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  1. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 21 Closure

    I licked my lips nervously. The cold was drying me out unpleasantly and the adrenaline had worn off. That left me cold and exhausted, but there was still stuff to be done. “Anima and Bulwark ready,” I said softly into the radio. My sound barrier had been effective so far, but there was no...
  2. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 20 Sideways

    My previous interactions with Armsmaster had been brief, which hadn’t really bothered me much. I got the impression that as the leader of the Protectorate ENE and a Tinker, he was incredibly busy. When I had talked to him, he was friendly and polite, but he had the air of someone that...
  3. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 19 Called In

    It only took a couple of days of working with it to decide that a shield was ‘worth doing’, as it were. Once I had the shield in the grip of my power, further manipulation on it was easy enough. Having shield effects appear to ‘spread’ out from it was simple and it would give me the same kind...
  4. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    Getting teenagers to do anything is like herding cats. You pretty much have to convince them that it was their idea all along and then let them do it themselves.
  5. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 18 Dating

    No matter how long I stared at it, it just didn’t get better. I tried tilting my head a bit and… no. That didn’t help. “So, what do you think?” I raised my eyes from the page to look at Landon, the sharply dressed man that had greeted me on my arrival at the Department of Public Image...
  6. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 17 Becoming Official

    It didn’t take long for me to understand why Wards were paid a salary rather than an hourly rate. Between Christmas and New Years, I found myself hanging out at the Wards base almost as much as I was at home and defining what amount of that was ‘on the clock’ and what was not would have been...
  7. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    There's a through-line with Madison's mother where she believes that losing a fight is worse than being in one. It happens all the way back from the first chapter when she was definitely not a cape. It's a real book. That's about all I can say for certain.
  8. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 16 Crying

    “And that’s my Christmas gift to you,” I declared as I finished recounting the story of how Emma punched me in the face and got herself suspended on the last day before Christmas break. Taylor’s eyes had grown steadily wider as I told the story, but they narrowed at the end. “I thought you...
  9. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    No and maybe.
  10. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 15 Testing

    The week before Christmas turned into our first real week of training as Wards, which had been a mixed experience. Triumph stepped up the physical fitness portion which I kind of hated. I was a fairly sedentary person in both lives and while I was thin, that didn’t mean I was fit. Power...
  11. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 14 Settling In

    The next time I talked to her, Taylor was understandably upset. It was Friday night, after her first day of suspension from school, and I was over at her house, presumably for a sleepover. I hadn’t mentioned that Shadow Stalker was the likely culprit, but she had figured it out herself earlier...
  12. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    Anonymous tips are a thing for when she specifically wants to frame someone, but if she has more time, she could just break into the office and take a look at the schedule for 'random' searches and plant stuff based on that. I'm sure the security on the Winslow office is top notch.
  13. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 13 Teams

    The room felt full, but that was really just in comparison to before. The Wards team in the Bay was fairly small before we joined - just Triumph, Aegis, Gallant, Clockblocker, and Vista - and I couldn’t for the life of me remember when the other people I vaguely recalled had joined or left the...
  14. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 12 Onboarding

    Somewhat surprisingly, the actual meeting with the Deputy Director was the least interesting part of my visit to the PRTHQ. Deputy Director Renick was… fine? I had the vague feeling that he was the kind of guy that would wear his suit on vacation. Like, he would be on the beach in a full suit...
  15. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    Bold of you to assume that Madison payed that much attention in science class ;)
  16. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 11 Meet'n'Greet

    Following the directions that Carol Dallon had given me for Thursday made me feel like a spy. The weather was turning cold enough that my nondescript hoodie wasn’t out of place, even with the hood pulled over my head and down in order to make it hard to see my face. The bus trip was kind of...
  17. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    A fair observation. The power shenanigans definitely helped things along and smoothed out any initial clashes that would have happened. The simple explanation is that she didn't know who she was out with, just that it was a girl. If she had all of the information, she might have actually...
  18. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    Forced? They specifically put a musical theater class on their schedules and then auditioned for parts in they play. Then they spent weeks practicing. They are all complicit! I was only there because my daughter was in it. Nerd.
  19. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]
    Threadmarks: 10 Out

    Despite what might be natural to assume from the general state of the Docks, the Boardwalk was one of the safer areas of town. The Enforcers - basically a gang that the various shops of the boardwalk ‘contracted’ with for security - kept the rabble in check and the bigger gangs had no interest...
  20. Swordchucks

    What's the Frequency, Madison? [Worm, Time Travel]

    On paper, that is definitely true. They also get training in how to use their powers and mentorship from the Protectorate members. In reality, a lot of that "volunteer" stuff is extra patrols and a degree of leeway in low-risk crimefighting. I choose to think that a lot of what Sophia got...
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