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01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mikeās sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed itās been a couple years since weāve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update Iāll ever share.
He’s getting up! I think he’ll be okay!
I actually laughed reading this. š
She got a minute left…
Probably condemned this door with yourself in, when you pressed this alarm.
Quite a sense of sacrifice and/or courage and/or duty.
Hum… Good luck?
Did she just doom herself?
Where’s Gordon Freeman when you need him?
Considering the line this story is taking & you mention Gordon Freeman I think of his voice narration for Zefrank’s channel on YouTube, “True Facts About (animal species).”
Guess she decided to be the martyr and not risk possibly infecting the rest of the world with a semi-sentient brain parasite. Good on her, that’s more then most people tend to do in these comics!
Why do I get the feeling that she knew this was all going to happen?
I was wondering if the exchange about the facilities being identical was going to end up a Chekhov’s blueprint, myself.
Not sure if she’s pushing on the door or just changing her mind. Looks like she’s changing her mind in order to follow protocol. So maybe the hand over the mouth is a sign she’s vainly trying to filter her breathing?
I dunno about you, but I wouldn’t take my eye off that sample if you paid me.
opening the door risks allowing further contagion
Don’t forget the ‘specimen’ came through the shut door in the first place…
Based on how they handle it, probably not exposed and almost certainly not in its current metamorphosed feeding, growing state or fused to human…
Protocols?
Seems like there are no protocols at all in this facility when working with a highly volatile, highly infectious, brain-controlling alien parasite (no facemasks, no real airlocks, no bio-scubbing stations, etc). No wonder this place got infected…
The protocols were “to preserve the integrity of their work,” i.e., the integrity of the sample, avoid contaminating the specimen.They didn’t view it as a biological threat… big mistake.
Huge.
Actually, I’m kind of impressed by her courage and self-sacrifice. I didn’t really like her much until now. But instead of endangering others and allowing a dangerous…whatever the ceiling tapioca was…to escape and spread, she’s locked herself in, thereby dooming herself.
She has earned her place in Paradise.
She has earned her place in the specimen’s digestive system, that’s for sure.
You think It wants to kill her? I’m sure it has far more creative…perhaps procreative uses for her. Ewww.
And yes.. this was terribly brave and self-sacrificing of her… very heroic…
Heh..”Ceiling Tapioca”…That’s totally going to be my next Gamer tag…
Aaaannnnnd that has me thinking of a AD&D pudding-type monster waiting in ambush for the next unobservant dungeon delver to come along…
COLOR CHANGE! have we had a color change mid arc before?
I think it was meant to indicate the alarm being activated.
Whatever is happening, I’m sure it is in her best interest.
How noble, a person bound by duty. A sad note, most often I find those who feel bound by duty often find themselves flooding in regret.
Protocols. Protocols.
Still not completely convinced this is a “self-sacrificing” situation. For being the alleged “investigator” of the incident, she wasn’t really briefed very well on the situation and the scope of what the facility really covered. “Self-Sacrificing”? It’s possible, but I’m calling “shenanigans” and “tomfoolery”…
There’s a short story by Clark Ashton Smith with a similar conceit: a flat, pancake-like alien life form hangs from ceilings and drops onto unsuspecting passers by, then fuses with their brain.
“My insurance deductible will never cover this!”
C’mon baby, you’ll play host to a brand new bouncy baby alien parasite.
Simple procedure really, come.. sit by the alarm bells, enjoy the mood while it lasts..Sshhhhush, it’ll be over soon..