9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Not that bluffing is a tool that Miko wouldn’t use in when appropriate, but going up against a body-stealing parasite that engineered the murder of the world… Welcome to the consequences of throwing in with a monster, Talia.
Talia your boss killed (or tried to) the “they” that wuldn’t let Miko do this….assuming she actually couldn’t.
Of course with the technology this world has, this could all be an elaborate simulation. It’s hard to tell. We’re getting to that point in the Real World. But the cumulative effect of seeing even simulated deaths of loved ones could break Talia down.
OTOH,they’re probably all dead people walking anyway, the way Ian is feeling.
On a re-read binge and two more things occur to me:
Every single one of those people is, by virtue of not violently denouncing Talia, her boss and everyone she works with and for, at the very least complicit in the biggest act of mass murder in the history of this world. They don’t get to suddenly pretend the laws of civilized warfare should still protect them.
Every single one of those people is a potential Host for Dehane, even if Talia hasn’t figured that one out herself because she’s a short-sighted selfish idiot. Frankly, killing them now before that thing eats them from inside out and uses their bodies for meat puppets one by one is a mercy.
Talia’s first mistake is thinking that Miko’s House in the first place. She’s been working with the Houses pretty much since this started, but Targeter’s people aren’t House, and are down a whole bunch of close kin.
It’s actually one of those times volunteering personal information to the interogatee is potentially an effective threat.
Talia your boss killed (or tried to) the “they” that wuldn’t let Miko do this….assuming she actually couldn’t.
Of course with the technology this world has, this could all be an elaborate simulation. It’s hard to tell. We’re getting to that point in the Real World. But the cumulative effect of seeing even simulated deaths of loved ones could break Talia down.
OTOH,they’re probably all dead people walking anyway, the way Ian is feeling.
All the rules about what they will ‘let’ Miko do to you went out the fucking window.
It’s actually one of those times volunteering personal information to the interogatee is potentially an effective threat.