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Sierra started raising her hand, then stopped.

Is this just regular hesitation, or did she just go “wait, no, fuck this”?

A figure stood behind Yan.  Her costume was barely recognizable

Oh hell yes.

Hello.

You’ve got a little situation to deal with here. Some of your lower-level drones have been naughty.

– She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe.  The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move.  It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.

She looks fucking awesome.

It reminds me of Brian’s use of the darkness in his costume. I like the creativity involved in using the powers for the costumes, and it makes for some truly unique ones.

…

Skitter: “Where’s Tattletale?”
Grue: “She’s coming. She told me to go ahead, she’d catch up after doing something.”
Skitter: “Oh, there she… what.”
Grue: “Hm?”
Tattletale: “Hey, guys!”
Skitter: “Why are you naked?”
Grue: “Uhh.”
Tattletale: “What? Oh, right, that. I wanted to try using my power for my costume like you and Grue do. I’m not naked, I’m dressed in knowledge!”
Grue: “Uuuuhhhhhh.”
Skitter: “What knowledge?”
Regent: “Biblical?”
Tattletale: “The knowledge,” *flips hair* “that I’m sexy.”

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So when we last left off, grade-A-minus bitch Yan was sadistically forcing Sierra to choose. Hand, knee or a ten-year-old.

Of course it’d be great if they could find a fourth option, but I’m thinking it’s going to be the hand.

“My hand.”

Booyeah.

45-45 odds at worst, I know, but it still feels good to get it right.

Yan smirked, taking the gun out of the boy’s mouth.  “Put it flat against the wall.”

Maybe if Sierra gets lucky here with the placements, she could disarm Yan. But even then they’d still have two strong, combat-trained guys and one strong, combat-trained woman against a young, untrained woman and an even younger, untrained teen girl who seems to have submitted to the opponents… as well as, what, seven kids, ten and below?

Honestly, the kids might be the key to turning the tide here. Do not underestimate kids. They can be vicious. (The fact that I just came from playing Minecraft, where baby zombies are significantly more of a threat than adult zombies, only strengthens my conviction on that front.)

Alternatively, the key might be Skitter’s return. While it’d be an unexpected rescue from the characters’ perspective, it wouldn’t be a deus ex machina, because both this chapter and natural consequences of recent events have set up the return as something that should either happen now (15.1 is also acceptable, but disappointing) or not for a long while still.

That, and I want to see Taylor react to finding out that the ABB members she hired are in fact shitty people and she made a mistake in hiring them.

…actually, that last thing is part of what I don’t like about this chapter so far. There was so much potential for these three to get partially reformed, and then as soon as we see them again they go and do this. Maybe there still is potential, though. It depends on how forgiving Taylor is feeling.

Though I doubt she’ll be in a great mood after Jack and co. escaped the city.

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So I got distracted for a while there by humongous slime cubes and teaching llamas to spit fire, but there’s still time to get in a short Worm session tonight. Let’s try to make some progress, shall we?

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Thank you. I’m just… getting a bit frustrated myself by having to continually postpone the rest of the chapter.

That said, I’m rather sleepy tonight. Should be better tomorrow, because weekend, and I’ll have a lot more free time to blog too. So yeah, I do think I’ll postpone it one last time. Sorry!