Episode Notes:

• It’s 10 minutes in before we tell you whose interlude this is
• We deliver our verdict on this instance of enemies-to-lovers(?)
• Jenny thinks that if Cauldron needs to call on reinforcements that fate has a loss in store for the Nine (and an ironic mission in store for Battery)
• Battery’s cop brain and total lack of commitment to her stated values
• A cautionary Tayl-or, if only she could read it
• Was either leap of faith taken here worthwhile? As annoying as it is, maybe
• Seems like the integrity problem extends all the way up to the top of the Protectorate, Legend
• Heroes without HR are just eoes
• Letting the sitcom trope play out does such a good job of riling up the reader
• Did Battery gift of the magi herself here? Get the power to beat Madcap at the cost of letting him get away?
• Ted really tried to give the ship the benefit of the doubt but then he remembered the likely age difference
• Wouldn’t it be nice to fly? Too bad we can’t afford it!
• We haven’t met any idle rich capes or business tycoon capes
• Where are all the business tinkers?
• Cauldron’s reach and aesthetics
• What’s Cauldron for?
• You can't be morally gray when you're creating Case 53s
• We want the Case 53 backstories
• The slippery slope of anonymity
• Who is this Doctor, really?
• We go on a vision quest with Battery… but was it a trigger event?
• Cauldron powers vs. "real" powers
• Samples and siblings
• Cauldron capes have a mindfulness advantage
• Does every voluntary Cauldron client make it out?
• Battery's battery of reasons for being a battery
• A long, slow self-kidnapping
• Batteries and magnets
• Worm getting global at last
• Where are all the nemeses we're hearing about?
• We contemplate our own enrollment as Cauldron clients
• Coil's Cauldron favor could be a tidy opportunity
• Oops, seems like Battery might end the world

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/interlude-12%C2%BD/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow