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Skittering Hollow (Bleach/Worm)

Discussion in 'Questing' started by Planeshunter, Dec 13, 2019.

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  1. Jarrarad

    Jarrarad Getting some practice in, huh?

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  2. Rock_on_5002

    Rock_on_5002 Making the rounds.

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    What must be done doesn’t change, just the stakes.
    Time to live up to that and prove our convictions.
     
  3. Ljapaubeaves

    Ljapaubeaves Making the rounds.

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    Dude! This is some epic GREED moment right here! I approove!
    Now that i think ybout it, Skitters Costume almost looked like Greed in his true form, all black and almost unkillable.

    Greed the friend ftw and Strong Taylor saving all her friends FTW!


    additionally:
    i really liked the musical accompaniment to Taylors final realisations. Great chapter!
     
  4. Arksurek

    Arksurek Only here for the cookies.

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    Honestly, were we ever going to take a different option?
     
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  5. Shaper47

    Shaper47 Versed in the lewd.

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    [X][Save] Taking Two
    -[X][Taking Two] The Heroic Child
    -[X][Taking Two] The Bright Girl
     
  6. Fonteius

    Fonteius [Empty Title]

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  7. Zakara

    Zakara Part-Time Heterodyne

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    Looks like Taylor’s Ultimate Trip has come to an end and she’s recovered her name to boot. It seems going all in with the determination to try regardless of the consequences earned us a boon from Red, who I’m now fairly sure is Hueco Mundo’s Moon, letting Taylor recover her name the instant she finished the evolution.

    [x][Save] One for All

    We did not go through all that trouble prying those four out of the inner abyss just to let them sink back into it. Taylor will be reduced to the minimum necessary EE required just saving one of them, so we might as well go One for All in! Besides, basic strategy says safety in numbers is the best way to keep yourself alive in a hostile environment, which Hueco Mundo most definitely is. Better a team with five equally strong members than a single super-strong loner.
     
  8. daimahou

    daimahou Gentleman Tentacle(s)

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  9. Its_a_cauldron_plot!

    Its_a_cauldron_plot! ( Or is it Simurgh?)

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    Everybody is coming, whether they like it or not.
     
  10. Argentis

    Argentis Lord of Cinders (retired)

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    We will save them, and if things are more dificult because of it, What about it?! If it takes 100% of our power we will go beyond that and make it work. We will go beyond, PLUS ULTRA!
     
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  11. Metoto21

    Metoto21 Not too sore, are you?

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    Yeah, this is the Taylor option.
     
  12. ThePokeManik

    ThePokeManik Mindful Minder

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    Nothing changed, just the stakes.
     
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  13. CrimsonFate

    CrimsonFate Versed in the lewd.

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    Is there a plan/method on how Weaver will save everyone? Cause I could see her saving one soul at a time when she has enough energy to do so.
     
  14. vinzzz001

    vinzzz001 Know what you're doing yet?

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    When has having to sacrifice (parts) of herself, and putting others before herself, ever stopped Taylor? It might not be the healthiest mindset but it is her version of heroic.
     
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  15. mariuswinter

    mariuswinter Getting sticky.

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  16. Harpy81

    Harpy81 Versed in the lewd.

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  17. Zakara

    Zakara Part-Time Heterodyne

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    The description Planes gave is kinda confusing, but I think this is the gist:

    We chose to preserve four Lights from ten. We can actively save these four, and some of the discarded six if we wish via Write-In, but there are costs. If we save a preserved Light completely, we split the EE by however many Lights are now active plus Taylor, meaning if we save all four, the EE is divided by five(right now we have 852,225,308 EE, so a fifth of that is still ludicrous). If we reach out to any of the six discarded Lights though, the EE is instantly dropped to the minimum required to survive, even if we save just a single discarded Light and not any others. In addition, we can only save four Lights at the moment, total. We can save four preserved lights, four discarded Lights, and even two each, but never more than four.

    Regardless of how much I like Marissa, the whole “instantly spending hundreds of millions of EE” seems to be way more trouble then it’s worth for Lights we already voted against, so I’m sticking with One for All.
     
  18. Demonlorddraco91

    Demonlorddraco91 Versed in the lewd.

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  19. [Quixotic_being]

    [Quixotic_being] Fulfilling every contract to the letter

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    I want my touching reunion! Even if I'm the only 'one' there, I refuse to be alone again!
     
  20. Iceflame55

    Iceflame55 Enjoying the Lewd Dungeon called 'The Gutter'.

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    I believe Taylor will at least TRY to save them all. For one reason or another, they resonated with her. Though I can also see this turning her into an eating machine for a time, as the next stage of 'higher' Hollow, she can start hunting actual GILLIAN. Those are going to going to be far easier for her at least in the beginning as they are more animalistic then 'basic' hollows.
     
  21. Arbitbit39

    Arbitbit39 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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  22. bobbya1

    bobbya1 Not too sore, are you?

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  23. ELRue

    ELRue Making the rounds.

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  24. mattsaber

    mattsaber Well worn.

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  25. Zakara

    Zakara Part-Time Heterodyne

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    Okay, a clearer analysis:

    Right now, Taylor has ten distinct Lights within her inner abyss. Earlier, she chose to actively preserve four of them, but the other six haven’t quite faded back into sleep yet, so let’s just call it ten.

    Also right now, at the moment of transition from Menos to Adjucas, Taylor can pick up to four of the ten souls, split her EE evenly with them, and presumably puke them out or something.

    There are two distinct categories to choose from: Preserved and Discarded. Preserved are the four souls us voters selected earlier: Chizuru, Fortuna, Masaki, and Tatsuki. If we select them, they get a significant fraction of Taylor’s EE, presumably split from her, and that’s that. Each of them including Taylor will have the same amount of EE, they probably won’t be ravenously hungry like Taylor was in the beginning that led to the Mofo’s unfortunate fate, and they can all sing Kumbaya and hold hands.

    Discarded are the ones we didn’t pick: Marissa, Frisk, Monika and the others. If we select them, the effort needed to even reach out to them in the first place will drop Taylor to the minimum required EE to survive, and then spit them out. Leading to up to five absolutely starving Hollows(maybe) in rather close proximity to each other. As Frisk’s friend would say, a Bad Time.

    So as much as we want to go full greed and save even the discarded, there are limits to what Taylor can wrangle the situation into, and it just seems like a better idea overall to stick to what we already decided.
     
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  26. Werd Me

    Werd Me Making the rounds.

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  27. globalwarmth

    globalwarmth ruining the weather.

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    Greedy
     
  28. Agmus

    Agmus Know what you're doing yet?

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  29. Naddakka741

    Naddakka741 Making the rounds.

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  30. Kraotop

    Kraotop Tireless Taylor Tormentor

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    -[x][One for All] The Heroic Child
    -[x][One for All] The Shy Girl
    -[x][One for All] The Passionate Girl
    -[x][One for All] The Quiet Child

    I voted to get someone else than Masaki and I'm going to stick to my choice, as futile as it may be.

    On another note, why did we skip to the adjuchas stage? Taylor got back her name and it just happened. Although, considering the Gillian stage is basically mindless fumbling until it ate enough, maybe the whole thing happened unconsciously. Or the Gillian was already powerful enough to become Adjuchas, but didn't have a dominant personnality to do it until it ate the caterpillar.
     
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