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thelegion2017-04-08 07:16 pm
thedreamisdead) wrote in thelegion2017-04-08 07:16 pm
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[Video, post-plots]
Morning, culture lovers.
[Someone's in a chipper mood. Might have something to do with the fact that she's in the sim room, sitting alongside an oversized motorcycle that is in no way compensating for anything.]
So, I've been talking things over with the techs and Brainiac 5, and I've decided to simply open up Anywhere Machine access to my timeline for all Legion members. I just ask that you keep it to training purposes. If you try to nose into my private life, well. I don't really have one. You'll get bored. Sorry.
[She makes an adjustment and holo displays pop up around her. Dates, times, locations, what looks like an options list. Sharp-eyed viewers will see that the dates seem to be color coded.]
Using some algorithms that Brainiac 5 set up for me to account for Legion training standards, along with my own estimations, I've sectioned off portions of my life that I feel would be... instructive. Either to hone investigative skills, practice medicine, brush up on your rescue skills, enhance your understanding of stealth, or simply enhance your understanding of conflict. I've also encoded a number of these events with content warnings. I've handled nearly every form of crime you care to mention and consoled a number of victims. Some of you just aren't prepared for that, so please keep in mind your own limitations and read through the warnings before you engage.
[More adjustments are made. Holograms of her, her pistol, and the motorcycle pop up.]
If you should attempt a sim scenario, you'll get three options. One is to simply follow in my steps and see how things were handled. You'll have the option to pause and get context for anything you have questions for, rewind, or use any filters you'd like. Another is to go through it as a Judge, temporarily refusing to acknowledge your powers in favor of the full experience. [For some people, to put their money where their mouths are and show her a better way to handle things with her limitations.] If you decide to go this route, I would strongly suggest reading Dredd's Comportment first. The things you learn there might make things much easier for you. You'll be given the tools of a Judge, such as the lie detector, the Lawmaster motorcycle, the Lawgiver Mk II, and the helmet, especially valuable for its vision modes. When you arrest someone, you will be expected to sentence them on the spot, so I've compiled a common list of offenses and their usual sentences. At your discretion, of course, but if you're going that far you might as well get into the spirit of the thing.
[She filters through a few, laying them over the camera to display herself in each mode. Ultrasound. Infrared. Night vision. Killshot percentages. Disabling shot suggestions.]
Finally, you get the option to simply go in as yourself. Since you're still taking 'my' place, you won't be immediately targeted for illegal vigilante activities, and your powers will be treated as something usual. Brainiac 5 wished me to stress that he created the sim rooms and they're able to function with almost any powerset, including the psychic ones.
We talked about incentives and came to an agreement that passing out stickers for participation would likely be the most acceptable way to go about things.
[She grins again and holds up a roll of stickers covered in gold stars.]
Never say I don't keep you in mind.
In closing, I'll be happy to discuss any questions or concerns you might have about this. I haven't made the decision lightly, but I do believe that it could offer some... 'real world' incentives that other scenarios might not. Everything you will see is as raw and true as it can be, and everyone you will see was, or is, a real person, so keep those things in mind. This isn't one of the programmed sims where we rescue crash test dummies.
[She cuts out, but the links to The Comportment of a Judge, by J. Dredd and the list of dates remain up. Skimming through them, some scenarios are only minutes long, others hours or days. There's very few 'off' times, with only about four days coming up if someone skims back five years. In the past two years, a number of 'Council Meetings' take up chunks of her days during various weeks, but every other time slice is split into investigation, travel, interrogation, combat, escort, and chase sections. Three stretches of time are unusual. One is marked 'Chaos Day and Recovery', with the lead up to it being nearly entirely 'investigation' and the days surrounding it marked entirely as 'combat' or 'rescue'. Another is marked 'Block Judge Duty' and seems to be split into investigation, combat, and 'court duties'. The final one is marked 'Tour of Duty' and lasts for months on end, with 'training' making up the vast majority of her time.
Only fifteen minutes is relegated for sleep every day. An hour or two for meals. That remains standard over the past eight or nine years, at which point it suddenly switches to a more structured thing. Life at the Academy of Law. Much of the time is listed as 'training' for various things, except full nights of sleep, and it reaches back eleven years until she's five years old. She's stopped accounting for her time at that point.]
[Someone's in a chipper mood. Might have something to do with the fact that she's in the sim room, sitting alongside an oversized motorcycle that is in no way compensating for anything.]
So, I've been talking things over with the techs and Brainiac 5, and I've decided to simply open up Anywhere Machine access to my timeline for all Legion members. I just ask that you keep it to training purposes. If you try to nose into my private life, well. I don't really have one. You'll get bored. Sorry.
[She makes an adjustment and holo displays pop up around her. Dates, times, locations, what looks like an options list. Sharp-eyed viewers will see that the dates seem to be color coded.]
Using some algorithms that Brainiac 5 set up for me to account for Legion training standards, along with my own estimations, I've sectioned off portions of my life that I feel would be... instructive. Either to hone investigative skills, practice medicine, brush up on your rescue skills, enhance your understanding of stealth, or simply enhance your understanding of conflict. I've also encoded a number of these events with content warnings. I've handled nearly every form of crime you care to mention and consoled a number of victims. Some of you just aren't prepared for that, so please keep in mind your own limitations and read through the warnings before you engage.
[More adjustments are made. Holograms of her, her pistol, and the motorcycle pop up.]
If you should attempt a sim scenario, you'll get three options. One is to simply follow in my steps and see how things were handled. You'll have the option to pause and get context for anything you have questions for, rewind, or use any filters you'd like. Another is to go through it as a Judge, temporarily refusing to acknowledge your powers in favor of the full experience. [For some people, to put their money where their mouths are and show her a better way to handle things with her limitations.] If you decide to go this route, I would strongly suggest reading Dredd's Comportment first. The things you learn there might make things much easier for you. You'll be given the tools of a Judge, such as the lie detector, the Lawmaster motorcycle, the Lawgiver Mk II, and the helmet, especially valuable for its vision modes. When you arrest someone, you will be expected to sentence them on the spot, so I've compiled a common list of offenses and their usual sentences. At your discretion, of course, but if you're going that far you might as well get into the spirit of the thing.
[She filters through a few, laying them over the camera to display herself in each mode. Ultrasound. Infrared. Night vision. Killshot percentages. Disabling shot suggestions.]
Finally, you get the option to simply go in as yourself. Since you're still taking 'my' place, you won't be immediately targeted for illegal vigilante activities, and your powers will be treated as something usual. Brainiac 5 wished me to stress that he created the sim rooms and they're able to function with almost any powerset, including the psychic ones.
We talked about incentives and came to an agreement that passing out stickers for participation would likely be the most acceptable way to go about things.
[She grins again and holds up a roll of stickers covered in gold stars.]
Never say I don't keep you in mind.
In closing, I'll be happy to discuss any questions or concerns you might have about this. I haven't made the decision lightly, but I do believe that it could offer some... 'real world' incentives that other scenarios might not. Everything you will see is as raw and true as it can be, and everyone you will see was, or is, a real person, so keep those things in mind. This isn't one of the programmed sims where we rescue crash test dummies.
[She cuts out, but the links to The Comportment of a Judge, by J. Dredd and the list of dates remain up. Skimming through them, some scenarios are only minutes long, others hours or days. There's very few 'off' times, with only about four days coming up if someone skims back five years. In the past two years, a number of 'Council Meetings' take up chunks of her days during various weeks, but every other time slice is split into investigation, travel, interrogation, combat, escort, and chase sections. Three stretches of time are unusual. One is marked 'Chaos Day and Recovery', with the lead up to it being nearly entirely 'investigation' and the days surrounding it marked entirely as 'combat' or 'rescue'. Another is marked 'Block Judge Duty' and seems to be split into investigation, combat, and 'court duties'. The final one is marked 'Tour of Duty' and lasts for months on end, with 'training' making up the vast majority of her time.
Only fifteen minutes is relegated for sleep every day. An hour or two for meals. That remains standard over the past eight or nine years, at which point it suddenly switches to a more structured thing. Life at the Academy of Law. Much of the time is listed as 'training' for various things, except full nights of sleep, and it reaches back eleven years until she's five years old. She's stopped accounting for her time at that point.]
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[ They don't sweat the small stuff, in other words, but Robbie thinks twice about saying that. Eventually, when it gets to a genetic level, suddenly everyone starts sweating the microscopic world. There's definitely a much larger gap where the consensus is "enh, it's not hurting anyone." Reality tv, Mountain Dew Code Red, graphic novels, reruns of 227… they all fall into this abyss of whatever tickles your pickle. ]
Like Rich said, we have comic books based on real heroes. If it's titillating, so's the nightly news. There's no new ideas that they're giving people. I don't think it's inciting anything. There's no Comic Book Bandits holding up bodegas to afford the latest Captain America. If your allowance doesn't cover it, you see if the neighbors'll give you a buck for taking out the trash every week or mowing their lawn.
[ The closest they probably get to the Comic Book Bandits is the Yancey Street Gang, but they're just… weird, as far as Robbie can tell. ]
I don't think you're giving them enough credit. The citizens, not the comic books. Okay, the comic books too, 'cause there's a lot of kids who won't read anything else for fun. But I meant the people. If you don't let them have an outlet for their energy, they're going to find one anyway. Take it from the kid who used to sneak out of the house and commute to New York City to fight crime: if you don't let a person do something relatively harmless, they're going to find a way to do it anyway.
And it's going to be ten times bigger and crazier because they feel trapped in their boring old life. I wouldn't be in the army of pulp afictionados, but you make it sound like its that, the Pornolympics, or the worst game of badminton ever.
I guess I just don't know what everyone else can do.
[ That Beeny herself can't do anything sort of hangs in the air. ]
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[She waves her hand, thinking, then nods.]
Sometimes a fad will sweep through the city. We call them crazes. Some of them are harmless, such as the Pacne craze. Intelligent zits that acted like some ancient video game on your face or back. Or 'Bottomless' pants, which, well. Lost its seating when the original designer decided 'frontless' pants would be the next evolution.
And then you get crazes like personal weather machines, which started floods and caused tornadoes when you had fifty thousand citizens amplifying one another's weather alterations. Or bat-gliding, which ended in citizens crowding the skies and falling into traffic before we started regulating things.
[But she could go on forever about those things.]
Boredom, I could understand. But so many of them are stupid, almost willfully so, or have criminal tendencies and use these crazes to cover their crimes. There are outlets, it's just that the citizens take them to the absurd when they get the chance. We regulate things so harshly because we've seen the citizens take something innocent and cause disasters.
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Timeout, timeout, Beeny. We can come back to the hobbies and art and games, because that's cool and all, and maybe we'll circle back around to why you're saying your citizens are basically an entire population of gimmicky super villains, but I really need to zoom in on one little thing in all that, or I'm going to lose sight of it in the mess.
[ In all of that, he has heard one thing, just glanced over so casually that he wants to add style points. ]
You made a pun. I heard it, it's on video, and I will treasure it forever. I'll put it in a flower pot and water it daily, and it will blossom into impatiens of humor.
[ He wipes a tear that isn't there. ]
I'm so proud.
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[She does it. A lot. Usually when he's angry at her, though, so that might be something.]
I never claimed I was humorless.
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[ When he's genuinely upset, it's very hard to be take 5 to give some love for a sense of humor - especially since he just expects people to have a sense of humor. ]
No, but - no offense - it's not what I'd call a defining trait.