Editing Broken Trigger (section)

===Manifestation===
Broken triggers appear to display an almost [[shaker]] effect,<ref name="2.4 z"/> allowing the shard to jump from person to person, affecting multiple people. This was possibly due to the now-unrestricted shards registering people as a triggeree, where before they would only connect to more then one person if that person was [[Grab-Bag Cape|also having a trigger event]].<ref>'''Stephen M (Ethesis):''' I keep thinking that nine clones tapped into one passenger should each get just 1/9 of the power each.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Nope. See the Echidna clones for a similar situation where powers aren’t divided. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/#comment-32871 conversation] on [[Interlude 25]]</ref> The position within the 'area of effect' of a broken trigger seems to affect its manifestation; in one incident, those farther from the center of the trigger event were less mobile, to the point that those on the perimeter were fixed in place by their shards.<ref name="2.4 z">“They tend to cover a lot of ground.  Shaker stuff.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Rocketround said.  “That’s come up in briefings.”<br><br>“Location, environment, and position matters a lot,” I said.  “The capes closest to the perimeter were least mobile.  I think the further they got from the center, the less flex there was.  Until their agents wouldn’t let them move at all.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>

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:'''Peanuckle:''' What I'd like to know is what sorts of abilities the shards can perform without limiters. Judging by QA and Khepri, shards are pretty much bullshit. But what about shards like Grue's, or Tattletale's, or Grey Boy's, acting outside a host to defend their Entity-body? Is there any comparison, or are "unshackled" powers so far beyond what we see that it's laughable?<br>
'''Wildbow:''' Look at Noelle or the Bitch epilogue chapter for what a shard does when it's really unleashed - depending on the host, the nature of the unleashed power can vary, specializing as it develops toward a task/specific implementation.<br><br>Grue's power would just spew darkness out in very direction to pretty much blanket and isolate an entire city, his body would become a vehicle for the power, and he'd mutate, quite possibly turning the 'tap into other passengers' ability into a link to just absorb power. Broken/dead shard, he'd continue doing so until those passengers lashed out, creating isolated, power-based effects/chunks of Grue in the midst of the city.<br><br>Tattletale's power would just scale up constantly in power, reach, and intensity of detail. The shard might not have broken 100% clean - Scion might have given it some tools somewhere in there, so I can imagine a Tattletale-sub-entity scaling up to a breaker state or tapping into a tinker ability to network/develop more hardware/brainware to process it all. Scale up to processing multiple dimensions at once, and develop/manifest/obtain a weapon. Going back to the tools Scion gave, a simple blaster power with a clean, possibly invisble terrain-penetrating laser, with Full-bore-tattletale focus at work to discern the best possible weak point? Or even just a Tattletale in the middle of it, holding a gun? Picture her systematically picking off threats one after another, from highest priority to lowest, from the center of the incident sites, maximum range.<br><br>Basically, you unshackle, the power scales up, the mind/body start to break down, and if the host is lucky, the shard can provide some means of housing the new data and form.<br><br>Standalone, without a host, the manifestation for the shard itself confronted in its own world, would be very similar in execution. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15025980/ Comment by] [[Wildbow]] in Spacebattles</ref> via the [[Manton Effect]], those affected by broken triggers almost invariably died as a result of their powers or the trigger event. One incident involving a broken trigger fixed a victim's [[Corona Pollentia]] in place, leaving her unable to move without intense pain until her death; multiple others also died from the same condition.<ref>Her brain.  The Corona Pollentia, the means by which powers were operated by the parahuman.  Hers had been established, but not as a fluid, functional thing.  It was a nail, taking her brain and fixing it to a specific position in reality. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> The same incident, centered around a matter manipulation power, also generated capes whose powers killed themselves; one vomited a fractal-like tree which tore away his body,<ref>I saw eyes widen, and turned to look.  A man had opened his mouth, and had something that looked almost as tall and thick as a telephone pole spearing skyward from his mouth.  Blood streamed from the sides of his mouth, his jaw clearly dislocated, and more fluids painted the length of the pole as it continued to rise.  It reached its maximum height, and then forked, the upper half splitting out into two equally thick portions, a giant ‘Y’ shape.  Each branch then forked into two, and forked into two again.<br><br>[...]<br><br>I flew to the man who’d grown the tree.  Even before I reached his side, I could see the damage that had been done.  Jaw, throat, chest, and stomach had been torn away.  Traces of the same material that had formed the tree had collected in his insides and pelvis, breaking into jagged pieces at some point before or during the tree’s fall. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> while others were buried by their powers.<ref>There was small talk, people remarking on what they’d seen.  Horrible things.  People buried alive by their own powers.  A few cases like what I’d observed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>