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The professor being clueless at the end and telling them to delete the data feels somewhat forced in that moment, but it's still a great read. Especially love the implications of what happened, and that it makes you think about how this will play out in the long run, will they realize during a med scan that there was poison, how is K-7S2 hiding this from the Delta Lab that is supposedly monitoring all of it or did they miss it, etc etc. It sets up a whole lot of possibilities, which is a big achievement for a 1k word story.

Pretty sure, yeah. Want to build a dwarf firefight squad and fleshed out the characters, so if I get around to it I want a short story focused on each of them eventually. :)

Loving this, since that's exactly a hacking attack I wrote for a custom Cyberpunk pen and paper I halfway created for my group last year. :D

Yeah the jackal as a character was almost an afterthought and I just tried to flesh him out at least a tiny bit when I realized that I hadn't really mentioned him at all. The way to get to him was definitely the priority.

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+1 on the split, nice structure, and a very cool moment to set the short story in. Got a hard "Does this unit have a soul" vibe from it (due to obvious similarities I guess). Great read.

Sticking to Joanna's point of view more closely could've been nice to experience being hunted and how the others sacrificed themselves from her angle. The chase was still fun to read with the Custodian bullrushing through them and definitely on point for the theme.