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2020-10-26

by shaenon on October 26, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 26, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Okay, Mr. Bravo, how many rats do you know that have guns?

    • Seph
      October 26, 2020, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      Well there’s that one really strong one that spends all its time at the rat gym.

      • casimir
        October 26, 2020, 10:48 am | # | Reply

        oooh! A two-fer!

    • Barking Monkey
      October 26, 2020, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Well, there’re the Desert Rats, and Rat Patrol…

    • David B Huber
      October 26, 2020, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

      And we musn’t forget a Tommygun goes “Rat-a-tat-tat!”

  2. Leslie
    October 26, 2020, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Go on. Ask me.

  3. Rick
    October 26, 2020, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    Well now we know why EB had to go through shoe trading five times
    http://skin-horse.com/comic/ought-to/

  4. davidbreslin101
    October 26, 2020, 5:58 am | # | Reply

    Py-rats do have guns (they favour the flintlock.)

    • s854
      October 26, 2020, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      These days, they’re keener on AK-47s and hand grenades.

      • Sheik
        October 26, 2020, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        And those ever present RPGs. The Soviets have a lot to answer for.
        Then again I guess they did.

  5. jdreyfuss
    October 26, 2020, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    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.

  6. jennibrock
    October 26, 2020, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    With EB piloting, it’s probably more appropriate to call it a “Little” drone rather than “small.”

    • efogoto
      October 26, 2020, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

      So he’s a White rat.

  7. D. Walker
    October 26, 2020, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    …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.

    • kag
      October 26, 2020, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 26, 2020, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe Sergio was tagged back when he worked for A-Sig.

      • D. Walker
        October 26, 2020, 7:05 pm | # | Reply

        You mean the exact thing I literally suggested? Why didn’t I think of that!

        • s854
          October 26, 2020, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

          Discreetly implanting surveillance devices onto people is a thing Anasigma has done, as Phoebe found out. http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-571/

        • awgiedawgie
          October 26, 2020, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

          I was just singling it out. Relax.

    • davidbreslin101
      October 26, 2020, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

      “Do you always just happen to have rat drones lying around?”
      “Only when it would be funny.”

  8. D. Walker
    October 26, 2020, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • D. Walker
      October 26, 2020, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      Dangit, I could have sworn I clicked the right reply link…

      Anywho, that’s directed at kag’s comment above.

    • thenardyr
      October 26, 2020, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • David B Huber
      October 26, 2020, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

      I think Robert Nowall nailed it a couple of days ago when he opined “Someone ratted them out.”

      • Robert Nowall
        October 26, 2020, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        It was the only thing to say.

  9. 5-tons-of-flax
    October 26, 2020, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Running around with a little knife and shanking guys who don’t know you’re not one of them is basically Among Us.

  10. Shadowmehr
    October 26, 2020, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

    Funny, Echo Bravo and I share the same nemesis.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 26, 2020, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry, what? I wasn’t paying attention.

    • sighthoundman
      October 26, 2020, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      I was working on “I come here to escape reality, not to experience it”.

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