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Except from her perspective Emma is the reason that Emma became a bully.

I like the use Invictus by the way, more stories should use that perspective rather than go into pointless OoC revenge fics.
 
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koolerkid said:
I would give her luck if it was thirty times, maybe. Twice in thirteen is at least some measure of skill.

Also luck. But still. You don't put a DnD monk on their back without being at least somewhat good.
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It sounds like, you're assuming all the matches were to pin or disable.
 
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Some were to first hit.
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Sounds legit. Even the best can get tagged by complete amateurs who have no idea what they're doing, Sophia has been actually fighting and isn't without skill of her own.

Now... Someone trained as a monk with the ability to go intangible at will... I know for a fact that can be pretty awesome.

It's also how I kept a monk from being completely irrelevant in a 3.5 game that was caster-heavy. Ghost Monk: Way of the Intangible, Invisible, Fist.;)

EDIT: Damn, now I want to see a properly done Planar Shepard build or a CoDZilla build for Taylor...
 
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Still, it got my blood pumping. Dad didn't make a very good sparring partner -- I was pretty sure he was just too afraid of hurting me to go all out -- so this was a refreshing change of pace.
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Surprised no one else is commenting on Danny sparring with Monk!Taylor, and the fact that he probably has a level or two in Monk at this point as well. I imagine the zen's helped him a bit at work.
 
Auks said:
Surprised no one else is commenting on Danny sparring with Monk!Taylor, and the fact that he probably has a level or two in Monk at this point as well. I imagine the zen's helped him a bit at work.
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....Oh wow, that's a good point. Helping him with his anger issues, giving him a productive outlet, plus endorphine rush of getting stronger...yeah, this is definitely gonna be good for him. Let's hope he's as committed to safe use as Taylor.

Kinda surprised he's letting her out alone if he also has levels in Monk to help, but eh. Taylor's probably more dedicated and experienced (hey-oh) anyway.


Also, if Taylor can initiate other people into the other schools of Monkhood I read about in 5e, Sophia would be crazy good with Way of Shadows. Unsurprisingly. But that's another damn good reason to restrict the use, especially in Worm.
 
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(Worm) Tinker Taylor, Cyberspy: Contingency 1.1 - Taylor
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    • (Contingency 1.1 - Taylor | Contingency 1.2 - Crystal)

    Tinker Taylor, Cyberspy
    Contingency 1.1 - Taylor​

    Sophia Hess was Shadow Stalker.

    This changed things. What I'd found online disgusted me. There were reports of excessive force, people pinned to walls, even dropped off buildings, if you believed the wilder tales. I didn't; Sophia was strong, but I doubt she was strong enough to hold someone off the edge of a roof. Worse, people were cheering her for it, just because her victims were allegedly criminals. "Acceptable targets."

    Most people agreed they deserved it, but I wasn't so sure. After all, she considered me an "acceptable target," just because Emma thought it'd be fun. How many of those gangbangers might have actually been innocent victims of her sadism?

    Through that lens, it painted an unpleasant picture. She was a psychopath who enjoyed hurting people.

    If they kept to what they had been doing, I could endure it, like I always had, but Sophia -- Shadow Stalker -- might escalate. And I might not survive it if she did.

    I needed a way to head that off.

    Half the summer flew by as I tried unsuccessfully to come up with something. It all boiled down to those two words Principal Blackwell repeated every time I tried to complain: "No evidence."

    Fortunately, I still had a few weeks before summer break ended to figure out how to get some, and I had all these ideas. A little cloaked surveillance drone should do the trick...

    * * *​

    They made her a Ward.

    They made Sophia fucking Hess a fucking Ward.

    I had powers. I was what's called a Tinker. When I realized that, I'd actually considered joining the Wards, but no. Not happening. If they let people like her in... not a fucking chance in hell.

    For the longest time, I thought the Winslow faculty was just incompetent and apathetic. Then I thought, hey, popular girl, track star, etc. vs. the freaky loner girl. Now, though, if she did something to me, they might actually cover it up.

    I was going to need more evidence than I'd thought. Incontrovertible evidence. I also needed a contingency, something they couldn't cover up if they tried. A nuclear option.

    * * *​

    It was with a bounce in my step that I approached Winslow. I had all the evidence gathered and stored, my contingency set up. Video and audio recordings of several months' worth of bullying: verbal abuse, physical assault, theft, all of it, along with recordings of when I'd asked for help and been denied, and all of it was tied to a holoprojector set to broadcast it, along with their identities, over the city if I didn't reset it every three days. It was even tied to the cloaked surveillance drone that I still had following me around, so if I was murdered, there'd be footage of it broadcast across the city as well, just in case.

    Ultimately, though, I just wanted it all to stop, so I'd give them a chance to back down.

    I slowed as I approached my locker. What was that smell?

    Dread welled up inside me as I opened it, confirming my suspicions.

    I didn't see who pushed me in, but the drone had caught it.

    They locked me in.

    Something in me broke in the hours that followed. All that planning, all those gadgets, and it wasn't enough.

    I was insensate for a week.

    (Contingency 1.1 - Taylor | Contingency 1.2 - Crystal)​
     
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