I thought that too...unless something has happened in the interim.



Good point! It could be some kind of test of her honesty.

That seems like a rather pointless question considering that she wasn't armed with the laser cannon until after she told the lie.

Not so much testing her honesty about the satellite-building space station, but rather her honesty about no longer working for hC.

I think he hid a bug in the inflatable laser cannon. Or that it works, but not against him (special targeting parameters or somesuch).

I think the point is less about whether or not she's going to kill him, but that he just gave her permission to kill Oasis. And we know what that means...

She can now do that, and go back to pretending to be on their side (i.e., continuing to spy) with no one the wiser - until it's too late...

My prediction for tomorrow is that they get out of the damn hotel room! It's less a prediction than it is a plea for my sanity
I normally don't grumble about story progression, but for being ONLY THREE MONTHS AWAY from the big climax, things suuuure are moving at a slow pace! :|

I'll limit my ranting to that since this isn't really the place for it, and if I keep this up there's a good chance I'll turn into the Zylonbane of the spec forum. But as hard as I try, I genuinely don't see how the story will have time to fit in everything that has to happen when it just took six months to set up three plot points. Either Pete's gonna have to do some really clever storytelling soon, or just lay it out there that this is gonna take a lot longer to tell than he initially predicted.

My bet is that we get to August and still have at least another month of key story left to conclude

For the record, they were actually out of the hotel room yesterday (6/5), but standing in the hallway is just as bad, yeah. Your point remains valid.

Sasha's going to die by knife, Riff's going to kill Oasis with the exploding laser cannon (after "rejoining" HeretiCorp to give her a reason to pick it up) and Schlock gets his scans.

Oh, wow! I actually got one with the bug in the laser cannon!

Good job!

I think Torg is going to say "What? What?!" (trying to get Riff to answer on the phone) and then run toward the south as well.

Yes, I meant the hotel as a whole but my brain wasn't cooperating with me. Of course, my prediction can only ever be half-right now, because Sasha officially never got out of that hotel. Alive at least :\


points!

As Sasha is falling, she pulls the knife out and stabs/kills Oasis.

Yeah, probably not, but I can hope.

I think Riff will feel very guilty and conflicted...

But he's sure to open the door to the stairs any minute and see what happened--I worry about what Oasis will do when she sees him.
Hopefully, Riff still has Torg on speakerphone to talk her down. But Riff doesn't always think straight when he is emotional.

I think that's where will end for tomorrow's cliffhanger.

Moment of truth! Does Sasha have freaky abnormal healing powers or not!? Is she going to live or die?

...

I'm going with freaky abnormal healing powers. She got her wits about her way to fast when she was 'drugged' by Monicruel and went from zombie to secret agent shoot Riff in the face. She also seemed to heal very quickly during the minion master arc where she dated Sam briefly and he almost ate her.

Well, I hope she doesn't die, but I bet we don't find out for sure till Monday, because Friday cliff hanger.

Well, I was wrong about the second part, but I think I'll be right about the third prediction. Riff probably had more than one inflatable weapon, and he wasn't very far behind Sasha.