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To Glam's continued delight, more kissing sessions happen on the following days (when they're feeling like a boy). They haven't met her parents as her official boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever yet, and don't mind it too much.
News about Purity's escape surprises exactly no one, but the Protectorate's reputation suffers a blow because of the attack; after all, the heroes were beaten on their home turf. The PHO forums are abuzz, though rumors of Glam's death at the hands of Hookwolf (probably started by same) prove largely unfounded.
And Glam really should get to their webisodes and start building a steadier rep. And that's (one of the reasons) why they're in Lorica's workshop a few days later.
"So what should I do? I haven't posted anything since Purity, should probably make this more of a habit."
"...couldn't maybe your bots do it? A... very large number of them go around, giving people without comms a comm?"
"If there were enough, yeah. I don't have the budget to consider that many bots buildable and expendable even if I make them tiny and I dip into Dad's for it, though, and I'm technically only supposed to use his budget for his suit."
"I don't think anybody's tracking me that closely but they know what parts and materials I order and how many bots I have around, why?"
"I could conjure some, staying below the threshold, they'll live for probably a bit less than half an hour but they could do that. Maybe not enough, but some."
"Will they network right...? Like, I know no people would be looking at their inner workings, but they'd still have to work like a bot to talk to the bots correctly. I don't get where your power even gets that information; you're not a tinker and it can't be coming from my head and the bots don't self-design at this time."
Shrug. "I don't know either, but maybe it's just mimicking the communication protocols or something. I mean, I don't actually know how a stun gun works, or a brain, or internal organs, and yet," a copy appears holding a stun gun.
"Well, we should make sure it works beforehand anyway, but if you can get me a big flock I can boost the software to handle it."
"Yeah. We'd also need to get the higher ups to give us more comms to distribute. And hm, wouldn't they give you more money if it was meant to help with that?"
"Yeah, and the bots would be a good comm system, they could get everything where it needed to be without excess chatter."
"Yeah, that'd be pretty grand. Does it even need to be the bots? Couldn't you hook the comms themselves to the AI?"
"Then we have the distribution problem. The bots can find people who don't have comms."
"Yeah, the comms could have fewer parts, I could probably crank them out cheap."
"Exactly. And comm location could be used for centralized planning and organization, strategizing, that stuff."
"Yeah. Right, I'll clear it with some people and then tinker up comms."
"And you get to practice copies of assorted powers while hypnotized, and I need to talk to Piggot about Rewind and paramedics..."
"Mmhm. Also I was just with the new Branding person, guy called George Saunders."
"He was so helpful and friendly I'm kinda worried he might've been spooked of me," she admits.