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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    She threw it over his head and it enveloped the top half of his body. He wanted her capture to be dramatic. It backfired.
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    It is legal to kill someone to save someone else's life. Sophia was about to dart Taylor a second time, which would've killed her. Dragon acted. In the Arcadia confrontation, Tagg hoped Taylor would take hostages, thus putting their lives in jeopardy. She didn't, which left Dragon flailing...
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    I was originally going to have Sophia be strangled, but Armsy got there in time to save Taylor, and he might've gotten in trouble for failing to save Soph. So, Dragon knew Armsy was incoming in time to save Taylor, but Soph was about to shoot her a second time, which she wouldn't have...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)
    Threadmarks: Part Nineteen: Shadowfall

    Price of Blood Part Nineteen: Shadowfall [A/N: This chapter commissioned by GW_Yoda and beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.] PRT Building Half an Hour After the Passing of Sarah Livsey “Okay, first off?” Amy shook her head as the ache from my knee subsided under her expert touch...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    Yup. Brian took two to the body (which he would've survived, given any sort of medical attention) then one to the head (which he wouldn't). Rachel took a shot to the carotid artery. She bled out in less than a minute. Lisa took a hit to the kidney and died from internal bleeding. Alec...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    She only managed to get them ready to pick up that day.
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    Threadmarks: Part Eighteen: Spilled Blood

    Price of Blood Part Eighteen: Spilled Blood [A/N: This chapter commissioned by GW_Yoda and beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.] Shadow Stalker Needing money to buy food was one thing. Getting it without drawing undue attention was quite another. She considered the age-old (at...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    All of that. Also, Wildbow talks about how components only work because they're assembled at the right time and place for the earth's magnetic field to align specific molecules, et cetera, et cetera. Except that this is pure, unadulterated bullshit. I can believe that things like that will...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    Well, given that no amount of study by engineers will let them retro-engineer Tinkertech (also Word of God) the shard has to be adding something over and above insights into how to build it just right. It takes a genius to build something for the first time ever. In the normal run of things...
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    Except that if Leet tries to make the same thing twice, it fails. In fact, the closer he makes one thing to something he's already invented, the more likely it is to fail. If he makes one thing, and then makes it again, exactly the same way, the second one fails, every time. They are making...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    She's also able to think much more clearly.
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    Except that making it requires the Tinker to do shit that would have engineers (and anyone else who uses logic and not weird shit) tearing their hair out to make it work. And no matter how closely they try to replicate what he did, it doesn't fucking work. Because there's exactly one Tinker...
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    Only in that nobody else can produce the armour. She's not a 'classic' Tinker, in that her stuff needs maintaining, or that it actually breaks the laws of physics. Or most especially, that she can understand other Tinker tech.
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    Masasume is specifically a Tinker who actually produces advanced tech, that's not so advanced that she needs to cheat with the materials and energies produced in order to make it work. (This means she wouldn't need to 'maintain' each and every bit of Tinkertech, because reality isn't being...
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    No, she was credited with inventing containment foam, and creating the Birdcage. She may have been considered to be a Tinker, but the people giving her that rating didn't know about her creator. WB was a little hazy on dates (he admits this himself) but confoam doesn't necessarily need to be...
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    If Tinkertech could be understood with extra brainpower, Alexandria would have a Tinker rating. Tinkers (IMO) actually adjust reality in their vicinity so that the kludged-together BS actually works to do stuff it should never be able to do. The regular 'maintenance' is no such thing; fiddling...
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    Exactly. Tinkertech explicitly can't be understood with sheer intelligence. You need a power that lets you crack the code. "I have a billion bugs all loaning me a fraction of their brainspace" is not an applicable power.
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    Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)

    The processing power is all folded back into multitasking with the bugs. It doesn't let her understand anything new, just keep up with the massive influx of information.
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    Threadmarks: Part Seventeen: Field Test

    Price of Blood Part Seventeen: Field Test [A/N: This chapter commissioned by GW_Yoda and beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.] Taylor I stood atop the PRT building, encased in my new armour. My feet planted squarely in the centre of the large H that marked out the helipad, I turned...
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    Dang. Will fix.
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