The why is the tricky part.
Writing Jet's mental state means taking 3 and 4 attempts at everything in order to make the way she's acting seem understandable or relatable.
Right now she's found her 'brother in handwavium' smeared across the moon like a bug on a windshield. She patched up a way to try and access memories from the wreckage - a Grey Area if ever there was one. Then had it blow up again in her face when what she thought were 'remnants' gained consciousness, still thinking on some level that it's Mackie, but she's pretty certain it isn't fully him. It's a ghost. Rather than completely destroy the remnant by telling it outright - because it is still a person and that'd be cruel, she's trying to wean it off the broken remnants by helping it build it's own identity. (That sounds somewhat familiar....)
She doesn't realise that she's succeeded in recovering Mackie intact, partly because she wouldn't naturally think it was possible - or that she'd be capable of pulling it off if it was. The words 'Jet' and 'Skilled cyberneticist' don't usually appear together in the same sentence, not without 'required extensive repairs by a ' somewhere in between. Gone horribly right might almost apply. (From a meta standpoint, she doesn't have enough skillpoints and either succeeded wildly on the roll, or is being punished by a particularly sadistic GM for a failure)
Being charitable, it looks like she's learning a lot of the lessons the rest of the Convention learned 15 years ago - going through a sort of larval stage having finally had the chance to settle down and start exploring - making the same mistakes everyone made years before. There's another explanation, but I'll leave it elsewhere to suggest.
As it is, the planned story arc is a little more than a simple roaring rampage of revenge, and involves Jet somehow coming to her senses, with someone finding out why. And then what looks publically like a roaring rampage of revenge, but is a cover for more.
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Writing Jet's mental state means taking 3 and 4 attempts at everything in order to make the way she's acting seem understandable or relatable.
Right now she's found her 'brother in handwavium' smeared across the moon like a bug on a windshield. She patched up a way to try and access memories from the wreckage - a Grey Area if ever there was one. Then had it blow up again in her face when what she thought were 'remnants' gained consciousness, still thinking on some level that it's Mackie, but she's pretty certain it isn't fully him. It's a ghost. Rather than completely destroy the remnant by telling it outright - because it is still a person and that'd be cruel, she's trying to wean it off the broken remnants by helping it build it's own identity. (That sounds somewhat familiar....)
She doesn't realise that she's succeeded in recovering Mackie intact, partly because she wouldn't naturally think it was possible - or that she'd be capable of pulling it off if it was. The words 'Jet' and 'Skilled cyberneticist' don't usually appear together in the same sentence, not without 'required extensive repairs by a ' somewhere in between. Gone horribly right might almost apply. (From a meta standpoint, she doesn't have enough skillpoints and either succeeded wildly on the roll, or is being punished by a particularly sadistic GM for a failure)
Being charitable, it looks like she's learning a lot of the lessons the rest of the Convention learned 15 years ago - going through a sort of larval stage having finally had the chance to settle down and start exploring - making the same mistakes everyone made years before. There's another explanation, but I'll leave it elsewhere to suggest.
As it is, the planned story arc is a little more than a simple roaring rampage of revenge, and involves Jet somehow coming to her senses, with someone finding out why. And then what looks publically like a roaring rampage of revenge, but is a cover for more.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?