria to the reveal of her shipyard. Those kind of things always go better with an audience. Maybe Taylor will upload a video of it at some point?
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Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Loved the entire thing. That's what I think 
I was surprised by the amnesia, but it fits. And I can see it working well. Especially the new viewpoint that Leah has on world events due to that. Nice plot tie in. Can't wait to see what the girls do with that.
I'm also looking forward to them becoming friends. Right now, Leah is a bit out of it to be considered 'well'. Because of that she isn't really in a stable place to make friends. Obviously she has charitable thoughts and feelings about Taylor given how much she's been helped by her.
I see a few things in the future. One being that the time frame and speed of the takeover of the dry docs will be obvious, even if it looks legal. Pulling together money from the cracks in the system might be seen as theft, but might not be as easily tracked. Just the fact that it suddenly appears out of nowhere might make it suspicious though. She's going to need to set up a back story for those resources. Probably with the help of Leah.
There is also the possibility that a camera caught the two of them walking back home. Given all the interference from Thinker powers and agencies like Ziz that can predict the future it's likely that Lisa's face will come to the attention of Coil. Meaning that even if he thinks that Lisa is dead given the evidence he's seen, he's likely to be curious and want to investigate this look alike person.
I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with the story next. Hope you have a path well planned out since that is likely to produce faster chapters
Thanks very much for the update!
I was surprised by the amnesia, but it fits. And I can see it working well. Especially the new viewpoint that Leah has on world events due to that. Nice plot tie in. Can't wait to see what the girls do with that.
I'm also looking forward to them becoming friends. Right now, Leah is a bit out of it to be considered 'well'. Because of that she isn't really in a stable place to make friends. Obviously she has charitable thoughts and feelings about Taylor given how much she's been helped by her.
I see a few things in the future. One being that the time frame and speed of the takeover of the dry docs will be obvious, even if it looks legal. Pulling together money from the cracks in the system might be seen as theft, but might not be as easily tracked. Just the fact that it suddenly appears out of nowhere might make it suspicious though. She's going to need to set up a back story for those resources. Probably with the help of Leah.
There is also the possibility that a camera caught the two of them walking back home. Given all the interference from Thinker powers and agencies like Ziz that can predict the future it's likely that Lisa's face will come to the attention of Coil. Meaning that even if he thinks that Lisa is dead given the evidence he's seen, he's likely to be curious and want to investigate this look alike person.
I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with the story next. Hope you have a path well planned out since that is likely to produce faster chapters
Thanks very much for the update!
- Location
- Sweden
This came as something of a surprise to me. Relentless isn't necessarily a True Blooded Hero Of Good (TM), but she comes across as honestly considering that a kind of goal worth striving for. The fact that she's maybe breaking a few rules here and there about air-space violations, and aggressive metal-collection is... not really enough for me to expect anything less than heroic from her.
... Nevermind. That's very much not a heroic action. Yes, it probably doesn't hurt anyone, and it's not like anyone will trace it back to her (outside of maybe the Number Man, if he deigns to bother with a one-time incident), but still... Taylor, that's clear-cut criminal activity.
Huh. You know, I started reading Aoki Hagane recently, and it just occurred to me that whilst I remember someone talking about Taylor making Vista her captain, a captain doesn't make a full crew. And what do you know, here's a person who's just happy to be alive, and has no reason not to follow in Taylor's wake. She's also pretty. Good catch Taylor.
Speaking of good catches...
Vista is very good at navigating, thanks to her powers. Leah has some serious analysis-hardware, thanks to her power and unique perspective of the world, and likely a newfound interest in engineering, thanks to her new body and the way her power keeps drooling over it. Not sure how psychology and parahuman-studies might help out, and Glory Girl's power wouldn't really be useful when she's inside of a battleship, but I do wonder.
Also, if Glory Girl goes, Panacea is likely to follow. And Taylor's experience with Leah proves that having a dedicated healer on board might be a very good thing, long term.
See, this is kind of proof that Leah deserves to be known as Leah, rather than as Tattletale. Sarah ran out on her family because of trauma and misery and being in a nasty place, Lisa did some petty theft because it was a way to not have to risk going back to her family, and then Tattletale was recruited at gunpoint into being a full-time villain by Coil. It's... basically just one miserable slip after another, and giving her a fresh start away from her own accumulated bitterness with the world that dealt her such a shit-hand is probably a good thing for her.
Though I do hope that she regains her memories properly, so that she can see things from both angles without being overwhelmed by "I'm Tattletale" or "I'm Leah", instead going more for the "I remember differently too, but I'd rather be Leah, so fuck it"-possibility.
Not sure how extensive Cauldron's influence really is, and how invested they are in certain things being the way they are. But that's because rule-of-thumb WoG seems to be to blame them for everything ever, and that's kind of ridiculous. Dunno how they might react to someone catching onto them being behind things though. If it's a matter of "keeping Cauldron secret from people" then Leah might dodge the PtV by a technicality, depending on how Powers define people. And, even if it isn't, provoking Relentless probably isn't in their best interest (even if I vaguely remember reading something about Alexandria being capable of beating the crap out of her, should it ever come to a direct confrontation).
Meh, that's pretty much what happend to my brother from just a single bad knock on the head. He was 100% functional, but longterm memory was just not there(to the point that the treating emergency medical personnel completely missed that he had amnesia as he was otherwise functioning as normal as someone who just got their head sewn back together can be).
And as i found out at the time, amnesia is actually really really common.
It's a major case of "truth in fiction", as you would think that all the fictional plots(especially in anime) that relies on amnesia is exaggerated either in commonality or how weirdly it can happen or express itself(or all of them), but nope, it is in fact amazingly realistic. That really surprised me.
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- Home
I need a cigarette and a cold shower.
This chapter was excellent, so satisfying.
If it was an anime, just after Taylor's last line the camera would have moved back, away from her, slowly panning out, showing the whole place.
Kemayo
A Certain Cheerful Tone Of Voice
- Location
- Missouri
I'll be amused if we get a tense stand-off with the heroes, to which Taylor can just say "...I have a permit for this".
The whole "I am giving my shard good data, it will be generous with me in return" thing is going to be in full force here.
yttam50
Eu Sunt Dracul
- Location
- Scotland
It will be funny when people find out about the Ship Graveyard and taylors purchase/revamp of the Shipyard but if people discover her power plants, that will be when things get interesting.
(Could anyone give estimates of what would happen if Taylors power plants exploded?)
Also has anyone else thought that she's going to trap an Endbringer in a specialized Klein field to use it as fuel?
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Czlyydwr Llrngwl
"Sell ya a door Learn gull," Czly/Celly for short
- Location
- Where the Beef is
- Pronouns
- Any
First Officer, in charge of keeping the crew working together with minimal friction so the ship as a whole is in fighting shape. (As most commonly depicted in fiction, at least.) Psych & PH Studies for when that's Working As Intended, Flying Brick for when things get a little more sticky-wicket.
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- Right Here
I'm sure that Alexandria going all out could probably beat Relentless, but if she approaches it like her fight with skitter in canon (aka give her a really good reason to kill Alexandria and then stand still long enough to get hit by bugs and suffocate) then she would probably still die to some fog matter erasure bs like the torpedos (and if that fails, a gravity cannon)
- Location
- Canada
HOLY CRAP RING THE CHURCH BELLS!!!11!!!
Relentless has attained greater moral enlightenment than 99% of all Taylors that aren't In Name Only!!
Taylor, try taking an interpersonal relations major. You will get absolutely rekt repeatedly if you don't just rely on books to cheat (and given Taylor Hebert's "break head on wall rather than use door" stubbornness? She'll make herself learn) for tests and such. And you will learn to deal with people.
The great crime that would make Contessa an the Sleeper team up: Dodging Paperwork.
She's demonstrably enabling herself to make the world a better place. That and Superior Firepower equal massive leeway.
Not considering the firepower part? If I have to smash someone's car window in to save some kid trapped inside on a hot day, I damn well will and absolutely no one would convict me. If I have to smash someone's car window in to grab the life preserver inside to throw to some kid who's drowning in a pool, I damn well would if I didn't know how to swim, and I could probably get a malicious persecution charge to stick easier than they could get me for property damage.
Try to replicate it for a Firestorm Barrier (from the Tiberium series) equivalent i.e. can absorb any alpha strike whatsoever, but then goes down for recharge.
Assuming the energy removal system still works? Shut the fuel source down and the reactor dies quietly.
If the energy removal system starts malfunctioning shut the fuel input down and the reactor probably still simply melts relatively harmlessly if containment is lost. If containment is not lost it will ramp down on its own if the system cooling is adequate (the cooling is also an energy removal system, may or may not be the primary though).
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- Location
- Earth Prime
Glad to see the ship graveyard dealt with. It's one of those things that is often on a checklist in Worm fics, but seems to always be put off just a little longer. Seeing the reactions will be priceless. I wonder how long it will take the Thinkers in Watchdog to put together the New BB Shipping Co.'s sudden purchase of that shipyard land with the timing of the disappearance. Especially since the renovations to the fencing happened literally overnight, with nobody seeing any construction crews at all.
Kemayo
A Certain Cheerful Tone Of Voice
- Location
- Missouri
If she wants to rebrand away from Tattletale, she could probably make a good case for something like Navigator. It fits with Relentless' theme, after all.
13th Bee
Worker
- Location
- Tennessee, USA.
Should be "me" unless there is a mysterious third female person on the scene (damnit Aisha!).
Taylor, you can't just go and expose other people's naked bodies without their consent!
Missing a space.
I'm pretty sure electronic banking doesn't actually work that way. When a calculation has to be rounded off, the bits of money getting rounded off just flat out don't exist anymore. There's nothing to collect. Taylor might as well just create an account full of money ex nihilo, since it's some form of fraud either way.
If Taylor wants to semi-legally acquire the property with negligible starting money she should just do some playing around on the stock market. She could plausibly gain a moderate amount of money and get out in a short enough time to not set off any alarm bells, appearing to be one of the many automated traders that simply had good programming or a string of really good luck or something.
Okibruez
(Verified Mid-Boss)
- Location
- Dreams
Both of these are reactions I'm excited for.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- She/Her
so she is mostly a new person. You (via Lung) killed Lisa! you monster!
Don't worry, according to the laws of literature Amnesia patients always regain their memory whenever most dramatically apropriate.
- Location
- Canada
Nucleus cash is easy, just jack some random lottery and win 2nd or 3rd prize. It's not much and basically no one would notice or spend too much effort investigating.
Then go stocks.
13th Bee
Worker
- Location
- Tennessee, USA.
Naviguesser is a much better title though.
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
@amnesia - everybody expected some brain damage, but not to to the point of arguably killing of Tattletale and reducing Sarah to naive and sheltered ~12 old, who utterly grateful and unquestionable towards Taylor. It's not bad, but i personally like Tt more than OC with Negotiator, and hope that you plan to gradually recover her memories/personality.
Taylor with money can consult with Cranial, if she don't want to barter with Toybox.
Also, as far as i can tell/remember, I-401 does not use ballst tanks, and moves more like space ship underwater. Maybe "gravity ballast" from anime is a thing. Also possible it's impossible to make with thanotonium for better gravity tricks.
Taylor with money can consult with Cranial, if she don't want to barter with Toybox.
Fog, by default, does not have spaces for human crew. It's one of downsides of going manned - less space for supplies, due to stuff needed for flesh bags.
Also, as far as i can tell/remember, I-401 does not use ballst tanks, and moves more like space ship underwater. Maybe "gravity ballast" from anime is a thing. Also possible it's impossible to make with thanotonium for better gravity tricks.
