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]

And this time she winds up hovering about a foot off the ground.

[peterxy]

"Woo! This is awesome!" She tries leaning forward.

[thinkering]

The bot understands that! It propels her forward at a nice sedate inside-Lorica's-workshop pace.

[peterxy]

"Eeeeee!" she says, trying to turn around and go the other way.

[thinkering]

She swivels in the air and goes the other way, veering slightly anywhere she turns her head towards or looks at for more than a moment.

[peterxy]

Her movements are a bit more expansive than that, using her whole body to turn, and doing so in a zigzagging fashion akin to the way she moves on the field.

[thinkering]

The bot picks up on this after some practice.

[peterxy]

"I'm gonna need to play with this, with like, dummies or something. Oh I bet I can get Glam to make me pretend villains to swat!"

[thinkering]

"I bet they'd be delighted." (Glam's shoulderbot relays this idea and admonishes them to be gentle with the suit and Rewind.)

[mxglam]

Glam promises they'll be nice.

[thinkering]

Good.

[peterxy]

"What now, then? Do I gotta give you the suit and only take it when I use it or do I take it with me or what?"

[thinkering]

"I'm still making finishing touches but you can practice with it whenever I'm not doing that. Your shoulderbot can let you know."

[peterxy]

"Oh, okay. Do you know when it'll be, like, totally complete?"

[thinkering]

"It'll be ready to go out with you when you are, but I'll need to maintain it. Tune-up every two weeks if nothing hits you that you don't rewind away, and after it takes lasting damage."

[peterxy]

"Alright," she says, and starts taking off her armor.

[thinkering]

"And that's less often than I have to fiddle with mine or Dad's because yours is going to spend less time in active use and experiencing the ongoing passage of time."

[peterxy]

"Well I don't rewind that often," she says, a touch defensively.

[thinkering]

"You do in combat, which is when it'd be under the most materials stress. I'll need it back more often if you're planning to just walk around in it all the time like I do."

[peterxy]

She ponders as she finishes taking the suit off. "Mmmmmmaybe, flying's cool, and it'd help your bot know more about me, yeah?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah. So I'll need it back once a week or so."

[peterxy]

"Okay, cool, I can deal with that, six out of seven days in a suit is better than no days at all."

[thinkering]

"I'm glad you like it."

[peterxy]

"Are you kidding me I can fly and shoot stuff out of my hands to tag people and there's a HUD it's awesome of course I like it!"

[thinkering]

Giggle.