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Chapter 241: Trouble Brews
🕑 Added 2024-01-11 19:01:15 +0000 UTC“I’m sorry, but Solaris is away on business.” The nexus receptionist said, “Negotiating with Stacy Watt-powers over immigration.”
She shuddered.
“That little girl gives me the creeps.”
“Yeah, she’s got baggage.” Perry said, glancing at Solaris’s office door. “Do you know when he’ll be back?”
“I was not informed, sorry.”
“No worries,” Perry said, worried. It was out of character for Solaris to leave Franklin city at all, let alone during High Tide. What could he accomplish in person that couldn’t be done over video phone with his old nemesis?
Other than killing her, he supposed. And even then, it wouldn’t take much time at all for a man who moved at the speed of light.
Something smelled fishy.
Perry glanced back at the receptionist. She didn’t have any tells of hiding anything, but that didn’t really mean anything. She could’ve been lied to.
She did, however, have the key to Solaris’s office, but there was so much security in place that Perry sincerely doubted he could get it from her without triggering something.
Dad had just demonstrated that while Perry was blazing fast, there were still things that were much faster. Like electromagnetism. And lasers.
Still, there was another way to check this: Perry pulled out his cell phone and called Stacy.
Calling Stacy…
“What’s up, Paradox?” Professor Replica asked, her voice squeaky and childish over the phone. Then again, it had been ever since the godlike roboteer had hermit-crabbed into the android body. The professor used to have the ability to give commands to his robots that defied the laws of physics and rationality.
If for example, he’d said ‘you are fast enough to defend me from with Solaris’, that would become the truth of their existence.
One of the old man’s only true rivals.
“Is Solaris there with you?” Perry asked.
“Yeah, we’re making plans.”
“Oh, what kind of plans?” Perry asked.
“Son,” Solaris’s voice said over the speaker, “If I wanted you to know, you’d be here.”
“Fair enough. Who’s in charge of the city while you’re out?” Perry asked.
“Locust is running the day-to-day, and the Anchors have been tasked with laying down the law for her.”
“Oh, thank god, I thought you’d say it was Chemestro.” Perry said, clutching his chest in mock relief.
“Now if you don’t mind-” Solaris said moments before his voice cut out.
Whatever they were cooking up wasn’t about immigration, that was for damn sure, but it looked like things were under control in Solaris’s absence, so Perry didn’t really have a leg to stand on to continue prying.
It was out of the ordinary, but that didn’t immediately warrant a full-on investigation…yet.
Plus, He’d left his own family in the lurch, and after an hour, he was starting to get used to his new, expanded perception of reality. It was just a matter of giving himself time to adjust to himself and the world itself.
Everything looked different and deeper, but it was still the same world he’d inhabited. Just because he could see more didn’t mean it’d changed.
“Paradox?” The receptionist asked, drawing his attention back to the present moment.
“Eh?”
She gave him a professional smile. “I wanted to say, my friends and I kind of thought you weren’t very cool in high school, but I’ve seen the bill for damages passed around a couple times working here, and how much money you’ve saved the city. Big fan now.”
“In high school?” Perry asked, his voice choking slightly.
It’s only been four years.
“Yes?” She said.
how am I supposed to respond to that? Perry defaulted to a polite ‘thank you’ and made tracks.
Perry made his way outside Nexus before opening a portal back to Chicago. There were sensors inside the towering monolith that would unleash holy hell if they detected spacetime anomalies.
Focus on my family. I can do that.
***Professor Replica***
“Try again.” Solaris said, sliding the phone back across the table to her.
“I’ll try, but like I told you earlier-“
“Then do better.” Solaris said.
Stacy rolled her eyes and turned to the surgeon, a relatively young doctor in his forties who’d been one of the early bio-engineered babies created by Bio-Master, who’d been one of Stacy’s plants decades ago. Back when she was still John Stevens, AKA Professor Replica.
“Alright, Doctor Herzogg. You have the power to cure Solaris.”
“Umm…no, I don’t?” The doctor said, glancing up from his work. “The brain is a complicated, delicate organ that is the intersection of dozens of different disciplines. This kind of damage, there simply aren’t any techniques available to-”
“You’re obviously doing it wrong.” Solaris said. “John could-“
“You are a giant duck.”
The doctor POOFED into a huge duck, looking around the room in confusion.
“You are Doctor Herzog, but you can fly.”
The duck shrank back down into a doctor, looking a bit woozy as he shook his head, casually levitating a foot off the ground.
“See?” Stacy said, motioning to the android. “Look, I know I used to be able to do a lot more, but it took a hit when I died. It’s gradually coming back, though. I think in another decade or so when this body matures, I should be able to-“
“I don’t have a decade. I need a fix now.” Solaris said.
“Why not get one of those fancy healers of yours?” Stacy asked. “I know you’ve got them in Franklin. I’m surprised you came to me first.
“Same reason I came to you first,” Solaris said with a sigh, sitting up in the seat, leaving behind a tray of melted brain-surgery tools. “Nobody’s been able to affect me with a power since I became Solaris. Except for you. Your bots almost gutted me once.”
“I was scared and running for my life. It was born of desperation,” Stacy said.
“Maybe if you were scared and desperate…” Solaris said, clenching his fists as he made eye contact with his former nemesis.
“You’re welcome to try,” Stacy said with a shrug. “But the power just isn’t there yet.”
“Maybe you should find who did this to you?” the doctor said.
“Eh?” Solaris grunted, glancing up at the doctor.
“From what I was able to see before you melted my tools, the damage appears to be man-made. It did a lot of damage before you halted it. Did anyone deliberately infect you with a designer virus?”
“Let me just check my calendar for ‘designer virus infections,” Solaris said, rolling his eyes as he pantomimed flipping through an imaginary calendar. “Oh wait, I’m made of light, and every time I move, it burns every possible virus out of m-
He froze mid-flip.
“Son of a bitch. I’ll be right back.”
***Chris Stevens, AKA Scrape***
Chris was in a good mood. He was dancing around the piles of leftover takeout, music blasting in his ears as he worked through the Tinker twitch.
He’d recently acquired some DNA from a brawl between Tung-Stan and a cute young brunette who went by Para-Legal.
Now the question was, should he inflict her with a crippling disease? Fun, but he’d done it a hundred times already…or should he modify her sense of smell to make her unreasonably aroused by Scrape’s scent? Unreasonably terrified?
Por que no los dos? Scrape thought with a grin, moving the sample over to the decoder that used his proprietary algorithm. He’d never tried modifying his prey to that extent before, but he was feeling inventive, and the Tinker Twitch was practically begging him to unleash it.
His super suit was a rental, he didn’t have physical prowess to speak of, but his algorithm could work miracles with a simple RNA virus, and was more than enough justification to call himself a Tinker.
But one day…you’ll be known to the entire world. Scrape’s lips stretched around a handful of his remaining teeth.
“Nice place,” a too-familiar voice jolted Chris out of his groove.
“Shit!” Scrape shouted, turning to see Solaris standing behind him, in the flesh.
“How’s the work going keeping soldiers on the wall healthy and vaccinated?” Solaris asked, glancing around the room, his gaze lingering on the picture of Para-Legal on Scrape’s monitor. “That’s what I released you for, anyway.”
“You know, you’ve got an amazing power on your hands. Truly. You could’ve been the next Bio-Master, but your mind is narrow, your view limited to the next high, the next petty grudge, the next pretty face.”
Solaris appeared in front of Scrape, moving instantly without sound or light betraying his presence.
“Your teeth and brain are rotted by meth.” he said, tapping Chris’s temple, causing his heart to jump into his throat.
He doesn’t know. He couldn’t.
“You would know about rotting brains, wouldn’t you?” Solaris said.
He does know. Shit. I’m dead.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Scrape said, defaulting to denial even thought he already knew he was a dead man. It was how he dealt with authority.
“Scrape, there is only one way you survive this: This is Truthslayer,” Solaris said, motioning to a woman in black hyperweave stepping out of the darkness of Scrape’s ‘lab’.
“She’s going to torture you until you make a cure for the shit you slipped me when we shook hands at your High Tide muster. Once you do, you’re free to go.”
“Bullshit,” Scrape spat on the ground.
“You think when I won the lottery and scraped a flake of your blood off the engine of a truck, that I worked for months to clean the sample up so that it could be used…That I designed a perfect fucking end for you…just so I could pussy out and roll over the second you come at me?”
“What did you do?” Solaris asked, his fingers shaking for a moment before he clenched his fists. “Why is it still in my system even though I burned everything out?”
“You don’t know shit about how viruses work. It modified your DNA, asshole!” Chris crowed, emboldened by the horror on Solaris’s face. “The virus is gone. Disappeared the first time you did your vanishing trick, but your body’s been trained to attack itself. You’re FUCKED!”
Solaris stepped closer.
“Fix it.” he said, looming over Scrape. “You can avoid a lot of pain if you do.”
“Nah,” Chris said, sensing weakness. When big dogs like Solaris start to bark like little chihuahuas, that was when you could take them for everything they were worth.
“Fuck that. I’ve got all the power here,” Scrape said with a victorious grin. “If you don’t give me everything I want, I’ll just do nothing, and the world will know me as the man who took down Solaris.”
Solaris’s gaze went dead.
“No. It won’t.”
A cold sweat broke out on Scrape’s forehead.
“Wai-“
Scrape dissolved into ash in a flash of light.
“He was bluffing, Tom!” Truthslayer shouted, shaking his shoulder.
“I know, I know!” Solaris said, pressing a trembling hand to his forehead. “Damnit.” It was getting harder to control his emotions. Soon he might not even be aware of it anymore.
“What do we do now?” She asked.
“Sic the Anchors on it. The ones we can trust. Quietly.” Solaris said, looking at his shaking fingers. “I can’t be trusted to handle this.”
“Should we keep you in the loop?” she asked.
“…No. If you make The Decision, I don’t want to see it coming,” Solaris said. “More likely to work that way, too.”
“True.” Truthslayer said, vanishing into the darkness with one of her sub-powers. How she did it was anyone’s guess.
A moment later, Solaris was left staring down at the ashes of his best shot at survival.
He glanced up at the picture of the bright young woman fighting Tung-Stan displayed on the supervillain’s desktop.
“Silver linings, I suppose,” he muttered, spitting on Scrape’s ashes before pulling out a cigarette with his trembling fingers and lighting it with his thumb.
The nicotine didn’t do anything to him these days, but the act of smoking was nostalgic and calming, reminding him of simpler days playing cat-and-mouse with the FBI.
And Solaris needed all the calm he could get.
Comments
mhaj58
A full chapter dedicated to Probability Dodge sees how each approach plays out. Fixing Solaris causes 4th dimensional problems to emerge and an arc of all the greats: Perry Tom Willy Mary and John vs Jerome’s frenemys causes Earth to turn inside out and reformat. Killing Solaris causes his many sealed and killed enemies to revive and the greats try to combat them only to fail and relocate to Manitia. Perry grinds to level 20 in the process and rises to the 4th dimension and goes back in time to prevent Tom’s disease.
Hayden Leech
I promise it will only hurt….a lot.
Cyrus McEnnis
The other option is to buy every single perk he can that has attunement as a cost and basically build out, rather than up. Instead of becoming a world-breakingly powerful magician, he just becomes the Once and Future Omnitinker. Sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic, after all.
EDMANGO
I'm a fan of a saving Solaris Arc
Paratus
Perry, after strapping Solaris into The Machine®: "You're gonna want to hold REAAALLY still for this.."
Extra16
Reminds me of Dr.D (other Garth) from outer spheres theory about his patron lol
Paratus
In addition to brain damage, he's also gone from being functionally immortal to staring at his own impending demise, and pretty soon I'd imagine. Like if you've played Cyberpunk 2077, once everything goes wrong V turns from a pretty normal solo to the king(or queen) of murder trying to fix it.
Paratus
In addition to brain damage, he's also gone from being functionally immortal to staring at his own impending demise, and pretty soon I'd imagine.
STORRM
dose the book end when Perry hits like 25 and all the text is that horrible unreadable ASCII text for pages and then it turns out Perry was the tide all along? T̴̛̫͖̜̞̦̓ͦ̆ͦh̢͉̱̠͙̯͎̤̑̂́̐ͧͮ̀͜͜e̶̡̘ͪ́r̼̖̪͙̯̣͉̥̣̊̀ͭ̌͂̒̈̈́ȇ̲ͮ̓̀͟ͅ ̥̫͖͔̤͔͉̪ͩͦͥ͑ͣi̷̪̼͈̫̲̅͐̃ͧs̛͙ͬ͜ ̶͔͙̲̘̖̫̥͔̦̄̓̿̇͠n̸̸̗̭̗̺͙̾͆̒̂͠ö̢͈͉̻͈̞͈̱̈́ ͚̩̠͉̿ͪ̀̾̂͂̍̚̕h̡̗̬̥̭̝̣̭̪̅̀̐͟ṵ̮̭̝͈̝ͥ͗̑̈́ͅm͈̠̣͍̼̯̰ͭ̐̈ã̗̬̹̭̘͇ͦ̑̓ͪͪ̚n̶͎̭͚̜̎ͮ ̷̧̻̺͎͍͇̝ͧͭ͑̈́͝ľ̴̵̨͎̞̈́̾ḁ̡͓̟͖̽̃̒̇̐͡n͓̻̽g̰͙̱̺̏ͨ́ͥ̊̄͢͝ṵ̱̥̯̰̖̥͖ͦ̿̎͆a̛̞̼̽̀g̵̘͈͓̳̙̟̼̈͊̌̋̆́͡ě̻̦̲̱̈̽ͭ̈́ͩ̚͞ ̾̂̍̽͏̯͇̜̜̦ô̢͕̼̱̫̲͉̫̰͋͗͛ͨͣͤ̽̕n̎͛҉̻͉́ḷ̭̝̰͍̗̌͘y̬͐͊͐ͪ̄͂̋̾͠ ̰͎̘̉̓̽ͬͮ͌̅o͚͓̺̯̊ͤ̌̋ͫͮ̀ͅu̧͎͎̘̩͙͎̱͆ͭ̑͂̽͒̏ͩ͝ͅȓ̰̜̹̂̑ ̴̥͛̉s̴̛̞̜̥̣͙̳̥͚ͭ̈́͑͐ͣ̂̏͐̽͘h̴̩͍̥͇̳̬͔͊ͪ̿ͧͦ̏̌͡a̵̦̺̖̮̪͙ͨ̕r̵̨̭̝̰̣̣͌̑ͅȩ̛̟̜̍ͣ̿͌̽͋̚͜d̥̞̟͓͖̮̝̦̈́͟ ̭̰͉̲̙̝̌̽̊ͨ͛͆̅ͨd͚̫̘̤̱͊̆ͤ́ͣ̌͡e̵̴͇̲̻̤̱̪̓̓̽͆͘l̉̐̊͒̈́̽͐͏̛̮͍̤̝̹͘ų̸̻̲͔̮̪̹͒̄̀ͥs̳͍͙̩̞̺̹̞̈́ͤ̂͠iͯ͘҉͎͙̩̞̺͕͝o̶͒̿̑ͦ̿ͤ͗͡͏͎̰̱͍n̢͔͈̟͚̘̤̠̑̐̑͒̂̍́ṣ̜͍̆̀ͥ͑,̶̡̭̹̮̻̠ͤͮ̉́ͥͥ͞ ̴͍̃̊̎͒ͥ̉͢͝t̪̱̺̝̙̲͎̰͑̏̉ḩ̙̖̜̭̝̪̫̮ͩͪ́e̘͙̳̳̠ͥ̿̐͌͂̄̐͢ ̡̨̤͕͗ͨ̄̒̄̌͢p̵̬̥͖̥͈̖̫̬͛ͨŗ͈͕̞̩͍̼́̓́ͩ̔͠óͣ͑͑҉̴̩̪͘d̠̘̝̙ͮ̔uͮ͐̍̈́̒̓̌̅҉̤͉̜̘̰̯͞c̛̰̼͖̈́̈́̋̌ͩ̓̓̕t͕͉͉̞͂͗̿̐́͋͟ͅ ̮̜̻̦͇̙̭͔͐̍͒͊̋̿ǫ̣̞̬̹͛͠ͅf̴̄ͤͭ̃ͯ̋ͤ҉̣͉ ̌͆̄͐͗̔ͯ҉̼͎ͅw̷̩͔̜̭͐ͭͫͪͦ̊͊̚͜͜h͇̪̼ͥ̿͌ͬ̽͌ͩ̓î̡͎͔͉͈͍͓̫͗̃ͨ͐ͭ͂͜͜c͔̼̮ͧ̊̓̀͟ẖ̢͕̠̜̩̖̽͋͂͐ͨͨͬ͘ ̧̟̠̩̜̬̠͍̫̌̒̈́i͚͈͙͓̘ͦ̓̓̈͊̎͗̔͞s̷͓̝͙̺̼̹͎͊ͯ͜ ͧ̒ͩ̇͛̍̎̓̔҉̪̫͙̞̺̮̀ä̵̴̩̝́͑͐̎̉̏͑ ̡̱̫̟̖̼̪̔̉̇̈́̆ͧ͑̉̿͝q̍ͭ̿̉̅̈́͏̰͚̲̺u̪͇̞̳͎ͬͫ̌̐́͘ȩ͙͉ͯ̔̑̽̾s̖͈̣̺̃̿ͫ̓̈̊́t̤̺̫̥̞̳̃̋ͮ̚̚͞i̩͒̈ͨ̅o͕̤͇̺̱̰ͦͤͫ͌̓͗̅̐́ͅnͥͩͯ͒̃҉̸̧̤̭͔̜͖̱á̜̥͉͎̠ͭͬ̄̓̂̊̌͟͞b̑ͩ̓͋̒͋͝҉̡͚̺͚̙̣̱̠ͅl̰̗͋̊̐͘y̴̴̭̳̘̺̣̤̹̔ͭ̃ͥ ̴͈̯͍̺̥͔͛͊͢͠ḟ̼̱̩̼̯̤͕̪̎̅̓̃̓̓͟͡ǔ̈́̿ͦ͞͏̴̯͖̱̖n̷̖̗̠͔̯̔͂̊c̒̂̍ͥͥ͗̾̐͏̶̟͔̩̹̠̩̩̀t̹̮̝̥ͫ͑ͧ̓̽̀ͥͤ̒͠i̶̹͖̳̖̯̳̤̭͋̈͢o̧̠͎̳̝͖̥͎ͮͦ͒͊̋̓ͨͣ͠n̨̛͇̪̍̏͒͊̅i̴̹̟̫͇̝̭̙̪ͩ̓̌ñ͙̺̟́͐̐̀̀g̬͖̽ͪͧ̀̕͡ ̛͍̭̥̫͚͔̰̳̏̋͂̆̆ͫc̞͙̼̩̦̳̰̒ͭ̋͑͗ͪ̈̀̀́̚ͅǫ̳̺̯̻͖ͤ̍̓̌̕e̬͙͍͙͐̐̆̎x̵̳͕̞̰̗͙̠͔̠ͤ̔͆̏͘ḯ̸͎̺̣̤̦̭̮̎̋͌͑ͤͩͬ͘͜ͅs͈̤̥̓ͥ̋̊̔̽̿̾̕͞t̼̳͇͇̭͉̖͖̔̎̀ͮ̈́e̦̺̮̼ͤ͂͌̒̉̄̔̂̈́n̝̰̲̓̽ͥç̛̙͇̠̭͚̋̏e͍̤̻͔͇̰̖̮͋ͦͧ̓̃̔̏̕
Macronomicon
I think the word Grandmussy makes me giggle more childishly than it should.
Thando Nkadimeng
Wow
Extra16
Or killing him, sad but possible
ranoche
what do you think Macronomicon
ranoche
arc prediction:word starts to spread and villains start pushing the envelope, solaris goes too far in stopping them causing the protocol to be activated, perry joins the fight but its not going well, perry asks his dad for a distraction causing him to use his "dont try me" contingency plan, perry teleports to williams lab finding him deep in dragussy, perry negotiates a peacedeal in exchange for the soul removal beam, solaris soul gets ganked in front of every causing a full blown war, perry tries to repair solariss body but he cant find a way to repair it and keep him powered, he decides to go back to before scrape brain rotted him, copy solariss body and put his soul in that allowing him to be fine. grandma intervenes at the last minute sending perry decades into the past inadvertently causing the appearance of the tide, he finds solaris after he just got his powers, clapped his cheeks, and then returned to the future through the tide making people see a human figure in the tide, he gets back fights it out with grandma, defeats her and talks her down, she goes to perrys grandpa so he can slam her grandmussy, perry revives solaris, he goes off to save townsville, perry levels up again
Apoca
Can he keep points indefinitely? What happens if he accidentally reaches level 20 while having that many spendable points?
Carl Mason
He might get more EXP for saving Solaris, or he might get more EXP for saving the world from Solaris. If he can do both, that would be best of all. If Solaris' fate is to die in the destruction of the world...
Enzo Elacqua
well he doesnt have to spend his points, he can just chill knowing he has a pocket power up in case anything happens
Doodlyboy15
Agreed
Dane Billman
Definitely think that saving Solaris is going to be the ticket to getting to level 19. Maybe not allll the way, but a big chunk.
Jeff Wells
I don't think so, at least, not for Perry. Remember it's basically trimming Fate that gets Perry XP, so if Solaris is fated to die (either by his disease or by his Anchors), then Perry won't get much for killing him. However, he should get a buttload of XP for saving Solaris. Enough for a new level? Who knows, Solaris is a quasi-immortal, godlike being, saving him should be worth a lot.
Owen Kaz
I believe it's because he's already been influenced that much by it. He could have simply destroyed all of scrapes limbs instead of killing him. But he did none of them. He is already on the same edge Perry has wandered for most of the novel. He's so used to seeing it in others he was blind to his own issues.
Hayden Leech
Solaris risked a lot when he didn’t kill post-gorm Perry. Perry will help him. He owes him that much.
Andrew
Thank you!
Tsorov
Probably because Solaris is already becoming unstable and just didn't think about it.
xyphion
A lot of xp for killing solaris
Jimmy Oneil
good chapter. totally forgot about bro.
Hayden Leech
“Perry glanced over at the empty chair across from him and squinted as it pulsed with newfound importance. Something’s coming. “Paradox,” Solaris said as he snapped into existence in front of him, presumably waltzing through his grandmother’s security team.” Perry had way less attunment when this happened. Perry doesn’t need to be faster than Solaris if he knows where he’ll be. I like it.
WickedlyDesigned
I don't agree with the basic premise of the last scene: why threaten torture, why not just arrive with a minder in tow? No questions, no hesitation, grab his mind before he even realises that he's under attack. Guy was already established as someone who is a slave to their own urges, not really the type of mind that's good at resisting outside influence.
Hayden Leech
I’m wondering why Solaris brought Truthslayer instead of say… a minder. Just grab the goon by the brain and make him help you. Can’t trust the minder? Follow David Manchins example. Solaris isn’t above torturing somebody into compliance. I doubt he would be above leveraging a minders family/life to ensure Scrapes obedience. The stakes are SO high…
nugitoBambino
Yeah this is less about Perry's technical ability and more if perry will get informed (he's both fighting our sweet dragon boi and the leader of another city)
alex ayala
Gee it's almost like solaris has got more holes in his brain than a career crack head. I'm sure that won't have any effect on his decision making
Paratus
I was just thinking the other day about how Scrape never got followed up on.
Ungrave
Good development since we can all see how Perry can fix this. Now it's just the question of if he'll save guy who's basically his cool uncle, or will he kill him and take his place.
Apoca
Maybe Perry can save Solaris easily but hesitate to do so. It will be: "I can save you... but that means another level and I want to stop leveling so much. The next level would mean another 360 point in Attunement and I have no idea what effect it will have on me. I may destroy the Earth by saving you." I wonder what happens if he puts all 1451 points into stability.
Ungrave
I think it did a good job of showing his current state. He just killed instantly without even thinking about it. He's so powerful that the moment he thinks about killing, he's already done it.
Macronomicon
will make a note in my edit reminder to address the loss of control.
Dominic Harney
Solaris’ paranoia and secrecy will mean that he won’t tell anyone like Perry until it’s too late. Add to that that it’s his brain that is being attacked then the damage is already done.
Dominic Harney
End of book 3
Joshua Gunty
Agreed, Paradox just got mega juiced, you've left the bait for Solaria losing his mind, the dragon is no longer a viable threat. Feels like the stage is set for the last hurrah
Apoca
I'm not sure how Perry cannot fix this. He created life from nothing in his lab. Fixing some DNA should be viable. Especially as the virus is gone.
Apoca
I mean the smart move would have been feeding Scrape into The Machine and making him into a robot. One witout the free will stuff. Then Replica would have more power over him. Unfortunately it seems like brain damage affects self control. Who would have thought? And it's believable to me because of how easy for Solaris to kill somebody. A moment of slip and the city is gone
Scott Crawford
End of book 3, definitely.
Eden
End of book 3 for sure
rizen
Paradox could actually really help Solaris here. Can find Scrape's soul, force him to talk, fix solaris with a magitech solution. if only people talked for fucks sake.
Person
End of book 3.
Michael Law
Well, damn.
Findell
Its too bad he doesnt trust perry he could probbaly fix it.
Enzo Elacqua
I’m gonna be real the death was a little too quick and sudden. Felt forced. I feel like him destroying a few limbs as a warning and then going for the next only to destroy him fully would be better showing of him losing control. Or really any other method then him just blowing him up after a couple sentences of back and forth. As is it feels like you just wanted to tie up any method of fixing it because it would interfere with the plot. Not that i feel that him dying does much of anything as we know that there are plenty of people with more than enough power to bring him back, which I feel wasn’t really acknowledged here.
Hayden Leech
It’s a hell of a cliff, up there with “oh shit professor replica is both alive and a child” I like it as an end for book 3. Hotexul was a big enemy to finish on so it’s hardly anticlimactic.
Macronomicon
A bit short, but that seemed like a cool scene to end with. Do you guys think this should be the end of book 3 or beginning of book 4? neither?
