Caerwen
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It might not be possible to defeat Taylor with a plastic gun, but she has yet to meet her true nemesis:"What about plastic guns? Can you screw with those, too?"
Kaiser fielded that one with a chuckle. "No such thing. Not a truly plastic gun, anyway. Except for Tinker tech, because they follow their own rules. But mundane guns need metal working parts, even if they have plastic frames."
I was NOT expecting THAT, lol. Well done.I'm committed to the Empire, to helping you guys, and everyone like you and me, against race traitors and niggers and chinks who want to push us down and make us less than they are."
Ah, racially pure snackfoods, the only ones fitting for pure Aryan stomachs.Taylor, your journey to the dark side is now beginning. Have some white chocolate chip cookies.
It might not be possible to defeat Taylor with a plastic gun, but she has yet to meet her true nemesis:
Right? Since when is fuckmothering Magneto handled by cops?That has to be the most piss-weak version of Magneto that I've ever seen.
Like, EVER.
Justin couldn't see Kaiser's face behind the helmet, but the smile came through in his voice. "Excellent. Normally, we wait until prospective members have passed the initiation process, but given last night's events, I'm going to declare the initiation well and truly passed. Now for the issue of sponsorship. Do you have a sponsor here?"
Well and truly passed? Justin blinked. Wait – was she the one who chased off the chinks and killed a dozen of them?
The girl's question was almost free of inflection. "Sponsor?"
"Well, yes." Kaiser's voice was patient as he explained. "Your original sponsor is no longer valid. To join our number, you need a sponsor who is both a cape and a member in good standing."
Kaiser paused. "You would like to see a demonstration of her power?" Leaning forward slightly, he turned his helmeted head toward the girl in the bandanna. "Are you willing to do this?"
She did not hesitate. "Yes."
No, she didn't.The girl spoke for the first time since she had asked about sponsors. "Safety's on."
Good catch. Thanks.
It might not be possible to defeat Taylor with a plastic gun, but she has yet to meet her true nemesis:
They figured that Panzer would be an ideal name for her (because of the Nazi leanings of the Empire). And Krieg is actually German.I... am confused. Where did they even say that she needed a German name? Like, yes, some of them are paying homage to German ancestry. But they didn't even reply to the ton of English names in the Empire.
Don't feel too bad, Vicky. That's what she thinks of every cape.Vicky winced; the Director had given the latter description a pitch and spin that stung. Is that what she thinks of me?
Victor as the repressed science nerd? it was great.
She's only insecure in the relationship after Tattletale brings up the points in canon.Victor as the repressed science nerd? it was great.
though... him doing IT with two young girls in the basement? Hope Othala does not get jealous
Those are from Kaiser's power, right?With a grinding of metal, obstacles arose from the table top; walls and poles, scaled to the car. The girl did not seem to react, aside from a very slight narrowing of her eyes behind her glasses. She didn't know about this bit, then. The car swerved wildly, clipped the first obstacle, then bounced off the second one and stopped.
However, a few seconds later, it took off again. Pulling a long drift around both the obstacles that it had just hit, it then proceeded to complete the ad hoc course by swerving around each subsequent barrier in turn until it pulled to a halt in front of Kaiser. It did not, Justin noted, hit any more obstacles, although it came close a few times.
Kaiser made the obstacles, yes.This just occurred to me.
Those are from Kaiser's power, right?
She does have certain speed limitations, but yes, I have considered that.Just remembered something and....yeah, as good as you think Taylor's power is right now, you actually made her ludicrously more powerful than you thought.
What I remembered was the basics behind my hydraulics 101 class. The very basics behind it is that if you have two surfaces, one 10 cm disc and one 1 cm disc with a fluid between them in a sealed container, when you push down with 10 pounds of force on the 10 cm disc, the 1 cm disc raises with 100 pounds of force.
Those are only the very basics behind it, but adding in hydraulics to Taylor's power....well, one of the primary principles behind hydraulics is that the faster you make the surfaces move, the less overall force you can apply. This is due to mechanical limitations than anything else, and since Taylor can exert force ex-nihlo.....feel like having her close a gripper with 500 tons of force in 0.1 seconds instead of the 10 seconds it would normally take for that application?
I'm imagining that Victoria's gonna have a rather bad time in the near future is anyone thinks of having Taylor apply her power to hydraulic powered machines. Taylor seriously dislikes her for contributing to the death of her best friend, if she hadn't stalled Amy then she might have lived, and she also has the reputation as the next Alexandria. Combined all together, Taylor would probably try to restrain Glory Girl using a few hundred tons of pressure, and when the force field suddenly fails...industrial forces vs flesh is a well known equation and there are a whole lot of missing appendages and deaths to show the answer. Depending on where on GG is being held, this would end up anywhere from amputation to being bisected at the waist or decapitated.
No, actually. The forces between metal moving parts act on a forty-five degree angle, pushing the parts away from each other as well as in the direction she wants them to move. So there's basically a very thin layer of force between the parts, acting as a kind of lubrication.
Victor as the repressed science nerd? it was great.
though... him doing IT with two young girls in the basement? Hope Othala does not get jealous
Wildbow said:Subject gained a Master power that allowed them to drain learned skills from people nearby, causing a temporary decrease in the targets' ability to function normally. Subject could drain multiple people at once to gain fragments of skill knowledge from each and compile it into a cohesive whole. Speed of skill acquiring was faster when subject focused on a single skillset at a time. Subject had a Thinker power that aided in the compiling and usage of acquired skills. Acquisition speed increased as subject used power.
So... this gonna be the 'fic where she thinks this and actually pulls it off? We see it all the time and she always fails. I think Sophia gets gratuitously punked more often than Lung at this point.There was only one possible answer, only one way that this could fit with her personal worldview. Piggy's wrong. Hebert's faking it. And I'm the only one who can prove otherwise.
They're all scared to act.
It looks like it's up to me.
Dunno. I've seen few fics do it better or more thoroughly than Wildbow did.So... this gonna be the 'fic where she thinks this and actually pulls it off? We see it all the time and she always fails. I think Sophia gets gratuitously punked more often than Lung at this point.
Maybe so, I just wonder why anyone bothers at this point. Sophia thinking "Imma gonna get 'er" always ends with Sophia eating shit, after seeing no success. Hell, in that one 'fic, she does manage to kill Taylor only to have Taylor come back as the Ginosaji for some spoon hitting action.Dunno. I've seen few fics do it better or more thoroughly than Wildbow did.