Water sprayed in the truck’s wake as we cut a path through the flooded streets.

At a certain point, you gotta start questioning whether a car is still a car or if it’s more accurate to call it a boat.

We haven’t quite reached that point yet, fortunately. Especially fortunate since it only works with the few cars that, y’know, float.

It was a military vehicle.  I wasn’t one to know much about cars, and I knew even less about stuff like military vehicles, so I couldn’t put a name to the truck that was carting me and eight of Coil’s workers through the Docks.

Right there with ya.

It was like a sturdy pickup truck, but the rear section was wider and it was hidden beneath a green tarp that had been stretched over a framework of metal bars.

Well, at least the description sounds sort of familiar.

The tires were massive, with deep treads allowing the truck to navigate all but the most cracked sections of road where Leviathan had brought the underground pipes and drains through the surface.

Nice.

Infestation 11.2

That’s better. Less windows involved.

Hi! Welcome back to the livebabble! Tonight, we’re going out with Skitter and her borrowed goons to lay claim to some territory, whatever that actually entails. Chances are we’ll also run into the Merchants by the end of the chapter, though I don’t think Skitter actually intends to.

I don’t think there is much more to say here, so without further ado, let’s dive into it!

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It’s pretty fun re-reading your chapter thoughts in chronological order – it goes from your first negative impressions to someone who seems pretty into it! Thanks for keeping up with this live-blog, it’s my first time reading something like it and I’m really into it! By the way, do you happen to know of any other people doing a Worm live-blog as well? I’ve always been a fan of seeing people’s reactions to stuff like this.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

Sharks mentioned knowing a couple and being willing to share. Personally, I’m aware of Nick, @journeysintowebcomics, who I’ve heard is roughly as far in as I am, but that’s all I know about.

“Does one of their powers have to do with glass?” You already know quite a bit about them; care to speculate?

Hmm… I suppose it would make sense for it to be Shatterbird, between “shatter” and the public terror-inducing announcements of the Slaughterhouse’s presence… If she’s got a large range, she could shatter a whole lot of windows and glass lenses at once, making it quite apparent that they’re around.

Also, I suppose the “bird” part could mean that she does it with her voice. Maybe she makes a sound that carries far and shatters glass. Both things work well with the announcement thing.

If you remember his interlude Coil usually has two version of him at night, one that sleeps at home and another who pulls an all nighter in his base, keeping up to date with any news. I like to think that when Skitter called him only his awake self picked up, meaning he had to keep that version of reality, meaning that for this little interaction Coil lost an entire night of sleep.

I do remember that, yes, and made some references to it in that particular scene. That is a pretty sweet idea, though – another reason for Taylor to read Interlude 6, so she can appreciate just how much she might have inconvenienced Coil. 😀

I’m going through the backlog catching up, and you mention putting trigger warnings in the relevant posts. I feel like there’s a lot of trigger-worthy stuff in Worm – people make the joke, but I’m pretty sure that it’s a deliberate naming coincidence. And as you said, people might stumble on these posts by accident for a number of reasons. Is there an effective “Trigger Warning: Everything” tag that’s used frequently on tumblr? If so, I think you should use that tag regularly, over any others.

I don’t think so, unfortunately.

Also, if you mean the joke about trigger warnings and trigger events, yeah, that’s probably not a coincidence. After all, trigger events do tend towards being the sort of scenario that’ll lead to someone having genuine PTSD triggers, phobias, etc. (It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Taylor turned out to be claustrophobic, for example.)