Perhaps they should check the index under “mute button.” Of course, if the rats haven’t figured it out yet they’re probably not going to at this point.
…how did A-Sig and The Wonder Twins here know to send a rat drone down into the steam vents? They had a single guy in the library, who got taken out by an unseen assailant, who would have come around in the library later without any clue where his targets went.
The most logical assumption would just be that they escaped back out onto the streets and went somewhere else – so why did they immediately break out the super specific rat drone and send it to exactly the right part of the underground?
Unless maybe Artie, Cinnamon, or Sergio has a tracking device on them? Although, they didn’t know where to find Artie at first, and Cinnamon doesn’t have a collar… but Sergio was wearing A-Sig armor and gear. Even if changing his clothes might have gotten rid a bug in them, there’s still the fact that he used to work for A-Sig, and they surely had a chance to discreetly implant a tracker in his body, or at the very least sample his DNA and devise a way to track via that.
1) They already admit they are thin on the ground locally, so any argument based on “plenty of grunts” doesn’t make sense in this context…
…and…
2) They’re talking about the rats as if they didn’t know they existed before, but see them as a target of opportunity that they were lucky enough to stumble across while chasing their actual targets.
My question still stands: how the heck did A-Sig clearly KNOW where to find Artie and Co after losing contact in the library? They should have had a cold trail.
Fair questions. One possibility is that Cinnamon is a traitor. Cats are inherently neutral evil, after all. And if someone had named me *Cinammon* then revenge on the world would be a tempting motive.
In fact, this could explain Echo Bravo’s presence on the mission. The whole thing is really about inserting that darned cat into the rebel scum. EB is the minion Greene uses when he is counting on a subordinate to fail.
Okay, Mr. Bravo, how many rats do you know that have guns?
Well there’s that one really strong one that spends all its time at the rat gym.
oooh! A two-fer!
Well, there’re the Desert Rats, and Rat Patrol…
And we musn’t forget a Tommygun goes “Rat-a-tat-tat!”
Go on. Ask me.
Well now we know why EB had to go through shoe trading five times
http://skin-horse.com/comic/ought-to/
Py-rats do have guns (they favour the flintlock.)
These days, they’re keener on AK-47s and hand grenades.
And those ever present RPGs. The Soviets have a lot to answer for.
Then again I guess they did.
Perhaps they should check the index under “mute button.” Of course, if the rats haven’t figured it out yet they’re probably not going to at this point.
With EB piloting, it’s probably more appropriate to call it a “Little” drone rather than “small.”
So he’s a White rat.
…so fridge logic…
…how did A-Sig and The Wonder Twins here know to send a rat drone down into the steam vents? They had a single guy in the library, who got taken out by an unseen assailant, who would have come around in the library later without any clue where his targets went.
The most logical assumption would just be that they escaped back out onto the streets and went somewhere else – so why did they immediately break out the super specific rat drone and send it to exactly the right part of the underground?
Unless maybe Artie, Cinnamon, or Sergio has a tracking device on them? Although, they didn’t know where to find Artie at first, and Cinnamon doesn’t have a collar… but Sergio was wearing A-Sig armor and gear. Even if changing his clothes might have gotten rid a bug in them, there’s still the fact that he used to work for A-Sig, and they surely had a chance to discreetly implant a tracker in his body, or at the very least sample his DNA and devise a way to track via that.
A-Sig seems to have plenty of grunts. The ones we haven’t met are the ones who investigated the other nearby non-human-sapient clusters.
Maybe Sergio was tagged back when he worked for A-Sig.
You mean the exact thing I literally suggested? Why didn’t I think of that!
Discreetly implanting surveillance devices onto people is a thing Anasigma has done, as Phoebe found out. http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-571/
I was just singling it out. Relax.
“Do you always just happen to have rat drones lying around?”
“Only when it would be funny.”
Except…
1) They already admit they are thin on the ground locally, so any argument based on “plenty of grunts” doesn’t make sense in this context…
…and…
2) They’re talking about the rats as if they didn’t know they existed before, but see them as a target of opportunity that they were lucky enough to stumble across while chasing their actual targets.
My question still stands: how the heck did A-Sig clearly KNOW where to find Artie and Co after losing contact in the library? They should have had a cold trail.
Dangit, I could have sworn I clicked the right reply link…
Anywho, that’s directed at kag’s comment above.
Fair questions. One possibility is that Cinnamon is a traitor. Cats are inherently neutral evil, after all. And if someone had named me *Cinammon* then revenge on the world would be a tempting motive.
In fact, this could explain Echo Bravo’s presence on the mission. The whole thing is really about inserting that darned cat into the rebel scum. EB is the minion Greene uses when he is counting on a subordinate to fail.
I think Robert Nowall nailed it a couple of days ago when he opined “Someone ratted them out.”
It was the only thing to say.
Running around with a little knife and shanking guys who don’t know you’re not one of them is basically Among Us.
Funny, Echo Bravo and I share the same nemesis.
Sorry, what? I wasn’t paying attention.
I was working on “I come here to escape reality, not to experience it”.