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| Triangle and Robert #2266 | If not automata, what else might we be up against?
/ Other than the monster itself? Guards. Probably with ray guns. / I suppose there's no armor around.
/ Maybe if I just wait it out they'll come and get me. I'm not completely expendable.
/ Wait. Idea. / I can use you as a hostage! http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2266 |
| Triangle and Robert #2267 | Hostage, gun, vague idea of where I need to go, keys. Time to blow up the lockdown barrier and see what tries to kill me. / Boom! / Nothing but a few automatic turrets. Maybe everyone is already evacuated or dead or... or something Prozac the Bear does to people. Something horrible. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2267 |
| Triangle and Robert #2268 | <<*tappity tappity tappity*>>
/ Turrets disengaged? I was just pressing random keys to warm up, I hadn't even started actually trying to do anything. I guess they figured anyone at the control terminal would probably not want to be shot at by default. / I've made it this far without even needing my hostage.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2268 |
| Triangle and Robert #2269 | Guardroom. Abandoned hastily. There are monitors, but it looks like they're just for this area. I can't see what'll be waiting outside. / Are there tapes? Yes. Maybe I can reconstruct the events of the disaster in a little more detail from them. On the other hand, oxygen. / The vents are locked down.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2269 |
| Triangle and Robert #2270 | The elevators are shut down naturally enough, so I'll be taking the stairs. I'm not so sure I can get up them dragging a hostage.... / On the other hand, I do want to help this guy get out of here. I'd rather he not die if I can help it. I don't think I should try to wake him up, though, he'll probably... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2270 |
| Triangle and Robert #2271 | No hints about what's waiting at the exit, I suppose?
/ Correct. / I'm guessing that if I ascend the stairwell I'll only be able to go up a few floors at a time before encountering some sort of obstacle which diverts me around the base to another stairwell.
/ Ah. You noticed the video gameness of the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2271 |
| Triangle and Robert #2272 | This elevator feels familiar. Tetris! The elevator is either from Tetris or copied from Tetrean technology. Now how can I use that to make it go? / Cartoonist! You said any plausible plan was likely to work. What about an implausible one?
/ Will it be funny?
/ Maybe, but it might be funnier failing than... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2272 |
| Triangle and Robert #2273 | As I understand it, the Fourth Race programmed their geometic creations to obey the same laws of gravitation obeyed by matter. / If that programming is the only reason a Fourth Race elevator knows up from down, then reversing the buttons just might get it to fall in the opposite direction, when the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2273 |
| Triangle and Robert #2274 | It worked? The elevator's gravity actually reversed? That's stupid. It was my idea, but it's still stupid. / Startlingly enough, the elevator reaches the top floor without incident.
/ The doors are harder to pry open from the inside. I should have brought a tool other than the hostage. I'm afraid I'll... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2274 |
| Triangle and Robert #2275 | [[Hostage being thrown]] / You threw your hostage out into the hallway?
/ I don't usually have hostages. I don't really know what not to do with one. Anyway, the hallway seems safe.
/ <<*chock*>> / What the... He knocked me out and left me behind? Where is this... the entrance hallway. What am I doing... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2275 |
| Triangle and Robert #2276 | Let me guess, I'm your canary now, Cube?
/ Actually I wasn't expecting you to regain consciousness, but that works. / I see you have a gun.
/ You can see that? I must be off-panel.
/ What?
/ Never mind. Stick a vertex out the exit. / Aren't you the Meat Sent|
/ < http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2276 |
| Triangle and Robert #2277 | I've only barely recovered consciousness from my last beating! What do you want?
/ Do you know where the Vegetable Sentry was being held? / I had no idea we were holding a Sentry.
/ Fine. Stay down until the police come back and don't make any sudden moves. / Excuse me, I don't know if you'd remember... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2277 |
| Triangle and Robert #2278 | We heard about groups of polygons fighting each other outside this fake "warehouse" and we stepped in to stop them.
/ We? / The Grain Sentry and myself. Triangle said it wasn't his story arc to deal with. We soon realized that escaped test subjects were fighting guards and scientists. / The police are... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2278 |
| Triangle and Robert #2279 | We talked to some of the less insane test subjects. Only the ones in prime numbered pens were freed, and a few in large multiples of seven. / They also described the thing that freed them.
/ I guess it's not good at factoring sevens. But what about the Vegetable Sentry? / He was being held in a level... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2279 |
| Triangle and Robert #2280 | We're waiting for the flow of escapees to slow down before we go in. The more information we can get first, the better. / I don't have much to tell you. When the experiment went wrong, I was in a cell nearby. The guy who came out before me was a scientist on that very experiment, so he might be able... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2280 |
| Triangle and Robert #2281 | So the only defenses in the place are the automated ones, and they'll be split between keeping us out and prisoners in. / We might have to fight monsters too, but it seems simple enough. Cube's elevator trick can get us to the lowest levels. / Primary objective: save the Vegetable Sentry. Secondary... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2281 |
| Triangle and Robert #2282 | Blow the door and take cover!
/ Set to blow in five! Four! / I hear a vector product. It's inside the floor! Get in a doorway! Move!
/ Moving! Inside the floor? / I think they're getting smarter. They just randomly rushed at us at first, now they're using some pretty sneaky tactics.
/ Check your tortillas.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2282 |
| Triangle and Robert #2283 | My cuisine-magic is starting to weaken. I think I have less endurance now that I'm dual-classed.
/ Dual-classed? / I'm both a Meat Sentry and a Valkyrie. The steed, remember?
/ I know that. You just used a weird word for it. / I guess I did. Anyway, we need to hit a commissary or at least a vending machine.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2283 |
| Triangle and Robert #2284 | Pork rinds! Take a right!
/ Corn chips, too. I smell them. We can resupply. / Wait. Don't rush in. We haven't seen any geometric abominations around. They might be lying in wait. / You're quick to ascribe intelligence to an adversary.
/ It could be coincidental. There's no harm in being cautious. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2284 |
| Triangle and Robert #2285 | I can manage one all-seeing ribeye. After that, I'm down to martial arts and equally martial gravies.
/ That should be enough to reach the machine. / I see... I see... they're eating my face!
/ What? / That was disturbing. A group of hyperbolic tesselations saw the ribeye materialize and devoured it.
/ Group?
/ Group,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2285 |
| Triangle and Robert #2350 | Glutamate-sucking devices.
/ So if the treasure was glutamate... / But why a treasure chest full of glutamate in the Great Salt Lake?
/ Salt not flavorful enough? / That line of reasoning is tempting me with its uncanny similarity to logic.
/ Uncanny and also giant-size. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2350 |
| Zeppelin Pirates Over Utah | Ja, it be many a long year since last we flew ye skies. 'Twas a long time ago indeed ze curse befell us.
/ Achtung! Ve need more grog! / Belay that, I be ye cap'n and I be sayin' when the grog be needed, dummkopf! I be considerin' me log. Now that wizard, he were a wily one indeed. / We stole his precious... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2362 |
| Zeppelin Pirates Over Utah | The chest, she was as magical as ve'd been told, but zat magic came unexpected. Aye, 'twas a shock to find our very ship becomin' smaller an' smaller, an' us on it too. / Then into the briny deep the wily wizard threw the chest, after it'd swallowed us up mit is strange shrinking magic. And so beneath... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2363 |
| Triangle and Robert #2364 | That's right. I think I remember now. Who'd expect a treasure chest to be filled with tiny pirates? / And then I ended up on top of the expanding zeppelin and fell off. The odds of then subsequently hitting a plane are best left uncomputed. / I wonder whether zeppelin pirates can be successful in this... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2364 |
| Triangle and Robert #2365 | Yes, I'm fine now. I think we've lost the trail of the world's largest zucchini, though. / Why were we looking for that?
/ Because the Vegetable Sentry mentioned it before disappearing. You know that. / So we just assumed that he'd also be looking for it and we'd cross paths.
/ For lack of a single even... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2365 |
| Triangle and Robert #2366 | If the world's largest zucchini has a treasure in it, growing a zucchini ourselves will not...
/ We publicize it. / We show a large zucchini. We claim it is the world's largest. We wait for treasure hunters.
/ And then maybe they'll know what the treasure is! / That sounds like the sort of plan that... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2366 |
| Triangle and Robert #2367 | Robert? You're still here? What kind of tranquilizers do they have you on?
/ I've been thinking. / Ah. That can get even more dangerous than your typical sneaking out of and-slash-or destroying hospitals.
/ Mostly about pirates. / They must have been put into suspended animation before the Time of the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2367 |
| Triangle and Robert #2368 | Later, at the Greenhouse of Mystery:
/ Now THAT's growing a zucch- what did that caption say? / "Later at the Greenhouse of Mystery:".
/ I didn't ask for mystery. I asked for a greenhouse.
/ It's just a name. / Why is it named that?
/ It's eponymous. We're renting it from Zachariah Mystery.
/ And this raised... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2368 |
| Triangle and Robert #2369 | How sure are you the growth ray won't wear off or make it explode or anything silly like that?
/ I am fully confident that, if anything silly happens because of the growth ray, it will be far silier than that. / Silly like giant quasi-intelligent zucchini claiming a destiny to succeed polygons as the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2369 |
| Triangle and Robert #2370 | The botanists and notaries are going to be here in a couple hours to confirm the largestness of the zucchini. Is the zucchini still safe? / Hmm... that's odd...
/ What's odd? Is the zucchini doing something odd? Are we doomed yet?
/ Heh. "Are we doomed yet?" That should be a catchphrase. / Robert! What's... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2370 |
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