Blade (UBW!Taylor Worm Quest)

[Scope]

Of course, you just proved you have regular access to the armor anyway...

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And you also go out with the armor on beating up thugs and stuff. That isn't going to cause issues with Uber and Leet with gangs, or yourself paint a target on yourself for that matter.
Yep, definitely nothing to hide. Going as a civilian girl is perfectly okay. Unwritten rules only covers capes anyways. You aren't making your home and everyone who lives in it a target for gang members at all if you are merely a civilian girl with access to power armor that is likely not stashed at your house.

That attempt started with going to school and very rapidly turned into accidentally discovering Sophia's corona gemma.

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Interesting, was this a flub moment where Taylor also outs herself? Because it is hard to image Sophia missing on the rush of heat throughout her body.

He's not going to learn about random civvies without a reason. Like joint patrols and a budding friendship with the wards.

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Yeah, like the above gang-busting in power armor, doing actual patrols with Wards isn't noticeable at all.

Conservation of Detail, yeah. I use invisible text for facts that are true but aren't necessarily important or immediately relevant to the story, like the date stamp at the bottom of each post.

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But will be effecting us later. Just not our immediate choices.

 

[siflux]

Vote Tally

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Too soon, I don't write until Friday evening after work.

Interesting, was this a flub moment where Taylor also outs herself? Because it is hard to image Sophia missing on the rush of heat throughout her body.

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Nope, because the initial assumption was a brain tumor until she had a chance to look things up during computers class. I should just post the prototype as an omake.

 

[Scope]

Too soon, I don't write until Friday evening after work.

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Just having all the votes sitting on one place.

I have hopes that someone might want to do something other that the pregenerated options. Though given the vote and forget, and zero speculation on updates, I'm just getting my hopes up.

Kind of wish this quest was on one of the two other forums. Cause I genuinely like this quest, but I have no idea what direction the other players want to take the quest towards. There is basically zero relevant discussion between players.

EDIT:
Since this is where write-ins go to die and conversation between players that show what we intend for votes don't exist...

[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
[X] Study extra for the GED

 

[Angelus]

[X] No, not yet. Surprise is too valuable to give up.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
[X] Meet up with AllSeeingEye

 

[Scope]

siflux, you may want to change the dates on the PHO segments.

♦Topic: Enbringer Information Thread XXXIV

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Don't know about this one, maybe changing the number of pages rather than the date.

♦Topic: Super Metroid

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Definitely this one though.

 

[siflux]

siflux, you may want to change the dates on the PHO segments.

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Thanks, nice catch. I'll update those in a bit. Could you get me a vote count too?

 

[Scope]

Thanks, nice catch. I'll update those in a bit. Could you get me a vote count too?

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Here you go.

Spoiler: Tally Results - Partition by Block

Vote Tally : Blade (UBW!Taylor Worm Quest) | Page 11 | Questionable Questing
##### NetTally 1.7.4
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
No. of Votes: 5
Minion #Q
Angelus
BBJimmy
CKirk
Scope
[X] Study extra for the GED
No. of Votes: 4
Prince Charon
DJK
Scope
subsider34
[X] Meet up with AllSeeingEye
No. of Votes: 3
Minion #Q
Angelus
DJK
[X] Meet up with AllSeeingEye
-[X] Make sure to have a non-traced costume, and be cautious about it. It's possible that she's leading us into a trap, but the best way to handle that is to spring the trap while prepared for it.
No. of Votes: 3
CKirk
BBJimmy
Prince Charon
[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
No. of Votes: 2
Minion #Q
Scope
-[X] Leet and Uber are friends we don't want them to think that were just using them, to pick up tinkertech copies
No. of Votes: 1
Minion #Q
[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
-[X] Dad deserves to know the risks you're taking.
No. of Votes: 1
CKirk
[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
-[X] Dad deserves to know the risks you're taking.
No. of Votes: 1
Prince Charon
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
-[X] Dad deserves to know the risks you're taking.
No. of Votes: 1
BBJimmy
[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
-[X] Dad deserves to know the risks you're taking.
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
-[X] Kid Win and Vista deserve to know that you actually have powers. Maybe some of the other Wards or the Protectorate too.
No. of Votes: 1
subsider34
[X] Other
-[X] You really need to train. Getting detected by Lung earlier showed you that stalking super-villains carries certain risks you are unprepared for.
No. of Votes: 1
subsider34
[X] No, not yet. Surprise is too valuable to give up.
-[X] What would cause you to want to tell people? A closer/stronger relationship with one of the heros of the city who we could trust to have our backs and not spread the knowledge further than we'd like
No. of Votes: 1
DJK
[X] No, not yet. Surprise is too valuable to give up.
No. of Votes: 1
Angelus
Total No. of Voters: 8

Spoiler: Tally Results - Partition by Line

Vote Tally : Blade (UBW!Taylor Worm Quest) | Page 11 | Questionable Questing
##### NetTally 1.7.4
[X] Meet up with AllSeeingEye
No. of Votes: 6
Minion #Q
Angelus
BBJimmy
CKirk
DJK
Prince Charon
[X] Yes, you think it would be useful for some people to know:
No. of Votes: 5
Minion #Q
CKirk
Prince Charon
Scope
subsider34
-[X] Uber and Leet could work with your powers if they knew. Plus, then you could be a proper partner.
No. of Votes: 5
Minion #Q
BBJimmy
CKirk
Scope
subsider34
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
No. of Votes: 5
Minion #Q
Angelus
BBJimmy
CKirk
Scope
-[X] Dad deserves to know the risks you're taking.
No. of Votes: 4
CKirk
BBJimmy
Prince Charon
subsider34
[X] Study extra for the GED
No. of Votes: 4
Prince Charon
DJK
Scope
subsider34
-[X] Make sure to have a non-traced costume, and be cautious about it. It's possible that she's leading us into a trap, but the best way to handle that is to spring the trap while prepared for it.
No. of Votes: 3
CKirk
BBJimmy
Prince Charon
[X] No, not yet. Surprise is too valuable to give up.
No. of Votes: 2
DJK
Angelus
-[X] Leet and Uber are friends we don't want them to think that were just using them, to pick up tinkertech copies
No. of Votes: 1
Minion #Q
-[X] Kid Win and Vista deserve to know that you actually have powers. Maybe some of the other Wards or the Protectorate too.
No. of Votes: 1
subsider34
[X] Other
No. of Votes: 1
subsider34
-[X] You really need to train. Getting detected by Lung earlier showed you that stalking super-villains carries certain risks you are unprepared for.
No. of Votes: 1
subsider34
-[X] What would cause you to want to tell people? A closer/stronger relationship with one of the heros of the city who we could trust to have our backs and not spread the knowledge further than we'd like
No. of Votes: 1
DJK
Total No. of Voters: 8

 

[siflux]

You've been living a lie for too long. You've got to tell someone about your powers. Someone you can trust. Someone who goes out of their way to keep you safe and happy. No, not Dad, he'd freak out, even though you've been wearing heavy power armor when you go out. Daniel and Ted. Uber and Leet. You need them to know that you've been using them for their gear. Only a week and you've already come to value their friendship so much that you can't bear the thought of something like this poisoning it. They need to know.

They need to know after you study and have a lunch date. It'll happen! Just later. You pack some extra clothes in place of a lunch before going to the library. You'll be needing them today. You shoot a text off to AllSeeingEye as you leave: Lunch today?

Mari's, it's on me. Oh hey, she sent a map too! This phone is really neat.

Today you get to start studying something fun! You hope. You mean, you like math, but spending half a week on such basic topics? Hopefully social studies won't be as bad. Three sessions of civics; one each of US History, economics, and geography; and a final day for an overall review. It's all interesting stuff, except geography at this level is probably just memorizing places. Which you could probably solve in seconds by scanning a globe and just referring to it as needed. But that's not for a few days.

As you'd feared, today's work is at a more basic level than you're used to, but it's a new take on the theory of government to you. Put simply, you'd never considered legitimacy as a measure of whether or not something is a government. Prior to Scion's first appearance, various mafias around the world functioned as a form of unofficial local government, sometimes more powerful than the actual government. If they provide the same services as a government would, and do so via mandatory taxation, are they not a government? Modern gangs, especially parahuman-led ones, do the same thing. What makes the Empire 88 or the Azn Bad Boys not a government in the territory they control? Mostly, it's a matter of how much competition they have for vital services, how much people acknowledge them as a government, and to what extent they actually provide the services they claim to provide. As police fail to deal with crime in an area, a mafia or gang that can do so gains legitimacy in the eyes of those they protect -- or they can just keep forcing people to buy the ever-valuable service of 'not being killed', and be seen as nothing more than what they actually are. (GED status: 8/30 study points!)


Finally, it's lunchtime! You rush your books to the return cart and dash into the bathroom. There, you change into even baggier than usual clothes, wrap a shirt around your head, and slap a pair of snow goggles over your exposed eyes to hide your identity. And just in case, and because you have a head-to-toe layer covering it, you summon up the Zero Suit under your clothes as an emergency defense layer. Then, it's off to Mari's.

Which turns out to be a super-fancy place. If not for the blond-haired girl who flags you down outside the restaurant, you're certain they wouldn't have let you in. But money talks, and the maître d is more than willing to ignore the dress code and see you to a booth when AllSeeingEye slips him a Benjamin.

"Hi, I'm Lisa," She introduces herself properly. "Or AllSeeingEye online, of course."

"Samus," You offer. "I don't have powers or anything, but I also don't feel super comfortable revealing who I am to a stranger who sought me out, sorry." She pulls a pad of paper and a mechanical pencil out of her purse and starts writing as you mutter further. "I mean, I'm really excited about having a personal fan and all, I just, you know."

"Don't worry about it. I understand trust issues like that. I used to be a supervillain," she admits, sliding the hotel-sized pad of paper across. I know you have powers, and I need your help to save a kidnapped twelve-year-old. Don't talk about it, just write as you talk. "Started out with cybercrime against the rich simply to survive. Nothing they'd miss, within the amount the FDIC would cover. Ended up getting caught eventually."

You barely manage to keep yourself from overreacting, and it's an effort of will to write while holding a conversation. "How'd you run into the Merchants, then?" What are you talking about? I'm just an ordinary high-school student. You slide the pad back.

"Ended up joining a… I guess you could call us a gang? More like a bunch of friends who happened to be criminals." I'm basically psychic. You're obviously lying. And you've been patrolling in Leet's suit. Neither he nor Uber would do that.

What do you want? You scribble, furious.

"Anyway, that was the Undersiders. Went pretty well for a while. We were the masters of the escape, always pulling off the perfect heists and getting away clean." Like I said, rescuing a kidnapped girl. Dinah Alcott. Mayor's niece. Recently-triggered precog, taken by Coil for that.

You slide the pad back without writing anything.

"Then we pissed off a dragon, and you know how that kind of thing goes. Bitch was killed a few days ago, and the survivors split up." Robbing Lung's casino was a cover for the kidnapping. We didn't know. We don't even know how he pulled it off.

"I thought she was called Hellhound," you comment.

"That's what the PRT called her, and they have all the PR. She meant it in the literal meaning of 'female dog', not the expletive it's usually used as. Coil's a Thinker too, but I don't yet know how his power works. Seems to get information from nothing. Stay out of his interest until you're ready to act and you should be safe.

"So the lot of you nearly got shot up at least once by the Merchants?" You ask, still not needing to write back.

"More than a few times," Tattletale tattles. "The Merchants were scum, and I'm glad they're gone even apart from the revenge. We'd have done it ourselves had we been prepared to hold territory." He's forcing me to work for him, or I'll be shot by his tinkertech-armed mercenaries. Also recruited The Travelers. Has underground bases, but I don't know where they are, or how to get in or out.

Food arrives, and you realize a flaw in your cunning disguise. Namely, you can't expose your mouth without untying your mask. And you definitely don't trust the psychic supervillain sitting across the table from you.

"Don't worry about it. I'll leave first so you can eat. I really am a fan of your work, though. It's too bad you don't have Leet's armor anymore. You did more good with it than he ever accomplished with all his other gear combined--Shit!" Tattletale interrupts herself as she drops the well-used pad of paper onto her sauce-covered plate. The page full of information on Coil slides off as she pushes the pad to the side with a fork "I needed those notes, too!" She exclaims, spearing the saucey page and some chicken and eating them both. "Now I'll have to rewrite everything later. Hold on, I'm going to go throw this in the trash."

Tattletale gets up, and not long after she returns, a waiter brings her a box for leftovers. "I really do need to run," She tells you. "But there's no need for you to rush yourself. Seriously, I'm incredibly thankful for what you did. You went above and beyond the call of duty, especially for being pressed into an Uber and Leet video." She places seven hundred-dollar-bills on the table, two by the waiter and five by you before heading for the exit, talking quietly to herself some more about Uber and Leet and the call of duty as she leaves.


With the supervillain gone, it doesn't take you long to loosen your headgear, though you still keep it on. People here know you have something to hide, now, so it's best to keep as much hidden as you can. Also, you pocket the cash she gave you. There's no reason not to take the money, you guess. If you decide not to keep the probably-stolen-goods, you can just turn it in later, but cash is basically untraceable. And you thought confessing to Uber and Leet was going to be the toughest thing you did today.

Speaking of which, you text them that you're coming over after you finish your very long lunch, and also that there's something you important need to tell them. You won't let yourself hide from this responsibility.

You arrive, are let in, and take a deep breath before spilling your guts. "I secretly have superpowers and I did from before we met and I don't want you to just think I've been using you because I'm not even though your gear makes me stronger I want to keep being friends because you're the only friends I have now and please don't reject me I don't think I could take it." You bury your head in your hands.

Uber interrupts your misery first. "We knew." He tells you.

"You what?" You ask.

"There's been an unexplained second feed on the suit's helmetcam the last few nights," Leet explains. "Interior showed it was you, exterior showed what you were doing. We could probably splice it into an extra video if you want."

"You don't mind?" You feel like a broken record.

"Original's still here, so we hardly had anything to complain about, and we did basically trick you into the video in the first place." Ted tells you. "So, what can you do? Duplicate tinkertech?"

"Duplicate anything," You explain proudly. "More than just that, too. Can you clear some room for sparring?"

As Uber and Leet get to that in long-practiced motions, you pull out your copy of Uber's Master Sword. "Can you use the original?" You request.

Uber does so, and it quickly becomes apparent why as you mirror his every motion for the duration of a short spar. "Your power lets you duplicate people's skills?" He guesses.

"Kinda," you offer, dropping into a chair, exhausted. "When I copy something, I get its entire history. Not just how it was crafted, but also every time it was ever used. And not used, and everything in-between. Things… remember how they were used, basically. And they want to be used like that again. If I used an unused sword, you would have destroyed me. But with the hours of practice you've put into this, I can stand up against you."

"Why'd you really tell us about your powers?" Daniel asks, dropping into a comfy chair opposite you.

"I guess… I wanted to really be your equal. I mean, nothing I said upfront was untrue, even if it is really embarrassing that I don't really have any other friends anymore. I don't just want this to be Uber and Leet and some girl who's barely played any video games but is still helping out to trade views for money. I want this to Uber and Leet and… whoever I am, I don't know." You explain more slowly as you catch your breathe. "But I want to be a hero too, and I don't know if I can do that with the two of you. And if I'm going to be copying your gear, not telling you just seems wrong. I should probably tell everyone else I've been copying from too, at least eventually, but they're not my friends."

Leet turns to Uber. "Second playlist?"

"Second playlist." He confirms.

"Second playlist?" You inquire.

"We're cool with you hero-ing with our stuff. But we want to film it. We'll stick it on the Uber and Leet and Copy-Girl channel on a different playlist from the main stuff, and you still get a cut of the money."

"That's a terrible name," You tell him.

"Kirby!" Leet corrects. "It's the perfect choice!"

"We're not named after characters, though."

"Emulator?" Leet suggests.

"Do I get to decide at all?"

"Eh, sure," Uber tells you. He shows you a controller as he turns on Smash Bros. "Copy this and play as whoever. I want to have an actual challenge today."

Leet sidles over and grabs another controller, and for the first time all day, you finally relax.


You call Dad on your cellphone and tell him you're having dinner with friends as Uber orders two pizzas on his. You're a little sad to stop playing as it gets late, but duty calls. If you're too late to save someone tonight because you were playing video games, you'd never forgive yourself.

"I'm here," A familiar, expected voice sounds inside your helmet. "I won't run overwatch for you every night, but I want to make sure you know what you're doing, at least. Want to fight some Nazis?"

"Okay," You let Uber know, running helter-skelter as your Speed Booster charges up. "Got something to throw on the map?" You leap into the air, flying towards the Empire's territory in a sped-up Space Jump.

"Halbeard's fighting Stormtiger and Cricket," an icon blinks on your mini-map.

"Halbeard?"

"He has a halberd and a beard. What does he expect to be called?"

You drop out of the sky, surprising everyone on the battlefield as you crash into Cricket at speed. She slams into and through a building as almost all your momentum is transfered into her.

"We really should have thought about how Speed Booster basically turns you into a Kinetic Kill Vehicle before giving you that powerup," Uber complains. "At least we remembered the sonic boom."

Armsmaster adjusts easily to your entrance, though he appears uncertain as to whether you're a friend or foe. You offer him a thumbs-up with your non-cannon hand as you starting shooting ineffectually at the remaining Nazi cape, who avoids your shots when the wind pushes them off-course. Weird, the environment never affected your aim in the games. Unrealistic, or just Leet unable to make the cannon completely faithful? There isn't even a stun setting in Metroid, so maybe that's what's causing the issue. You're so lost in thought that when he charges at you, hands open as if they were claws, he scores a clean hit. Claws they certainly seem to be, as he manages to drain a good 30 energy from your suit without even physically connecting.

"Ironically, your best bet for taking him is melee," Uber advises. "You probably shouldn't pull out any other weapons if you can avoid it. There's value in keeping your true power secret so you can surprise a stronger enemy in the future."

Which leaves you two options on the suit for non-arm-cannon melee. Option one: you punch with your hand-hand, missing wildly as he slides back, leaving him open for option two, which you blatantly copy from your earlier melee session: Grapple Beam to grab him, and then you violently slam him into the ground. Armsmaster takes the opportunity to jab the downed villain with the Halberd's haft, and Stormtiger promptly stops trying to get up and collapses back onto the ground.

Amsmaster nods companionably to you, confirms Stormtiger is still down, then checks the building for Cricket. While he's busy, you run off at top speed. You've seen how you act in front of your hero, and you do not want to do that in your first costumed meeting. Besides the embarrassment, he also might recognize you. Maybe next time you'll work up the courage.

The rest of the night goes similarly, though you don't meet any more capes, as Uber finds targets for you and you alpha strike them and call the police. At his insistence, you call it a night early and head home.

Today was Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Name vote is still ongoing! This'll probably be the last week it's open.

Next Day's Day Plan (Two votes, up to two more if you cannibalize morning study or evening patrol):
[ ] Study extra for the GED
[ ] Spend time with Uber and Leet
[ ] Get more gear for your power
-[ ] How?
[ ] Other (Write-in)

 

[Scope]

Coil is still going after Dinah, and is still likely to make the final snatch on May 14 unless the Protectorate are no longer going to be out of town that day.

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Major events unlikely to be butterflied away completely in the short term: Coil kidnapping Dinah, an Endbringer attack.

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I know you have powers, and I need your help to save a kidnapped twelve-year-old.

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Yeah... about that. So how did this major event come about with the Protectorate not out of town?

Dinah had her powers less that a month, unless 'several weeks' can stretch up to two months, before she got kidnapped... which was on April 14th. Huh.
Anyways, I little over two weeks early.

I have doubts that Rachel could have pushed Lung hard enough that all Protectorate members were occupied by that. Except the kidnapping happened during the robbery, not Lungs retaliation?

Still...

Characters are individual agents, trying to accomplish their own goals, and until you butterfly enough, they won't have a reason to take you into account in their plans.

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Feels like Taylor doesn't need to butterfly anything. There are so many major changes in the background before the quest even started.

I guess dates really don't matter at all.

 

[siflux]

Yeah... about that. So how did this major event come about with the Protectorate not out of town?

Dinah had her powers less that a month, unless 'several weeks' can stretch up to two months, before she got kidnapped... which was on April 14th. Huh.
Anyways, I little over two weeks early.

I have doubts that Rachel could have pushed Lung hard enough that all Protectorate members were occupied by that. Except the kidnapping happened during the robbery, not Lungs retaliation?

Still...

Feels like Taylor doesn't need to butterfly anything. There are so many major changes in the background before the quest even started.

I guess dates really don't matter at all.

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QM Lies! Actually, not intentionally. I thought up additional material after saying that, because I thought about why the casino robbery would be a month early, and why Coil would be willing to sacrifice the Undersiders like that. It can't be mistake, because I can't make characters weaker than canon, so Coil must have some other strength that lets him pull off the kidnapping earlier. Which I'm currently planning on revealing next interlude, but don't hold me to that.

On top of all that, I thought it would be more interesting this way. Using meta knowledge to prevent bad things from happening is less fun than using IC knowledge and power to do things, I think. Unless the intent of the story is to be a mashup of beneficial coincidences, with the protagonist none the wiser. And sure, The Man Who Knew Too Little can be fun, but that's not what I'm trying to write.

Preventing Dinah's kidnapping was now retroactively impossible, as it was in the future until it was in the past. That's Doylian logic. On Wattsonian reasoning, Coil can effectively spend time to guarantee success as long as people don't know how to prepare for him or even to prepare for him, and Lisa didn't know what plan needed to be stopped until too late. She's almost as much a victim here a Dinah herself.

It was still totally possible to prevent the breakup of the Undersiders, just a damned stupid thing to do and would prolly have resulted in a less interesting plotline. I'm really having fun with the whole Uber and Leet thing.

 

[Scope]

QM Lies! Actually, not intentionally.

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Eh, just means I can't take anything said outside of quest content at face value.

I thought up additional material after saying that, because I thought about why the casino robbery would be a month early, and why Coil would be willing to sacrifice the Undersiders like that. It can't be mistake, because I can't make characters weaker than canon, so Coil must have some other strength that lets him pull off the kidnapping earlier. Which I'm currently planning on revealing next interlude, but don't hold me to that.

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Here's hoping whatever happened simultaneously with the casino robbery makes sense and is well known enough that we can actually get clues from it in character. Though I have doubts we will have Taylor actually go and attempt to find or stumble across them unless you plant them directly in front of us.

On top of all that, I thought it would be more interesting this way. Using meta knowledge to prevent bad things from happening is less fun than using IC knowledge and power to do things, I think. Unless the intent of the story is to be a mashup of beneficial coincidences, with the protagonist none the wiser. And sure, The Man Who Knew Too Little can be fun, but that's not what I'm trying to write.

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I'm not complaining about that, that is perfectly fine and is more engaging. Usually. I hope you don't expect write-ins to find your sub-plots though, wouldn't hold my breath on that. Anyways, when you tell us things in advance, we (or I) kind of expect to be able to use it in some way. Having the rug pulled out from under you isn't pleasant, but I now know not to expect anything outside of story posts, so that's fine now.

Preventing Dinah's kidnapping was now retroactively impossible, as it was in the future until it was in the past. That's Doylian logic. On Wattsonian reasoning, Coil can effectively spend time to guarantee success as long as people don't know how to prepare for him or even to prepare for him, and Lisa didn't know what plan needed to be stopped until too late. She's almost as much a victim here a Dinah herself.

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If by preventing you mean attempting to strike at Coil before he got his hands on Dinah, yeah. At least that was what I was hoping for, IF Taylor was sufficiently prepared. Yeah, it was a big if.

Figured the preventing the act of the kidnapping on the day of it was impossible, given that Taylor only has a set amount of choices that you provide and none of them have her anywhere near the rich side of town.

Of course, now it is practically impossible to think about assaulting Coil or interfere in his operations since he will always be prepared for it unless he doesn't ask the right questsion, did a split in the middle of an operation or Dinah attempts to mislead him. The only hope now is that awareness of a successful future means there are chances that he messes up some how or amassing enough power or skill to steamroll any resistance.

It was still totally possible to prevent the breakup of the Undersiders, just a damned stupid thing to do and would prolly have resulted in a less interesting plotline. I'm really having fun with the whole Uber and Leet thing.

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I'm not bothered about preventing the Undersiders from not being a thing. Just that their one act of acting a month earlier has far more reaching effects than it was actually stated to have.

1.1 to 1.5 is less than three days. No one would go out armed with only a butterknife that you can only use as a melee weapon. Never heard of the Undersiders until the second day. There was an option to do something at night, but we still only had a butter knife that can't even be used as a projectile unless you actually threw it by hand. It was also at the expense of being tired on the third day when the entire day was reserved for the Metroid live-streaming. Yeah, couldn't see it happening.

Though I'm curious as to how we could have saved them, when in the Interlude, it was only Rachel that just lured out and killed. Well, before you said saving them from an angry dragon and now it was just keeping them from breaking up as a group, so it sort of makes sense now. Given that it was only Rachel, she wouldn't give a rats ass about another person and just bailed by herself (and her dogs) since she doesn't actually know us. Might not have actually effected the Uber & Leet plotline much unless Taylor actually got injured.

Note:
Despite my gripings, I am perfectly fine with non-story posts being subject to change when it is for the betterment of the story.

 

[DJK]

Hmm well meeting with Lisa turned out to be as useful as I thought though wasn't expecting that little timeline shift twist not sure where to go from here but we definitely need more allies than just Uber and Leet.

[X] Plan Scope
[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

Edit: changed my vote

 

[Scope]

Hmm well meeting with Lisa turned out to be as useful as I thought though wasn't expecting that little timeline shift twist not sure where to go from here.

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If you want to be able to find Coil (or rather his strongholds/safehouses), which if I recall correctly, no gang or the Protectorate have done before, you would probably need to do some training with Structural Analysis and the mental parts of Tracing/UBW, grab something from his mercenaries and hope you get lucky or something like that.

There are most likely other ways that don't involve being better skilled than you currently at with your native powers and I'll be quite exasperatedinterested in seeing how that plays out.

 

[Fishyface]

[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
[X] Get more gear for your power
-[X] Visit the museum and see if you can find something interesting.
--[X] Ask Uber and Leet for suggestions.

 

[Prince Charon]

[X] Study extra for the GED
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

 

[Scope]

New Trace: Golden Sword[Uber/Link]

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This was not updated into the character sheet.

"When I copy something, I get its entire history. Not just how it was crafted, but also every time it was ever used. And not used, and everything in-between. Things… remember how they were used, basically. And they want to be used like that again.

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So if Taylor had access to all of Leet's tools, the end product of whatever Leet used said tools to make and the material components to make it. Could she make an actual duplicate?

EDIT:
Bah, best just to put it into practice and see what happens.

[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

 

[Biigoh]

[X] Plan Scope
[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

 

[Scope]

Biigoh

Added the hangout option and a thing to go with it.

 

[Biigoh]

Biigoh

Added the hangout option and a thing to go with it.

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ish dat soh?

 

[Scope]

DJK, Fishyface, Prince Charon
Could you add my write-in to the Uber an Leet option? I want to give a try at being Discount Dragon.

I wonder if it is too late to raid Squealers workshop. Would a patrol and expending some prana into the upgrade searching function of the Power Suit lead us there?

ish dat soh?

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Added yet another thing.

 

[Fishyface]

DJK, Fishyface, Prince Charon
Could you add my write-in to the Uber an Leet option? I want to give a try at being Discount Dragon.

I wonder if it is too late to raid Squealers workshop. Would a patrol and expending some prana into the upgrade searching function of the Power Suit lead us there?


Added yet another thing.

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Sure. Changing vote.

[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

 

[Prince Charon]

DJK, Fishyface, Prince Charon
Could you add my write-in to the Uber an Leet option? I want to give a try at being Discount Dragon.

I wonder if it is too late to raid Squealers workshop. Would a patrol and expending some prana into the upgrade searching function of the Power Suit lead us there?


Added yet another thing.

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OK, my vote has been edited. Do I need to move it to this post?

 

[Scope]

OK, my vote has been edited. Do I need to move it to this post?

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Nah, it's good where it is. Thanks.

 

[Scope]

I'm curious, what kind of things do other players want to see Taylor do.

I personally want to see a combat capable Reality Marble deployed and putting a downpour of iron rain on Kaiser. Maybe even in some kind of medieval looking armor.
Heck, the RM probably isn't even necessary for that.

 

[NotaWriter]

[X] Study extra for the GED
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.

 

[Scope]

Spoiler: Tally Results by Block

Vote Tally : Blade (UBW!Taylor Worm Quest) | Page 12 | Questionable Questing
##### NetTally 1.7.5
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
No. of Votes: 6
NotaWriter
Biigoh
DJK
Fishyface
Prince Charon
Scope

[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.
No. of Votes: 5
DJK
Biigoh
Fishyface
Prince Charon
Scope

[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
No. of Votes: 4
DJK
Biigoh
Fishyface
Scope

[X] Study extra for the GED
No. of Votes: 2
NotaWriter
Prince Charon
Total No. of Voters: 6

Spoiler: Tally Results No Partition

Vote Tally : Blade (UBW!Taylor Worm Quest) | Page 12 | Questionable Questing
##### NetTally 1.7.5
[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.
No. of Votes: 4
DJK
Biigoh
Fishyface
Scope

[X] Study extra for the GED
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
No. of Votes: 1
NotaWriter

[X] Study extra for the GED
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.
No. of Votes: 1
Prince Charon
Total No. of Voters: 6

 

[wornchalice8081]

[X] Make advancements on your power.
-[X] Reinforcement makes what you are using it on better. Attempt something similar except instead of making it better, make it different by projecting a property or effect it didn't have before.
--[X] Practice with stuff at home (or at Uber and Leet's) along with things made from hollow projections and identical (or near identical) tracings.
[X] Spend time with Uber and Leet
-[X] You know how your power lets you make a temporary duplicate of anything, including the experience the thing went through and the skills the wielder exhibited with it? You think you can make actual duplicates of what Leet made if you can copy his tools and the stuff he made with them, including the stuff that has already broken. You would just need the materials.
[X] Evening Patrol
-[X] Patrol around the former Merchant Territory, use the upgrade searching function of your power suit and attempt to find Squealers workshop for her tools and whatever finished or unfinished projects left behind.

 

[Dcdexe177]

name source code
EMIYA
Z.E.R.O. -ZONE ERADICATION ROBOT OPERATOR
Blade
Arsenal
Mirror

 

[Akuma-Heika]

Wait… two guys with Tinkertech and a video game stream? Are you secretly Uber and Leet?

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How could she know they have tinkertech?

 

[Snake21]

How could she know they have tinkertech?

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Emiya F'ing Shirou! Nuf said.