Yesss let’s beat druggies by getting them high.
Ahaha, good point. Maybe some of the Merchants are somewhat resistant to his power, though it does seem to be incredibly potent.
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Despite the Worm fandom’s love of altpower!Taylors, I have surprisingly never seen one where she gets Skidmark’s power. I’d write one myself, except I’m not that good of a writer and would need to do a lot of research to figure out new tricks like Taylor did with her bug power.
Here’s one that might have interesting effects: Layering a skidmark that goes one way on top of one that goes the opposite way.
The boring outcome would be that they’d cancel each other out.
The less boring outcomes would have the potential to be far grislier.
Both Taylor and Hana just call the beings “entities”, which, while not very specific, is suitably mysterious if you proper noun-ize it. “The Entities”. Much better than tessaractids, don’t you think?
I mean, if you’re going for mysterious, sure. I did come up with the name tesseractids explictly to have a better way to mention them than with extremely nonspecific terms like “beings” or “entities”, though.
lisa this is the worst double date ever the guy im with s a creep and everybody’s fighting and I forgot something but now the exits are gone Lisa ou suck
ahahaha 😛
Damn, Lisa, there aren’t even candles! Unless you count the flaming torches some of those guys over there are swinging at each other. How is anyone supposed to get their romance on when it’s like this?
Nice fireworks, though. Not super into the bloody remains of those unfortunate enough to cross their paths, but at least the light show is great.
lisa this is the worst double date ever the guy im with s a creep and everybody’s fighting and I forgot something but now the exits are gone Lisa ou suck
ahahaha 😛
Damn, Lisa, there aren’t even candles! Unless you count the flaming torches some of those guys over there are swinging at each other. How is anyone supposed to get their romance on when it’s like this?
Youare tearing me apart, Lisa
oh hi asker
Turkish Wikipedia suggests that Karahindiba means Dandelion. Tesseractids is a lame name; you should call them Dandelions!
Yeah, that meaning is how the name Karahindiba came up in the first place. Hana didn’t explicitly name it, she just compared it to a dandelion in the way the pieces of it, the “seeds”, were scattering to the winds. The way her narration mentioned the Turkish word for it made it natural to pick that up as a name for that being, or possibly all of them (I chose to use it for the individual).
“Dandelions” is a rather elegant name for the species. They do seem to be flaking off whenever they move even when they’re not dying, too.
I’m not sure if I want to adopt it for all of them, though – I’ll have to think about it.
I imagine Newter taking out Merchants from the shadows by spitting at them from the ceiling.
Charlotte, as the building turns into a crazy semi-illusory realm and Merchants start dropping into drug trances one by one: “Look, I’m happy for you two, but guys, this is not the time for hot lesbian action!”
End of Infestation 11.6
This was a very interesting chapter. I hadn’t expected anything even remotely like this.
We learned a lot about the mysterious eldritch beings that appear to be the source of powers, which I’ve chosen to call tesseractids for now. They’re multidimensional, they can appear across multiple realities at once, and it seems they don’t always “die” like Karahindiba supposedly did when they bestow the powers. They are “like viruses, babies and gods at the same time”, suggesting they might reproduce via parahumans and don’t really know what they’re doing, but they’re also capable of planning and communication and may be aware of upcoming trigger events.
And apparently all existing parahumans can see them when a trigger event happens nearby, but not mundanes. The experience takes a psychic toll and often causes motion sickness, but those exposed to it quickly forget what happened unless their power helps them remember.
Very, very interesting revelations there. You may color me highly intrigued.
It’s also going to be interesting to see whether Lisa remembers anything.
At the end we also found out that Faultline’s Crew has arrived. Long time no see! I don’t think we’ve seen them since Interlude 5, actually, so I guess this is a very appropriate point for them to come back.
Taylor doesn’t know it, but they’re obviously after the vials of super juice. They’re gonna have to act fast to get ahold of the first one, though, before Doug drinks it.
And once they do act, using the element of surprise by the looks of it, things are not gonna be good. Especially considering they clearly don’t want any Merchants to escape the building and they’re currently counting Taylor and co. as Merchants.
Incidentally, Charlotte might think Taylor and Lisa are doing it at first.
So yeah! With this setup, next chapter looks like it’ll be interesting, but I highly doubt it’ll be as interesting as this one was, because damn.
See you next time!
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