Grrl Power #491 – Leading a double… er, quintuple life
When I first wrote this page, I lowballed Harem’s age at 27, which is closer to her age plus just her first dupe. I was surprised when I added them all up, so I went back and changed her original “a few months” to “a few years.”
This might be a slight reversal to thoughts I had expressed earlier, in that Harem used to have to get on a plane like everyone else to traverse the country. Once she’s there, she can use that body as an anchor to teleport her other dupes between them, effectively extending her range infinitely, at least as far as she knows.
For narrative reasons, I decided I needed her to be able to get places quickly so I didn’t have to hold a story up for 3 hours while people transported themselves around. I realized it would be a recurring problem since Sydney and Max can traverse the country in very short order, so I’d be stuck with whoever I’d already established was there or ferried along in Sydney’s bubble bus. So now Harem can at least make her way up each coast, and to cities around the great lakes with only a few hops. The center of the country is still largely inaccessible to her, at least without more conventional transportation.
I’ve always said Harem has a lot of life experiences and skills from jobs she’s held. I probably have to expand my mental list because she’s been around for like twice as long as I had though. Sure, some people make it to 50 without developing any significant skills, or they become quite good at one or two things, but Harem spends a year or two at a job then switches with the intention of building a raft of skills. More than a raft actually. A uh, cutter? A corsair of skills? I don’t know ship sizes.
Also I should say Harem didn’t spend a lot of time working at Starbucks or Wal-Mart (she did some of that for the experience of it) but mostly she’d get jobs working at a locksmith or an auto repair shop or a place making confectionery or a kitchen. Trade skills, Dirty Jobs stuff. Harem can make a meringue, crack a safe, rebuild your transmission, deliver a calf, then build a dresser. Actually, she can do it all at once.
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Is there ever going to be a sixth harem? Looking at that graph, assuming it’s accurate, she should get another soon.
Old comment to respond to but…
Looks like every new Harem was “born” after double the time pass since the previous. The second harem seems born when first was 8, third at 9, 4th at 11, and 5th at 15.
If so then Harem 6 will be “born” at 23. 7th at 39, 8th at 71, and if she lives long enough (can supers live very long?) a 9th Harem when the original would be 135.
If she gets paranoid about dying she can unteleport her oldest body on a permanent basis and maybe keep going for hundreds of years. Doubling her strength with each new copy, too. Let’s hope you’re right that they keep spawning slower and slower or she’ll take over the universe eventually.
Wait, according to the graph isn’t that more like 64 years old???
Harem is estimating, having done some approximate mental maths. She is not too far out. Or spot on, if you allow for the traditional rounding down that folks are permitted, once they get to a ‘certain age’.
Eyeballing the graph, it looks to me like the numbers are:
20+ 12 + 11 + 9 + 3 = 55 years.
Although, without using a straight edge to check, I could be out by a year on one or two of those.
Spaking of a light bee… they’re using the eyes from bees to make better photoreceptors for cameras.
Bee-Ware!
(and no I never watched Red Dwarf, cause well… “everyone’s dead”, it made me feel like I was sitting inside of some air-conditioner vent in a space ship just listening to old records from hundreds of years ago, and I kind of got creeped out by the feeling, ya know?)
Yea. Millions or billions of years by the way.
I still like to wander around in the Earth simulator though. Try and remember what it was like. Maybe send a few messages to the AI characters.
Kinda makes eternity a bit less lonely.
Ooh, Okay.
Just a suggestion: Don’t play Fallout ’76.
Because… yeah… you’d get a similar vibe…
the shrtie squad (and harem)
“The center of the country is still largely inaccessible to her, at least without more conventional transportation”
I guess that makes sense. It’s not like the center has a lot of party spots, so it would take a lot of dedication to touch down in each town/village/hamlet enough to be able to teleport there.