Very true Dragonrider. There are the guards, the combat team, the custom's agent and Connie. Then there is Mr. Black, who is NEITHER innocent or semi-innocent! He!! there are places that passed laws just BECAUSE of Mr. Black!
remove the mount from that and I'd believe you.
You see, I'd just load them into cryostasis tubes and shoot them into enemy positions after thawing them out. A lovely bit of havok.
Well, Rash called it. VERY reminiscent of that scene from Terra Nova - though it was Carnotaurus, not a T-Rex. :-D Not that anyone would care WHICH it was if it was coming at you.
Pedantic Archaeologist wouldn't get eaten as he's not moving! Random Bystander is the one the big guy is going after. Pedantic Archaeologist is getting *stepped on!*
The jackass got what he had coming. Good. However, this leaves our intrepid heroes with possibly a bigger problem. There's a murder-turd loose in the customs inspection area!
Well yeah, where else would you have it at, TeeDee would be most upset if it wasn't there.
It's her steed, you see - She'd get grumpy if she couldn't ride her steed into Nova Roma! :D
She calls him Mr Popolopolis, becasuse Ada vetoed Mr PooPooHead.
Well, I guess its too late for him to chew over an attitude adjustment. All he had to do was sit down and maul over the idea of being a little nicer to people. Its the little things, once you've had time to digest them, a slight change on your outlook is less crushing than you might have expected.
That would be totally unfair to the poor murderturd !
Besides, it's mother told it not to hang out with the wrong crowd!
And Prince Douchebag is definately the wrong crowd.
Welcome to go up to it and ask, Cpt. Of course insulting one (by implying it DOESN'T have standards) might not be your healthiest option, but... feel free to go there. :-D
alright, to do this I'll need a main battle tank and a megaphone... and a milk jug, a long piece of twine, about 15 feet of PVC piping, a hack saw, four elbow joints for the piping, 17 12 penny nails, and a rubber chicken.
"Glomph" is such a wonderfully descriptive sound effect.
I will hazard a guess that the shipper/transporter (Mr. Black) has a shock collar or other handling device on yon over sized horny toad and can stop its rampage with the flick of a switch. Hence his lack of panic at the imminent opening of said pet carrier. By the way, shouldn't it have a "Live Animal" placard on it somewhere?
The operative word here being, "somewhere". If the idiot actually inspected that crate before opening it, or even read the manifest like Mr. Black suggested, he would have known. But he was confident he'd find an excuse to haul poor Ms. android away. The outside of the crate or even the manifest could be lying, so he ignored them, to his own peril.
Anyway, even if the front doors of the crate were clearly marked "Live Animal" or similar, I doubt it would have registered on Mr. Idiot. Obviously, Lamod was his first language. So it may not even register without trying to read it. And while he speaks Spenglish, he may not be able to read it.
On the plus side: His subordinate has learned a valuable lesson or two. :)
BTW: Was it just me, or did it seem like Mr. Black was very subtly trying to bait him into opening the crate? At the least, it can be said that Mr. Black tried to warn him, so they're all in the clear.
Are you implying that I, as an honorable and upstanding licensed merchant in the glorious city that is Nova Roma, would do something so dastardly, underhanded, and generally disreputable as to intentionally manipulate the mentally sub-standard into doing something terminal? I am *shocked*...*shocked* I say at this implied defamation of my good character! *innocent look*
Oh, please, Mr. Black. Someone like you, involved in a cluster of an op like this, and you expect anyone to believe your protests of innocence? Pull the other one :D
Actually, in the situation, I'd consider the bastard on the throne to be 'the other one'.
There really isn't any other way this could have played out to this point, since the bloody fool wouldn't allow it to go any other way. If Black could be seen as having goaded him into causing it to open, then he did so to give his team a chance to survive in the only way he could.
What I'm truly curious to know, is how did they catch the thing live?
LOL Rash. Yeah, that was one of my thoughts too. That poor thing probably will spit him back out. That guard is probably THAT slimy that even a murder-turd won't eat him. :-D
One problem with that is that they don't know where Lynn is. And as much trouble as that girl has been she would be DIRECTLY in the Scythe Lizard's path...
Snap their mouth shut in seconds? That is sluggish. Even humans snap in less than a second. Full proces from realizing there's a target to target in mouth and mouth shut.
Now for a creature that catches living prey with its mouth ...
Okay, I knew they were coming to make trouble of a couple sorts, but ... seriously, I thought they were trying to be sneaky about it, and they have ... a hungry four-ton lizard.
Did they really manage to find someone (Leaedus, according to the previous page) stupid enough to give them a legitimate commission to deliver one'a those? Like maybe for some weird gladatorial game or something?
And did they really write "hungry four-ton lizard" on the manifest Mr Black was telling the idiot to look at last page?
Or was this just a surprise present to the city and the opening move in a far less sneaky infiltration than I thought they were trying to do?
I expected something big and nasty and a horrible fate for the bad guy in the fancy armor, but really thought it was going to be some form of killer robot. Instead y'all went Medeival on his ass...
Now I sooo want a murder-turd-scythe-lizard as a pet... either that or I want eyes like one.
You see, I'd just load them into cryostasis tubes and shoot them into enemy positions after thawing them out. A lovely bit of havok.
Pedantic Archaeologist: "Actually, it's a Carnotaurus sastrei."
Random Bystander: *is gone*
Pedantic Archaeologist: *gets eaten*
Pedantic Archaeologist wouldn't get eaten as he's not moving! Random Bystander is the one the big guy is going after. Pedantic Archaeologist is getting *stepped on!*
::Nods happily and adjusts pocket protector::
It's her steed, you see - She'd get grumpy if she couldn't ride her steed into Nova Roma! :D
She calls him Mr Popolopolis, becasuse Ada vetoed Mr PooPooHead.
I do agree, though, can it get loose in Prince Douchebag's room and eat him, too? Please? Pretty please? D:
Just saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEY6IQD3_eM
Besides, it's mother told it not to hang out with the wrong crowd!
And Prince Douchebag is definately the wrong crowd.
Nothing like the real deal, to make things go right.
Unless it runs away ofcourse.
Name: Optio Clauderius
Age: 31
Race: Caucasian
Occupation: Guard
Rank: Centurion
Cause of Death: Stupidity
I will hazard a guess that the shipper/transporter (Mr. Black) has a shock collar or other handling device on yon over sized horny toad and can stop its rampage with the flick of a switch. Hence his lack of panic at the imminent opening of said pet carrier. By the way, shouldn't it have a "Live Animal" placard on it somewhere?
Anyway, even if the front doors of the crate were clearly marked "Live Animal" or similar, I doubt it would have registered on Mr. Idiot. Obviously, Lamod was his first language. So it may not even register without trying to read it. And while he speaks Spenglish, he may not be able to read it.
On the plus side: His subordinate has learned a valuable lesson or two. :)
BTW: Was it just me, or did it seem like Mr. Black was very subtly trying to bait him into opening the crate? At the least, it can be said that Mr. Black tried to warn him, so they're all in the clear.
Do you *really* want to be the other one ?
There really isn't any other way this could have played out to this point, since the bloody fool wouldn't allow it to go any other way. If Black could be seen as having goaded him into causing it to open, then he did so to give his team a chance to survive in the only way he could.
What I'm truly curious to know, is how did they catch the thing live?
that poor creature......Havint to eat That guy,,probally be sick for a week
Scythe lizard...
...what a pity that it happened so fast - he should have been frozen in shock while realizing his demise for at least a few more seconds...
Now let us hope they can contain the lizard before it attacks somebody else.
*hugs Connie* I hope she will be all right.
Canned foods !
Someone standing on top the container and using ventriloquism or some kind of voice-casting technology. "More puleese!"
Some of the people would probably get munched just from the sheer shock of (seemingly) being addressed by a murder-turd! }:-D~>
That's what you get when you mess with dinosaur DNA in bugs...XD
At the door
Run away quick
Or you'll run no more.
Sorry for the plagerism but found it so fitting.
I don't know how the authors managed to not say anything more then they did. That is real self control people!
And voilá, one firstclass distraction is now in action.
Time to smuggle Lynn out while they are distracted.
OK, that's one job done. Next! ;)
Sorry.
Oh wait...critter fact #2....never mind poor thing would suffer
...not the lizard.
But idiot Centuriae taste like Zagnut bars.
Who's a good lizard? you are, that's right, you are!
The bugger gets eaten by a murderturd!
Now for a creature that catches living prey with its mouth ...
Okay, I knew they were coming to make trouble of a couple sorts, but ... seriously, I thought they were trying to be sneaky about it, and they have ... a hungry four-ton lizard.
Did they really manage to find someone (Leaedus, according to the previous page) stupid enough to give them a legitimate commission to deliver one'a those? Like maybe for some weird gladatorial game or something?
And did they really write "hungry four-ton lizard" on the manifest Mr Black was telling the idiot to look at last page?
Or was this just a surprise present to the city and the opening move in a far less sneaky infiltration than I thought they were trying to do?