I kind of feel like we should have a separate topic for spoilers, as it's somewhat annoying to have half the topic in boxes

 

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Kindle, but yeah, complete pain in the ass

 

My pet theory for tinkers is, that their inventions get additional material and energy from other dimensions. The same place Sundancer gets the energy for her miniature sun or the computing power Dinah or Tattletale get for their powers.

So tinkers really could build a nuke out of a toaster if that was the flavor of their power and every other person who copied them exactly would just get a broken toaster.

That's not exactly the explanation of the author, but it works well enough to stop me from wondering about the topic constantly.

 

Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention.

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Aisha/Imp - did I miss a scene where she's introduced into the Undersiders? We first see her at Grue's apartment in normal mode, and then several arcs later, she's suddenly a part of the group with no mention of anything. Sure, that could just be her power working on a meta level, but it was a bit jarring. I don't remember any mention of her trigger event either, whether or not it happened during the story after their first meeting. Did I miss something?

 

No, it popped out of nowhere for me too. I assumed it occured in an interlude since I skipped most of them.

 

That stood out for me to actually. Tbh Worm has been so well constructed so far that the fact that Imp's trigger hasn't been mentioned at all makes me think something's up.

My working theory is that Imp's trigger event involved all of the undersiders. Since her powers seem to rely on memory, I have a feeling that there's a good reason no one can seem to remember/ ever talks about it. Either something really, really bad happened involving her and it wiped everyone's specific memories of the incident or it was just a natural part of her awakening. I mean, her inclusion so far doesn't seem to have changed a whole lot has it? I think that the times when Imp isn't around might be telling.

Either way I feel like it's going to come into focus later.

 

Skipped? Interludes? That's blasphemy, lots of cool stuff happens in the interludes, and it's always nice to get backstory on side-characters. It gives their actions context.

 

I was more interested in what Taylor and the Undersiders were doing and the interludes kept interrupting that. Now that I've read it all, I'll probably go back and read through them all.

Edit: Looking back, I exaggerate. I was on top of the interludes up until Arc 15 where they got way more common.

 

So was I but while a few of them don't really make that much difference reading after or before others are really important to better understand the context of the main story. Plus several show Taylor from the vision of other people and that is pretty interesting.

 

You guys convinced me to read it.

Currently on the 5th Arc (Hive). Enjoying it so far.

 

HTTrack, downloading, apparently isn't even 10% done and it's over 300 meg. I'm blown away.

 

I think you're doing it wrong.
It was ~70 MB for me.

Maybe you're downloading all the pages it links to, too.
Before you start, try changing the preferences. Go to "Limits" and try "Maximum external depth: 0" and "Maximum mirroring depth: 2" and put "http://parahumans.wordpress.com/" as Web Addresses.

That should limit it. (Only problem was having to use the sidebar to jump to the next chapter.)

 

Misconfiguring HTTrack is 99% of the problems people have with that program.

 

This is fucking amazing. Ok, there are some flaws, but let's be honest: when a story is this fucking immersive who gives a shit about some minor (and inevitable) plot holes?

I mean, I'm still only on Book 13, but this shit be good, and there's no sign of it letting up. 5/5. OP did good. OP did very, very good. I would never have discovered this by myself.

(but yeah, really, how is this shit not published or something?)

 

I feel like this might be the first time that OP just fucking delivered. Like unanimously.

Also was updated today with a very cool Chat-log type interlude. I'd say that even if you haven't been reading the interludes, you should give this one a try. Or maybe I just go into withdrawal if I don't read everything Wildbow puts out. I dunno.

 

Yep. It's a callback of nearly a million words.