May 25th, 2021
25 May 2021 · page 1061 of 1306
Ah, my specialist subject
Cast: Lei Feng, Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang
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Tim, I don't think you understand how to do reluctance.
yes, let the wine flow. Let your inhibitions fall and spill the beans, Pryce
Tim wading into the deep end of the pool. Good thing he's on a boat.
Timy Timster... THIS one is all on you. Nothing more than drinks was clearly going to happen. You did this to yourself.
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Just so you know.
What do you do if you’re a conspiracy theorist who is suddenly proved right and the amazing idea you’ve spent your life trying to convince the world is true is suddenly accepted and common-place? I hope Eliza’s new role as a mutton shuffler is rewarding because there’s going to be a big hole in her life once Mr Pryce starts selling package tours to the fourth anchor.
Well there is also being smarmy about being right the whole time. That and mocking all the people who disbelieved your conspiracy.
Usually not enough. Not to pay bills, and not to satisfy one's ego. That's why there's so much jockeying for credit in academia.
There is actually much less jockeying for credit in academia than one would think. This is the early 21st not the 1950's.
mutton shuffler?
An insulting term for a policeman (or woman).
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Although when I looked it up I see I misremembered and it should be mutton shunter
Implying that the police person in question is only there to help herds of sheep move along, like in some remote rural area?
Aha. Not so much sheep as er... ladies of negotiable affection.
Yes...this euphemism will make a wonderful addition to my lexicon.
So...the ladies are called mutton... like a piece of sheep on a plate. Well.
From “mutton dressed as lamb” I think.
Something old masquerading as something young...
That's a new one. Most excellent. Mwahaha.
"I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."
"Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts."
The idea of Eliza taking up piracy terrifies me beyond the capacity for rational thought.
This is, of course, when Eliza moves on to reveal her theories about the fifth anchor.
There are of course six anchors.
I mean... six actually makes sense? If you have two opposite each other, and two more ninety degrees from them opposite each other... there's another ninety degree rotation for two more. I.E. just pretend Earth is a cube.
I think last time we had this conversation we concluded that there are not 6 anchors, but twelve, and the world is not a d6 but a d20.
Is there a pair of critical anchors, then? Widdershins is obviously the crit fail, so the anchor they're searching for is the crit success?
No argument that Widdershins is the crit fail, but it would stand to reason then that the crit success anchor is located at the bottom of the ocean somewhere off the coast of New Zealand, and therefore nobody has every found it. Because critical successes are elusive!
Nyree must be proud for having the most sought-after anchor.
Wait, if the world is a d20 shouldn’t there be, you know, 20 anchors?
I much prefer the d12, though, since nobody ever uses them for anything and they are therefore the best dice.
I was thinking that the anchors would be at the vertices, so 12 for a d20. A d12 would give 20 anchors.
And of course 6 anchors would be a d8, 8 anchors for a d6. I'm sure I was much better at maths 45 years ago.
"My angles are many, my sides are not few. I'm the Dodecahedron; and who are you?"
Ok s the Earth has four anchors, but what if... There are more anchors on the moon!
Tim: I mean if a fourth anchor DID exist, I'd imagine only the most ingenious, intelligent, clever, savvy, not to mention rich and handsome person could POSSIBLY discover it-
Pryce: SO ABOUT THAT HUEHUEHUE
Tim knows Pryce's weakness.
He did have a close encounter with Pride.
So bets on whether Verity or Eliza will actually find the anchor?
Go, Tim!
Hm, the daughter seems to be eyeing someone... for drawings?
I can't tell if it's Lei or Tim, but you're so right!
She's adding Tim to the list: "People who ask awkward questions that might thwart my plans and who will die horribly when I Rule the World".
Thea might be the fourth witch, right? It kind of looks like she's scoping out Lei's emotional inner turmoil in that second panel. Hmmm...
Assuming her Witchsense is sight, yes. I guess she could be looking at the source of a smell or a sound or something. Would be interesting to determine if two witches can have the same sense at once.
Isn't Mal's Witchsense sight?
Yup. But what we don't know is if it's possible for two witches to have the same sense at the same time.
If her sense is touch, or something else less easy to convey, then the drawing could be a physical manifestation of that. Maybe she can't see the source, but can sense their shape and thus draw them somehow?
Though O'Malley was able to somewhat smell spirits (with sloth and the perfume-thing) I think, so maybe if she's a witch her main sense is something else like touch but she can like blurrily see the spirits?
Or maybe she just likes drawing. Who knows.
I think it's more likely she's being boy-shy over Tim. But time will tell.
Some real Spidey-Sense coming off of Lei there...
Sneaky, sneaky! It's always good to have a high-Charisma character in the party.
Well done, Tim.
Okay, so Tim is clearly the Grifter. Vee is the Mastermind (and, by all appearances, the Burglar). Lei is the New Meat, the Partner in Crime, and probably the Gadget Guy. Looks like Patience might turn out to be the Inside Man. Eliza is undoubtedly the Backer. Who does that leave?
I don't think we're going to need a Driver seeing as we're on a boat, and the Hacker hasn't been invented yet. I think we really just need a Roper, a Distraction, and maybe a Muscle.
oh my gosh i'm caught up. OH MY GOSH BYE PAST KATE HI PRESENT KATE
haha congrats on making it, it's a heck of a trek :3 thanks for leaving comments too, i enjoyed them!