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Tattletale is criminally incapable of making things easy.
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New Ward was great, Tattltale still the best, I'm mad as hell that we have to wait till Tuesday to see what the kids can really Do Also I think part of why Ward has been slow is it has to create a world that isn't just "earth, but" Like Earth, but capes or Earth, but it's the 20s and Frankensteins, this is "earth, but also Earth is hosed to hell and werre living in a hellscape that is only passingly similar to how things used to he or should be and everything is bad and lame" So you have to establish what's going on in this world and how things have changed post gold morning and all that good poo poo, plus set up these five or six new characters all in a shot instead of kinda pacing it out over the first five arcs of worm Basically it's a fault of the story not the writing per se Also Tattletale owns
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Jan 6, 2018 23:20
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it's pretty great. Tattletale basically urges Victoria to do this thing, tells her why she wants Vicky to do it without giving any details, warns her of the possibility of failure, tells her she can't help Victoria and may have to oppose her, that Tattletale opposing Victoria is actually the better option for Vicky, reminds Vicky to rely on others, going so far as to give a big hint as to who Tattletale thinks Vicky should rely on. Reminds Vicky that her aura is actually her best and strongest power while warning to avoid abusing other with it, and she even gives Victoria a hint as to what the people in the point might be capable of, by telling Vicky it's dumb do keep her shield down. And all of this is done in the most antagonistic god damned way possible because Tattletale really doesn't like Victoria very much.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:03
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NecroMonster posted:it's pretty great. Tattletale basically urges Victoria to do this thing, tells her why she wants Vicky to do it without giving any details, warns her of the possibility of failure, tells her she can't help Victoria and may have to oppose her, that Tattletale opposing Victoria is actually the better option for Vicky, reminds Vicky to rely on others, going so far as to give a big hint as to who Tattletale thinks Vicky should rely on. Reminds Vicky that her aura is actually her best and strongest power while warning to avoid abusing other with it, and she even gives Victoria a hint as to what the people in the point might be capable of, by telling Vicky it's dumb do keep her shield down. And all of this is done in the most antagonistic god damned way possible because Tattletale really doesn't like Victoria very much. I didn't catch the part about who she should rely on
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Jan 7, 2018 05:19
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I didn't catch the part about who she should rely on It's when she reveals that she knew Kenzi was recording the whole drat thing. She didn't do anything about the recording, so she had to have made a note of it for some other reason, my best guess is to remind Vicky of what Kenzi can do. Although she may have just been reminding Victoria to go over the recording before sharing it, but this being Tattletale, I'm really betting it was both.
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Jan 7, 2018 07:18
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NecroMonster posted:It's when she reveals that she knew Kenzi was recording the whole drat thing. She didn't do anything about the recording, so she had to have made a note of it for some other reason, my best guess is to remind Vicky of what Kenzi can do. Although she may have just been reminding Victoria to go over the recording before sharing it, but this being Tattletale, I'm really betting it was both. Yeah that makes sense I like rhat basically everything in that conversation was almost certainly designed to do the opposite of what was actually said Tt rules, TT interlude when
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Jan 7, 2018 07:44
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Finally finished reading this whole thread just now. Finished Mother of Learning (what's out anyway) a few days ago and I really enjoyed it, and now I gotta find something new to start. Thanks for this awesome thread guys.
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Jan 10, 2018 02:14
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Silynt posted:I very much enjoyed the most recent Practical Guide, specifically the back and forth between Squire and Warlock. I thought the dialogue between them was some of the best in the series. And I'm intrigued by the hypocrisy in Warlock's stance on Cat - not the one she calls him out on, which is totally justified (he is every bit the monster he accuses her of being) - but that he seems to hate her for the threat that she represents to his best friend through her existence as his "replacement". How is that situation any different from Apprentice and Warlock? We just saw Apprentice transition into another Mage name, so why would he not assume that she could or would do the same? He claims that she will be the death of Black, but Masego wasn't the death of Warlock. Honestly it's either Black Queen. Because she is going down that path herself. In which case Black Knight is probably spared. Possibly Black dies and she takes his place. More probable is she becomes White Knight because that is probably the only way her side will "win". gently caress the gods game just flip over the table.
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Jan 11, 2018 11:57
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Affi posted:Honestly it's either Black Queen. Because she is going down that path herself. In which case Black Knight is probably spared. I want to believe it's black queen because the march of the black queen talks about going into heaven and coming back out, and if this whole thing is an extremely long game queen reference, it would be amazing.
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Jan 11, 2018 21:28
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Affi posted:Honestly it's either Black Queen. Because she is going down that path herself. In which case Black Knight is probably spared. I am also thinking she'll turn into a hero. There is a point in Worm where Taylor just goes "gently caress it, I'll just do whatever it takes with no regrets". Where she 100% feels like she's just reacting to people attacking her and none of it is her fault. I still haven't got that as Cat. The series makes it clear that she realizes that all of the death and hardship and pain is her fault in a way, and she feels terrible about it.
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Jan 11, 2018 21:36
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Man I hope this Flos storyline in Wandering Inn gets interesting soon, it's boring as hell right now.
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Jan 13, 2018 15:01
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Lone Goat posted:Man I hope this Flos storyline in Wandering Inn gets interesting soon, it's boring as hell right now. Haven’t read the latest one yet but he’s the “King of Destruction”. I’m generally confident that Pirate can write compelling and creepy characters (the corpse worm was amazing, Gazi), and there’s a lot of backstory we don’t have on the guy and why he stopped and went to sleep. I think the humanization going on now will probably be used to show how much he changes when he starts to actually do his thing.
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Jan 13, 2018 15:59
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Affi posted:Honestly it's either Black Queen. Because she is going down that path herself. In which case Black Knight is probably spared. I think one of the limitation of squire means she cannot step into Black Queen even if it is a new one. That doesn't mean she can't transition into a new Knight title though. Winter Knight has a nice ring to it. I'm honestly much more concerned with Killian, I'm really hoping that goes somewhere else than "and then I stopped and never loved again because woe is me I'm so sad and a monster and doomed to make the same mistakes as Black".
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Jan 13, 2018 16:10
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Tzarnal posted:I think one of the limitation of squire means she cannot step into Black Queen even if it is a new one. That doesn't mean she can't transition into a new Knight title though. Winter Knight has a nice ring to it. She definitely can, the angel offered her Queen.
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Jan 13, 2018 20:32
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Help. I just devoured the ending to Worm last night and I'm on less then two hours sleep. Goddamn. Its felt like years since I last hit an unstoppable pageturner, but arc's 29 and 30 would not let me go.
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Jan 14, 2018 19:45
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Thyrork posted:Help. I just devoured the ending to Worm last night and I'm on less then two hours sleep. Good news! Worm 2 just started a few weeks ago! But if you'd prefer something complete, Wildbow finished two other stories inbetween; Pact (generally considered to be worse than Worm) and Twig (generally considered to be better than Worm).
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Jan 15, 2018 05:01
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Argue posted:Good news! Worm 2 just started a few weeks ago! I would say Twig is better written than Worm, but not quite as addictive as worm. When I was reading Worm for the first time, it honestly felt like I was on some sort of Drug. I was reading it like a crazy person until 2 or 3 in the morning. I believe Twig is a better story, but Worm just has a certain strange magnetism, especially if you haven't been exposed to any other serial Superhero stories.
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Jan 15, 2018 11:02
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Ward Rain is absolutely full of loving poo poo and they should stick a knife in him and leave him in a dumpster right now.
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Jan 16, 2018 07:40
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NecroMonster posted:Ward Rain is absolutely full of loving poo poo and they should stick a knife in him and leave him in a dumpster right now. This, also Tristan is pretty much a dead man walking, likely at the hands of Rain, given that goat foreshadowing.
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Jan 16, 2018 08:10
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21 Muns posted:This, also Tristan is pretty much a dead man walking, likely at the hands of Rain, given that goat foreshadowing. We knew that from the prologue tho
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Jan 16, 2018 11:27
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:We knew that from the prologue tho Well, the evidence is continuing to pile up.
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Jan 16, 2018 18:00
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ward thoughts: Secrets and lies seems to be a pretty big theme so far, and having an obsessive secret digger on the team means they could pop out at any (the worst) times. The tristin/rain forshadow is so blunt I'm honestly expecting it to be something more like rain's power splitting tristin/byron apart during an unstable trigger or something instead of just rain killing him (either accidently or on purpose).
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Jan 16, 2018 18:03
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Something else interesting: Ashley's the only one of them, including Victoria, who isn't obviously lying or hiding something. She's relatively straightforward about her plans and motives.
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Jan 16, 2018 20:18
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i tried to read worm, but if i wanted a story where nothing good ever happens and every victory is Pyrrhic i'd just start paying more attention to politics.
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Jan 16, 2018 20:26
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Mycroft Holmes posted:i tried to read worm, but if i wanted a story where nothing good ever happens and every victory is Pyrrhic i'd just start paying more attention to politics. Heh. Honestly, I find Worm less depressing than Marvel/DC comics, because the characters and world can meaningfully change in the long term.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:00
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Rain is clearly lying about a bunch of poo poo. He knows what happened to member 5(may have caused it), he knows why the others want him dead, he knows them better them he is pretending to, and he's likely lying about multiple facets of his power (does he really have to throw them? can he only make one at a time? what exactly happens when his power is waxing?)
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Jan 16, 2018 22:24
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I'd advise anyone who is feeling a bit lost to reread the paralogue Glow Worm bit. Each chapter is from a single characters perspective: Point Me @ is Victoria, Heart is Kenzie, Cap is Tristan/Byron (who hires a hit on his other half it looks like?), Curious Cephalopod, Weird Insect, etc. are Chris (one account for each personality maybe?), Kraken is Sveta, Mangled is Ashley, of5 is Rain. There's a whole bunch of weird poo poo going down and we still only have a few of the pieces. Most of the assumptions we are making are probably wrong.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:24
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christ had 32 accounts because he was trying to prevent kenzie spying on him not because of his multiple personalities i think
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Jan 17, 2018 00:35
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violent sex idiot posted:christ had 32 accounts because he was trying to prevent kenzie spying on him not because of his multiple personalities i think It seemed more like he was trying to bait her into revealing that she was spying on him? You're right though it doesn't look like it had anything to do with his power.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:39
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I really liked the latest practical guide to evil. Every so often in these serials, you come across a chapter where you can tell the author is excited, that they've been waiting to write that particular bit.
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Jan 18, 2018 11:05
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SerCypher posted:I really liked the latest practical guide to evil. TBQH, that's one of the biggest things I wonder about when I upload a chapter because, well, it's true. There are chapters you can't wait to write and finish and put out there and there are ones where you're like 'Well, this is okay, I guess.' For example, the most recent chapter I put out is one that fitted into the first category even if it's a really simple chapter.
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Jan 18, 2018 11:27
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Something bugs me about Yamada in Ward/Worm. Like she feels like some person from outside the story entering the story and talking to the characters or something, it's hard to describe. Or something like a layperson's idea of an ideal therapist. Just something about her interactions stands out as awkward and unnatural.
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Jan 20, 2018 01:02
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Ward 3.5 Is there anything Rain isn't lying about? And Kenzie's dad is for sure some kind of loving robot isn't he?
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Jan 20, 2018 09:10
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NecroMonster posted:Ward 3.5 Is there anything Rain isn't lying about? its fine, because kenzie is totally lying about not watching him
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Jan 20, 2018 09:40
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NecroMonster posted:Ward 3.5 Is there anything Rain isn't lying about? And Kenzie's dad is for sure some kind of loving robot isn't he? So I read the Reddit thread for 3.4 and some of the speculation was that her specialty isn't cameras, it's robots and AI, and she's going to accidentally make skynet at some point and god I want this
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Jan 20, 2018 10:10
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:So I read the Reddit thread for 3.4 and some of the speculation was that her specialty isn't cameras, it's robots and AI, and she's going to accidentally make skynet at some point and god I want this I saw speculation that she wasn't an AI tinker per se, but instead a simulation tinker, basically star trek holodeck style poo poo, the surveillance poo poo is actually just data gathering for her real speciality. So not an AI tinker, actually an AI tinker+
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Jan 20, 2018 10:29
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ward 3.5 There is a lot the Rain isn't 'technically' lying about, which is interesting. Like he is essentially lying because when you describe "jump from a moving train onto a gravel slope and perfectly stop" as a "lets me keep my balance" you're distorting the truth so much it is basically a lie. He is so insistent on his cluster not being after him for kiss/kill syndrome that I'm pretty sure he killed the 5th member for the power boost and the rest of his cluster knows it. I think this is the second time Victoria's paranoia has paid off in spades, it'll be interesting to see what the 3rd is and how she deals with it. Something is weird with Kenzie's dad, but at this point I don't think anything is nailed down. Limited robot wouldn't be surprising, given her comments in glow-worm and how uncanny valley he is. However, the rest of the group seems to know something about the situation, and it seems off for that to be the answer unless whatever they all know about is cover for secret robot. Secrets and lies keep building and I'm really interested in how this jenga tower is going to collapse.
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Jan 20, 2018 19:01
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Ward 3.5 Also in retrospect, looking back at Rain's description of his "guilt/doubt" power, it seems pretty likely that he made Victoria get uncomfortable and decide to stop watching him.
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Jan 20, 2018 19:24
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21 Muns posted:Ward 3.5 This is actually really possible, and shades basically everything that has happened previously. I might need to go re-read some stuff with that in mind.In terms of range and subtly and strength his emotion power would be crazy strong, as Victoria is quite distant, and naturally resistant to emotion effects and she doesn't notice it. Much like how Victoria used to spam her aura all the time (and how that in the end worked out), we might find out that Rain is basically doing the same thing to set things up for himself.
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I think he's an evil little poo poo.
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