lower-numbered

Updated: May 7, 2025

All of them were wearing ticklers, of course the three Micro-men the heavy emergent Mark 6s with their clawed and jointed arms and monocular cephalic turrets, the rest lower-numbered Marks of the sort that merely made Richard-the-Third humps under clothing. The object that Hazen was carrying was the Mark 6 tickler Gusterson had seen Fay wearing yesterday.

Fritz Leiber - The Creature from Cleveland Depths