Actually, that can come in handy. Put Nick in the background acting as mission control, using those “5kilz” to keep tabs on the situation, he could improve their effectiveness (not that’s saying much, but . . . )
Vat-cloned Jewish netrunner with a hot Asian girlfriend… I’ve never actually seen somebody run that PC in a campaign, and now I’m wondering why the heck not.
Yeah, meat-Nick is not really well-suited for field work, is he? They’d be better off with him running a drone from home base or something like that.
They really need Nick to stay behind and find out the benefits of his new body. The other experienced field agents can deal with this one while Nick “finds his feet.”
I really don’t mean to sass, but can anyone explain panel 2 to me? the way I see it it seriously look like Nick is coming out of Tip’s stomach by stretching his giant neck.
So, Nick’s neck actually looking black makes it weird, but he’s just got his hand up behind his neck. What appears to be coming out of Tip’s stomach is just Nick’s elbow.
Or Dr. Lee can show up with a gift of powered armor crafted from Red Knight’s castoffs only to have Nick discover his cybernetics can control the suit instinctively just as he did the Osprey!
Together they become “Dr. FeelGood and her Naughty Knight”!
OOOOR…you know, the Department of Jetpack Suppression is just down the hall…the closed office…that someone has managed to steal a shirt from already…Hmmm…
Apart from playing video games – which I wouldn’t trust to provide anyone with the real skills for flying – Nick has no experience as a human piloting an aircraft.
He wasn’t a human in a helicopter. He was the helicopter. So he knows how to operate the aircraft, but he doesn’t know how to operate a human operating the aircraft.
I would expect that Nick could pick up flying conventional aircraft fairly quickly. He would probably find the interface to be clumsy but he would still have the memories of flight dynamics, navigation and communication.
Problem is, he has no memory of operating the controls. He wouldn’t be any better than a flight instruction trainee. He may know the book from back to front, but he hasn’t logged a single hour in the cockpit. He’s very knowledgeable of what an aircaft – specifically, an Osprey – needs to do in the air, but no concept of what a human needs to do to make an aircraft do it.
Yeah, I agree. A total immersion VR set-up might work for him, but otherwise, he would need some practice. His video-gaming experience would probably help, though, since most stuff is fly-by-wire these days.
Oddly there might be a solution at hand.
Dr. Lee might be able to adapt some of Unity’s nanobots to _build_ a jack for Nick, one that he can use to control just about anything remotely, including any drones that would make themselves available..
I suspect that they have some kind of built-in security features to prevent someone other than the designated operator from controlling them. Kind of how your neighbour at Starbucks can’t simply jack into your bluetooth headphones.
That said, Nick is a consummate hacker, so he might be able to defeat such security features.
Eh, NIck. You’ve still got jour l33t m4d 5kilz! ^_^
Actually, that can come in handy. Put Nick in the background acting as mission control, using those “5kilz” to keep tabs on the situation, he could improve their effectiveness (not that’s saying much, but . . . )
This.^
Bet you nick realizes next strip that he can just jack into any Android he wants, same as before
Get that guy a cyberdeck stat.
Hey, let’s see if we can sneak the budget for a Sandbenders past Sweetheart…
Vat-cloned Jewish netrunner with a hot Asian girlfriend… I’ve never actually seen somebody run that PC in a campaign, and now I’m wondering why the heck not.
You know what, they should!
Yeah, well, he still has to actually get the hot Asian girlfriend, which he has not yet quite accomplished.
Preferably something nice, like a Fairlight Excalibur.
I think at this point he’d much rather find his landing-gear.
Yeah, meat-Nick is not really well-suited for field work, is he? They’d be better off with him running a drone from home base or something like that.
They really need Nick to stay behind and find out the benefits of his new body. The other experienced field agents can deal with this one while Nick “finds his feet.”
Or, to put it in (one version of) geek/gamer lingo; put him on rigger duty and cyberspace overwatch.
Yup, that works.
You’ve recovered a skill set, Nick. You can swear. Make us proud. Turn the air blue.
Wasn’t there a monty python skit where a battle was won solely though swearing?
I don’t recall that one.
Is it anything like the deadly joke skit?
All I can think of is the All-England Summarize Proust Contest.
ah, that’s probably the one I’m thinking. I really have not been sleeping well
Don’t recall, but if there wasn’t, there should have been.
I wish she still called him “Biscuit”!
+1
I really don’t mean to sass, but can anyone explain panel 2 to me? the way I see it it seriously look like Nick is coming out of Tip’s stomach by stretching his giant neck.
Nick has his hand on the back of his neck, with the elbow out. His sleeve must be loose and fallen down some to show so much skin.
Dang it, you beat me by like 30 seconds! Yeah, his arm should be black, and his neck should be flesh-toned.
I cannot unsee that now!
+1
So, Nick’s neck actually looking black makes it weird, but he’s just got his hand up behind his neck. What appears to be coming out of Tip’s stomach is just Nick’s elbow.
I was also seeing a lng nec for a couple seconds, so you’re not alone on that XD
You’re right, the art is somewhat ambigious. I fixed it.
https://i.imgur.com/KsWLRZM.png
+1 for helpfulness
Worthy!
JEEZ we’re all so EZ! We can be led hounding by a perfectly normal snapshot….
Or Dr. Lee can show up with a gift of powered armor crafted from Red Knight’s castoffs only to have Nick discover his cybernetics can control the suit instinctively just as he did the Osprey!
Together they become “Dr. FeelGood and her Naughty Knight”!
OOOOR…you know, the Department of Jetpack Suppression is just down the hall…the closed office…that someone has managed to steal a shirt from already…Hmmm…
Why can’t he just fly as a human piloting a jet?
Apart from playing video games – which I wouldn’t trust to provide anyone with the real skills for flying – Nick has no experience as a human piloting an aircraft.
He wasn’t a human in a helicopter. He was the helicopter. So he knows how to operate the aircraft, but he doesn’t know how to operate a human operating the aircraft.
I would expect that Nick could pick up flying conventional aircraft fairly quickly. He would probably find the interface to be clumsy but he would still have the memories of flight dynamics, navigation and communication.
Problem is, he has no memory of operating the controls. He wouldn’t be any better than a flight instruction trainee. He may know the book from back to front, but he hasn’t logged a single hour in the cockpit. He’s very knowledgeable of what an aircaft – specifically, an Osprey – needs to do in the air, but no concept of what a human needs to do to make an aircraft do it.
Yeah, I agree. A total immersion VR set-up might work for him, but otherwise, he would need some practice. His video-gaming experience would probably help, though, since most stuff is fly-by-wire these days.
Does Nick now have jacks in his neck, ala Neo, courtesy of Tigerlily? Or is that too newage? What sorts of jacks would you have from the era of…
Oh. Oh no… XD
We’ve established he has a plug.
Wait, when?
When he said he used to be circumcised.
Wrong kind of plug. We need one to interface with a machine, not one that interfaces with another human.
Sure, be picky. And look into adaptor cables.
I’ve heard of male connectors but this is ridiculous!
Oddly there might be a solution at hand.
Dr. Lee might be able to adapt some of Unity’s nanobots to _build_ a jack for Nick, one that he can use to control just about anything remotely, including any drones that would make themselves available..
That is a disturbingly reasonable solution. And a reasonably disturbing one as well.
Those are the best kind. 😀
“Jack into any drone he wants”… Hmm, isn’t there a room full of drones smack in the middle of Anasigma’s base?
I suspect that they have some kind of built-in security features to prevent someone other than the designated operator from controlling them. Kind of how your neighbour at Starbucks can’t simply jack into your bluetooth headphones.
That said, Nick is a consummate hacker, so he might be able to defeat such security features.