peterverse | branding lady, meet meek little lamb

mxglam posting in

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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From:

mxglam

"Well, but how would she actually use it? She can't conjure things, she can only build them, and my things are make-believe."

From:

thinkering

"The problem isn't, 'she copies your gun'. The problem is, 'she sings that the gun is not real into everybody's heads, and they remember that, and not all of them are trustworthy'."

From:

mxglam

"...she can do that? Sing information into people's heads?"

From:

thinkering

"I don't know, but I don't think it's a risk you should take at least until you've killed both of the others."

From:

mxglam

"Right. Okay. Not arguing with the person who is immune to her. Fucking Simurgh."

Gasp! Swearing Glam!

Edited Date: 2016-02-09 11:48 pm (UTC)

From:

thinkering

"I mean, unless you've been under the influence before you've probably got uncontaminated judgment and my main advantage is conservatism. But neither Leviathan nor Behemoth could nope you as totally and permanently as she could, so you should save her for last."

Edited Date: 2016-02-09 11:50 pm (UTC)

From:

mxglam

"Well I've never been anywhere near the Simurgh so probably not, but you never know, maybe this is a long con and she actually can affect everyone everywhere and the song is just a decoy. If anyone would do something as ridiculously convoluted as that, it's the Simurgh."

From:

thinkering

"If that's how she works maybe I'm not immune to her after all and she's setting me up, but at a certain point we'll be totally paralyzed if we don't make certain baseline assumptions."

From:

mxglam

"Yeah, it was mostly wild speculation, I'm just staying as far away from her as I possibly can."

From:

thinkering

"And keep your guns out of her way until it's worth gambling your whole powerset on it."

From:

mxglam

"Right."

From:

thinkering

"So anyway, you have some ludicrous range limit but mere human attentional capacity. Maybe a robot who believes in you really hard wouldn't help, but one who tracked things for you might?"

From:

mxglam

"Maybe? I mean, I think other people paying attention to my stuff doesn't make it not disappear- unless it does. I'm not sure how to test that without revealing my secret weakness, though."

From:

thinkering

"When you trusted the robot to bleep at you in response to the duck, you got the duck to appear. If a robot would reliably inform you of what was and was not sticking around, you'd have feedback on it even if there was lots of it and some of it was behind you, no?"

From:

mxglam

"Yeah, I guess, but I still have limited human attentional capacity, if there was so much stuff around that I couldn't keep track of the bleeps that'd probably be a problem."

From:

thinkering

"And people who aren't me don't usually get along really well with my tech anyway, I'm just wondering theoretically, but you have a point."

From:

mxglam

"And in any case there's a truly ludicrous number of buoys around right now, I think on a typical situation I won't be running into these limits. My power seems to leave me some leeway between my not paying attention to a thing and it making that thing go away, namely the half-an-hour thing, though that leeway seems to get shorter as I make more stuff."