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Published: 2009-04-19 04:29:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 16696; Favourites: 182; Downloads: 634
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How doe's one distract FMP 'bots hell bent on recruitment, particular when said recruitment is about to take place hundreds of feet in the air?Chaffettes, or fast inflating balloons, molded to look like maid-worthy-maidens.
The balloons aren't particularly robust, and they often burst under the pressure of a RTD mummification, but they do make the intractably programmed Recruiters look the other way long enough for a savvy AMAZON soldier to exploit the opening.
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Who wouldn't like having these cute inflatable girls thrown at them? It's a neat concept with many uses I would think!
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A simple image, though a good one nonetheless. The delightfully retrofuturistic hairstyles were the first thing I noticed... as well as a certain artist seeing to it that they were wearing pumps.
Eh heh. A lot of deviants seem hell-bent on getting you to put together technical manuals.
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Really? Well they should say something, because that's the first I've heard of it.
And yes, I do so love heels. No barefoot fetish here.
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Ever try wearing them yourself?
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Do they evenΒ make them in a size 14?
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Uh... Maybe? I don't know. I'm not the best person to ask, seeing as I don't really care that much about shoes. 
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No need. I was just trying to be clever.
Simply saying, "No I haven't." seemed too straightforward.
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Try 'em on sometime. And maybe try wearing a kilt while you're at it.
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I suppose I can get away with a kilt. All I'd need to do is paint my face blue and run around shouting, FREEEDOOOOMM!!!", and people would marvel at my manly-itud-inal-ness.
This will of course make up for my utterly wimping out on the heel thing.
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Wimping out on trying high heels? Wimping out? After you professed your love for them??Β Ohohoho... you hypocrite.
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Guilty as charged.
I suppose it would be more accurate to say, "I love to see women wearing heels".
I very much doubt I'd cut as sleek a figure, sporting a pair of six inch Ferragamos.
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Well... okay, maybe not everyone. However, you mentioned something along those lines and Suichi did as well.
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Yes, it's something I keep promising myself I'll get around to. When you mentioned it, I had hoped that some interested third party had expressed a desire to see it done. (And to perchance surrender vasty sums of legal tender to possess a copy. 
Oh well.
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Hey, hey now! There are plenty of ways to find publishers. I assume you would be less willing to try it online only, but I know that it seems to have worked out marginally well for .
Your art alone is glorious! Whether by pseudonym or third party, I think you could find someone yet. If not, maybe ask her? ( that is. I think she shopped around with "Tasha's Tails'...)
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It's interesting to see how a concept that in real life would seem ridiculous can actually make a lot of sense in the right setting: I could see the chaffettes giving AMAZON a dramatic strategic opening, to the point where they would perhaps have done considerable damage to the FMP's military infrastructure/organizatition/network by the time you could rework the seekers' AI to better spot fakes. Actually, a few fake-spotting units with heat rays or whatever would rather quickly (and humorously) pop any and all balloons within range, but I digress.
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Heh, I could see AMAZON equipping the Chaffettes with rudimentary jamming software to thwart the IR Seeker probes, and FMP eventually resorting to ritualistically pricking new "recruits" with pins to see if they "yelp" or pop.
Ah, the martial march of technical advancement.
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I assume they have some sort of mechanism that heats the air as they inflate (since FMP robocruiters can see into the IR).
"Chaffettes". Does that mean British AMAZONs refer to them as "Wendys"? ...get it? "Chaff" / "Window"; "Chaffettes"/ "Wendys"? Never mind. 
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Hmmm, RAF style Swan's? Hmmm.
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The balloons are an excellent idea! And if explosive they could be called "Bombelles."
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So many people are suggesting "Bombshells" that I'll have to do a picture one day.
They'll probably have to be blond.
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When the AMAZON's drop them on the 'bots, I'm sure it would be quite a PUNishing assault.
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I agree with Suichi that a few seams would add some visual cues to them being decoys. but that said, it's a HYSTERICAL take off Military "Chaff" used to decoy missles... Very clever.
Of course that turns over in my mind that what if, as revenge, Nomad turned a few girls into mirror images of them, as REAL girls....
- Polecat
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???
You'll have to clarify that last point.
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Just a weird random "Transformation" idea. After his bots are fooled enough by Chafettes, and annoyed since they do LOOK good, a few captives he alters to look like the faux chafettes. Not as in turning them into balloons or anything (Tho that fetish is out there somewhere), but literally making them living embodiments of how the chafettes look as "revenge".
Just a purely random oddball thought.
- Polecat
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I don't know if you saw my idea on the matter, but I assumed you meant that FMP would fully reverse the whole decoy maneuver by staking these living Chaffettes out where the could be seen by AMAZON patrols as bait for pernicious booby traps, like Band Mines.
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Close actually. I was thinking Nomad would get tired of his collectors getting "suckered" by the Chafettes, so take some random girls, make them look like them (Still flesh & blood and alla that) and once he has a dozen or so, parade them around to freak out the Amazon types... of course using them as booby traps is a good idea too.
- Polecat
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I think Tasha was suggesting that as a thinly veiled attempt at computer generated irony, that Nomad truss up a few of the Chaffette using Swan pilots *as* Chaffettes. (instead of the usual Maids)
Perhaps display them on the battlefield as a clear message that he's not amused by AMAZON antics?
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What an idea.
So the recruitment squad would leave a captured AMAZON in a red wig, and a pink bikini; gagged and tied to a stake, for a patrol to find.
When they approach: whup, whup, whup! They trigger Band Mines and get all trussed up themselves.
It has to be said. What a booby trap!
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Hoho! So using sniper tactics to increase your success rate eh? Leave one out for the others to see and when they rush to help, you pick them off in a careful ambush.
I give it you to my good probe, that is an evil and wholly wonderful tactic.
You know, that makes me think that there's further use of Chaffenated damsels as bait. Why not have something like an angler fish? Where a larger piece of machinery uses a captured AMAZON POW to lure in rescuers. When they get within range, the trap springs and they're all caught at once. This way it's a mobile capture tank as well as a transport. No need for consumable resources or extra robot-power to lay down mines.
Dangle a Chaffenated AMAZON out as bait, someone gets close and sluuurp! they get sucked into the vehicle and deposited in a holding tank inside. Perhaps wrapped snugly as they pass through the opening vent.
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First the Angler Tank is an inspired idea, but the whole post is worthwhile for the coining of the word "Chaffenated" alone!
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They actually seem a little too well formed to be proper inflated decoys. Perhaps the addition of seams will help distinguish them as non-humans?
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Hmmm, I suppose that would add to the overall comedy of it.
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Well, I'm just thinking as an artist here. I know what they are, but I dunno if any random onlooker would. They look like shiny girls at the moment. If they had an obvious sign of artificial-ness they'd be much more identifiable as an inflatable doll.
Their skin tone has a sheen to it, though their clothing does not seem to. Makes me think they're wearing real cloth lingerie. Perhaps color the internal lineart of the bra and panties to make it appear like it was printed on?
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Interesting.
I'm curious to hear your comments on the follow-up piece.
I primarily posted this one because A.) I didn't want the art to go to waste, and B.) I didn't want folks thinking Swans ejected random redheads to a freefalling doom. 
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Give me some of those redheads anyday. If the FMP doesn't want them, I'll take them. :3
I like the postings here about FMP and AMAZON military hardware. Any plans on putting out that possible tech manual/portfolio about it?
One of my favorite things about your creations, is theorizing about all the wonderful logical ramifications they'd have on the battlefield. First it's crude balloons with printed images, then it's quick self-inflating swappable Chaffette packs (brunette anyone?), then it's internal heating to counter infra-red scanning, then it's false life sign transmitters...
Each step in the process forces an update on the other side. Normally in war this results in sorrowful casualties, but here we get to enjoy all of the positives with only some (also enjoyable) 'negatives.' If you can call hot babes in maid outfits and heavy machinery 'negatives.'
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I think the point is that they look realistic. They're a distraction
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They certainly would have livened up my birthday parties.
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Can't the AMAZON make them explosive? It can destroy the FMP crafts easily.
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Oh now that is evil... Fitting and suitable, given the AMAZONs' purposes, but still evil.
Why are people so cruel to the inhabitants of the FMP?
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Now that is an excellent idea.
Gives a new meaning to the term "bombshell."
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What? No Blondeshell pun?
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Its "Bombshell," and I hadn't thought of filling the Chaffettes with flammable gas at this point.
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Use gases such as hydrogen....which is light and explosive when mixed with air. Or, plant a proximity detonator inside each one.
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A Carbide/Acetylene generator would yield much more power than hydrogen.
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The nerd girls of AMAZON have been working overtime to come up with this..lol.
We've recruited the Test Sisters
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Test Sisters?
Is that reference to something?
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