Two chapters in one night. Good work. You are now only two chapters behind Nick.

Nice!

Sounds like it’s a good time to be a fan of this part of the story, eh?

Krix… Have you been peeking? You mention then Dragonslayers by name in post 169740378939, but you’ve never mentioned them before—their name is first given in the post AFTER that one…

Nope – they were first introduced in Interlude 5.

I didn’t peek, I just remembered something for once. 😛

I’m honestly annoyed that Dragon WAS affected by Tattletale. You’d think people would learn not to talk to the thinker whose file says not to talk to her.

Hehe, yeah. Though we saw how well that turned out in Extermination! 😛

‘You say as if the Protectorate wasn’t using Bakuda’s bombs against Leviathan and isn’t constantly providing plenty of PRT soldiers and capes with equipment made by tinkers other than themselves’ As we all know, bombs are perfectly safe. Also, emphasis on the ‘verify’ part.

Dragon did mention verifying the devices, but she specifically said that only the tinker who made it could verify it as safe, and I highly doubt they had Bakuda verify her devices.

That said, I’m not so much calling the PRT out for hypocrisy as I am calling her out on a poor bluff. She was clearly saying that mostly because she saw the truth in what Tattle was saying, that Kid’s stuff could help them get out of there before the Protectorate reinforcements arrived. Tattle, on her part, decided to call her out on it in a more personally hurtful way.

“Tick Talk”. That’s better, although it loses the reference to Clockblocker’s talks with his mom, Glory Girl and Vista being “on the clock” in the sense that he was supposed to be in the classroom.

I like how your table of contents fails to distinguish between 9.3 and 9.6

…whoops.

Wait, why did I name 9.3 “Shell Game”? Or did I accidentally change the name of 9.3 to match 9.6, somehow, at some point?

Oh right, Trickster. That’s why, Trickster was shuffling the Wards around like the shells of a shell game.

I guess I’ll have to change the title for 9.3 (how about… “Talk on the Clock”?), but at least it’s fitting that this would happen with a title that evokes the image of different contents under similar cups.

I’d like to suggest that Piggot’s first name is in fact Jerry. 😛

Heh, perhaps 😛

Sorry to disappoint, but I think the ‘J’ in Piggot’s username is just a first-draft typo, accidentally left in before Wildbow finished giving Piggot her real name.

I see… I guess that just frees it up for headcanons as to what the J really stands for. Maybe it stands for a “Jirector”, which is like a Director, but blue and made of denim.

Ward isn’t an alternate perspective of Worm, it’s a sequel (so I guess you now know that sentient life remains in the universe after Worm for Wibblywobbles to write about). Pact and Twig are both stories unrelated to Worm – they’re urban fantasy, sorta, no superheroes.

Ah, so Ward is Worm 2, then. I guess since I received this ask, Sharks decided there was no point in keeping that from me now that I’d seen the title.

And yeah, I already knew Worm 2 – Ward – was a thing, just not what it was called. I also know it has a sort of prologue called Glow-Worm.

I don’t know if you noticed, but the Undersiders have the theme of common fears: bugs, large vicious animals, darkness, having your secrets revealed, losing control of your body, and Imp’s power is perfect for gaslighting.

Huh, so they are. That’s neat!

(If I did ever notice that, or get told about it in an ask while I was still using images for the asks, blog search doesn’t find it and I don’t recall it.)

“Also I know it wasn’t officially approved when we first saw it, but are you telling me the Tiro Finale / Alternator Cannon wasn’t potentially lethal?” Kid Win had made it explicitly for class A and S threats, like the Endbringers… and now you know why Kid win was in hot water when he deployed it against normal villains.

Ohh, right. That and it not having been approved first.

That makes a lot more sense, especially given that I was also thinking that using nonlethal weaponry against an Endbringer seemed a bit stupid.