Realistically, she would have to have physical contact with each of the dice she is throwing in order to control them well enough to get a reading.
Makes sense to me. Message length limited by how many dice she can fit in her little fists, then.
It'd be easier to take a D100 and then type out a sheet of paper listing names of capes. "Which one of these capes will X, Y, Z, in the nearest future?"
Very possibly, assuming she could pull out that much info at all. And by the nature of the blind spot, she'd be unable to tell what was killing them, or reliably distinguish an Endbringer attack from S9, or any other random superstrong villain.
Perhaps then. "What is the closest date the Endbringer alarm will sound?"?
If they can do that then she's properly broken the system, have a map of the world covered in lights with one for every country and all numbered. Ask it when the light will next turn color X, have smaller maps of every country showing lights all over it numbered from 1 to 1000, if the country is too big split it up into areas first and then individual places and ask again which light will next turn color X. Finally ask how many days until the light lights up as that color, given just 4d10 they get a few decades into the future.
Depending on how bullshit her shard's interpretation mechanism is, just go for the jugular and bust out the Tarot.
Ayup.
I'm thinking Thinker 15-20 if our assumptions are right and the only limitation to her power is the medium she's using?
This one jumped out at my inner Spacebattler: if she can make toothpicks fall where she wishes, can she do that with projectiles, like bullets, tranq darts, or the Tinkertech quarrels they gave Sophia? Does it matter if she's dropping them, or can she control thrown or otherwise accelerated objects?
That's a tricky one. Bullets aren't random in the way dice are and I don't think she's "Lucky" in the way of Matrim Cauthon so she probably (forgive the pun) can't fire blindly...
That's why I quoted the bit about toothpicks landing 'wherever on the table she wanted,' rather than some other part.
There's that, too (very useful), but I was more thinking of combat applications (because that's the stereotype of 'what Spacebattlers think about with any new superpower/invention').
The issue is that her power is based off predicting things so unless you can figure out how to have them determine something it's not viable, I mean throwing a dart at a map is choosing a location so valid, but would throwing a knife at a person count as choosing a body part?
Or you take my suggestion for pulling stuff people write down from the future to send science hurtling decades into the future in a matter of hours. That'd require high quantity data transfer. A bigger issue would be that the data suits the output, simply colour coding the dice or something might not work and you'd very possibly need a way of figuring out what order they're in that Taylor is capable of without needing high tech sensory data or her power would fail to order them correctly as it's likely based off her perception of the medium.
I believe theorycrafting is going to be put on hold until we can see how Taylor is able to interpret the data. There seems to be some leeway since she is able to instinctively place a decimal in a number series from her dice, but she was also unable to immediately discern that 00-0 meant that Danny held nothing in his hand.
Some of it sure, some can be done anyway with overly complex wording such as rolling a d8 for the first three bits of the ascii representation of the text she's trying to divine. Something like the darts on a map thing on the other hand should be pretty reliable as it's super easy to interpret and understand.
Because S9 attacks represent the culmination of many people making many decisions, and could be altered by the very fact of making the prediction (unless nobody reacted to the prediction at all).
