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 Post Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 5:05 pm 
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I can only guess that now Riff has the nanites...or I guess the radiation caused by them.

Yeah, that was my thought.

Sasha made sure to touch him on several occasions.

FWIW I think she really is dead. I've never bought into the 'Sasha is Kusari or controls Kusari' theory.

It was fundamentally based only on two supposed pieces of evidence that aren't all that difficult to explain.

Her apparent fairly rapid recovery from a minor bullet wound at NoFun and her unexpected coherence an knowledge of events after being supposedly held in drugged captivity by Monicuel.

For the first, well this is a cartoon and even Torg has shown an ability to rapidly recover from fairly serious injury (punctured lung after being hugged by 'Spiky' Aylee) and I personally think BunBun's explanation for the latter situation was probably the simplest and most likely - "She was faking", and "She had help".

BunBun's insights are usually pretty spot on.

I think it's highly unlikely she wouldn't have reported to her HC bosses that Torg had sent her undercover into a Chrushestro secret battle robot storage facility. HC would certainly have the resources to have got another operative in there with her help.

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 Post Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:27 pm 
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Spirantz wrote:
That wraps up the 20 year story, everyone! Stay tuned for sluggy 20+ with "The Crazy Adventures of Schlock and Kusari: True Love's Kiss."

Still a better love story than Twilight.


The troubling report could be about one of two things. 1) he's watching the DC area too and learned about Smarmison's death. The problem with that is Smarmison getting knocked out of the picture is actually helpful to them, since he was an HC shill ("HC shill" say that five times fast).

2) it's a survey of active satellites in order to confirm Sasha's so-called bombshell. That brings me back around to Sasha, and I'm still confused by her actions. People have said that she didn't provide any info that would grievously harm Schlock's plans, and that's partly true...except for this DFA builder, which I don't think he'd want getting out even for a gambit. Here's the thing though: if that's a lie, it was an ineffective lie, but if it's true, it still means nothing to them. I can't see Torg scrapping everything just because he knows they've already deployed a second DFA satellite. Especially since the person with the highest risk of being zappo'd beside the digbots is Oasis, and they ain't gonna zappo her.

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 Post Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:00 pm 
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And so, the assault on HC has become the assault on the Casino, and Schlock finally wins.

Everybody dies, including Oasis. But realy, who cares? She's just gonna come back again.


They all get zapped into Timeless Space, meet up with Calix and Kada, somehow get out of Timeless Space with a fleet of ships (which Riff has somehow rigged with forcefields to retain atmosphere in real space), blow up the DFA satellites, and save the world.

Or not.

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 Post Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:19 pm 
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They all get zapped into Timeless Space, meet up with Calix and Kada, somehow get out of Timeless Space with a fleet of ships (which Riff has somehow rigged with forcefields to retain atmosphere in real space), blow up the DFA satellites, and save the world.


I don't care what the odds are, I would be thrilled if this happened.

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 Post Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:40 pm 
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If Timeless Space comes back in, it will have to involve the Clotho Legacy. That's the big unchecked box there, but I doubt it will come before Sluggy 20+.

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 Post Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:16 am 
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balthazar wrote:
Thom Solo wrote:
They all get zapped into Timeless Space, meet up with Calix and Kada, somehow get out of Timeless Space with a fleet of ships (which Riff has somehow rigged with forcefields to retain atmosphere in real space), blow up the DFA satellites, and save the world.


I don't care what the odds are, I would be thrilled if this happened.


I don't think it would ever be that easy.

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 Post Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 12:57 pm 
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If hC is tracking people using radioactivity, the next logical step is to detonate a "Dirty Bomb" in downtown D.C. and possibly other major cities. Sometimes you have to play the villian to beat the real bad guy.

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 Post Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:09 pm 
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Like I said in the reactions thread, I don't have any real spec on this perse. However, I can no longer believe that there is no connection between Kusari and Sasha. Schlock's question about it bothering her that Sasha is branded a traitor would just seem out of place if Sasha was just another hC spy to her. Especially when you consider that her reaction makes Schlock recognize that she doesn't have a heart. There must be some connection between Sasha and Kusari. The Sasha is Kusari theory (maybe a rebirth) now makes too much sense to me to dismiss (whereas I originally didn't buy it at all). Who else but Kusari would have the unwavering loyalty to hC to die to accomplish the mission (to the point that she always follows the orders of whoever heads hC regardless of who that person is)? Who else but Sasha would be expected to care that Sasha has been branded a traitor to Hereticorp? I'm still not so sure they're one and the same, but there's definitely a deeper tie there than just they both work for hC.

Alternate theory: Kusari would at least seem to have to be someone who knew both Sasha and the others on a personal level, so .... Crystal?

In terms of actually what will happen next, I believe Pete's going to keep leading us down the road of showing Schlock has the upperhand, while concealing (until after the fact) things going on behind the scenes with Torg, Riff, etc. I think they either know or will come to learn more of Schlock's plans than he expects and will have the necessary countermeasures in place that will be revealed in due time. Maybe they've already disabled the nanites. Maybe they know about them and will turn it to their advantage.

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 Post Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 1:07 am 
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Lord Golbez wrote:
However, I can no longer believe that there is no connection between Kusari and Sasha. Schlock's question about it bothering her that Sasha is branded a traitor would just seem out of place if Sasha was just another hC spy to her.


I do find it interesting that he's prodded her moral compass with questions like that pretty much every time he's interacted with her.
"So you're okay with us doing this horrible thing?" "Yeah." "Kusari you're great!" <- Schlock since he started running HeretiCorp

With the confirmation that Sasha did indeed put tracers on Riff and Oasis, I'm still not sure what to think about all that

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 Post Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:47 pm 
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Lord Golbez wrote:
In terms of actually what will happen next, I believe Pete's going to keep leading us down the road of showing Schlock has the upperhand, while concealing (until after the fact) things going on behind the scenes with Torg, Riff, etc. I think they either know or will come to learn more of Schlock's plans than he expects and will have the necessary countermeasures in place that will be revealed in due time. Maybe they've already disabled the nanites. Maybe they know about them and will turn it to their advantage.


Pete's been hanging Schlock's "surprise" over us for a while, now. I don't anticipate the lot of them being met with a hail of bullets from random hC goons; that's boring and not a Sluggy thing to do. There's something else that needs to happen: Oasis needs to die and Schlock needs to find the rebirth chamber so that he can reveal his master plan.

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 Post Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:20 pm 
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yeah I'm waiting for the "Oh crap this is completely different from Schlock's DoR plan" shoe to drop
(it's a weird lookin shoe what can I say)

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 Post Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:45 am 
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Daiyu to Kusari: What took you so long? I was getting tired of playing the crazy person act to distract the ugly old man!

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 Post Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:53 am 
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As anticipated, Pete is whittling down the extraneous characters (it is TIME for the CULLING!!)

It makes sense to have Kusari cleaning house, as he has to have a bunch of them removed before his year is up.
Based on 4U City Red, it should be relatively easy to predict the demise of certain characters, since they were no longer part of the board of directors during that chapter. Even if certain changes are caused by the Stormbringer being in this timeline/universe, some things simply will not change.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:30 pm 
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:riff: has been to 4uCity and knows about the nanites. Schlock doesn't know where Riff went. Did Sasha ever get the 4uCity story? I don't think she did... So I think that may give our guys the edge...

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 Post Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:05 am 
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:riff: has been to 4uCity and knows about the nanites. Schlock doesn't know where Riff went. Did Sasha ever get the 4uCity story? I don't think she did... So I think that may give our guys the edge...


Yeah, but it would've come up in their little post-Sasha-dying drinking fest.

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