Indeed, personally I had assumed that her shard would have shifted the subatomic particles to an alternate dimension for mass storage.
Not identical but dnd has the black dragons with acid breath, and some variants do have disintegration breath but thats more of a unique (or nethack) thing.
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- Tatum, Tx
Maxim 53 if I remember correctly: there is no overkill. There is only open fire, I need to reload and reduced to quarks.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Quark disassembly breath will require a few more upgrades. Maybe if she's exposed to Damsel of Distress?
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- Australia
Query: what happens if there's a lot of disassociated quarks drifting around?
The problem there isn't so much what's drifting around as the prevailing conditions required to allow them to drift around.
I dare say significant PPE would be required, and minimum safe distances would be prodigious.
YuffieK
(Verified Ninja Princess)
Free quarks (outside of quark-gluon plasma conditions) almost instantly decay into various flavors of leptons (electrons, muons and neutrinos) so there'd be minimal hard or lingering radiation issues like from neutrons.
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- Australia
Welp, that's what her power leaves drifting around then.
- Location
- USA
Something kept bothering me about the first half of the chapter, but it wasn't until I re-read some of the earlier chapters that I realized what it was. Shouldn't someone have given Taylor the "killing leaves a mark on you" speech by now? Oni Lee and the Nine were all krumped by Wyvern, after all.
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- Australia
Taylor killed Oni Lee, but it wasn't something she planned ahead of time, and she wasn't really aware of it until well after.
The Nine came to her. She was basically taking out the trash.
With Nilbog, it was "I am going to go there and kill someone just for being a threat."
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
- Location
- Lost to the vagaries of time.
Iirc, the Nine were directly and actively threatening people she loved. This was "hey, can you go kill this guy for me?". Which is very different circumstances.
- Location
- The Internet?
An update! And exciting things happened in it. Well done, Taylor (and Vicky, Photon Lady, 'n assorted PRT peoples). Thanks for sharing, Ack.
And I know she's a wyvern, but wyvernfire doesn't sound as cool/isn't already a term.
When destiny plays with dice, just cut the die in half, and it'll come up 7.
She knows. That's just how friggin' done she is with it. Those analysts might be some smartypants, but they don't know dragonfire.
And I know she's a wyvern, but wyvernfire doesn't sound as cool/isn't already a term.
Pestilence? She's already shown War (Fire) and Death (Annihilation)... figure out a famine-flameTM and she'll complete the set. Vicky should get her a punch card.
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
- Location
- Lost to the vagaries of time.
Wyverns are a type of dragon, therefore wyvernfire is dragonfire.
GreydonCreed
Man of Culture
- Location
- United States
When Piggot is confronted about her 'request' to Taylor, is she going to be at least slightly apologetic or is she just going to go 'F it, it needed to be done, and no one else has the stones to ask'?
Because if Piggot is unapologetic, I see a medical retirement soon in her future. She asked a Ward aged cape to deliberately kill a S rank hostile cape (with no Kill Order!) and it almost got Taylor and the PRT troopers nearby killed (by the spores).
Because if Piggot is unapologetic, I see a medical retirement soon in her future. She asked a Ward aged cape to deliberately kill a S rank hostile cape (with no Kill Order!) and it almost got Taylor and the PRT troopers nearby killed (by the spores).
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- Location
- Australia
Well ... it's not that she's wrong.
On the other hand, ethics left town awhile ago, with no forwarding address.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Well, in fairness, they only didn't kill Nilbog earlier because of the deadman switches.
And don't underestimate the fact that it worked. Nilbog is off the board. A Damoclean sword has been taken down. Millions of dollars of PRT budget, all sorts of assets, can now go elsewhere. I suspect that will push things more toward a slap on the wrist, "Good job and don't push your luck by trying it again."
xbox432
Lover of Editing
Oh she's definitely going to get a quite reprimand. But unless some dumbass politician decides THIS will be the platform they use to launch their reelection campaign, nothing would come of it. Success covers up a LOT of blemishes. And even if a politician does try something, they'd basically be throwing out their career. The public would LOVE the story of a "Firebrand Director, making the hard choices to save the people", the reporters would eat them alive.
Yeah, this is pretty much all I'd expect to happen as well.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
I mean, presented with two leaders, one who arranged the annihilation of a clear and present danger to the existence of the human race, and the other a politician trying to score campaign points...
I think it might be a bit more pointed than that.
"Great job. Never do it again."
Did ending Nilbog save a single person, though? Ultimately, the fact is, he was already contained. All his victims died a long time ago and this didn't bring a single person back. The only positive effect it had was to allow Ellisburg to be rebuilt, and there's plenty of other land around.
Fortunately for Piggot, most Americans believe in retributive justice.
I mean, canonically Nilbog was more contained via "tip-toeing around him so he doesn't want to breach containment" than the containment actually stopping him if he tried. Which means that he is still an insane nutcase that violently took over an American town and is employing MAD to prevent getting taken out.
Funny thing about MAD? When it fails, it tends to really fail, as people don't tend to be in a particularly forgiving mood.
Or, to put it another way, the positive effect is that there's no longer an unstable nutcase threatening to destroy parts of the US if he wakes up cranky in the morning for whatever reason.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Since the ring of troopers was the only thing dissuading him from going full Genesis Wave on the entire world, and since he clearly had the capability to break out if he really wanted to, I wouldn't consider his threat to be neutralised.
- Location
- In My Parlour like a Good Arachne
- Pronouns
- She, her
True. He was at best being given the time and energy to formulate more MAD protocols for a later date. Which made him a bigger problem every day that he was not take care of.