Amelia, Worm AU [Complete]

They were still correct though. Even without the Empresses dropping by for quick fame they would have easily become a sensation within a few years at most. You don't go to a restaurant for food, you go to them for specialty food that you can't make/acquire on you own. Prepared dishes of the commonly available flavored plants would have picked up pretty quickly once people got bored with the novelty of plucking a few leaves when they are hungry.

Hmmm....I can already see the Avalonian child/teen game. Everyone brings random leaves and they mix them all into a pile and plays 'Guess the Flavor Combination!' by grabbing 2-3 leaves at random and munching on them at the same time.

 

I actually really enjoyed that. One chapter and I already care more about them then I do Sabah. Also, halfhearted petition to rename Tyrone to Brad?

There are oodles and oodles of restaurants that specialize in traditional home cooked food. Not even hard to make home cooked food, either. Besides, a few years is a long time for a failing business, and what they are providing is very much a luxury service in a society that hasn't had a chance to create a market for that sort of thing. Without the fame boost of the Imperial Entourage going to visit, they probably would have moved on to something else... Probably farming all their specialty crops.

 

What if to help restaurant businesses grow on Avalon, Amelia creates,grows and sells a private stash of plants that only restaurants can buy to help create a culinary economy like Belgium's tulip economy.

 

You know, it's been too many chapters since something horrible happened.

Prediction: Someone in the kitchen poisons Taylor, hurting her badly enough that she gets brain damaged and put into a coma. Amelia agrees that they should euthanize and reclone her, even though it will cost her 3 days of memories. Avalon Imperial Security comes in and arrests Janet and Tyrone. Janet is eventually cleared of charges, but it turns out that Tyrone was an agent of the CUI. Janet never recovers from the hit to her reputation, and she closes the restaurant and goes to work as a secretary for a new legal firm.

Janet loses her ability to trust others, and ends up pushing all of her friends away. Then the Slaughterhouse Nine come back to life as unkillable holograms. Jack Slash merges with Khonsu, giving Khonsu the ability to project time fields as blades. Lily and Sabah mutually agree to erase the last two months of memories and get back together.

You know, Amelia could make a Loch Ness Monster. The Scottish Highlands don't have much else going for them.

Running a restaurant has razor-thin margins, because everybody else wants to run a restaurant too.

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Is everyone in the story gay? I mean, in this scene, we have Tyrone, Janet's friend, Lisa, Taylor, and Theo. This just seems improbable.

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I'm complaining about how unrealistic the story is while they're eating genetically engineered applesquashes in their own dimension, while wearing living battle armor. Never mind.

"Myself? I just replaced by liver with a coffee plant."

"Doesn't that have any side effects?"

"Well, it burns when I pee, and I haven't slept since 2005, but other than that, no."

Everyone out of the universe!

God should be capitalized, since it's part of her title. /s

It's not a bad idea. I'd feel much better about moving to a libertarian community if I knew that a) the price of food would be really low, so I wouldn't have major expenses and b) some other government would step in if it collapsed, like the Articles of Confederation did.

"Oh, they had a test on Avalonian history, which was pretty easy since the place has been around for a month."

no it isn't food isn't fun

PS. not indexed or threadmarked

In the very worst case, they could shut down the restaurant, and the lights, and eat free food. They don't need to pay rent, so they're not going to become homeless.

Still sad, though.

"I think this one's coca leaf."

 

"Nope," the vegetarian stated with absolute certainty.

Seriously, don't know if the author thinks this, or it's just a silly misinformed character, but I personally would hate any vegetarian product that tastes like meat, and every other vegetarian I know would also hate said products.

Other than the silly opinion above, nice chapter, it was interesting to get the perspective of a random, unimportant character on all the stuff TanaNari has got going on.

And now, back to the lurker cave with me.

 

What about the Buddhists, they get to love it right?

 

They didn't say there was a fundamental rule saying you can't get closer just that the closest anyone has ever been able to get was a 30 years ago divergence point. They don't know if that is a limitation of the technology, or if divergences are rare enough that the one with earth aleph is the most recent one they have had (or space whale hax but they don't know that).

This is a setting with a massive but limited number of multiverses having universal splits happen only every couple of decades/centuries/million years would have resulted in more universes than there are atoms inside of one of them (as the number was described in canon)well before humanity had evolved.

 

It was a typo, 'just felt right, so' would have been the way it folded into the next part... but then editing and failure happened.

That is fucking brilliant.

Who'd you steal it from?

Less than half the people on that list are gay.

*Looks at you* *looks over at the turkey flavored tofu that my cousin may or may not be sexually attracted to* *looks back at you*. Yeah. I'mma say you don't speak for the whole group on this one.

 

No, no Zaranoth does not.

 

Speaking as a vegetarian, I would love meat flavored plants. I haven't tasted bacon in years.
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I miss you so much, bacon.

 

Meh. Turkey flavoured anything (including, you know, turkey flavoured turkey) sounds pretty unappealing. Chicken, yes. Beef, maybe..

That said, the opinion -is- a silly generalization AFAICS -- it should take more than a few bits of anecdotal evidence to convince you 'vegetarians would love it' is actually true.

 

Okay, I may be grossly misinformed here, but as I understand things, vegetarians, vegans and all the other "won't-eat-meat" factions are in it because meat used to be a living animal, and they won't support any industry that kills living animals to keep them alive. (Let's leave aside the fact that the domestic beef and mutton industries are the only reason there are so many sheep and cattle alive today ...)

This has nothing to do with how anything tastes.

(Personally, I am anything but a vegetarian, and there are some types of meat I can't stand. Because of the way it tastes.)

Meat is one of our primary food sources; has been for tens of thousands of years, ever since proto-men first got together to drag down whatever big critter was wandering through the hunting grounds. We're used to it. We're genetically keyed to react to it. The taste sets off fireworks in our brains (especially bacon. Oh god, bacon).

This is scientific fact.

Now, if a vegetarian could eat something that he or she knew beyond a doubt was never an animal, but which tasted like freshly seared steak, or ham, or bacon ... I can see a lot of them going for it. After all, it's only the taste. It's not the thing.

(Yes, some of them might turn it down on principle; but it wouldn't actually be a sensible principle, IMHO ).

Anyway, derailing, so I'm gonna stop there.

 

On another topic, that's the second "gay person pushed into fake marriage" incidence in this story so far. And the story's figurehead gay/straight couple hasn't even gotten married yet.

Actually, that would make three gay/straight marriages being lined up, two for convenience, one for love. And the most prominent gay/gay couple in the story just broke up.

Are you trying to tell us something?

 

There are, to the best of my knowledge three main groups of vegetarians:
1)"It's immoral" - that's the group you're referring to.
2)"I can't eat that for health reasons" (regardless of if those health reasons are valid)
3)"That's icky, how can you eat that?" - not sure how big the last group is, but since it includes my sister I'm well aware it exists.

The third group would turn down anything that tasted like meat, while the second would jump on it.

 

The third group sounds like the first group, only more emotional ("I won't eat anything that used to be a cute animal").

Which reminds me.
http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1247

... aand I derailed again. Ugh.

 

I wonder if Lisa can let down her guard and talk to Taylor without the kids hovering near their "girl talk" .or was this Lisa's idea for them to bring the kids so she couldn't have the courage to speak honestly to Taylor on their girls night-out?

 

Lisa works smarter, not harder. She's already implanted a version of the conversation into one of Taylor's backups.

 

I don't know why it's so hard to just take the third group on face value: meat is not some 'universally tasty' thing. Glutamates are supposed to be tasty, but there are, in fact, people who don't like mushrooms, soy sauce, fish sauce, parmesan cheese, etc...

It just seems like the proper application of Occam's Razor to conclude that many of the people in group 3 do, in fact, not like the taste.

 

Let's be realist most of the marriages in Worm, are unestable, I remember hearing that being in love last like 2 and a half years; there is still the posibility that the other marriages may fail.

Lily and Sabah marriage/contract is a little fucked up, TanaNari just showed what would happen if Lily changed her personality by a traumatic experience.

If Amelia gets a Tv tropes page, one of the things in Reality Ensues is going to be the break up between Sabah and Lily, reminds me of Skitter/Grue, cute at the begining, it last at most some years.

TanaNari shows that Sabah issues are going to ruin a lot of her relationships, instead of trying of speaking with Lily, and help her; the first thing she does is getting away form Lily when she needed help, the second is finding a replacement, it only shows that she is really inmature when it comes to relationships.

Lets hope that the Shards do not began to change of idea, with the mutual empaty.

With how Skitter/Grue relationship ended, Wildbow should have made Taylor an asexual.

 

Man that reference is dated. At least it's not Zero Wing...

 

And this has been the story of how Vicky got sent to a mandatory seminar, under protest. Protests which resulted in Zach's required attendance.

I continue to be amused by Vicky's predilections.

 

They moved to Libertopia and expected a hand-out. Strike one. Very surprised nobody thought to offer them a loan.

I look forward to driving and parking being difficult due to the streets being choked by flyers advertising private street-cleaning services and private parking garages. Actually it wouldn't surprise me if street-parking were illegal due to lobbying by garage-owners.

Bah, that's not a mistake. The portion of a restaurant's bill which is directly related to nutritional requirements is a minority.

People regularly pay $5 for coffee instead of $0.50 for coffee -- physically walking past the cheaper option to get to the more expensive option sometimes -- and it's not because they get $4.50 more coffee at the more expensive place.

 

Morningside Farms should probably change their business model then.

I'm gonna laugh forever over this.

 

Yes. She has no idea how right, and how wrong, she is, in the same sentence.

Also, a few typos (because I know you love them):

(Also, Dunn apparently sees capes as things, not people; "One Protectorate hero that suffered extreme burns". 'that', not 'who', huh? Very telling, Director.)

Sounds very clunky. 'who want optimization', maybe?

'off balance', not 'off balanced'.

(sigh) Vicky, Vicky, Vicky. What are we going to do with you?

 

I think they meant those amongst vegetarians who are such not because they prefer vegetables, but because they consider it cruel to eat animals, basically those who sees the fact that they're vegetarians at a sacrifice, in the name of kindness to animals.

 

There exist vegetarians who avoid meat for purely moral reasons, but who like the taste of meat.

There exist vegetarians who don't like the taste of meat.

People can have different reasons for choosing to be vegetarian.

(Personally, I enjoy eating fake meat because it tastes UNLIKE meat. It's a new and interesting group of flavors and texture. It can be tasty to mix it in with real meat.)

 

has been paralyzed

 

No, they just don't (or at least my sister doesn't) like the taste/texture of meat.

 

... wow.

I just can't get my head around that.

My parents own a cattle station. I have eaten beef nearly every day of my life. Every. Day.

I can't imagine not eating meat ever again.

In any case, meat comes in many tastes and textures. She doesn't like any of them?