Skitterdoc 2077
- Thread starter SpiraSpira
- Start date
- Crossover
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- Pacific Rim
Gives a Winter for how much Cool Tay is channeling in this chapter 
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- Home
Well they're surprisingly ok with just chilling while the doctor works. Guess they don't have anything better to do, so hanging around and looting the place is fine to them.
I'm calling it now. Taylor isn't actually related to the rich family, and everyone is just assuming it while Taylor is doing everything to enforce this misunderstanding unintentionally.Also. I really wish I could stir my hot chocolate in without the big spoon hitting every every inch of that damn mug.
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- Elsewhere
I have this hilarious image of a Night City version of an Ambulance Chaser.
"Were you sideswiped by a drunk? Hit in a drive-by? Trauma Team will fix you, but they may not fix them, if you know what I mean. Call Joe Kesh, he'll get your pound of flesh!"
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Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
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- They/Them/It
Looting as thoroughly as Scavs do is lucrative. It's probably why there's always more despite literally everyone killing them at any opportunity.
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- Home
Yeah. In 2077 I kept walking past tons of things that looked like they'd be worth a lot, but just walking by not taking it because I couldn't actually interact with anything.
If I had the ability to loot everything not nailed down... I would. 100%. Nothing left behind. I actually have a really hard time in survival games due to my loot goblin behavior.
AzrielIlluminare
Mothman Cultist
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Same honestly. Even in games where I can't loot everything to the bedrock, I still catch myself trying.
Yes. I am partially paid by salary, and partially by hour. For example, I have an annual salary which is based on 182.5 shifts worked a year (12 hour shifts.) Then, if I work overtime, for example if I have a late flight or if I pick up an extra day, they derive my hourly rate by: hourly = ((salary / 182.5) / 12) to get my hourly rate, and I get paid 1.5 times that.Once a again a great chapter. I cant wait for the next one. The reaction from the fixer if she learns what taylor did gonna be great. Spira ? You get paid when your heli is down because of snow right ? Because then i am praying for some snow
However, if situations happen where I don't need to come to work, for example, the aircraft got stuck in a different city due to weather, and there's nothing for me to fly and no med crew either, I still get paid even if I put in 0 hours that day. That's why it's part salary, part hourly.
In the case of bad weather though, I am still working I am just unable to presently accept any flight requests, even one to return back home.
Altogether, it's a pretty good gig.
- Location
- Massachussetts
This is the most relatable part yet, from both sides. It's so easy to forget that specialist knowledge isn't part of other people's experience.
I'm a biopharma researcher married to a nurse, and despite the obvious overlap of our fields and our experience together, there is still a ton that the two of us just don't follow when we tell each other work stories. Similarly, I interviewed a prospective new hire this week who excitedly described to me a machine they'd recently been trained to use, and I had to remember that there's a first time to encounter every technique even if it frequently feels like common knowledge.
Thank you for making that connection for me. Somehow I had forgotten that suspicion from the TT board meeting and was just as confused as Taylor about what Mrs. Okada was saying.
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- Home
The sophistry about the tea and that fact it was a britsh cuppa are highly unusual for someone like Okada.
I'm guessing that you don't. Maybe they went back to CT scans and other ionizing medical imaging Or they have an imager that can measure magnetic fields much more precisely so they don't need a magnetic field multiple teslas strong. Or they have some sort of sci-fi type scanner that uses some hithertofore unknown non-ionising field technology.
They have gravity control, so perhaps there is a gravitic medical imager where it can recreate a 3D image of your head or whatever is scanned, along with the specific masses of every part inside.
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- 5029,113,4888
is that supposed to be repeted twice?
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- usa
Intelligence as in personal IQ
and intelligence as in a group of people who acquire information.
Yes, she is using both definitions of the same word which are different one after another.
Reworded, she could have said: "I won't insult your mental acuity or your information gathering network…" but she was trying to be a smart alec with a homonym.
DBDrake
Totaly A Dragon
Yo, that's really good. Guess you can't fuck around on a helicopter,
I'm more familiar with the private ambulance companies in my area, where the rule is "ahahahaha get fucked kid" for paramedics and "just fucking die" for emts. Back to back to back to back to back 12 hour shifts, first responders on 36 hours no sleep shit. You'd think it would be illegal, and it probably should be.
The only reasons anybody I know gets started is to try and become a fireman; where you still work a 48 then get mandatoried for another 12 or 24, but at least they pay well and let you sleep occasionally.
- Location
- Sweden
Wait, so you work as the real world equivalent of Trauma Team? That's pretty cool, I gotta say. Must give you a lot of unique experience to draw from when writing this story. No wonder everything feels so well put together. It sometimes reads more like a recount of actual experiences than a made up story, I guess that's part of the reason. The other reason being skill at writing of course.
Our clinicians do 24 hour shifts, just like I modeled for Trauma Team and the Ground Ambulance. However, instead of providing free speed like in Night City, our crews can call out for "crew rest" if they get fatigued, which puts us out of service for about 4 hours while they can get a nap in. Occasionally they might agree to work a 36 hour shift, but they can't be forced to do so, and there is a risk matrix type of thing so that even if they're on a 36 hour shift and they work most of the first 24 hours with no rest, they need 10 hours off, or something. I don't really understand it.
Pilots however are very regulated as far as how many hours we can work a day (14 max generally speaking), how many days a quarter we can work (need at least 21 days off per quarter), how long an uninterrupted rest period has to be (10 hours) before you can come back to duty, etc because we're basically, legally, an airline even if you can't book a ticket on us. Not surprisingly, the government has a lot of reason to make sure pilots flying in an air carrier have enough rest, etc.
So, for 24/7 coverage that requires 4 pilots. This week I am working days (7AM-7PM) for 7 days. Then I get 7 days off, then my next week working I will be working nights (7PM-7AM) and then get 7 days off, etc.
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- 5029,113,4888
thx for the explanation, i mean i got the meaning from the sentence it just goes against my brain wired to different language and didnt know such thing is possible in english.
For Chapter, Great as always
I didnt expect to meet wakako, than edgerunners and jump into gig in one chapter, nice change as i expected three chapters from it xD
Kiwi.. that traitorous halfface thing. and now you have her curios about your ice(firewall?)
Is that a medical loot all around them for the taking? Shard feels bliss again. such a good host, even throws a body or two to play/fix with.
So rumor of new compat ripper medison on the streeds. especialy as in Night city street cred is somthing that spreads by itself as all the edgeruners likes to talk and compere their gigs.
and with the lie about easy surgury it wont stic, especialy with kiwi she has the power of search engine.
ScissorSlipper
Barber cat
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- She/Her
Can't people just look at her with fancy eyes to search a database and see her true identity? What's stopping them from seeing that Taylor is Madison? Do they just politely not do so when on a Wakako-assigned job? How does Taylor look into their backgrounds but not know their true names?
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Nothing, really. Unless she wears one of those face scrambler things (that are more often associated with Scavs themselves.) I imagine her teammates are either just being polite (Kiwi) or didn't bother looking (Ruslan.)
lancelot
Completely worth it
At some point her Handle needs to be Nightingale because she'll heal the shit out of you. I can imagine her zoning out while putting someone back together, healing them while talking to herself, and completely ignoring the
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ScissorSlipper
Barber cat
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Unless the patient is immobilized they'll be wiggling around too much and make surgery less effective. I'd only see Taylor doing that if there are no anaesthetics or its some terrible Scav-level person with a bounty on their head. I guess she can just gently (?) knock someone out so they don't feel the pain (???).
Someday, I want someone to see Taylor go into mad scientist mode. That's the "other shoe" about the otherwise polite and reasonable prodigy, who'll become more terrifying over time too.
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That's what runners are for! Someone scratches your car, call a fixer up and pay a few k eddies to have them set on fire in their car. They have a nicer car and totaled yours? Have them killed and have the runners grab the chip and the car and just take it for yourself. They hit your dog? Have the whole family flatlined.