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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mike’s sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed it’s been a couple years since we’ve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update I’ll ever share.
Hey little robot, didn’t you just fire them? So how can they be violating policy? Time to turn it into a trash can.
The suits are probably company property.
THERE IS A LITTLE MAN INSIDE THE ROBOT
We should not antagonize the robot. It could have a gun.
r2d2 wannabe just got owned!
A typical False Positive plot would be:
After a lot of back and forth they eventually outsmart or incapacitate the inane corporate droid with it’s inhumane protocols in order to get to the ship in time. However, one of them dies in the process as the robot is designed and equipped to kill any tresspassers who compromise the mission. As the remaining survivor takes off her now failing suit to gasp for breath, she contaminates the rest of the crew, – surprise: turns out corporate droid was right! – and all die a horribly painful death.
Of course, this being False Positive, I’m most likely to be completely wrong on the actual outcome.
Don’t count yourself out, sometimes the endings are easy to guess — like Constriction.
Another typical FP plot might be:
Both protagonists get inside of the ship, but the remaining crew is dead. (Just try explaining mortality to a robot.) The robot has been protecting the dead from the living. The contamination in their suits turns out to be harmless, but the contamination that killed the crew is quite deadly.
Waaaait a second… there’s a cyan glow to the little bot – I suspect that our sneaky otherwordly friend is back to offer them great and terrible adventures…