Issue 20, Page 24
Transcript
1: Vidali waits outside the industrial steel doors of an elevator, labeled: “FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY”. She nervously looks back over her shoulder. The elevator *dings*.
2: Down the hallway, there are distant sounds of scratching and thudding.
3: Within the elevator, as it settles, no one is inside: just a heavy suitcase on a cart.
4: Vidali reaches in and wheels the cart out.
5: She putts on thick, dark rubber gloves.
6: She nervously looks over her shoulder as we hear a *click* from the case.
7: The suitcase open, it holds the silver metallic dagger, the silver shard, along with the collapsed parts of a spear.
Noisy cricket time
OK I totes did not expect the plot device to be just dropped down from above with the expectation that the last surviving egghead save the world like they’re Gordon Freeman or something.
Yeah, same here.
When the cat-woman scientist…whose name I forget, was saying, “send it down”, I thought she was telling people to send down a nuke bomb or another type of bomb, so that she could massacre: her, the monster, + the martian as well.
I didn’t expect her to call for [ a magic spear?] so she could practice spear fishing on the monster.
This will be a wild ride. 🙂
….right, can’t let that hit your skin if you’re made of the same stuff as the thing you’re trying to freeze.
Wait… Didn’t Julia pick it up without any gloves, way back when Mel and Sedjet were being controled by TOWC?
Maybe the glove is more of a precaution, seeing as they don’t really know how ANY of this affects them in the long run?
1. Why can’t any of this important for your survival stuff ever be right by the people who need it? Hurry up and grab the thing, your individuality is at stake woman!
2. This is a WAY more important brief case than the one she showed her martian body earlier.
3. I get the distinct feeling that this isn’t gonna work out. Like some kind of twist on what could have happened way back when Julia fought some of TOWC with this very object… Just run away lady!
The device looks like a stylized image of a hand holding a flame. Intentional?