Editing Coil (section)

===Vulnerabilities===
Sources of causality interference, such as other [[precognitive]]s, can discombobulate and interfere with his power.<ref name="R1.1">Coil's powers get discombobulated by other causality interference, which is why he can't just have Dinah give every answer in Coil-generated universes that he discards. - [https://redd.it/2e3jdx/ Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> For example, Coil's power stops working as tidily if [[Dinah]] answers question(s) in a different timeline: he can potentially be forced to "accidentally" commit to timelines for a while after, especially those that he does not want.<ref name="reddit eDinahConflict">'''Elodes:''' Why didn't Coil ask endless questions of Dinah in alternate realities? Wildbow writes that "Coil's powers get discombobulated by other causality interference", but what does that mean? Why would this happen?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' There are safeguards to keep some powers from being overused to the point that they exhaust the power reserves of the shard that provides the power. Thinker powers are some of the most power hungry (often needing to do a lot of simulations and calculations behind the scenes), and thus thinker headaches are a thing. Two precogs bouncing off one another in an ever-escalating attempt to out-predict one another threatens to exhaust power, so the shards tend to throw up a big pre-emptive "nope!" and you get blind spots.<br><br>We're seeing the same principle at play here. Seeing a situation where a calculation-heavy thinker power would be abused, the shards throw things out of whack. So Coil's power stops working as tidily (potentially making him 'accidentally' commit to realities for a while after - especially the ones he doesn't want), and Dinah gets thinker headaches even if the thinking happened in another world - the same processing is happening behind the scenes, and the same safeguards are in place. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/93435861 --> Thus, he is unable to ask Dinah endless questions in different timelines;<ref name="R1.1" /> note that her daily allocation of questions would still be shared across timelines.<ref name="reddit eDinahConflict" />

If his power encounters a blind spot to the typical [[Thinker]] [[precognitive|precognition]] (e.g., [[Entities]],<ref>Scion shut down precog abilities. - [[Interlude 26a]]</ref> [[trigger event]]s,<ref>“We’ve heard of incidents where one person became a very large-scale effect.  The kind that would cover this whole colony, and then some,” I said.  “I think the catch is that most precogs and danger sensers can’t see triggers coming, even broken ones.” - [[Gleaming 9.12]]</ref> [[Endbringers]], [[Eidolon]], [[Sleeper]], [[Glaistig Uaine]], [[Pastor]]<ref name="II11.4 e1">It wasn’t Jeanne who answered.  Cinereal gave me my reply.  “Thinkers say no.  They’re either drawing blanks or they don’t like what they see.”<br><br>“Nothing specific?  No details?”<br><br>“No,” Cinereal said.  “But if you look at some of the other major thinker blind spots, you’re going to find yourself running into topics like Eidolon, Sleeper, the Endbringers, Valkyrie, the Island-state, the Pastor incident…”<br><br>“Concentrations of power,” I said.<br><br>Jeanne shook her head.  “''Complexity'' of power, most often.  Whatever thinker powers come into play, with these cases, there’s often too many variables to fully consider, thinkers report that their powers are fuzzy, inconsistent, or blacked out.” - [[Blinding 11.4]]</ref>), it would shut down for a while after and give Coil a headache (i.e., Coil is stuck in one timeline and unable to use his power while they are present).<ref>'''kaisheng21:''' yeah it gets weird, i don't understand how coil interacts with things that shouldn't be precoggable<br>[...]
:coil decides that he's going to go out and try and get to a helicopter and leave in timeline A, and sit in his bedroom in timeline B to be safe.

:in the simulation of timeline A, suppose he makes it, since coil's shard can't precog leviathan, right? we haven't seen anyone able to precog EBs?

:ok now it's time for the real world. so the shard would see that he would choose timeline A, so it'd start him out like timeline A and feed him data from the fake timeline B. so in the real world, he is going out to try and get to the helicopter.

:however, in the real world, suppose leviathan actually decides on a whim to go and slap his helicopter out of the sky. plummeting to the ground, he might try and switch to timeline B, only to be unable to

:so how are you suggesting the shard work around this?
[...]<br>i think previously when this came up the idea of just having coil coincidentally fall and break his neck in timeline B every time before he even would die in timeline A was raised<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' "Ow, headache.  Can't split reality." - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/101947914 -->
<!-- Being stuck in one timeline and unable to use his power while they are present is presumably why Wildbow also speculates that Coil would not be in a situation where a blind spot fails to accurately show up in one of his timelines.<ref>'''nallid:''' Did we ever find out if Coil's power was simulated or actual splitting?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Old old olllld WoG confirmed it was simulated.<br>[...]<br>'''nallid:''' Wouldn't leviathan not show up in the sim because anti precog element?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Not how it works. - Conversation with Wildbow on Parahumans Discord</ref> -->

If he falls under the control of a [[Master]] such as [[Khepri]] in a timeline, he might be forced into keeping that timeline if ordered to.<ref>'''dreamfarer:''' I'm picturing one of the realities that Coil had to let go. Imagine one where Skitter did have a second trigger and it changed just one aspect of her power. The part where she can only control things with very simple nervous systems.<br><br>I don't think that can ever happen in the story because that's pretty much game over. Brockton Bay become "Skitter's Hive", without people necessarily even being aware of that. So, we'll never see it but it's cute imagining Coil going "Oh hell no, let's just leave, leave now."<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' If that happened, though, what's to say she couldn't use her newfound control over Coil to make him collapse into that reality? - Conversation with Wildbow on RPG.net, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18009050 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>