Comic 1133 - Send a bug
Posted on 28th Nov 2018, 7:01 PM
in Like a Bullet from Behind
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Author Notes:
You check the machine on the left, with all the monitors, first. Most of the damage is like that in the rest of the facility--the edges of the holes are jagged and inconsistent. It looks... chewed, if you had to guess. There's also more of the yellow-ish fluid. Michelle's thought that it may be some kind of saliva is looking more and more likely.
You also send your bug to investigate the various gauges on the right side of the room. This device in particular looks untouched, except for the dust and wear of age. It's wired into the ceiling, though--if whatever did this was just looking for electricity, why wouldn't it come after this machine?
You begin to suspect that whatever it is, it may not just be eating metal in general... it appears to have hunted for something specific, maybe something in the composition of the more complicated electronics and wiring in the building. It tore its way into some areas, but left others alone entirely.
You remember what Dr. Finch said--about creatures being genetically modified to produce webs.
Thinking about it reminds you of something else (probably from Dr. Finch's memories): that many, many experiments have also been done in an attempt to fabricate stronger silk, usually by integrating microscopic metals into the mixture. Sometimes this is performed via direct genetic alteration or engineering, but other times the process is simpler--like spraying spiders down with a water-graphene particle mix, or giving them food laced with carbon nanotubes.
If... whatever this is was physically fed something like that, over several generations it may have developed a taste for it. That could explain why only some objects are damaged--the creature may not have sensed anything it wanted out of this machine.
...Though, that could also mean the webs are even stronger than you anticipated. You're not too sure.
It could also mean that they're conductive.
I suggest the webbing in front of Blobbert, since it just seems to be covering the door and not connected to what might be Psychic Mutant Ghost Spider Satan's nest. We can have Blobbert do the shocking, and just send the electricity via the red.
Disturbing a spider's nest is a *great* way to provoke it into attacking you defensively, so let's not shoot electricity at the big ol' mass of webs just yet. (I'm not sure about the defensiveness levels of psychics, mutants, ghosts, or Satan, though.)
'SCIENCE'
When you start shooting lightening.
Excitement and quite possibly reverb. A thunder crash would definately help.
but maybe isolate a bit of the web and then zap it as not to disturb spider satan
A Perpetual Motion Machine, you mean?
Aren't those impossible...?