TELUTT

The Events Leading Up To That Thursday, also known as TELUTT, was one of the recurring titles for what would become Worm. TELUTT had roughly four concrete versions.

'The events leading up to that Thursday' is one of the recurring titles for drafts of Worm. They usually featured rotating viewpoints between Faultline, here called Disaster, The Triumvirate and Guts & Glory, It was an attempt by the author to incorporate every character then created into up to that point in one overarching story. As well as finding sympathetic characters as protagonists and using comparatively weak powers in new and interesting ways trying to break form standard baseline powers seen throughout superhero fiction <ref name="S:BW">Snippets: Before Worm</ref>.

Synopsis

Melanie Fitts AKA Disaster, is a boss beating up Dauntless and Bastion then lecturing easily duped supervillans in proper costuming and preparedness.

Siberian has a physical disagreement with Alexandria.

Introduced Concepts

The Birdcage is mentioned,
Mary Sue who would become Eidolon
Scion and the "Progenitor Theory" that he is the source of all superheroes

Groups

Cauldron-A group of rogues and solo villains try to hold out against recruitment by a much larger cape group. The Elite in this story resembles a cross between the Slaughterhouse Nine, the canon Elite and Cauldron.<ref>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. - another comment by wildbow on Prey 14.8</ref>

Characters

Faultline’s Crew (unnamed)

Disaster is more of a Blaster then a Striker
Newter
Spitfire
Slug (Gregor) here a short tempered bully instead of an itinerant philosopher.

Protectorate

Alexandria (first appearance in drafting process)
Legend (first appearence)
Exhalt, an early version of Hero filled with doubt

Others

Dauntless - Jetpack and spandex wearing newby, the jetpack is mostly for show however.
Bastion - Local hero who tries to set up local villains for capture, forcefield weilder.
Siberian - A nominally clothed version, still deadly but seemingly without being a creation.

Trivia

According to the website, "[t]he nature of Faultline’s meeting with her ‘crew’ is essentially what happened in canon."<ref name="S:BW"/>

References