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Rose Bunny wrote:

Cryptic wrote: Anyone else read Green Beacon as Green Bacon?

Which of course is served alongside the same-colored eggs and ham.

Or green spam if it's left in the fridge to long.

Well Done, My Champion! the Queen of Irie and Dankness inhaled deeply and exulted with an uncharacteristic wide grin, her two blue eyes glittering unfocused (even if one was blinking rapidly). Soon, I will be the Weaver of the Cool Runnings in truth once again!

Edit: So far, all the Sidhe Queens we've seen to date could benefit from an encounter with Jah and his mystical herb.

call upon by servants

Wait, there's gotta be a typo there, but is it "called upon"... or "my servants"?

I guess the latter, since your servants don't call upon you, it's the other way around?

So, can she only have one Knight? What other roles remain to be filled??

Malady wrote:

call upon by servants

Wait, there's gotta be a typo there, but is it "called upon"... or "my servants"?

I guess the latter, since your servants don't call upon you, it's the other way around?

Soon, I will be able to call upon by servants flung far across the globe.

With the whole sentence it's clearer that it probably should be "my" in place of "by" unless also adding "be" before "called" which I find less likely as a typo.

Hmm... WMG: All Sidhe serve a specific Queen, it's just that no Sidhe at Whateley serves Aunghadhail?

Or, like Aung, their deaths freed them of such obligations when they reincarnated?

Stupid inability to spell

Which sort? "Inability to spell" like making your word processor metaphorically throw up its hands in disgust, or "Inability to spell" as in being a magic null?

Malady wrote: Hmm... WMG: All Sidhe serve a specific Queen, it's just that no Sidhe at Whateley serves Aunghadhail?

I think most would have pledged their fealty to the Crown and not the head wearing it. After all, rulers are just as prone to dropping dead as anyone else. However, even in a feudal society, very, very few people are ever in direct fealty to the sovereign.

If the Sidhe ever were a sentient race, they'd have had different personalities, different motives, different abilities. So some fraction of them never pledged their selves into the service of anyone.

Malady wrote: Or, like Aung, their deaths freed them of such obligations when they reincarnated?

On death, a noble's rights and obligations fall to their rightful heirs. Lacking an heir, their titles and lands revert to the noble or crown from which they received them. Otherwise they'd have to lay vacant until the noble returned, IF they returned. And if said noble reincarnated as something entirely different then Queenie would have problems with whatever Court now claimed them.

Anne wrote: The fabulous Imp had been violently ill every morning for a week. This is Imp-ossible she moaned to herself, still she made an appointment at Doyle medical.
I need to confirm that I'm pregnant, she told the person taking the appointment.
How am I going to tell Chickenhawk that he's going to be a dad, and what is Melissa going to think? Actually she was pretty sure Melissa would be looking forward to teaching her younger sibling all sorts of Mischief!

I wonder if baby hawks feathers will tickle on the way out.

null0trooper wrote: On death, a noble's rights and obligations fall to their rightful heirs. Lacking an heir, their titles and lands revert to the noble or crown from which they received them. Otherwise they'd have to lay vacant until the noble returned, IF they returned. And if said noble reincarnated as something entirely different then Queenie would have problems with whatever Court now claimed them.

To be honest, how can a title revert to the noble or crown (okay, to the crown which is the polity I can understand) but eventually it must pass to an heir that the polity deems to be in the line of succession for that title. I have no clue how many thousands of people would have to die for the crown of England to be considered to devolve onto someone like myself, yet I have direct ancestors that wore both the crown of Scotland and the crown of England. Yes from my dad's family I'm descended from both Robert the Bruce and Edward Longshanks... But that is what you get when you migrate away from all that BS! Your ancestors quit fighting among themselves over meaningless stuff and intermarry. Or as my dad said the end of the Hatfield-McCoy feud was put in place when a marriage was arranged. One of his elementary school teachers was a member of the Hatfield clan.... She explained what happened to her students.

Sir Lee wrote: Which sort? "Inability to spell" like making your word processor metaphorically throw up its hands in disgust, or "Inability to spell" as in being a magic null?

My spell check throws up its metaphorical hands shouting "What are you trying to say??"

I think it's most unfair not to allow word processors to attend the magic course.

@Schol-R-LEA. IIRC, one of the more dangerous aspects of Ares, Aphrodite, and Dionysus was that they could take possession of mortals (a convenient explanation for madness).

Then again, Destruction, Desire, and Delerium of the Endless weren't goodly ones to cross either.

Is crossing ANY of the Endless EVER a good idea? Or any god-level being, for that matter?

That is pretty much a given isn't it? That you avoid pissing in the Cheerios^® of beings who can carry off at least the image of major power?

Betting that when we see Scapegrace in Magic classes, we'll get an explanation on why we haven't seen the Rose system until now.

Gormless and feckless, eh? That's almost as good as being ruthless.

XaltatunOfAcheron wrote: Gormless and feckless, eh? That's almost as good as being ruthless.

The Masterminds must never turn away any of those, lest their reputation suffer.

Sir Lee wrote: The FSA evaluating board looked at the two freshmen applicants.
"What are your codenames and powers, guys?"
"I'm Gorm. I have very good senses, can go one week without sleep and don't get distracted easily."
"I'm Feck. I can increase the efficiency of chemical reactions."
"I see. Those are... interesting powers, but not really combat geared. I suppose they would be useful for a watchman or a chemical industry, but as far as superheroing go... sorry, guys."
"Wait, we know our powers are not that impressive, but you really should sign us up."
"Why?"
"Because without us, you will be gormless and feckless."

So a ultamat surveillance guy and someone who should never be allowed around explosives and can rust out a lock in seconds. Not powerful but so useful.

I had to laugh yesterday as I had just read the feckless/gornless scene when I heard gornless used on tv.

Hikaru at Halloween..

Yesss, my preciouss, we wants it!!

The images I was working from for the costumes:

And Neil Gaiman's Death of the Endless for her escort?

XaltatunOfAcheron wrote: Gormless and feckless, eh? That's almost as good as being ruthless.

I dunno, Ruth's had pretty bad time of that RA gig, at least until the anti-depressants kicked in. Still better than sacrificing your life by ramming a truck in order to keep it from hitting someone else, I suppose.

Shoutout to "Merlin"

Of course (tm Ayla) she would argue about the precise shade of the colour...

Yep. That's how Beautician is written. Her POVs will have too much detail about colors, and tend to describe people's hair more than any other feature they have.

Also, Hannah (Assay) isn't there for playing the game itself. She's a part of the group because she'll notice if Milena uses her powers to cheat.
edit: They want to play the game honestly, because that's part of the fun.
When I was writing the scene, I realized that if you randomize the manual each time, it's actual a great anti-mental package game that even exemplars can play. Just like how the driving test was conducted.

Null0Trooper: Damn, I can't find a posted version of Kathy Mar's "Velveteen" anywhere on YouTube. I'll have to be satisfied with linking to the web comic Skin Horse instead.

I wanted to feature a devisor that I want to use going forward, but struggled with the how a little bit. Until I realized that if Mazarin came from the Syndicate, and may have needed to replace some of the security staff as a result of the incident. So what other areas might he draw from that Carson would have perhaps hesitated to use? Enter Officer Szczepanski. Solving campus problems in the vein of Jerry Mendez.

Katssun wrote: I wanted to feature a devisor that I want to use going forward, but struggled with the how a little bit. Until I realized that if Mazarin came from the Syndicate, and may have needed to replace some of the security staff as a result of the incident. So what other areas might he draw from that Carson would have perhaps hesitated to use? Enter Officer Szczepanski. Solving campus problems in the vein of Jerry Mendez.

Niice!

I wonder where Szczepanski came from...

Malady wrote:

Katssun wrote: I wanted to feature a devisor that I want to use going forward, but struggled with the how a little bit. Until I realized that if Mazarin came from the Syndicate, and may have needed to replace some of the security staff as a result of the incident. So what other areas might he draw from that Carson would have perhaps hesitated to use? Enter Officer Szczepanski. Solving campus problems in the vein of Jerry Mendez.

Niice!

I wonder where Szczepanski came from...

He is obviously a Slav of one strype or another!

Anne wrote:

Malady wrote:

Katssun wrote: I wanted to feature a devisor that I want to use going forward, but struggled with the how a little bit. Until I realized that if Mazarin came from the Syndicate, and may have needed to replace some of the security staff as a result of the incident. So what other areas might he draw from that Carson would have perhaps hesitated to use? Enter Officer Szczepanski. Solving campus problems in the vein of Jerry Mendez.

Niice!

I wonder where Szczepanski came from...

He is obviously a Slav of one strype or another!

I doubt the Stephens family worries much about it one way or the other.

Malady wrote:

Katssun wrote: I wanted to feature a devisor that I want to use going forward, but struggled with the how a little bit. Until I realized that if Mazarin came from the Syndicate, and may have needed to replace some of the security staff as a result of the incident. So what other areas might he draw from that Carson would have perhaps hesitated to use? Enter Officer Szczepanski. Solving campus problems in the vein of Jerry Mendez.

Niice!

I wonder where Szczepanski came from...

Obviously from somewhere where they are too bloody cheap to pay for vowels!

(OK, so apparently Kyubey is technically an alien rather than a demon, but let's face it, in this case there isn't much of a difference. Also, I can easily picture some wiseass of a demon taking this form just as a joke - most Mythos demons wouldn't bother, true, but some Infernal demons might, as might a quasi-daemonic being of the class Thulia and Bruce belong to I suppose.)

Note that Emi's confusion isn't entirely unjustified; as I understand it, the word 'shibari' is usually used for things such as tying ribbons around presents or in one's hair, with the euphemistic meaning as a synonym for 'kinbaku-bi' being rather coarse and somewhat obscure slang (which is probably how it ended up in use in American BDSM circles).

Niiice!

Got it mixed up with "Sarashi* at first!

So, after confrontation, what happens?

Appeal for fast codename change??

I would assume so, yes. Just how fast a 'fast codename change' is likely to be will depend on a number of factors.

Ceremonial bondage.
So when are we covering Combat Bondage in BMA, Morgana wants to know...

So, I guess Tako is presumably the guy from the same city as Emi?

How many Japanese kids are at Whateley? Or is it just that they're lucky / unlucky to both be JH kids from the same city in Japan??

... Emi's new codename, is?

... Well, Tako doesn't have Octopus GSD... But then the question is, "What *does* he have?"

My thought was that he's a flesh/appendage manifestor. And yes, he's the same one who 'kindly' suggested that codename to Emi.

Malady wrote: Well, Tako doesn't have Octopus GSD... But then the question is, "What *does* he have?"

A killer version of "Puttin' On The Ritz".

It's all about the tentacles. The boy should have taken "Hentai" as a codename.

Hey, tentacles need love too!

Sir Lee wrote: It's all about the tentacles. The boy should have taken "Hentai" as a codename.

That was his first choice, actually. I wonder why it was rejected...

Yeah, I figured that the class of 2022 would need its own version of Peeper... or in this case, perhaps should I say, their version of Grapejuice.

(I still need to watch that series, but that may be a long time in coming still. The main reason I haven't is my money problems - I am using my phone hotspot for Internet as I can't afford a proper cable or DSL connection, and even the monthly sub for Crunchyroll would be a bank breaker. I've seen endless clips - albeit with constant stutter and buffering - and read a fair amount about the characters, but I haven't actually seen any full episodes.)

Malady wrote: So, I guess Tako is presumably the guy from the same city as Emi?

How many Japanese kids are at Whateley? Or is it just that they're lucky / unlucky to both be JH kids from the same city in Japan?

OK, I probably dropped the ball on that one; in retrospect, I should have been even more evil and made the two of them twins, just to ensure that Emi never escapes from this torment.

I'm still not sure what name to give him, but looking some up I found one that seems the perfect one for punny alliteration: Eiichi . Other appropriate options include 'Tatsuo' (that might be a little too appropriate, actually... ), 'Toshio' (as in the manga-ka responsible for the previous work and similar, who more or less created the whole Naughty Tentacles trope single-handedly - wait, that came out a little too right), 'Ataru' (hey, Urusei Yatsura is a classic), 'Minoru' (had to get Mineta in there somewhere), 'Ryo' (as in Saeba), 'Sanji' (OK, I don't really know One Piece, but I've heard about the character), 'Takuma' (because we also needed a Shimoneta call-out somehow), or 'Issei' (I had to look that one up, but the clothes-eating slime thing fits). It's just a shame we don't know the given names of Jiraiya, Happosai, or Master Roshi...

Well, since he deceived someone into getting a bad codename... what about the admin choosing, as a form of punishment, a bad codename for him? "Happosai" comes to mind...

Astrodragon wrote: Hey, tentacles need love too!

Hey, Astrodragon! I think AkiDearest has hacked your account!

And.... I decided to go the evil route and edited it so that Eiichi (Tako) is Emi's twin brother.

This is an excerpt from a story I'm working on. I don't have any experience writing seduction (nor with practicing/experiencing it, for that matter). Am I doing it right? Janak is a shameless flirt, so it's fine if it's super blatant. What I'm concerned about is whether it actually makes sense, or if it comes across as weird and unnatural.

It's sort of a rule, KK; those who know how to seduce are too busy doing it to bother writing down how they do it. Even Casanova was more bragging about his exploits in his memoirs than he was instructing

I was finishing up a marathon of The Boys on Amazon yesterday and was inspired to write this scene .

A karmic cycle of revenge, just orchestrated by a cosmic-level machine...and handed over to a jilted ex-girlfriend in exchange for a few years of servitude (she's a pretty good negotiator, and the outer being doesn't care all that much. Many other projects to run, and the hallways need dusting and sweeping).

Bek D Corbin wrote: It's sort of a rule, KK; those who know how to seduce are too busy doing it to bother writing down how they do it. Even Casanova was more bragging about his exploits in his memoirs than he was instructing

True, and he only wrote about it as a way of dealing with the depression that came when he realized he'd gotten old enough that most women were no longer interested.

Most.

While he was mostly known as an adventurer, spy, entertainer, and even scholar during his lifetime, he did have enough of a reputation as an exciting and tender lover that even when he retired to be a secretary and librarian for a friend of his, he still had more than a few ladies willing to find out how true the stories were, apparently.

Mads is more likely an endless source of consternation and woe, but who would you believe: the operator or their surviving supervisors?

Yeah... that's going to need some bodywork.

null0trooper wrote: Yeah... that's going to need some bodywork.

Thank you. I try (to please my non-existing fans )

Also, I'd guess that the trade in value of that suborbital is through the sub-basement. And the sub-sub-basement. And through the ...

The bad news is, yes, there's a new Wilkins at WA in this story. While she was mostly raised by her mom (who nope'd out once she got a better idea of what sort of guy she married), she is definitely Shane's kid.

Luckily for Jobe, she was soon able to foist Mandy off on Paige and Ms Hartford, the latter of whom agreed to block her current choice of codename.

But does she have the Wilkins (non-)chin?

Sadly, yes.

As for Carl, it wasn't so much a case of 'I will throw down my life courageously' as 'Imma so getting back at the fucker who burned me on this deal'. Basically, he was small potatoes as a wizard, but a very good fence of magical goods, though not so good that the usual Wilkins charm wouldn't get him in dutch with one of his more, ah, volatile customers.

This one particular black magician decided that Carl would make a good fall guy for some truly nasty and highly public ugliness. While Carl did fall for the trap, he was competent enough to then monkey wrench the asshole's plans in a spectacular fashion that proved fatal to both of them.

The fact that it a) was in public view, and b) saved a bunch of civilians, didn't even occur to him at the time.

Well, it's a start at getting this finished, I guess. Now let's see if I can keep it up.

If I can, I foresee three-way Brownie catfights in the future for Poe Cottage.

After nearly an hour of wandering, Day passed out

Day, or David, or are you foreshadowing "Day" as their future code name?

It'll be interesting to see how they get off the islands to Whateley. Tūtū Pele isn't known for calmly letting go of those that are hers.

From the "Day" appellation and the mention of a bodyguard, I surmise that this is David Goodkind?
(It was mentioned a couple times in-canon that David's baby nickname was "Day")

Yep. This is an interim update to "Girls for Pele" . I'll post to the original fanfic thread when I have gotten further with it (assuming I do...).

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Well, it's a start at getting this finished, I guess. Now let's see if I can keep it up.

If I can, I foresee three-way Brownie catfights in the future for Poe Cottage.

Am I wrong in thinking that there will be a swimming pool full of fudge involved in this fight?

Nope.
Lime Jello

Either way, I expect that the cleanup for it would just lead to more fighting between Koehnes and Leanne (with the Menehune - I need to come up with a name for her - watching from a hiding spot and giggling manically).

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Either way, I expect that the cleanup for it would just lead to more fighting between Koehnes and Leanne (with the Menehune - I need to come up with a name for her - watching from a hiding spot and giggling manically).

Kailani "sea and sky"
Leilani "heavenly flowers"
Lokelani "small red rose"

Open to Suggestions

Hmmn... given how she enters the story, I am tempted to go with 'Lilinoe' ('mists'), though since that's the name of a goddess, specifically, that might not be entirely appropriate for a lesser spirit.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Hmmn... given how she enters the story, I am tempted to go with 'Lilinoe' ('mists'), though since that's the name of a goddess, specifically, that might not be entirely appropriate for a lesser spirit.

Some cultures do name people after their deities. I don't know if that applies to Polynesian cultures.

I was really hoping to have jump-started the "Girls" story, but my muse is fickle.

So here's a bit of Le Coq's daughter again, instead. And yes, Chaka still has the habit of calling Ayla 'her' from time to time.

Just, what could this be about...

Anyway, the others - Anomaly, Elle Ruud, Mabd (whom I would guess has put herself back together by now), and whichever other returned notables of the Five Fold Court could make it - are already waiting to give the new students their orientation meeting for this year, in the area near the World Tree sapling.

I knew from the start that I wanted to have Eldritch be their guide into the Grove, or one of them, but I couldn't decide if it made more sense to have Fey, Anomaly, Whisper (assuming she could get leave time for it), Absinthe, or Sanctuary be there, too. In the end, I went with Julie Robinson and Nikki as the other guides.

As for Aerys, well, it would make sense from an archetypal perspective, if the Cetra (the faerie equivalents in the FFVII world) were based on a collective memory of a Fae race, the same way Ryoko was based on a collective memory of the Star Stalker; this might cause one of the Fae of that type, who also happened to be a FFVII fan, to take the form of a Cetra from the game - namely Aerith - when she manifested.

OK, I'll admit that the character idea for Iron Curtain goes back to a Champions campaign I was in circa 1990; at the time, my idea was that her granddaughter was to be one of the characters I was going to play, but the idea never got fleshed out.

In this concept as I have worked it out currently, Natalie Pavlovna Commenska had begun her service as Stalin's bodyguard in 1940 at the age of 16; she was too confused by her newfound powers, and too intimidated by the NKVD, to refuse, even if she had wanted to (given that her mother was Ukrainian, she was under some suspicion of being less than perfectly loyal, but Beria had personally managed to put the fear of the State into her... among other things ). Officially, she was to be his stenographer, with her ability to create an opaque hemispherical force field of up to 700 meters in diameter and capable of withstanding an explosive force of 15000Kg of TNT kept as a state secret. After Stalin's death, she continued to serve Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and finally Andropov; however, rumors of her real role and powers had reached Western analysts by the early 1960s, and shortly after Chernenko took office, his personal dislike of her led to her being, ah, encouraged to retire. She died in 1996.

OK, so we really don't know much about Aillen the Burner aside from the fact that he could put an entire castle to sleep with his singing, and that he breathed fire. Still, what if he had a reason for burning down Tara every Samhain? Say, something to do with yet another arranged marriage, which the king had failed to uphold (maybe because he knew that the mortal bride would become the septennial Tiend later on)? Unwanted arranged marriages are not exactly an unknown theme in Celtic mythology, after all, while the whole Tam Lin/Corn King theme of someone being feted and temporarily uplifted to royal/quasi-divine status as payment for them later being a human sacrifice appears in many, many different cultures.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: OK, so we really don't know much about Aillen the Burner aside from the fact that he could put an entire castle to sleep with his singing, and that he breathed fire.

How well might his persistence pay off at Whateley?

For a minute I was asking myself why Archon and Esoteric would be getting involved in a fight with the Lit Chix?
But "Vicky is short for Victory", so I'll just point out that Weaver is dark-skinned.

null0trooper wrote: For a minute I was asking myself why Archon and Esoteric would be getting involved in a fight with the Lit Chix?
But "Vicky is short for Victory", so I'll just point out that Weaver is dark-skinned.

Are you suggesting that Weaver is actually Simone - or perhaps Simone's spirit? I'm not sure I see the connection.

Or maybe you're suggesting that Weaver might make more sense as the host of Grandmother Spider, rather than Arachne, which is plausible I suppose.

TBH, I originally made that connection in an earlier micro , because I wanted another Paladin character who would stop a prank war between Sun Wukong, Coyote, Raven, and Hermes (Tracer). I had thought to throw Anansi into the pranking originally but decided against it, then it occurred to me that a spider spirit which wasn't a trickster archetype would be the right one to end the insanity. Since few places are as associated with spiders as Down Under, I looked up Dreamtime spirits and found Grandmother Spider, at which point I remembered that Arachne was also from Australia, so it just fell into place.

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

null0trooper wrote: For a minute I was asking myself why Archon and Esoteric would be getting involved in a fight with the Lit Chix?
But "Vicky is short for Victory", so I'll just point out that Weaver is dark-skinned.

Are you suggesting that Weaver is actually Simone - or perhaps Simone's spirit? I'm not sure I see the connection.

Or maybe you're suggesting that Weaver might make more sense as the host of Grandmother Spider, rather than Arachne, which is plausible I suppose.

Arachne can't easily host both Arachne and Grandmother Spider, now can she? Especially when Grandmother Spider is the North American "Aboriginal" totem?

null0trooper wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote:

null0trooper wrote: For a minute I was asking myself why Archon and Esoteric would be getting involved in a fight with the Lit Chix?
But "Vicky is short for Victory", so I'll just point out that Weaver is dark-skinned.

Are you suggesting that Weaver is actually Simone - or perhaps Simone's spirit? I'm not sure I see the connection.

Or maybe you're suggesting that Weaver might make more sense as the host of Grandmother Spider, rather than Arachne, which is plausible I suppose.

Arachne can't easily host both Arachne and Grandmother Spider, now can she? Especially when Grandmother Spider is the North American "Aboriginal" totem?

I was pretty sure I had read about a Grandmother Spider from Australian myth, entirely separate from the Native American figures of the same (translated) name (plural, as the name is applied to several unrelated myths from different Native American groups), but now I can't find the references to that. Damn it; I must have been mistaken about that.

As for Whateley!Arachne, she isn't the host for the mythological Arachne (who was a mortal woman, after all, rather than a spirit or deity - not impossible, since we've seen things like Shine and so forth, but unlikely). The canon is that she hosts an 'ordinary', unnamed spider spirit; my idea was that she'd been using that as a cover story to hide that fact that she was bonded with a more significant being than the records indicated.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: As for Whateley!Arachne, she isn't the host for the mythological Arachne (who was a mortal woman, after all, rather than a spirit or deity.

The story of Arachne is quite well known, and spirits can take on folkloric or mythic templates.

Besides, no one ever said that the original was transformed into a mortal spider. The Olympians did favor permanent solutions when they could engineer them.

Fair enough.

/me flees before anyone can start groaning at that reference

What? *Googles* ... Oh, I see.

Okay moved my micro scene here:

whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/the-...ead?start=1060#67343

"Do not take the box away from the nice girl. Very bad things will happen if you take the box away."

Has anything ever made it more likely that the big red button would be pushed than a sign saying "Do not push the button?"

"Elaine Carstairs?" Another one for the Legion of Elaines?

Or, maybe, just maybe, you were thinking of Deborah ?

Sir Lee wrote: "Elaine Carstairs?" Another one for the Legion of Elaines?

Or, maybe, just maybe, you were thinking of Deborah ?

Yeah, well. I could not decide if I should use Deborah Castairs or Elaine Claire for the role, so I split the names down the middle and let the reader decide

Court wrote:

"Do not take the box away from the nice girl. Very bad things will happen if you take the box away."

Has anything ever made it more likely that the big red button would be pushed than a sign saying "Do not push the button?"

It was a microscene and it did not really fit into the snippet, but I imagine that somewhere an MCO office would be regretting messing with her. I mean, if they were still alive to regret anything of course.

This still leaves the questions of who thought it was a goods idea to give Ayla a Pricasso as a gift (or more likely, a prank), and why he then decided to bring it into the art class to show it to Imp.

hehehe! Stories indeed! Well done, Schol!

Oh wow! I never would've thought of this, because everyone from the Cabal was saying "The Report is inaccurate, don't trust it too much".

But, the Report is all that people In-Universe have!

Nice!

Malady wrote: Oh wow! I never would've thought of this, because everyone from the Cabal was saying "The Report is inaccurate, don't trust it too much".

But, the Report is all that people In-Universe have!

Nice!

The Report was all I had, and I was wondering, because Gen2 did not seem to fitting the demographics the report was predicting.

I liked the Report, and wanted to see its predictions come true. One could foresee bloody things happen as it came true, but it was interesting.
Is it known how the report is inaccurate?

The entire microscene was inspired by just one word from Fox Tails pt 1.

Thanks muse!

Katssun wrote: The entire microscene was inspired by just one word from Fox Tails pt 1.

Thanks muse!

What word?

E. E. Nalley wrote: hehehe! Stories indeed! Well done, Schol!

Dr Cody telling tales about Fey? Just where is The St Tenyo and Jade, one has to ask, for where one is the other most likely is close by... Would the universe survive the outing of such tales?

Malady wrote: What word?

Pancakes.

It was the last line at the bottom of the screen by itself as I was reading the story, and I interpreted it as a curse word in response to what the children were up to, before it revealed itself to be the first part of a flashback.

Well, stranger things have happened involving pancakes in this thread. Though it does make me wonder why you didn't name her Anne instead...

(Epileptic trees: She may have some sort of Ban on uttering certain words, or is affected by a curse which changes the words themselves when she says them. Or perhaps she agrees with what The Warlock said in "What Good is a Glass Dagger?" when he warned Aran not to blaspheme in the presence of wizards, though we've not seen any evidence of that rule in WA so far.)

@DasVals:

Awesome!

Nobody rules these streets at night like me! The Atomic Punk!

@DasVals:

Very interesting! Celebrities mutating is an interesting idea!

Especially young celebrities!

"I had a few problems with the customs about my unusual way of travel," she said while making air quotes. The MCO got involved. "

This part had me thinking that she had counter-rotating pigtails enabling flight, or maybe something like the Flying Nun.

"Anyway, they tested me for mutant powers and discovered I am actually a precog."

If anything, that's the controversial part. Except for folks like Joni Wilson/Jo Donner, who experiences time out of order, most precogs have no need of Whateley Academy.

null0trooper wrote: If anything, that's the controversial part. Except for folks like Joni Wilson/Jo Donner, who experiences time out of order, most precogs have no need of Whateley Academy.

This is more a diplomatic move than a practical one. Although some might say she's not dealing that well with her abilities.

I will note that in my micro, both Randi and Kolla immediately moved to defend themselves, thinking that the other one was there to attack them. I wonder what could give that impression.... it's almost as if there was some big misunderstanding or something.

Spindrifter has met Kolla, and vice versa... but did they meet each other? Randi is a dimension traveler. From the same continuity as America, keep in mind, in a multiverse where alternate histories abound. Hmmmn....

Regarding the other micro, you will note that I did not mention someone whose initials are S.P. by name. After all, there's no specific reason why any given person who is prominent in our world would be in the WU, even if there has been a lot of overlap so far. I do recall it being stated by one of CC (TINCC) that the 2008 election went differently from in our world, and IIRC it was even mentioned that neither Obama nor McCain were the front runners that year; presumably, the 2012 elections were even further removed from those IRL.

For that matter, there's no real reason why earlier elections couldn't have been different, even if the overall outcomes were the same; imagine if, for example, the 1976 Carter/Mondale ticket had been Carter/Brown instead (not entirely implausible in a world where the Space Shuttle was ready for its first launch in late 1975 ), or if Dole had to drop out after being injured by a faulty devise leading to Forbes winning the 1996 GOP primaries.

This scene should leave plenty of room for Kolla's, Marandi's, or others' bosses to move forward if desired. It also explains exactly what the Dead Poet was being blamed for back in "Chewing Through The Straps".

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Well, stranger things have happened involving pancakes in this thread.

Nothing is as strange as 'It's pancake day'

Floating a trial balloon .

Oooh! Aliens looking at humanity! Cool!

Malady wrote: Oooh! Aliens looking at humanity! Cool!

Just ordinary folks who've figured out that it's easier to use subspace-routed telepresence for exploration and observation, and save the gates and/or FTL drives for commerce and other important stuff.

Did 'Jareth' pretend to be a singing Faerie lord in front of some angry humans, by any chance?

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Did 'Jareth' pretend to be a singing Faerie lord in front of some angry humans, by any chance?

Public indecency, intoxicating drink, and something about a worm may have been involved in the indigenous ritual called a "double dog dare", which we are reliably informed does not, and more importantly should not, involve canines of any sort.

null0trooper wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Did 'Jareth' pretend to be a singing Faerie lord in front of some angry humans, by any chance?

Public indecency, intoxicating drink, and something about a worm may have been involved in the indigenous ritual called a "double dog dare", which we are reliably informed does not, and more importantly should not, involve canines of any sort.

Damn, and here I was hoping to learn that Ziggy Stardust was autobiographical.

And just like that, Professor Tolkien had to write a multi-book epic for no reason what so ever. That's all I have to say about that.

Other than well played!

null0trooper wrote: Floating a trial balloon .

How come, is it, that I suspect that someone is going to get stuck on Earth... And what did she have to do with the truck? Or was it just sort of Deus ex Machina?

Anne wrote:

null0trooper wrote: Floating a trial balloon .

How come, is it, that I suspect that someone is going to get stuck on Earth... And what did she have to do with the truck? Or was it just sort of Deus ex Machina?

I think you missed a key word: "telemetry".

Leleth has nothing to do with the truck, although it could be used to ease her research committee into discussion of just how primitive this culture is. It's never a good sign when your advisor's review comments start with "Sure. Now you're just screwing with me."

Deus ex Machina ? Haven't we cured you of excessive optimism yet?

null0trooper wrote:

Anne wrote:

null0trooper wrote: Floating a trial balloon .

How come, is it, that I suspect that someone is going to get stuck on Earth... And what did she have to do with the truck? Or was it just sort of Deus ex Machina?

I think you missed a key word: "telemetry".

Leleth has nothing to do with the truck, although it could be used to ease her research committee into discussion of just how primitive this culture is. It's never a good sign when your advisor's review comments start with "Sure. Now you're just screwing with me."

Deus ex Machina ? Haven't we cured you of excessive optimism yet?

I don't think I missed the word experimental in the description of what was being attempted. Me an optimist? The one who thinks that the machine that sent Leleth there will malfunction? The one who thinks that our young man (who was evidently manifesting) is maybe like a tar-baby.....? Do you have me confused with someone else?

Anne wrote:

null0trooper wrote:

Anne wrote:

null0trooper wrote: Floating a trial balloon .

How come, is it, that I suspect that someone is going to get stuck on Earth... And what did she have to do with the truck? Or was it just sort of Deus ex Machina?

I think you missed a key word: "telemetry".

Leleth has nothing to do with the truck, although it could be used to ease her research committee into discussion of just how primitive this culture is. It's never a good sign when your advisor's review comments start with "Sure. Now you're just screwing with me."

Deus ex Machina ? Haven't we cured you of excessive optimism yet?

I don't think I missed the word experimental in the description of what was being attempted. Me an optimist? The one who thinks that the machine that sent Leleth there will malfunction? The one who thinks that our young man (who was evidently manifesting) is maybe like a tar-baby.....? Do you have me confused with someone else?

A Deus ex Machina is supposed to make everything better. (I looked it up, and for some reason "Rocks fall; everybody dies." doesn't count anymore - like the time the GM chucked a solid tungsten telephone pole at my character's head. From orbit.)

A Deus ex Machina is supposed to make everything better. (I looked it up, and for some reason "Rocks fall; everybody dies." doesn't count anymore - like the time the GM chucked a solid tungsten telephone pole at my character's head. From orbit.)

Ah, then what do we now call it when a dickheaded god decides to mess with someone's life?

Anne wrote:

A Deus ex Machina is supposed to make everything better. (I looked it up, and for some reason "Rocks fall; everybody dies." doesn't count anymore - like the time the GM chucked a solid tungsten telephone pole at my character's head. From orbit.)

Ah, then what do we now call it when a dickheaded god decides to mess with someone's life?

Diabolus Ex Machina

null0trooper wrote:

Anne wrote:

A Deus ex Machina is supposed to make everything better. (I looked it up, and for some reason "Rocks fall; everybody dies." doesn't count anymore - like the time the GM chucked a solid tungsten telephone pole at my character's head. From orbit.)

Ah, then what do we now call it when a dickheaded god decides to mess with someone's life?

Diabolus Ex Machina

Or at least Demonus En Machina..

I was wondering when someone would remember Miss Mason. She probably teaches the only mathematics course that would require Kayda to crack open a book... after drafting a suitable set of wards.

I've mentioned her a few times in micros, but this specific one was sort of a follow up to a 'overheard at Whateley' post about how she and Sun Wukong kept showing up to give special lessons even after Bladedancer and Josie Gilman graduated... no matter how often Lady Astarte asked them to stop...

Interesting reading.

http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/the-workshop/100-the-micro-scenes-thread?start=1080#68308

Note that the Sonic Blocking PK-field means that she would be immune to sonic weapons.

Good to know when deploying against opponents that use this form of attacks.

There's a key phrase there: "as far as I can tell". Some powers are subtle and take some time to get the hang of.

Given that Squidley made the 'C' list (but only because "there isn't a 'D' list") someone who barely makes the 'C' list is almost not a supervillain at all.

I just don't see the Imp being high up on the B list, given that Doctor D, with over 10,000 kills, is still on the B list. Imp never killed anyone. Unless of course, she pissed off some bureaucrat who is artificially pushing her up the list, which I could see happening.

Well, it depends on who you ask. To the general public, the Imp was never a threat. But to self-important asshole super"heroes" like the Crimson Kid, JackRabbitalope, T-Rex, and possibly Polarstorm? She's an A-level threat, because she hits them right where it hurts most... their inflated egos.

And the leader of the bad seeds uttered infamous last words... The result won't be fatal we hope....

And these are words one never wants to utter, along with 'how much worse could it get?'

As they seem to attract the attention of the powers that be and bring one to the attention of beings with delusions of omnipotence!

Dropped a little Easter Egg for stories I'm working on here:

whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/the-...ead?start=1090#68675

Any interest in the setting ?

Yeah, I can see the potential mayhem there. Too bad that it's an anachronism; by the time My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premieres (October 10, 2010) the Kimbas will have graduated from Whateley. So it can't be canon. But...

...maybe someone in Gen2 can run with the idea?

“Because when I left the printer lab Jericho was designing Outcast ponies?”

This should be in the bad idea thread

Still, there may be a market for My Little Veloceraptor figures

You can tell I've been listening to YouTube readings of r/IDontWorkHereLady lately, can't you...

I'm curious. Did the idea come from noticing that Corrosive is named Karen, or did the idea come first and you searched for some Karen to adapt it to?

Sir Lee wrote: I'm curious. Did the idea come from noticing that Corrosive is named Karen, or did the idea come first and you searched for some Karen to adapt it to?

Mostly, I had a vague idea of doing something along these lines, and was looking at the wiki entries for those characters who had that sort of behavior and personality. I'd mostly been thinking of Traduce, but when I noticed that Corrosive's first name actually is Karen, I just knew I had to use her for part of it.

Sir Lee wrote: Whateley Academy, circa 2018; After-movie discussion.
"The cars like him, and take care not to hurt him too much."
(the last speaker is buried under a barrage of objects)

Somewhere in Hollywood...


"...Woah..."

-shrug- had no net to check dates.

In my story reality the firefighter armor is Florian class armor named for the patron saint of firefightrs.

Whatever you're thinking Mase 's power is, that's probably not it.

OK, so I'm not sure just why I thought to have Dr. Venus as a former Whateley student, but this seems as plausible of a Start of Darkness for her as any, I guess. A bit prosaic, perhaps, but enough for a quick vignette.

It explains her fondness for DIY toy boys.

All I can say is OH my! That does not sound good. A scorned woman (even if she isn't as scorned as she thinks she is) is no one to trifle with.

Just in time for the holiday?

Erianaiel, I think you made a mistake writing this, as you have Bella Horton speaking to Headmistress Carson, who then mentions that she just got a call from... Bella Horton?

My guess is you meant to have it be either Mrs. Nelson or Mrs. Selkirk (the Dickenson housemothers) who had just called earlier, since you mentioned that Mika was currently at Dickenson. Or perhaps instead of Bella, you meant to write Belle, but that doesn't make sense - as a student, Beltane wouldn't know about such administrative matters unless and until they were told to her by staff (presumably because they were relevant to her own situation).

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Erianaiel, I think you made a mistake writing this, as you have Bella Horton speaking to Headmistress Carson, who then mentions that she just got a call from... Bella Horton?.

Oops.

The story can be read that it was Bella Horton who called mrs Carson. (it does not say if Mika ended up in Dickenson or Poe after all) but ... Mrs Horton is a mage and should be somewhat able to deal with an out of control warper. But, yes, I intended to write Mrs Nelson calling.

Only I couldn't quickly find the first name of Mrs Nelson and I felt that the house parents should be on first name basis with mrs Carson (seeing how often they will have to call the headmistress in the middle of the night to deal with some crisis with the students )
Somehow I stuck Mrs Horton in where I intended another housemother and never caught it.

Erianaiel wrote:
Oops.

The story can be read that it was Bella Horton who called mrs Carson. (it does not say if Mika ended up in Dickenson or Poe after all) but ... Mrs Horton is a mage and should be somewhat able to deal with an out of control warper. But, yes, I intended to write Mrs Nelson calling.

Only I couldn't quickly find the first name of Mrs Nelson and I felt that the house parents should be on first name basis with mrs Carson (seeing how often they will have to call the headmistress in the middle of the night to deal with some crisis with the students )
Somehow I stuck Mrs Horton in where I intended another housemother and never caught it.

The Wiki is your fiend. Mrs. Nelson