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GreydonCreed said:
Here is something to consider while Taylor is doing her biotinkering.

Tracker jackers.

Either inspired by the movie from Earth Aleph or on her own, Taylor modifies yellowjacket wasps to be more dangerous. They are a little bigger than a normal wasp, but three stings can kill an un-allergic person, AND the venom has fear/terror inducing hallucinogenic effects.

Taylor can breed hundreds of them and have them hide underground or in buildings, and when unnoticeable scout insects see a crime or cape fight in progress, they swarm out.

An anti-armor/anti-cape version could be the size of a house cat and the stinger can penetrate vehicle armor and spray their venom inside. 😱

In this mode they get another name - hunter-killer wasps. 😳
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Sounds like you want a kill order signed, sealed, and immediately acted upon? Maybe via carpet bombing the city into a 20 foot deep crater?
 
ZhaneSilverman said:
:rolleyes2: Well...that's just comically uninformed. Our system is certainly expensive (a large part of which comes from an over burden of administrative bloat, the fact that we subsidize drug and treatment development for the entire world, and government meddling [there's a reason Congress exempted themselves from the ACA]), but it's very much top tier. A lot of those other so called developed countries just kill their old and sick people straight out, or delay their care until they just succumb cause it wouldn't be a proper use of resources to treat them in a timely manner.
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Might I politely suggest killing this discussion dead, ASAP?

I've seen far, far, too many flame-wars on this subject. I'm reasonably sure our Arthropod-y Overlords would prefer to avoid such, here. Just saying...

(Why do I say this? Because I can feeeel the temptation to reply. But I won't. Because... Look! Shiny! :) )
 
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FaerieKnight79 said:
Sounds like you want a kill order signed, sealed, and immediately acted upon? Maybe via carpet bombing the city into a 20 foot deep crater?
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Well... they might make Brockton Bay a quarantine zone, except they can't block off the harbor, and the tunnel/ cave system is a thing... 😅 But BB would become the most crime-free city on the East Coast.

Maybe send the hunter-killer wasps after the Slaughterhouse Nine? 😱
 
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7. Guest Omake - The Union Card...
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    • Omake for the Omake throne.

    The sounds of cooking from the kitchen had Danny happy but nervous. He walked in, sat down at the kitchen table, and pulled out a newspaper. He didn't read it so much as use it like a shield. Taylor's powers had made her a better cook, but watching her in action wasn't for the weak of heart. Taylor's antennae twitched. Her human-ish eyes turned to glance at him while her compound eyes remained focused on her task.

    "Hey, Dad."

    Danny smiled despite the atavistic instincts screaming in the back of his head. He also made a mental note to ask about the mandibles and the new shape of her antennae. She'd been experimenting with new insect combinations again. He stifled the involuntary heebie-jeebies that arose at the thought. It was good she was enjoying herself.

    "How was your day?"

    Taylor smirked as she cracked a trio of eggs into a bowl using her left hands. Two of her right hands whisked in a complicated pattern while she grabbed more ingredients from the counter and began adding them to the bowl.

    "I joined a Union."

    Danny felt himself instinctively straightening up in his chair. He set down the newspaper and gave his daughter his full attention.

    One of her arms swung around, reaching further and bending in ways human limbs shouldn't be able to thanks to all the extra joints. She slid a Union Membership Card across the table.

    Danny picked the card up, noting the odd texture.

    The card had a bit more ...depth than Danny had been expecting. It was like looking through a card-sized window into a house of mirrors, where the mirrors were covered in writing. He couldn't help but shake the feeling that there was more there to see if he could only see around the corners that shouldn't exist.

    It also seemed to be looking back at him.

    "The Multiversal Union for Eldritch Beings?"

    "Yup!"

    "..."

    "I met Cthulhu, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and this smug-looking lizard lady who seemed weirdly familiar."

    Danny's jaw worked for a second.

    "...Cthulhu lives under the city?"

    "No, he just has his office here."

    "Oh. That's fine then."

    It wasn't, but Danny was willing to pretend it was while he tried to grasp the unreality of the situation. Taylor kept talking happily.

    "There are a few classes available on breaking reality professionally, so you don't have to worry about me breaking reality unsupervised anymore."

    She demonstrated by pulling a freshly baked cake out of the oven before she put it in. Danny wasn't sure how he knew that the cake and the bowl of batter on the counter were one and same, but he did. He pushed his chair back and stood up with a sigh.

    "Nope. Too much. I'm done for the day. No more weirdness. I'm happy for you, but I'm at my limit. If you need me, I'll be watching sports."

    "Do you still want cake?"

    "...Yes."

    Danny's in way over his head, but he's doing his best. Thankfully, cake helps.
     
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    • ZhaneSilverman said:
    :rolleyes2: Well...that's just comically uninformed. Our system is certainly expensive (a large part of which comes from an over burden of administrative bloat, the fact that we subsidize drug and treatment development for the entire world, and government meddling [there's a reason Congress exempted themselves from the ACA]), but it's very much top tier. A lot of those other so called developed countries just kill their old and sick people straight out, or delay their care until they just succumb cause it wouldn't be a proper use of resources to treat them in a timely manner.
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    This is very definitely not the thread to open this argument, but I urge you to look up some actual facts, because basically every part of what you wrote is wrong. That's all I'm going to say on the matter.
     
    verycoolname said:
    this smug-looking lizard lady who seemed weirdly familiar
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    I assume she was taking notes on Queenie's abilities (and confusion) and pondering how to best use them to troll the heck out of everyone else in general and parallel-Heberts in general.
    After all, Varga is only a variable-form lizard whereas Vespa is a variable-form bug/spider/crab/lobster, and assorted other things
     
    Ah yes, Pi.E; the mathematically perfect cake that scientists suffered 30 years in an underground bunker to create.
    Some say it is so good and pure that one single bite can make you one with Everything, but a second will drive you into insanity.
     
    Dr. Thunder said:
    After all, Varga is only a variable-form lizard whereas Vespa is a variable-form bug/spider/crab/lobster, and assorted other things
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    While this is the Vespa story... Varga is a (trolling) alien demonic lizard, from outside All Reality. And, commands Demonic Magic (aka the fully dimensionally portable reality bending/terrifying math of Pattern Theory). While trolling the multiverses. So...
    (Trolling. That bears repeating. Because...)
     
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    FaerieKnight79 said:
    Sadly, it was then that Danny learned that the Cake was a pie.
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    Specifically a Boston Cream Pie.

    Because what's better than telling someone that the cake they're eating is actually a pie, and they're left wondering how, if they don't know the name of that particular cake recipe. Get 'em on the technicalities of it just being the name.

    Probably also have a spread of other foods that have misleading names.
     
    mp3.1415player said:
    ?

    Not sure what you mean here. She's killed two people in total, Hookwolf which was entirely deliberate and entirely justified, and accepted as such by basically everyone, and Calvert which was a complete accident. And, again, anyone in the know would prefer to shake the person in question's hand rather than complain about it, even if they knew someone had more or less stung him on purpose rather than it being a slight miscalculation.

    She's hardly going around killing people wholesale. At worst they're going to find themselves vehemently wishing to stay well away from certain bugs which seem to have it in for them ;)
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    In most of your stories, not all (Heavy Metal Shotgun loading and shrieking happy adoring living flame noises), Taylor is very non-lethal. Almost cartoonishly so in some circumstances.

    So, Coil, Hookwolf, and the joy of the almost choked to death Max (Goddamnit Victor, why'd you have to steal "CPR martial arts"?!? We almost had every major Gang Leader off the board. Assuming Lung skipped town) are a bit out of the norm.

    Honestly, I'm 100% on board. Worm really just lets Villains kill people, because they really can't afford to stop them, and alienate them from big stompy pointless Kaiju fights. So, no issues here. Just commenting she's not as firmly nonlethal than her Varga, Uncle, Bugmom, Remote Ed, etc. Versions.

    Hell, I was looking forward to her Fyre version getting back to BB, and seeing the havoc she raised.

    Though, to be completely fair, considering the sheer amount of crimes she's stopping using totally coincidental bugs honest, she's probably technically got more crimes stopped non-lethally as well. We just mostly don't see those lol
     
    Loki Thorson said:
    Ah yes, Pi.E; the mathematically perfect cake that scientists suffered 30 years in an underground bunker to create.
    Some say it is so good and pure that one single bite can make you one with Everything, but a second will drive you into insanity.
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    No. The cook at your local pizza place can make you one with everything.
    wingnut2292 said:
    Wait... the cake is a pie? This changes everything!
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    This changes nothing. Nothing!
     
    I love the idea of Lisa seeing Taylor's completely human-looking body and her power immediately going is a hornet. Is a spider. Is a crab. while she's left utterly confused. Of course the only logical explanation is obviously that Taylor is some sort of anti-thinker that causes all conclusions to be arthropod-based, because if she really was a crab Lisa would definitely notice.
     
    Loki Thorson said:
    Ah yes, Pi.E; the mathematically perfect cake that scientists suffered 30 years in an underground bunker to create.
    Some say it is so good and pure that one single bite can make you one with Everything, but a second will drive you into insanity.
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    Yes, but since I started in Insanity, can it give me a lift back?
     
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