Bonesaw, probably asked Skitter to tell her when Battery was outside of her range, so that Skitter wouldn’t notice that Battery was being murdered by mechanical spiders.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense.

I don’t know about Michael Jackson, but in 10.6 Taylor compared Jack Slash to Johnny Depp

Hah, yeah, she did!

“Especially him using those weighted shoes MJ had that let him dip really far forward.” Those weren’t weighted. They were slotted, and there were nubs on the floor he could step into and lock. Also, you should revisit the last line of 14.8 with new eyes.

Oh, huh, I guess I misunderstood when I found out about them. This does make much more sense, since otherwise he’d need to have heel weights almost as heavy as he himself was. That’s only slightly less of an issue for mobility than being locked to the floor is.

I think if Bonesaw wanted she could make the spider-bots have artificial nerves or something to match Taylors power. Bonus points for biological bug-to-human nerve signal translators for implanting in her Frankencape creations so Taylor can control these too. (Night/Grue would be a really effective combination btw.) While Amy/Taylor team-ups are most broken, Taylor/Bonesaw teamups would be nothing to sneeze at.

Oh man, yes, that would be very powerful if they could do it.

AU where Taylor leaves the Undersiders to form a new team with both Amy and Bonesaw. And let’s invite Lisa too, just so we have all my favorite characters on one team. :p

And yeah, an amalgamation of Night and Grue would be terrifingly effective. Especially now that Grue has his second power, though considering that the amalgamates’ powers are weakened, Grue’s second power (which already only gives him a small portion of the power) wouldn’t let him borrow much at all. Still, though, that is an added bit of versatility on top of everything Night’s monster form can do.

When Krixwell is finally freed from the effects of the miasma, please ask him to do a liveblog of his past few liveblog sessions. I want to see him scream at both Taylor and Pastwell.

You really should reread this chapter and the previous one, now that the bamboozle has been revealed. It’s a whole different experience where you notice all the inconsistencies and hints, and see Taylor’s decisions in a very different light.

Now, can we have a couple of retrospective posts of Pastwell for these chapters? Pretty please?

Upd. on my previous ask: I guess you delivered on retrospective, yay!

Yeah, I was right there with you guys in deeming this a necessity, before I even moved on from the reveal and finished 14.9. 🙂

Also in meta-dramatic-irony, watching as Krixwell completely misses the dramatic irony the reader is supposed to be experiencing.

Hehe, yeah. I got to experience some of that meta-DI myself, too, while looking back at my bloggings. :p

Did Bonesaw and Jack really fool you so long even after the “Don’t Swear”-reveal? After saying that’s more a Bonesaw than a Lisa thing and that the emotional manipulation was uncharacteristic of Brian I totally thought you were just playing along. I recommend not getting caught up in agnosic miasmas anytime soon 🙂

This is one of many ways in which I’d be fucked if I had to deal with the Nine. :p

Aaaaah god Krixwell hope you don’t think I’m overreacting or rambling but those last few days have been the MOST emotionally invested that your liveblog has made me feel ! I was SO sure you would get it at the “Don’t swear !” ! Lisa swears all the freaking time ! You even said it was characteristic of Bonesaw !

Then I went and re-read ahead to try to guess when you would get it. And I guess it’s understandable that you didn’t question their super OOC behaviour once you had convinced yourself that it was really them, but how come you didn’t question it at the very start ? Taylor had every reason to be unsure but you just treated it as paranoia, while acknowledging that she had good reasons.

And man, Bonesaw obviously doesn’t know a thing about Lisa’s power. How could she keep an eye on Battery without any external clue ? She is not a seer ! Obviously Taylor can’t remember than but you can ! Hope you don’t think I’m screaming at you it was just a very exciting time

I felt as if YOU were Taylor, unsuspectingly trapped with the Nine and unable to realize the trickery… I want to emphasize that I’m not saying you’re not smart or anything, anybody can miss things, but those were some frustrating sessions !

Yeeeah, they fooled me even harder than they fooled Taylor. They were legitimately better actors than they needed to be considering how much Taylor couldn’t remember, and I was quick to accept the premise that Lisa could work around the miasma with her power (something like that already being established with regards to Imp helped to reinforce that). And like you say, a large part of why I didn’t question their identities as much as I should have later on was because I had already been convinced.

I did catch the thing about Bonesaw not getting that Lisa needs a thing to base her knowledge off of, but I was already under the impression that the miasma had made “Lisa” overconfident in her power.