Unless you are telling me that the factory over the air update that I denied today because I heard it will soft brick if your S-off will not work on a stock view with gingerbread. Which I wouldn't understand because I thought that was the whole point.
It will but you wont be able to go back to gingerbread and you lose root if you flash it now, if you wait until we get an S-Off hBoot you can then flash HC and get root and go back to gingerbread if you want to. If you accept the update now you are pretty much stuck with no root on HoneyComb from the way the hboot process is looking.
So no you won't brick just by updating but you will be stuck without root and no way of getting gingerbread back if you accept the update now on a stock view.