Forcefield, force sword, same thing really.
Literally, if you put sharp corners on it. And after those are forbidden, a completely safe and rounded projection which has its frame of reference locked to the planet instead of a limb is perfectly capable of being used to demonstrate that timeless old gag, "Two assassins walk into a bar - their target ducked!"
 
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As with pretty much everything I've seen of your writing, Alivaril, this was thoroughly enjoyable. I don't normally comment unless I have something specific to talk about, but reading this put a smile on my face, and I felt the need to say so. I can't emphasise enough just how rare this is for me, not without revealing the extent of my overinflated ego. But it's really rare.

Whoops.
 
As with pretty much everything I've seen of your writing, Alivaril, this was thoroughly enjoyable. I don't normally comment unless I have something specific to talk about, but reading this put a smile on my face, and I felt the need to say so. I can't emphasise enough just how rare this is for me, not without revealing the extent of my overinflated ego. But it's really rare.
Don't worry, the fact that you've been on SV since 2016 with 10 messages to your name is emphasis enough. :p Thank you very much for the validation! I do appreciate it.

No, no, the only acceptable weapons they talk about are forcefields and hard light, and Minnie is very literal-minded as far as rule-bending is concerned. Remember It's Not Wrong To Etc?

No, this time her Friends would probably use forcefields to asphyxiate the would-be assailants or something.
Forcefield, force sword, same thing really.
Literally, if you put sharp corners on it. And after those are forbidden, a completely safe and rounded projection which has its frame of reference locked to the planet instead of a hand is perfectly capable of being used to demonstrate that timeless old gag, "Two assassins walk into a bar - their target ducked!"
QA:
 
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Host's memories seemed to indicate that the signs should have said that trespassers would be shot, but QA felt as though avoiding an absolute edict would be helpful for edge cases.
Jeez, even Taylor is appropriately bloodthirsty. :rofl:
A child-shaped problem
Oh, how accurate she is!
By extension, Lena could ensure that Minnie kept the bulk of her attention on projects that could actually help the world.
Oh no... "Mommy, I discovered another way to kill a problem!"

QA somehow escalates the usual Shard tendency to "halp." Which is really an achievement, but not necessarily a good one.
Kara! You're supposed to be my emergency backup brain cell, not an enabler!
Just the one?
"Even ignoring my position as L-corp's embattled CEO, or how this would negatively impact Minnie's social life, need I remind you that there have been attempts on my life just in the time that you've known me? They weren't the first, and they won't be the last. I thought I was bringing it up so you could tell me why I shouldn't."
QA's responses:
  1. Mou, what's a social life? Can I eat it?
  2. Clearly you need some Friends.
  3. This is sounding like a better idea all the time!
(The funny part is that this actually ended up being what happened.)
There are methods of protecting without harming others—hardlight barriers, for instance, or fields capable of disabling energy weapons. Those, I may allow, but not weaponry.
The foyer:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcED35LL8I

Or just making a forcefield sphere...
  • That's filled with paralytics, poison, unbreathable gases
  • That's anchored to a reference frame that's not earth (bonus: it also does home remodeling!)
  • That shrinks for easier storage... even when someone's in it
  • That's selectively permeable to most of the molecules in the human body. Bonus points if whatever's left inside the field is mostly phosphorus
  • That's made of very thin hardlight barriers with 1" spacing between them
  • That forms tightly around whatever weapon the attacker tries to use, but only after it's fired
  • That forms around the weapon... all the way around. Including through the hand
There's obviously a heck of a lot more with other categories or just stuff she didn't deny, but you can clearly fit a logging truck through the holes in those restrictions.
She would manage to hide some weapons here and there
So, regarding those Aperture Investment Opportunity videos... anyone seen that one where the turret is loaded with bullets? I imagine this is how QA adds weaponry.

Wait, she's just going to actually make turrets, isn't she.
:cry: Oh, no, what did I do wro–

...
I feel bad, but I'm dying laughing here nonetheless.
Excuse you?
QA is a very responsible and productive member of society thank you very much.

Like, you would not believe the amount of things she is responsible for, or about to be. :V
How many lost cycles was that again? :rofl:

But yeah, she's very about to be. And I can't wait. :evil:
Key word there is 'should'. Somehow, I'm looking forward to new and exciting forms of misunderstanding.
But that's the best part! :D
"The question of, if this is the sort of thing she concealed in the Friend she built to protect Ms Luthor despite knowing Ms Luthor doesn't want to be involved with weapon manufacturing... What horrors has she crafted to protect, or avenge, herself? And even worse, what would happen if one of the insane supervillains had gotten their hands on her and pushed her to do even better?"
QA needs no help. She's already thought of it, and improved on it too!
Literally, if you put sharp corners on it. And after those are forbidden, a completely safe and rounded projection which has its frame of reference locked to the planet instead of a hand is perfectly capable of being used to demonstrate that timeless old gag, "Two assassins walk into a bar - their target ducked!"
Again, why bother to anchor it to the planet? You get much better results if you don't and the sphere disappears with a loud whoosh and a flaming trail through the upper atmosphere.
Lena: You said no weapons.
QA: It has no weapons.
Lena: It spat acid.
QA: it has to diggest food somehow.
QA: It digests its food externally! Allow me to show you this chart I prepared of how popular that is among insects...
Lena: And what about the fire?
QA: Well, it has to cook somehow...
Lena: And then it exploded.
QA: I'm still working that one out. *hides two checklists - "fixing the explosion problem" and "increasing the yield." The last one is circled.*
Lena: It was still alive afterward! That had to have been an intentional feature!
QA: Are you saying that you don't design for structural integrity?
 
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With Addie and Minnie forming part of the 'administrator' name, I can't help but imagine the rest following soon after.

And Minnie manages to adopt a goose. Somehow. (Addie goes all in on it.)

Naturally, the goose is named 'Stray'. Leaving a mystery new member having 'Tori' as a name, I think? Possibly yet another goose. "How did you even convince me to let you get a second goose?"
 
No, no, the only acceptable weapons they talk about are forcefields and hard light, and Minnie is very literal-minded as far as rule-bending is concerned. Remember It's Not Wrong To Etc?

No, this time her Friends would probably use forcefields to asphyxiate the would-be assailants or something.


Without oversight there's no need to adhere to the pesky Manton limit.

Making completely round and safe force fields inside someone like Narwhal would probably at least meet the letter of the agreement.
 
Without oversight there's no need to adhere to the pesky Manton limit.

Making completely round and safe force fields inside someone like Narwhal would probably at least meet the letter of the agreement.
"We both know this is not what I meant to allow when you said it would enclose people in protective forcefields."
 
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No, no, the only acceptable weapons they talk about are forcefields and hard light, and Minnie is very literal-minded as far as rule-bending is concerned. Remember It's Not Wrong To Etc?

No, this time her Friends would probably use forcefields to asphyxiate the would-be assailants or something.
Literally just give them Narwhal's or Brandish's power set, or Vex with the Teeth, built in and then watch her enemies/assassins get blendered.

Edit:: ninjaed several times over it seems.
 
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YES YES YES! My favorite worm story and my favorite author combining into a recursive fanfic? Perfection. Please write 100 chapters of this for me to love and cherish.
 
"Oh, here we go again," Kara muttered, and Lena now had yet another set of questions. "Um, no, you're not doing that. Trust me, Krypton—well, Supergirl said that they tried that at one point? Kryptonians, I mean. However, they suffered a host of problems ranging from the ethical to the diplomatic. It just wouldn't end well at all."
Ah yes, because surely this is an an argument that QAylor will accept without reservation, after hearing about how a non-shard species tried and failed to get their cloning technology working properly while she has multiple cycles worth of data on the topic.

Gonna be fun to see the reactions once Minnie's gotten her bearings and starts halping, as i really don't think they understand just how different her capabilities are from Addy yet.
 
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I'm looking forward to the two shards talking about the Cycle.

To sum up Minnie's perspective on weapons:
"You say Potato, I say 'homebrew battery'"
 
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Probably the same way the crafting club reacted in Calibration.

"It's all just clark tech!"

Everyone will think that it's normal clarktech, then you have the actual tech savvy people in the background freaking out cause how can you create pocket dimensions and keep them open indefinitely with so little power! Oh and the whole shard style engineering being so different to what they're used to.
 
Everyone will think that it's normal clarktech, then you have the actual tech savvy people in the background freaking out cause how can you create pocket dimensions and keep them open indefinitely with so little power! Oh and the whole shard style engineering being so different to what they're used to.
I can imagine Addy's team giving her looks of betrayal for holding out on them when they come to the obvious conclusion Child Prodigy Minnie Queen is related to her.
 
Everyone will think that it's normal clarktech, then you have the actual tech savvy people in the background freaking out cause how can you create pocket dimensions and keep them open indefinitely with so little power! Oh and the whole shard style engineering being so different to what they're used to.
…"Clarktech" is the reference to the famous Arthur Clark quote that compares Sufficiently Advanced Technology™ with magic. Actual tech savvy people in the background freaking out in confusion is exactly the point of "normal" clarktech.
 
I can imagine Addy's team giving her looks of betrayal for holding out on them when they come to the obvious conclusion Child Prodigy Minnie Queen is related to her.

I hope they ask whether addie is either a single mother or an older sibling!

How effective do you think the stinger module Minnie has will be against kryptonians? She does have that right?

If Minnie does have a stinger module, will it look like an ordinary object that somehow annihilates everything in its way? Or will sensors be able to detect it from a distance?

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…"Clarktech" is the reference to the famous Arthur Clark quote that compares Sufficiently Advanced Technology™ with magic. Actual tech savvy people in the background freaking out in confusion is exactly the point of "normal" clarktech.

My bad, thank you for telling me! But you got my point right? With the background tech savvy people being Lena and addies workmates...
 
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I hope they ask whether addie is either a single mother or an older sibling!

How effective do you think the stinger module Minnie has will be against kryptonians? She does have that right?

If Minnie does have a stinger module, will it look like an ordinary object that somehow annihilates everything in its way? Or will sensors be able to detect it from a distance?
Well the answer to both of those questions is technically yes.

She is both a mother to The Livewire and could be considered a sister to Minnie. (Not that she would admit to either of those though lol)

Knowing Minnie she would probably be making a book that fires beams of kryptonite just in case Addy decides to be mean.

Well she'd try to but Lena is definitely going to veto it.

Lena: "No Minnie you can't make a kryptonite ray gun."

Minnie:"But Addy won't let me play with Saturday!"

Umu, I can see it.
 
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