

I’m going to have to learn how to filter things better, she thought to herself. The other three looked like normal people, though one had a trace of scents on him that lingered around the PRT building downtown. She ignored them, they wouldn’t be causing trouble. There were seven people all carrying firearms, four of which were probably the gang members she could see.


The one junkie behind her reeked of the drugs he was on, as they worked their way out of his system. Most of the people on the bus, for instance, had at least washed. Here, on a city bus, on her way to get her admissions forms at Arcadia High School, it was becoming nauseating. The few times she’d been out and about, there had either been air moving around, filtered and scrubbed, or at the scents were, at least, familiar. Taylor soon came to the conclusion that life, in general, literally stank. But I'm not sure about this particular Taylor. But he THINKS it lets him run concurrent realities and then drop the one he doesn't like.Īs to the current topic, I think Taylor's theme song in general would be Any Means Necessary by Hammerfall.
AM I NOT HUMAN TWO STEPS FROM HELL MOVIE
Or to simplify: It shows him, in real time, the result of the question 'what if I'd done X differently', up to the point that he wouldn't want to see any more or the point where the shard couldn't record anymore.īasically like he's watching a pre-recorded movie of an alternate reality in the back of his consciousness. This means that he is always aware of what he would currently be doing or experiencing in the alternate timeline, but no further into the future. Then it shows him, in real time, what would happen if he'd chosen the less favorable branch while he proceeds along the more favorable one. It accurately models the exact events that occur over a set period of time based on a Yes/No choice by Coil, from when he starts using it to when he will naturally terminate the least favorable one. Just for clarity's sake.Ĭoil's Shard is an incredibly advanced bit of predictive software. Click to shrink.A friendly reminder of Coil's power, then.
