Mighty Dave….hoping you’ve hit on something useful there. It would be COOLEST if they ‘accidentally’ locked the collar on H.T…..and then left as an unexplained explosion saluted them safely leaving…..
Not only is he picky about not exploding, he’s even squeamish about using the invisible chainsaw to remove the collar. The man has no respect for the scientific method!
It occurs to me that there is a simple, straightforward exit strategy, assuming Dr. Lee is onboard Nick’s aero-oriented body. The rescue squad simply cuts off Tip’s head—I’m sure they can reconfigure the chainsaw in seconds—tosses away the collar that was never triggered, store Tip’s head in the DARPA goo (Virginia probably carries some around in case an excuse for surgery manifests), then grows Tip a new body at Annex One.
Hmmm. Or they put his brain in charge of driving Annex One. Or St. Charlie confiscates him to be their in-house head of psychological research.
Heck, this could spin off into a whole new webcomic!
Well, Dr. Lee isn’t on board. And it’s highly unlikely she has any spare “DARPA goo” anyway, since she left A-Sig with nothing but the clothes on her back and Nick’s brain in her hands.
Besides, cutting his head off to remove the collar would be the easy way out – not to mention lazy storytelling. It’s too obvious.
It certainly makes sense that the two Mads would have trouble taking it off – if it were built by another Mad. Has it been indicated before that he was the one who designed the bomb collar?
Yeah, I remember that. Which probably means the collar is a death trap on top of being, well, regularly deadly. (By which I mean there probably are multiple apparent ways to get it off, all of which make it blow up. Some of them make it blow up _more_.)
Wait so he is or he is not a plant duplicate, he’s probably just responding because he has the original’s memories.
Unsolicited testimonials are the best! Pierson must be preening beneath that gruff exterior…
I’m hoping that tiny stud so in evidence on the collar isn’t a rivet but a reset button: hold it in for a 10-count and we get ‘pop’ instead of ‘BOOM!’
Nobody wants to be the guy holding the reset button down for the ten count.
But it does sound just like the kind of thing Anasigma would do.
Mighty Dave….hoping you’ve hit on something useful there. It would be COOLEST if they ‘accidentally’ locked the collar on H.T…..and then left as an unexplained explosion saluted them safely leaving…..
Maybe it’s a cold morning despite the fires.
It is February after all. It might be very comfortable in front of a roaring fire. Heaven knows I’d be enjoying it.
Also Dr. Kirk’s shoulder wheels seem to be invisible this morning, too. Not the first time, either, I checked.
Not only is he picky about not exploding, he’s even squeamish about using the invisible chainsaw to remove the collar. The man has no respect for the scientific method!
It occurs to me that there is a simple, straightforward exit strategy, assuming Dr. Lee is onboard Nick’s aero-oriented body. The rescue squad simply cuts off Tip’s head—I’m sure they can reconfigure the chainsaw in seconds—tosses away the collar that was never triggered, store Tip’s head in the DARPA goo (Virginia probably carries some around in case an excuse for surgery manifests), then grows Tip a new body at Annex One.
Hmmm. Or they put his brain in charge of driving Annex One. Or St. Charlie confiscates him to be their in-house head of psychological research.
Heck, this could spin off into a whole new webcomic!
Well, Dr. Lee isn’t on board. And it’s highly unlikely she has any spare “DARPA goo” anyway, since she left A-Sig with nothing but the clothes on her back and Nick’s brain in her hands.
Besides, cutting his head off to remove the collar would be the easy way out – not to mention lazy storytelling. It’s too obvious.
It certainly makes sense that the two Mads would have trouble taking it off – if it were built by another Mad. Has it been indicated before that he was the one who designed the bomb collar?
Not the collar, per se, but it has been mentioned that he designed the A-Sig death traps.
Yeah, I remember that. Which probably means the collar is a death trap on top of being, well, regularly deadly. (By which I mean there probably are multiple apparent ways to get it off, all of which make it blow up. Some of them make it blow up _more_.)
…and some of them probably make it shrink a size. Instead of being spectacularly blown up, you just get garroted to death.
But please, have Nick scan Peirson to be sure he’s actually human.