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* BoobyTrap: There were quite extensive traps around [[spoiler:the Goblin Kingdom]], but Crawler takes them out by the simple expedient of hunting them down and deliberately setting off every single one.
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* BoobyTrap: BoobyTrap:
** There were quite extensive traps around [[spoiler:the Goblin Kingdom]], but Crawler takes them out by the simple expedient of hunting them down and deliberately setting off every singleone.one.
** Amy has a lot of fun surrounding a Gesellschaft facility with ''six rings'' of traps, from blocking the road with fake trees that dissolve into extra-thick honey when pushed, to snares that spin people around and send them back the other way, to "an experiment with three lemons and a paperclip that could be highly amusing if it actually worked."
---> The brute in the group was apparently weak to losing contact with the ground to anchor themselves when using their strength, the blaster couldn't do enough damage to blow the traps apart properly, and the normal humans were sitting ducks.\\
Or in the case of one left in one of the pitfalls, sitting ''on'' ducks.
** There were quite extensive traps around [[spoiler:the Goblin Kingdom]], but Crawler takes them out by the simple expedient of hunting them down and deliberately setting off every single
** Amy has a lot of fun surrounding a Gesellschaft facility with ''six rings'' of traps, from blocking the road with fake trees that dissolve into extra-thick honey when pushed, to snares that spin people around and send them back the other way, to "an experiment with three lemons and a paperclip that could be highly amusing if it actually worked."
---> The brute in the group was apparently weak to losing contact with the ground to anchor themselves when using their strength, the blaster couldn't do enough damage to blow the traps apart properly, and the normal humans were sitting ducks.\\
Or in the case of one left in one of the pitfalls, sitting ''on'' ducks.
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* Open Says Me: Taylor has the ability to use telekinesis to open any lock. Missy has explosive punch gauntlets.
--> Taylor had commented about manipulating the internals of latches to open doors for her before, which would probably be useful in a situation like this where there was no external keyhole. Missy thought that sounded like it needed more practice and would be annoyingly fiddly. That, and she had no real care about keeping the building intact.
--> Taylor had commented about manipulating the internals of latches to open doors for her before, which would probably be useful in a situation like this where there was no external keyhole. Missy thought that sounded like it needed more practice and would be annoyingly fiddly. That, and she had no real care about keeping the building intact.
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* TeleFrag: Amy is baffled by her failed attempts to design a bullet that will create a fake tree bearing edible candy when it hits. Theoretically it's entirely possible, but she always gets [[ExplosiveResults a crater]]. Taylor checks her work and points out that she failed to properly specify the locations of the candies, so they were all trying to appear at the same point.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Ethan raises concerns about learning magic from Amy, Missy admits that Amy's attitude to magic can be "less than professional", which he's willing to agree to.
--> '''Ethan:''' That sounds far more charitable than I was going to go with, so we can go with it.
--> '''Ethan:''' That sounds far more charitable than I was going to go with, so we can go with it.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: After extensive study of what data can be obtained from the shards, Hive comes to the conclusion that they were originally designed to run an immersive MMO video game, and basically lost the distinction between the players and the avatars, as well as expanding our of control. They're now a multiversal threat simply because they consume everything for fuel as they spread.
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* TheCakeIsALie: Lampshaded when Amy would really rather not sit down and talk with her aunt Sarah, but Sarah promises cake afterward.
--> Complete with placing the cake in a cake dome on the table in the living room to prove that it was real, as if she’d have lied about there being cake.
--> Complete with placing the cake in a cake dome on the table in the living room to prove that it was real, as if she’d have lied about there being cake.
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to potential planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "[[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea]] rather than allow an escape."
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to potential planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "[[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea]] rather than allow an escape."" And ''that's not even their final level of escalation''.
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to potential planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea rather than allow an escape."
--> '''Taylor:''" Extreme plans in case things go wrong are a necessity.
--> '''Taylor:''" Extreme plans in case things go wrong are a necessity.
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to potential planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "destroy "[[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea sea]] rather than allow an escape."
-->'''Taylor:''" '''Taylor:''' Extreme plans in case things go wrong are a necessity.
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* RetGone: It turns out that combining Bakuda's time dilation bomb effects with mana can greatly increase their output -- which isn't a good thing. Hive intends to send a bomb an hour into the past, but can only report that the planet she intended to use has never existed, and she's missing a bomb but has no record of launching it.
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* RetGone: It turns out that combining Bakuda's time dilation bomb effects with mana can greatly increase their output -- which isn't a good thing. Hive intends to send a bomb an hour into the past, but can only report that the planet alternate version of Mars she intended to use has never existed, existed (even though ''its moons do''), and she's missing a bomb but has no record of launching it.
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* MundaneUtility: Taylor's exceptional multitasking abilities mean that she can use telekinesis to operate four waffle irons at once.
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* MundaneUtility: MundaneUtility:
** Taylor's exceptional multitasking abilities mean that she can use telekinesis to operate four waffle irons atonce.once.
** Devices can arbitrarily consume and manipulate matter, which means that if you close your mouth to hide the flash, they can remove stuck popcorn bits from between your teeth.
** Taylor's exceptional multitasking abilities mean that she can use telekinesis to operate four waffle irons at
** Devices can arbitrarily consume and manipulate matter, which means that if you close your mouth to hide the flash, they can remove stuck popcorn bits from between your teeth.
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* SpyCam: Team Mana is ''constantly'' plagued with monitoring devices of all kinds, from approved PRT monitoring for the sake of being able to call for help, to villains trying to sneak gear in, to a box that Cauldron sent with a powerful Tinkertech-based Stranger effect. All of it, however, can be detected and jammed by Devices.
--> '''Vicky:''' Is it safe to talk about anything here?\\
'''Amy:''' As far as I can tell, yes. I had a scan done earlier this morning and no unexpected listening devices were detected, no taps were found on the expected ones that would allow someone to listen in, remote override of those has been done just in case, and if someone is firing a laser at any of the windows then they’re doing it from far enough away that I'm assured they'd not be able to actually identify anything. Then Hive did something to the entire apartment to further soundproof it for the day.
--> '''Vicky:''' Is it safe to talk about anything here?\\
'''Amy:''' As far as I can tell, yes. I had a scan done earlier this morning and no unexpected listening devices were detected, no taps were found on the expected ones that would allow someone to listen in, remote override of those has been done just in case, and if someone is firing a laser at any of the windows then they’re doing it from far enough away that I'm assured they'd not be able to actually identify anything. Then Hive did something to the entire apartment to further soundproof it for the day.
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* TemptingFate: Danny suggests that Taylor get out of the house for an activity outside of being Minerva, such as "seeing a movie, going out for lunch, or 'finding something new to seemingly accidentally overturn some scientific field'." Taylor is tempted to do the last one, just to teach him not to say things like that.
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* TemptingFate: Danny suggests that Taylor get out of the house for an activity outside of being Minerva, such as "seeing a movie, going out for lunch, or 'finding something new to seemingly accidentally overturn some scientific field'." Taylor is tempted to do the last one, just to teach him not to say joke about things like that.
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* TemptingFate: Danny suggests that Taylor get out of the house for an activity outside of being Minerva, such as "seeing a movie, going out for lunch, or 'finding something new to seemingly accidentally overturn some scientific field'." Taylor is tempted to do the last one, just to teach him not to say things like that.
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* ExplosiveOverclocking: It's possible to adjust the configuration of a linker core augmentation unit, eg to temporarily increase the mana generation rate for a short-term strength boost. However, doing it incorrectly can cause the whole core to violently explode. Taylor and Hive keep the access keys locked down to avoid temptation.
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* ThePowerOfLove: Subverted by Amy, who takes a rather ''literal'' interpretation of defeating her enemies with the Power of Love. [[spoiler:"Love" is the name she chose for her Device, which proceeds to flood the area with multicoloured hearts, rainbows, acorns, squirrel plushies, etc, that seize the target thugs and bind them.]]
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* SayingTooMuch: The Wards suspect that [[spoiler:Missy is Expanse]], but to confirm it, they plan to get her relaxed and talking, then casually reference Eagleton and see how she responds. [[spoiler:It works -- but they start to realise how much fire they were playing with when Missy asks Taylor if she can wipe their memories of the past ten minutes, and Taylor regretfully refuses because it might cause permanent brain damage.]]
--> '''Dennis:''' If they come through on that, could we just get her talking about what she's been doing that's ''safe'' to talk about? Then when her guard is down just slip in a question about [[spoiler:her time as Expanse]] and see if she answers it.
--> '''Dennis:''' If they come through on that, could we just get her talking about what she's been doing that's ''safe'' to talk about? Then when her guard is down just slip in a question about [[spoiler:her time as Expanse]] and see if she answers it.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Taylor responds to an overly pushy dictator with Master powers, by snatching her away and consuming her shard.
--> '''Amy:''' Are you saying that you just abducted a parahuman dictator instead of just hanging up on them?
--> '''Amy:''' Are you saying that you just abducted a parahuman dictator instead of just hanging up on them?
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* SelfPunishmentOverFailure: Eidolon [[spoiler:is distraught to learn that he caused the Endbringers, and welcomes any punishment. He actually complains that his clothing in captivity isn't a proper prison jumpsuit.]]
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* TheAgeless: The Shaper shard's biological manipulation is capable of keeping a human in peak condition indefinitely. [[spoiler:Amy is shocked when Taylor points out that they can all now live as long as their minds can keep up.]]
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* MundaneSolution: Taylor's magical base in another dimension uses a regular electric stove.
--> '''Taylor:''' Using energies beyond your current understanding is also doable, but we’ve got a set of tidal generators creating more than enough electricity to power a city and not everyone that visits can manipulate the energies beyond your current understanding. Electricity is fairly straightforward for everyone involved.
--> '''Taylor:''' Using energies beyond your current understanding is also doable, but we’ve got a set of tidal generators creating more than enough electricity to power a city and not everyone that visits can manipulate the energies beyond your current understanding. Electricity is fairly straightforward for everyone involved.
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* MundaneUtility: Taylor's exceptional multitasking abilities mean that she can use telekinesis to operate four waffle irons at once.
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to accidental planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea rather than allow an escape."
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to accidental potential planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea rather than allow an escape."
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* CrazyPrepared: Team Mana's plans for [[spoiler:assaulting the Cauldron compound]] start with peaceful captures, escalating as needed through various levels of violence, up to accidental planet cracking, ''intentional'' planet cracking, all the way to "destroy this whole region of the dimensional sea rather than allow an escape."
--> '''Taylor:''" Extreme plans in case things go wrong are a necessity.
--> '''Taylor:''" Extreme plans in case things go wrong are a necessity.
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* AlphaStrike: Taylor tests out [[spoiler:her newly available Unison Form]] by summoning every single training drone she has. (They aren't enough to beat her.)
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** Alexandria is certain that [[spoiler:the President discovering her secret identity and making the Triumvirate stand down from their leadership positions]] is a deliberate attack on Cauldron. Taylor doesn't even realise she's caused it to happen.
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* INeedADrink: Brian is of the opinion that the whole messy situation with Aisha's power justifies a beer, but since he's trying to be a responsible guardian for her, he doesn't have any.
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* INeedADrink: INeedADrink:
** Brian is of the opinion that the whole messy situation with Aisha's power justifies a beer, but since he's trying to be a responsible guardian for her, he doesn't haveany.any.
** Director Piggot arranges for Panacea to heal her kidneys ''just so she can get drunk'' after [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine remnants systematically destroy the Goblin Kingdom, and she wants to celebrate. She even dips into her "hire someone to kill Nilbog" fund to pay Panacea for it.]]
** Brian is of the opinion that the whole messy situation with Aisha's power justifies a beer, but since he's trying to be a responsible guardian for her, he doesn't have
** Director Piggot arranges for Panacea to heal her kidneys ''just so she can get drunk'' after [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine remnants systematically destroy the Goblin Kingdom, and she wants to celebrate. She even dips into her "hire someone to kill Nilbog" fund to pay Panacea for it.]]
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Missy loves the idea of channeling mana into a sword to make it ignite with flames or lightning, but it's very inefficient compared to options like just launching fireballs.
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* CombatSadomasochist: Crawler leaps at the opportunity to be hit with new kinds of damage. The mere mention of potentially lethal testing means he's in. [[spoiler:Missy's folded-space beam wipes him out instantly, which is at least a useful test, and Crawler had a kill order so it's legally fine.]]
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Missy gets a special shredder to help deal with her fan mail, with settings ranging from "cut into strips" all the way up to "reduce to dust and then ignite the dust in a contained explosion".
--> Needless to say, she currently had it in that mode, because who wouldn't? Beyond those tired of the thumps of the explosions, anyway.
--> Needless to say, she currently had it in that mode, because who wouldn't? Beyond those tired of the thumps of the explosions, anyway.
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* PleaseShootTheMessenger: One of Missy's tasks as an intern is to deliver a note to someone who had previously had her carrying paperwork. The note says that personnel paperwork should ''not'' be given to interns.
