Skitterdoc 2077
- Thread starter SpiraSpira
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- Crossover
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Trusted within thoughts.
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- Court of Moon Wizards
One day you will breach the Blackwall with the sheer cognitive capability of a hive mind.
One day a charming and dashing AI will lower itself to your level and fulfill all your romantic dreams. It'll be as if you're living in multitudes of perfect BDs.
Actually if there are poison in powder form in envelope you need "positive" air pressure in room, because negative one will suck powder from envelop and it flies in you face. Also I'd used sealed tank with valdos to open envelop that cry "open me I'm fancy".
Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
- Location
- Blind Eternities
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- He/Him/His
A "corpo" is a person employed by a megacorp. Each corp does maintain its own lower schools, at least through high school, and may or may not run a college program (though you can bet they at least sponsor one). However, these schools are not "exclusive". It is more that they are private schools with reduced or waived tuition for the children of employees, at least past a certain level. David attended the Arasaka Academy, for example. Joe, the guy that fixes the robot arms at factory 2037a isn't going to get that kind of benefit, but his boss, Mike, the manager for all the maintenance staff at the facility might, and Carl, the facility manager, almost definitely does.
I think you mean "Waldos". Waldos are manipulator arms, named after a fictional scientist from a 1940s sci-fi novel, Valdo is also a germanic name, but does not have such a secondary meaning.
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- Terminus
I think a Corpo is a social class here, an educated person raised in a cutthroat environment suitable for management and leadership positions in a modern corporation. Someone who knows the customs of how these Corporations work, how to move in them (socially) and how not to commit a faux pas. I guess the divide between "normal" people and Corpos is great enough that someone would need to be groomed for the role since birth (like NC!Taylor).
AzrielIlluminare
Mothman Cultist
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Honestly if she does keep growing, an AI probably is the one thing she could actually connect with 'romantically'. I put that in quotes because well... high level AI in Cyberpunk are basically eldritch beings, so kinda hard to tell if romance is even on the menu with them, or if it is we likely wouldn't recognize it as romance.
It's slang for Corporate Employee, but it's kind of expanded into slang for anyone connected to a corporation. A Corpo-Kid is the child of a Corpo, an Ex-Corpo is someone who used to work for a Corp, etc.
As mentioned above they do run corporate academies, but universities still exist, but you might be sponsored by a Corp to go to a specific school for a specific field. Like Jefferson Peralez was sponsored by Night Corp to go to law School, because he was considered a potential valuable employee. Specifically he was valued at €$2,700,000 so he ended up with a full-ride through law school.
This is precisely the way I use the term. In short, it is a culture, and it is one that is taught from childhood, mainly.
For corrolaries today, look to the "posh public school" types in the UK, or the upper class in America in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Their culture was so different that they spoke an entirely different, artificially created accent called the "Transatlantic" accent. This was taught in exclusive, mostly boarding schools during this period. (For example, see William F Buckley's accent. It's a quasi combination of British and American accents and was considered upper class.)
The Corpo social class is similar. Somewhat upper class, although with slightly more upward mobility possibility than the upper class of America in the 18th century, as they would let hard working outsiders, and especially their children into it so long as they assimilated. Within a generation or two there would be no distinction between their children and regular Corpos.
In this story though Corpos have more than just an accent, they have almost a totally different language that consists of a layer of platitudes on top, followed by the "secret signals" which might be anything from the intonation, facial expressions or even just historical knowledge and referents that might tend to change the meaning of the words they say, possibly even radically. If all you are hearing is what they're saying, like an outsider, then you are being set up for a big fall.
It's the reason that outsiders consider them untrustworthy (beyond the fact that they often are, anyway), because they can't parse the additional signals that the Corpo sometimes doesn't even realise they are putting out. To them it should just be obvious what they meant, kind of like the Adem culture in the Kingkiller Chronicles who has an entire out-of-band communications channel with their sign-language. To an outsider, that's what a Corpo is like.
Then combine that with a kind of social Darwinism that they have been more or less indoctrinated since childhood.
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- US
So she went from Southern California all the way up to Oregon, and then headed back down to Night City? Why the weird route?
To use a real world analogy: It is easier to get into the US by hopping a freighter in Guatemala and coming down through the Canadian border than going through Mexico
They do a loop around the west coast, smuggling as they went. Taylor didn't pay them enough to take her directly to Night City, just to drop her off when they made their usual stop there.
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Trusted within thoughts.
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- Court of Moon Wizards
Ok, so what was it that Taylor unknowingly communicated with her outdated songs? With the Corpo programmer. Outside of passing the secret corpo handshake.
Not everything has a hidden layer to it, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
That said, it could be taken as a signal that she doesn't subscribe to the corporate-managed and generated "popular culture." The fact that she hummed a song a hundred years old to this guy or mentioned Lord of the Rings before might signal a level of culture she appreciates beyond the ephemeral and artificially created media of today. She's not humming the latest AI-generated earworm, which was generated for broad mass-market appeal, which suggests rarer, unusual or "more real" things appeal to her.
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- Outside of the Omniverse slowly breaking in
That she is very old money even if she herself can't parse out that meaning.
- Location
- zwolle
nice chapter thx for writing it
wonder if taylors store will become neutral ground for the two working girl gangs in night city see got a good reputation
will be interesting to see how taylor will check if the invite is genuine with out leaking to the local gangs she is part of that familie
wonder if taylors store will become neutral ground for the two working girl gangs in night city see got a good reputation
will be interesting to see how taylor will check if the invite is genuine with out leaking to the local gangs she is part of that familie
- Location
- Australia
Let's goooo! That was an amazing fucking chapter. I can't wait to see if escalation runs in the family lol
Grandma arrives sporting an elf body and Taylor's glimmering tech hair mod.
Taylor will really throw off people when she's reacting to things happening in a totally different city.
That will throw poor Taylor for a loop.
Honestly, I suspect Taylor has hit the point of where if she does more bodies that are active, she's going to lose her humanity. This is really something humans aren't meant to do. At all.
- Location
- State of Confusion
Isn't the ideal of marriage to take disparate individuals and unite them in a cohesive whole? So really, Alt is going to Mikoshi to rescue her consort and acquire her harem! Very romantic!
- Location
- Home
Taylor is still too much of a good person to deliberately destroy everyone's source of fuel that she implemented. That'd cause chaos on a such a scale that even the Joker would blush.
- Location
- Germany
Yes she could.
The thing is, if she did that she would be screwing over not just Biotechnica but EVERYONE.
That Algae is here to stay.
Eh, while such an act would undoubtedly hurt Biotechnicas bottomline I am pretty sure it would hurt a lot of people/companies a lot more and in the end would likely even further push people away from random, opensourced fuel sources/products that Taylor seems to want towards the heavily controlled, patented and expensive products that got Biotechnica to the top in the first place. Because while Biotechinca seeds might be expensive, restrictive etc. they at least do not seem to run the risk of easily getting destroyed by a random third party on a mass scale.
