Chapter 17 | Page 8a: Competition Breeds Innovation... and Aggravation (Patreon)

In the depths of Dr. Muskiday’s laboratory, he unveils his newest invention to his longtime companion — a holographic clone of Miss Match. Using micronanos he can read emotions using bioluminescent mood clouds! However, although competition breeds innovation, a comment from a humble lab rat proves that it can also lead to aggravation.

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Panel 1: Dr. Muskiday, presenting excitedly: "Behold! Project SMILE: It's my Synaptic Mood Indicator and Linguistic Emulator."

Panel 2:Dr. Muskiday, holding a perfume atomizer, sprays mist toward a lab rat in a cage: "I spray micronanos in a 'mood mist' that bond with the subject's synaptic receptors."

Panel 3:Dr. Muskiday continues as a close-up of the mist forms a pink bioluminescent cloud above the lab rat: "They translate the subject's emotions into a bioluminescent cloud emitted through the skin."

Panel 4:Dr. Muskiday observes the glowing rat in the cage. A cloud over its head displays a padlock and a key: "And now we know everything happening in the subject's mind!"

Panel 5: Lab rat, standing and speaking from inside the cage: "You coulda just asked." Holo-Clone Miss Match, surprised: "Wow! It can TALK?!" Dr. Muskiday, resigned: "~Sigh~ Yes..."

Panel 6: Dr. Muskiday slumps, disappointed: "That's the result of my transgenic intelligence transfer system. A total failure."

Panel 7:Holo-Clone Miss Match, curious: "Inconsistent results?" Dr. Muskiday, irritated: "There were about three hundred mad scientists ahead of me, trying to patent the same acronym."