02/28/25 – The Sandwich Cell

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Heakie glared at Purrloin, who was hanging upside-down by her paws in manacles, and said, "what about your furry friend?" Picknar said, "The cat appears to be non-sentient." Heakie continues to glare at Purrloin who looks rather daft and meowed. Heakie said, "Hrm. Yeah, I'd believe that."  Heakie then turned back to Thoos and said, "Well, Audri, you're going to regret what you've done." Thoos said, "My real name is Thoos. And if you mean coming here, I already do." Heakie said, "We've ordered some tracer-bots, but they won't be here until tomorrow. So, for now, Spizz will throw you in the sandwich cell." Upset, Thoos said, "You... you called it that when I was a child, but you always said it was simply an extra cellar for jam, and never that it was an actual prison!" Heakie yelled right back, "You monster. You tortured that fact out of Thoos too." Porpa added, "Besides, it wasn't a lie. It's also an extra cellar for jam."

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One can always use a spare room for extra jam.

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Heakie glared at Purrloin, who was hanging upside-down by her paws in manacles, and said, “what about your furry friend?” Picknar said, “The cat appears to be non-sentient.” Heakie continues to glare at Purrloin who looks rather daft and meowed. Heakie said, “Hrm. Yeah, I’d believe that.”  Heakie then turned back to Thoos and said, “Well, Audri, you’re going to regret what you’ve done.” Thoos said, “My real name is Thoos. And if you mean coming here, I already do.” Heakie said, “We’ve ordered some tracer-bots, but they won’t be here until tomorrow. So, for now, Spizz will throw you in the sandwich cell.” Upset, Thoos said, “You… you called it that when I was a child, but you always said it was simply an extra cellar for jam, and never that it was an actual prison!” Heakie yelled right back, “You monster. You tortured that fact out of Thoos too.” Porpa added, “Besides, it wasn’t a lie. It’s also an extra cellar for jam.”

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21 Comments

  1. Coyoty

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    “At least we won’t starve.”
    “I might! I’m not eating anything with a name like ‘pukeberry’ on the label!”
    “That’s Puceberry Jam! And with a name like Puceberry, it’s got to be good!”

    1. TB

      More like fixated. Can you imagine how it’s even possible to torture memories like this out of someone? You can get somebody really drunk I suppose until they’re morosely telling you about how Uncle Fred stepped on their pet turtle.

      1. tlhonmey

        Nah. You rip out their brain and map all the connections and then imprint it onto somebody else. Not so much torture as disassembly and cataloging.

        It might easily be quite painful though, so that might count as torture… But the pain probably wouldn’t be an intrinsic part of the data-extraction process, so it’s not so much torture as just an unfortunate side-effect.

    1. Hahaha! Well, nobody did, I just forgot to draw it in (fixed!). But it’s been bugging me as well, I didn’t think to wipe it off before Thoos’s hands were strung up, and then they couldn’t wipe it off. :-/ So, on Wednesday’s strip I can finally wipe it off. Yay!

  2. Pete Rogan

    For such inept torturers as Heakie and Porpa, they have an exaggerated belief in the efficacy of interrogation under torture. I sense a kind of ‘torture envy’ in them, a wish that a few belly-pokes from an emotionally conflicted underling will produce the torrent of suspicion-confirming intelligence (sic) they feel they deserve. I guess they have to find some way to feed their rather slapdash hostility.

    I have to wonder if, when the tracer-bots also fail to produce the desired imagined narrative, Spiff will be called upon to punch them in the belly, too. Good luck with that. I’d wear a boxing glove for THAT match.

    Oh, and by the way… nice job keeping your cover, Purrloin.

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