branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

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[mxglam]

"Is it holding a duck now?"

It is not.

[thinkering]

"No."

[mxglam]

"Hm." Close eyes, focus. "How about now?"

Still no.

[thinkering]

"No."

[mxglam]

"...okay, can you tell me where the bot is?"

[thinkering]

"That way. It stopped when the duck vanished. I can see it if I squint." When she squints, her helmet display zooms, but still.

[mxglam]

Glam looks. And squints.

Still no duck.

[thinkering]

"Look, we know your range goes that far. It had the duck when it was exactly where it is, and the duck didn't disappear until you were distracted by buoys. You should totally be able to give the robot a duck."

[mxglam]

Glam giggles. "I think that is one of the best sentences in the English language," they comment.

And yet. No duck.

[thinkering]

"No duck yet."

[mxglam]

"Hmm... Actually this is a good test of that hypothesis, can you tell one of your bots to automatically tell me when the faraway bot gets a robot? Or maybe some sort of bleep, or some feedback."

[thinkering]

"Sure, that one'll bleep as soon as its sibling has a duck."

[peterxy]

Bleep!

[thinkering]

"Congratulations. I wonder why exactly that helped and how we can figure out. Duck is getting farther away again..."

[mxglam]

"Well it ties in with what I was saying, I think? Accurate expectations. Maybe a better name for it is... reasonable feedback?"

[thinkering]

"Hmm, say more?"

[mxglam]

"For my power to work I need to... be reasonably confident that it worked, is my guess. Which normally just translates to field of view, right, that's how I normally tell if a thing exists is by looking at it. But this is apparently working off knowledge of the world that I don't necessarily have."

[thinkering]

"But you probably do also have some actual range limit because you didn't get a thing to appear on camera in Philly...?"

[mxglam]

Facepalm. "It was a public feed. Other people must've been watching it at the same time I was. I mean, if I have a range that was not a good test to perform."

[thinkering]

"...Oh. Wanna see if you can appear a thing in my workshop from here?"

[mxglam]

"Yeah!"

[thinkering]

A bot projects onto the bottom of the boat a view of the workshop.

[mxglam]

Duck on the desk!

[thinkering]

"Ha. Okay, so your range qua range is big enough to be legitimately challenging to test, but for other reasons, when unassisted you are mostly visual-or-immediate-staging-area range. Next time I'm around the world at a Simurgh fight after she flies off I'll get you a private feed of some place."

[mxglam]

"Yeah, that sounds good." Pause. "I could make my gun remotely."