Post by Bobby Drake on Jul 27, 2007 20:04:08 GMT
Two things of potential interest to Chris.
1. At the end of his MGH experience Bobby spawned an AI in the Institute network. I haven't done anything with it since; it's been hiding out for the last few months doing its own thing and not revealing itself. But presumably it won't take Chris long to notice that there's an AI resident in the Institute's computers; I imagine that's the sort of thing that tends to catch a cyberpath's attention.
So, I figured I'd mention it. I’ve written it up as an Institute NPC, anybody can feel free to NPC it… it’s not “my character" or anything.
2. Back in his cyberpath days, Bobby put a whole bunch of audiovisual snooping devices around the Institute. These are non-networked, and they don't actually "record" AV in a traditional way; instead they do a lot of heavy processing on the video and audio, throw away about 99% of the information, and store the remaining 1% in an almost entirely arbitrary data format.
(The data format is essentially that of Bobby's own memories... the idea is that Bobby could access these things and download what he would have remembered about what went on recently around the device, had he seen and heard what it monitored.)
They are completely useless to anyone but a cyberpath, really, and even there there's no particular reason to expect that Chris could use them practically, since they are so tightly calibrated to Bobby's mind.
But he'd probably notice them, at least, and might figure out how to interface with them usefully if you want.
1. At the end of his MGH experience Bobby spawned an AI in the Institute network. I haven't done anything with it since; it's been hiding out for the last few months doing its own thing and not revealing itself. But presumably it won't take Chris long to notice that there's an AI resident in the Institute's computers; I imagine that's the sort of thing that tends to catch a cyberpath's attention.
So, I figured I'd mention it. I’ve written it up as an Institute NPC, anybody can feel free to NPC it… it’s not “my character" or anything.
2. Back in his cyberpath days, Bobby put a whole bunch of audiovisual snooping devices around the Institute. These are non-networked, and they don't actually "record" AV in a traditional way; instead they do a lot of heavy processing on the video and audio, throw away about 99% of the information, and store the remaining 1% in an almost entirely arbitrary data format.
(The data format is essentially that of Bobby's own memories... the idea is that Bobby could access these things and download what he would have remembered about what went on recently around the device, had he seen and heard what it monitored.)
They are completely useless to anyone but a cyberpath, really, and even there there's no particular reason to expect that Chris could use them practically, since they are so tightly calibrated to Bobby's mind.
But he'd probably notice them, at least, and might figure out how to interface with them usefully if you want.
