Jan 12
The fate of the kitten is incidental to the story. Not really sure what I’m going to do with it, so I think this is a good chance for some reader interaction.
What is the kitten’s fate?
- Released and the gang won’t see it again.
- Will die in a messy trap.
- Coco will decide to adopt it as a pet.
- Noam will keep it and train it to be a killer kitteh assassin.
- The gang will find the mother and reunite them.
The option that gets the most votes will decide the kitten’s fate.
I vote for 1 or 5. If I can only vote for one, then it is 5.
On the risk of looking heartless, I say 2
I vote for 4, KITTEH ASSASSIN!
4. Wouldn’t have to train it much, it’s a kitteh!
Honestly, in all the places it’s been drawn, I think it looks like just the head of a cat in a box.
I was originally puzzled. I immediately got the joke of an unobservable cat in a box, but I wasn’t sure how you were going to explain how they kept a disembodied head alive.
Based on that original understanding, I’d say #2 — where the “trap” is what the cat is already in, and someone fails a Disable Device check (followed by a failed Heal check) which fails to preserve its life. But, other than that, #3 seems likely (which, knowing Coco, will actually result in #1).
For what it’s worth, as I was just going back to verify my claim that the cat is only a cat head, I discover just how gigantic Toad is. Has he been eating protein shakes or something from his hat? He used to be so small next to Coco, but now he’s pretty big. (in particular: sitting next to Noam as he’s disassembling the sentinel in Catalytic Converter, and towering over the kitty box in Cat Power)
Toad’s actually fairly big for a frog. I imagine he’s about 1 foot tall, so around the size of Coco’s horse head.
The kitten has a disproportionately large head compared to its body (to make it cuter), so it’s a whole kitten, with the body trapped inside the lower case of the box.
Noam is only about three feet tall since he’s a gnome, so Toad almost comes up to around his mid-thigh.
Good point — of course a gnome is going to be short. Somehow I’d forgotten that. That does make Toad a rather giant frog then, but at least everything is (internally) consistent. It made me start to think that maybe Coco is too small, but then I checked a couple strips (where Coco is in horse form and in the same panel as someone else) and he seems to be fine.
In homage to Erwin, I’ll have to go with 2. It’s already trapped in a life-draining device, so the only addenda is “any attempt to open the box will kill it; whether the team realizes this or not remains to be seen/
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I vote for 3, make it a nice kitty since Sasha is in fact, evil.
3 all teh way!
3. It will undoubtably result in 1, or perhaps it will escape and alert guards. Regardless, 3 is wonderful for plot related purposes.
#4. It sounds great!
No. 3, and definitely NOT 2 or 4
Got to be 4 – it just adds a lot to the plot to have an evil kitteh to oppose Sasha later.
Both 4 and 5 together. And then two years from now it’ll come back with a clan of ninja cats to save the day via Deus Ex Machina.
3 please!
4.
4.
4.
I know it sounds cheesy as can be, but I suspect there’s a lot that can be done. Noam could make a cyborg-ninja-pirate-kitten-assassin thus continuing the great webcomic tradition of mixing random cool things together and hoping for something totally awesome.
Also, if 3 and 4 tie (or just come really close) it wouldn’t be too difficult to combine those.
5.
Or any of the other options that don’t result in it dying, cause of the sad.
I vote for 3.