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[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8zPROEoXRorAadrkl62Wvx3i7Q2AYQ511M6PHcP16c/edit# 'villains' documents] <br> | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8zPROEoXRorAadrkl62Wvx3i7Q2AYQ511M6PHcP16c/edit# 'villains' documents] <br> | ||
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqJy4YEDqpKLwbatFVBLXnhs7dDTNykSYtDUCiR9ZBo/edit PRT Master Reference]<br> | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqJy4YEDqpKLwbatFVBLXnhs7dDTNykSYtDUCiR9ZBo/edit PRT Master Reference]<br> | ||
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit PRT Quest (anchorage):specifics and character notes on the 'heroes'] | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit PRT Quest (anchorage):specifics and character notes on the 'heroes']<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15029097 non-archived post 1] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15029097 non-archived post 1]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15167206 non-archived post 2] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15167206 non-archived post 2]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15280025 non-archived post 3] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15280025 non-archived post 3]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15434634 non-archived post 4] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15434634 non-archived post 4]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16091195 non-archived post 5] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16091195 non-archived post 5]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16189809 non-archived post 6] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16189809 non-archived post 6]<br> | ||
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16234127 Index of all PRT:Q posts] | [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16234127 Index of all PRT:Q posts] | ||
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“Five vials. Of the same caliber as the last set, same price.” | “Five vials. Of the same caliber as the last set, same price.” | ||
'''21.4 citrine's debrief by brian and taylor''' | |||
“They are going through the vetting process as we speak. Experienced members of Accord’s businesses, on board with his plans, and loyal,” Citrine said. | |||
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“Cauldron,” (Taylor) said. “Accord’s using Cauldron to empower his employees.” | |||
... | |||
“Accord wanted me to inform you that the product has a slight chance of causing physical defects and mental instability. A possibility of an incident.” | |||
... | |||
'''undersiders vs. the teeth and lizardtails debut ''' | '''undersiders vs. the teeth and lizardtails debut ''' | ||
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<!--“Power,” Citrine said. She turned her back to the portal to meet my eyes, her dress flaring slightly with the rotation of her body. | |||
“Power isn’t magical,” I said. “It creates as many problems as it solves.” | |||
“Power is less a thing unto itself than it is a journey.” | |||
“To where?” | |||
Her eyes were penetrating as she gazed at me. “Not all journeys have destinations. Power is the ability to effect change, and people who create change ride that tide, with far-reaching effects. For some of us, that’s something we’re born into. Our fathers or mothers instill us with a hunger for it from a very early point in time. We’re raised on it, always striving to be the top, in academics, in sports, in our careers. Then we either run into a dead-end, or we face diminishing returns.” | |||
“Less and less results for the same amount of effort,” Grue said. | |||
“Others of us are born with nothing. It is hard to get something when you don’t have anything. You can’t make money until you have money. The same applies to contacts, to success, to status. It’s a chasm, and where you start is often very close to where you finish. The vast majority never even move from where they began. Of the few that do make it, many are so exhausted by the time they meet some success that they stop there. And others, a very small few, they make that drive for success, that need to climb becomes a part of themselves. They keep climbing, and when someone like Accord recognizes them and offers them another road to climb, they accept without reservation.” | |||
“Which are you?” Grue asked. “Did you start with power, or did you fight for it?” | |||
Citrine smiled a little, looking over her shoulder at the tower. “I suspect Tattletale will tell you, if you’re curious enough to ask.”--> | |||
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Snare 13.6: Medic guy brooks knows about brown recluse a being a protein based venom | Snare 13.6: Medic guy brooks knows about brown recluse a being a protein based venom | ||
14.10 jack believes that the concept of family was distant for panacea | 14.10 jack believes that the concept of family was distant for panacea | ||
Stuff on Taylor's powers | Stuff on Taylor's powers | ||
Revision as of 23:19, October 11, 2016
should the character pages be broken up? can this 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
oakland docs
main https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7XX00xrdLCHAiVzyX19G7sifIes2pfjMcHXUociFy4/edit session https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rc7HQAecdM4ax46LlciDzp1tWIiJyWZcer8A3UBvL0g/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/19MyrV2mcGM5ZGXZLPgGInDp2m1dgXnRfW7uRPZ5i-Go/edit It is here we see sentai traitor Nousagi (rabbit? wild rabbit?)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kr0qVXGbQXwgu5F5RrqvbrSJROjbmjoALjEraS5c20g/edit [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjlr4No82tmAbt5AGY7d_A_BQVSYN3VmR-4Gu12keqU/edit background document for 'hero' teams] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BzbebPEznKAiTe2zoRvwn1ypw0RQCSp3htdlk_2ZTjg/edit
rewrite slaughterhouse nine page with some of this material. http://worm.wikia.com/index.php?title=Slaughterhouse_Nine&diff=6367&oldid=6071
PRT Quest documents
independent archive of Wildbow posts
'villains' documents
PRT Master Reference
PRT Quest (anchorage):specifics and character notes on the 'heroes'
non-archived post 1
non-archived post 2
non-archived post 3
non-archived post 4
non-archived post 5
non-archived post 6
Index of all PRT:Q posts
| Question for Wildbow (underconstruction) | |
| Does accord purchase the exact same vials each time he needs to replace an ambassador?
find and cite Blasto's interlude with the lizard mask gentlemen 19.x The man in the suit with a green dress shirt and a copper lizard mask was the one turning up the volume. ... A body fell down the stairs. The man with the lizard mask. Dead, though not so mutilated. accord's interlude and meeting with the number man 20.y (Interlude; Accord) “Five vials. Of the same caliber as the last set, same price.” 21.4 citrine's debrief by brian and taylor “They are going through the vetting process as we speak. Experienced members of Accord’s businesses, on board with his plans, and loyal,” Citrine said. ... “Cauldron,” (Taylor) said. “Accord’s using Cauldron to empower his employees.” ... “Accord wanted me to inform you that the product has a slight chance of causing physical defects and mental instability. A possibility of an incident.” ... undersiders vs. the teeth and lizardtails debut In imago 21.6 We are introduced to lizardtail a new ambassador who also wears green. Interlude 21 Parian Lizardtail, bigger than the others, with a green dress shirt and pocket square, an ornate mask that looked more like a Celtic knot than anything lizardlike. Maybe the segments or spiral of it were supposed to represent a cut tail? Quote from Jamie and weaver dice on vials with well known effects. Also note in his character page that lizardtail has some degree of control in intensity. Based on skitters description in 21.6 Has anyone ever graduated from the ambassadors and moved outside accord's immediate sphere of influence to further his plans? |
Snare 13.5
She broke the lingering silence, “Coil told me that people would leave me alone if I got powerful enough. If I had allies, if I had money, if I scared my enemies enough.”
Info afterwards is useful for how Taylor sees Rachel
power in this battle you’re talking about, everyone loses.”
The Travelers were way, way too fond of that line.
Everyone losses keeps coming up again and again
scenes
Snare 13.6: Medic guy brooks knows about brown recluse a being a protein based venom
14.10 jack believes that the concept of family was distant for panacea
Stuff on Taylor's powers Spiders usually weave silk at certain times in their life, www.wired.com/2009/09/spider-silk/ And there is generally a limit, given that she is able to create massive amounts of silk anyway it is likely that taylor could tweak the spiders biology to make them constantly produce silk, while giving them the necessary nutrients to produce it through other controlled invertebrates.
Based on this she is likly able to create swarms of locusts by tweaking grasshopper biology, artificially creating the conditions that causes grasshoppers to morph into locusts in the first place. Thank Wildbow that she is herroic in the first place.
Insects generally have bad eyesight: http://www.scienceshorts.com/021218.htm
New project focusing on the drafts page
The post in question<ref name="9.x">Prey 14.8</ref> Some of this was mentioned before, 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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Runechild, Runechild v2, Guts & Glory, Guts & Glory v2, The Events Leading Up to That Thursday (TELUTTT), TELUTTT v2, Supreme Earth, Cat and the Canary, The Wards, TELUTTT v3, Guts & Glory v3, Finding Fault, Sovrano Academy, Lucky Girl, Heartbreaker, Sovrano v2, Dealer, Versus Dragon, Ziggurat, Ward v2, Daddy, Doll, Caprice, Travelers, Guts & Glory v4, Circus Triumph, Slaughterhouse, Grue, Grue v2, Schism/TELUTTT v4, Circus vs. Elite…
(If anyone’s interested, I can give details on any of the titles above, what they were about and/or why they were relevant in the creation of Worm. Pretty crazy nostalgic for me.)
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4575
Runechild: Runechild. Think amateur Dr. Strange. Never made it into Worm, though I stole one of her powers for Rune. Runechild v2 featured Dragon and the Dragonslayers (Dragon recruiting the junior hero to help her), making Dragon the oldest character in Worm.
Guts & Glory: Amy Dallon/Victoria – Guts and Glory swapped focus between the two with each chapter.
TELUTTT: Each draft featured rotating viewpoints attempting to incorporate everyone I’d added into the story by that point in one overarching story. First draft focused heavily on Faultline, introduced Scion, Legend, Narwhal, Hero, Alexandria and a major heroine named Mary Sue. Introduced Faultline’s crew, which was composed of Newter, Slug (Gregor), Spitfire and a scandanavian girl with Genesis’ power. Later drafts introduced Endbringers, Dauntless, and Cauldron.
Supreme Earth: Ramrod.
Cat & The Canary: Canary, obviously.
The Wards: Aegis. He was sometimes a girl. I went back and forth.
14.8 Finding Fault: Faultline, again. She was the go-to protagonist for a while.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4575
Sovrano Academy: Regent. Very different person, same power as demonstrated in the Parasite arc, not the general use ‘I make them twitch/convulse’ power. Attending a cutthroat school for villains with Bonesaw as a classmate.
Lucky Girl: Shamrock. I can note it’s only around here that the setting started coming together with a place for each of the major players. Heartbreaker: Cherish Sovrano v2: Caprice Dealer: The Dealer/Battery Doll: Parian Caprice: Caprice Travelers: Trickster. Others are as seen in Worm. Circus Triumph/Circus vs. Elite: Circus Slaughterhouse: Burnscar Schism/TELUTT v4: Everyone. Mary Sue gets a sex change and becomes Eidolon. Same power, minus the ‘everyone adores me’ aura (unless he needs it). TELUTTT – One of the cases where I can’t really tell you the story, because some of it extends into spoiler territory. It took place in an earlier timeline (which is why Hero appeared more), stretching from a point before Faultline’s group was brought together, her forming her gang, and all that.
Aegis – well, I was cognizant of the fact that, then, pretty much every notable character I’d done was female. Runechild, Victoria, Amy, Dragon, Narwhal, Mary Sue, Faultline… I think writing from the female perspective is easier on a level, because the emotions aren’t held back, and, heck, I find girls more interesting anyways. But it was getting to the point where it was ridiculous, so I started experimenting on that front.
Mary Sue/Eidolon – See the bit on Aegis, above. The change was made last minute – even as I got four or five arcs into Worm, I was debating whether it would be Mary Sue or Eidolon in this universe. The decider pushing me to make the change was (as with Slug/Gregor, Disaster Area/Faultline) that the name was already taken.
Sovrano – I agree on the school thing, Spaceman. I think I was writing it more to get a sense of why people did it in the first place, and to try my hand at it, than to tell a story I wanted to tell. I wasn’t that into it, and it was kind of a slog. Not a lot to say. It was fairly early into my stint of writing for the genre, and I was mainly exploring things. Supreme Earth was an alternate reality that featured villains operating like terrorist cells, destablizing society in ways that were both major and minor (from offing world leaders to destroying city power grids), and putting the world in a situation where they were dependent on superhumans to get energy, food and safety. Basically put, a world with superhumans that had no superheroes. Takeover on a global level, with non-superhumans as second class citizens.
Ramrod was kind of similar to Skitter in that she was an (arguably) good person in a cynical – she was new to her powers, entering the Supreme’s organization from the ground level, but her priorities were mainly ensuring that her family was taken care of. As she ascended in the ranks, keeping that perspective would have been the main challenge. In terms of the greater plot, there was the question of why the villains were so organized and why Goddess, the leader of the superhumans, was able to keep every superhuman in line.
As far as I’m concerned, Supreme Earth is canon in the Wormverse. It probably won’t ever show its face, but it’s an alternate reality that falls in close parallel with Worm’s. Beyond the use of the name Ramrod, Supreme Earth’s characters weren’t really reused (though I think Regent might have poked his head in for one draft). Well, there -is- a wiki. Just nobody’s really contributing. Some people, like Valravn, are creating the pages, but there’s no synposis – it’s just a framework. I’m grateful for his work and for the ability to reference it (which I use sometimes), but it’s thin as resources go. The deal I made at the time of the wiki’s conception still stands. If people edit the actual character/chapter pages, I’ll add trivia, detail and author’s notes.
Versus Dragon: If I remember right, it was the first chapter featuring Circus. You’ll notice she recurs – she was a protagonist for a stretch. She, a ‘Miss Miasma’ (tinker specializing in gases) and ‘Highbrow’ (with Browbeat’s powers) robbing a bank when Dragon shows up. The approach was very different (kick the door in, and they ran instead of trying to fight, despite being a more offensive team than the Undersiders, ironically) but I did use the same blueprints for the bank layout.
Ziggurat – Junior villains take advantage of a Endbringer attack to take over a city, trapping the residents in a ring of stone walls. Switched perspectives from the villains to the heroes (protagonist was Narwhal) fighting Hadhayosh, with the idea that it would merge together into a singular storyline where Narwhal tries to deal with the captured city. I think I might’ve done a second version with some civilians in the mix, just to show the effect on them, then dropped it quickly. 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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