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

[thinkering]

"They ought to have given us longer."

[mxglam]

They raise an eyebrow. "Longer?"

[thinkering]

"To think of something and write up a presentation. And they should excuse Windflower, because can you imagine Windflower trying to do public speaking, poor thing."

[mxglam]

"Oh, right, I thought you'd meant longer than half an hour. And yeah, poor Windflower. I wonder if we can do something, she doesn't have the most sympathetic of powers, either, this is not going to help her image."

[thinkering]

"The bot can write her something and make her a slideshow if she has a topic, but she'd still have to stand up there and talk."

[mxglam]

"Ooh, can it write me something? I think I can do the showmanship part."

[thinkering]

"What do you want to talk about?"

[mxglam]

"I don't know yet! I was trying to think of a way to instil on them the same sense of wonder comic book enthusiasts had for superheroes before we were real."

[thinkering]

"What do you mean?"

[mxglam]

"Like, before superheroes existed, before Scion, there were comic books and people were pretty crazy about them and super interested in them, a little bit how regular cape geeks are nowadays but not exactly, and- basically, I want to somehow instil some cape geekiness on at least some of those kids."

[thinkering]

"Why?"

[mxglam]

"A few reasons. One, personal PR. Two, hero PR. Cape business is typically seen as this distant background knowledge by most people, bringing some more excitement into it would help. Three, if any of them trigger, they're more likely to join us instead of some gang if they see it as cool and exciting. Four, there are hopelessly few people actually going into cape research, and it's something I'd like to encourage, too."

[thinkering]

"Fair enough. But if you're going for flash and bang the bot's writing style probably won't help."

[mxglam]

"Hmm, yeah, maybe. I mean, I think if I can come up with an actual topic that will achieve my objective and that Branding won't object to I can probably invent the presentation, my power's made for this."

[thinkering]

"It is!"

[mxglam]

"I have this notion of starting it boring and black-on-white and then surprise everyone with 'suddenly interesting.'"

[thinkering]

"You have to manage actual interestingness to pull that off, be warned."

[mxglam]

"Well, yes, obviously, thus my being stumped. It may be that mine is too ambitious a goal to be achieved."

[thinkering]

"Well, come up with a fallback if you aren't visited by the muse of half-hour presentations."

[mxglam]

"There's a muse for half-hour presentations?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe the epic poetry one retrained."

[mxglam]

"Of course. I wonder if I could make a presentation about trigger events, and different types of powers, and conjure copies to demonstrate my points."

[thinkering]

"I guess that would be informative."

[mxglam]

"Not interesting?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe too fact-sheet-y? I don't know exactly how you plan to present it."