*Escalation intensifies*
Definitely not something that she would learn from Skidmark or Squealer. I wonder who could teach her about this...?
The nickname and such for Skitter given by Skidmark and Squealer isn't her proper demonic nickname. Rather they, in this version of them, are the kind of people that give people cutesy nicknames, or at least Squealer is, Skidmark gives out nicknames in regards to their actions or personalities. Squealer after all we are pretty sure squeals in bed and such. For Skitty, well she already has the name of Skitter, so that describes her power and such, so Squealer nicknaming her Skitty is just for Squealer's sake. Skidmark is fine with just calling her whatever she prefers to be called and such. I haven't given Taylor's demonic nickname as much thought, though I've always leaned towards Skitter in this.
Could also just say souls are powerful so avoid grinding by just taking on souls, human souls should be more powerful, at least a neutral power source having equal parts magic and soul exp, while demons of course have more magic but less soul exp. I donno making it up as I type here.
I might lean more on the soul is where a person's magical potential is and such, thus by taking a sould you increase your magical potential thus increasing your max power maybe, or that by making a deal, where you'd have to kill a demon many times to get all their power, making a deal gets you all the power in one go.
That works, no hud system with tons of little details like exp gains and abilities learned would be nice. Always felt that cluttered the story with trivia just to fill the chapters word count.
Likely to think that the idea has merit. Taylor isn't someone that thinks that people aren't beyond redemption, she just won't let that get in her way when it comes to the mission. Sure if she takes you in now you could possibly be redeemed, but she isn't going to go out of her way to redeem people as she has more important things to do. If you want redemption, redeem yourself why don't ya? Taylor is too busy with other things to try and deal with that stuff.
Dealing with new senses can make it hard to realise what is going on especially if you have no basis for realising what is happening. Plus Taylor was in the zone and was more focused on what was happening to the other lizard man.
Thing is Taylor has always been way to selfless, Lisa was starting to try to help her, but because of the mindwhammy stuff that was happening with Dinah and such that we discussed in the Unrestricted Worm Thread, all Lisa's progress towards getting Taylor to actually appreciate that she actually has worth beyond serving in some mission. I took this into account when writing up Taylor's goals. Her self worth is utter dog shit and only thinks about others. Even here all she's thinking about is how to make Hell a better place for her friends and maybe others and has basically adopted it as her new mission to replace the old one. Unless someone realizes it, Taylor is continuing her self destructive path and mission thought process even after dying. Someone is going to have to eventually get through to her and help her heal from the literal years of viewing herself as just a tool to make the world better for other people.
Exactly! Maybe Charlie too if Charlie really tries hard to try to redeem her or something.
Part of why I'm not sure about the summoning stuff to the places yet. Might bog down the story. Unless your talking about fighting and that. That'll come soon enough with a special guest appearence from some one not really that special.
I meant her reaction to watching charlie sing about her idea of redemption.
That stuff ain't very strong...
Thank you for the kind praise!
Probably because he is the easiest to pick out for scummy tactics isn't he, though then again, from what I've heard, the Anchorage PRT director was pretty scummy, or tried to be. I wouldn't be surprised if more than just Tagg were scum bags.
That was my thought on reading this section too. If so, nice bit of foreshadowing Necro.
