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q99 ([personal profile] q99) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2014-10-11 11:56 pm

Gold Digger; The Enemy that Sees you

Since people are starting to post creepy stuff, I thought I'd serve up some cosmic eye scream.




Recently in Gold Digger, the heroes managed to capture Rao, leader of the Dynasty of the Stars, a very nasty bunch (You can get a sample of him Here, if you're curious). One of the long-running mysteries of the Dynasty is why, thousands of years ago, at the height of their brutal reign, they vanished, apparently terrified of something. Some thought someone had just pulled a con on them or just some BS the Dynasty made up since ever since they've returned they've been saying how everyone should be happy to serve thimg, but...

... well, now that they have someone who was there, it's better to check. Penny Pincer, one of the top scientists, links Rao, and herself, into a virtual world, even giving herself a minor nano implant to get data from it better, a tech somewhat derived from Dynasty tech.

Rao, while they're going, keeps telling Penny to stop, though this is mixed with him trying to hijack the program and trying to get free (only to be smacked down via Penny's god-mode), and him eating some force-feedback since the VR is linked to his nanites, so it seems like it's purely a ruse at first, and Penny pauses the program to put him in his place

However, when he discovers Penny has nanites too, he smirks.
















(In case you can't see, that's an image of the... whatever it is, and barely visible, someone saying Penny's name)



Penny wakes up ten hours later, having been attacked by the whatever in the *paused* simulation, telling the others what she saw.



Now the only question... did it see her?





Five scans from Fred Perry's Gold Digger #211

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[personal profile] bewareofgeek 2014-10-12 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Unless Fred has changed his mind (he does, periodically), I know what it is, and it's a pretty Lovecraftian concept.