robkelk Wrote:Since I'm too ill to go to work, I've spent the morning jotting a few things down in a work file... including an opening vignette.
Quote:"... and since I'm not an artist, I used a liberal application of wondergoop to bridge the Uncanny Valley and make my executive assistant look completely human - or at least as human as a ten-inch-tall android can look."
As the android in question smiled and bowed, the reporter raised an eyebrow. "Wondergoop?"
Mr. Scott grinned. "I know that nobody else uses that term any more, Ms. Tange, but I still like it better than 'handwavium.'"
"Yes, of course," Maico replied, while mentally cursing the briefing officers back on Homeline who hadn't told her that the substance Paralabs most wanted from this timeline had more than one name. If Stella Via's owner hadn't misunderstood her question, her cover might have been blown then and there.
This was too good a bit not to use somewhere... http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... ing_stats)]so I've statted up Maico as an Infinity Penetration Service agent-in-place.
Edit: I just noticed that I posted stats for a conspiracy agent on 23/5. Fnord. (not Mal.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012