Prince Charon
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I've begun threadmarking the snippets in this thread... at least, the ones with titles. This will take a while.
Note that some, like this one, are only not being threadmarked because of said lack of title.
AFAICT, the more powers are involved, the higher the probability that a Trump occurs (this is more a guess than a certainty, as Wildbow doesn't appear to say), as long as you have a shard that can do a power that would get a Trump threat assessment. Thinking about it, some of the new triggers could be trying to deal with other brand-new triggers.Mover, trump, and brute seem the most likely if what I recall about triggering conditions is accurate. (Get away, get away, deal with this parahuman/power, and survive the immediate dangers right here)
A Shaker power that was created to deal with Labyrinth could be very interesting, no?Other shaker powers as well... the environment is the enemy, and that's where those powers come from.
Scary, but very useful. Wondering how Image would deal with her, should she choose to join the Wards.Specific powers? Well, the current situation itself that is being dealt with would definitely play a part, but so would the history of each new parahuman. So there's definitely that to factor in.
Breaker (Master): Can merge own body with that of at least one other person. As long as they're merged the parahuman has significant control over the other person's body, and resources from one body can be transferred to another. The more closely the bodies are merged the faster resources can be shared.
Triggered while best friend was bleeding out in front of her. Successfully used it to stabilize best friend and force her wounds to clot faster, but the experience disgusted and exhilarated her. The feeling of power over her best friend was intensely disquieting, but the knowledge of how she could use that power was addictive. Will need to use power constructively (in ways that the shard will approve of) to avoid falling into rather unethical uses.
He's going to be rather popular with the non-parahuman survivors.Shaker/Trump: Can impose the parahuman's own concept of sane reality upon the surrounding area. Notably, all parahuman powers that extend beyond their body have no effect within own area of effect. However, they're merely suppressed, not negated. If a blaster (even one inside of the area of effect) launched an attack through the field, it would disappear while within but exist again once it had left the field as if it had travelled normally with zero resistance.
Triggered while utterly surrounded by Labyrinth's more overt manifestations. Had always felt that reality was kind of crazy and struggled to cope with it all. Had a completely breakdown leading to the trigger event. Proceeded to sleep through the rest of the battle, finally feeling like the world made sense. Many of his classmates crowded into the field to escape Labyrinth's more harmful effects.
Thanks.Was pleasantly surprised to read this. I think you portrayed Taylor just fine, better than I do at least. Even if people are grumbling about it on SB/SV being OOC, you did good. +1
You're always allowed to make a thread for a story.Just wrote a introduction chapter for a CYOA and not sure if I'm allowed to just post a new thread.
He killed himself.Also it's a while since I read Worm, does anyone remember, if it was ever cleared up, what exactly happened with Tattletales brother? I'm not sure and have my own ideas, but wanted to ask before I do someting and embarrass myself.
It's considered polite to make a thread when you intend to write a lot more than just one or two chapters, so if you have a plan for more, go ahead and make a thread.
He killed himself.
She never understood why.
Her power gave her amazing intuition so she could have figured his issues out if he were still alive, but alas it was too late to actually help.
Her brother, Reggie, committed suicide. She mentioned to her parents that she'd noticed something off about him before he did it, and they started blaming her for it. She triggered in her sleep a while later, and her dad found out and started using her power for his own benefit. After a while of that, she got fed up, stole some of her parents' money (which didn't last long, since she had no idea how to manage money), ran away from home, and changed her name to Lisa Wilbourn. See this chapter.Just wrote a introduction chapter for a CYOA and not sure if I'm allowed to just post a new thread. Also it's a while since I read Worm, does anyone remember, if it was ever cleared up, what exactly happened with Tattletales brother? I'm not sure and have my own ideas, but wanted to ask before I do someting and embarrass myself.
That sounds fine.My idea was always that her parents tried to use her power to make money and she picked up that something simmilar happened to her brother, until he couldn't take it anymore, also that her Negotiator shard is a bud from him. So she run away, as soon as she understood. That would work?
You can make a thread whenever you want. But personally, I wouldn't make a thread until I had at least two chapters done, or around 10 to 15 thousand words, whichever is bigger. But my chapters are usually on the longer side: my current project, Alexis, is at 8k atm and still in progress, and my most recent two completed projects were 4.5k (the Arcadia Not-1.1 snippet posted above) and 11k (NSFW Taylor/Lisa story). All three are first chapters for stories I intend to be long-running.Well, I'm not the fastest person when it comes to writing and the introduction chapter has only about 1450 words, but I would like to make more. So should I wait until I do have more? I just write a real first chapter to go with the introduction.
With a CYOA story, however, it's best to put as much distance between your story and the actual CYOA content as possible. If I see an entire prologue chapter of "I chose this, and this, and this...," I tend to drop the fic immediately. Even a single paragraph of that is too much IMO.Both of you evildice and Angush. Thank you for the clarifications and advice.
With a CYOA story, however, it's best to put as much distance between your story and the actual CYOA content as possible. If I see an entire prologue chapter of "I chose this, and this, and this...," I tend to drop the fic immediately. Even a single paragraph of that is too much IMO.
Just jump directly into the narrative and let curious readers try to figure out what your OOC setup was. (By extension, feel free to ignore the Rules of The CYOA if you feel it would make a better story. They're more like guidelines, anyway.)
This is a cool idea. Can't think of a good story for it though.
Thanks. There's more to come, and I'll probably make a thread around part two or three, but it won't be coming soon. I have a lot of projects.