On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

If a captor ties a prisoner up, it's generally because there's some
reason why they aren't willing to kill them -- at least not at that
time and location.

In this case, the purpose was a bit more involved. The captor is a rogue robot and the captive is a robot tech; Medic On A Leash.

Also it's a pretty damn dangerous thing to set up
in the first place: one slip or twitch, and the captor has a live
grenade at their feet right then and there. From my point of view it
seems not so much "ingenious" as "insane".

That, too. The rogue robot is definitely unstable.

Although . . . there is nothing to say that the grenade in question is actually live. Perhaps the robot rendered it inert before tying up the prisoner. All that is necessary is that the prisoner BELIEVES the grenade to be live. :)

Richard Aiken

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