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J. C. McCraw has commented on his efficiency abilities effecting his social interactions, find and post, look up word of god respiratory | |||
should the character pages be broken up? | should the character pages be broken up? | ||
[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/Personality_and_Relationships can this ] | [http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/Personality_and_Relationships can this ] | ||
[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/History be copied] we are doing something like it with identity segmentation manton and siberian, noelle and echidna, Alexandria and rebecca costa-brown. the tab system seems to be largly working | [http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/History be copied] we are doing something like it with identity segmentation manton and siberian, noelle and echidna, Alexandria and rebecca costa-brown. the tab system seems to be largly working | ||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3dc0wz/lets_say_you_can_choose_the_classification_and/ct3ssij/ Tinker 15] | |||
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<nowiki><ref name="Story Arc"></nowiki>Guts & Glory Story Arc as it stands<br><br>Panacea - born Amelia, Marquis' daughter, he only took custody of her after her mother died of cancer.<br><br>Around the age of five or six, the Brockton Bay Brigade (later to become New Wave) attacked Marquis in his home. He protected Amelia with his body, taking a critical blow, and was later brought into custody.<br><br>Amelia was taken in by Brandish and Flashbang, because they were afraid she'd be abused/kidnapped by others who'd blame her for Marquis' actions or use the chance that she was that much more likely to trigger to get a child with powers.<br><br>A short time later, the Brockton Bay Brigade unmasked before the public, advocating capes without masks.<br><br>A short time after that, Fleur was murdered in her civilian identity, putting an end to that movement. Lightstar (brother to Carol/Brandish and Sarah/Lady Photon) quit the team.<br><br>Amelia's (Now Amy's) childhood was somewhat lonely - Carol/Brandish didn't quite want her, Flashbang was battling clinical depression. Amy grew close to her adoptive sister, Victoria, who was the same age as her.<br><br>On being informed that she was the daughter of a notorious villain, she withdrew into herself some. She became worried that she'd follow in his footsteps (quite possibly helped by Carol/Brandish's attitude).<br><br>Victoria triggered (easily) in gym class, started to go out in costume, more and more as years went on, as Glory Girl.<br><br>Amy triggered a little later on. It was more devastating than joyous, because it was one step closer to her following her father's path. There was a great deal of pressure as well (outlined in the latter half of interlude 3), with her inability to heal everyone.<br><br>Carol's attitude, one can guess, became even more distant.<br><br>Amy realized she had feelings for Victoria. She bottled them up. Readers have speculated that Glory Girl's 'awe' aura might have had long term effects on the emotionally vulnerable Amy, helping this along (or making it happen).<br><br>Bank Robbery (late chapters in arc 3) - Tattletale threatens to out Amy and/or tell her her father's identity. Amy freaks.<br><br>Post-Bank Robbery - Amy has a conversation with Gallant, she confesses the strain of having a healing power, he notes how close she is to breaking, and that she has 'strong' feelings towards him. Implied to be love, but it's (as later stated) jealousy and resentment; he's the guy who's dating the girl she loves.<br><br>Endbringer attack - Gallant dies. Flashbang (Victoria and Amy's father) receives a head injury. Amy's desperately afraid of using her powers on people's brains because she knows how easily she could cross a line, and doesn't heal dad. Grows more distant from the rest of her family. Victoria is upset that Amy won't provide emotional support after Gallant (Victoria's boyfriend) dies. Amy's struggling with her mixed feelings over his death. Gap widens.<br><br>Things come to a head when the S9 arrive. Amy finds out who her dad is, and Bonesaw forces Amy to either heal her adoptive father's brain or let him die, and Amy heals him. Convinced there's no way she can stay, she flees, striking out on her own. Victoria intercepts her, and a shaken Amy unconsciously/unwittingly uses this previously unexplored aspect of her power on her sister, altering Victoria's feelings for her. Victoria runs.<br><br>S9 continue rampage, and Amy gets swept up into it when Mannequin and Siberian attack her. She temporarily teams up with Undersiders to give a helping hand and to help her sister. Victoria gets injured by Crawler, Skitter rescues her, Amy stalls the damage and puts Victoria in a cocoon of fleshy bits, to restore the previous damage. Flees.<br><br>Jack and Bonesaw catch up with Amy, and Jack engages in head games with the already unbalanced, unstable girl. Skitter intervenes before giving chase to Jack/Bonesaw. Amy/Victoria flee.<br><br>S9 arc resolves. In the wake of it, Carol/Brandish is left wondering where her daughters are. They finally get a lead (thanks to Tattletale, in exchange for New Wave leaving Undersiders alone) and find a distraught Amy. The girl used her power on Glory Girl, and at the end of her rope, suffering a mental breakdown at at least one point, she used her power on Victoria, and forgot how to put the girl back together. Using her power only forces her to face the scale of the changes she's already made, and in panic/desperation she does more damage than she fixes.<br><br>Victoria goes to Asylum. Amy asks to go to the Birdcage, and authorities weigh the risk of her having another breakdown (and creating a plague that eats plastic/glass/stone/whatever/doing a lot of damage to a lot of people) against the risks of incarceration, put her in Birdcage. Amy reunites with her father.<br><br>In Marquis' arc, we see Amy trying to come to terms with what she did. Marquis is trying to ensure she (and he) don't face rebellion from within his cell block due to the issues her presence poses, and organizes a meeting with the other cell block leaders. He manipulates and charms his way through the worst of it. The meeting of Amy and Glaistig Uaine (a cell block leader with the ability to retain the 'spirits' of recently dead parahumans, along with their powers) clues Amy into something. She thinks she's figured out a crucial piece of the overall puzzle, and outlines it all to the surveillance systems that Dragon has in the prison, in the hopes that Dragon will pick up on it and act on the information. The Simurgh alters course and blocks/muddles the signal, and Dragon doesn't receive it.<br><br>Amy gets a tattoo so she has a reminder of Victoria and the crime Amy committed against her, without having to dwell so heavily on it. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?682837-Worm-Bet-the-Alternate-Thread-The-Star-Wars-Prequel-Trilogy-Still-Sucks-Though&p=16772221#post16772221 Comment by Wildbow regarding story arc]</ref> | |||
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Subject: Your Nilles University Application | |||
August 21st, Y1 | |||
Dear Applicant (Point_Me_@_The_Sky@mail) | |||
We regret to inform you that your application for graduate study in our department was turned down. We look at each application and applicant as a whole and decisions are based on a composite of information including your previous academic performance, referrals, relevant professional activities, proposed research statements, and test scores. | |||
Due to a high volume of applicants, this message has been partially automated. Your application was received by paper and email and discussed by me and one other faculty member. We responded by email as per your preference. We would like to stress, for your particular application: | |||
• That we would very much like you to apply again in future years. | |||
• That we would encourage you to use the same email address, as we can easily tie it back to this application. | |||
• We felt your academics were very strong. | |||
• We felt your extracurriculars were exceptional. | |||
• We felt your references were exceptional. | |||
• In a time when records are often lacking and references may be hard to identify or contact, your application stood above and beyond in how complete and thorough it was. | |||
Nilles is one of three Universities serving an estimated population of fifty million on Earth Gimel and its associated territories, and it is the sole post-secondary institution offering graduate studies. Over one and a half million bright and eager minds have applied to Nilles in avid hope of starting or resuming their educations, and regretfully, with our current facilities, we cannot accept more than twenty thousand. | |||
Although these circumstances mean we must regretfully send you an unfavorable response, we appreciate your application. We wish you the best in your future endeavors and look forward to hearing from you next year. | |||
Yours truly, | |||
Dr. Marilyn Ginbar | |||
Graduate Advisor | |||
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♦ Private Messages from Glitzglam: | |||
Glitzglam: Friend said emails out today | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I got mine this morning. | |||
Glitzglam: And? ? ? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Same as last year. | |||
Glitzglam: : ( | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: We have completed a review of your applic’n. Paperwork good. Grades good. X’lars good. Refs good. You’re perfect. | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: But the world ended two years ago, sorry! No place for you now. Please apply next year. We’ll keep track of your applic’n and the fact you applied last year, we promise! | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: no mention in this yrs letter about me applying last year so I do have my doubts | |||
Glitzglam: aw hon 😦 | |||
Glitzglam: why tho? My friend got in and I know his ap wasn’t as good | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: why do you think? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: That’s a serious Q’n btw. Because I don’t know | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Rational part of me thinks high demand program + only so many grad students allowed in | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: That part of me outnumbered 14 to 1 tho | |||
Glitzglam: hm hm | |||
Glitzglam: very specific # | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’ve been thinking about it all day. Made a list. Lots of unreasonable answers that are semi-possible. sentiment / reference backstabs me / people with ties to uni staff get in first / uni tied to gov + gov wants specific focus for research | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I could go on. I know some of those sound crazy | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: + all of that? If true then no reason to think next year will be different. Last year was a third the number applicants, they accepted 2.5%. This year, what? 1.4%? | |||
Glitzglam: um | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Could be multiple of above. could be none. | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Enough about me. How is training going? | |||
Glitzglam: is fine. not important. | |||
Glitzglam: Im going to visit as soon as possible | |||
Glitzglam: k? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: No need to treat me with kid gloves. We all suspected this would happen. | |||
Glitzglam: honestly ? | |||
Glitzglam: we all were saying 2 temper expectations | |||
Glitzglam: but we would wink as we said it | |||
Glitzglam: we thought u would get in | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: That doesn’t make me feel better | |||
Glitzglam: have u told everyone? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: no | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Today I have stuff to do. I work and think. | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Might go for long trip before h.school semester starts + I get busy with work. Visit home. | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Share after I get back I think. | |||
Glitzglam: K. Im visiting 2. field exercises today tomorrow. team want to meet for drinks on day off. I think I might take off nstead. home 4 sure. m/b u? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’m okay. But do me a favor? | |||
Glitzglam: anything | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: If you stop by? I set up tarps by house. Make sure they still there & no water getting through? Lost cause maybe | |||
Glitzglam: can do | |||
Glitzglam: u sure u ok? | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’m not. But I’m the ok sort of not ok. I’ve gotten good at effective brooding | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Our little parcel of humanity is sprawled haphazardly across 15+ alt earths. Has to be a place for us somewhere right? | |||
Glitzglam: right | |||
Glitzglam: and speaking of places. I got 2 take off becuz my place is 2 be doing drills | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Be safe. Say hi to the family for me. I’ll drop by soon. | |||
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Note: Second chapter also went up today. I split it into two for coherence, and because neither chapter was going to be long enough to warrant going up standalone. Click ‘next chapter’ to read it. This message will be deleted around the time P.7 goes up. Just three more to go. | |||
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acediamonds on October 31, 2017 at 00:03 | |||
http://topwebfiction.com/vote.php?for=worm | |||
Let’s worm our way back into first place! | |||
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mcbrubular on October 31, 2017 at 00:06 | |||
heck yeah! | |||
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PandaInAtlanta on October 31, 2017 at 00:08 | |||
Good Writing, but now I am so intrigued as to the significance of this chapter. Can’t wait for part 2 to hopefully clarify. | |||
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Francisthurston1926 on October 31, 2017 at 00:12 | |||
Nice to see humanity bouncing back slowly. | |||
Wonder what other elements of advance culture are just now returning | |||
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John M Smith on October 31, 2017 at 00:12 | |||
Grad school implies that Point_Me isn’t a teenager/old enough to have finished undergrad degree. Which is pretty impressive considering they’re a cape – balancing cape life and college can’t have been easy. I wonder if she has a Thinker power, instead of the Blaster that many have been theorizing? | |||
Also, Glitz and Point live together (given her “say hi to the family” comment, they could even be related), which is an interesting detail, but I wonder how much they actually see each other, given their chat history. Curioser and curiouser… | |||
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sesto_uncias on October 31, 2017 at 00:12 | |||
Three colleges in total sounds insane for so many people. Also, I am loving the insight into the rebuilding/infrastructure. Good stuff | |||
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Gunslinger on October 31, 2017 at 00:14 | |||
Ohh damn University rejection letters are the worst. Also we got more world building info. I’m surprised that only 3 universities are active. Are those limited to a particular field or government funded? | |||
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comb_jelly on October 31, 2017 at 00:15 | |||
Looks like Point_Me_@_The_Sky is a high school teacher in their civilian persona – “might go for long trip before h.school semester starts + I get busy with work.” (Alternative would be that they’re a high school student, but in that case they wouldn’t be applying to grad school.) | |||
Also I’m impressed that they’ve got grad schools again, so soon after the apocalypse … | |||
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paidraig on October 31, 2017 at 00:25 | |||
A caped high school teacher? I have vague recollections of one of the teachers at Taylor’s school being a cape, but I don’t have the free time to sort through the archives to confirm. Either way, I presume they have to let their school know, for student safety issues and the like. I wonder if Sky’s cape status is seen as a negative on the grad school application. | |||
Also, I bet Sky studies astronomy or astrophysics, and their power has nothing to do with their name. | |||
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ironroomenigma on October 31, 2017 at 00:36 | |||
I like the idea that it was because Sky is a cape. That might have been what they meant by “sentiment”. It’s possible that Sky maintains a civilian identity, though that doesn’t rule out the discrimination, provided the Uni has a Private Investigator or Thinker on hand. | |||
Excited for the rest!! | |||
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TheHobbler on October 31, 2017 at 00:40 | |||
I’m afraid all we have are Mr. G and the post S9 principal. And they aren’t capes. | |||
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Parrakarry on October 31, 2017 at 00:47 | |||
Don’t think any teachers at Taylor’s school are confirmed or even suspected capes, if anyone can contradict me please do. | |||
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sheer_falacy on October 31, 2017 at 01:17 | |||
Remember that this is their Cape in Civilian Clothes account, so it shouldn’t show up as a cape. So the school shouldn’t even know. | |||
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ironroomenigma on October 31, 2017 at 00:33 | |||
“Nilles is one of three Universities serving an estimated population of fifty million on Earth Gimel and its associated territories” | |||
Damn….. fifty million is not that much. My (possibly unfounded) assumption is that Gimel received a large proportion of Bet survivors, and maybe not too many other survivors. If so, the population has dwindled immensely. | |||
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Rlrader on October 31, 2017 at 00:42 | |||
It’s only behind for 24 hours and year! Also, of my captcha words was Calle, so I’m pretty sure captcha became sentient. | |||
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Someguy on October 31, 2017 at 00:42 | |||
2-in-1! | |||
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spinebeard on October 31, 2017 at 00:48 | |||
“Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Rational part of me thinks high demand program + only so many grad students allowed in | |||
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: That part of me outnumbered 14 to 1 tho” | |||
I do believe that number is too specific to have no significance. Perhaps Point_Me is in fact the only character in Worm confirmed to have fourteen irrational voices in their head alongside one voice that thinks itself rational. Conclusion: Point_Me is Cherish. | |||
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John M Smith on October 31, 2017 at 00:56 | |||
Butcher XV as a high school teacher, what a marvelous idea | |||
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sheer_falacy on October 31, 2017 at 01:23 | |||
“Alright class, Bobby skipped class last week so it’s time to punish him. I hope the rest of you are better learners than he is – I really thought he’d get the point after last time, when I took his first kidney.” | |||
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TakatoGuil on October 31, 2017 at 02:40 | |||
It’s definitely too specific – they go on to claim that there’s “15+” alt-earths, which fits the pattern. | |||
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Someguy on October 31, 2017 at 00:54 | |||
Post-apocalypse and bureaucracy still will not let you in without the “right connections” even when your paperwork is in order. | |||
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Melreader on October 31, 2017 at 01:41 | |||
Just so happy that there will be a second update in one day. Love this story and so happy that It is continuing. | |||
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Angelo Pampalone on October 31, 2017 at 01:59 | |||
Aw! poor Point | |||
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Pendia on October 31, 2017 at 02:02 | |||
Last year was a third the number applicants, they accepted 2.5%. This year, what? 1.4%? | |||
Do you mean 25% and 14% here? One third corresponds to approx 33%, so a bit of a sudden jump there :). | |||
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wildbow on October 31, 2017 at 02:07 | |||
A third the number of people applying (2.5% of 500,000, or vs. 1.4% of 1,500,000), not the # of people accepted. | |||
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Pendia on October 31, 2017 at 02:13 | |||
Ah. I think I got caught up with the fractions 1/3, 1/4, and 1/6, and assumed they were talking about the same thing. Rereading it makes sense now :). | |||
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===PRT Quest documents=== | ===PRT Quest documents=== | ||
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8zPROEoXRorAadrkl62Wvx3i7Q2AYQ511M6PHcP16c/edit# 'villains' documents] <br> | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8zPROEoXRorAadrkl62Wvx3i7Q2AYQ511M6PHcP16c/edit# 'villains' documents] <br> | ||
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[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k9mta3sUlCn5GcjgcU52AcYyaYFpJZqgzmSPHjk3gHw/edit# PRT Quest: Baltimore?] | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k9mta3sUlCn5GcjgcU52AcYyaYFpJZqgzmSPHjk3gHw/edit# PRT Quest: Baltimore?] | ||
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==New project focusing on the drafts page== | ==New project focusing on the drafts page== | ||
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[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/sentinel-9-5/#comment-1750 | [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/sentinel-9-5/#comment-1750 | ||
The post [https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/snippets-drafts-of-worm/ in question]<ref name="9.x">[[Prey 14.8]]</ref> | |||
Some of this was mentioned before | |||
ref name="14.8 c2" - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4571 another comment] by wildbow on [[Prey 14.8]]</ref> | |||
, but I don't remember if it was all gathered in one place, so...I'm gathering it in one place. From the Chapter 14.8 comments: | |||
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Relevance? Well, I think it marks one of my first in-setting attempts to show a hostile takeover by villains (Supreme Earth was such on a much larger scale) and their attempts to manage a city once they’d seized it. Why didn’t it work? Narwhal was too powerful for a protagonist, and the length would have put it into an awkward place, too long for a short story and too short for a novel or even a novella. Once I realized that, I lost steam.--> | Relevance? Well, I think it marks one of my first in-setting attempts to show a hostile takeover by villains (Supreme Earth was such on a much larger scale) and their attempts to manage a city once they’d seized it. Why didn’t it work? Narwhal was too powerful for a protagonist, and the length would have put it into an awkward place, too long for a short story and too short for a novel or even a novella. Once I realized that, I lost steam.--> | ||
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