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Dark Science #161 - The Prosthetic Reclamation Project

🕑 Added 2025-02-24 07:15:35 +0000 UTC

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Sen

Try emptying your image cache. There was an issue with some WordPress image generation from a month or so ago but it should be resolved now

Nathan Fish

The website's version of 161 and 162 are horizontally squished for me on Chromium. It's not on Firefox. No idea what's going on there; I can check both browsers on my home PC when I get home.

Lilith M.

Oooh, the lighting is so good in this one. Perfect mood.

Hugh Eckert

He's going to sirius-ly rue this day.

Sen

Spot on! Yeah, it's been a busy day in Naglfar. Not to comment on my own stuff too much, but Sirius is an example of how the city can police people even when they're outside the city walls. As Ling and Melchior mentioned when they first arrived, Naglfar is technically outside the jurisdiction of any department, which makes it an attractive haven for those who'd want to disappear. But as we see, Nephilopolis just has to financially incentivize the return of "city property" and creeps like Sirius become defacto border patrol to still exert control over people.

Alex White

Aside from the great conflict, Sirius also feeds us more info on Nephilopolis' horrifying legal morass. So when Kim was nearly killed by Leviathan and the robots helped her build a new body, as far as the city's concerned that made her city property, and anyone with even a single prosthetic who goes to Nephilopolis would probably also be under the same threat. Yeah I think this place needs to be torn down. Also, Sirius blames Ling for the arena being shut down, so I want him personally turned to scrap. And now we have a timeline for today: after the Marquis discovery, Kim and Ling rush off and have Gay Revelations; Vela pops out of the gym while Elith and Melchior are being ambushed, but through unknown means (Azra-el?) they vanish; Sirius punishes Vela for them getting away; Sirius and his goons wait for Kim and Ling to return.