I always wondered who owned/ran the Fragmentizer, since the instructors are written in the first person. I asked about it and found out that its operator has never been shown. INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

My suggestions: Ian (retconned, since it's now next door to his lab), the whatever it was that ran the old zapper (since he's now homeless), or a (gasp!) female scientist. I really like the pet NPCs, so it would be fun to have a female pet scientist :D Maybe an experiment, or something like the Gatekeeper that looks like a combination of different types of pets.

I really love the idea of a female scientist, but I think they should let that poor poor Clawsion who ran the Pet Zapper and had his home destroyed by the Euclid have it!

Poor guy never had a name, now not even a home XD

Or a revamp by the looks of it...

We do have a female scientist on site :) (Not that I object to another one of course)

But I do think this would be a good job for the old zapper owner now that he's been rendered homeless (and quite possibly horribly disfigured)

Ooh, I've never seen her before! Who is she? ...now that I think of it, I've seen the plushie of her, but didn't know it was of a character.

And yeah, y'all are right... the old zapper guy deserves it! (And a revamp... even before all this, I kept noticing how bad his art was.) He's a Clawsion? Comparing art, he kinda looks like one... but also like a Pherret. Either way, he needs some love.

She's a BC challenger from the c:

Oh, cool! Her design reminds me of Dr. Forrester from Mystery Science Theater 3000, except he had lime green details instead of pink. I think my mad scientist pet Balloonatic approves :D

(Sorry for getting off topic on my own thread. Um, yeah, fragmentizer. nods)

It always struck me as odd that the text in the Fragmentizer uses first-person pronouns ("I warn you", "my fragmentizer") but there isn't a picture of anyone speaking. So yeah, it'd be nice to have an NPC there eventually.

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We do have a female scientist on site :)

(Not that I object to another one of course)</p>
<p>But I do think this would be a good job for the old zapper owner now that he&;s been rendered homeless (and quite possibly horribly disfigured)

Nah man we definitely need another one. I didn't even know who she was. I'd love a really femmy one who likes blowing shit up but that's me XD

Can it please be the old Mortiking from the bank, who got sick and tired of all the bureaucracy and paper work and just quite his job, went rogue, and started blowing shit up at the fragmentizer? He can have a cool band T-shirt and tattoos.

I personally want the mad scientist as a NPC.

The Mad Scientist might not be femme enough but she deliberately inoculated herself with dna from every single note challenger and turned into a mutant monster and this is 300% cooler.

Don't misunderstand I think she's fab too and completely badass I just like femme destructors as well! Either one would make me just as happy.

I support this idea, it sounds like fun!

my own headcannon is if you run a zapper, you're pretty used to the idea of stuff blowing up around you to the degree of esper sense ahead of time and have an escape route already built and ready to go. I like to think they (pherret? clawsion?) got away clean. Any comment Euclid might make on the matter that makes it sound like he planned this is just boys-talk, puffing himself up.

I'm amused by the idea of a femme (tres tres fatale) Mad Harry (ala muppets, but this time short for Harrietta) who just likes to blow shit the heck up. She doesn't really care too deeply about the Humming Power Crystals at all is why we get to take them away, they're just the pretext. She's willing to trade us some goods for a few of them is all.

But if we hire the Mad Scientist or Euclid, does that mean we have to fire the NPC who currently runs it?

What will happen to that NPC after they lose their job? We all know how terrible the Subetan economy is, it's got to be tough out there for the unemployed :|

it has been the mad scientist all along

she replicated the mutagens using all of the potions and junk we turned in for years

we are responsible for this monstrosity that is the mutant scientist

I would be fine with that version of the story, that it had been either of them all along but had not revealed for reasons, etc. Firing NPC X would just be mean :(

I do like this idea about the Mad Scientist though! That's a nice little plot twist there with her using the stuff we fragged to make the mutagens 👏

He said he saw the zapper guy running off to the swamp :)

He can have the swampies. Ugh.

Also, I do like the idea of the Mad Scientist running the fragger too. Either one works for me :)