Amy Dallon gets a visitor who changes her life forever ...
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I'm guessing he has a plan. It may not involve releasing Marquis, though.Ack, small problem with releasing Marquis.... the birdcage is a one way trip. Capes go in, they don't go out....
It actually is Amy's problem if she actually wants to see her old man.
They do let them out in canon, to fight Scion. so ...It actually is Amy's problem if she actually wants to see her old man.
If it's actually physically impossible, due to the set up, for capes to leave... then... she's basically asking for the sun to rise from the west.
As I said ... not her problem.You mean they got taken by Khepri? Or gained access via Doormaker?
Note that one of the issues with getting one person out is... it's all or nothing (not that Amy knows this).
I was thinking she might be using it as an excuse to retire, or at least take a long break. She's probably like to have him back, but she'd also like to stop being stressed.Amelia is likely, as far as she knows, demanding something that is actually impossible. One would imagine that she believes that the fabled one-way nature of the Birdcage is not actually so one-way, and she is requesting that PRT use the secret extraction method they must be hiding.
And the birdcage becomes nothing more than a "tinker build supermax security prison".
I'm not sure Amy could fool Taylor into thinking the Spiders were still alive and not moving when they were. Taylor doesn't use the senses of the bugs to determine their locations, so that information can't be coming from their brains; it must be a function the shard does independently. I think she could fool Taylor into thinking just about anything about the Spiders, except that they were motionless when they were actually moving.
No, it explicitly did affect it:In canon she caused nasty bug feedback and gave Taylor a Thinker headache, iirc. Taylor was having trouble with the control side then, her swarms were sluggish; it was both very noticeable and I don't think it explicitly affected the know-location sense she has.
Agitation 3.11 said:The girl glowered at me from behind her mop of frizzy brown hair. In her hands she was gripping a fire extinguisher. Behind her, past the lights that were flickering across my field of vision, I could see the hostages streaming upstairs. It was disorienting, because the bugs I'd left on them were telling me they were still in the corner of the lobby, staying still. I could feel one spider shift slightly as the person it was riding exhaled, then shuddered a little, even as I saw that same person stumbling and nearly falling on the stairs in their haste to get away.
It's how I get around writer's block.Ack, could you maybe work on the many fics you already have started before beginning even more?
Scarab 25.1 said:"-Birdcage."
The word hung in the air.
I snapped to attention, fully awake in an instant. I had to take a second to look at the faces of the people around the table before I realized who'd said it. Armstrong, the man who'd been my advocate an instant ago.
"A little extreme," West said.
"The next few fights are going to be crucial. Every time the Endbringers come, there are major losses. We lose good capes. Others step in, but they don't have the experience or the organization, so we lose more. New Delhi was very nearly the culmination of that."
"We won New Delhi."
"We lost. Scion won," Armstrong responded. "Participation will be up for the next fight. Let'suse that. We bolster the numbers further, by tapping the Birdcage. There are powerful capes in there, and some are cooperative."
Oh. They aren't talking about me.
"And if they start wreaking havoc afterward? Or turn on us?"
"We can be select about it. Dragon's willing to give us a searchable database of all of the conversation and behavior records within the Birdcage."
I raised my head at that. "Dragon's alive?"
"She got in contact with us a short while ago."
I nodded. I felt a little dazed, confused. Too much in a short time. I was reaching the point where I wasn't sure I'd be able to take it all in.
"It's not worth it," West said.
"A moderate risk for a chance to save hundreds, thousands, even millions of lives," Armstrong said.
"How many lives do we lose because of the monsters we set free?" West retorted. "Those criminals were put there for a reason."
"At first," Armstrong said. "But the rationale for indefinite detention has been getting weaker, and the number of capes going in has been increasing. I-"
Hence why it's more about whether they will let him out, rather than whether they can.As for "you can't get anyone out of the Birdcage", canon disagrees:
Here we have the PRT openly discussing letting people out. Cauldron and Doormaker aren't even in on it.
Exactly.Hence why it's more about whether they will let him out, rather than whether they can.![]()
Sending back false information?WEIRD. I am officially confused by Wildbow, but I guess that happens often enough. Mea Culpa. (Like, seriously, from a programming standpoint, the spider doesn't even know where it is, so how can it manage to give false information about that to Skitter?)
Actually, yes.It's how I get around writer's block.
Also, would you rather I didn't start a new fic when the inspiration struck?![]()