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]

"That's really awesome. Rewind with a suit will be unbeatable."

[thinkering]

Grin.

[mrglam]

"Will it be different than yours or your dad's?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah? I wouldn't give her an exact duplicate of either. Dad's is riddled with toggleable safety features to control where he bounces and hers needs to be optimized to take advantage of the rewinding."

[mrglam]

"What kinds of optimizations?"

[thinkering]

"I'm going to organize the onboard memory significantly differently and have it extrapolating a lot from the fact that it finds itself in the past relative to what the rest of the network says."

[mrglam]

"Yeah, makes sense."

[thinkering]

"It's just lucky she can rewind things through armor-thickness stuff or I'd have to have all kinds of hardware in place to make it get out of her way when she seemed to be purposefully reaching for stuff."

[mrglam]

"Couldn't you have made it, like, really thin around the hands, or something?"

[thinkering]

"It'd depend on how it worked. If she could work through flexible material but not anything rigid..."

[mrglam]

"She could work around her suit, at least."

[thinkering]

"Yeah. Which is not rigid or made of rigid parts."

[mrglam]

"I wonder if her power needs actual contact or just has a very short range."

[thinkering]

"Good question. Maybe I'll schedule some testing for that. If it's contact and not range maybe she should go around with a baton."

[mrglam]

"...I just had this hilarious mental image of her going around batting people into the past."

[thinkering]

"Kind of cartoonish."

[mrglam]

"If it's contact and no range, though, she could use something like a grappling hook of sorts, or something smaller, even, a thin chain she shoots from her hand to touch someone."

[thinkering]

"Oooh, I could totally add those to the suit, we should power test this before I get too deep into building it."

[mrglam]

"She'd be much more literally unbeatable if she could get an actual range."

[thinkering]

Nod nod. "Bot, email her."

The helmet chirps.

[peterxy]

The reply comes pretty quickly:

How do I test that?

[thinkering]

The bot can field this one. Wear a bunch of layers of gloves, and if you can't get enough gloves to make it not work try tapping stuff with sticks of greater lengths. And are you sure you have to actually touch things to rewind them?

[peterxy]

I'll try that when I have some time, and I just tested, yes to the second question.

[thinkering]

If it turns out you can tap things with other things it'll affect suit design!

[peterxy]

How?