I'd call it teasing with the truth. I gather that Marcus has known TeeDee and Ada for a while now due to their professions. While TeeDee is as prickly as a cactus Ada is a friendly type person. Friends and collegues talk to each other like this. There is also the fact that she has a boyfriend and Marcus seems to be the type to go the honorable route if given a choice. Missions are different in that when dealing with enemies "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."
True, if said lover is still around after all this is over. I mean, having her mostly dead and then gone for awhile might mean they need a miracle to stay together. :-D
One advantage she would have with someone like Marcus, she COULD talk about her missions and events on them with him! Unlike other people (possibly her lover, we don't know what his security clearance is).
per cent-com, my security clearance is alpha-black, meaning it is the same as Cella's.. chances of Ada's boyfriend having this level of clearance is slim.
Since Kevin isn't on this mission and wasn't there to see Ada off on the S&R mission, I doubt he has a high security clearance. And no way does he EXCEED yours, Marcus. :-)
I notice you didn't comment on the desirability of Ada, Marcus? Still being a tease? Or just trying to keep us all guessing? :-)
Marcus - Alpha-black
Cella - Alpha-black
Callope Taylor - Alpha - White
centcomm doesnt have one .. she IS the security
Connie - Gamma - Blue
Connies old supervisor - Delta-White
There should be one code that seems like it is the lowest of the low but is actually the reverse for security reasons.
Like Omega Vermillion instead of Omega Red. Listeners who don't know just think it's a low code but those in the know would immediately know the person is undercover and to assist.
Veronica is going over the cliff notes on the manual for TeeDee's new chassis with her? She seems to have forgotten to read it. Helping her deal with being burnt to a crisp and nearly losing Ada? My money is on it being a meeting of the "How much do we hate CentComm and our current situation? Let us count the ways" club. If it is, I hope the walls are soundproofed.
OK, you've got me there. Upon further thought, a Veronica/TeeDee bitchfest could be quite entertaining...a scary smart person and an extremely violent person coming up with ways to get back at their mutual antagonist? I'd take notes...from a safe distance.
Less a distance and more a locational safe spot .. like in Aeneas chambers, that's probably a safe spot.
A Murder-Turd's lair .. that might be a safe spot too.
Depends on if the murder-turd was home or not. If not, very little would be willing to wander INTO its lair so it would be PERFECTLY safe, until the murder-turd showed back up. Then it might get a little interesting (take a BIG gun to that housewarming).
to be truthful the Scythe - Lizard has 3 modes... KILL EVERYTHING! then .. Sleep.. and not kill something .. because its not food or happens to be bigger.. considering they range from the size of standard horses to clysedale size.. that makes a lot of things .."Food" and smaller than it is..
"not-food" is a fairly odd designation though, and could happen for a nuber of reasons ... like, androids probably don't taste good, so they'd be "not-food" but I bet they would get attacked anyways ... just for fun.
I believe HEAT rounds would be a poor choice against a scythe lizard: while the high-speed metal jet produced upon impact is very effective at piercing steel up to more than a metre thick, it is too thin to produce a lot of damage -- unless you hit some important nerve centre or so by luck, it likely wouldn't immediately disable a scythe lizard. An armour piercing shell of similar calibre would do a lot more damage.
(Especially an APHE round, which has a high explosive charge going off *after* penetrating the armour...)
Oops! It's hard to tell sometimes, Stormwind13. I still don't know about the evil thing though...almost all good storytellers enjoy messing with their audience to some degree. I think it's in the job description or something.
In This format and with all of the characters involved, it's an occupational hazard. You know whats evil in this context? Weekends! No update for two whole days? Yeah, yeah, I'll survive but I don't have to like it. I'm still impressed by the update schedule, mind you and I'm sure CentComm needs the break. I really look forward to each update and have since I started reading Data Chasers...so you see, WEEKENDS...EVIL!!!
Studies show that brain farts are the leading cause of facepalmitis. If you are experiencing flattening and/or redness in your facial features, see your doctor.
That's not really site-specific: your *browser* does it. (Unless the site is really stupid and uses something weird instead of a normal text input field.)
@Centcomm:
RE: CCC;
I've got no Skilz, but as an idea, maybe the Bank would be into celebrating 'ancient history'. Some iconic picture from the Apollo Program perhaps. That one of Earthrise from the Apollo 8 mission for example.
Does someone have a little opinion about whether got to the moon or not? :-D
Don't be shy Rose, tell us what you REALLY think.
Oh and I approve of the image for the credit card too. That would be sweet. :-)
As for the pieces of 8... that pun will get you shot in about 32 states and several territories, Mr. Black. And that is BAD for business (being shot). :-D
"Does someone have a little opinion about whether got to the moon or not? :-D
Don't be shy Rose, tell us what you REALLY think."
I think anybody who sincerely believes that the moon landings are a hoax which has been perpetuated for over forty years, and who constantly move the goalposts when proof to the contrary is offered*, need to ask Tinkerbell to sprinkle them with fairy dust so they can FLY RIGHT UP MY ASS.
*What I mean by this:
Hoaxer: "I don't believe we went! Show me photographs!"
Sane Person: "Okay, here are the several zillion photographs."
Hoaxer: "Those were all faked! I want video!"
Sane Person: "Okay, here's the video footage that was made."
Hoaxer: "Those were all faked too! I want eyewitness accounts!"
Sane Person: "Oh-kay, well, here are the statements from the astronauts, the people in the mission control room, and everyone else involved in the project from start to finish."
Hoaxer: "They were all paid to lie!"
Listen, you bunch of gibbering frankenfaced fuckfurters, if you are not going to believe any evidence which is offered to you that contradicts your steadfast belief that mankind did not in fact achieve something truly astonishing just because your fucking generation hasn't done shit-all worth mentioning, stop wasting everyone's time and shut the fuck up. If I had the ability to build a moonbase and teleport all of these dipshits to it, I would shove them in an airlock and tell them "Okay, if you believe this is really a soundstage and not the face of Luna, open the outer door and go for a fucking walk. Don't worry, I'll be sure to tractor-beam you back inside just before you die, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to laugh at your stupid half-asphyxiated shithead selves."
Yeah, it is beyond stupid. I don't normally waste time and effort on them. People that stupid deserve to be ignored. I mean, they are just wasting space and using up resources. :-)
Got a button for them. "Don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the whole street."
RASHALA Will be in the shop tomorrow so Cat, Dragon the rest of you... Will have to pick up the comment slack til I can get out of the repair bay as it were.
omg omg, he's her human boyfriend???
I remember Ada was dating a human. Probably it's not him, but it would be so awesome XD
She's so beautiful with her new eyes (: I like her very much!
as per previous conversations.. it could never work... Ive got OEM equipment.. and she prefers things that will make the power grid cry when she powers them on.... or needs to have its own trifusion generator to power up.
Looking back in the archive, Back In The Arrow the second page (currently page 131), Ada's boyfriend was named Kevin. Unless Marcus has a middle name of Kevin it couldn't be him. :-)
Since we don't know everything about Marcus, it is possible, but not likely.
(Edit and beaten by CentComm was I was looking the page up :-D).
@ JustNoPoint...As pretty as her eyes and body look combined now it will have the same effect. Guys will freeze like stone in appreciation and wonderment!
Oh i think you will like them .. they turned out REALLY nicely :D not sure wheather 1000 pages is a good or bad thing.. considering most of the first 600 are all single frame images..
She really looks dashing.
...as I had feared yesterday, we switched to the others - and have to wait to find out how Mr. Black pacifies poor Connie...
PS: I totally forgot about the contest ... I hope I will remember it at lunchbreak...
Or, maybe hs'e just a chronic flirter.
Now, is the Major just teasing or did he REALLY mean that line? Ada seemed to LIKE it at least. :-)
One advantage she would have with someone like Marcus, she COULD talk about her missions and events on them with him! Unlike other people (possibly her lover, we don't know what his security clearance is).
I notice you didn't comment on the desirability of Ada, Marcus? Still being a tease? Or just trying to keep us all guessing? :-)
Marcus - Alpha-black
Cella - Alpha-black
Callope Taylor - Alpha - White
centcomm doesnt have one .. she IS the security
Connie - Gamma - Blue
Connies old supervisor - Delta-White
you can kinda see the pattern
Dr. Silvers is normally eather Alpha - White or Beta-White.
Of course, being two sides of the same coin, both are the HIGHEST levels for whatever security level they have.
I'm not sure how the rest of the colors would cascade out. Do they use some kind of rainbow spectrum after black and white or what? :-)
The actual order is
White/Black ( top )
Violet ( highest )
Indigo
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
Red ( lowest )
.. the "greek" levels are...
Alpha - Highest all the way down to Omega..
so the LOWEST a security clearance could ever be is Omega-Red...
Greek Alphabet
I like to say the word "Orange" ....
.
.
.
Orange. >_<
Like Omega Vermillion instead of Omega Red. Listeners who don't know just think it's a low code but those in the know would immediately know the person is undercover and to assist.
And then there's the hidden weapons mods, offcourse .. I bet she has quite a few for TeeDee to browse trough. :)
A Murder-Turd's lair .. that might be a safe spot too.
Well .. safer than between those two. >_<
Offcourse, if you're scary enough to scare a Murder-Turd, you might just be tough enough to stand up to TeeDee.
Heck, just look at TeeDee, she's also stuck on "fight" most of the time, but she was still scared that Ada would wake up as another android.
H-igh
E-xplosive
A-nti-T-ank
(Especially an APHE round, which has a high explosive charge going off *after* penetrating the armour...)
[Ada didn't answer one question and deflected another.]
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A bit heavy handed and bossy, perhaps, but not mean, nor hateful.
RE: CCC;
I've got no Skilz, but as an idea, maybe the Bank would be into celebrating 'ancient history'. Some iconic picture from the Apollo Program perhaps. That one of Earthrise from the Apollo 8 mission for example.
Don't be shy Rose, tell us what you REALLY think.
Oh and I approve of the image for the credit card too. That would be sweet. :-)
As for the pieces of 8... that pun will get you shot in about 32 states and several territories, Mr. Black. And that is BAD for business (being shot). :-D
Don't be shy Rose, tell us what you REALLY think."
I think anybody who sincerely believes that the moon landings are a hoax which has been perpetuated for over forty years, and who constantly move the goalposts when proof to the contrary is offered*, need to ask Tinkerbell to sprinkle them with fairy dust so they can FLY RIGHT UP MY ASS.
*What I mean by this:
Hoaxer: "I don't believe we went! Show me photographs!"
Sane Person: "Okay, here are the several zillion photographs."
Hoaxer: "Those were all faked! I want video!"
Sane Person: "Okay, here's the video footage that was made."
Hoaxer: "Those were all faked too! I want eyewitness accounts!"
Sane Person: "Oh-kay, well, here are the statements from the astronauts, the people in the mission control room, and everyone else involved in the project from start to finish."
Hoaxer: "They were all paid to lie!"
Listen, you bunch of gibbering frankenfaced fuckfurters, if you are not going to believe any evidence which is offered to you that contradicts your steadfast belief that mankind did not in fact achieve something truly astonishing just because your fucking generation hasn't done shit-all worth mentioning, stop wasting everyone's time and shut the fuck up. If I had the ability to build a moonbase and teleport all of these dipshits to it, I would shove them in an airlock and tell them "Okay, if you believe this is really a soundstage and not the face of Luna, open the outer door and go for a fucking walk. Don't worry, I'll be sure to tractor-beam you back inside just before you die, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to laugh at your stupid half-asphyxiated shithead selves."
Got a button for them. "Don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the whole street."
You know, if you had a button like that you could still use it today! XD
(Or at least regular.)
Edit :
Oh, and I made a card with the moonrise on it ... it didn't turn out so well. >_<
RASHALA Will be in the shop tomorrow so Cat, Dragon the rest of you... Will have to pick up the comment slack til I can get out of the repair bay as it were.
I remember Ada was dating a human. Probably it's not him, but it would be so awesome XD
She's so beautiful with her new eyes (: I like her very much!
Ada's "offical" boyfriend is Keven.. back in New Troy.. glad you like her new eyes.. they are a lovely light blue/green..
Since we don't know everything about Marcus, it is possible, but not likely.
(Edit and beaten by CentComm was I was looking the page up :-D).
/commentater'd.
/5'd.
Then TeeDee might actually want them too =p
And yes, I want them YESTERDAY too, but I'll try and be patient. :-D CentComm has a story to tell and I want to read it! :-)
We eagerly await your updates, but don't want you burning out or keeling over from not taking time for yourself. :-)
I want her to continue to crank out the pages, but don't want her to get CRANKY about it. :-D
Some of it could be out before 2020 (for those that are into Cyberpunk) :-D
Still, they're both only in the budding phase, so it's a bit early to say wether or not they'll come through.
Supposed to release a YouTube video about it soon too.
Keep us posted ?