2023/07/24 [Xer Chapter 12]

[Starcat5]

12-01 - Xerian has an unexpected visitor

You actually can dig your way out of a hole. You just have to pick a side and start carving out a ramp going up. These guys... aren't doing that. They are aiming for bedrock, and they aren't going to stop.

[ProfesseurRenard]

How many picks do you think they'll break before Leavy and company come to break down the door?

[Liatai]

How many picks do you think they'll break before Leavy and company come to break down the door?

Depends on if they grabbed Niall or R. Niall*, really. Original flavor Niall has wing tentacles, so the picks don't need to come out. R. Niall is a different story.


* see Tuppeny Man side story

[ProfesseurRenard]

How many picks do you think they'll break before Leavy and company come to break down the door?

Depends on if they grabbed Niall or R. Niall*, really. Original flavor Niall has wing tentacles, so the picks don't need to come out. R. Niall is a different story.


* see Tuppeny Man side story

Starcat and I can assure you, the picks are already out. And I have read both Tupenny Man and the original Xerian story. I'm quite familiar with R. Niall.

[Starcat5]

How many picks do you think they'll break before Leavy and company come to break down the door?

Depends on if they grabbed Niall or R. Niall*, really. Original flavor Niall has wing tentacles, so the picks don't need to come out. R. Niall is a different story.


* see Tuppeny Man side story

Starcat and I can assure you, the picks are already out. And I have read both Tupenny Man and the original Xerian story. I'm quite familiar with R. Niall.

To be fair to both of you, it is far easier to open a lock with a Pickaxe than it is to dig with a Lock Pick. 

[Liatai]

Ah! I didn't read the original Xerian story, so I was just leaving a footnote for anyone coming by who hadn't read all the sidestories, too.

[ProfesseurRenard]

How many picks do you think they'll break before Leavy and company come to break down the door?

Depends on if they grabbed Niall or R. Niall*, really. Original flavor Niall has wing tentacles, so the picks don't need to come out. R. Niall is a different story.


* see Tuppeny Man side story

Starcat and I can assure you, the picks are already out. And I have read both Tupenny Man and the original Xerian story. I'm quite familiar with R. Niall.

To be fair to both of you, it is far easier to open a lock with a Pickaxe than it is to dig with a Lock Pick. 

   

[Starcat5]

To be fair to both of you, it is far easier to open a lock with a Pickaxe than it is to dig with a Lock Pick. 

   

Yeah, it was becoming clear you were both using different definitions of "Pick". I figured pointing that out via a joke was the best way to keep the thread from derailing.

Ah! I didn't read the original Xerian story, so I was just leaving a footnote for anyone coming by who hadn't read all the sidestories, too.

I didn't read the text version of the story either. Spoilers and all that. But now that it has been brought up, I went looking, and found the sequel instead. I have now been spoiled on part of Xer's future redesign, and will be subconsciously looking out for what causes it. -_(\

[Liatai]

Yeah, it was becoming clear you were both using different definitions of "Pick". I figured pointing that out via a joke was the best way to keep the thread from derailing.

Oh! OH!!! Oh my gosh yeah the other type of pick didn't even OCCUR to me!   I thought we were both talking about lockpicks!

Oh gosh, reading back up now, I get it. Renaud was saying "how many pickaxes are the Lab C captors going to break digging themselves deeper into a hole?" while I read it as "how many lockpicks are Xerian and Niall going to break trying to rescue themselves before the rescue arrives?"

[ProfesseurRenard]

Yeah, it was becoming clear you were both using different definitions of "Pick". I figured pointing that out via a joke was the best way to keep the thread from derailing.

Oh! OH!!! Oh my gosh yeah the other type of pick didn't even OCCUR to me!   I thought we were both talking about lockpicks!

Oh gosh, reading back up now, I get it. Renaud was saying "how many pickaxes are the Lab C captors going to break digging themselves deeper into a hole?" while I read it as "how many lockpicks are Xerian and Niall going to break trying to rescue themselves before the rescue arrives?"

Heh, yeah. I get tripped up on multiple-choice meanings sometimes as well. If it weren't for Starcat's intervention, I can easily see this conversation dissolving into a "Four Candles"-type mess.

[Starcat5]

12-05 - The reckoning is delayed by unforseen circumstances

Wait, didn't I... Oh, now I remember. I was posting a comment via my phone, and was interrupted. The message was never sent. {Censured}!

Anyway, two things. One, you spelled "unforeseen" wrong. Happens to the best of us. Two, and the reason for this post, why in Dog's name was R. Niall shut down by a bog standard Remote? Given his high status, one would think that he'd require a Remote with higher access clearance, or at least a password. That is just proper cyber security!

-_(\

[Tapewolf]

Anyway, two things. One, you spelled "unforeseen" wrong. Happens to the best of us. Two, and the reason for this post, why in Dog's name was R. Niall shut down by a bog standard Remote? Given his high status, one would think that he'd require a Remote with higher access clearance, or at least a password. That is just proper cyber security!

Thanks for spotting the typo!

The problem R. Niall has is that he's got an experimental combat chassis based on the improvements Fendrick made for his plan to take over the world in Project Future.  As we'll see in a bit, having restricted technology means that the Commission has been keeping closer tabs on him than a normal, less dangerous android.  So yes, they did have a valid shutdown certificate for him.

[InhumanInterest]

That does make sense, given the overall effort to operate above the board and how close of an eye the commission has been keeping on them it does make some sense that they wouldn't want to try sneaking a counter to that shut down command on a powerful military model.

Of course that's assuming there's no big twist or secret there and that he wasn't just pretending to shut down. They were using the remote in eyeshot so it's not completely impossible.

[Starcat5]

12-07 - Won't Get Fooled Again
And thus, Xer gained the {Snark} Trait.

[InhumanInterest]

That is the sort of thing learning history results in.

[ProfesseurRenard]

That is the sort of thing learning history results in.

Certainly proves a useful defense mechanism against the sort of idiots who speak falsehoods about the past.

[Starcat5]

12-10 - Furrae probably has 'kidnapped' in the list of absence reasons
And to think that there is a book series that listed Earth as a Deathworld.    Furrae would probably get Blacklisted, complete with Space Cops to make sure no one can get in or out.