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.

Imp’s power means that the Worm fandom says Imp’d instead of Ninja’d.

As a sidenote, know how the verb ‘ninjaed’ is used in forums to indicate someone posting something just before you did? In the Worm fandom the same thing is called “Imped” 🙂

Hah, nice.

Also it seems one of you got imped. 😉

I think the baseball bat/club Weld forms is a Tetsubo/Kanabo, a Japanese warclub perhaps best known for its association with Oni (I found the name by googling “oni club”). It was designed to smash bones, armour, and the legs of horses.

Huh, neat!

I wonder if that says anything about Weld’s own heritage? It doesn’t necessarily, but there’s a precedent for Wildbow making characters reflect their heritage as a cape. Though to be fair, most of that precedent is from characters who care more than average about it.

…oh right, “The inside of the building didn’t match the exterior.” right at the top of the paragraph.(See, this is one reason why I don’t usually liveblog while slightly sleepy. If that keeps up I’m gonna have to split the session.) <– Don’t worry Krix, you do plenty of mistakes when you’re awake too, those who mind have probably left by now, those who’re still here understand.

Hah, that’s fair.