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Skitterdoc 2077
- Thread starter SpiraSpira
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Reality beat fiction to the punch on this one, I'm afraid.
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Dinah's story is bleak too when I think about it.
Coil murdered her parents, she can't trust herself with her relatives, a foster family or the authorities. She choose to cling to a corpo girl from Cyberpunkverse. A world afraid of deep emotional connections. NC Taylor afford her physical safety and a road to mastering her para power but she's hardly a shoulder to cry on.
Did she make friends with the Travelers?
Cauldron spirited him away to another city or possibly Earth, I think. They wanted to use Coil And Taylor too.
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Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
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- Between The Unknown & The Known
Would asking if Taylor has his (living) brain, in a jar, on a shelf, be tasteless?
It lets her demo to Cauldron just how 'good' she is, and, if needed, she can put Coil on his feet again?
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Jordisk
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- Blind Eternities
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- He/Him/His
Next time there is a meeting between the Taylors, is the multisleeve tech going to be shared? How about the shard brain? How badly would Cauldron freak if NC-Taylor started using a shard-brain? Also, would she choose the same "equal priority" system that our usual Taylor does, or would she go with a different system? One top node and multiple subordinate nodes, which back up to and from the top node every so often?
Ace Dreamer
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I strongly suspect the 'shard brain' bit will NOT be shared - that seems to be a... non-standard capability that shard-chan has provided to [BEST HOST] - it's very unlikely the Worm-verse 'full' shard would be allowed to be... so liberal with full-on shard/Entity capabilities.
The distributed Taylor logic? NC-Taylor should already have all the (Prof. Haywire) tech to do that - it depends on 'known' Tinker-tech. The serious miniaturisation that BB-Taylor's done... sharing that could be useful. That BB-Taylor has removed the Tinker-tech 'black boxing'... that might upset quite a few people (even shards, or the Warrior).
Actually... we don't know if NC-Taylor has already got hidden Taylor backups - the matter hasn't been mentioned in the story... Leviathan would likely make her seriously consider this. I suspect she won't be using the same logic as BB-Taylor, because she has a different world-view...
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Avaron
main story Taylor is obsessed with her mortality. Her time in Winslow made her feel vulnerable and weak. She found herself in an unDOOOMed Earth. NC Taylor was informed there's no future. Main story Taylor uses Cyberpunk technology to achieve stable results. NC Taylor must use unstable Tinkertech made out of shoestring and gum.
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- Paradise, Hawaii
Will we learn Sarah/ Lisa is related to Taylor? Gram's is Rich in NC Cyberpunk but has a 'power', with what is learned, does Worm Grandma have a similar Brain meats to test if one Taylor informs the other? Offer Grandma to be reslveve or cure/ youth by Panacea?
Worm Taylor is not Rich but knows how to use Connections. I am sure Cauldron/ Contessa will help if needed.
Worm Taylor is not Rich but knows how to use Connections. I am sure Cauldron/ Contessa will help if needed.
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- Arizona
I thought that whole scene was meant to be tongue in cheek - more of Taylor being completely oblivious to how she's perceived, like that British guy that thinks she's MI5.
Arasaka *obviously* knows that she's either behind the algae or worked with or knows the person who was.
She just magics up genetics expertise out of nowhere?
She's given access to the SCIF room where the defunct projects are and spends 20-30 minutes each when reviewing projects, *except* the algae project, which she looked at for 30 seconds, smirked, and moved on? Yeah real subtle, Taylor.
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I'm just surprised that even with Taylor's ethical restrictions they haven't found another impossible job, such as extracting info from another scum sucker(slaver, scav. ,monster borg), that Taylor would not feel constrained from doing. "when you have a really good hammer, some jobs look like they could be treated as nails". The reward for doing jobs well, is more jobs.
Taylor has some "friends" that might have a sorta impossible jobs that become possible if she is involved. Sometimes when you put in that screw with a hammer, it still works just fine, but the screw might find the process slightly traumatizing.
Taylor has some "friends" that might have a sorta impossible jobs that become possible if she is involved. Sometimes when you put in that screw with a hammer, it still works just fine, but the screw might find the process slightly traumatizing.
Who would be coming to Taylor for high-end edgerunner services? Not many people know that she was ever in that business and it's likely she's not seeking assignments.
Just wondering, can the upgrade the sleep aid item by add this function ? (in case they need to do something mid-night or lack time and need as much rest as possible). This is basically two phase of 4 hour sleep originally so don't know how shorter it will with the mc tech
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBXFfEPJyg&t=153s
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Ace Dreamer
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Good point. Rolling out a software upgrade to support (compressed) 'polyphasic sleep', which would include biphasic sleep, for 'expert users', might be a good marketting move?
Of course, most normal users would completely ignore this function... The military (and people in some sorts of professions) might be quite interested, though.
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Sleep Inducer was built to prevent sleep in a cheap and healthy way. Taylor and her customers use it to stay awake more. Two 4 hours sleep periods plus a short wakeful rest period in between is a huge waste for the modern cyberhuman who wants to work 20+ hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.
Ace Dreamer
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I'm reasonably sure the idea was to support compressed biphasic (or polyphasic) sleep, not just induce the standard versions. So, chop-up the standard fixed-length, compressed, induced sleep into smaller sections?
WarpObscura
Sleepy Big Stick
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- A dot at the edge of continental Asia.
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She worked with a fixer and certain Tiger claws still involved in Night city. They certainly know that she is very capable, when you have a problem that you cannot easily solve, you root around in your toolbox and get what you need to fix a problem. People who have problems, will often reach out to others to find solutions, if they can't find a solution themselves. Taylors name would come up.
Did she do edgerunning for the Claws at large? When? They know she's capable, but also have an existing relationship that is useful. Pressing the best doc they can get to do mercenary combat instead would be insane, even if they thought the pressure would work.
Her fixer does know about the capability, but also has a working relationship outside of Taylor doing edgerunner work.
And, moreover, both are part of an existing ecosystem where there are plenty of runners around. If the solution to their problem looks like "hire a mercenary" they do not have any reason not to use the well-worn standard paths instead of abusing a personal contact.
I think it would be more of asking a favor or offering favors vs pressing Taylor into a job. The right job with the right circumstance would be something Taylor might jump at. Taylor has plenty of money.
You talk as if mercenaries are equal, they are not. My contention was that Taylor has a unique set of skills, already demonstrated to the Tiger claws, that allow her to finagle around biometrically locked devices.
With one or two more jobs of this type her name would be even more well known among the uper level of the Tiger Claws for jobs involving things such as Data vaults, and with children or other vulnerable population at risk, do you think she would refuse such a job?
Trying to get a specialist into an edgerun that they are in no way advertising for is very blatantly a pressure situation whether it's "friendly" pressure or not. And Taylor is neither seeking this work nor trying to curry favor in general.
And yes, sure, if you have come up with a mission profile that demands real time field meathacking Taylor is probably the only person anywhere who fits the bill but the normal answer is to not plan on the impossible.
And the last bit seems less "why don't people hire Taylor for edgerunning" and more "why isn't the GM making blatant manipulations to get Taylor edgerunning." Which is a question on a whole different layer.
Taylor retired from edgerunning but she remain open for business as a high profile Cyberdoc in Tyger territory. She offer corpo level service without the oversight. Edgerunners and cyber addicts who hear about Taylor and want a professional would choose her as their doc. If they're not total sleezebags, members of rival gangs or psychos Taylor accept them. Tygers probably stop most of those before they reach her door. They like her.
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Edifier
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Impact drive drills are like hammers. Like how you can get a stuck screw loose by putting a wrench around a screwdriver and then use a hammer, or the hand, to give a good wack to get it loose.
That is to say hammers are the solution to all problems, just like Taylor. And if you think it isn't, that just means you've not applied enough Taylor to the problem.
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