When I become an Evil Overlord, I shall make sure only my Minions of Evil, my Trusted Henchmen, and other authorized personnel have access to my fire stairs. >-_^< (Take that, Peter Anspach, nyao!)
OK, no. I’m sorry but a villain who doesn’t booby trap the stairs? No. That is inexcusable. This is not a villain worth defeating. Might as well go downstairs to the basement and look for dragons.Basic villainy rules, even basic cub scout rules probably, says you have to booby trap the stairs.The Smithsonian booby traps the stairs, don’t they?
She booby-trapped the stairs they were supposed to use. Probably quite thoroughly. She just didn’t booby-trap the stairs they shouldn’t even have access to because there’s a fire door in the way.
(Of course, even as I write that it occurs to me that, even without the home field advantage, some of the other teams could have been quite happy to find a way through an apparently locked door with no handle, so, yeah, poor show, Tigerlily.)
Uh, are you expecting Tigerlily to make actual, logical sense? She may be a scientist, but she’s definitely a mad one. Doesn’t really think on the same level.
Blindly following the rules of the deathtrap like a lemming is something that THE MAN would do. Sassing your way up the servant stairs to the main event? That’s funk.
By the way, remember what happened in Sweetheart’s virtual-reality escapade a while back? She left a fire door open, and after a series of harrowing events the world came to an end.
(Also by the way, I was rereading that storyline—“Mixed-Up Files”—last night. Comments and all. I had three reactions. (1) Did I say that? (2) Did I really write that song parody? And (3) Who are those guys posting messages in Chinese months after everybody else had commented?
Meanwhile, back in the office, Sweetheart lifts her head from her paperwork, cocking one ear, and mutters to herself, “Someone is not following safety protocols . . . “
I think the point here is that it *didn’t* comply with safety requirements. The fire door at the bottom of the fire stairs had been routinely kept jammed open. That’s not supposed to happen. You’re only supposed to be able to open the fire door from the other side. The idea is that you can come down the fire stairs and out of the burning building, but not be able to go up the fire stairs into the burning building. (Also, applicable law here would be fire department code, not OSHA.)
I would surmise that the referenced emails from Sweetheart would be repeated warnings to all staff not to prop open the fire door.
The building is still up to code. Its the behavior of its tenants that doesn’t meet safety standards. You can’t jam open the door to the fire escape if there isn’t one.
When I become an Evil Overlord, I shall make sure only my Minions of Evil, my Trusted Henchmen, and other authorized personnel have access to my fire stairs. >-_^< (Take that, Peter Anspach, nyao!)
Any evil overlord worth eir salt should have fire stairs made of _actual_ fire.
can you say “home field advantage”?
“Home Field Advantage”
Yep, turns out I can.
I’m anxious to see how much they know about the place they practically lived in and how it can be used to slow down other contestants.
OK, no. I’m sorry but a villain who doesn’t booby trap the stairs? No. That is inexcusable. This is not a villain worth defeating. Might as well go downstairs to the basement and look for dragons.Basic villainy rules, even basic cub scout rules probably, says you have to booby trap the stairs.The Smithsonian booby traps the stairs, don’t they?
She booby-trapped the stairs they were supposed to use. Probably quite thoroughly. She just didn’t booby-trap the stairs they shouldn’t even have access to because there’s a fire door in the way.
(Of course, even as I write that it occurs to me that, even without the home field advantage, some of the other teams could have been quite happy to find a way through an apparently locked door with no handle, so, yeah, poor show, Tigerlily.)
Tigerlily Jones – NOT a villain. And how do you know that “Shoot” was an exclamation of frustration rather than an order to her armed ‘bots?
Uh, are you expecting Tigerlily to make actual, logical sense? She may be a scientist, but she’s definitely a mad one. Doesn’t really think on the same level.
X°D
If she’s there in person, finding a square robot to block up the staircase should be really easy.
Stop talking to the fourth wall and keep going, Chris!
Wait… didn’t Tip booby-trap the fire stairs in one of the earlier episodes?
Blindly following the rules of the deathtrap like a lemming is something that THE MAN would do. Sassing your way up the servant stairs to the main event? That’s funk.
By the way, remember what happened in Sweetheart’s virtual-reality escapade a while back? She left a fire door open, and after a series of harrowing events the world came to an end.
(Also by the way, I was rereading that storyline—“Mixed-Up Files”—last night. Comments and all. I had three reactions. (1) Did I say that? (2) Did I really write that song parody? And (3) Who are those guys posting messages in Chinese months after everybody else had commented?
That’s not Chinese, that’s Tamil.
Some things should really be very obvious.
Meanwhile, back in the office, Sweetheart lifts her head from her paperwork, cocking one ear, and mutters to herself, “Someone is not following safety protocols . . . “
That’s *her* mojo; *her* spider-sense.
This has got to be the first time a villain’s plan has been foiled because their lair actually complied with OSHA safety requirements.
Though to be perfectly honest, this is probably also the first time a villain’s lair has actually complied with OSHA safety requirements
I think the point here is that it *didn’t* comply with safety requirements. The fire door at the bottom of the fire stairs had been routinely kept jammed open. That’s not supposed to happen. You’re only supposed to be able to open the fire door from the other side. The idea is that you can come down the fire stairs and out of the burning building, but not be able to go up the fire stairs into the burning building. (Also, applicable law here would be fire department code, not OSHA.)
I would surmise that the referenced emails from Sweetheart would be repeated warnings to all staff not to prop open the fire door.
(Emails which everyone obviously ignored.)
The building is still up to code. Its the behavior of its tenants that doesn’t meet safety standards. You can’t jam open the door to the fire escape if there isn’t one.
Just don’t tell Sweetheart about this one or you’ll never get that job!