It’s mainly one of magnitude. Things appeared kind of hopeless when the Undersiders were being guided/chased around the Trainyard, but it was nowhere near as intensely bleak as 8.3.

Ah, right, makes sense. And I suppose they might have people whose power is directly figuring out advanced tech on sight. (They’d have to bring one of those along to Bakuda’s hideout, since her hypothetical dummy bombs could easily (by her standards) be rigged to detonate on touch by anyone who isn’t her.)

I guess on some level, I feel the need to acknowledge that I notice them, but it feels too distracting to actually call them out in my comments. I’ve also thought “on the off-chance Wildbow ends up reading this, it could be useful to point out typos he can fix”, but that’s kind of unlikely […]

Huh. I guess it was more a result of my varying reading speeds than the chapter being longer.

True, though at least it’d let people say words to him. 😛 Sounds like it’d be awkward to call him, though. PRT person: “Hello, is this Scion?” Scion: “…” PRT person: “Uh, if it is… there’s, uh, an Endbringer in Brockton Bay.” Scion: “…” PRT person: “So, uh, if you could come deal with that, that’d be nice…?” Scion: “…” *hangs […]

Hehe, glad you liked it! I was honestly afraid it’d feel too forced, personally.

It’s certainly not the way I would’ve expected him to go!

Huh. I’m… not sure how to feel about this, to be honest.