Right. While I evidently didn't succeed I was trying to sell people on a longer-term project that while it would do something, needed more time and care to really be properly effective. A character piece, a tinkertech The Old Man And The Sea story where the struggle to succeed and overcome would be all the more satisfying because of the payoff. Hence the constant references to blue skies.
Ah well. Differences in aesthetics maybe, it happens.
Fundamentally, and this is pretty much the root of my issue with the plan, I have serious doubts about the Person minion's ability to beat people up in alleyways. The original entry says nothing about beyond-human physical attributes, a later QM comment referred to it only as "our physical ideal" or something like that, and nowhere is it bulletproof or bullet-resistant. It's some dude, with a monkey's intelligence but not a monkey's physical abilities.
Discretion is the better part of valor, I definitely agree with that.
But a Komodo would win a fight, and it could do a dandy job of intimidation as well.
Our financial prospects are very dim at the moment, we have all of three figures in the bank and a minimum-wage job. Tinkering's going to be plenty expensive as it is, I don't think we're going to have the money to equip a Person-type minion, not without sending it out to try and rob something without the equipment the robbery will pay for. Without a weapon or protective gear it's a very fit very dim person in our spare clothes fighting like, whatever this monkey-brained thing would fight like. That's a recipe for it getting curbstomped by half a dozen strung-out Merchants, let alone a serious combatant.
To be fair she also made a habit of fighting with swarms of wasps/hornets, venomous spiders, and far too many roaches. Not to mention the fact that she made a costume out of black spidersilk and carapace and called herself "skitter" without realizing the impression that would make.
