I had my pepper spray. My knife and baton were available too, though I doubted my ability to dish out more hurt than I suffered in an exchange of hits with Burnscar.
Oh yeah, the pepper spray. Been a while since we saw that.
Grue had his darkness, and both of the remaining dogs were in okay shape. I had my bugs, but neither my costume nor my bugs would do well against the flame.
Once again, Taylor is up against an enemy with type advantage.
“I can still kill tall, dark and eerie and the alien girl,” Burnscar said.
Alien? Hm. It’s not a surprising comparison in itself, since Skitter’s mask does look alien, but it’s interesting nonetheless, as it sounds like Burnscar doesn’t know what Skitter’s thing is. I suppose that fits with how she seems a little ditzy with other things, like the rules. At least while she’s high on her power.
Anything the enemy doesn’t know can be used to your benefit, especially in a story with the theme of “knowledge is power”.
Also, I love that she calls Grue “tall, dark and eerie”. :p
I doubt it, but he can’t throw the rules at her anymore. There wasn’t a rule about the turns going in Jack’s predetermined order.
“Not so much.”
Burnscar’s voice was flat, without humor, like an actor reading the lines from a script without actually emoting them. “I am following the rules, now. Let’s see. Trying to remember how this is supposed to go. Test you, you pass or fail, and then I kill you.”
Um. I’m not sure that’s entirely correct?
I mean, a) isn’t that supposed to be specifically for the candidates (though one of them is here), and b) isn’t she only supposed to try to kill the candidates if they fail her test?
“You only kill Bitch if she fails,” I said. Opening my mouth was more automatic than intentional.
Exactly.
The majority of my focus was on our current situation. Options. What avenues of attack did we have? What about self-defense or escape?
At least Taylor has her priorities in order.
Attack-wise, I guess the only good option is the doggos again. They might not be entirely fireproof, but the OG doggos did decently against Lung. However, Burnscar can easily evade the doggos by teleporting. Bugs would be able to spread out more, but would be less likely to deal enough damage to get past Bonesaw’s protective measures.
Self defense… Well, the darkness ought to help make them harder to hit, but Taylor may have a limited time to really sense anything in it, as Burnscar is likely to continually burn her bugs. If Burnscar pulls a Lung and surrounds her whole body in fire, it will be hard for Taylor to track her movements in the darkness without sacrificing bugs, unless she can place one in a spot on Burnscar somehow untouched by the fire. Another relevant question is whether Burnscar, like Oni Lee, would bring the bugs with her when teleporting.
I really do think the best solution here would be to tattletale it, but Tattletale’s not here, so Taylor would have to fill in for her, and she doesn’t have the same sort of knowledge about the exact cause of Burnscar’s emptiness and dead eyes that Tattletale has. Maybe using the “phone a friend” cheat could be worthwhile, but doing so without taking a fireball to the phone might be difficult.
Taylor is very concerned about bathrooms all of a sudden. Wait, what do you mean this story isn’t written in Norwegian?
Jokes aside, Burnscar doing this really is terrible news.
Burnscar stood with Mannequin just behind her, sporting a red shirt and black jeans, cigarette burns running down her cheeks, and a dead look in her eyes.
Hm. Looks like Taylor is noticing more of Burnscar’s lack of true happiness among the Nine. If she can put things together, she might be able to tattletale this situation.
Bitch, Grue, Sirius, Bastard and I stood a dozen feet away, walls of flame like bonfires barring our escape routes to the rear or sides.
The arena has been defined.
Droplets of rain fell all around us, making ripples on the inch-high water that flooded the street. The air was thick with the smell of smoke.
Man, even when they’re up against a fire-based enemy, there’s just no avoiding the water. Although maybe that’s a good thing here.
We’d at least had time to mentally prepare for the idea of facing Mannequin. My strategy had been last-minute, but I’d been in the right frame of mind to fight a tinker, to anticipate ambush and tackle someone with decent offensive abilities, strong defenses and a crapton of tricks up his sleeve.
But now, she’s in the frame of mind to fight a tinker but up against a blaster/mover, all while hurt from the fight against Mannequin.
Burnscar had flipped things on us; she was in a totally different ballpark from Mannequin.
A ballpark is also known as a court, and
If I had to guess, her offensive capabilities were top-notch, even if they didn’t break the scales like some other members of the Nine.
Sounds about right based on what we saw in her introduction.
I couldn’t even guess where she fit on the spectrum of defensive ability, but she’d been with the Nine for a little while and she was still alive, so that was some indication.
Imp might have something to say about that. Her own power doesn’t seem to defend her much except against fire, but Bonesaw’s can.
And utility? She had every trick a pyrokinetic like Lung had at his disposal and she could teleport through flames as well, opening up a mess of tricks and avenues of attack.
I really liked the fireball teleport she did in Jack’s Interlude, that was a cool trick.
A little bit of context: Homestuck has at least four main arc numbers, but 4/13 is by far the most important one. So 11.1 (111) and 12.6 (a variant on 6/12) both count as Homestucky numbers, but 13.4 (a variant on 4/13) is a much bigger deal.
A young man sits in his living room. It just so happens that today, the 24th of June, 2018, is the day this young man intends to begin reading the chapter or Worm with the most Homestucky chapter number so far. Though it was 17 months ago he started reading Worm, it is only today he will be given a chapter with this distinction. Well, unless you count 11.1 and 12.6.
What will the chapter of this young man’s day be about?
> Young man: Speculate.
Your name is KRIXWELL JACE. You are a LIVEBLOGGER, and for almost a year and a half now, you have been slowly reading through the work of SUPERHERO FICTION known as WORM, all the while RECORDING YOUR THOUGHTS FOR ALL TO SEE.
Today, you don’t have many SPECULATIONS to talk about before you begin. When you last left off, the PROTAGONISTS were already BADLY HURT before BURNSCAR showed up to challenge them, and you find it FAIRLY OBVIOUS that the conflict with BURNSCAR is going to be the main focus of the chapter.
Exactly how the PROTAGONISTS are going to get out of this situation alive is HARD TO FATHOM. Perhaps it would’ve been easier if only TATTLETALE had been present to exploit BURNSCAR’S BACKGROUND and LACK OF DESIRE to remain part of her team when lucid from her ADDICTIVE POWER. At least SKITTER appears to have noticed the EMPTINESS IN BURNSCAR’S VOICE, which might eventually tip her off to it.
SKITTER’S POWER OF BUG CONTROL may be of limited assistance, due to BURNSCAR’S ability to BURN NEARBY BUGS WITH EASE. However, it did work out against LUNG in the past, as SKITTER IS QUITE CREATIVE.
“Dragonflies have got to be the most appropriate bug she could possibly use for a fire-based move, just for their name.”
Tell krix fireflies are more appropriate
Hmmm.
You make a good point, and I think you’re right, but I still think dragonflies are more appropriate for the specific kind of fire-based move Taylor pulled here.
Hear me out: Dragons use fire offensively, are known for attacking other beings with it. Fireflies have “fire” directly in the name, but “fire” on its own doesn’t carry that same notion of offensive use as “dragon” does. So while fireflies may be more appropriate for use of fire in general, dragonflies are better when it comes to attacking with fire.
Also, if we extend it beyond the name, fireflies are associated with light, which is one of the other uses for fire. For that use of fire, fireflies are absolutely more appropriate.
Basically, I think I did get the right bug, but wasn’t specific enough about the type of fire moves they’re appropriate for.
Despite the sizeable fanbase, as of this moment, the only Worm porn is a single uncoloured Lisa x Brutus image. (Which I shall spare from linking to.) So there is no Siberian vore to find, let alone plenty.
Sharks: (this is, thankfully, wrong) (about the only worm porn) (i don’t think he’s wrong about the lisa x brutus thing) (that’s pretty bad)
Huh. I knew the fanbase was smaller than some of the ones I’ve been used to (though still sizable), but I would still expect porn to be at least somewhat common.
But yeah, if there legitimately isn’t any Siberian vore out there, that’s a clear breach of rule 34, meaning rule 35 comes into play: If it doesn’t exist yet, it will. It’s only a question of time.
As for Lisa x Brutus, I’m less surprised about the fact that there’s porn involving a doggo than by the fact that it’s with Lisa. I mean, Bitch x Brutus, as sick and perverse as it would be, would make sense. There’d be a clear reason why Bitch in particular would be paired up with one of her doggos. But Lisa? Why her? Is it just that the artist likes blondes, or likes Lisa’s attitude more than Bitch’s?
I’m so used to the internet being fucked up that these are the questions that run through my mind, not “why with a dog?”
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