Taylor's still munchkin enough to go back to her unoccupied small house for 5 min to learn a new martial arts form, or first aid, before quickly leaving before anyone notices she's there.
Unless she's so turned off by the world that she turns over her possessions there back to SL just so she never has to even be tempted to go back.
Just remember: right now, she's
one day out of the locker.
Ahem, as you said to me recently, "if you expect competence from teenagers, you'll be disappointed 99% of the time."
Given Annette hadn't taught Taylor non-black-and-white morality before she died, I don't think she would be able to tell Taylor "Honey, if they have the technology to hand out powers and you can study the principles of the technology, you can give yourself ALL the powers."
And expecting an overwhelmed teen to come to that realization herself without being a technologist (she was a fan of Alexandria instead of Hero)...
You're assuming the people in charge of that tech will allow strangers to come in from elsewhere to learn said tech.
If this were the case, I would imagine the SL universe to be overrun with factions, all led by previous SL contestants, all fully versed in SL tech, empowering their followers and trying to overthrow SL itself.
Not the case, so I'm presuming the tech is a little harder to access than "Imma sign up to learn that shit."
Rule number one about great ideas that would break the scenario: if someone else didn't already think about it, there's probably a mechanism in place against it.
1. New Home + Personal Teleporter + Teleporter = ????
Teleporter lets you teleport basically anywhere. Personal Teleporter lets you teleport to another teleporter. So one lets you go to a place
without a teleporter, the other lets you teleport
back.
2. Does Taylor know this? Because "kidnapped by comically more advanced civilization" is a pretty powerless position to be in, so she'd probably think it would be easy enough for them to get participants. It's just bribing them enough (e.g. with Annette for Taylor) to be willing participants who don't show unwillingness on camera that's an issue, which, for more primitive ladies, isn't that hard (just improving health, durability, fertility etc is already "gift from the gods").
If Annette wasn't an option, she would've said nope.
And I get the impression they have to trick most contestants into saying yes.
With a population of literally thousands of billions watching, they somehow
don't have enough contestants from their viewerbase to keep them going for the next million years, so they
have to go looking. Maybe it's for the look of naivety turning to shocked awareness that the viewers are looking for? In any case, the strong impression I get is that they're always hungry for people who are willing to sign up.
3. You have a Teleporter, and a Personal Teleporter... which probably means wandering about more than a bit...
And being back the same day. As opposed to being away for months or years.
4. There are CYOAs where you can get tons of other bullshit powers. Like say any of the Longinus Gears from High School DxD. Even just the Sephiroth Graal (revive anyone ever) would be enough to break the Worm setting beyond repair... ah but of course Taylor doesn't read fiction, or go online... wow, Worm is just set up so that Taylor can't get inspired by much, huh?
Taylor reads fiction, but her online time isn't very productive apparently. However,
I don't know of these CYOAs.
5. If Leet's power wasn't so bad at encouraging people to take risks (have you read Mauling Snarks up to where Taylor points out how it's shooting itself in the foot?)... well, Alexandria is no real threat to Scion, but Hero at least had Stilling. Why else would Manton have been set up by Ziz to kill Hero?
Eidolon didn't like the competition?
RAW - won't work. Only the options (or sub-options) marked with a superscript dagger can be picked multiple times, and "Powers+" does not have such mark.
That's been pointed out, thanks.
If this is actually the case, I retract my claim; I was thinking of older versions, where the education took several months and/or only covered a single year.
Either way, this would probaby be rather slow for her. Absent any interfering runs, she won't be able to get her new portion of education until April, and then not again until July. She might just consider such a very-long-term investment not worth it.
Yes. Right now, she's thinking in terms of "one week". Get this done. Find out if she's even willing to associate with this world
after the week is done.
Taylor's reasoning is probably 1) that she'd have too high of a chance of sex on that job, and [as claimed by Ack, at least] 2) she's not sure how will getting a Magical Girl form interact with her pre-existing powers.
(The "she has little idea what a Magical Girl is" claim, also proposed by Ack, is negated by her choosing the sidekick option, which otherwise makes little sense, but the other two reasons still apply.)
She doesn't have to know how they work to fight crime with one.
The "too high a chance of sex on the job" is negated by the Magical Girl Owner. Taylor's already stated she's going to be helping them fight to get used to her powers.
Exactly.
Um, you're making Taylor seem a bit too dumb as this sounds awfully like "Would prefer to get home 3 weeks sooner over basically getting a new Tinker specialty every three months FOR LIFE."
No.
Totally incorrect.
Education gives you a specialised version of a broader, mundane course of study. Auto engineering, for instance. Or parahuman law. There is
nowhere in there that says it gives you
actual super-powers. You have to take the Powers reward for that. (Tinkering is a power, not a skill. In case you weren't aware).
To be fair, "equivalent of 3 years of education" << "new Tinker speciality". She probably could get a course in nanotech or something, but chances are it would be significantly lacking in the kind of grounding that could possibly let her replicate nanotech, and end up relatively useless unless she already has a Tinker power. (Which she might have after the run, admittedly.)
She could. Or she could go for something that let her get results
now, instead of "after I spend a month building the equipment I now have to spend lots of money acquiring the parts
and the tools to assemble".
Of course, she could always try working up to a big thing in 3-year steps - which is the "very long term investment" I was talking about. Let's be honest, her further life expectancy as a Brockton Bay resident on Earth Bet isn't actually that large.
(It's still going to be at least a fairly close thing, though; if she ends up with a significant surplus in credits after fixing up the misinterpretations, I could totally see her going for Lifelong Learning.)
She won't.
Also, the choice of a week run over a month run wasn't so much motivated by coming home earlier as by minimizing possible sex (and impregnation). Though the "don't give Danny that much time to worry" part was probably also a significant factor.
She just wants to get her mom home as fast as possible. That's what she's fixated on, right now.
Unless the Heberts decide it's time for a Family Fucking Vacation, and sign up together.
Which will break Taylor's brain, just a little.
This is a civilization where education works so fast that 10-year-olds are considered adults (which makes no sense as social experience is what counts, learning can only do so much) so...
Rules Lawyering says "Equivalent of THEIR 3 years education..."
And "
Oh I'm just starting my period today, so no worries about pregnancy LOOOOOL!!11!!" could be a good reason for "chooses to stay 3 weeks less over getting immortality and Technocracy."
Ack I hope you don't mind how we've managed to construct justifications for you beyond "her neuroses" through nitpicking...
Hey, neuroses are a perfectly good reason
Danny is so embarrassed by Annette not taking the opportunity to gain powers--he's been on the receiving end of what happens to unpowered folks, like how the DWU is brushed aside and probably bullied by the gangs--and her reasoning for not getting powers when she could do it non-traumatically, that he goes out, gets drunk... and seduces Squealer while very, very drunk (like "When Your Mother is the Simurgh" where a drunk Danny and co ran over Lung with a truck, drew dicks on his face, and he was married to Ziz by Contessa officiating. Yeah, THAT level of Unseen Awesomeness drunk...).
...He's drunk enough to say something like "Well if doing this gets my wife to seek enough power to be safer then I don't care if she leaves me..." while Squealer is actually sober enough to gawk at him as he falls asleep. This is followed by Squealer using his driver's license to find his phone number. She drives him home and then spends a bit telling Annette in person about the "insane bullshit justification what the fuck how did you raise your husband to be such a cloud cuckoolander" problem and the likes of "don't fucking let a guy who's that into romantic ideals go or... well, I broke up with Skidmark again recently, so..." *shrugs*.
This is followed what you suggested. Oh, and Danny is now a harem protagonist.
Sounds like a fun fic. I'd read it.
So, I just want to comment on this. I'm interpreting the way Fun Time interacts with duplicate owner slots differently than was done here. I'm seeing Fun Time as a near-global sub-option to the owners, so would be included in the total cost of each owner. So for the +5 credit owners with Fun Time, 3x each, I'd see the credits as being +10/+5/+2 for 17 total, instead of what amounts to +10/+7/+6 and 23 total, a 6 credit difference.
I can't say which of our methods of calculating is correct, because the way things were structured makes it vague, but I figured I'd point it out.
It doesn't say that. Four extra hours is four extra hours, no matter how it's spent.
EDIT: right, another important question about gaming the Slut Life system...
Has Taylor ever seen or heard of the Terminator movies?
Because "temperature no longer matters" if taken at face value is doing the famous Terminator Thumbs Up GIF without harm (though I don't recommend actually testing it just in case).
I'm pretty sure they meant normal environmental temperatures.
So, my reading of Secret Society is that it gives you 2 other rewards for free, and new home. Which implies that you can't get the credits for new home from secret Society.
Why would it do that? It doesn't state it, so you get the credits.
It seems weird that Secret Society can functionally Cost 110, same as a Planet, but you can use it to get planet (which also sorta includes new home) and some others.
Which means it costs 150, because it's
worth more. Duh.
