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| {{sandbox}} | | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Volunteer List}} |
| List of Shards base format on Cauldron Vial list.
| | =Things To Do= |
| | | * new WOG dumps here. |
| Put in a warning of speculation
| | *[[Dragon|Dragon's]] page is an horrible mess that needs to be fixed. |
| Alphabetical
| | *[[Heartbroken]] |
| | | *[[Glow-worm]] Bow's various summaries can be adapted instead of the cut and paste job I did |
| Examples of powers granted
| | *[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/69c8tk/community_teambuilding_game/dh626po/ Insights from here to steal] Going on [[parahuman]] page for example. |
| | | *[[Vista]] - need to put all her work together |
| ==Administrator==
| | *[[Imp]] (who?) and Other-'Side'rs |
| blah something about functionality how it relates to controlling alotta little folks
| | *[[Jack Slash]] and other Slaughterhouse Nine members (Icky) |
| | | *[[Chevalier]], [[Velocity]] and similar Protectorate members need reputation sections and rewrites. |
| Powers known to be granted by this shard include
| | *[[Battle at the Bank]] clean up and make it a standard |
| Master/Thinker control of anthropods "bugs" within a rough three block radius, processing of senses and location.(double trigger)
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| Master Singular but versatile master minion composed of a Swarm of rats. hovers and can be commanded in a minute way comparable to Weaver.
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| 'Curse' Master/Stranger power with a multi mile range that makes people and animals hate the target.
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| *thinker
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| *master
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| *stranger
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| *Brute power is possible but stretches credulity the 'Brute' body | |
| Taylor Aidan danny <ref name="WoW">Writebow: Can't control them indviidually<br><br>[...]<br><br>Writebow: Sets invisible flags. Birds get pulled to that point.<br><br>Writebow: Or uses flag to have them all move in a wave, attacking on the way, etc. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18657938/ Comment by Wildbow archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="R1">Depends on the trigger, but possible culprits include...
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| *Losing Annette.
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| *Realizing he'd failed Taylor utterly as a father, getting harsh talk from Mr. Barnes.
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| *Being stepped on by the local gov't, failing the union workers he represents.
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| In devising the actual trigger, we actually figure this out in a way like we would a Cauldron vial. We know what the shard does, and the key thing to figure out is how that shard expresses its power and how it manifests.
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| The QA shard specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms. We see it in Skitter (bugs), we see it in Aiden (birds) and we see it in Chitter (rats).
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| On the flip side, the common elements for Danny in the three triggers noted above are, well, Danny. He's got a lot of repressed anger and anger against the infrastructure, and in every case, his general awareness/the awareness of the shard has picked up on the same setting details. It's going to tie into similar categories and types of creature, fitting to Brockton Bay. Given Danny's personality, natural reticence, and the 'cornered rat' anger, this tends to veer in the direction of rodents. So I'm going with rodents for the options below...
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| Losing Annette is a master trigger, one with a singular, focused sense of loss/isolation. Annette completed Danny, and losing her left him incomplete. In expressing the shard, his shard looks to occupy that void. Rats scurry to Danny and they gather into a form. Bodies interlock, hold to one another and work in coordination as they form something vaguely humanoid. In the right light, as a silhouette, it evokes memories of Annette. Perhaps Danny becomes slightly unhinged. He misses her so much, and somehow this thing, which has a way of standing out of the light, or in his peripheral vision (and he doesn't pry) evokes memories of Annette in how it moves or how it responds to his words, as he talks to it incessantly. He withdraws from Taylor and his coworkers, and after he gets screwed over by local government, starts lashing out. He has rough control over rodents in groups, getting them to converge in one area to attack or to build his Annette. Annette moves silently, gliding over floors or up walls and then throwing herself at foes, dissolving into a biting, gnashing swarm when attacking or when being attacked. As he progresses as a cape, the figure becomes more flexible in the forms it can take or what it can do, and his control slowly and steadily approaches Taylor's.
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| Danny, who hasn't been eating nearly as much (or feeding his daughter) is a hollow shell of a man. Alan approaches him, tries to shake some sense into him, and Danny experiences abject horror at just how badly he failed his daughter. It's like that sensation of missing a step, teetering toward rock bottom. The Danny we know teetered, experienced that moment of horror, and then got pulled back to his feet and gets counseled in what steps to take to rebuild and recover by Alan. This Danny teeters, falls, and triggers. Horrified and distracted by his emerging powers, he doesn't hear what Alan has to say. He says something incoherent, then turns and flees the scene. This Danny suffered a crisis of identity (fatherhood), guilt, and a realization of just how much he had disconnected himself from reality. The loss of Annette still burns. The crisis of identity manifests as a changer element, the guilt as a thinker one. In an ironic twist, his power keeps him distanced from reality. He tries to gather himself up, but the nature of his power makes it hard to reconnect with his daughter, and his efforts to regain normalcy are foiled. When he eats, he regurgitates everything but the bare minimum to keep his body functional, and with that regurgitation, he produces rats. He maintains the rough, very generalized ability to control rodents, but the ones he spawns are smarter and tougher, he maintains more explicit control over them, he can see through their eyes, sense what they sense, and use them to control the other, general swarms. Actually killing his own rats is hard, but the more they are, the smaller his own perspective is, relative to the combined sensory input of all the various rats. He inevitably reaches the point where he can't take care of Taylor anymore, his awareness largely subsumed, so he tries to turn to more productive ends, trying to improve the city for his daughter, going after the corrupt politicians, the teachers who failed his daughter, and the bullies.
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| Being stepped on by the local government, realizing he'd failed his workers, surrounded by a broader infrastructure and a city that seems hostile to him, he triggers as a generalized stranger/master. The eyes of others are on him, almost accusatory, or he thinks they are. He's angry, and that colors things. Stranger/masters tend to generate as emotion manipulators/controllers. Danny uses the smaller critters - insects, arachnids, rats, birds, fish, whatever - all together, not controlling them explicitly, but using them as vectors. It's an effect like Shatterbird's song, propagating through the critters, and covers an area miles across. Like Taylor, Danny doesn't even need to leave his house. For an area 3-4 miles across, people get irritable, frustrated. When Danny focuses on a person, people and local wildlife get irrationally angry and frustrated with that person. It's subtle, but that person's life becomes a nightmare, as flies and rodents collect inside their houses and in their cars, and everyone they meet seems to act hostile or outright tries to hurt them. The subtlety and 'soft' nature of the attack is a source of frustration to Danny, who is angry and wants to swing a punch, to get some resolution. He could stay largely impossible to detect, but instead anger wins out, and he puts on a costume and goes to confront the people he sees as the biggest problems. Or he just doesn't stop when the people and his host are assaulting the people he's going after.
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| In all three cases, he's liable to self destruct. The shard recognizes this, accepts it (in a way, the shard was sent to him by the entity for this reason), but then hops to a more viable host with a longer lifespan and more complex emotion. - [https://redd.it/4ak6m0 What if Danny Triggered], Reddit.com 15 Mar 2016 </ref>
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| ===True Nature===
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| Her shard originally went to her father before jumping to the more suitable host. Had Taylor's father experienced a more stressful life, it's possible that he could have triggered with rat powers.<ref>[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024872/ Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="reddit2"/>
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| [[Glaistig Uaine]] referred to Taylor as the "Queen Administrator", and claimed her power was a "noble" among the faerie.{{cite}} | |
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| In [[Scion]]'s [[Interlude 26|Interlude]] it is implied, but not explicitly stated, that Taylor's power was originally used to determine and rearrange the configuration of [[shard]]s within an [[Entity]], and it is referred to as "the administrator shard". It specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms.<ref name="R1"/>
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| DELETE this bit - The QA shard specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms. We see it in Skitter (bugs), we see it in Aiden (birds) and we see it in Chitter (rats).
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| ==Darkness shard==
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| *Grue
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| **Grue 2.0
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| *Sinkhole Grue
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| *Teleport Grues
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| Put in echidna bits
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| ==Destroyer shard==
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| chevalier put in speculation
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| ==Forget Shard==
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| a large shard cluster
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| ==High priest==
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| Vital shard?
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| ==Mein/Cross Shard==
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| Blah blah blah something about functionality (efficient response to danger)
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| Powers known to be granted by this shard include
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| 2 form Breaker
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| 3 form Breaker
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| <ref name="SB2">Keep in mind, also, that one shard gives different abilities based on the nature of the trigger and the individual.<br><br>Example: Shard 'Cross'. For the entities, it's a toolkit, a low-energy response to general hazards, allowing the entity to quickly switch swathes of shards to new tasks to deal with environmental hazards. The entity hasn't devoted much attention to it, beyond a few safeguards, so it finds a high crisis area & time with a 'glance' of its power and looses the shard, plotting for its arrival time & location.<br><br>Shard Mien reaches a host. It then travels to a new, younger, host, developmentally disabled Eric Stodt. It locks on, it gets a grasp on who the host is, and it summarily lets that part of itself die off, burning out to form the corona pollentia. Sit dormant for some time, if the arrival of shard to host didn't coincide with the trigger time. The trigger event happens, the shard recognizes the event from the state of the host and from context, the flood of stress responses, and so on. A now-twenty year old Eric is in the lake, his father shouting at him to swim, refusing to let him climb the ladder back up onto the dock. Eric is screaming incoherently, panicking, and every time his father pries his fingers off the ladder, he really thinks he's going to die. His father isn't even recognizable at this point, in the anger and midst of the danger.<br><br>The trigger reads Eric. Who is he? How does he generally respond to situations?<br>The trigger reads the situation. What form does the danger take? It's partially environmental, it's driven by a desire to escape, his life is threatened by a distinct enemy.<br><br>The shard then discards everything it doesn't need, distilling things down to one efficient task, suited to Eric. Where it wasn't already programmed with inherent safeties (Manton effect) and limitations, it uses Eric's stored knowledge to generate a kind of grasp of what it needs to do.<br><br>Eric becomes a breaker, transitioning between two forms. Because of the nature of the problem and of Eric himself, he doesn't get a form that returns him entirely to normal. He has one form where he's essentially a living artillery platform, unable to move, but capable of devastating firepower, and one form where he flies at stunning speeds, capable of turning on a dime, durable. A living bullet.<br><br>And one man in a bad situation is left standing on the beach by his family's cottage, steaming as the water is burned off his skin, having flown to freedom and obliterated his father, realizing what he's done.<br><br>If the shard hadn't left Eric's father to go to Eric, however, what might have happened? Eric's father might have triggered in another 'between a rock and a hard place' scenario, probably would have been a breaker, but might have picked up a breaker power that turned him into a living focal point capable of refocusing heat and cold over large areas (another environmental hazard the shard was tasked with facing), another form where he could manipulate gases on a similar level, and a third, clearer self identity might have left him with another form where he was more clearly human. Because the answers to the trigger question and to 'who is Mr. Stodt' is different from 'who is Eric Stodt'.[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12851263 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles (scrolldown)]</ref>
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| ==Negotiator shard==
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| Blah blah blah something about functionality
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| Powers known to be granted by this shard include
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| *Blaster
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| *Tinker
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| <ref>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. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15025980 Wildbow of Spacebattles]</ref> Section where the entities uses a shard to fill in the blanks?
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| ==Sting shard==
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| Is a mainstay of the entities tool kit, rarely needing anything else.<ref name="SB16">Sting, for the record, is akin to the shark. Sharks haven't evolved for aeons, because you can't get much better than a motherfucking shark. What you can do is put the shark in a tank with other fish/animals and see the way things might play out. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15026750 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>
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| ==Precog shard==
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| Diana poor girl, entity sent it out
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| ==Coruscant Knave==
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| Glaistig Uaine's name for it
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| ==Heartbreaker==
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| Heartbreakers shard List his kids and others
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| ==Path to victory==
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| shard Bit of WOG about God viruses using it to navigate and watch out for threats. Like not steering into a black hole.
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| ==Trivia==
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| *Names are based on [[Glaistig Uaine]] and [[Warrior Entity]] and [[Thinker Entity]] and WOWildbow | |
| {{Reflist}}
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| :Ah, but see, I love tormenting people. I’ve got a bit of a mean streak. I’ve seen people on Spacebattles & other forums saying they want Taylor to have a power boost. I know that there’s readers of ‘shounen’ series that are so used to the protagonist getting that next power increase (The week of training in an isolated location, learning that special technique, going super saiyan, whatever). I also know the traps inherent in going down that road.<br><br>So it’s fun to tweak people’s noses just a little, knowing what they’re hoping for. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/snare-13-09/#comment-3695 Comment from WB] | | :Ah, but see, I love tormenting people. I’ve got a bit of a mean streak. I’ve seen people on Spacebattles & other forums saying they want Taylor to have a power boost. I know that there’s readers of ‘shounen’ series that are so used to the protagonist getting that next power increase (The week of training in an isolated location, learning that special technique, going super saiyan, whatever). I also know the traps inherent in going down that road.<br><br>So it’s fun to tweak people’s noses just a little, knowing what they’re hoping for. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/snare-13-09/#comment-3695 Comment from WB] |
| | | ;something I should have kept in mind--> |
| ;something i should have kept in mind | |
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| = back up =
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| ===Taylor Anne Hebert===
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| compare the changes made [http://worm.wikia.com/index.php?title=Taylor_Hebert&diff=13864&oldid=13510 here].
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| old travelers thing
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| |[[Trickster]]
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| |Francis Krouse
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| |Deceased
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| |[[Sundancer]]
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| |Marissa Newland
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| |Returned Home
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| |[[Genesis]]
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| |Jess
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| |Returned Home
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| |[[Ballistic]]
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| |Luke Casseus
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| |Returned Home
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| |[[Oliver]]
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| |Oliver
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| |Returned Home
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| |[[Perdition]]
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| |Cody
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| |Unknown
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| |[[Echidna]]
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| |Noelle Meinhardt
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| |Deceased
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