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That was kind of a giveaway.Another great chapter.
And I guessed at Aster when she told about her mother and brother. Yay, me.
That will come out, eventually.But her keeping the powers is interesting.
Now is Skiiter's power really gone...
Or just suppressed, somehow?
You're welcome
The Wolf Time by Anzer'keLisa looked up from her trade paperback. "Oh, thanks. This one just came in. Have you seen it yet?"
I looked at the back cover of the book; it featured … me, but with fur on my face and wolf-type ears, leading a pack of … Is that you and the Undersiders?
Burn Up by Jingly Jangles"Uh huh. It's pretty good, actually." She tapped another one. "In this one, you get all explodey."
Explodey. I raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. You beat the crap out of Glory Girl. Then you steal her dress."
It Gets Worse by AckSmirking, she took the choc chip ice cream from me and made room on the bench. "Oh, and you gotta see the one with the anvils."
Anvils?
I didn't, because I was implicitly limiting my solution space to adult capes.And I guessed at Aster when she told about her mother and brother. Yay, me.
But her keeping the powers is interesting.
Now is Skiiter's power really gone...
Or just suppressed, somehow?
Basically, yes.Editing things again, Ack? (Still not crazy!)
To me, the obvious implication is that a Tattletale did it.
We know that Shards can store personalities, Taylor's powers are oddly not working, and she has an oddly intact Lisa in her head that really shouldn't be there. So I'm guessing QA got co-opted for all the fancy mindscape stuff.
Neither did I, Anne Frankly, I feel Fuhrious at myself for not seeing it.
Neither did I, Anne Frankly, I feel Fuhrious at myself for not seeing it.
<sigh>
And I'm working on the rest of Aster's story now.
Just once, I'd like to see even a passing reference to Nazis on these boards that doesn't result in those jokes being trotted out. Again.
There's a LOT of helicopter crashes in the last couple of updates. Just pointing that out."Brace yourself!" yelled Über, just before the helicopter hit the ground.
Two helicopter crashes, one of which on a timeline which will overwrite the other. The only person who can attest to both is AsterThere's a LOT of helicopter crashes in the last couple of updates. Just pointing that out.
Now, I just have to figure out how to work a Nazi joke into that....
Part 5-1: The Conflict Inherent in the System
"Fuck the computer," [Captain Gordon] retorted. "I'm talking about a promotion and a four-week leave, right after an Endbringer attack, leaving the rest of us to work twice as hard to make up for your absence."
...
"Or that it'll personally cause it, yeah," I agreed. "They already believe that they live in the end times. If you were working down a checklist of what these cults would look for in an End-bringer, to coin a phrase, then the Behemoth would tick a hell of a lot of boxes."
Part 5-4: Debrief
"Must have been a big one; your pulse rate jumped dramatically just then." She let go of my wrist and retrieved her thermometer. "Temperature's excellent and your colour is looking good. Now all I have to do is dissuade you from doing jumping jacks or anything else strenuous for the next few weeks. It's a good thing we don't have any Endbringer battles coming up."
This time, I was jolted hard. Even as I tried to explain it away – the term 'Endbringer' had been coined somewhere; I had just used it ahead of time – I knew full well that the way she was phrasing it meant that she was aware of more than one Endbringer.
Ah, thanks. Appreciated.Before I forget again, there's what looks like a very slight continuity error with Captain Gordon using Endbringer terminology before it's properly been created.
I don't see why, other than morality, she couldn't have just disintegrated him in the apartment. No body, no evidence, no consequences, no further harassment.Nice one. That doctor Friedrich is loathsome. Even more than some villains.