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2019-04-04

by shaenon on April 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. ngmatt
    April 4, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    let’s be honest here, she’s still probably a few steps ahead still

    • RoyD
      April 4, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      True, but at this point the gap is down to difference in initiative order, to use D&D parlance.

  2. palenoue
    April 4, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    What’s the office protocol for telling your supervisor they stink?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 4, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Would the answer depend on whether they would take that as a compliment or an insult?

      • thedoctor55
        April 4, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

        Unity would mean it as a compliment.

    • Bruceski
      April 4, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      If they were rolling in dead opossum they already know.

  3. thedoctor55
    April 4, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Oh no! She knows about the opossum roll!

  4. Rick
    April 4, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    It’s doggy perfume

    • casimir
      April 4, 2019, 4:31 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart can’t be held responsible.
      Self control goes by the board when facing pure doggy in-stink.

  5. Robert Nowall
    April 4, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Was the dead opossum Tony or Merc?

    • David B Huber
      April 4, 2019, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      A most perceptive perspective! The ramifications are… intriguing.

      “Alas, poor Merc! I knew him well! (enough to be sure he wouldn’t mind…)”

    • greenknight32
      April 4, 2019, 1:25 am | # | Reply

      It may not have even been an opossum. Considering the location, it could have been a sewellel (aka mountain beaver), a large, primitive rodent that’s found only in the Pacific Northwest. It’s something Sweetheart and Gavotte would be unlikely to recognize, especially after it’s been chewed on by some predator and partially decomposed. Quite common within their restricted range, though rarely seen due to nocturnal habits, they dig many large burrows in damp, brushy areas (they eat bushes) which are a hazard to anyone attempting to navigate same.

      That’s your nature lesson for today.

      • Stu Friedberg
        April 4, 2019, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

        Supposed to be @greenknight32… I’ve lived in the area for 25 years, but this is the first I’ve heard of this animal. Thanks for the educational tip!

        • greenknight32
          April 4, 2019, 8:39 pm | # | Reply

          People whose activities take them out in the brush, whether for work or recreation, tend to be aware of them – because they’ve probably stepped in a mountain beaver hole at some point. Few have ever seen one, though, since they come out at night and never go far from their tunnels. In my 63 years I think I saw a dead one once.

  6. ShenHibiki
    April 4, 2019, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Miss Gavotte, I have to say I don’t believe that even for a second. XD

  7. Leslie
    April 4, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Green Knight: What have you got against guys who eat bushes? You insinuating we’re possums?

    • greenknight32
      April 4, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      Nah. possums are scavengers, eat carrion and garbage. We could all take a lesson from the mountain beaver, which has outlived all its relatives by sticking close to cover. It’s a living fossil – which I’m rapidly becoming myself.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 4, 2019, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

        Opossums are omnivores. They will eat just about anything, including bushes. Yes, they’ll get into your garbage, especially in urban areas, but only because it’s convenient, not because it’s their preference. They’re not really fast enough to attack animals like dogs and cats, but they will definitely kill rodents and snakes if the opportunity presents itself. It’s a pity that the opossums around here won’t dig up and eat our moles.

  8. Dr. Steve
    April 4, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    as compared to a sushi roll…

  9. Barbara K
    April 4, 2019, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    I keep bees.
    The main goal of the bee hive-mind is to send out a swarm, (On the hive-level, it’s like amoeba reproduction). That’s why bees work so hard to build up resources and personnel beyond what will comfortably fit in their hive space. So, as far as Gavotte’s concerned, she ‘may’ have accomplished her task, now that Skin Horse has gone rogue.
    But…If she’s not done, the next step is to find a new hive space for the swarm to live in, possibly invading an attractive area populated by a weaker group and taking over their resources.
    (But we don’t see anything like that happening, do we?)
    BTW…Another way a hive can reproduce is by sending out drones…attractive, sex-obsessed, but otherwise unless males. (Know anybody like that? Now, she has Nick in out the field, as well!)

  10. Sheik
    April 4, 2019, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    “But…If she’s not done, the next step is to find a new hive space for the swarm to live in, possibly invading an attractive area populated by a weaker group and taking over their resources.”
    So Gavotte even saw the collapse of Seattle as an opportunity?

  11. Robert Nowall
    April 4, 2019, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    Does Sweetheart roll in a dead opossum in the woods?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 4, 2019, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

      If Sweetheart rolls in a dead opossum in the woods, and no one is around to smell it, does it still stink?

      • Bruce A Munro
        April 4, 2019, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

        Sweetheart is there to smell it, which is sort of the point. 🙂

  12. Daibhid C
    April 4, 2019, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

    Maybe I’m too suspicious, but telling Sweetheart, of all people, that from now on all her choices are her own feels like exactly what someone who was still manipulating the situation would say.

    Of course, it’s also probably what someone who is genuinely letting Sweetheart make her own choices would say, so we’ll see.

  13. Shadowmehr
    April 4, 2019, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    This is Sweetheart’s worst nightmare come true – she is officially out of the hierarchy with no-one in charge to report to. Last time we saw this, it was in the post-apocalyptic parallel universe, and she was becoming increasingly unhinged from being at the top. Who knows what’ll happen when she’s stuck to one side?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 4, 2019, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

      She likes the lure of being in control, but she’s not so thrilled about the responsibility of being in charge. Even as the head of Skin Horse, she was really only a figurehead. She still answered to Mr. Green, and Dr. Englebright basically ran the office.

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