I'm here and talking to you, aren't I? But yes, things were fine in that specific case. Destroyer ... isn't necessarily the brightest doll around, even if she'd gone and gotten herself a bunch of physical upgrades...
[ but what's the use of all that armor and firepower when you don't know how to use it. should've focused more on the ai, whoops. ]
I'm just concerned how I'm supposed to compensate them. I promised them a vacation after that, but we just got pulled into more trouble immediately after...
... Like I said. I do try to get them home. They can complain at me all they want about how cruel and sly I am and what I put them through in the meantime.
[ g11: five more minutes... 45: no, get up now. unless you want to nap forever in this field? ]
[ she strikes a bit of a pose, expression briefly going catlike. the design notes from their artist literally mention 9's kittyface specifically as one of the ways of telling them apart, so. ]
We're sisters in as much as dolls can have sisters, I suppose. Though we're still pretty unconventional as it is... You might say she's adopted?
[plus he remembers 45 mentioning sisters before, soooo]
"Adopted" is still family. [and for some reason he sounds firm about this, enough so she might get the feeling that he isn't just talking about her and 9] Can you tell me a little bit about her?
... Hm. We met when she tried to lure me into an alley, tase me, and scrap me to sell me for parts.
She learned a valuable lesson that night about not casually touching electronic warfare dolls. And actually making sure whatever it was she was trying to disable actually being down for the count.
Hmm, electronic warfare dolls are rarer than you'd expect. There's not much in the way of widespread networks left, so it's considered quite a niche specification for a tactical doll ... I was considered quite useless for how it ate up nearly all of my available memory and left no room for anything other than the most basic combat protocols.
[ sometimes, you're 9s, except your designers wanted you to be 2b at the same time. ]
But I'm sure it's not something she'll forget any time soon. In any case, she mostly did that because she was working for a bunch of thugs to scrape out her living in that shitty Yellow Zone city. They'd had her and 17 other dolls infected with a trojan that would make them susceptible to a kill command sent out via the gang's central server if any of them were ever caught disobeying or not making quota.
Someone to talk shop with, is that what you're saying?
[ she hums a little, a lilting note. ]
I'm not certain exactly how much overlap there'll be, considering I'm sure that systems architecture and infrastructure has to have changed over forty years, but if you think so, I suppose it can't hurt.
That or she'd be horrified to learn that a lot of the remaining area networks are ad hoc based off the Zener Network, considering that global infrastructure never quite recovered after the war?
But sure. She can test herself against my neural cloud active barriers. Capture the flag, hacker style.
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:55 pm (UTC)[ but what's the use of all that armor and firepower when you don't know how to use it. should've focused more on the ai, whoops. ]
I'm just concerned how I'm supposed to compensate them. I promised them a vacation after that, but we just got pulled into more trouble immediately after...
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:56 pm (UTC)That's usually how it goes, isn't it? I'm sorry.
But I'm glad you and your unit were okay.
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Date: 2020-06-30 04:06 pm (UTC)[ g11: five more minutes...
45: no, get up now. unless you want to nap forever in this field? ]
But, right. There's really no end to trouble...
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Date: 2020-06-30 07:20 pm (UTC)[a pause]
That girl who said she wished she was as strong as you. . . was that your sister?
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Date: 2020-06-30 07:41 pm (UTC)[ she strikes a bit of a pose, expression briefly going catlike. the design notes from their artist literally mention 9's kittyface specifically as one of the ways of telling them apart, so. ]
We're sisters in as much as dolls can have sisters, I suppose. Though we're still pretty unconventional as it is... You might say she's adopted?
[ an adopted twin, fancy that. ]
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Date: 2020-07-03 05:58 pm (UTC)[plus he remembers 45 mentioning sisters before, soooo]
"Adopted" is still family. [and for some reason he sounds firm about this, enough so she might get the feeling that he isn't just talking about her and 9] Can you tell me a little bit about her?
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Date: 2020-07-03 07:24 pm (UTC)She learned a valuable lesson that night about not casually touching electronic warfare dolls. And actually making sure whatever it was she was trying to disable actually being down for the count.
[ ah, hm. ]
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Date: 2020-07-04 03:39 pm (UTC)Ah. . . I bet she appreciated that lesson, even if she couldn't do so until much later.
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Date: 2020-07-05 01:23 am (UTC)[ sometimes, you're 9s, except your designers wanted you to be 2b at the same time. ]
But I'm sure it's not something she'll forget any time soon. In any case, she mostly did that because she was working for a bunch of thugs to scrape out her living in that shitty Yellow Zone city. They'd had her and 17 other dolls infected with a trojan that would make them susceptible to a kill command sent out via the gang's central server if any of them were ever caught disobeying or not making quota.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:11 pm (UTC)Did you manage to clear out the virus?
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:16 pm (UTC)It was a simple civilian server. I doubt anyone in that gang had ever learned how to build a proper firewall in their lives.
[ even if they did, she'd be able to get around it. ]
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Date: 2020-07-05 10:42 pm (UTC)It sounds so impressive when you say it like that, 45.
[now he's vaguely wondering how 45 and Futaba would get along if they met]
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Date: 2020-07-07 03:23 pm (UTC)It really isn't. Like I've said, I'm built for this kind of thing.
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Date: 2020-07-07 05:43 pm (UTC)I get the feeling you'd get along well with my-- sister.
[yes. his sister]
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Date: 2020-07-08 02:07 am (UTC)[ interesting pause there, akira, but go on ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 11:43 pm (UTC)[he only paused because she isn't his blood sister!!]
She's a pretty skilled hacker in her own right. I bet she'd love to share notes with you.
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Date: 2020-07-09 03:25 am (UTC)[ she hums a little, a lilting note. ]
I'm not certain exactly how much overlap there'll be, considering I'm sure that systems architecture and infrastructure has to have changed over forty years, but if you think so, I suppose it can't hurt.
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-11 05:08 am (UTC)But sure. She can test herself against my neural cloud active barriers. Capture the flag, hacker style.