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2019-12-11

by shaenon on December 11, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Moe Lane
    December 11, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Screw it, Tip, just take a nap.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 11, 2019, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

      Might be the sanest tactic at this point. Let their paranoia run its course and go talk to the Cypress once it’s all over.

  2. awgiedawgie
    December 11, 2019, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    What if we’re all plant duplicates? I mean, Phillips was the only one confirmed so far, and he wasn’t even part of the team. The Knitting Ninja got noshed by the bear, so we’ll never know about him. But really, who knows what happened during that missing 16 hours?

    Okay… enough of that nonsense.

    Tip and Eris seem to have established a good working trust, but I wouldn’t put my life in the hands of either of the other two without either Tip or Eris keeping an eye on them.

    • Schol-R-LEA
      December 11, 2019, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      s/trust/lust

      • Ms. Neutrino
        December 11, 2019, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

        Accurate

    • s854
      December 11, 2019, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      If they are, we’ve been watching a load of plants mess around for well over a month now.

      • Ms. Neutrino
        December 11, 2019, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

        That can actually be way more watchable than you might think: https://www.youtube.com/user/westoaklandturdunit/videos

  3. Alphaghoul
    December 11, 2019, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    In hindsight Tip should have brought up the bomb collar.

  4. aureus
    December 11, 2019, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    If the doppelgangers can copy the appearance of a human, why not the appearance of the bomb collar he’s wearing? The logic there falls short.

    • Jay
      December 11, 2019, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      If you were feeling *particularly* ghoulish, a plant duplicate could steal the bomb collar by just detaching that pesky neck the original has. The zombie bear had Original Bear Skeleton in it, after all…

      • awgiedawgie
        December 11, 2019, 2:36 am | # | Reply

        To be fair, the zombie bear was quite likely an actual bear, being driven around by plant goop. We saw entire hoards of similarly zombified humans down in New Orleans.

        It’s very possible the plant duplicates can only duplicate organic material – i.e. the person’s body alone. Any clothing, etc. would have have to be taken from the original for the copy to wear it. And there’s no way the Cypress would rip Tip’s head off.

        • Christian Rose
          December 11, 2019, 9:36 am | # | Reply

          “…an actual bear, being driven around by plant goop.”
          I love skin horse

        • =Tamar
          December 11, 2019, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

          Haven’t we already seen a duplicate and the original in the same scene? They both wore clothing.

  5. Robert Nowall
    December 11, 2019, 6:58 am | # | Reply

    If they watch each other counterclockwise, he’s looking in the wrong direction.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 11, 2019, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      They all are.

  6. Frank
    December 11, 2019, 7:19 am | # | Reply

    Tip, the bomb collar. They can’t duplicate that, they just told you

    oh right, it’s Tip

    • Theris
      December 11, 2019, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

      Probably not enough of a proof for the others anyway. Knitting Ninja seems to accept it as proof, but really :
      – The bomb collar could be a fake, the real Tip having exploded during the 16 hours
      – The Cypress might be able to craft a real one by itself
      – The Knitting Ninja could be plain wrong about the Cypress being unable to remove it from the real Tip
      – Tip has no proof the Knitting Ninja told him as much
      – Pointing out the bomb collar might lead to a team member deciding to activate it (“if it exploded, then you’re the real one and we’ll try to save parts of your brain to put in a rocket AI or something”)

      • Jay
        December 11, 2019, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

        Also, they’re in an Anasigma base. There might be two whole crates of New Employee Loyalty Enhancement Collars in storage somewhere! (Maybe hidden behind the Eyeball Razor Chimps…)

  7. davidbreslin101
    December 11, 2019, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, listening in at Annex 1:
    UNITY: Aw, man, they get to have raccoon eyes? I want some!
    SWEETHEART: ….is that to eat, or to see with?
    UNITY: Yes.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 11, 2019, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      She may already have one. She said she has a collarbone eye, but she never said where she got it.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 11, 2019, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

      I can picture the rest of the team huddled around the radio set, munching on popcorn while listening in. U.N.I.T.Y. and Marcie are placing bets on which of the team is a plant while Sweetheart is hushing them so they can hear the story unfold.

  8. Robert Nowall
    December 11, 2019, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

    “Savoir Faire is everywhere!”

    • awgiedawgie
      December 11, 2019, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

      “…So beware!”

  9. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    And now it’s gone full Thing.

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