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Imago 3.1
The day following that nightmare, you awakened groggy and stiff, with the taste of vomit still in your mouth. Staring blearily around you, you tried to figure out where your bed had gone. A sudden and stabbing horror knifed into you as you realized you were in a holding cell, the...
Arc 3: Imago
Imago 3.P: Preludes and Nightmares
You are in the warm, enfolded in the dark. You cannot move, and the ever-present sickly-sweet scent of decay is the only sense you have beyond the bitter taste of bile, until suddenly it isn't. The dark and cramped confines of your cage...
Interlude 2.E.2: Emma -- Of Ladders and Lunacy
Panacea's words still chased themselves around Emma's brain. She'd already cried herself out hours ago. She'd tried to deny them, but it didn't help. One after another, she'd thrown objections in their way. The blunt fact of the famous healer's...
[Putting this up since it's one of mine, but tw: allusion to suicide.]
Interlude 2.E: Ripping off the Bandage
Emma Barnes opened her eyes and was confused to be presented with the alien topography of a strange ceiling. Working her tongue against the cottony roof of her mouth, she glared up...
Emergence 2.10c
A long silence reigned in the conference room as you looked between the gathered figures. The Director remained imposing, immovable. Miss Militia remaind at parade rest, awaiting further orders. Armsmaster's visor turned between you and the director, his mouth thinning briefly...
Emergence 2.10b
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After Armsmaster's question, you start to respond in the affirmative. However it occurs to you that no, you aren't nearly set to proceed. Shaking your head, you hold up a hand and bolt for the stairs, calling down at the heroes, "Hang on! I need to get the paperwork for the...
Emergence 2.10a
"That...actually, that's basically what we were going to ask you about. In a few, um, few hours. After breakfast and...um, clothes." You're most definitely not a lurid shade of red right now. You are totally calm and poised. No matter what your treacherous mental subdivisions...
Emergence 2.9
[X] Show them to Dad
-[X] Stunt: Your dad arrived home from work to see you in your standard Taylor 'disguise', sitting at the kitchen table with several pieces of paper spread out in front of you. You were working on what options you had going forward in terms of heroing, and...
Interlude 2a: The Damnation of Brockton Bay
Interlude 2a.1: Dinah -- Prelude to a Damnation
It probably said something that the first sign she'd gotten of the end of the world was that things got better.
The numbers had... Well, she didn't have a word that fit. They'd changed, even if...
Emergence 2.8 -- Boiling Point
[X][Mental]: PANIC! [autoselected unless 1wp is reflexively spent to calm down]
--[X][Mental] Stunt: Oh crap, FIRE! You hiss in pain as the crystalline razor scrapes against blistering skin, stripping off the molten agony that clings to your skin. The crystal...
Emergence 2.7c
[][Mental] Guard with your Crystal Fire Barriers
-[]Stunt: Just mere weeks before, you could not conceive of being able to win a fight with a teenager, one on one. Now you fight four Onis at once. Lined in white fire, a sphere of crystal rising around you deflects an incoming...
As a fair warning, this update is a teensy bit on the short side, mostly because it was intended to be part of 2.7. And then I didn't finish writing it in time before I left. And then I lost four straight drafts to technical issues. >_<
Emergence 2.7b
[X]Speak with one of the Dallons
-[X]...
Emergence 2.7
[X][Law] Throw the Book at them. Throw ALL the Books at them.
-[X]Stunt: You head to the bookshelf to grab one of Mom's old books from when she took that elective on intro to law during her undergrad. It's not quite up to date but since so much of the law revolves around precedent...
Emergence 2.6
[X] A Private Celebration
-[X] Stunt: The kitchen hummed as Taylor set herself to making some pasta for the party on the stove, to go with the simple salad and smoothies already chilling in the fridge, stirring as she felt the familiar sense of Uncertainty's not-quite-silent...
Emergence 2.5
[X] I'm going to want to finish this conversation. Now.
-[X] Stunt: Wait a moment. "Um, Dad?" Taylor thinks quickly, then exerts her will, lifting the bed slightly enough to make a weighty bump, "Don't come in yet, I'm experimenting with something here!" Alright, continue...
Emergence 2.4
[X]Get your explanation
-[X]Stunt: Taylor sat down on her bed, the springs creaked under her. It was one of the few places she could be relatively sure no one would interrupt her. "Okay, Uncertainty, lay it on me." She said with determination.
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It had taken some time--and...
Emergence 2.3
[X]You owe me an Explanation. Later. When I can process all this.
--You don't have time to dwell on this right now. You need to finish your research and figure out why the hell this unknown website knows your name. And why you know another language. And...a lot of things...
Emergence 2.2
[X]Do Cape research on PHO and the Parahumans Wiki
-[X] Stunt: Sitting down at on of the computers in the Brockton Bay Public Library, you open up various local news sites. You got turned into a cocoon in your locker, got kidnapped by villains, were out of it for five days...
Emergence 2.1
[X]See if you can't get Dad released and help him get back on his feet
-[X] Stunt: Threads of her new sense winds through the unconscious Danny, taking clinical inventory of his physical health, much as Taylor ignores the rather unnecessary and excessive elements it reports...
Infernal Conundrum
Arc 2: Emergence
Prelude
The King is Dead; Long Live the King
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A wistful, sad smile curls one edge of your lips as you gaze down at the procession wantonly wandering through the streets below you. Spread all around you, filling every surface inside an infinite...