Comic Archive

The team of Zhang, Heidi, Max and Adil has arrived back at the office.
Alana: Gee, what a story. I understand you don't want to risk being accused of this person's death, but still we should somehow warn the authorities.
Heidi: I already did, through an anonymous channel.
Alana: OK, good.

Alana: Is it really possible this guy “uploaded” himself? If yes, where to?
Max: I don't believe it at all, Alana. The guy obviously was a grade ‘A’ fruitcake. Maybe a genius, but it is often said there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

Steve: But, he did have technology we don't seem to fully understand. I would not rule it out, even though it does sound ridiculous. Could you figure out how he got all this cool stuff?
Heidi: He stayed vague about that. I did manage to “borrow” an extra piece of hardware in the hopes of finding out more.
Alana: Well, I guess he won't be missing it.

Setting: the water cooler / coffee machine.
Adil: My legs hurt. 14 flights of stairs at a breakneck pace, and it was not even necessary.
Zhang: Might be, but still I think I will always be taking the stairs from now on.
Adil: Because a single sentient elevator tried to kill you? Come on, Zhang.

Heidi joins the conversation.
Zhang: Well, finally I have a reason to get a little more workout…
Adil: And what about you, do you believe the whole upload thing?
Heidi: I deem it extremely implausible, to express it mildly.

Heidi: I would not rule it out. From what I have already seen with the technology he possessed, it may be technically possible.
Zhang: What about that machine you snagged, Heidi, what is it?
Heidi: I have yet to look into it, but it again contains hardware that seems… alien.

Caption: A few days later…
Alana: I think we can close the whole Faceworld versus Quantuple chapter. I had been thinking about ways to bring justice to the ones responsible, without violating our agreement, but now this case has solved itself.
Steve: Not in the most satisfactory of ways, but it is what it is.

Zhang: I wish we could have learned more about what was behind that weird company. I bet some government agency will now get their hands on all that strange technology… or it just ends up in a dumpster.
Max: Maybe we will hear something from it… Hrm, now that I do have a brand new phone, many apps do not work.

We see the silhouettes of Max, Zhang and Heidi in the background, with in the foreground a networked camera moving with a subtle humming sound.
Heidi: A lot of internet services have been down in the past few days, unexplained cases of overloaded data centers, devices misbehaving. Strange that this started exactly after the incident at Quantuple.
Zhang: Are you implying…
Heidi: Like I said, I do not rule it out.