>>5841902“Is this going to let you connect to the Net?” You question, thumb hovering over the ‘yes’ option.
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">”It is unlikely that I would be able to, your agent likely will not possess any of my code. If I had offensive programs at my disposal, or at least the correct hardware - a deck would do - I could attempt to harvest its data forcibly . . . but I do not! I am barely able to defend myself, heh. I can purge systems and create partitions, but that is like only having a . . . Hmm. A molotov cocktail, and brick and mortar. I think that is an appropriate analogy. I could hurt myself, or trap myself, or . . . Oh, that makes me nervous. Oh dear . . . You will not let anything bad happen to me, will you, Kai? We are chooms?“</span></span>
<span class="mu-s">Vote one:</span>
>”Yeah, we’re chooms.” Accept the request!>”Sure, I’d like to be able to talk, but my agent is private. I can give you my commcode. Can you use the Quadra’s holo to call it?” Unlikely access still means possible access.>”I think it’s safer for you if you can’t contact me remotely. Not yet at least. It might risk other people finding out. Do you know about NetWatch, Alice?”<span class="mu-s">Vote two:</span>
>Feed Alice more delicious, nutritious, mystery data shards. Maybe dad left them as a kind of backup? Or maybe you got really lucky and the rest will infect her with some kind of awful virus.>Stop feeding the rapidly regenerating AI. She went from being contained entirely in a hidden scanner locked box to having the ability to pair with a gun in less than a few minutes, all thanks to you. …Could she shoot people if she accessed a smartgun? Ah, shit. You may need to approach this more carefully.<span class="mu-s">And for something different, or to add on to any of the above:</span>
>Write-in 