/md/ - Murder Drones

>>328922
Oh no! This man is mentally deranged! Thankfully we have medical professionals ready to help him!

>>328824
YOU ARE ANTON ANTONOVICH, ABOUT TO BE A STUDENT AT A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY.
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FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR STUDIES, YOUR PARENTS ARE SCHEDULING YOU WITH YOUR EIGHTH-REVICE AUNTE ON YOUR GRANDFATHER-IN-LAW, YACHSMITOVNA, IN BLOCK 110-D3-4L-UP-K4, CLOSER TO THE UNI.
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ON THE EVE OF YOUR FIRST DAY, AUNT YACHSMITOVNA STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU TAKE A BRIQUETTE OF BELYAK WITH YOU.
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YOU LOOK AT HER CONFUSED AND ASK, "WHY?"
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- "Why? For the fare," - SHE ANSWERS.
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YOU HAVE NO LESS QUESTIONS, BUT YOU STILL TAKE THE BRIQUETTE OF WHITE CONCENTRATE.
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NEXT SHIFT YOU BARELY MAKE IT IN TIME WHEN THE ELEVATOR TO ARRIVE AND JUMP INTO IT.
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YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY PARALYZED WITH HORROR: A GOOD PART OF THE ELEVATOR CABIN IS OCCUPATED BY THE HUGE CARCASS OF AN DRONE ARACHNE.
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YOU SCREAM AND TRY TO BACK UP, BUT THE DOOR HAS ALREADY CLOSED BEHIND YOU.
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YET, YOU CAN'T SEE THE OTHER PASSENGERS ARE TERRIFIED: EVERYONE IS LAUGHING AT YOU AND FEEDING ARACHNA HALF A BRIQUET OF WHITE CONCENTRATE.
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ARACHNA PURRING CONTENTLY.
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NATURALLY, YOU ASK THE GRANDPA STANDING NEARBY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE.
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"Oh, that's Marusya, don't be afraid of her, she's tame!" - THE GRANDPA LAUGHS. - "She's already taken us on fifteen cycles! They refuse to build us a proper elevator, so we're stuck riding like this... hand over the fare, hand over!"
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ASKING WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T "PASS THE FARE."
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"Everyone who didn't pass the fare is taken over as the fare," - THE OLD MAN SHRUGS.
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MARUSYA SEEMS TO SMIL AND WINK AT YOU.
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WELL, ALL IN ALL, BETTER THAN BEING A LIQUIDATOR.

>Born too early to be used by two tall sentinel drones to relieve stress
Fuck my life.

>Cupid drone.
What crazy pairing you wanted to see. Or maybe you want to a soulmate drone for your self?

>>328937
>ou want to a soulmate drone for your self?
One pretend kraut wife pronto please, she should hug me and tell me everything will be alright

>>328922
>this sentiment is not uncommon among the uninformed population post-war, who exclusively know about its start from the infamous "zombie drones" incidents and emergency broadcasts
>actual veterans of the war, however, know it's true
>just... not because the machines are vulnerable
>experience has taught them that everything; machine, man, animal, plant, stone, and steel alike; all is susceptible to the Absolute command of the Exponential End
>a few, those particularly learned or hopeful or foolish, believe the reports that Sentinels alone can stand against its might, that something in their nature or engineering or even their "soul" resists encroachment
>this almost true
>even the Sentinels themselves believe it
>but the flesh always has a way of finding invitation

>>328936
>mfw born too late

>>328939

Drones that explode

YOU ARE J TESSOVNA, A REGULAR OFFICE DRONE, WORKING IN GIGAHRUSHCHACCOUNT.
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YOU ARE ENGAGED IN PRODUCING ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING EXPENSES ON EVERYTHING – FROM RENEWING BUTTONS ON LIQUIDATORS' COATS TO DELIVERING NEW LEATHER CHAIRS TO CHIEFBLOCKERS.
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AND ALL THIS CHANGES IN OIL CONCENTRATES – BECAUSE BEHIND ANY WORK THERE'S A DRONE, AND TO WORK, A DRONE NEEDS TO EAT.
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YOU WORK MONOTONOUSLY FOR YEARS, HAVING LEARNED TO KEEP UP TO DATE DEALING WITH THE DAILY PILE OF PAPER THAT ENDS UP ON YOUR DESK EVERY MORNING.
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BUT TODAY, IN HONOR OF THE 1,125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOMSOMOL, YOU WILL BE INSTALLED IN YOUR OFFICES A EDM WITH THE ADVANCED COUNTING PROGRAM "USPEKH" (MS "SUCCESS").
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AND THE COURSES ON MASTERING IT WILL BE TEACHED BY NONE ELSE THAN THE FATHER OF ALL GOST HIMSELF, COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO.
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ALL THE TYPISTS ARE REJOICING AS THEY HAND OVER THEIR OLD TYPEWRITERS, WITH WORN-OUT KEYS, ON WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN TYPING FROM MEMORY FOR FIVE YEARS, TO THE SCRAP YARD, AND DREAM OF HAVING A CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH THE LEGENDARY GOSTSCRIBER.
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THE NEXT DAY, YOU BEGIN TO BE TRAINED HOW TO USE A EDM.
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WHILE THE REST OF YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE SUCCESSFULLY MAKING LOOK OUT WITH MS "USPEKH," YOU'RE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE TO PAPER AND INK, AND EVERYTHING IS DIFFICULT.
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AND WHEN YOU LOSE ALL HOPE OF DESERVING COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO' ATTENTION, HOW HE APPROACHES YOU PERSONALLY.
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-“Do you have a problem, Comrade J?” - HE ADDRESSES YOU PERSONALLY.
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NOT BELIEVING YOUR LUCK AND GATHERING YOUR WILLPOWER INTO A FIST, YOU HONESTLY TELL COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS.
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AND HE, HAVING FOUND A PERSONAL APPROACH TO YOUR CASE, BEGINS TO CALMLY AND CLEARLY EXPLAIN AND SHOW YOU THE SECRETS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SOFTWARE.
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YOU UNDERSTAND MORE AND MORE HOW EVERYTHING WORKS, AND NOW, AN HOUR LATER, UNDER HIS SATISFIED GAZE. YOUR MENTOR CALCULATES THE COST OF TIGHTENING ALL THE NUTS AT THE NUT-TIGHTENING FACTORY IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES, EASILY REQUESTING ALL THE NECESSARY DATA FROM THE PARTY SERVER IN THE NERVONETWORK.
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AND, INSPIRED BY SUCH UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES, YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION TO CALCULATE WHAT HAS BEEN WORRYING YOU FOR LONG.
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COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO NODS AFFIRMINGLY IN RESPONSE.
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YOU REQUEST AND ENTER A LOT OF DATA INTO THE "USPEKH" MS.
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CLEANUP SLIME FROM THE WALLS WITH A STANDARD RAKE.
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STIR IN THE VAT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, SLOWLY.
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MAKING THE PRODUCT "REGULAR PACKAGING, FROM THICK TINNER."
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AND MANY, MANY OTHER WORKS AND MATERIALS.
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ENTERING THE LAST DATA, PRESS "ENTER" AND SEE THE RESULT.
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THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION THAT HAS TORMENTED YOU ALL YOUR LIFE NOW ONLY BRINGS MORE QUESTIONS.
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BECAUSE YOU SEE THE ENTIRE JOURNEY, ALL THE COSTS, ALL THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SOLUTIONS.
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WHEN YOU TRY TO ASK COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO, HE JUST PUT A FINGER TO HIS LIPS, WHISPERING CONSPIRACIALLY:
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-“Shh. This is the biggest secret of Giga-сonstruction.”
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0.5 OIL CONCENTRATE COSTS 1 OIL CONCENTRATE.

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>>328940

>they can't do it naturally
>but they really want to
>seeing DDs get to have that level of human experience, that level of connection to their organic partners... it enrages them
>so initiatives were made, research was done
>eventually gene-compatible "biofounderies" were developed for installment onto Sentinels that could afford them, resolving the problem more-or-less for good(attempts with mutants/solvercritters get... iffy)
>now any drone willing to withstand the major reduction in combat capabilities that came with installment could enjoy that special intimacy with their human partner while also still producing fully mechanical contributors to the sentinel program!
>even workers could get in on the action, theoretically!(a moderate chasis load for a Sentinel is... not moderate on a worker frame)
>but that took many years time
>and many were impatient
>impatient and strong
>impatient and surrounded by ever so vulnerable, ever so deserving neighbors who did in fact posses the components they sought
>certain... extractions followed
>and getting solverflesh to take root in something is hardly a challenge
>they thought themselves invincible
>they thought their code superior, immune, and the flesh easily prevented from its spread by regular maintenance
>and certainly they know from reports by damnable traitors of the safety to humans the process held
>they failed to consider their offspring
>their ingenuity bore the worst kind of fruit: sentinel-code and solver-string battled within the resultant pillbabies, their conflict distorting code and constructed body alike

>when Sentinel-code won out the effects were simple: vast semgents of a pill's crucial internal coding burnt out, places where they would have inherited balance or the ability to control limbs or the ability to percieve the world from their DD buildplan removed in the process of extracting all Solver influence from the resultant beings' code. The very worst instances leaving crucial personality or memory drives rendered permanently unusable or unstable if-not even rendering out into [FATAL ERROR] from the womb
>strictly speaking the results still found themselves Sentinel compatible, but even the program's best attempts found themselves unable to reverse the damage: research still continues but the outlook is grim

>the effects of Solver triumph in the code differed
>while the program's highly adaptive nature made stillbirths rare the conflict typically still annihalated the majority or entirety of the DD bodyplan: less than 5% of even solver-code victories had significant DD resemblance
>so instead the solver's own nature took root
>human hands for lost manipulators, crab claws for damaged leg code, and eyes for nonfunctional cameras all took shape as the solver-code attempted patch job repairs as best it "knew" how
>essentially, this resulted in every instance of solver-victory manifesting a set of (typically severe) zombiedrone mutations upon birth, ones which they had to maintain through their entire lives lest they lose some crucial functionality needed for living in an exorcism
>some Sentinels would have perferred a miscarriage
>still... despite the horror the instinct was typically love from the zombie's unfortunate parents
>indeed this particular half of the "lost generation" is almost singlehandedly responsible the development of mutant rights legislation: parents throwing themselves into activism or agitation at the highest levels of government to save their children from the standing Kill on Sight orders
>of course this has done relatively little to save the results from anti-mutant discrimination, but heavy enforcement on the lart of their parents limits the effects to the psychological

>the tremendous morale blow dealt by these children, alongside the typical method used for obtinaining the needed parts, stands even now as a stain on the Corps and its reputation well into peacetime
>but the data gained still has use to some...
>use even beyond sating the curiosity of certain spectacled scientists
>those relationships formed between the two sides of this divide(sentinel-triumphant offspring with solver-triumphant ones) have learned from the mistakes of their parents and can now, even in the rare instance they attempt reproduction, limit the damage tremendously through use of a series of code manipulating tools during gestation
>and those relations more forbidden, those Sentinels who found connection with mutants or Sapiens or even the rare DD?
>those couples in particular thank every star in the sky and Terra's ruin and even old JCJ for their luck
>for such have seen the face of the Solver
>and they know, in the deepest pits of their heart
>it could have been worse

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>>328833
Salonanon here fr•¯€e me

Not sure how far I got with these, drew her around early November when I was still testing ideas for fridge drones before I came to a conclusion that people where getting a little too into the concept.

But to summarize the spider: fridge drone equivalent of those deep freezers people typically put in the garage for game meat, made to "collect the meat for you"

(ill see if i can find the original post about them)

>>328972
>Spoiler
Have you tried not thinking about the aliens? Here distract yourself with this drone

>>328974
Sorry cyn i dont care about your power scaling I got more emotional influence from an Afflicted afterimage then your entire backstory will ever give me.

>>328976
How about you distract yourself with this "drone" then?

>>328937
and someone called Y-nissy a sparkledrone

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>>328953
>0.5 OIL CONCENTRATE COSTS 1 OIL CONCENTRATE.
аж ты сука
I liked the greens (greens?), but there are some places where you had grammatical errors anon, e.g. it should be "more comfortable WITH paper and ink" instead of "more comfortable TO ink". Another example: "NEXT SHIFT YOU BARELY MAKE IT IN TIME WHEN THE ELEVATOR TO ARRIVE AND JUMP INTO IT." -> pretty sure it should be "when the elevator arrives". Unfortunately some of the concepts are most likely alien to the anons here and you can't really translate them well, but yeah. Hmm, I kinda want to do something with this or just the megastructure concept in general but fuck if I know when I'll get the time for it.

>>328992
mlem

>>328978
ok this argument is more compelling
still want a proper drone tho

>>328996
How proper is "proper?"

>>328998
>dies

>>328998
>after she pissed off the local nerd convention

>>328999
unsure if I have a good answer here, but i guess one of the canon characters so its fair

>>329002
Aaah, a man of discerning taste I see. How then about a tragic tale of growing horrors inplied from the very heart of cannon itself? I don't think we've ever actually seen a green that deals with this aspect of her storyline...

>>328939
within Fleshdrone's story he is canonically not a zombie drone actually, he's the son of a drone included in the solver patch experiment. he escaped to an abandoned drone repair warehouse and actively modifies himself. the reason for his flesh is due to him hunting disassembly drones (for sport!) for their cores and eating them resulting in the flesh around his core expanding around his body the ore he eats. he also likes to kidnap worker drones to modify them as his own little art projects.

>>328937
huh people like her, also forgot her tail

Some lore about Cupidrone
>She's an odd disassembler that got disconnected from Cyn's network
>That's why her eyes aren't yellow
>She's obsessed with the idea of love and uses holograms to manipulate people into falling for each other
>Spends most of her days daydreaming about how nice it would be if two people observed were to fall for each other and how perfect they would be together
>She likes to observe people from afar to judge who would match with who
>Most of her matchmaking efforts don't work, those that do end up working only happen due to coincidences or factors unrelated to her
>Takes it as a win if that happens
>Her hobbies include: flying, making cool holograms and matchmaking

>>329015
I think she had the last laugh

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>>329020
Hungry nugget woman to hold the twink

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>>325785
>be me
>writer of the second one
>remember N coming up with the idea of logging what his and Uzi's hellspawn does to see if he's pure evil
>realize it wouldn't be Uzi holding on to suspicion of Geist well past the point there's any rational reason to
>realize it would be N talking far too long to see what's going on with his son, out of blaming himself for not seeing Cyn was gone and doing something about it
>realize Geist's kindergarten teacher being asked if he's done anything Antichristish loses almost all bueno comedy value because now it's not coming from Uzi being her autistic self in a tragicomic fashion, but from N blaming himself for humanity potentially being extinct for all he knows

>>329030
>if you think about it
Yeah im not thinking about that

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>>329009
you see that my issue resides in the writing rather then the characters themselves, alot of possibly interesting and important information about them feel missing, doll being one of the worst off victims of this.

Kinda sucks to compare it to anything else but it really feels like we got shoehorned out of alot of info for them because of the shows length restrictions and liams wierd writing habits

Meanwhile im still trying to digest a good chunk of corru's character information because theres simultaneously so much we know and so much we dont it makes for a very compelling story, same with the setting itself

>>328983
>Turns out swallowing still got Core!Nori pregnant

DRAWPILE OVER !! thanks to everybody who joined !! ♡

>>329035
Holy...

>>329035
>frilly dress teli
Honestly wife

>>329035
oh my god

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>>329035
care for an apple

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>>329061

one million things to do but at least im almost done with another page of the keeter manga

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>>329035
I've seen wars less bloody than this.

A freaking sick guitar and drone I drew! And it's based off my most favorite heavy metal guitarist too.
>>329035
Woah holy cow and someone seemed to have added cool little lightning lines on both sides of my guitar, thx to whoever that was Hellyeah!

>>329086
Woa first green lore about this drone!?! (⁠°⁠o⁠°⁠)But yeah I want to add he does actually have a body and not a floating disembodied head like garrett bobby ferguson from regular show kek. I based this art off of a real photo of Dimebag (picrel) putting the headstock of his guitar up to his beard while showing off his guitar rack and rigging setup. Also cool 90s audio technology!

doodle page!! a little bit of everything, drones/oc/other stuff. let me know if you want any of the drawings on their own ^_^

>>329093
TESSING OUTTT

>>329102
Forgot to post Dubs' PHAT PLAPPABLE BUTT

>>329028
You know anon there's no real reason we can't have both. If anything it might be neat to see their problems compliment and compound each other the same way their virtues normally do.


>N has major trust issues with anything that seems Solverish outside of his inner circle(V, Uzi, Nori by extension, and maybe eventually Doll). He blames himself for refusing to recognize the truth when this all started.
>This is accentuated by Uzi's own dismissal of the grub as "a freaking obvious monster dude," since every time he hears talk about it being "obviously a demon or something" it reminds him of both the antichrist comments Louisa would make and the major concerns the rest of the Manor Crew would occasionally bring up with him.
>So since Uzi doesn't trust the grub and he trusts her judgement more than his own on solverstuff at this point, he hardens his heart and treats it like the serious danger it (probably) is rather than the little critter it appears to be, smothering the sympathy and benefit of the doubt he would normally hold.

>Uzi has massive body image issues about her Solverpede form and nature as Host that only got worse after birthing this "thing" and would have even if the pregnancy wasn't horrifying in its own right. This leads her to try and reject it not only as her child but as a person in general as she projects her fears of being truly "not herself" any longer alongside her horror and disgust at her transformation onto the grub.
>This is accentuated by N's treatment of the thing: she sees how he treats it as an enemy and a danger just waiting to reveal itself and projects THAT attitude onto his feelings about her, believing that he's secretly terrified of her host status and just waiting for her to go full Cyn(like she worries about).
>Therefore to assuage the doubts she imagines him having she goes whole hog on hating the grub. She becomes even more hostile to it than she already would be as a way of proving she is 100% a drone and on N's side rather than "one of them."

>While these issues would be bad enough by themselves, they compound on top of another major one: N and Uzi are just not ready to be parents.
>They did not want the grub, did not expect the grub, and certainly don't intend to put their whole lives on hold to make sure it's living its best life, even if they collectively still have enough doubt not to ice the thing immediately.
>Still the hostility that having to take care of the thing instead of doing the "edgy teen stuff" they want generates is noticeable by both parties. This tends to even further justify their attitudes and fears regarding the thing as noticing their partner's hostility triggers the other's issue and vice versa.
>As it stands, the thing would all but assuredly be dead by now were it not for the Evilometer and Nori's intervention.
>The Evilometer gives them a justified point at which to kill it (which stays their hand in particularly harsh or hostile moments) and the Nori/Khan oversight means that "disposal" via anything other than an accident of bad parenting is going to bring hell down on their heads, resulting in the Hazard List and its shenanigans.
>Both only cool off from their initial hostility after a year+ of proving it isn't hostile, and even then the frigidity of affection between them and the grub remains as they grapple with "maybe not evil but that doesn't mean safe or good for Uzi" and "I hate how this horrible thing proves I'm a monster" respectively along with "I just don't want this thing around" in general.
>This only truly ends around mid-childhood as the thing starts having trouble navigating the world as an increasingly powerful Solverpede and he and Uzi bond over her teaching him her tricks for it.

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>>329028

To be fair, there's plenty of room for comedy in how N would "investigate suspicions" given how much of an open book he is. Plus it might be neat to have his lines of questioning and inquiry to contrast against Uzi's chuunier ones:

>From Uzi: "Did he grow sick bone wings? Has he been practicing his evil monologue? Are you sure this isn't a pentagram?"
>From N: "Did he ask anyone to play "mechanic?" Has he been maybe-perhaps-slightly hunting the robo-roaches? How exactly did he ask you for invitation to the bathroom?"

It does explain why sophie wasnt there in their lives

>>329028
>>329112

>N and Uzi both hold onto suspicion for far longer than is reasonable
>You know who doesn't?
>The Bunker
>The ENTIRE bunker
>Turns out the attitude amongst the general population is "we accepted the Murder Drones and it turned out fine, this thing can't possibly be any worse than them"
>And when given the benefit of the doubt, the little critter can be quite cute: like a robo-roach but bigger
>This greatly complicates Nuzi's plans to let the WD's general incompetence and hatred for outsiders take care of their problem
>This also causes them to suspect a "cult formation" situation around the grub
>Cue the two going full Call of Cthulhu on the bunker population: imagining enemies around every corner and a population-wide conspiracy to empower the Absolute to overtake all creation once again when the reality is it's just a bunch of workers talking about the "weird pillbaby"
>They only drop the theory when they burst in, weapons armed and ready, to where they deduced to be the Cult's inner sanctum...
>Uzi never knew Lizzy that well, much less her address

>That's not how this works, Xi

>>329035
Posting bigger versions of the Harper maids and Geist, so I can upload them on the booru.