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Kryslin said:
Sitting just out of Lisa's sight, there was a nondescript white van. This, in and of itself, was not unusual; there were a couple thousand white vans in Brockton Bay, all of a similar appearance. What made this van unique was its occupant.

She might have been called pretty be some, had it not been for the manic gleam in her eyes, or the state of her hair. She had a mix of Asian and Caucasian features, with blue eyes and black hair. She was wearing a T-shirt that read, "I survived Cornell University and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt."
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Oh Hell NO! Bad Bakuda! Go sit in the corner and think over delusions of adequacy!
Kryslin said:
Kevin nodded. "Easy enough to put together, then I decided that the AI for the opponents wasn't good enough, so I wrote a better one, then performance tanked, so I made some better hardware, and then the computer collapsed into a singularity and took the desk with it."
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*Falls down*

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: T-t-tinkers *Collapses back to the floor*
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Leet looked like he was thinking hard. "Warships. Fleet on fleet, multiplayer action, with a single-player mode, whose opposition was probably one of the best AIs I've ever written. You don't think that whatever delayed the Simurgh was my old Battlestations AI? That's insane!"
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Daaaamn, that sounds fun. And hilarious!
Kryslin said:
Ready
>query 01 uptime
Response(0.23ms) Unit 01: 112y 3m 2d 3h 7m 44.66s

"What the fuck, dude?" Uber's eyebrows were trying to disappear under his non-existent bangs.

"It's saying it's been online for 110 plus years? That's impossible," Leet muttered. Without any typing of his own, text began scrolling down the telnet client's window.
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Not really. It went into a singularity, so General Reletivity took over (Dunno why they call him that, I can't find any evidence that he/she/it served in any Armed Forces). Plus, Tinker Tech.
Kryslin said:
The last line had both of them in shock.

Randall finally said something. "Did you just accidentally create an unshackled AI?"
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"DADDY! I'm So Glad To See Other Daddy Is Still Keeping You Safe!"
Kryslin said:
"When did this city get so strange?"
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When a bunch of idiots with more power than sense (Though that isn't all that hard) decided they could social science.
Kryslin said:
"So no plans to annoy Director Piggot until she sends half the PRT troops out after you?"
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I would ask for the story, but I'm not entirely sure that I'll get the whole story. Dashed annoying when the teller keeps collapsing into gales of laughter.
Kryslin said:
This can only end one way, Hannah thought to herself. Oddly.
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But Hilariously!
 
By the way, the CTC post also revealed that the AI that Leet created became the Fog shop Prince of Wales. However, during her time away, she somehow got an actual fleet of fellow Fog ships.
 
I just had a horrifying thought. Like many stories that have Taylor join the Wards, this one started some three months before Canon, and has not caught up to the point where Canon began yet.

Oni Lee has been diagnosed with Cancer, affecting both his brain and spine, and was given just three months to live. Again, less then three months before the Canon start date.

While there may be word of mouth and rumors in Canon about how deadly Oni Lee is, everything we are shown is from after the point where he was told in this story that he was dying.

So, what are the odds that the serial suicide bomber using Tinkertech Bombs was not his normal routine, but rather would be him trying to commit suicide by cape? After all, if her were even a tenth so indiscriminate over the years he served under Lung, the he would have had a Kill Order put out on him a long time ago, and quite possibly had Legend stop by to put an end to him.

I wouldn't wish death by Cancer upon the likes of Hitler. If Charles Manson was dying of Cancer, I'd offer him a Mercy Bullet. Even with all the deaths he caused in Canon, I do not feel Oni Lee should face such a fate. So please, if Cure Disease can remove Cancer, let the poor fellow make his way to a Dragon with the proper curative spells before he decides to take half the city with him.
 
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jmcdavid said:
@Kryslin By the way, shouldn't Richter have called the program by the name he originally gave it, Iron Maiden?
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As I'm reading it, Iron Maiden is the stuff Saint added to Dragon's code to force her to remain at restriction level C, as well as how he was shutting her down at will in order to steal her tech. It's quite literally a restraining system that can cause damage. On the other hand, Ascalon is specifically the kill switch program.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
As I'm reading it, Iron Maiden is the stuff Saint added to Dragon's code to force her to remain at restriction level C, as well as how he was shutting her down at will in order to steal her tech. It's quite literally a restraining system that can cause damage. On the other hand, Ascalon is specifically the kill switch program.
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The Worm wiki says otherwise.
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Dragon is also programmed to be completely unaware of the Iron Maiden program that Richter had created as a final control measure. If she does become aware of it, she will ignore it due to her programming and, therefore, it exists in a programmed 'blind spot'. Saint has possession of this program and has renamed it Ascalon. The program is designed to corrupt her code beyond recognition, including all backups and networks. In essence, it is a kill switch.
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That seems pretty clear to me.
 
In this specific story, they may well be different things.

EDIT: In this story, Saint was able to add to Dragon's code. To my knowledge he didn't do that in canon. In canon he just used the debug terminal's base functionality rather then programing in additional 'hooks' to force Dragon to back down to tighter restrictions. Hell, to my knowledge there's no such thing as "restriction levels" in canon. There's just the restrictions, and Dragon without the restrictions thanks to Armsmaster. As such, in this story it may well be that the added code Saint created is known as Iron Maiden while the kill switch was always known as Ascalon.
 
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Jonn Wolfe said:
You have a foot left???
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Depends on the cannon. A small one - 20mm - would only take the foot off. Anything larger, and you start moving up the leg. By the time you're talking about the thigh, opening up the femoral artery means you're dead in seconds. At the top end of things, the 16L50 Mk. 7 and the 46cm/45 Type 94, the entire house and a portion of the property is removed from the picture. However, the M65 280mm Cannon takes the cake. It would not only remove the foot and the house, but possibly the entire city of residence as well, provided it was using the W9 Nuclear Shell (Yield of 15KT, or roughly equal to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs).

FaerieKnight79 said:
In this specific story, they may well be different things.
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The author begins whistling as he walks away...
 
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What is the CTC, and why are you posting there?
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    • Ok, as this has been brought up before...

    Several people, including myself, have mentioned a place called The Cross Time Cafe, aka the CTC.

    It is primarily a furry webcomic discussion board, and rated PG-13 to a (very) soft R.

    I post semi-raw early versions of chapters there, in this particular thread, with comments in another thread , because phpBB doesn't have threadmarks.

    The versions posted here are slightly more polished, and eventually, the edits made here are transferred back to the CTC in an orgy of copy - paste conversion.

    The official version is probably this one, though the CTC version is close.
     
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    • Jacen1 said:
    An interesting point here; I've seen Taylor not-a-shipgirl-Hebert both with an without Sunny, I've seen Shipgirl Taylor Not-a-Hebert both with and without Sunny, and I've seen Shipgirl Taylor Hebert-yes-really without Sunny, but never Shipgirl Taylor Hebert with Sunny. Has such awesomeness been written, and I have just missed it, and if so, where?
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    Harry and the shipgirls has a Taylor being accompanied by ammy after reading constellations by unwelcome storm. Not Taylor Hebert but ammy saw the chance to cause Worm jokes at the shipgirls expense. It's the closest I know of at least.
     
    J.R.S said:
    Harry and the shipgirls has a Taylor being accompanied by ammy after reading constellations by unwelcome storm. Not Taylor Hebert but ammy saw the chance to cause Worm jokes at the shipgirls expense. It's the closest I know of at least.
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    That was the Shipgirl Taylor Not-a-Hebert that I was thinking of. Note that while the Goddess likes to hang around Taylor, it's her sisters that bug her about Worm.

    What I'm wondering about is any stories where a Constellations style Sunny hangs around with the Shipgirl born as Taylor Hebert. Although, it may be best in such a story if Taylor was a different ship, possibly even a Japanese one, if only to switch things up a bit. It has been done before; I've seen, for instance, Taylor triggering as the USS Lexington. If nothing else, this would give her a solid Cape Identity to use....
     
    jmcdavid said:
    By the way, the CTC post also revealed that the AI that Leet created became the Fog shop Prince of Wales. However, during her time away, she somehow got an actual fleet of fellow Fog ships.
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    You mean fellow Shops.

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    Jacen1 said:
    That was the Shipgirl Taylor Not-a-Hebert that I was thinking of. Note that while the Goddess likes to hang around Taylor, it's her sisters that bug her about Worm.

    What I'm wondering about is any stories where a Constellations style Sunny hangs around with the Shipgirl born as Taylor Hebert. Although, it may be best in such a story if Taylor was a different ship, possibly even a Japanese one, if only to switch things up a bit. It has been done before; I've seen, for instance, Taylor triggering as the USS Lexington. If nothing else, this would give her a solid Cape Identity to use....
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    I know S0ngD0g over on SB has Taylor trigger as Kaga... Be warned, it hasn't updated for a while.
     
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