#plague 12.1

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Jenny and Ted discuss Plague 12.1. Episode Notes: * The Slaughterhouse Nine are just waiting for everyone to mass against them * Tayl

Jenny and Ted discuss Plague 12.1.

Episode Notes:

The Slaughterhouse Nine are just waiting for everyone to mass against them

Taylor needs to catch up with our level of information already

The possibility of heroes crashing the villain meeting

Let's do arc 5 again against the Slaughterhouse Nine

Taylor the Tailor: we love to see it

Taylor's a good person to give your resources to

Grue's thinking too small. And feeling too small, maybe

Taylor and the challenge of middle management

Is loyalty to Skitter transferable to Coil?

The dual problems of sustainability and presentation

Taylor's continued failure to realize how terrifying she is

Maybe a less Skitter Skitter would be more effective

Urgency is not Taylor's friend

We want fly necklace merch

Taylor's sense of triage and sense of heroism are in conflict

Bugs are basically AI

Threats don't hurt anyone if you don't mean them, right?

Where's the Taylor-Sundancer-Dragon team-up of our dreams

Superhuman multitasking

Brian, your gender essentialism is showing

The minions are settling in

Taylor vs. the antivaxxers

Taylor's strengths and weaknesses as a leader: unfortunately, she has both

The challenges of being a civil servant

The tectonic shifts of Taylor's morality

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

The compartment of armor at my back buzzed, and I reached back to retrieve my cell phone.  It was Grue: can I come by? I quickly replied: On errand.  Don’t come to my place.  Meet me at Bayview and Clover.  Not too far from our old place. It was only a moment before I got a reply: got it. am already otw.  close.

I really do love the way Taylor texts. :rofl:

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“Aren’t we?  Look at our group.  Regent and I are going on the offensive.  I’ve got Aisha and I making constant, coordinated attacks against enemies in my territory, terrorizing groups with attacks from the cover of my darkness, or from someone they can’t even remember fighting.  Regent’s got a squad of Coil’s soldiers with him, and he’s tracking and kidnapping the leaders of enemy groups and gangs, using his power to control them and then having them sabotage their own operations, or start fights with other groups that leave both almost totally wiped out.  Then he cleans up the mess.” “And us girls?” “Lisa’s running the shelter, and she says she’s doing it to get more info, but I think she doesn’t mind how it connects her to the community there, either.  You, too, are almost nurturing in how you’re treating the people in your territory.  And you’re acting like you’re getting that aspiring superhero thing out of your system.  Or entrenched deeper into it.  I can’t tell.”

That's not a gender thig, Brian.

You are inclined to attack your problems as a means of protecting people you want to protect, because you failed to protect before.

Regent just doesn't care about helping people beyond the basic need to keep them useful. he's not actively malicious, generally, but he doesn't much care.

And Taylor is this way because all she ever wanted was to help people. if that's as a villain, then that's as a villain.

And counterpoint: I notice you don't bring up what Bitch is doing.

This is just Brian's own biases and issues talking, but still, man, Brian, dude.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

Apparently overwhelmed with the requests from his various rulers of the Brockton Bay territories, Coil had started delegating some of his people to act as intermediaries.  I got in contact with Mrs. Cranston, the intermediary he’d designated to me, and outlined what I needed.  Waste removal was a big priority, as was clearing out the storm drains so the water could drain from the flooded streets.  I let her know that my services were available if she wanted help identifying where the blockages were, or if the trash removal teams needed protection from interference.

And this is the man who wants to have three jobs at the end of this?

Man, I just don't get Coil :rofl: but I respect his ambition.

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