[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
Even if it is a harmless crime having our first public interaction as Progeny be criminal in nature doesn't set the best tone for future events. Meanwhile a montage of Progeny being awesome sets a good tone, accomplishes our mission, and gets people wondering just how we translated memories into video.
[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
Even if it is a harmless crime having our first public interaction as Progeny be criminal in nature doesn't set the best tone for future events. Meanwhile a montage of Progeny being awesome sets a good tone, accomplishes our mission, and gets people wondering just how we translated memories into video.
Not sure i agree.
Actually, pretty sure that i disagree.
Harmless and/or humorous crime that is done for "a good cause" seems like a great tone to set.
[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
Actually, does Upgrade have the footage of the simulations from Representative? Imagine the reactions if we showed the "what if I made Kitsune possess Fornax" scenario with a helpful commentary that it's from a CBCC precognitive...
Actually, does Upgrade have the footage of the simulations from Representative? Imagine the reactions if we showed the "what if I made Kitsune possess Fornax" scenario with a helpful commentary that it's from a CBCC precognitive.
Not sure i agree.
Actually, pretty sure that i disagree.
Harmless and/or humorous crime that is done for "a good cause" seems like a great tone to set.
If it were just informational, that would be fine. But adding a link to our MewTube account turns it into "hacking for fame". It's a fine line I don't want to cross as Progeny. But if it was an "evil" ident? Go ahead.
[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
-[X] Create a press kit and send it to the Media.
I don't think that's a good idea, personally. Progeny are magical girls, and being too professional on such matters goes against typical tropes - which the narrative may compensate for by shoving situations at us that we are totally unprepared for.
I'd rather not lock us out of the more light-hearted plot threads that are a staple for most MGs.
[X] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[X] Just do a short teaser using part of your rampage time.
This feels like the right approach to me; vandalizing news sites is for villain identities, and I'd rather go with just the short teaser for content. Step one: get people clamoring for more. (Step two through whatever: yet to be determined.)
- Used Record to try and duplicate our own and our previous movements (perfectly)?
- Use Analysis on devices, and again on Builder or Enchanter or etc devices.
- Once again on programmed code.
- Try Upgrade by creating .txt or .doc files, declare them to be notes on an organization, and upgrade them (These files would be better with more data on said organizations). Fill them up with basic data optionally beforehand.
- Use Comprehend on large mobs or viewers to hypergrade the power.
- Browers are meant to help access data. A better browser can access data from anywhere. Ultimate internet access!
If it were just informational, that would be fine. But adding a link to our MewTube account turns it into "hacking for fame". It's a fine line I don't want to cross as Progeny. But if it was an "evil" ident? Go ahead.
Harmless, as in, causing no harm.
Even if we do it for personal gain, but cause no harm, it remains harmless.
Also, don't add mewtube link.
Just make sure to leave enough information for people to e able to track the mewtube acount.
In case it isn't obvious by now, I expect I'll only really be able to update quests on the weekends until the semester ends. I have a difficult class schedule this semester, although I am slowly adapting to the increased load.
I also felt as though this chapter was a bit wooden, so I'd appreciate it if I could get some feedback on that.
You're not sure how to go about presenting something as important as the memory reformatter to your mother. You're pretty sure you'll break all her masks by giving her such a massive sign you cared about her even while caught in greed's rigid grip. The fact that Upgrade's primary motivation was to keep you from spending months on it later would be pretty much irrelevant and not something you can communicate without sending the wrong message. You would've done it even had you been in control. Still, that doesn't mean you want to see your mother crying even if they would be tears of joy. Your instincts are primed toward suppressing sources of sadness at their sources. Opposing a source of happiness would be actively counterproductive.
Celes, bless her heart, is the one to think of a good way around that awkward meeting: casually leaving the reformatter and a note behind when you enter Mother's workshop to invite Skye to your video-planning session. You'd normally hesitate to interrupt something Skye enjoys to propose something she's unsure about, but Mom would be incapacitated for a few hours anyway. Skye might as well join you.
You consider using Overdrive to make sure the message "self-destructs" once she's done with it, but manage to convince Celes that destroying the attached usage instructions would be a Bad Idea. Left unspoken is the idea that Mom might want to keep the letter for sentimental purposes.
Dear Mother,
We decided to create and improve a memory reformatter for you while we were over at CBCC's NYC branch. We were going to do it either way, but Upgrade went and made the nearly-done version as her very first action after temporarily assuming control of Evelyn's vessel. We collaboratively improved it a little bit afterward so it wouldn't disintegrate after use. Usage instructions are included below.
1: Clear an eight-hour timeslot from your schedule. The reformatter will work fastest while the moon isn't visible, so we honestly advise starting once you finish reading this.
2: Go somewhere you can comfortably sleep for that period of time and make yourself comfortable. Do not set up equipment to monitor your brain, the crystals, or your vitals. Getting Dad to watch you is acceptable, although Celes reserves the right to make stalker jokes at his expense. Automatic defenses linked to your vitals should be fine as long as their intention is to guard instead of to monitor.
3: Lick moon-diamond.
4: Fall unconscious. Expect hallucinations and don't worry if some of them are lucid. We apologize in advance for any apparent trials or tests of character; the diamond should work just fine despite those.
5: Awaken with the newfound knowledge that death wouldn't make you lose any important memories.
Love, Your Daughters
Picking out interesting memories proves to be more difficult than expected. Sure, Upgrade's whimsical control period looks great, but most of the rest of it readily makes the jump to downright creepy. With Collaborate's help, you and your then-siblings weren't three separate entities working on one project. You were one consensus that happened to be controlling multiple bodies. Each of you would wordlessly move to offer a tool or part right before one of your siblings would require it and they would meet you halfway without looking. Skye actually ended up doing the least hands-on work; most of her time was spent spamming upgrades on common components.
"Should we just play into it?" Celes asks eventually. "I mean, hyper coordination isn't exactly something people can counter easily. People are primed to think of individuals as individuals."
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"It's also not an actual power outside Builder projects," you point out. "Construction worked since we all had the same blueprints to work off and could just optimize those tasks. Combat shouldn't provide anywhere near the same level of puppeting; it changes too quickly. We'll have a bit of a boost to our physical attributes, but nothing like what we had back there."
"That's actually a popular slang term for people like us," Celes notes. "'Puppets,' I mean. If it's remote-controlled and gives enough sensory feedback, it counts as a puppet. Hoooonestly wouldn't be surprised if the CBCC already figured out that part; they're supposed to have a ton of high-end Minds to work with. So, yeah, hinting that we might actually be the puppets of an otherworldly being shouldn't hurt anything."
"Is it truly safe to assume they know about us? Even we didn't even know we were puppets until a few days ago. We don't have any problems with latency or sensory feedback."
You actually agree with her, but disagreement is the mother of justification. If people need to explain themselves to someone else? It often gives them time to realize what points are utterly stupid and need to be revised.
"They'd be idiots not to use their Minds to scan the provocatively named team who just took out a PS-class threa–wait, why does nobody ever abbreviate it as PSCT? Whatever. Doing that now. But yeah, I bet at least some of their Minds could notice how our souls aren't actually all here or whatever."
"Isn't there something about Mirror Twins and other artificial people also having irregular souls? They might just think that Progenitor wanted to skip the usual biological steps involved in child creation."
Celes exhales through her nose and reluctantly nods.
"Maybe, yeah. I still don't think it's a good idea to underestimate them."
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"Why not? It doesn't really matter what they think as long as they don't try to conscript us or leak the information. I'm betting we can just overpower any of the stuff that'd usually be used to cut off Puppet-bodies anyway; I can't see Mother leaving that huge of a gaping hole in our defenses. We are still part human. We just happen to be part something else as well."
"It would be far easier to nonlethally incapacitate these bodies than it would to break our links to them," Skye half-agrees. "Our consciousnesses aren't merely linked to our planetary bodies. They are part of our planetary bodies in the same way that a human hand is part of the human body. Enemies can't break that link without first drawing the attention — and likely wrath — of our father."
"Nice job with the emphasis! You're getting better with tones of voice. Anyway, I think maybe we should leave the uncanny decision up to Skye? Caelum is going to be her primary identity. If she wouldn't want people looking at her funny, then we should probably skip the blatantly uncanny bits."
"People are going to 'look at me funny' either way," Skye replies calmly. "Anam—amon—anomalous behavior would be less noteworthy if three apparent siblings display it than if only one of them does. Cross-individual recurring behavior isn't a sign of a mental oddity, but of an odd upbringing. As such, I do not mind if we include any dubious footage."
Skye pauses for little more than a moment.
"Fortunately, I am confident I will not be alone in such a designation even should we avoid publishing 'uncanny' portions. Your primary exposure to humans outside your family seems to have come from the Internet and fictional entertainment media. Eccentricities are inevitable."
"Making us act as extra emotional armor?" Celes teases.
"Essentially, yes."
"…Okay, I was just trying to tease you there, but fair enough."
Over the next several hours, you collectively draw up an outline for the video's schedule. You'd originally intended to just focus on the workshop time, but a short snip of Stop Winding Around My Ankles You Stupid Cat! transforming into his comically evil version almost makes it in. 'Almost' because Skye points out the potential implications of including it in a video otherwise devoted to creation. The last thing you want is for people to think you manufactured the Prism incident for fame and profit.
Celes's point of view is selected for most of Upgrade's pseudo-rampage. Your own gave too many details about what things she created during it. Fortunately, with the mandatory distortion effect induced by such a massive overcharge, Celes could only make out indistinct blurs within its area of effect. Most of the remaining two-thirds of the video focus on cherry-picked portions of Progeny's various projects. Each scene was selected to display projects that weren't even halfway finished yet. The last thing you want is for curious Builders to guess the functionality of objects based on what they looked like prior to completion.
Five hours of review and debate produce only five minutes of footage, but it's a satisfying five minutes. Less satisfying is the way you're outvoted on the video description: Feeling happy — Might smite villains later, idk. Skye abstained as usual, but Celes and Upgrade both voted in favor.
Et tu, Upgrade?
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Seven minutes after the upload of Progeny's Publicly Premiered Projects, the first few comments start popping up — most of them variants on "this looks real, but I'm untrained and want someone else to do the work of verifying its legitimacy" — and present you with an unexpected problem. Specifically, you don't actually have any long-term plan for public relations. Many Capes take a hands-off approach to public statements, but given how both Upgrade and Celes seem to be staring at the comments for longer than it takes to merely read them? You don't think that will be entirely viable. Unless you give them an actual plan to work with, your siblings will probably start a flame war against ignorant idiots within the hour.
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...Or possibly just a flame war in general.
What's your stance on Internet interactions?
[] Active: Progeny's account will regularly reply to comments until you all get bored of doing so.
-[] Helpful: You don't need to run circles around people when they're just genuinely curious. Avoid revealing anything you haven't already told the CBCC, but within those boundaries is fair game.
-[] Teasing: All information is fair game, but people will have to slog through extremely cryptic comments if they want to make sense of any of it. Upgrade's emoticons probably won't help any.
[] Hybrid: Progeny's members will have their own accounts to play with while the Progeny MewTube account will be used for official statements. Individual comments won't be favored by MewTube and will thus have a higher chance of fading into obscurity, but Celes's sh*tposting habit might make that into a good thing.
-[] Helpful: You don't need to run circles around people when they're just genuinely curious. Avoid revealing anything you haven't already told the CBCC, but within those boundaries is fair game.
-[] Teasing: All information is fair game, but people will have to slog through extremely cryptic comments if they want to make sense of any of it. Upgrade's emoticons probably won't help any.
[] Detached: Progeny's members will interact with the public as though they were part of it. Progeny won't have an official online presence beyond just uploading videos.
[] Write-in
QM's Note: This vote is more for fluff and occasional interactions than any sort of important benefits, so I won't be doing a vote moratorium this time.
[X] Hybrid: Progeny's members will have their own accounts to play with while the Progeny MewTube account will be used for official statements. Individual comments won't be favored by MewTube and will thus have a higher chance of fading into obscurity, but Celes's sh*tposting habit might make that into a good thing.
-[X] Helpful: You don't need to run circles around people when they're just genuinely curious. Avoid revealing anything you haven't already told the CBCC, but within those boundaries is fair game.
[X] Hybrid: Progeny's members will have their own accounts to play with while the Progeny MewTube account will be used for official statements. Individual comments won't be favored by MewTube and will thus have a higher chance of fading into obscurity, but Celes's sh*tposting habit might make that into a good thing.
-[X] Teasing: All information is fair game, but people will have to slog through extremely cryptic comments if they want to make sense of any of it. Upgrade's emoticons probably won't help any.
[X] Hybrid: Progeny's members will have their own accounts to play with while the Progeny MewTube account will be used for official statements. Individual comments won't be favored by MewTube and will thus have a higher chance of fading into obscurity, but Celes's sh*tposting habit might make that into a good thing.
-[X] Teasing: All information is fair game, but people will have to slog through extremely cryptic comments if they want to make sense of any of it. Upgrade's emoticons probably won't help any.
— Might smite villains later, idk. Skye abstained as usual, but Celes and Upgrade both voted in favor.
