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Worm Piece (Worm/One Piece)
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@RavensDagger question about Strength vs Endurance since I haven't be able to find anything on it. Is the ability to take damage (like the cannonball) a combination of END and STR, or just one of them?
[X] Go hunting for lunch and supplies!
[X] Might as well restock let see if theres any new insects and crustaceans to add to her collection
[X] Might as well restock let see if theres any new insects and crustaceans to add to her collection
@RavensDagger Would increasing Conquerors raise just the potency, or would it increase control as well since QA seems to download info into Taylor's brain?
Usopp might be dead by the time the Strawhats arrive at his island since they are a day or two behind canon. So Usopp would have most likely tried to fight the Black Cat Pirates alone and there is no way he could have accomplished that.
Some overall thoughts:
1) For all the hate, Usopp is and was a vital member of the crew. Leaving aside him being a precognitive whose every lie turns out to be true, if not for him, Nami would be dead, for he made her weapons. Merry would have broken long before Strawhats came to Water 7 (also, remember - no Usopp = no Merry and this can't be allowed at all).
It is not he without fear who is brave, it is he who conquers his fear that can be called such.
He is also genuinely a great sniper. Who, I'll note, gets very little opportunity to, you know, snipe, almost constantly being forced into close range combat. Give him a jetpack / flying mount, and some manner of invisibility, and he'd be terrifying.
2) A bit of munckinning - Luffy's hair should have the same rubber properties as the rest of his body. Ie conceptual rubberness. This should allow it to be used in a number of ways - as garrottes, as part of construction materials (fabrics), potentially as feed for spiders to improve spider silk (like that trick with feeding spiders nanotubes), as improvement upon Usopp's slingshot string material
3) Vivi is just Taylor from a rich country. She is a teenage girl with animal companion(s) and mind control powers (everyone remembers that Vivi can do hypnosis, right?) who infiltrated a criminal organization in order to find the identity of their hidden boss. That hidden boss is, in fact, a pardoned criminal "allied" with the military as an outside consultant. His plan is to take over both the criminal underworld and the legal side of our heroine's home town / country.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Vivi just got a QA bud very soon after they meet her.
4) And, speaking of QA buds - who's getting them? I kinda expect Nami might during the confrontation with Arlong. With the power being "fish(man) control".
1) For all the hate, Usopp is and was a vital member of the crew. Leaving aside him being a precognitive whose every lie turns out to be true, if not for him, Nami would be dead, for he made her weapons. Merry would have broken long before Strawhats came to Water 7 (also, remember - no Usopp = no Merry and this can't be allowed at all).
It is not he without fear who is brave, it is he who conquers his fear that can be called such.
He is also genuinely a great sniper. Who, I'll note, gets very little opportunity to, you know, snipe, almost constantly being forced into close range combat. Give him a jetpack / flying mount, and some manner of invisibility, and he'd be terrifying.
2) A bit of munckinning - Luffy's hair should have the same rubber properties as the rest of his body. Ie conceptual rubberness. This should allow it to be used in a number of ways - as garrottes, as part of construction materials (fabrics), potentially as feed for spiders to improve spider silk (like that trick with feeding spiders nanotubes), as improvement upon Usopp's slingshot string material
3) Vivi is just Taylor from a rich country. She is a teenage girl with animal companion(s) and mind control powers (everyone remembers that Vivi can do hypnosis, right?) who infiltrated a criminal organization in order to find the identity of their hidden boss. That hidden boss is, in fact, a pardoned criminal "allied" with the military as an outside consultant. His plan is to take over both the criminal underworld and the legal side of our heroine's home town / country.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Vivi just got a QA bud very soon after they meet her.
4) And, speaking of QA buds - who's getting them? I kinda expect Nami might during the confrontation with Arlong. With the power being "fish(man) control".
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On the note of crafting wasn't Taylor stupid good at sewing/making stuff out of spider silk? Making her armor and silk body suit was kind of stupid in how well she managed it. Almost to the point where one has to wonder if she has a tinker rating on sewing... I mean she's no spider man level web weaving but still.
It wasn't too technically difficult if you could control individual thread outputs, and had months to experiment with and the resources could be recycled freely.. Like, she wouldn't be working with very complex weaves, just an impossibly tight mesh with thread count per cm of Impossiboru. That alone gives it strength.
Probably works a lot like a 3d printer from her perspective. Its not necessarily well designed but by all fabric quality measures its of superlative quality.
Technically speaking, she's got billions of spiderhours of experience weaving. She's really, really good at it.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Yes but again that sort under her QA's best friend skill, and she's got SSS in that skill.
RavensDagger
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Well being a genius in one piece makes you really a genius:
Franky as a kid could make robot suits and he was good enough to make one's that can move.
Vegapunk literally figured out devil fruits plus made pacifistas.
A random scientist in the North blue made living thinking atometa that could feel emotion (they got sad after his death)(in a cover story).
Ussop being good at invention isn't really that strange, when you Compare him to other geniuses.
Judge literally genetically engineered super powers into his children.
Also the straw hats would be screwed at dressrosa if they don't have ussop (if ussop hadn't made that shot luffy + law would be dead).
And nobody would burn the world government flag.
And they would be screwed again perona.
And they wouldn't know that nami isn't really a traitor but faked betraying them.
And zoro won't have a third sword in enies lobby.(maybe kidding)
Man, would Taylor joining the straw hat crew combination (on thriller bark) and make it complete.
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- Russia; Saint-Petersburg
I was actually thinking very hard on what Parameters to get Taylor to train and then I figured it out.
You NEED to give her CQC and Physical Attributes so she will be able to fight her way out of most fights. Remember, her bugs will be good only for as long as the Reverse Mountain and a bit in Paradise because after that people will just be that ridiculous Level of prowess where she would need to bolster her other things. Right now she needs to catch-up physically to others because right now she is the example of what Kizaru said about Devil Fruit Users. That the 'arrogant idiots that think that their Logias make them invincible die young', she needs to get into the shape where she can legitimately fight when her bugs would be useless. Any Logia or sufficiently skilled or specified Paramecia would literally walk through her bugs as if nothing happened, it's pointless to actually put any points into them right now as it won't help at all. Getting her into space where she can fight without them would be so much more useful in the long run because the fights in East Blue won't be as life-threatening as in Paradice so she can basically be grinded here until Grand Line to at least be strong enough to match someone in CQC.
That's the logic I used.
Does anyone else agree with it?
You NEED to give her CQC and Physical Attributes so she will be able to fight her way out of most fights. Remember, her bugs will be good only for as long as the Reverse Mountain and a bit in Paradise because after that people will just be that ridiculous Level of prowess where she would need to bolster her other things. Right now she needs to catch-up physically to others because right now she is the example of what Kizaru said about Devil Fruit Users. That the 'arrogant idiots that think that their Logias make them invincible die young', she needs to get into the shape where she can legitimately fight when her bugs would be useless. Any Logia or sufficiently skilled or specified Paramecia would literally walk through her bugs as if nothing happened, it's pointless to actually put any points into them right now as it won't help at all. Getting her into space where she can fight without them would be so much more useful in the long run because the fights in East Blue won't be as life-threatening as in Paradice so she can basically be grinded here until Grand Line to at least be strong enough to match someone in CQC.
That's the logic I used.
Does anyone else agree with it?
Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
It's comic book genius, and Wildbow made it a superpower because it isn't probable with real life no matter how smart you are, my guess is that it is just a power like tinker powers, just based on haki or something.
Chapter Twenty-Five
RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
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- Someplace Cold, Canada
Chapter Twenty-Five
Nami's boat hit the soft sand of the beach and came to a complete stop with a lurch. "And there you have it. Easy as pie," Nami said as she let go of a rope that was holding the sails at half mast and moved away from the rudder. "Could you be a dear and lower the anchor, just in case we're still here when the tide changes?" Nami asked as she jumped down from the elevated rear deck and onto the main floor of the boat.
Taylor nodded and decided that she was going to have to ask a few questions about ship terminology. Calling the front bit the prow was about as far as her knowledge went. She wasn't even sure which side was port and which was starboard.
Shrugging to herself, Taylor moved towards the back, found a heavy anchor nestled against the side of the ship and, after making sure it was properly secured, tossed it overboard with a splash.
"Did you intend to come with me?" she asked Nami who was busy in the main and only cabin of the small ship. The girl jumped a foot into the air and spun around, coming face to face with the small swarm spinning in the air behind her.
"Taylor! You can't just bug talk to people from afar! It's creepy!" she shouted.
"Sorry!" her swarm said.
"Yeah, whatever. If I find out you're spying on me while I sleep we'll be having words. Or I'll be having words while you learn how to swim after I kick your butt overboard."
Taylor couldn't help the small smile tugging at her lips. Lisa Nami was not, but she had that same kind of spunk her best friend had had when in a good mood. It was easy to fall back on old banter. "I'm going to find supplies. Water, something to eat. Did you intend to come?" she asked with her own voice as she stuck her head into the cabin.
Nami froze while she spoke, but a few quick breaths to recentre herself later she was fine. The girl was already developing a resistance to Taylor's voice. "Yeah, sure. I'm coming."
They landed on the beach with a crunch of sand underfoot and Taylor immediately cast her senses ahead. She had already been toying with the bugs in the jungle, but she hadn't really been paying all that much attention.
"Uh," she said.
"What?" Nami asked. "Did you find the idiots?"
"No. There are animals in there."
Nami looked at her, then at the thick forest. "Dangerous animals?" she asked.
A fox with the head of a chicken shot out of the woods, clucking like mad as it sprinted past.
"No. Not dangerous, I don't think."
[Local Species Registering as Genetic Deviants.]
"Really?" Taylor asked.
"Really what?" Nami asked right back.
Taylor blinked at the girl and shook her head. "Would you think I'm crazy if I told you there's an alien that lives in my head?"
[Host Cranium too Minuscule to Contain Queen Administrator.]
Nami stared for a long time, then sighed. "I had hoped that you were the sane one."
"It's true," Taylor said.
"Of course it is," Nami said as she patted Taylor's shoulder. "I believe you," she lied. They began moving towards the island proper, leaving a trail of footsteps behind them.
Taylor sighed but didn't press. It might have been a mistake to admit anything to Nami, but it wasn't as if she could readily prove anything, and she doubted Nami could do anything about her passenger anyway. Not that she wanted anything done with her passenger. Strange as it was, the voice in her head was something of a friend.
[Friendship is a Concept below Queen Administrator. Friendship is unnecessary. Host has Queen Administrator. Queen Administrator owns Host. Simple.]
"Love you too, passenger," Taylor snarked back, earning a weird look from Nami. "My friendly space friend says that the animals around here are genetic deviants."
"Not the only deviant around," Nami muttered too low for Taylor to hear without her bugs.
"Hey now, I'm the one stuck with the brain parasite here," Taylor defended herself.
[Queen Administrator could Leave Host! Queen Administrator merely finds Host Neural Pathways Enjoyable. Could find New, Better Host at any time! Idiot Host!]
Taylor rolled her eyes and tried to ignore the pounding headache she had earned for herself. "I don't want to risk eating any of the native fauna. Plenty of normal looking fruit though, and the bugs I sense are all norm--"
Taylor's heart hitched.
There was something ahead, something bizarre.
[Interesting.]
***
[] Investigate.
[] Find the boys
[] Stock up on fruit and such
[] You found an island. Name it ContessaSucksLandia.
[] Write in...
Nami's boat hit the soft sand of the beach and came to a complete stop with a lurch. "And there you have it. Easy as pie," Nami said as she let go of a rope that was holding the sails at half mast and moved away from the rudder. "Could you be a dear and lower the anchor, just in case we're still here when the tide changes?" Nami asked as she jumped down from the elevated rear deck and onto the main floor of the boat.
Taylor nodded and decided that she was going to have to ask a few questions about ship terminology. Calling the front bit the prow was about as far as her knowledge went. She wasn't even sure which side was port and which was starboard.
Shrugging to herself, Taylor moved towards the back, found a heavy anchor nestled against the side of the ship and, after making sure it was properly secured, tossed it overboard with a splash.
"Did you intend to come with me?" she asked Nami who was busy in the main and only cabin of the small ship. The girl jumped a foot into the air and spun around, coming face to face with the small swarm spinning in the air behind her.
"Taylor! You can't just bug talk to people from afar! It's creepy!" she shouted.
"Sorry!" her swarm said.
"Yeah, whatever. If I find out you're spying on me while I sleep we'll be having words. Or I'll be having words while you learn how to swim after I kick your butt overboard."
Taylor couldn't help the small smile tugging at her lips. Lisa Nami was not, but she had that same kind of spunk her best friend had had when in a good mood. It was easy to fall back on old banter. "I'm going to find supplies. Water, something to eat. Did you intend to come?" she asked with her own voice as she stuck her head into the cabin.
Nami froze while she spoke, but a few quick breaths to recentre herself later she was fine. The girl was already developing a resistance to Taylor's voice. "Yeah, sure. I'm coming."
They landed on the beach with a crunch of sand underfoot and Taylor immediately cast her senses ahead. She had already been toying with the bugs in the jungle, but she hadn't really been paying all that much attention.
"Uh," she said.
"What?" Nami asked. "Did you find the idiots?"
"No. There are animals in there."
Nami looked at her, then at the thick forest. "Dangerous animals?" she asked.
A fox with the head of a chicken shot out of the woods, clucking like mad as it sprinted past.
"No. Not dangerous, I don't think."
[Local Species Registering as Genetic Deviants.]
"Really?" Taylor asked.
"Really what?" Nami asked right back.
Taylor blinked at the girl and shook her head. "Would you think I'm crazy if I told you there's an alien that lives in my head?"
[Host Cranium too Minuscule to Contain Queen Administrator.]
Nami stared for a long time, then sighed. "I had hoped that you were the sane one."
"It's true," Taylor said.
"Of course it is," Nami said as she patted Taylor's shoulder. "I believe you," she lied. They began moving towards the island proper, leaving a trail of footsteps behind them.
Taylor sighed but didn't press. It might have been a mistake to admit anything to Nami, but it wasn't as if she could readily prove anything, and she doubted Nami could do anything about her passenger anyway. Not that she wanted anything done with her passenger. Strange as it was, the voice in her head was something of a friend.
[Friendship is a Concept below Queen Administrator. Friendship is unnecessary. Host has Queen Administrator. Queen Administrator owns Host. Simple.]
"Love you too, passenger," Taylor snarked back, earning a weird look from Nami. "My friendly space friend says that the animals around here are genetic deviants."
"Not the only deviant around," Nami muttered too low for Taylor to hear without her bugs.
"Hey now, I'm the one stuck with the brain parasite here," Taylor defended herself.
[Queen Administrator could Leave Host! Queen Administrator merely finds Host Neural Pathways Enjoyable. Could find New, Better Host at any time! Idiot Host!]
Taylor rolled her eyes and tried to ignore the pounding headache she had earned for herself. "I don't want to risk eating any of the native fauna. Plenty of normal looking fruit though, and the bugs I sense are all norm--"
Taylor's heart hitched.
There was something ahead, something bizarre.
[Interesting.]
***
[] Investigate.
[] Find the boys
[] Stock up on fruit and such
[] You found an island. Name it ContessaSucksLandia.
[] Write in...
Babysharkdodo
I knew the song before it was recorded
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- A place
[X] Investigate.
[X] Find the boys
[X] Find the boys
RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
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You're assuming that A) there's no other, non-canon companion on the crew by then, and that B) Taylor being around won't impact the narrative at all. I'm not saying Usopp won't join, I'm just saying this is a quest. Right now the only confirmed members of the Strawhat crew are Zoro and Luffy. That's it. Until the quest progresses we don't know what will happen or how?
It depends, ideas of her gaining fruit powers and Taylor being able to use armament through her bugs have been brought up by others and the author, so the "best" approach is going to change depending on it. And even if you concentrate on physical stats and cqc only, Taylor would take a long time to get her phys-stats to avarage, and she will only have one useful arm at least until water 7, which will put her at a disadvantage even against people of similar stats, pretty much cancelling out the good cqc she would have.
About the usefulness of her bugs, it really depends on how the author decides to write these fights, like how easy it is for Taylor to attack people by targeting their eyes or choking them, how easy it is for her opponents to get rid of them or if she will get sea-king sized bugs.
For the moment, I'm assuming that QA isn't going to become obsolete in future fights, so I would say for phys-stats mainly speed and agility to keep foes at mid-distance with a weapon that can hurt "soft" targets even with below-average strength.
Or we put all points in conquerors until everyone faints upon eye contact, but that sounds pretty boring
I love Tsundere QA so much.
[X] Investigate.
Since QA called it interesting I'm guessing this is some new organism that Taylor's power at least partially applies to. Could be useful expansion of our arsenal without costing one of our too limited skill-ups.
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WardenTwig
Verified Maverick
- Location
- Probably Not America, But You Never Know
[X] Investigate.
[X] Stock up on fruit and such
Tsundere Queen is great.
[X] Stock up on fruit and such
Tsundere Queen is great.
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- england
[x] You found an island. Name it ContessaSucksLandia. yes!! all my yes!!
[x] Investigate. also this because the first one is a mental thing anyways
[x] Investigate. also this because the first one is a mental thing anyways
