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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
♦  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.
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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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


For when a Madison Wisconsin page is created, https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/2w65qh/a_better_worm_cyoa/.

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

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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 what the heck was appolyon

New project focusing on the drafts page

Runechield

[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/sentinel-9-5/#comment-1750 My very first attempt at writing a superhero story was a shot on my part at trying to handle the ‘magic’ superhero (A la Dr. Strange), but with more of a novice. It didn’t work out for several reasons (I tried to base it around my own location, which was pretty much the opposite of Brockton Bay, I found I couldn’t get the balance right for magic & superheroics) and ultimately scrapped it, to the point where I decided it wouldn’t exist in Worm at all, barring some vague border cases. That said, I would be really, really keen on someone doing something on the subject.]

When I finish Worm, a ways down the line (can’t say for sure, but we may be halfway) I’m thinking I might write something in the vein of modern magic, outside of the superhero genre. I’ve got a lot of ideas there – I just need to really work through them, get some bulk writing done in that genre & hammer out what works best, as I aimed to do for Worm.

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:


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.

Cat & The Canary: Canary, obviously.

14.8 Finding Fault: Faultline, again. She was the go-to protagonist for a while.

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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.

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.

I guess i will consider that a contract--FossilLord (talk) 18:59, October 20, 2016 (UTC)

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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