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2020-08-25

by shaenon on August 25, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Moe Lane
    August 25, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    You’re gonna need to redefine ‘no time to chat’ with this one, lady. Also: you’re bucking for the *ironic* death by using this guy.

  2. dvandom
    August 25, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Skipping straight to the end of the Velveteen Rabbit and torching ’em, I see.

  3. Alphaghoul
    August 25, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    It almost sounded like she took her job seriously for a moment.

    • Daibhid C
      August 25, 2020, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      Oh, she takes her job very seriously. The actual job she’s been given by A-Sig, not whatever Skin Horse’s touchy-feely mission statement says.

  4. Owlmirrror
    August 25, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    It would not be entirely surprising if “slug” actually meant “gastropod”, in this instance.

    “No shooting. There’s a specific banana slug you’ll be delivering.”

    • David B Huber
      August 25, 2020, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      I bow to your perspicacity, Owlmirrror.

    • maarvarq
      August 25, 2020, 6:37 am | # | Reply

      Some SF writers are wont to refer to bang-bang guns as opposed to pew-pew guns as slug throwers, and I usually imagine a small slingshot with a naked mollusc at the ready.

      • ShenHibiki
        August 25, 2020, 9:46 am | # | Reply

        There IS a whole kid-aimed series based on shooting slugs at eachother, Slugterra…

    • Robert Nowall
      August 25, 2020, 7:58 am | # | Reply

      In my day, a slug was also a phony coin, say a washer or something that was the right size to pass for a real one in the cigarette machine—they didn’t take bills till later in time.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 25, 2020, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        I knew a couple guys who used the round knock-outs from electrical boxes. They were almost a perfect match for the size of a quarter.

        Unfortunately, they didn’t work in most machines in the US, because the machines have magnets in them. Purportedly, the magnets were put in to trap Canadian coins, but I suspect their real purpose was to trap slugs.

        • D. Walker
          August 26, 2020, 12:22 am | # | Reply

          Functionally a Canadian coin in the United States IS a slug, as it has no cash value. It’s value elsewhere, or once converted, is immaterial.

          • awgiedawgie
            August 26, 2020, 7:29 am | #

            But since it is, in fact, money, there is a distinct difference between a Canadian coin and a slug.

            A Canadian quarter may only technically be worth 19 cents in the US, but since most businesses don’t care if you accidentally included a Canadian coin with the rest of your loose change when you’re paying for something, you can’t really say that it has no cash value.

    • nebulousrikulau
      August 25, 2020, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Snailed it!

      • Candace
        August 26, 2020, 1:18 am | # | Reply

        Ba dump ump!

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      August 25, 2020, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      The only other conceivable interpretation is that he’s been assigned to hand feed bitterns.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 25, 2020, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      *Maybe*…Dr. Englebright is using this phrase so Echo Bravo goes off and shoots someone between the eyes, only to have her say later, “Oh, I meant something else and he should have known it.”

      • Shadowmehr
        August 25, 2020, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

        That’s the most implausible use of plausible deniability I’ve ever heard.

      • casimir
        August 25, 2020, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

        Initially, I thought she meant a slug as in a punch between the eyes.
        But as Shadowmehr suggests, it probably wouldn’t stand up in court.

    • Ken
      August 25, 2020, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

      Well, as long as it’s not a slug in the ear. Ceti eels are nasty.

  5. Ysabet
    August 25, 2020, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Uh oh. And just where is Sweetheart right now? **worried**

    • jdreyfuss
      August 25, 2020, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      East Coast, I think.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 25, 2020, 11:05 am | # | Reply

        Picked up Renard and #12 somewhere in Pennsylvania, probably…but that storyline took place over some time and may still be going on behind this one.

        • jdreyfuss
          August 25, 2020, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

          I thought they said they were headed somewhere in New England though.

          • Robert Nowall
            August 25, 2020, 3:47 pm | #

            Yeah, the Skin-Horse gang was on their way to Greenbank’s Hollow. But Renard and #12 came from there and filled them in; don’t know if they modified their plans.

  6. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2020, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    Wonder which non-human creature they’re talking about?

    • sheer_falacy
      August 25, 2020, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

      I’m going to guess it’s Artie.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 25, 2020, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

        My thought, too, but there are a lot of ’em running around.

      • casimir
        August 25, 2020, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

        …last I remember, Artie was a kindergarten teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, California.

    • OneUniverse
      August 26, 2020, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      Ok, is Artie *sometimes* a human?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 26, 2020, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

        Apparently, you haven’t read Narbonic. You’re really missing out.

        Artie is a genetically enhanced gerbil. He only looks human because Helen turned him human, but something went horribly wrong (big surprise there), allowing him to change between human and gerbil form.

  7. Leslie Piper
    August 25, 2020, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    Humanoid target likely currently ensconced behind a desk. To be found among category at present thriving on the Coast.

  8. jdreyfuss
    August 25, 2020, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Does she really think it’s a good idea to use a wetwork guy who is fairly likely to show up, announce his presence, and cheerfully ask to shoot whomever it is?

    • Doug Relyea
      August 25, 2020, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      We are speaking of Anasigma here.

  9. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2020, 11:23 am | # | Reply

    Ever notice there are quite a few redheaded women around, but few redheaded men? Marcie…Claire…Daphne…Dr. Engelbright…

    • casimir
      August 25, 2020, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a red-hairing.

      • Manifesta
        August 25, 2020, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

        And we have a winner!

      • Feech
        August 25, 2020, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

        @ casimir: *lol*

    • Robert Nowall
      August 26, 2020, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Daphne goes from brunette to redhead back to brunette. Mess with my perception of reality, would you?

  10. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 25, 2020, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

    You notice how Echo Bravo never loses focus on how he can contribute? I’m starting to think he is the real everyman hero of this story, not the unapproachable powerhouses of AG-I. He’s like Frodo, but taller.

    • BMunro
      August 25, 2020, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

      “You don’t just walk into Berkeley.”

      Needs a Sam, though. I’m sure A-Sig has plenty of Gollums.

    • Steve Jackson
      August 25, 2020, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

      And with shoes. Perfect shoes.

    • Candace
      August 26, 2020, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Ogen Wernstrom, you have an interesting idea of what a hero looks like, but, OK, I guess we’ll see what he ultimately winds up doing.

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