Hey kids, guess what time it is? That's right, it's Wacky Dream Time!
This came at the very end of a particularly incoherent one, so the context is barely there and mostly irrelevant, but still kind of interesting when developed from the immediate situation - recently a bunch of root-like things appeared throughout the area and generally caused a disaster or at least disrupted normal life, as they are thin (about the size of two fingers together) and look sort of like scaled-over red flesh, but nigh-indestructible and a glowing energy crackles slowly over them, which turns people to stone but not their clothes (or possibly just freezes them Clockblocker style) for a few seconds to a few minutes if touched on the glowing bit, mostly depending on how brightly it's glowing. The local idiot teens have made a game of this, calling it "snakes and sticks," using the body of one of those pen style erasers and a d6 to determine how many scales away the next person can touch from the previous and keep score, with the first player after a freeze getting to pick freely and the last player before the one frozen getting to do whatever the rest will accept to the loser until they thaw. Being teens this ranges from silly pranks to what would be sexual harassment if the subject wasn't temporarily a statue and unquestionably is when they thaw in the middle of it, to outright cruel or criminal behavior like robbing and/or stripping them and leaving. The energy that causes the effect crawls along the surface slowly and somewhat unpredictably, so there is some skill involved as well as luck.
Even without powers, post-GM Taylor is very good at playing Snakes & Sticks, for whatever reason she has to do it. It was a dream, it's not like logic was a major factor, but either getting close to the local rowdies and/or studying the weird power manifestation is one possibility, and probably why David is involved. As in Eidolon.
"What-- Eidolon!? But you died! Wait, if you're here, the Endbringers...?"
Yes, that David. Well, sorta - back in the early days, even before Hero died, he tried to find a power to do dimensional shenanigans in the lack of or to not be solely reliant on Doormaker. The one he got created a copy of himself, healthy but without powers, in another world and let him control it, but when he dropped the power and the connection, the copy stayed and was just him, healthy but without powers. There are probably a few more in other worlds, but I woke up very shortly after this point, with the only other idea that stuck being that no, no Endbringers have shown up (This David doesn't need any more challenges than making a life after suddenly appearing with no records and no contacts already provide even years later, because again, no powers, though that might have changed after the original died I suppose) and is quite shocked to learn Levi-tan and Little Zizter joined the battle against Zion in the end, but not in the same headspace for the logic bomb that did in the original to have the same effect. It seems likely that far less time has passed here than in Bet, so he's closer to her age, and/or possibly transformed himself into a new, younger identity if he got his powers back after using his previous one to set it up to be much more solid than what he'd been able to make the first time.
I don't really have anywhere to take it once they get past the meeting, but that's why it's here instead of in my notes file for further development, like all those crossover fic ideas that die at basically the same point for the same reason, but maybe it will inspire someone else? Cynical post-series unpowered Taylor and a young, re-powered, idealistic Eidolon is not a crime fighting duo you see too often, if nothing more.
This came at the very end of a particularly incoherent one, so the context is barely there and mostly irrelevant, but still kind of interesting when developed from the immediate situation - recently a bunch of root-like things appeared throughout the area and generally caused a disaster or at least disrupted normal life, as they are thin (about the size of two fingers together) and look sort of like scaled-over red flesh, but nigh-indestructible and a glowing energy crackles slowly over them, which turns people to stone but not their clothes (or possibly just freezes them Clockblocker style) for a few seconds to a few minutes if touched on the glowing bit, mostly depending on how brightly it's glowing. The local idiot teens have made a game of this, calling it "snakes and sticks," using the body of one of those pen style erasers and a d6 to determine how many scales away the next person can touch from the previous and keep score, with the first player after a freeze getting to pick freely and the last player before the one frozen getting to do whatever the rest will accept to the loser until they thaw. Being teens this ranges from silly pranks to what would be sexual harassment if the subject wasn't temporarily a statue and unquestionably is when they thaw in the middle of it, to outright cruel or criminal behavior like robbing and/or stripping them and leaving. The energy that causes the effect crawls along the surface slowly and somewhat unpredictably, so there is some skill involved as well as luck.
Even without powers, post-GM Taylor is very good at playing Snakes & Sticks, for whatever reason she has to do it. It was a dream, it's not like logic was a major factor, but either getting close to the local rowdies and/or studying the weird power manifestation is one possibility, and probably why David is involved. As in Eidolon.
"What-- Eidolon!? But you died! Wait, if you're here, the Endbringers...?"
Yes, that David. Well, sorta - back in the early days, even before Hero died, he tried to find a power to do dimensional shenanigans in the lack of or to not be solely reliant on Doormaker. The one he got created a copy of himself, healthy but without powers, in another world and let him control it, but when he dropped the power and the connection, the copy stayed and was just him, healthy but without powers. There are probably a few more in other worlds, but I woke up very shortly after this point, with the only other idea that stuck being that no, no Endbringers have shown up (This David doesn't need any more challenges than making a life after suddenly appearing with no records and no contacts already provide even years later, because again, no powers, though that might have changed after the original died I suppose) and is quite shocked to learn Levi-tan and Little Zizter joined the battle against Zion in the end, but not in the same headspace for the logic bomb that did in the original to have the same effect. It seems likely that far less time has passed here than in Bet, so he's closer to her age, and/or possibly transformed himself into a new, younger identity if he got his powers back after using his previous one to set it up to be much more solid than what he'd been able to make the first time.
I don't really have anywhere to take it once they get past the meeting, but that's why it's here instead of in my notes file for further development, like all those crossover fic ideas that die at basically the same point for the same reason, but maybe it will inspire someone else? Cynical post-series unpowered Taylor and a young, re-powered, idealistic Eidolon is not a crime fighting duo you see too often, if nothing more.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus