25: Psychodrome 2: The Shapechanger Scenario Simon Hawke

FancyShark

I guess we found a spot where Hawke took a break

gellaho

"God, Breck is so cool"

GDC

The entire group is like "Jesus, O'Toole, does your internal monologue always sound like this?"

FancyShark

"I hope Breck likes me."

GDC

"I'd hate to be someone who reads a transcript of your thoughts."

FancyShark

I would just be replaying the ninja/shark fight over and over

gellaho

"Could you please stop being such a wimp?"

FancyShark

Unfortunately, O'Toole doomed them all when he got the Pina Colata song stuck in his head

gellaho

Turns out, ambimorphs are naturally Nickelodeon Gak

FancyShark

Yep. Aliens on stalagmites. Only possible read of glistening, phallic objects.

GDC

Wait I thought the Ambimorphs started out as herd animals.

gellaho

A very comical death

gellaho

They were mimicking animals that were naturally on Draconis 9

FancyShark

Either way, still delicious

gellaho

O'Toole instantly forgets about how they can shapeshift

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FancyShark

Even the nerd is out-badassing our hero

GDC

It's baffling that O'Toole has lived as long as he has.

gellaho

Meanwhile, Breck has already accomplished the mission

FancyShark

"Why won't Breck carry me?"

gellaho

RIP

Goodbye, Higgins' wife. We hardly knew ye

FancyShark

Higgins is already looking forward to bachelor life

gellaho

O'Toole requires so much help

FancyShark

So much for the "surplus of males"

gellaho

Breck has accomplished his life long dream, and it only took a woman's horrific death!

FancyShark

Yay...?

gellaho

Our hero passes out, having accomplished very little

GDC

Breck was saying "you're dead weight, O'Toole."

FancyShark

"Not as much as Tyla, but still"

gellaho

And now introducing: a doctor

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A Greedy Doctor

GDC

Jay Shulman is played by Jon Lovitz.

FancyShark

"You're much worse off than the guy who just watched his wife eaten alive in front of him."

gellaho

I don't care if you murdered anybody, as a doctor, I'm in it for myself

FancyShark

Weird time to introduce another subplot

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Jane Carmody, very similar to Susan Carmody the Steele's lady doctor friend who died at the end of the first Steele book

FancyShark

Names are hard, okay?!

gellaho

Doc Psychopath, at your service

FancyShark

"This doctor...needs borders."

gellaho

O'Toole has completely forgotten how this started

FancyShark

This must be how his Irish/Russian guilt manifests

gellaho

"I suck, how are you not getting this?"

FancyShark

I've read this guy's opinion on medicare-for-all on so many forums

gellaho

"I also can't feel human empathy"

FancyShark

I like his style. His bedside manner must be hilarious.

GDC

Jokes on them. O'Toole is afraid of everything.

gellaho

All aboard the murder train

FancyShark

Shulman rules

gellaho

MURDER

gellaho

God, these two suck

FancyShark

Oh thank god, you included the part about her picking up a gun. I was worried this was gonna get weird

Like, weird weird

gellaho

No, she gets really into the murder

FancyShark

sweet

John, Servant of Yag-Kosha

Fuckin' hell yeah

GDC

"Stop. Fucking. Monologuing."

gellaho

Still time to pass out one more time

FancyShark

O'Toole might have an undiagnosed medical condition

Or narcolepsy

gellaho

Cut to: living together

John, Servant of Yag-Kosha

Trademark Hawke soliloquy about nothing. Strong ending.

gellaho

Tali decides to move to mental rape

GDC

Didn't she said she respected boundaries at some point?

FancyShark

His colleagues just thought he really liked his crossword puzzle

GDC

Tali really isn't getting a good handle on this thing we humans called 'consent'.

gellaho

O'Toole is always on the precipice of selling out the entire human race

gellaho

Meanwhile, let's brainwash all the humans on Purgatory

FancyShark

"I can't remember my children."

"Whatever. Back to work."

gellaho

Simon Hawke muses on violence in media

FancyShark

I think that old argument is a bit more valid when the entertainment is murdering people just by them watching it

gellaho

I forgot about this, I love this nightmare

FancyShark

Badass

gellaho

Freddy Krueger over here

FancyShark

"I will hire so many ninjas to kill you, O'Toole..."

gellaho

And Psychodrome 2 ends on a 32 year long cliffhanger

I guess more of a sequel setup

FancyShark

Chameleon still sucks at diplomacy

Greg

The word ninja is not in this book once

FancyShark

That is a crime against literature

Greg

Nysteel only 11

Lips 13

If someone has an electronic copy of the first book I'd love to see how many times "ninja" comes up

gellaho

Psychodrome 2: The Shapechanger Scenario has been defeated!

gellaho

So concludes another another edition of The Book Cage

FancyShark

Thanks @gellaho !

Ferroday, Priestess of Evillak

entertaining as always gellaho

you crazy bastard

gellaho

Psychodrome will eventually continue with a sequel 32 years in the making, Psychodrome III: The Invasion

Which is a hefty 300 pages long

FancyShark

daaang

gellaho

But that's a ways off

gellaho

Gracias

gellaho

Thank you

GDC

Thank you for doing this, @gellaho