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2020-02-11

by shaenon on February 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. awgiedawgie
    February 11, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Yes, Tip. I assure you, you contribute to quite nearly everyone’s crabbiness at some point.

  2. dexitroboper
    February 11, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    The real journey is the fronds we make along the way.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 11, 2020, 7:10 am | # | Reply

      (*snicker*)

    • Andy4Hire
      February 11, 2020, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      +1

    • D. Walker
      February 12, 2020, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      Uhh.. isn’t it the real -treasure- is the friends we make along the way?

      Ya know, since it’s derived from the trope of people going on a treasure hunt, and at the end of their harrowing adventure the treasure is long gone / never existed / has to be sacrificed to save lives or save the world / et cetera?

      But then just as disappointment seems poised to overtake the group, someone points out that hey – at least they all got to meet each other and become lifelong friends and/or family, and isn’t that a treasure in its own way?

      See examples such as Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold, et cetera.

  3. Alphaghoul
    February 11, 2020, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Ass uked it would be set to explode if they tried to remove it.

    • codebracker
      February 11, 2020, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      How would they remove it when they got back then?

      • Frank
        February 11, 2020, 8:28 am | # | Reply

        This is Anasigma, they could perfectly well have wanted it designed irremovable

        Also, this is mad science. The could’ve simply forgotten

    • soft
      February 11, 2020, 9:15 am | # | Reply

      Peirson should know the tech. He should know how to disarm and safely remove it.

      • BMunro
        February 11, 2020, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

        After all, if you’re a mad scientist working for an evil organization, you always want to have some back doors installed in your tech in case they decide you’re surplus to requirements.

        • soft
          February 11, 2020, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

          I wouldn’t even say back door… he was probably just the one that created it thus knew how it worked.

          • WJS
            March 6, 2025, 2:38 am | #

            Hence a back door. Otherwise knowing how it works just means knowing that it can’t be removed without the proper key.

    • Alphaghoul
      February 15, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Crap! I meant “I assumed” all this time.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 15, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

        I assumed that’s what you meant. You see enough typos online, and you get pretty good at reading them.

  4. Owls
    February 11, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if he secretly implanted some kind of tracker into Tip whilst he did that?

    • jdreyfuss
      February 11, 2020, 8:45 am | # | Reply

      That would be what? A quadruple-cross?

  5. BMunro
    February 11, 2020, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Since there are many people in real life who seem to be entirely powered by outrage, I find this quite believable. 🙂

  6. sweetuncleLESLIE
    February 11, 2020, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    “Unazz area immediately”. Tip, the joy of women everywhere, is now free to carry on his life’s work.
    Now where ‘s that invisible chopper when you need it? Can never find one.

    • s854
      February 11, 2020, 6:27 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Nick said he was going back. The scientists still seem to be around, so maybe Dr. Kinlin could give Tip a ride on the back of his bike.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 11, 2020, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

        I assumed Nick was being facetious when he said he was leaving.

        • s854
          February 12, 2020, 5:42 am | # | Reply

          Maybe he was being facetious, maybe not. I haven’t seen him since then, though.

  7. palenoue
    February 11, 2020, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    If he’s a plant and crabby, can we call him crab grass?

  8. Bobby
    February 11, 2020, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Wait. Is that a Roger Rabbit reference?

    • maarvarq
      February 11, 2020, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Quite possibly.

    • waynezombie
      February 11, 2020, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      That was my first thought.

    • Joshua Kronengold
      February 11, 2020, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      Clearly. I should probably watch that movie again; it’s been al ong time.

    • Author X
      February 11, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      That was my first thought, very good roger rabbitting

  9. David B Huber
    February 11, 2020, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Wait. So doppel-Peirson – inventor of death traps extraordinaire, creator of the Eyeball Razor Chimps – now has in his possession an explosive of possibly vast potency…

    It’s a good thing for Anasigma he hates the collective!

    • Robert Nowall
      February 11, 2020, 7:10 am | # | Reply

      He can undermine it from within.

      • Frank
        February 11, 2020, 8:29 am | # | Reply

        but only when he feels like it

    • jdreyfuss
      February 11, 2020, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      Not that I would put it past Anasigma to put an explosive of vast potency in that collar, but it doesn’t take that much explosive force to pop someone’s head off.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 12, 2020, 8:36 am | # | Reply

        And you don’t even need to pop their head off. You only need enough force to rupture the blood vessels in the neck.

        Although A-Sig is kinda fond of being a bit extreme with its penalties. It could be a shaped charge designed to blow the body away under the neck. That way they can save the brain for extirpation.

  10. trenomata
    February 11, 2020, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    Pierson has not only become extremely negative voice in the back of the collective that says everything they do is wrong… He now has a bomb. Explosive self doubt.

  11. Robert Nowall
    February 11, 2020, 7:09 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t there still a non-plant version of Peirson around somewhere?

  12. jdreyfuss
    February 11, 2020, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    So the collar does work on Roger Rabbit rules!

  13. casimir
    February 11, 2020, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

    “Only when I felt like it.” This is good. Peirson’s attitude completely negates any pressure to comply with outside expectation… though it greatly increases the annoyance factor.

  14. Shadowmehr
    February 11, 2020, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

    To paraphrase the song, he’s only happy when it rains, he loves it when it’s complicated . . . , I’d go on, but I know my singing voice isn’t the best.

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