blasto, meet official opinions on self-replicating minions

[peterxy]

The PRT catches wind of a strange increase in disappeared domestic animals in the downtown area. Given that the people who live there are the rich and powerful, this is clearly a problem that needs to be investigated and solved immediately. The PRT, of course, agrees that this is of utmost importance, and not just because of precedent about mass abductions of pets, of course not, why would you think that, they are so very worried about Fido, even Scion recognizes the merits of rescuing lost pets.

(Lorica's asked to maybe keep a few more eyes there than she has been.)

Comments

[mrglam]

"Maybe she doesn't know it is. And, I dunno, maybe not-sleeping doesn't count as a power at all? She's not the only cape with that thing, and no other powers have exact duplicates."

[thinkering]

"There could be multiple ways to not-sleep."

[mrglam]

"Yeah, fair enough, I suppose."

[thinkering]

"Somebody's taking really effective microsleeps every few times they blink, somebody's sleeping and then time traveling to the past and erasing all memories of their shameful sleepy secret..."

[mrglam]

"Time traveling would be huge, if whatever gives us powers used that to keep someone awake that'd be such a waste."

[thinkering]

"Yes, I know."

[mrglam]

He eyes her speculatively. "You're the real one."

[thinkering]

"Is that your final answer?"

[mrglam]

"Yeah. It is."

[thinkering]

"Squint at me and find out."

[mrglam]

So he does!

[thinkering]

She doesn't disappear.

She takes her helmet off. "How'd you guess? I thought the bot was pitch-perfect."

[mrglam]

"It really wasn't. I was fairly sure it wasn't you the first time it said 'we'd have to test that,' and I was also fairly sure you were you when you asked me about ducking with my independent variable."

[thinkering]

Snort. "Do I not say we'd have to test things? I am pro testing things!"

[mrglam]

"Yes, but that's... in some sort of undefinable way, not really the kind of thing you'd have said at the time. I'm not sure I can tell what you would have said, and I may be completely mistaken about what's really going on in my brain, but I think it wouldn't have been that."

[thinkering]

"Huh. I didn't conduct a parallel conversation where I said what I would have said so I guess we'll never know for sure. But you did guess right."

[mrglam]

"Yup! Do I get a prize?"

[thinkering]

"Gosh, what could you possibly want."

[mrglam]

"Hmm, I have a good enough model of you to tell you apart from the bot. Do you have a good enough model of me to guess?"

[thinkering]

"Is your model good enough to detect sarcasm?"

[mrglam]

"Yes, I was playing along."

[thinkering]

She snorts and starts shucking armor.

[mrglam]

"Oh look, you do know what I'd meant."

[thinkering]

"We're going to compare fingerprints, right? I can't do that in armor."

[mrglam]

...he sporfles.