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WCDT Strips 3606 to 3610 (6th - 10th November 2017)

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BenRG:
I suspect that Hannelore, being quite a nice person, will at first try to work with Tilly, trying to deprogram her a little and make her both less Uncanny Valley and less intrusive in the hope that, eventually, she'll get the hint and tell Beatrice that Hannelore didn't want her services.

It's what happens if that doesn't work that might make things get a bit dark and fraught. I can see an annoyed Hannelore ejecting Tilly from the apartment and maybe even making a complaint to the police if Tilly keeps hanging around her without permission. That would be rather extreme but Hannelore does have a temper on her so it is possible if Tilly is sufficiently annoying or sufficiently clearly Beatrice's creature with little interest in doing as Hanners asks so long as she pleases her ultimate mistress.

So, there is a weeping Tilly sitting on a park bench, freshly fired by Beatrice on the grounds that 'you have failed me for the last time' and without even sufficient funds to afford a hotel room for the night, let alone find somewhere to live now that Beatrice has cancelled her company expense account. Then a shadow falls over her and a voice asks her what she wants. Tilly tells the shadowy figure (who is 'behind the camera') that wants to prove herself to 'Miss Ellicott-Chatham'; she will do anything to get back into favour (with Hanners or with Beatrice is deliberately left vague). The last panel in the comic is a demonically-smiling Spookybot. "We think that we can do business, Miss Birch," they say.

Yeah, I like the idea of Tilly becoming Spookybot's PA and 'front woman', eventually becoming more and more 'Mr Morden' as the access and protection Spookybot gives her starts playing with her head a little. She's already a Lawful-Neutral type who will do anything if she is instructed to do so by her superiors, no matter how bizarre and irrational-sounding. Potentially, it would take very little to knock her into being a True Neutral or a Lawful-Evil who has no moral compunctions of any kind.

Now, I'm not actually expecting something like that. It's much more likely that Tilly's going to wake up one day and report for work at Coffee of Doom or Union Robotics (or even Punchbot & Associates) and wonder how the hell this happened to her. That's Jeph's style, IMO. However, it would be a neat out-of-left-field if she turned out to be or developed into some kind of weird pseudo-antagonist.

gopher:
The week's story was brought to you by the sound Meh. Nothing can be all winners I guess.

flondrix:
Tilly and Winslow.  I ship it!

flondrix:

--- Quote from: Shjade on 07 Nov 2017, 22:16 ---Trying to look at this from the perspective of someone accustomed to being an effective PA for some fairly high-level people: neither the shouting nor the phone-throwing were directed at Tilly, so...not a bad start at all, really. Maybe not good enough to be called "encouraging," but could be far worse!

--- End quote ---

I suspect that she was informed in advance exactly what would happen.  Her notebook probably says, "9:00 show up at door.  9:05-9:10 shouting match between HEC and BC..." 

Tilly's assignment is no more bizarre than some PA's of the rich and famous in real life.  For example, Robert Downey Jr. is followed everywhere he goes, 24/7, by somone whose job is to make sure that he doesn't drink or do drugs.  Downey cannot fire this guy, because he works for his wife.

JoeCovenant:

Tilly: Nexus 9.
Discuss.

 :laugh:

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