‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 754

The Dude is not thrilled.

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Now it looks a lot more like it’s the AI to me, and that means the AI has more in depth programming that I would have expected.

Unless it’s Kat pretending to be the AI for some reason. That’s just an out there wild guess since I can’t back it up with anything. Though it would be amusing. 🙂

Also, if we accept that’s the AI now, then I really would like to know what Kat is doing. I can’t imagine her panicking and hiding for this long.

Pretty sure this is the AI, as Kat would not have made an elementary security mistake without visibly panicking in the process.

I do not understand why she does not ask the question: how does the computer thing know that I want to do Kesti?
Though I guess if she has the memories and see she saved her, she could see the questing part too.

Sandra did warn them not to mention out loud that it’s a computer thing. The Game is a spectator sport, and the existence of AI substitutes is meant to be secret from the fans.

That does sound like something Kat would say.

Great now I’m left wondering why a TENka A.I. would know about this island, whatever it is.

Okay, that definitely sounds like Kat now – an A.I. would almost certainly explain what’s going on – but Kat would be the person to hedge against saying how she knew something worked out well.

I’d expect that if this is a debugging island the AI may be forbidden to discuss it.

Boss fight incoming?

Maybe D is manipulating “Kat”?

Heh. AI is given footage of Kat constantly cheating but pretending not to cheat. So when AI is told to pretend to be Kat…well, AI starts cheating but can’t say why!

Oh, I think I get it now. The caves provide an alignment change!

I think you’re onto something there. This feels like a tutorial minus the directions.

An AI might be literally not able to explain, if it has meta-information that it’s not allowed to say. Unlike a human, an AI can have its decision making processes pretty heavily firewalled from its ability to speak. The part of the program that processes dialog may not have access to the information it wants to explain.

So I’m thinking this is still the AI, especially since Bandit has that diagnostic readout or whatever it is, and he said it’s still an AI. What I’m wondering is if the AI has been adjusted by whatever group got the portal inserted. https://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-585/ The “spy” wasn’t working alone, she was working for someone else. Could they (or Tenka for that matter) have adjusted this AI to pursue their specific goals?

If you need an escone to get there but not to leave, then the whole area is designed to steal esones, no?

This is the old tutorial, isn’t it? The one that got removed?

The Dude is pretty upset with the state of the chess board.

Think it is Kat and she just used her code reading but of course can’t say so

I’m quite amused with the last panels’ conversation. It’s very well laid out to see who is saying or whispering what andwhen. One of your most fun ones to read as far as I’m concerned. The art feels very good with it too! 🙂

I agree!

The Whisper mechanic and similar is what has set this story out from others for me; we have train of thought, conversations in reality, conversations in LiFE and apartments, conversations in the game, Whispers in the game. There’s so much contextual nuance to these characters!

This update is a great example of what’s kept me coming back, and rereading and rereading.

If this is some kind of debug area intended to easily set a player to a particular alignment, (At a guess, since Bandit brought up that the AI would be trying to get an esone, perhaps there’s something in the cave that’ll give you an esone that’s already set to a high percentage of a specific alignment?), and the one Danni and Kat’s avatar are in is for Kesti, I reckon there’s a good chance they’ll *both* get set to Kesti.
Not as bad as a villain alignment sure, but Kat’s probably not going to be happy about it if she logs back in and she’s a long way from reaching 100% erbana. Or if a Kesti aligned AI’s been running around picking up a bunch of potentially inadvisable quests on her behalf.

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 754