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2019-08-01

by shaenon on August 1, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Alphaghoul
    August 1, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Sounds mor like one of those things that sounds bad but if you examine it it isn’t actually bad.

  2. Frank
    August 1, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Tip remembers the codename!

  3. Robert Nowall
    August 1, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Do they know that, Dr. Lee? I can’t recall it coming up in conversation with them before.

  4. Candace
    August 1, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, I’m with Virginia on this. These people know the nature of their employer, and they choose to continue working there. The Skin Horse team *could* reveal themselves, and offer the staff at the base the opportunity to defect, but if that fails, not only will they lose their opportunity to get the Osprey back, they will have to fight their way out, and they might lose. That’s a really big risk to take for people of highly questionable moral character.

    • Zero
      October 28, 2020, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

      They know the nature of their employer, they know that they themselves are in ever-present danger from said murderous employer, and they have already commented on their unshakeable loyalty. Bad guys.

  5. Moe Lane
    August 1, 2019, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    No, Virginia, hold on. Tip has a point. He and his team has fought like Hell to *not* take the “kill ’em all” route in the past, and also resolve other little moral quandaries in ways that *don’t* require them to drink themselves to sleep every night. So keeping that is kind of important to them, and very possibly even more important than your need to get your love interest his old body back so that you won’t have to tell him after all that he’s your love interest.

    • Frank
      August 1, 2019, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      are we sure she isn’t evil?

      • Moe Lane
        August 1, 2019, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t think Virginia is evil; just grimy as hell, and unwilling to admit that she needs a bath.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 1, 2019, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

        I’m a little inclined to “clueless.”

    • awgiedawgie
      August 1, 2019, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      Then again, she feels (quite rightly) responsible for Nick having the helicopter body in the first place, and she also feels (at least indirectly) responsible for him losing that body. She made a promise to him to get it back, and she is doing everything in her power to make that happen.

      As for Tip’s “moral quandary” here, a) there’s a very good chance that the A-Sig people’s whole “nice” thing is just a facade. They are trained, after all, to be deceptive. And b) they are at war here. Killing the enemy yourself is one thing, but that’s vastly different from leaving them to live, assuming that their own side might kill them anyway. You don’t risk your own people to rescue the enemy, especially when the enemy are not even in immediate danger.

      • Robert Loughrey
        August 1, 2019, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

        I fully expect the “nice guy” thing is just an act to allow time for Mr. Green to arrive. The boss battle approaches, maybe.

      • Moe Lane
        August 1, 2019, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, I’m not saying that they eventually won’t have to justifiably burn the place to the ground and salt the ashes. But Tip’s desire to not sink any lower than he can help it is a reasonable auxiliary goal to this mission. One that’s more reasonable than Virginia’s auxiliary goal, which is to further avoid dealing with the consequences of her past behavior.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 1, 2019, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

          Virginia is getting Nick’s body back, as she promised. It may not be exactly how you’d like to see things go, but she is dealing with the consequences of her past behaviour.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2020, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Abandoning them to the evil of others isn’t the same as killing them directly.On the other hand, with access to the osprey they could find a way to incapacitate (without permanent harm) and bind them so that they’re not there when A-Sig shows up, but they’re also not able to interfere with the Annex 1 gang’s plan.

  6. bryceanderston
    August 1, 2019, 2:43 am | # | Reply

    They might have known that aircraft had a human brain it…
    But you were the one who put that brain in there!

    Methinks the ex-minion of evil doth protest too much.

    • Jay
      August 1, 2019, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      Putting it in is one kind of unethical. Taking it *out* and just throwing it in the sewer is … up near the “attempted murder” and “manslaughter” end of the scale.

      (Putting it in VR instead, a la extirpation, wouldn’t be murder, so I guess Ira cares about not murdering people *he* sees as human.)

      • Frank
        August 1, 2019, 10:16 am | # | Reply

        you could take the stance that if it’s “just a brain”, the person’s already dead

        especially when you ask that brain “are you human” and it says “no”

    • Barking Monkey
      August 1, 2019, 6:17 am | # | Reply

      Bryce, I get the impression Ginny’s line in panel 4 is a dry manner of acknowledging she knows she’s just as bad as the people at the base and hasn’t the luxury of seeing herself as being any better. Which is all true but at least she’s not lying to herself.

      • Rimwolf
        August 1, 2019, 8:27 am | # | Reply

        That’s very much my reading as well. But at least she’s trying real hard to be the wizard

        • Moe Lane
          August 1, 2019, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

          OK, I might be being a little hard on her. She *is* trying.

          • Rimwolf
            August 1, 2019, 2:07 pm | #

            OMG, the wizard thing was your line from 5 years ago. That was/is so great.

          • Moe Lane
            August 1, 2019, 7:12 pm | #

            🙂 Still, you made a good point.

      • casimir
        August 1, 2019, 9:40 am | # | Reply

        Exactly. She knows that she sold her soul to the devil for the chance to work on projects that challenged her genius.

  7. Barbara K
    August 1, 2019, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Just wondering…In case any of the “nice” A-S staff would like to skip the Loyalty Pits and defect, how many Anasig-refugees can an Osprey hold once the Skin Horse team is on board?
    Would it be possible to offer them the choice once the SH team is on board, motors on, ready to take off?

  8. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    August 1, 2019, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    the real inspection team should show up soon, and there will be no cake for them.

    • Ysabet
      August 1, 2019, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      …..soooo, the cake is a lie?

      • Guesticus
        August 2, 2019, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

        THE. CAKE. IS. FAKE!!! If you want lye, try the pie

  9. Dr. Steve
    August 1, 2019, 9:25 am | # | Reply

    A: “All the way… with all of them.” Oh Wait, sorry, I thought you asked “How far do you want to go WITH them”

    • Shadowmehr
      August 1, 2019, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

      Okay, I have to admit that is actually something that Tip would say and/or hear given that situation.

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