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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    Artifact from the editing process, thanks for pointing it out.
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 12: The All-Consuming Package

    Chapter 12: The All-Consuming Package The basement was quiet. I stood in the center of the concrete floor, the air cool against my skin, my own breathing the only sound. I focused on a familiar command. Carapace. The armor flowed over my right arm. The replication was perfect, effortless. A...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    I'm not going to involve myself in the rest of the discussion, because it is providing lots of wonderful things to think about, but I will say that there's not much of a functional difference between lungs full of bugs, and lungs full of Blacklight. I'm also totally stealing danger spaghetti.
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    @arawiguM try to avoid quoting the whole chapter.
  5. dasstan

    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    Close, but no. It's easier to think of him like Heller from Prototype 2. Mercer was Blacklight thinking it was the original Alex Mercer. Heller was an infected man that kept his memories. John got converted into Blacklight, but Receptive Body kicked in to mitigate the downsides. Yes, he's made...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    I don't feel too confident in writing porn, but if someone makes an omake, I'll happily ask the mods to move it over to NSFW. Shards connect to hosts by basically doing two-factor identification. "Does the DNA look right? Does the memory match? Okay. Great, here you go!" So... yes. But it will...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 11: Metamorphosis

    Chapter 11: Metamorphosis The basement still had a smell. I scrubbed, and sanitized. Disinfected, scrubbed again. I'd replaced the damp, mildewy stench of the place with something clean and industrial. Cold concrete. A faint charge of ozone from too many electronics crammed into one space. A...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    Yes, but no. He used both things in the exchange. Bringing him indoors and blocking the line of sight exits meant he couldn't really use the majority of Bakuda's crazy bombs, but he still used the (the blinding one) and more conventional explosives to damage John's armor. Then he tried to stab...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    Sort of, but not quite. The Diamond reward is the culmination of abandoning the firm guidance of metaknowledge. He still has a pretty firm understanding of the immediate future, like what Coil is going to do with the Empire's identities, and probably Leviathan, but every step after that is going...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 10: Dragonfall

    Chapter 10: Dragonfall The morning light, thin and grey, filtered through the kitchen window. The building had been filthy when the Deed to Land gave it to me, but the labor of cleaning it had been a welcome distraction in the days since the truce. The rest of the brownstone had been tended to...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    No, I'm not about to pull a Diabolus ex Machina. The gacha operates on a higher level than the entities. I'm treating it as basically ROB. Or Random Omnipotent System. While there may be shard based powers that can trump certain gacha given powers, the gacha itself is untouchable.
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    Yeah. The receptive body trait does a lot to tie the abilities together. At baseline, Carapace is just organic armor that scales with the characters abilities. Nothing in the flavor text implies any degree of control over it. Receptive body tweaks it a bit and makes it both play well with his...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 9: The Grind

    Chapter 9: The Grind The alliance's first victory didn't end with a cheer; it ended with the quiet, methodical sounds of professionals inventorying their loot. Faultline's crew moved with a practiced efficiency that had nothing to do with alliances and everything to do with billable hours. On...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 8: The Exchange

    The truce was a fragile, ugly thing, born of desperation and greed. The moment Kaiser's terse nod sealed the deal, the shared sense of purpose evaporated from the dining room of Somer's Rock. It left a sour, curdled atmosphere in its place, thick with the promise of future betrayals. The air...
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    Disco Rice - [Worm OC Insert/Chaos Gacha]

    @Neondagger has the right of it. The human food is fuel, but it's basically bland and tasteless. There's no satisfaction in it. As to the why? I like the drama.
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