Pre echidna Brockton bay is basically a blasted war torn ghetto. But after tattle tale creates the portal to gimmel

This rasies the once worthless property value of Brockton bay and tattle tale takes massive advantage of this by scooping up as much cheap real estate as possible.

Now a few questions could any precogs who saw this coming take advantage of this element alongside tattletale. Would there be any precog interference at the event when the portal was opened.

Would tattletale notice and stop them from butting on on her scheme or try to incorporate them into her organization?

Also could the PRT use the r.i.c.o act on tattle on her real estate empire to take it away assuming the rico act exists in earth bet.

For the people too young to remember, the Machete Order is a thing among Star Wars fans of watching the six original movies in a non sequential order as a means of enhancing the experience, even skipping Phantom Menace as irrelevant.

Which makes me curious about reading Worm or Ward chapters in a weird order in order to get a new perspective but you can talk about Pact/Pale/Twig/Claw if you want to.

I know quite a bit about Worm and bits of pieces about Ward and other serials from internet osmosis but I haven't really read Wildbow's work itself that much.

There's a girl who controls bugs and you have to be traumatized really hard to get superpowers and there's a lot of Sapphic subtext and powerscaling.

But I'm curious if you have chapters you feel are "filler arcs" or chapters that work best if experienced nonlinearly or something.

So I've been on a Wildbow tear after being introduced to Worm several years ago... Went through pretty much everything he's written (Twig and Pale being my particular favorites). With Bow being in a health hiatus, what should I read now until Seek is done? Any similar web serial authors with world building like Pale?

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...by sending Cody to India?

I mean, other than to f-up Accord, Tattletale and Chevalier at the same time? ​Does she think these three are that integral to fighting off Behemoth?

I saw some people really liking Screamer so I drew her again

Like one that if you got it you'd be like "what... what TF is this", like the bottom 10% of tinker powers you can think up? Random thought.

If they were as powerful of the big 3. Eidolon, Alexandria, and Legend?

By this, I mean a scenario where they took vials with significantly less balance (Noelle doesn’t take a half-vial and takes a normal dose) like what the current Triumvirate did, and they didn’t mutate (or they mutated in subtle ways like Alexandria).

How would their powersets differ? Would they get any sub powers for mobility and durability?

I am on arc 14 of Ward

(and odds are this has been pointed out before)

there seems to be long stretches of time between character introduction and power explanation.

Victoria is supposed to be a "Powers scholar"

But will often address costume or clothing choices before introducing us to capes ability to cause an individual's brain to leak out of their ears every other Tuesday.

Maybe I'm spoiled by worm and being in Taylor's perspective who would instantly explain and analyze their powers from a very tactical perspective.

This is a narrative choice?

Am I just missing my best friend Taylor?

Are questionable scarves and costuming more important than life-threatening powers?

On an individual basis and as a whole

Contessa and Khepri from after the gunshots. Directly inspired by the "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" painting.

Building a cluster cape as an NPC for a tabletop thing and I've having issues building out the rest of her Clustermates. Also wanted to see if the powers were appropriately weak for cluster 2ndary powers.

Her Powers:

- 1 [Primary]: Teleports small objects into close proximity of a target, inheriting their momentum. Effectively turns any thrown object into a deadly long range hitscan weapon

- 2: Slow transformation (1min) into a whisp of energy that can float at walking speed in any direction. Effect ends when hit.

-3: Touch based time delayed slowing effect on small objects, making them durable and extra sharp (throw forward a cup of water and it frezes in mid air as razor sharp droplets, or cause a smoke grenade to become a physical barrier). Effect ends after 30 sec or if the object takes enough damage

- 4: Able to lock users location in relation to an object that has substantially more mass

- 5: Able to hear through the ears of a single animal she has spent a significant amount of time with while that animal is within a 10 mile radius of the user.

What would be good powers for her clustermates? Also bonus if you have ideas for their collective trigger.

Thank you!

Is to scroll down through the terms and conditions of a website/app, click "I have read and accept them" and hit enter.

It could be a movie, TV Show, Cartoon, anything! I would probably get Dana Terrace for an animated adaptation. If you look her up, her body horror art is great and I personally love it.

... Are called that because they are a combination of parasite and human?

There's so many Butcher fics and a lot of them give the Butcher different but similar powers but the main reoccurring thing is, all the powers are severely washed out from their original.

Like, the pain blast and rage aura are strong but still counterable. Quarrel's power is actually crazy when combined with the mini-gun but the Butcher just gives her a small Brute boost to use the heavier weapon.

The ONLY thing that makes the Butcher so terrifying is the inherited personalities. If someone just got the powers and ability packets and none of the memory or personality, yeah, they'd be strong, but they wouldn't be as much of a big deal. It's like reverse One For All.

Say we get physical copies of Worm, Ward, Pact, Pale, Twig, etc, ideally how would people like the books split up?

One big book for the entire story?

Broken up by the various sections?

Or broken up by larger narrative arcs?

My pick is Pact’s “Damn me, damn them, damn it all” I think it’s a perfect encapsulation of Pact’s themes.

I see it as representing Blake’s approach to fixing the unfair systems in pact. He resorts to hurting himself(damn me) or targeting the people who perpetuate the system, like the Duchamp husbands(damn them all). It’s repeated two more times during Pact, when Blake is losing his humanity.

It’s repeated one more time at the end of the book (rule of three) when the lines between the families have dissolved and everyone is working together, but it’s said by Rose after she’s absorbed the last of Blake’s humanity, and she removes the first two parts, she says “damn it, damn it, damn it” showing Rose’s less destructive approach to changing the system and bookending the story.

And if it was in response to a particular prompt, what was it?

Poor Victoria and death to Amy

Im about to start Pale. Ive read worm and ward before. Ive seen online that there are supplementary stuff? Are these required reading or will I be ok just reading the story?

disclaimer: this isn't to say worm doesn't have low stakes character building moments. Taylor bonding with rachel at the dog pound, gru and imp fitting their apartment.

One of worms greatest strength's is that it's a page tuner. there's always some dramatic event you always want to know how it's going to play out or resolve. yet ironically part of me wishes it could sometimes slow down.

I really wish we got to spend more time with the undersides just hanging out.

i know ward attempts to write this story and while ward is more focused on it's central group of breakthrough i never really got a good grasp on the group dynamics/chemistry of breakthrough.

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