After reading the last 2 pages i have questions...
Why are so many assuming deus blew our cover? We just fucked a virgin before her forced marriage after her little spytools were discovered...i am pretty sure her room was bugged and she knew it very well. It would explain why she suddenly would be okay to marry that douchebag (she isnt, she just coudnt say it out loud), stopping her plans (as if, she wanted her father dead long before she met us, partly because of that arranged marriage) and talked about joining the "workgroup" as another mutated frontsoldier instead of taking it over/down like she wanted from the beginning...and her lil sis wouldnt ask you to cheer her up if anything of that bullshit she feeds us would be true, her lil sis knows her better and she feels her troubles, maybe she even knows more about the true mess they are both in than big sis knows. The innocent fragile girl could just be a facade to hide how much she really knows so her father wouldnt see her as a threat...
On the other side we have ella, the planned distraction with that released monster didnt work well, we were neither distracted nor grew in power. She also had no time to create another jakelike enemy for us and we know she was the one who gave that security footage to tiff...it was never even hinted it was the original and tiff only needed the knowledge to involve us into her plans, so a copy would have been enough. What if ella blew our cover? Seeing we have enogh spare time to date and fuck her friends instead of gaining powers like she wanted...it could fit easy into her training methods.
Remember the cliffhanger well, they were just humans with guns, the typical cops, they didnt even had tasers so they dont know our only known weakness. We didnt see or felt any superhuman in this mob, so as soon as they take us out of sight we could slaughter them in seconds and then get hunted by every cop in town and alarm tiffs fathers mutants...extra training and distraction + the enemy base would be less defended...whatever derryl makes for ella, if it needs to be in that base it would be an excellent plan. The other way would be to just go back to jail...since jakes powers broke with his death and the influenced cops went crazy and got replaced we dont know by whom...could be real cops, could be another bunch of corrupted cops, could also be some weak mutants or "scouts" searching/recruiting human material for xanthes experiments (they grow fast in numbers and if they dont clone raw material they need humans too, not only monsters) or even some of alice goons to ensure their men were treated better than before. However, reaching the jail could be the bigger gamble here...but preventing that could harm the reputation our fanclub worked for...that could be our first decision in the next uptate, fight (corruption route) or see whats going on (human route).
Irrelevant, right now i see 3 people gaining more from blowing our cover than deus. Tiffs jealous wannabe husband, her lil sis and ella. I think tiffs father would have sent his mutants after you right away, same as xanthe, but her angry fiance might think some guns would be enough and her lil sis may be pissed because you didnt see tiff suffering even after talking to her...however, your blown cover will lead the mutant gang in your direction...and deus dont needs to harm your public life for that, in fact, you would be more useful if your public idendity stays hidden. He mentioned working with you in the future, but if i recall correctly he never mentioned working for the organisation together...he could also have meant against the organisation or its current leaders, against ellas plan or to bring down that giant monster ella still has in the mine...
And than that infertile theory...every monster is different and has a different skillset...if i remember correctly one of the first whisperings of our symbiont was "breed"...maybe most monsters are sterile if viewd from the point of meiosis, but maybe some only reproduce by infecting others and rewriting their dna, some may even plant eggs in their victims, some may use basic mitosis and dont need others for it, hell, some could even spread spores to massreproduce...so who says some mutants cant breed in a similar ways than humans? Xanthe? He only can research what he sees and even pure monsters are more than stupid animals, so they dont reproduce in a cage to give some perverted freak more test subjects. And the rest of the monstergang only knows what xanthe shares of his knowlegde. The artificially created monsters are no natural beings, if they are sterile it wouldnt surprise me. But we are natural, we evolved, we adapted, we still feel the urge to breed and we do it with pleasure. Even our little zombie wanted to breed, her human side was almost wiped out at that point, all she wanted was eat and breed, the most basic natural instincts of every species that needs to feed and breed...okay, i cant really distinguish a horny amoeba from a bored one, but i dont think species without the need/ability to breed have a sexdrive at all.
What we really dont know are the time factors...will some hybrid spawn grew faster because of his monster genes? Will the mothers ability to adapt to the fetus size be a factor? Will it even slow down the whole progress because the human body cant provide the nourishments at the speed/quantity it would need for its accelerated grow? Maybe we will even see the first prgnancys in the side quest girls epilogues next update...and it would be the overkill bonus if tiff would be one of them *g*
And for the offtopic prototype question, i prefer the whip...claws are funny if someone pisses me off, but in general i prefer to smash enemies with enemies...its also very funny to bring helicopters down by throwing people at it...also works with tanks, but needs more people... However, i dont remember using any weapons in the prototype series, i always throw people and things and absorb everyone my the way to unlock the whip power ^^