Comic 1022 - Dirty up the bug
Posted on 14th May 2018, 7:30 PM
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You also test to see if you can have your bug crawl up walls. You can, though not by anything unique to the bug--you simply use the same ability that lets you guide your needles to... well, stick your bug to the wall. You suspect that sticking to the ceiling may be better for sneaking around than staying on the floor is. However, the crack at the top of the door isn't as pronounced as the space under the door, and this is likely consistent with most doors.
You don't have any way to hear with your bug. A tympanal organ wouldn't be difficult to replicate, but you don't have enough material to form a brain to translate vibrations to--
you realize that your bug's tiny eye isn't really attached to anything, nor does it have a brain to translate visual signals for it. ...But it still works. You briefly begin to question it, but shake it off, instead realizing that this should mean you can do the same for hearing. You give your bug very tiny hairs to pick up vibrations with--you'll just use your own brain to interpret the vibrations into audio.
You have your bug peek under the door.
There's two guards, but they're not stationary. They wander through the hall, sometimes crossing paths, sometimes heading upstairs or through the exit to the left. Sneaking by them would take solid timing, but it shouldn't be hard.
You consider various options for your rat--maybe a way to counter-act poison or the like. However, without knowing what's actually in the ventilation shaft, it's difficult to determine a perfect defense.
Instead, you send your rat to find the nearest entrance to the tunnels. You suspect there has to be a way from the tunnels into the church itself.
And after that, go to the open room in the left. Let's search on this floor before going to the next.
Something dawns on me though: Perhaps this is how Jane's 'brain' works? It's not actually there; the blood fills in the gaps.
Let's try not to ponder that too hard.
In the future, I want to test this with less important organs and body-parts XD.
If it helps Jane, this isn't you manipulating a part of yourself in someone else, this is you manipulating YOU. That's all you there, even the meat and organ(s) is completely you.
It's like making a hand-spider and having it take a stroll. Still connected to and a part of you but you're just treating it like a separate entity for funsies.
Could use a tranq gun though...
If someone stomps it, delay, then regenerate when not seen. If we need a spy cam set, build a new eye, drop, and move on. If we need to blood a target, this thing is still 100% Jane (minus the dust), that may well be an option. Just sprout fangs and inject.
(Note of caution: Bug`s not large enough to out blood Thale.)