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Death_Sheep said:
Funny, I've been playing through the Ode to Castlevania DLC for Vampire Survivors, and it got me thinking that I should re-read Queen of Blood.

Also, it's probably a false positive if the armband reports you as dead when you're still alive.
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If the arm the armband is latched onto is no longer attached to the person, the arm is dead. And in the case of Queen of Blood, the armband worn by Taylor had zero life signs to detect to begin with. No pulse, no body heat, no nothing.
 
As for something that reacts with living flesh and burns quite well, might I point you to the fuel of a particular rocket, that originally came from WWII Germany???

View: https://youtu.be/FHBGAyIU8Hw?si=u_yrDTNtXZdVAakd
Most rocket fuel is quite bad for your health, so a insect producing it naturally....
Does it have a rocket engine, by change? 😂

Now, mp3.1415player, would this mean that the bay will have TWO super size Hornet QUEENS flying around, at the same time???
 
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Daemion said:
Why would there be Endbringer sirens in Brockton Bay, in the middle of the night, when the city isn't being attacked? Why would anyone think it's a good idea to disrupt the entire US (or perhaps even the entire planet) with alarms when they aren't involved?
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To inform the villains and indepents for which the prt has no contact informations
 
Daemion said:
Why would there be Endbringer sirens in Brockton Bay, in the middle of the night, when the city isn't being attacked? Why would anyone think it's a good idea to disrupt the entire US (or perhaps even the entire planet) with alarms when they aren't involved?
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For the Truce. Endbringer Truce applies everywhere during at attack, and using the old civil defense infrastructure is the best way to make sure everyone knows right away. Not everyone has phones on them at all times, or is always tuned in to radio or TV.
 
Daemion said:
Why would there be Endbringer sirens in Brockton Bay, in the middle of the night, when the city isn't being attacked? Why would anyone think it's a good idea to disrupt the entire US (or perhaps even the entire planet) with alarms when they aren't involved?

Every day tens of thousands of people are doing criticial jobs where every disturbance could spell failure... and someone thought "Hey, let's make some noise!"? Every night billions of people want to sleep... why wake them up?

If you want to alert the capes, then send them a message on their phones. Do a "breaking news" segment on radio and TV. But don't bother the rest of the population.
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Where I live there are loud sirens that run at least once a week for testing purposes; sounding outside these test periods would indicate the nuclear reactor I live within 10 miles of was having a very bad day... Soon to be followed by most of us who live within 10 miles of it.
 
I live near the warehouses of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. They have exercises once a month and the siren also starts to sound. It sounds exactly the same as during World War II. Maybe it's a tradition.
 
Alkiera said:
Where I live there are loud sirens that run at least once a week for testing purposes; sounding outside these test periods would indicate the nuclear reactor I live within 10 miles of was having a very bad day... Soon to be followed by most of us who live within 10 miles of it.
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Also, in the Midwest towns and cities have tornado sirens. No assumptions are made about people having a smart phone, working radio (that's on), or cable tv. I'd imagine other areas of the country have such warning systems for other reasons.
 
DestinyPlayer said:
Because the Endbringer Sirens predate the ability for messages to be sent on the phone. They're a decades-old government setup that nobody bothered to update or dismantle.
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No they don't? Behemoth appeared for the first time in December 1992, then in Juli 1993 and for the third time in March 1994. SMS has been around since 1993. I don't think there was any organized response to Endbringers before New York.


Andorxor said:
To inform the villains and indepents for which the prt has no contact informations
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Fair enough. I still don't think that having some villains turn up is worth the disruption and hit to morale. They basically traumatize the entire population every three months.

TV, radio and websites should be plenty but okay.


SolarFlare said:
For the Truce. Endbringer Truce applies everywhere during at attack, and using the old civil defense infrastructure is the best way to make sure everyone knows right away. Not everyone has phones on them at all times, or is always tuned in to radio or TV.
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That is unfortunately incorrect. The Endbringer Truce only applies in the city with the Endbringer, not globablly.


Alkiera said:
Where I live there are loud sirens that run at least once a week for testing purposes; sounding outside these test periods would indicate the nuclear reactor I live within 10 miles of was having a very bad day... Soon to be followed by most of us who live within 10 miles of it.
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Those are known test periods though. The sirens don't go off randomly in the middle of the night unless the people actually need to be alerted.


I find the whole system badly designed. Imagine you're fast asleep in your bed in the US and get woken up by Endbringer sirens. The first thought is going to be "Oh shit, I'm going to die." ... and a few seconds later you find out that it's just a general alert and that your city isn't under attack. But now you're awake and you check. You see that the Simurgh is attacking Canberra... and that reminds you of Madison, Wisconsin. An entire city put under quarantine. You don't go back to sleep and when morning comes, you're tired. But you still have to go to work. At work you run into zombies because everyone was woken up during the night and couldn't go back to sleep. Everyone's mood is down thanks to the reminder of the unstoppable killing machines that could come for you the next time.

Sorry, that sounds just pointlessly cruel and miserable. Or perhaps people on Earth Bet consume over-the-counter sleeping pills en masse?
 
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FaerieKnight79 said:
Why "Queen of Blades"?
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Because I think that's where it's all heading. She's learning to mix genetics and create perversions of nature. All that's left is to learn how to mix several species, wait, there was already a glowing spider, all that's left is to learn how to control minions, although no, she can do that too. And she has stylish wings too. Taylor is a perfect match for the Queen of Blades. She just needs to increase the size of her insects and she can build a Spawn Pool.

 
Daemion said:
No they don't? Behemoth appeared for the first time in December 1992, then in Juli 1993 and for the third time in March 1994. SMS has been around since 1993. I don't think there was any organized response to Endbringers before New York.




Fair enough. I still don't think that having some villains turn up is worth the disruption and hit to morale. They basically traumatize the entire population every three months.

TV, radio and websites should be plenty but okay.




That is unfortunately incorrect. The Endbringer Truce only applies in the city with the Endbringer, not globablly.




Those are known test periods though. The sirens don't go off randomly in the middle of the night unless the people actually need to be alerted.


I find the whole system badly designed. Imagine you're fast asleep in your bed in the US and get woken up by Endbringer sirens. The first thought is going to be "Oh shit, I'm going to die." ... and a few seconds later you find out that it's just a general alert and that your city isn't under attack. But now you're awake and you check. You see that the Simurgh is attacking Canberra... and that reminds you of Madison, Wisconsin. An entire city put under quarantine. You don't go back to sleep and when morning comes, you're tired. But you still have to go to work. At work you run into zombies because everyone was woken up during the night and couldn't go back to sleep. Everyone's mood is done thanks to the reminder of the unstoppable killing machines that could come for you the next time.

Sorry, that sounds just pointlessly cruel and miserable. Or perhaps people on Earth Bet consume over-the-counter sleeping pills en masse?
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But everyone does need to be alerted. How do out of town parahumans know to wake up in the middle of the night and report to their local rally point for a Strider TP to the battle if the sirens don't go off everywhere?
 
Tehhetteh said:
With how obscenely powerful the toxin got, imagine if she played with maggots. Maggot saliva breaks down dead tissue, reduces/removes bacteria in the wound, stimulates production of growth factors in the wound, promotes formation of new blood vessels, and speeds up wound healing.

Honey does all sorts of fun stuff for infections and burns.

TL;DR: Research maggots and bees, buy lab coat and cane. Develop eldritch horror Doctor House persona and fill a red water gun with super healing saliva honey. Paint white crosses on water gun. Wait for Bakuda or some other event and heal people. See Carol Dallon and spray her in the face. "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do, it's too far deep for my healing spray." "What's too deep?" "The stick up her ass." Turn into a lobster man, stick claws in the air "whoopwhoopwhoopwhoop" and scuttle away while leaving the water gun behind.

Chemical testing of the contents ought to break some minds.
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Break some minds and probably revolutionise medicine at the same time.
 
Kinsfire said:
(I always wondered - if you're REsurrecting someone, what is surrecting them doing? *grin*)
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"Resurrect" is back-formed from "resurrection", which comes from Old French and is ultimately derived from Latin re- "again" and surgō "I rise".

Take your pick of "conceive", "give birth to", or "raise to adulthood".
 
Dio Genus said:
Ok so little things first: Eidolon is down and might not get back up which is going to change how the Endbringers act. Second: fluorine chemistry with a really strong oxidizer: AAAAAA! Run!
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And now also Hilariously Venomus for extra fun. Her threat rating will be leaked to the PHO with a single meme

Blaster: Synopsis from our chemists: Nope. Fuck this shit I'm out. Oh, there are stronger blasters out there, but no one as Nope worthy as H.O.U.S
 
Taylor should learn to play an electric guitar as a gigantic hornet, then hold a charity concert in the Winslow High gymnasium. Why? It's simple...

School H.O.U.S. Rock
 
mp3.1415player said:
At the back of her mind her power felt worried and annoyed in equal measure.
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Given the way Taylor's been ignoring restrictions, it better feel worried - if that type of emotion combined with casually ignoring boundaries were ever pointed in its direction ...
mp3.1415player said:
and it cast the competence of the PRT into even more of a bad light than she'd always been told they deserved
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Option 1: They don't know, which means, they are highly competent.
Option 2: They know and take their civic duty to not unduly irritate the public serious and therefore cover it up.
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Right?
mp3.1415player said:
He didn't go into work that day, and by the time, two hours later, they were sitting in front of the TV listening to the news and the announcement that Eidolon had fallen in battle against the Simurgh in Canberra, Australia, the victim of an apparent accidental friendly fire incident from Legend
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Butterfly: "He, don't look at me, I didn't do anything! This time ..."
mp3.1415player said:
She scowled. "Fucking Endbringers. I wish there was a way to stop the damned things."
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... ... ... did QA do her a favor here?
 
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Daemion said:
No they don't? Behemoth appeared for the first time in December 1992, then in Juli 1993 and for the third time in March 1994. SMS has been around since 1993. I don't think there was any organized response to Endbringers before New York.
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Around on GSM phones, not on CDMA.


In other news, her Dr Zoidberg cosplay at Dragon Con was unanimously voted too convincing.
 
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wingnut2292 said:
If one is retired, doesn't that mean that you were previously tired, and now are tired again?
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I think that one comes from the French verb tirer, which means to pull.
Retirer means to remove from circulation, to pull out.
And avoir les traits tirés means that you look like someone's been pulling on the side of your face - in other words, you look tired.
YuffieK said:
That's called FOOF. Dioxygen difluoride. The name is its literal chemical structure and a play on the sound it makes when comes into contact with practically EVERYTHING.
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The curious mind wonders how big the foof is when you put FOOF and hydrazine together. Like fluoroantimonic acid and butyllithium, or worse ? 😈
I would never get to actually try, I'm a quantum chemist.
 
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