I had read Pale until I got to just a little bit after the end of summer event and I'm now rereading it now that its a finished work.

When I read it the first time, the outcome of the carmine challenge and the build-up to it seemed pretty natural : They were told numerous time that they probably wouldn't win this one and that they maybe shouldn't even bother trying.

But now that I'm re-reading, I can't keep the outcome I know out of my mind and I can't keep from wanting to scream at those girls to let Verona do some fancy-artsy tailoring and just give those damn furs to John Stiles pronto so that they can bypass all the fairy plots bullshit.

Would that have worked ? I don't remember every detail of the challenge and of the outcome, I'm just getting catched up to that point but to my mind, if they had given the furs to John as soon as they had them they would have just won.

What do you think ? Does the story examines this further (I'm okay with light spoilers but not too much) ? What do you think would have stopped them ? Is the fact they didn't even think of this a result of a fairy plot to keep them too busy to properly strategize ?

This is pretty irrelevant but does anyone else disagree with how the PRT labels a cape? All PRT classifications are based on how they respond to something and not what it actually does, btw. Cause sometimes they’re consistent with that, and other times (mostly strikers) it doesn’t feel right.

• My pick would definitely be Chevalier cause yeah, he’s a striker and thinker, but that wouldn’t be the main issue when dealing with him. They labeled Fletchette as a blaster cause her ability goes in tandem with her bow, so should Chevalier be more closer to a brute/blaster on top of the striker classification?

What exactly were the dragon slayers so afraid of when they killed Dragon? That she’d go rogue as an AI? I’m struggling to understand why it made sense to kill her especially since she’s just a big influence on the war against the 9. Even with them taking over, there’s no way they’d be able to operate everything that she had going on between the three of them.

I don't just mean them turning bad (or, not that on it's own). I mean them actually going forward with being actively terrifying in some manner.

What horror villain tropes would you see some capes fitting in? And how do you think it would probably look from various perspectives (Cape to Cape, Cape to PRT and Cape to Civilian)?

I'm interested in possibly running a campaign, but I'm very new to ttrpgs, and being able to get a feeling for how the sessions look seems like it'd be useful.

I'm posting this as a general question, but I also want to direct attention to something specific mentioned in Ward

!In the epilogue of Ward (20.end and 20.e5), one character has been resurrected from Shardspace using Tinker tech, four others (various Titans) have been named as candidates, and a character has implied there are other unnamed candidates. So the question is, who can be resurrected from Shardspace? What might be the rules for that?!<

For some reason I've barely seen anyone talk about that development in the story.

So we know that Queen Administrator was heavily crippled and is confirmed by WOG to be the counterpart of High Priest. Its primary purpose is coordination and multitasking shards.

Did the shard ever do anything to ensure its host’s survival through an extra ability? After all, Taylor was very well liked by QA due to her finding her power uses and always getting into conflict where her abilities can be explored. Is it ever possible that QA has:

1. A subconscious thinker ability that allows her to come up with “paths/plans” that allow her to always trump shards in the end.
2. A subconscious master ability that secretly influences people around her and causes them to make mistakes that she’s able to take advantage of.

After all, Broadcast had a powerful sub-ability as well that even the user didn’t know. And idk, aside from plot armor, it wouldn’t be that bad of an explanation.

If worm ever gets an adaptation, it'd have to be animation. We all know that, but that still leaves a lot open for discussion.

The studio that did Arcane would do great with Worm. 3d people and environment, with 2d power effects. Grue's darkness rolling off of him in 2d. Parians puppets starting as 3d, then shifting to 2d as they come alive. It would also be great foreshadowing for >!Siberian.!<

Case 53's and Endbringers could also be animated differently. If everything is normally animated on 1's, then they should be 2' or 3's or something like that. Similarly, Scion should be 60 fps, live action, or claymation.

My only other wish is that everyone in E88 would be voiced by POC's.

I'm really trying to get into Emma's mind (not a nice place to be), so I got stuck on this question.

Say, Taylor either commits suicide or dies on accident (say, gets pushed down the stairs by Sophia and breaks her neck*), but neither Emma nor Sophia are implicated. No investigation is made. Just dead Taylor. And that happens about the same time as the locker prank, so Emma stopped doubting her actions a long time ago.

What would Emma's reaction to Taylor's death be? Both short-term and long-term? As a bonus, you can suggest Sophia or Madison's reactions.

* edit: that's just an example. I mean she dies for any reason related to bullying. Suicide is the most likely option, but I wanted to cover my bases.

What kind of tech would someone that creates tinkertech based on myth?

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Throughout the final battle the Carmine faction was confident that they had already won. The worst that could happen was a stalemate that favored Charles, but when he was stabbed with the spike he was pretty much instantly, definitively, defeated. Retreating to the Crucible was just a last desperate attempt to salvage the situation. Why didn't they see it coming?

Sidenote. I thought looking into the future biased reality towards the future that was seen. Why didn't Seth and Cameron's constant scrying during the fight have any effect on Charles's fate?

I will go first. For velocity a brute power where the higher acceleration he gets the higher mass he gets for example if he is moving at 100 miles per hour then he gets the mass of a truck while if he is moving at 10 miles per hour he weighs as much as he does in his breaker state.

When Shatterbird announces the Nine's presence in Brockton Bay, she shattered amongst other things, eyeglasses. Problem is, we stopped using glass for the standard lens material years before Scion showed up. We use a plastic resin these days as the standard, which doesn't contain any silica at all.

So, is Earth Bet simply continuing to use a more expensive, heavier and less impact resistant lens material, or did WB simply not know that we don't use glass in glasses when he wrote Worm?

I don’t know if this was answered before, but I just want to know.

Let’s say a typical cycle lasts 100 years and a host dies within that time, do shards redeploy so that they can gather more data or do they just work with what they gathered.

My thinking is that no person may use a power the same way so they might be able to get new data within the same cycle.

And I mean perfect like Sting was - the entities actively believe that this shard can be advanced no further regardless of input, trigger or creativity, has reached, and are only putting it into the cycle to see how it bumps up against the shards that actually CAN grow.

My first instinct was that the Noble shards would of course already be perfect - of course you'd want your most important body parts (which I'd say are Sting, Administrator and Broadcast) to be the most advanced ones.

Buuuut Administrator has such a lust for data and creativity that it seems like there's no way it would be one of the shards that's never expected to grow.

Buuut Administrator is is also unique in that it's the last shard to go out every cycle and is heavily crippled before so. So it might just be Admin can never enter a cycle as a perfect shard, but when complete, it is.

Broadcast, on the other hand, fits what I would want a perfect shard to be if I were tossing it into the experiment. The host is rendered basically invincible to other hosts but inspires a huge amount of conflict between the other hosts around it.

Buuuut it didn't seem like that's what Black Knight was up to in the Eden interlude, so that could just be a happy coincidence. The "heroes" seemed to treat him as foot soldier that would never lose.

But Eden was the one commanding those heroes, ultimately, meaning missions he would be sent on wouldn't be missions that could actually help things. Under Eden's command, he could only be a tool used to make things worse, long term. Which means he would be acting exactly in the manner a perfect shard would, but with direct oversight.

I keep going back and forth on this.

vs Normal Barber and vs Barber in Johannes (diffrent barber versions fought in diffrent fights)

Also let's say that the Girls have a day to get ready beforehand.

And does it have something to do with how he was attacking master abilities, and replicating things on the oil rig (what was that about anyways)

You are an Other, and your name is whatever your username is. What exactly are you?

For example, I, as u/MrPerfector, would put myself as a Faerie of somesort, or maybe a bogeyman with some Accord-esque issues.

I made a comment on Seek 0.2.b, but it isn't showing up. Part of my comment was a Worm spoiler so I wrote it in rot13, so maybe it got deleted as spam?

Has this happened to anyone else?

So we know that shards tend to go with one particular power (unless it's a cluster) themed around the circumstances of their trigger. Would a shard give a cape the Worm equivalent of a DnD sorcerer's spell list, even if you trimmed it down to just Evocation (think elemental/destructive abilities)?

I feel like some of it would be going overboard, like Sunburst: "Brilliant sunlight flashes in a 60-foot radius centered on a point you choose within range. Each creature in that light must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 12d6 radiant damage and is blinded for 1 minute."

For context, the average commoner has 4 hit points. An average damage roll for this spell would 42, and would kill a commoner ten times over.

On the other hand, some of the cantrips wouldn't faze most capes, like firebolt, which does 5 damage on average.

To get to the point, would this cape be restricted to a singular element, or even to a singular spell? At which point do they start demonstrating too many powers?

In addition, many spells in DnD require spoken word and physical components that get used up when casting the spell. Would that balance it out?

I've been wanting to resume reading worm, but I also heard several wordpress websites were hacked. Does anyone know if wildbow's works were affected?

Like powers-wise.

StoneAge : Enanched strenght and durability but his main power Is an inverse entrophy effect on selected ingorganic materials. Ur high tech armor Is now a mess of wires steel or whatever youve used to create it. Works by line of sight. The more objects he tries to disassemle at once, the longer It takes. The more complicated an object is, the longer It takes. The further the target, the slower the effect

Pound : Can Increase downward gravitational pull on selected targets. A mass limit prevents him from affecting objects that weight more than a small car. Can go around this limit by focusing on single elements like the tires, headlights etc. Has trouble focusing on moving targets. Hes kinda like Crucible: He could easly squash people, but doesnt. The more objects he tries to effect at once, the weaker the individual pull will be. Can apply power to himself but only upward, granting him enanched leaping ability.

Hell on Earth : Can create small firey spheres on top of her fingertips. She can the telekinetically launch them to inorganic objects at the speed that she might throw a rock. Once they make contact, they adhere to the surface, flattening themselves so they look more like dots, but theyre only visible to her. She has perfect knoweldge on their positions as long as shes in a 3 block radius from them, and at any given point she can detonate em to set fire to whatever theyre glued at ( which can also be clothes or armors). Alternatevley, she can "tune" them so that they go off whenever someone touches/steps on them, but being an S9 member, She prefers to set em off herself.

Factory : Another fan made S9. A Tinker specialized in the creation of a swarm of nanobots that violently interact with biological materials.

It looks like this: A portion of the swarm finds a target, enters in their bodies like a virus and devour the body, coverting everything into other bots. Eventually, they reach the mass of the target and turn into a perfect copy of it. This newly created being will have a blend of its own Memories and Factory' s, combining the original person' a knkweldge with Factory' s sadism. This thing will then infiltrate places that the victim Is familiar with and wreck havoc. A single one isnt particularly dangerous, but every time She attacks theres usually at least 6. Thanfully, they only live for around 12 hours before dissolving.

Conduit (name wasnt my idea) : A Striker who can " tune" his own body to replicate propreties of inorganic materials that he touches. Propreties include durability, melting point, electricity and radiation resistance. Stretchiness in the case of flexible materials. Has a time limit which Is dependent on the touched object' mass. 20 minutes for a 10kg object, and It scales up and down depending on mass. If the touched object gets damaged time limit decreases. If it gets completley destroyed, power is lost. He can combine up to 4 materials at once, but every characteristic will be reduced at 1/4 of the efficiency.

Note: Stretchy, flexible materials increase agility and reflexes rather than strenght, as well as brain efficiency, granting him limited resistance against Masters and Strangers.

• Amazon* : Can generate a field around himself that carries a Master effect: Anyone caught in this field will feel compelled to follow her orders. Not only that, but each added person will strenghten the kinetic energy produced by her blows. She can control up to 6 persons at once, therefore being hit by her will feel like being hit by the combined strenght of the 6 persons plus her own. Master effect lasts for 30 minutes after a subject leaves the field.