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.)

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[thinkering]

"Farthest he ever goes in one hop is thirty miles."

[msglam]

"Is that the farthest he goes from his starting point, or the farthest he can end up from his target?"

[thinkering]

"From his starting point. He can't target per se, at least not with his power. He only gets to pick direction."

[msglam]

"Oh, so he always ends up somewhere along his chosen direction, it's just how far along it that changes?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah. The power picks a safe place, and if there's lots of those it picks a distance too."

[msglam]

"Okay, gotcha, I thought it could vary around the direction, too."

[thinkering]

"Nope."

[msglam]

"By the way, if you're the fake Bella, does the real one get a recap of this conversation? Like, would she be listening in, or getting a summary later, or something?"

[thinkering]

"It wouldn't be fair otherwise, since the bot always listens in on me."

[msglam]

"Okay, good. In that case I think we're done, don't wanna run out of stuff to talk about before the other one comes."

[thinkering]

"Sure." And she leaves.

And knock knock!

[mrglam]

He opens the door. "Hi, love!"

[thinkering]

"I'm not used to you swapping binary genders in the middle of a day," she remarks. She sits down. "Hi."

[mrglam]

He sits down, too. "Today's a nonbinary day. I usually stick to a single gender on those, but I wanted to change up the experimental circumstances."

[thinkering]

"Doesn't that fuck with your independent variable?"

[mrglam]

"Eh, maybe, but I'm pretty sure I already know the answer."

[thinkering]

"Really."

[mrglam]

"Yeah."

[thinkering]

"You want to turn in your results now or sit me here for a while longer keeping me in suspense?"

[mrglam]

"Well, not exactly suspense, but I do want to make sure. There's effectively no body language to pick up on, here, so I have to kind of go with my gut and some small details. Don't wanna guess wrong just because I wasn't patient enough to check."

[thinkering]

"All right."

[mrglam]

"Alright, so, picking up where we left off... I had a thing I wanted to talk about but I can't remember what it was."

[thinkering]

"That'll make it hard to pick up where we left off."

[mrglam]

"Yeah! But now I remembered. Do you know if anyone triggered around the same time and place you did?"

[thinkering]

"If they did they're trapped in London quarantine, Sadde."