...reminds me of a part of the movie Alien. OK, Bryce is Ripley and has just set the self destruct on the Nostromo. She gets the cat and heads for the shuttle. Runs into the Alien and freaks out. She then goes to turn off the self destruct but it won't stop. That's where Bryce is now. "MOTHER!!!!!!!"
Yes, because in the WF story Bryce doesn't make it to the shuttle. But if he does make it to the shuttle he won't make it into the spacesuit and the Alien kills him.
"MOTHER!!!! I've turned the coolant back on!!!" 'Sorry, no reset to max red. You now have 20 seconds.'
I guess we can add that as a further sign of his mental unbalance. OK, last seen running through the halls of WordForge in his scivvies, holding a cat and a flamethrower.
Watch your back around Steve, though. He's fantasizing about men in their underwear. Whistling may be involved.
So lets say Bryce makes it to the shuttle. The Alien is waiting for him. When the Alien pops out of hiding, Bryce backs into that storage locker with the spacesuits. But instead of getting into the spacesuit, Bryce comes out and starts talking to the Alien. Telling the Alien about his life. How he graduated from HS early. About his marriage and subsequent love life. His health issues. Blah, blah, blah..... The Alien jettisons himself out an airlock.