Chapter 5 is up and ready to kick your... Talmi

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Oh, yes.

On the other hand, note that Gangrel started itself up from Corpse Mode back into full life mode by, uh, itself. Or herself, if you want to anthropomorphise a computer; personally I find they hate that...

This implies that in CM, information networks are shut down, but there's still some monitoring of the local situation, for some unknown trigger. And when out of CM, sufficient computational power to locate and connect to power supplies if necessary; note that she's chosen to charge herself back up - even a standing program to check for power if battery level is below x and then charge self is going to use a little power; depending on how the power is tapped, that could well take a bit of juice to locate, too.

That's more than your pager ever did. And phones talk back to the network; this is why even when they're asleep, they have worse battery life than pagers, which just listen, mostly. I think.

From what I can see, Gangrel is behaving more like a laptop - and a highly sophisticated, adaptable, and user-friendly one at that - than a phone. Not that the difference hasn't been getting less of late, but there are degrees of change in what Gangrel is doing - and the other two, for that matter - that we aren't anywhere near building. Take, for example, the conversation between the other two PDAs; the content implies that they're aware of things that their owners aren't, and filter the information as needed; decision trees like that are serious horsepower, and (going back to the original point) suck juice like nothing on earth; people are surprisingly parallel, and doing that sort of thing in hardware is Not Easy.


Lots of interesting things going on, though, and I agree - in a couple centuries, battery life will have improved enough to scare the bejesus out of your average 20thC tech. Picture a battery the size of an AA that can power the east coast of the states for a week...

[stiletto]

I had a watch that lasted for 7 years without changing the battery!

And considering she was quiet all that time, most of her systems were probably shut down, and then reactivated in some sort of emergency fashion as her battery was reaching critical levels. That or she got bored. There must have been a high degree of shut down, since she didn't hear people talking all that time, even at the end when she started shouting.

[Reese Tora]

I had a watch that lasted for 7 years without changing the battery!

And considering she was quiet all that time, most of her systems were probably shut down, and then reactivated in some sort of emergency fashion as her battery was reaching critical levels. That or she got bored. There must have been a high degree of shut down, since she didn't hear people talking all that time, even at the end when she started shouting.

I usually get the fairly cheap casio watches, the watch gets lost or falls apart before the battery dies.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I had a watch that lasted for 7 years without changing the battery!

This may come as a surprise, but a watch uses rather less battery than a PDA. ;-]

And considering she was quiet all that time, most of her systems were probably shut down, and then reactivated in some sort of emergency fashion as her battery was reaching critical levels. That or she got bored. There must have been a high degree of shut down, since she didn't hear people talking all that time, even at the end when she started shouting.

Yes. My point was, she still had to have something turned on to trigger the restart - even if just a battery monitor.

[Reese Tora]

I had a watch that lasted for 7 years without changing the battery!

This may come as a surprise, but a watch uses rather less battery than a PDA. ;-]

Unless it's one of those multifunction watches that practically IS a PDA.

[MT Hazard]

Not sure I'm in the right place but still....


In comic 91 Gangrel the little green android seems to about the size of a large doll but she fitted inside a fairly small pouch, is she collapsible or shrink to fit or something?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I think the "pretty green girl" is a hologram.

The actual unit behind it all is fairly dinky, or so I gather; sort of like a closed phone. Jig might be able to enlighten further.

[Jigsaw Forte]

I'm gonna stick with the rationale of the "extradimensional pocket" Jigsaw has. I'll try to leave room to explain it a little better in-comic later, but the whole explanation goes side by side with explaining "vlinking". (Spoiler - the "V" is for "Vector")

As for the actual size, Gangrel is approximately 1' from head to toe, which only makes her "slightly" larger than a Beanie Baby in practice (and about as stuffed as one as well, since she needs the flexibility to move her joints) -- small enough to fit in plenty of places anyway, in other words. (The measurements are a rough approximation of where her head would come up to if I had a real-life model sitting on my shoulder.)

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... one foot, or one inch?

[Brunhidden]

the answer is the litrium battery- its kind of slightly radioactive in a safe and controled way, the degrading of the litrium inside produces electrical power directly. the battery generates a steady and constant flow of electricity, needing no recharge, but has a half life of ten years- thus every ten years you loose half your power, but then its probably best to get a battery that originally supplies 3-5 times your power needs and say the battery has a 30 year life

[Jigsaw Forte]

... one foot, or one inch?

A foot.

An inch is 1" (easy way to remember: count the syllables)

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... one foot, or one inch?

A foot.

An inch is 1" (easy way to remember: count the syllables)

Just checking it wasn't a typo, is all.

... both "a foot" and "an inch" have two syllables, though. And "single quote" and "double quote" also have identical syllables (3)... how does that help?

[Jigsaw Forte]

... one foot, or one inch?

A foot.

An inch is 1" (easy way to remember: count the syllables)

Just checking it wasn't a typo, is all.

... both "a foot" and "an inch" have two syllables, though. And "single quote" and "double quote" also have identical syllables (3)... how does that help?

' = foot (one syllable : Foot)
" = inch-es (two syllables: Inch and es)

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Yeah, but "foot" is singular; "inches" is plural. You're mixing terms. ;-]

[Jigsaw Forte]

Yeah, but "foot" is singular; "inches" is plural. You're mixing terms. ;-]

FEET and inches. Happy now? 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

FEET and inches. Happy now? 

Oh, yes, but for totally other reasons... ;-]

[Madmann135]

to be in the 12 inches tall area and have that much processing power nand movement capabilites those things might be bigger on the inside (vector manipulation).
That being the case it would be easier to replace the batteries with a fusion cell that has a minimum active life of 20 years.  No need to recharge or replace batteries but it would probably not be economically fiesable.

[Brunhidden]

most likely it has a normal battery which is recharged just like ours today in addition to a very tiny reactor cell or litrium battery- mostly to slow down how fast the battery is used, or if turned completely off slowly recharge it.


i really like the idea of it being plush, makes it a lot more of an item you would like to have, or give to your kids.

[stiletto]

Message from Jigsaw:

[23:51] cainenabler: *pokes forum*

WOOP! You have a call.

Oh, and by the look of Jigsaw in the first panel, she's smoking it up. And then a beautiful shot right down her mouth! *giggle*

[Madmann135]

I like how Jigsaw said "...When I shrugged off being tossed through a brick Wall," how many people can say that?
Considering Jigsaw's luck so far I say it was a good thing that vampire decided to help himself with her because she needs all the help she can get.

I wanna see Diamond-Saw in action.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I like Gangrel. "When you debrief me, please omit why Daisy is chained up in bed, okay?" ;-]

[Madmann135]

and I am now reminded why it is said "never work with family, children and animals."
Their spat is very informative and funny.

[Brunhidden]

i suddenly take great amusement at gangrel throwing up its arms and going 'whoop'

[Pagan]

I just reread the page and I have now found that Gangrel's last line could be (probably is) increadibly pervy. The only thing I'm shocked about is how I did not notice it early. Or the first time.

[Whitefangedwolf]

Page 94 has me thinking...
I wonder why Cypress has her hair done like that if she doesn't like it that way?
Did she think she was interrupting "hot Talmi on Human action" with her call?
Who exactly is she calling Andromeda?
Is it bad that I think Cypress's hair in this page is awesome?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I can answer question 3. Team Andromeda, ie, Jig and Daisy.

Other than that... yeah, her hair is pretty sucky, IMHO. So I'm guessing we're gonna have to agree to disagree. ;-]

[Whitefangedwolf]

I can answer question 3. Team Andromeda, ie, Jig and Daisy.

D'oh! I should have remembered that!
I guess it's time to go reread the archives again.

[Jigsaw Forte]

I can answer question 3. Team Andromeda, ie, Jig and Daisy.

D'oh! I should have remembered that!
I guess it's time to go reread the archives again.

That sounds like a clue to go do more to the cast pages... or maybe just provide a synopsis page of sorts.

[Sunblink]

That sounds like a clue to go do more to the cast pages... or maybe just provide a synopsis page of sorts.

I like what you did with the current cast pages, so I think it'd be really awesome to see more of them.

~Keaton the Black Jackal

[Madmann135]

That sounds like a clue to go do more to the cast pages... or maybe just provide a synopsis page of sorts.

My vote is that you add onto the info on the cast pages and add more charactor info so that we can see/read more information on who's who and what they did.

not to mention put a spoiler warning so that people like me will read the cast pages first, even if there is no spoilers.