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2015-02-06

by shaenon on February 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    February 6, 2015, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Maybe knows of some Rube Goldberg’s she can draw to stall until They can get Dr. Lee to help or plug-in or whatever.

    • Ron Armstrong
      February 6, 2015, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Maybe Sweetheart knows of some Rube Goldberg’s she can draw …….

      • Freddie Freelance
        February 6, 2015, 9:34 am | # | Reply

        Some of her best friends are Rube Goldbergs!

    • hadashiblacksky
      February 6, 2015, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      Rube is probably in there with her!

    • Frith Ra
      February 6, 2015, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Start channeling a certain hipster lady. They may think that’s just how she rocks when she’s doing MAD.

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    February 6, 2015, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    They’re doing the right things to make Sweetheart go nuts, but how would they even know that? Is it deliberate or Rule of Funny? They’re used to working with people who are crazy to begin with. Likewise, what would the Cure do to someone who is already uber-square? (But maybe she won’t be, by the time they get around to it…)

    • AOD
      February 6, 2015, 4:38 am | # | Reply

      The Cure would still create Reality Blindness, I’d wager.

    • daibhidc
      February 6, 2015, 6:06 am | # | Reply

      Remember, if they apply the Cure to Sweetheart, they’ll actually be applying it to a drone while Sweetheart is elsewhere.

      Although given the parameters of mad science, I’m not saying that definitely means it won’t do anything.

  3. Frank
    February 6, 2015, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    sweetheat, it’s simple! draw a black box, and say that box does everything for you!

  4. Manifesta
    February 6, 2015, 4:05 am | # | Reply

    tune: “All Alone Am I,” Brenda Lee

    All alone am I
    Now the well has run dry
    All alone, with not a thought in my head
    First we infiltrate
    That’s the part that went great
    But now what? Imagination is dead

    Pretending I’m one of the Mads
    Has brought no news about the Cure to me
    I can’t “go crazy” on demand
    The one who should be here is Unity

    All alone am I
    With all this office supply
    All alone, in Anasigma’s dark halls
    It’s a plan I need
    To make our mission succeed
    Can’t just stare at misspelled posters on walls

  5. Delta Echo
    February 6, 2015, 5:26 am | # | Reply

    Ahh, now we see the clever twist.

    The Institute is intended to work (either honestly or through THE CURE *dun Dun DUN*) by rendering the mad, sane.

    So when it takes in a patient who is already sane…it renders them mad.

    This can only end in rampages, hilarity, and french fries.

    • Seph
      February 6, 2015, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      Those whom the gods would destroy …

      • eddurd
        February 6, 2015, 7:39 am | # | Reply

        “It is said that whomsoever the gods would destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods would destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It’s more interesting, and doesn’t take so long.”

        -Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

    • Mental Mouse
      February 6, 2015, 7:51 am | # | Reply

      Delta Echo: f/r/e/n/c/h/ /f/r/i/e/s/ -> poutine. 🙂

    • porterleete
      February 6, 2015, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      It’s possible that this facility isn’t actually designed just to cure mad science, but instead profit from it. There is actually a cure for mad science, which can be shot out of cannons assuming Tigerlily Jones has spoken the truth on this matter, but they aren’t using that particular cure on Sweetheart, if they intend to use it at all. It’s also possible they have no intent to make her sane at all.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 6, 2015, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    I feel that way about my writing career.

  7. eddurd
    February 6, 2015, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Crazy”, Patsy Cline)

    Crazy …
    I can “go crazy” designing!
    Hazy,
    Plan’s kind of hazy right now …
    Sadness …
    I have no clue now, I’m whining!
    Madness!
    I’ve got to fake it somehow!

    I just …
    Planned on a normal asylum!
    I must
    Do some Mad Science, some way!

    Will they
    Build my inventions or file ’em?
    I can’t act chaotic!
    This plan’s idiotic!
    I’ve got to “go crazy” today!

  8. ZReporter
    February 6, 2015, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    Draw up your plan or creation? Mad science can be a soft idea? I just thought it was cue crackling and a wrench… or lab… Can’t see much with a pen and paper for madness unless they know the Black Speech… which kind of renders most mad science abilities useless… unless they go with 2 by 4 technology and built a robot out of the stuff in the room with science, super science, mad science, and a whole lot of magic(al science).

    • Frank
      February 6, 2015, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      Mad scientiests love having ridiculously big rolled up blueprints. Even if they’re bogus!

  9. chrisn
    February 6, 2015, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    I do hope Helen Narbon isn’t somewhere at the head of this organization these days – altho that would be pretty evil.

    • oneuniverse2
      February 6, 2015, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

      I was hoping Helen or Dave would pop into the Drone for long enough to draw up something relatively useful, like a new body for Mustachio.

  10. Shadowmehr
    February 6, 2015, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

    So close. It’s always the little, overlooked details that derail the plan.

    Like having a “madgirl” that can actually do mad science stuff if need be. Minor details like that.

    • Mr. Eldritch
      February 6, 2015, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

      Well of course they have one. Their “madgirl” is anyone driving the drone; if need be, they can stick Tigerlily in the helmet.

      Of course, there’s going to be a period of unconsciousness to explain, and Tigerlily’s work has a rather distinct signature to it…

  11. Konrad
    February 6, 2015, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

    Obviously, the first thing to design is some properly grammatical motivational posters.

  12. Delta Echo
    February 7, 2015, 4:14 am | # | Reply

    @Mental Mouse: So that’s what Nick’s swear filter is saying? 😉

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