Question Who messed up Murphy?

I forget, who did the Mad Scientist thing to Murphy and Vamp?

Cryptic wrote: I forget, who did the Mad Scientist thing to Murphy and Vamp?

IIRC the perpetrators were gone when they were found...

Nope, they were ambushed, didn't see who did it and neither did the readers. We don't know who did it to them, only the authors do for now.

Dreamer wrote: Nope, they were ambushed, didn't see who did it and neither did the readers. We don't know who did it to them, only the authors do for now.

Thanks guys. I couldn't remember anyone being named, but wasn't sure if it was because it was never revealed or me having a brain fart.

And Vamp is absolutely OUTRAGED! This is Copyright Infringement!

Is Murphy's glassy black eye something that resulted from her summer or her BIT slicing event with Vamp?

Both.

She caught a broken chainsaw chain to the face when she was cutting down a tree and her mangler luck ensured she hit a hidden spike planted by an environmentalist protestor.

It grew back consistent with the way the BIT slicer has made her start healing when injured.

ok, I'm just not clear on why Vamp's BIT gave her a glassy black eye I guess?

JG wrote: Because it's not a perfect copy. Some things match up. some things do not. Murphy's powers weren't significantly altered in the direction of Vamp's.

The BIT, for whatever reason, is expressing itself differently through Murphy than it did for Vamp. Hence, there's no real guarantee that she will wind up matching Vamp wholly. it's entirely possible she'll remain female, albeit very different looking.

Possible yes, but she is a mangler, so the fact that she isn't happy about the possibility makes the chance of it happening sky rocket

Murphy, it sucks to be you. *removes hat from head in respect, flees in terror from the angry warper/mangler combo*

Problem with those theories involving Vamps bit is I don't think she is supposed to have one. There is mention that she is something other than a typical mutant.

Wiki:
"In April 2007, Vamp's powers testing revealed a surprising fact: that the main source of her power, her pseudo-vampiric abilities, are in fact the so-called 'Bloodline trait', a rare mutation associated exclusively with The Bloodline, an extended family of mutants who have become a sub-species of Humanity through selective breeding."

Still a mutant, can and apparently does still have a BIT

Vamp is from the Bloodline, but so is Envy (and possibly also Strega).

Alex is intersex because of the Bloodline DNA, but her manifestation, pasty pale, fabulous facial structure and proportions, and her vampy powers, are her unique manifestation.

Ugh. I forgot that Nimbus / Hekate's Master / Whoever, is at Whateley and is a Gadg / Dev...

And he's got Abigail.

So, since that's a boy-girl pair with techno-skills, and those who messed up Murphy were a boy-girl pair with techno-skills, I'm saying that it's them who messed up Murphy.

David Goodkind might not even be needed? Use Vamp / Murphy instead?

I don't think it was. If nothing else, letting them overhear them would have atypically sloppy for Nimbus, unless it served some purpose. It is possible that this is another project of his, but if so, it is going to be through cat's paws who don't even know he's involved - he was genuinely pissed that the Millsaps and Aurelius were stupid enough to mention him by name in front of targets (Circuit Breaker and Tennyo, respectively) as it is, so he's presumably been going through multiple cut-outs and/or using manipulation for anyone other than Sebastiano after the disasters last winter.

In any case, if I am not mistaken, the rite being used on David was already completed in Spring 2007 (in "Sun and Fun" , though re-reading it I now see that the ritual there was something else - apparently relating to blocking precognition for Fall 2008), even if David didn't AFAWK manifest yet, so it would be something parallel to that, not replacing it. Especially since his comments in "Ayla and the Mad Scientist" made it sound as if the attack on the Goodkinds was at least partly personal.