Chernobyl

Don't forget the epitaph, Bubbles! Something along the lines of "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. The danger is in a particular location... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."

Nah, the fact that his rig is military grade (- a term that causes any of us who've actually worked with military equipment to both laugh and shudder ... I'm an old fart. My first M-16 issued to me had Mattel stamped on the handgrip. -) has been brought up within the last week. Remember how he commented that his new rig would most likely not survive a FAYE-RAGE as well has his old rig would?

WOW that was a hell of a callback. That was 4,481 pages ago you absolute mad-person!

Rykka Maddox

Nah, Marten - *ritual* fires are Dora's thing.

Photon

Technically, it's the exact right amount. As far as we know, Marten and Bubbles know as little as we do about how it was accomplished.

Some Ed

I love the phrasing of it as "acquired" a humanoid body. It's the perfect amount of ambiguity.

MiqoRems

https://somethingpositive.net/comic/pintsized-recycling/ Just if for some reason people don't read something positive.

Bonnie Doolittle

Military grade Li'l FuckBuddy.

well she did say "we". I'm assuming there's a split somewhere between her expertise and his ownership

Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé

Same, but with more Atom(TM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnFF5w5sro&t=692s

Leak

Now I just have Kraftwerk in my head.

Chris Crowther

I’m not sure who paid for the old chassis (Marten or Pintsize), but it seems odd that Faye is claiming “finders keepers” with any second hand value going to her.

John C. Kirk

Faye, always so nostalgic

Bagge

Or just Jeph's twitter...

Leak

Start*l*ing, with an "l"...

Leak

So... now all we need to do is crowdfund the sarcophagus on DitchStarter?

Leak

Faye literally: 🤑

Daniel Rydberg

I love how easy it is to tell who reads S*P and who doesn't from these comments.

Amy ☣

Maybe they can go terminator on it, using thermite or a steel foundry.

Andrew

you need sand and boron to bury it.

Ace of Hearts

Even Chernobyl is starting to leak.

Jeff Hartley

Nope, she said "import," which is a synonym for "importance."

Rob Vary

Shouldn't Bubbles be saying it is of grave importance instead of important?

Isaac Rivers

Yes

Drazi

Or some kind of SCP

Ian Dunbar

Why is everyone surprised, but not totally freaked out? Is Pintsize's new body emitting depressants or something? Or are they merely waiting for the other shoe to drop (and go boom)?

BobC

I think Mike still lives in or near Boston, unless I'm forgetting something.

Dev

STONY RIVER QUARY IS LISTED AS A 9.6 DUMPSITE ON DITCHFORK, BUT IT'S AN 8.0 AT BEST!

Yelling Bird

Yeah, I was not expecting Tarkovsky references this evening.

Sean Kinlin

I would love that version of Stalker TBH... >.>

Shawn K. Younkin

ohhh shit

Tamara Macadam

They probably should have done that years ago

Rich Holmes

Stalker, like Roadside Picnic?

Tudza

Not great, not terrible.

Brian Tse

IKR! In a way, I hope that mystery is NEVER solved.... but I suspect Jeph is playing the long game and we're gonna find out somewhere around strip 9,000.

Andrew Mitchell

I think Bubble's suggestion is pretty on point. I might suggest a mummiform case of stainless steel, surrounded by concrete. I wonder how big Steve's boat is? Deep water disposal might be an option as well.

Michael Boettger

Either STALKER or Fallout

Stormfalcon

I didn't want that to actually post a link, so if you click on it that's your own fault

Lana Del Prey

Nobody tell her about fuckablesalvage.what

Lana Del Prey

I love that they still don’t know HOW he got the new body (or who’s it was, in my headcanon)

Andrew

STALKER jokes? I am so down.

SpryPunk

Meanwhile, somewhere in Texas...

fizzlefist

The burial location might become a holy site of rule 34.

Ting