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WCDT Strips 3401-3405 (23rd to 27th January 2017)

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pwhodges:
Alternatively the memories contained information incriminating to Corpse Witch, which the authorities wanted to recover in order to move against her.

Do AIs contain anything akin to logs of the actions performed by/on/in their brains?  Perhaps Emily can track down logs showing that Corpse Witch did things which are in themselves incriminating.  Or perhaps there might even be some record of the memories in logs which have been overlooked - that's the sort of loophole that can happen in our present IT systems.

Skewbrow:
So the equivalent of Bubbles' personal recycle bin is the remaining hope?

jheartney:
Having previously guessed that the memories are vamoosed, I'll go ahead and speculate that they are truly gone, they've joined the choir eternal, they're pushing up the daisies. I think this all leads to Bubbles becoming the new proprietor of the robot fights (which is ironic, since she doesn't really like them). Maybe after a period of mourning.

Let's see this makes two non-core gals in QC to have experienced a devastating loss. Perhaps Bubbles can hire Brun to serve drinks.

BenRG:
I notice that Jeph uses the name 'Creepybot' for the pale-skinned interloper when discussing Them on Twitter. This is probably as close as we are going to get to an 'official' name for the character and I'll be using it from now on, just so you know.

I suspect that Creepybot has an agenda and it is involved with Bubbles' memories. I'm sure if what she experienced came out in a wider forum, a great number of humans and AIs in very senior positions may be either embarrassed or totally discredited in the eyes of the wider public. I believe that this is what They want - Either to remove figures that are not in agreement with or who would actively impede Their ultimate agenda (whatever that is) by having them discredited over actions and policies that (even if only out of context) were highly questionable.

What happens next? One scenario goes like this:

* Faye says something like "What? Let me see that!" and dives in (after rudely snatching the interface headband out of Emily's hands);
* Faye surprises everyone by finding the hidden door at the back of the room in seconds ("When you live with Pintsize, you learn to hide shit!");
* After a swap of headband, Emily goes and solves the encryption algorithm (which presents itself to her as a complex four-dimensional Rubik's Cube); she airly chirps that she used to solve four cubes at a time as a little girl for fun; yes she did two of them with her feet;
* Creepybot acknowledges that they're surprised at how efficient Emily and Faye have proven to be and makes a worrying comment about 'potentially useful future assets' before they snap their fingers and everyone blacks out;
* When everyone comes around, Creepbot is gone and Bubbles' system reports that the newly-unencrypted timeline has a flag on it to indicate it has recently been flash-copied.Well, that's one possibility at least. However, no matter what happens next, I suspect that the time has come for Corpse Witch to take a long holiday for the sake of her health.

I'm also looking forward to a major feels arc where Bubbles comes to terms with what has happened and Faye tries to be a good friend for her. I'm also seeing Bubbles struggling with her desire to cause irreparable harm to Corpse Witch and the conflict with her personal ethics and her desire to reject violence.

Carl-E:
When they go back to reckon with CW, they'll find naught but an empty shell - she'll have already uploaded herself into a different chassis she had in reserve as a getaway plan. 

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