I had a literal laugh out loud moment when she called me her assistant. I really loved that touch.
I squirmed in the previous episode when I was referred to as “The boss”, it was so clearly there to placate the whiners who wanted to feel special. I want to be surrounded by personalities, not sycophants.
I don’t think it was there to “placate the whiners”. Most likely, the voice recording for the current Living Story releases have been done well in advance.
(It’s far cheaper to get voice actors in the recording studio for one full day per 2-3 months, than to get them in the recording studio for 2-3 hours every 2 weeks. Especially if you also need to rent the recording studio.)
Personally, I believe the “assistant” dialogues were written to illustrate how much the asura are intellectual snobs, and how Councillor Phlunt is even worse than that. Taimi obviously calls us her “assistant” because that is the only reason Councillor Phlunt can imagine why she would ever need a bookah for her experiment. (Other than as a test subject, of course.)
Taimi is in a bad spot. If she annoys the old guy too much, I’m sure he can tie her down in so much red tape she’ll never leave Rata Sum until she’s an adult. He’s a councillor and she’s a ward of the state. Her best bet would have been to stay off the radar as much as possible.
The only thing allowing Taimi any freedom at the moment is her project. Phlunt’s in a win/win. If it works, he gets credit for his "supervision", if he doesn’t flat out take all the credit. If it doesn’t, he loses nothing and gets to make her life hell for it.
As to calling you her assistant, Jorn nails it. I want to add that Taimi is making sure she acts in an expected way towards non-asura. If she doesn’t, Phlunt would probably decide her time around them is affecting her judgement, making her soft, all that, and restrict her freedom in the name of appropriate supervision.
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I don’t think it was there to “placate the whiners”. Most likely, the voice recording for the current Living Story releases have been done well in advance.
Complaints about the personal story and feeling like a minor side character have been around for a long, long time. Before season 1 of the Living Story, even. So I think it’s quite feasible that the writing of the player as the boss is exactly to address that.
Personally, I believe the “assistant” dialogues were written to illustrate how much the asura are intellectual snobs, and how Councillor Phlunt is even worse than that. Taimi obviously calls us her “assistant” because that is the only reason Councillor Phlunt can imagine why she would ever need a bookah for her experiment. (Other than as a test subject, of course.)
Which is a reasonable explanation for the non-asura players. However it makes no sense whatsoever when we’re dealing with an asura. A Snaff savant, no less.
Edit to add:
Taimi’s gold dust in my book – both the VA and dialogue are just great.
I wouldn’t care if she told my character to go and dance a jig at the Summit, I’d happily comply with anything short of deleting my account! :p
Fully agree. I can honestly say that interaction with Taimi is a highlight any time it happens. I still laugh out loud with episode 2 dialogue:
Braham: You did great, Taimi.
Taimi: I know.
Kasmeer: What is this place?
Taimi: It’s a caaaave.
I don’t think it was there to “placate the whiners”. Most likely, the voice recording for the current Living Story releases have been done well in advance.
Complaints about the personal story and feeling like a minor side character have been around for a long, long time. Before season 1 of the Living Story, even. So I think it’s quite feasible that the writing of the player as the boss is exactly to address that.
Personally, I believe the “assistant” dialogues were written to illustrate how much the asura are intellectual snobs, and how Councillor Phlunt is even worse than that. Taimi obviously calls us her “assistant” because that is the only reason Councillor Phlunt can imagine why she would ever need a bookah for her experiment. (Other than as a test subject, of course.)
Which is a reasonable explanation for the non-asura players. However it makes no sense whatsoever when we’re dealing with an asura. A Snaff savant, no less.
I think it makes total sense even as an Asura that she refers to you as an assistant. The one dialogue you get with her as another Asura is her talking about her thesis and your PC saying that they would love to help her out with her research should she need it. The Asura Pkittenerally states that they would love to be her assistant for the project; they have “better” things to do as a Snaff Winner, but having their name on her project would be great for their resume.
If only Snuffy was as capable as Taimi!! Her reliance on this golem leaves me scratching my head————it has about as much capability as a bag of mud!! Have you tried it in “Defense” mode?? WHAT a gzzork!!
