Comic for Friday, August 21st
Well. To be fair this is not exactly the first time Mium has decided to avoid someone by jumping off a tall building.
To pre-emptively answer a few questions – she’s been chasing him for a bit now, and probably has tried attacking him several times, but as one may recall she doesn’t have great success with that so far; however, keeping up with him is fairly easy – we’ve seen that she can ‘fly’ (using her acceleration calculation on herself; it’s more like self catapulting besides she can use it again to stop or change direction – just not that many times consecutively as each ones becomes more complicated until you let it reset) for short periods of time so long as she’s out of his range (to break the magic), let alone her own natural mobility, so trailing him at a distance while he’s in the open would be fairly easy for her.
Why she is talking with actual words… the direct communication probably got turned off as part of trying to improve her security against being shut down; it’s not like you can just wireless beam an error at a prototype, but Mium has many tricks when it comes to messing with F-model prototypes 😉
Yes… I totally cheated making those windows. Not even going to deny that.
Again I ended up just filling the whole vertical space. I’m really bad at this vertical comic thing. I dunno. Still under evaluation.
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Mium’s scarf is looking a bit like a cape–I like it. ^^
Maybe he’s hoping Ila will have developed a fear of heights after last time. ^^
Though I think he probably wants Ila to follow him…
A prescient point, but I doubt it will stop her 😉
And it does seem likely that he as least has some plan in mind. At least, one hopes.
Perhaps Ila should pay more attention to her surroundings and less to her quarry, and give some thought to his motives. Considering how much information Mium normally shares, she probably doesn’t know that Naomi sent him and why. Frustration is clouding her logic. 🙂
Hey, hey, look at all that background, and see how much better it’s getting. ^^
It’s sort of a tic of AI in this setting that they tend to be borderline obsessive about their task; how flexible they are in completing (and intercepting) their tasks tends to be both an evaluation of how good they are and how likely they are to do horribly unpredictable and/or extreme (but very efficient and/or innovative….) things to complete it. There is a reason that Mium – noted as an incredibly flexible AI – has way more restrictions on him than most 😉
Currently Ila seems to evaluate her options as “throw self at brick wall” and “throw self at brick wall harder” and currently the brick wall is running away from her which makes her confused and quite frustrated. 😛
Being that she’s not a true AI (what people in the comic call a black-box-intelligence for reasons that will eventually be obvious) her situation more stems from her training/education (geared toward optimizing an AI to complete their tasks with minimal deviation or reinterpretation) than anything else.