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Just by the way, rewrote Alec's conversation with Coil a little.
What, money and video games?Alec: not even remotely working off of the same motivational schema as anyone else currently featured in this narrative.
can't be, he's be totally cool with that
Self destruct.Stopped right at the good point.
Kind of guessing in Timeline A Alibi shot him in the back with a built in gun or something.
Self destruct.
He was standing a couple of yards away from the equivalent of a couple of hand grenades.
Understood, but the police in BB seem to not care much about it."He knew that the police required twenty-four hours of absence before they regarded a person as missing; a teenager, only a couple of hours late, on a Friday afternoon, it not even being dark yet, they would consider simply not worth their time."
No, Danny, that is completely incorrect! Her not coming home when she would have been in essentially any circumstance is more than sufficient to file that report and for it to be taken seriously in the cops are even marginally competent! Make that report already!
That myth really needs to die in a fire, especially given how incredibly important a fast response is in trying to track somebody down when they disappear.
Anyway, Ack, thanks for the chapter. Was enjoyed.
She dialled it to full yield, just for him.I hope that's not her standard self-destruct mechanism type. That's recklessly dangerous, after all.
Understood, but the police in BB seem to not care much about it.
In Danny's interlude, after Taylor sneaks out at eleven, he calls up a couple of hours later, and the cops tell him to call back in twelve hours if she's still gone.
You really need to tune your expectations. Authority in Worm is essentially all corrupt and failing.Which means that they're breaking a federal statute, which probably means that one could get them fired at will.
Personally, I think that it was Wildbow's mistake, but maybe they are blatantly breaking the law. Or, for some insane reason, the law was changed.
Best bit.
This is Brockton Bay, in Worm. Shit has been going down for nearly thirty years as it is.Which means that they're breaking a federal statute, which probably means that one could get them fired at will.
Personally, I think that it was Wildbow's mistake, but maybe they are blatantly breaking the law. Or, for some insane reason, the law was changed.
This is Brockton Bay, in Worm. Shit has been going down for nearly thirty years as it is.
This is a city where three major gangs openly walk the streets. The Empire Eighty-Eight, a white supremacist group which practices hate crimes, the Azn Bad Boys, an Asian gang which regularly kidnaps teenage girls and sells them into sexual slavery, and the Merchants, which sell fucking drugs.
If the cops were on top of stuff, do you think any of that would be happening?
And yet they apparently get away with it.Those have the excuse that dealing with parahumans is both physically hazardous and, potentially, a jurisdictional issue that is incredibly frustrating to deal with depending on how badly things were designed. However, deliberately sabotaging any possibility of finding missing persons by openly breaking the law (not accepting one is highly illegal) by demanding a wait of some degree of time before they'll even pretend to start looking is just insane.
Putting in next-to-no-effort into looking into them would be a moderately understandable response, but what's the point of not accepting the report and passing on the information as required? It costs them very, VERY little, makes them look at least mildly less incompetent even if it doesn't work out, and doesn't open them up to being thrown into prison for blatantly breaking the law.
Or maybe they've got so many other, more serious crimes (robberies, murders, etc) to worry about that trying to find a teenager who's an hour or so late home on a Friday afternoon, when so many teenagers do this all the time (and the last fifteen times they investigated, the kid was home before they even got out there to interview the parent in question) to worry about, that this sort of thing goes on the back burner.Which has three explanations I can think of. Author error, not knowing that that myth about needing to wait X amount of time before being reported missing is the exact opposite of true invented for drama, the cops being worse-than-useless and being able to get away with openly breaking state and federal law and admitting it over an easily-recorded medium, and finally that the law was, for some stupid reason, actually changed. Why they would want fewer people who go Missing from being found I don't know, but somebody might have some motive they could sell to others as legitimate.
Impotent. Danny was helpless where it counted. There was no action he could take – his one call to the police at two in the morning had only earned him a tired explanation that the police couldn't act or look for her without something more to go on. If his daughter was still gone after twelve hours, he'd been told, he should call them again.
Yeah... Worm America is basically a failed state. Fuck, most failed states have a better functioning central authority than worm. They're basically using legalised mercenaries against criminal gangs and are failing.So yes, this is canon, in the world of Worm. We accept that this is not the way that it is in the real world, but Worm is not the real world.
To be fair, most failed states don't have people with superpowers leading the gangs, or murderhoboing around the country.Yeah... Worm America is basically a failed state. Fuck, most failed states have a better functioning central authority than worm. They're basically using legalised mercenaries against criminal gangs and are failing.
Possibly because they're in the top ten for capes-per-capita.To be fair, most failed states don't have people with superpowers leading the gangs, or murderhoboing around the country.
Also, IIRC, Brockton Bay is generally considered worse than average, possibly by a lot.
Which has three explanations I can think of. Author error, not knowing that that myth about needing to wait X amount of time before being reported missing is the exact opposite of true invented for drama, the cops being worse-than-useless and being able to get away with openly breaking state and federal law and admitting it over an easily-recorded medium, and finally that the law was, for some stupid reason, actually changed. Why they would want fewer people who go Missing from being found I don't know, but somebody might have some motive they could sell to others as legitimate.
Yeah, he called them in canon because it was two in the morning, and Taylor had been out since eleven. Any father would be worried at that point. In my story? It was mid-afternoon on a Friday, still daylight. There were any number of legitimate reasons she could be late home.Two problems with that: He clearly didn't in canon, given that he DID call them before 24 hours were up. Also, the discussion had moved on to "why would the police actually have that policy" since it Ack made clear that this WAS their official policy..
Also, that canon quote seems to indicate less "we have an official waiting policy" and more "we have accepted your report and we'll do what we can (almost nothing) with the little information you were able to give us, please get off the phone now so I can get to the next person". Quite possibly with an undertone of "she's poor and probably joined the Merchants or the E88; it's not like she's important or anything".
Seems somewhat strange that he wouldn't call up the Dockworkers, though; they're probably a lot more useful than the police for a LOT of things and he could afford to burn through his favours with them if need-be.