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Precogs canonically can't predict trigger events, IIRC, but that's a pretty minor quibble.Unlike every previous time, today your internet search for the word that will save your life gives you a result: 'The Chicago Wards welcome new member Cuff'. Turns out the reason you couldn't find anything the last time you searched the word was that the girl hadn't triggered yet.
Fucking precogs.
If his relationship with Aisha is too consensual to qualify, Shatterbird is already in position to be a replacement.Alec wants to have slave puppets again, without revealing his true identity.
That's a great idea, the willpower boost would allow her to survive being the Butcher in the long term. I don't think she would kill the Butcher intentionally though, it would have to be an accident from the Butcher using their rage aura stupidly or something.Taylor doesn't seem particularly bothered by the Butcher being in town, and kidnap-murdered one of her capes. Perhaps Taylor ends up habitually cutting to gain willpower to make the voices in her head go away?
Look at what happened to E88 and Fenrir.
Shatterbird is a slave puppet.
What I'm hearing is that goth!Taylor is going to do a lot of chortling as Taylor engages in habitual self-harm, to the point that the minions could feel obligated to stage an intervention.The key aspect of this charm that's important is quite blatantly explained in the story. The primary method of regaining willpower is having a good night's sleep. The primary drawback nightmare fugue vigilance is that even if you try to sleep, you have a decent chance of not regaining willpower anyway because of the nightmares.
The part where she specifically needs to hurt herself to regain willpower is not the important part here. It's the fact that she now has a method of regaining willpower easily where she did not before.
Cuff's power, that doesn't make you stronger, or tougher, or more dangerous. It doesn't make you immune to pain. All it does is make you more determined as a result of being wounded.
Taylor would be exposed as a top tier trump if her powers got shared and suddenly the rest of the Yangban had 20 more powers, so I don't think that is a viable option for her to get more powers.
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"All it does".
"ALL it does".
"ALL IT DOES"?!
I'll grant you, I know next to nothing about Exalted specifically, but I'm familiar with the mechanic (Fate points, hero points, etc.) and hello?! she can generate Willpower!
How the hell is that an 'all it does'?
I can only assume that the mechanic is opaque to the character, but even still, she just finished losing her wolf, her father and her daughter, and - granted, it takes an unspecified-but-presumably-large-but-not-debilitating amount of damage, but - she can't see the use in generating Willpower?
Hell, I'd take that trade any day of the week, and I don't have the potential of picking up Brute or regeneration powers.
This isn't a gamer fic, the mechanics are opaque to the character. Also it's not that impressive. Unless she gets her hands on a very strong regeneration power, depending on Taylor's Conviction score it might not even be better than getting 8 hours of sleep a night was before she got Nightmare Fugue Vigilance compared with spending 8 hours a night resting using baseline Exalted regeneration after self-harming (The DM is being permissive allowing self-mutilation to work, but not out of the park permissive). Willpower is very easy to replenish in Exalted. You get WP just for good stunts, aka you tend regenerate willpower when you're in the sorts of situations where you need willpower.
So Willpower's not equivalent to Fate Points. That makes better sense.
Thank you for that.
I still stand by 'I'd take that trade any day' and think she's underestimating it, though.
Precogs canonically can't predict trigger events, IIRC, but that's a pretty minor quibble.
It should be noted also that her main source of willpower regen since she stopped sleeping has been the 'self-affirming actions and personal victories' clause. Or in other words, getting new powers and torturing Sophia in increasingly fucked-up ways. And one of those sources just dried up.
Two-die stunts aren't a thing Taylor can do - I'm the one writing this, she doesn't have a player describing her actions evocatively for in-game rewards. I am giving her three-die stunts whenever she makes other people in the setting go "wow", which has happened a few times. But that's far from the kind of willpower-engine that the 'stunt every action' Exalted powergamers take for granted.
I wonder what is going to happen to Taylor that would break her willpower if not for this charm? She doesn't have much more to lose.
Taylor doesn't seem particularly bothered by the Butcher being in town, and kidnap-murdered one of her capes. Perhaps Taylor ends up habitually cutting to gain willpower to make the voices in her head go away?
Logical."The wolf devoured every part of her, until not a single speck was left."
Lie status: Not found.
Taylor doesn't seem particularly bothered by the Butcher being in town, and kidnap-murdered one of her capes. Perhaps Taylor ends up habitually cutting to gain willpower to make the voices in her head go away?
Absolutely beautiful. For someone with such a powerful Stranger power she is incredibly effective playing to the camera.Aisha said:"No comment, no comment!" Imp says as several less queasy reporters shove microphones in her face. "BITN are good patriotic citizens who don't question our kill orders, we just execute them. You'll have to ask Director Tagg!"
Is this meant to be threadmarked or something? Or is it a non canon post?She finally relaxes when the bus passes by the battered sign announcing that she is 'leaving scenic Brockton Bay'. She is never going back.
She would need a new name. Now that she was free, now that she had left the Hated Enemy behind, she would no longer think of herself as 'Evil Taylor'. What a joke that was. Her, the Taylor who didn't join the Slaughterhouse 9, the evil one? But she could not in good conscience call herself 'Good Taylor', either. She had taken an innocent life.
Why does evil Taylor not think she is going to get whacked by the slightly other evil Taylor? Or even the 17 looming dooms she has to survive?
The way I see it, original Taylor* intended to turn in the corpse of the Echidna!Clone, but Echidna!Clone secretly had a clone of herself made by Blasto and substituted it, leaving her free to disappear.
Why does evil Taylor not think she is going to get whacked by the slightly other evil Taylor? Or even the 17 looming dooms she has to survive?