I’m pretty sure the combination of facts that staying risks getting caught in an ongoing genocide, he doesn’t want to fight A-Sig, and he has enough money to escape and live elsewhere are what convinced him to make that decision.
It occurs to me Renard was picked up by Skin Horse, then decided to leave but leave #12 with them, #12 wanted to stay with him, then he tried to leave #12 at the reptile sanctuary, now he might give in and let #12 come with him…
“Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox” is right. He’s going in circles. He should’ve at least holed up with Skin Horse long enough to make himself a plan/for them to use his funds to buy a new hot tub.
Well, if he’s in SE SD, he might be slightly closer to Houston than Portland. I’d say get a dog crate for a Saint Bernard, plush it out, add an iPad, mobile WiFi hotspot, some extra-long batteries, and ship yourself to whichever port appeals.
New Orleans might be the easiest place to buy a boat, but also highest risk for #12 to be turned into gumbo.
You’re right. I should have qualified that remark. The erstwhile Reptile Gardens is less than 100 miles NW from the pole of inaccessibility of North America.
The great lakes are totally navigable and that is only 700 miles from Duluth. Pick up a couple madblood bots and he can have a totally mad pirate crew before he reaches the Soo Locks.
Had to be. It was a secret WWII Canadian project to build a giant aircraft carrier out of pykrete. No doubt war surplus and acquired by its present captain, Olympia “Bubbles” Waters.
I feel like we’re on the verge of an impassioned defense of pykrete as a hull material here, and there is probably no better forum for such.
Let us have it! I’ll start us off with the counterpoint:
Slowing the melting process slightly by adding wood pulp doesn’t change the fact that it will melt in water, especially salt water. Building carrier-sized refrigeration plants obviates any planned savings in steel from making the hull out of water.
Go!
(Note to future shipbuilders: I sincerly hope this discussion does not discourage you from building pykrete spacecraft. Or naval vessels. Or lava submersibles for volcano exploration. Please send me videos of all of the above.)
Quite right. From what I’ve read, it was a problem that hadn’t been overcome as they put together a test boat…would’a had to be overcome before building anything bigger, or just given up. (I gather the project was phased out as the war wound down.)
My mom sailed twice on the H.M.S. Rose. Despite its being privately owned, and not having been in the British fleet for some decades, it was indeed still called the H.M.S. Rose.
I’ve been wondering whether the New War and reality blindness extended overseas. We haven’t seen that many foreign nationals. Sweetheart and her pack (Canadian)…Gavotte (British)…and, of course, Mr. the Dane. Everybody else seems to be American, unless I’m missing someone or something.
At the start of the reality blindness epidemic, Nera says the drop-off in hits on their blog is almost totally in the US. And the few times Mr. Green has talked about his larger goals, he’s been pretty “MURRICA”.
Safe to say A-Sig is starting locally (ish) before moving on to the rest of the world, assuming they care about anywhere else.
Makes sense. But I just checked an E.E. Cummings reading on YouTube, and his voice has medium pitch. Whatever the answer is, it still can’t be harder than talking like Deacon Mushrat.
So how did meeting his fake ghost creator convince him to that decision?
I’m pretty sure the combination of facts that staying risks getting caught in an ongoing genocide, he doesn’t want to fight A-Sig, and he has enough money to escape and live elsewhere are what convinced him to make that decision.
It occurs to me Renard was picked up by Skin Horse, then decided to leave but leave #12 with them, #12 wanted to stay with him, then he tried to leave #12 at the reptile sanctuary, now he might give in and let #12 come with him…
“Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox” is right. He’s going in circles. He should’ve at least holed up with Skin Horse long enough to make himself a plan/for them to use his funds to buy a new hot tub.
I see Renard understands what makes #12 tick. ^_^
Renard is as far from any coast as he can be.
Even so, I think I can hear the far off horn-blast of the Habakkuk.
No, he’s in South Dakota. The Pacific is nearer…though getting over the Rockies could be a problem.
Well, if he’s in SE SD, he might be slightly closer to Houston than Portland. I’d say get a dog crate for a Saint Bernard, plush it out, add an iPad, mobile WiFi hotspot, some extra-long batteries, and ship yourself to whichever port appeals.
New Orleans might be the easiest place to buy a boat, but also highest risk for #12 to be turned into gumbo.
So a win-win for Renard, is what you’re saying.
You’re right. I should have qualified that remark. The erstwhile Reptile Gardens is less than 100 miles NW from the pole of inaccessibility of North America.
According to Wikipedia, the North American Pole of Inaccessibility is in Bennett County, SD.
The great lakes are totally navigable and that is only 700 miles from Duluth. Pick up a couple madblood bots and he can have a totally mad pirate crew before he reaches the Soo Locks.
That wasn’t the question. The question was whether he’s as far from a coast as he can be, and the answer is, roughly, yes.
No more bright ideas? Frankly, I can’t recall many of them since his initial high-speed truck escape.
Just got some birthday mad money. Went to the Couscous store and…
No Skin Horse face masks!
Make your own! Send photos!
My birthday present from my awesome, wonderful wife was a Narbonic Perfect Collection set with sketches from Shaenon in them.
Luckeee!
Is the H. M. C. S. Habakkuk available for lease again?
I guess it’s appropriate that the Habakkuk would be a
“Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship”
but I don’t recall that from earlier in Skin Horse.
Had to be. It was a secret WWII Canadian project to build a giant aircraft carrier out of pykrete. No doubt war surplus and acquired by its present captain, Olympia “Bubbles” Waters.
I am no expert on the shelf life of aircraft carriers, but I have to doubt that they typically last 80 years if you make them out of ice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
Pykrete isn’t ice, and likely the ship has seen better days.
I feel like we’re on the verge of an impassioned defense of pykrete as a hull material here, and there is probably no better forum for such.
Let us have it! I’ll start us off with the counterpoint:
Slowing the melting process slightly by adding wood pulp doesn’t change the fact that it will melt in water, especially salt water. Building carrier-sized refrigeration plants obviates any planned savings in steel from making the hull out of water.
Go!
(Note to future shipbuilders: I sincerly hope this discussion does not discourage you from building pykrete spacecraft. Or naval vessels. Or lava submersibles for volcano exploration. Please send me videos of all of the above.)
Quite right. From what I’ve read, it was a problem that hadn’t been overcome as they put together a test boat…would’a had to be overcome before building anything bigger, or just given up. (I gather the project was phased out as the war wound down.)
It wouldn’t be HMCS now, of course, as it’s Bubbles’ ship.
My mom sailed twice on the H.M.S. Rose. Despite its being privately owned, and not having been in the British fleet for some decades, it was indeed still called the H.M.S. Rose.
Renard, you can run as far as you want, but you can’t escape yourself.
Or #12.
I’ve been wondering whether the New War and reality blindness extended overseas. We haven’t seen that many foreign nationals. Sweetheart and her pack (Canadian)…Gavotte (British)…and, of course, Mr. the Dane. Everybody else seems to be American, unless I’m missing someone or something.
It was alluded to at some point (I think when they went up to rescue Sweetheart’s pack) that it was just in the US.
awgiedawgie: An ex-naval ship, like the Habakkuk, would use a different prefix though.
Fair enough. I’m not even going to pretend to know the rules of the sea.
At the start of the reality blindness epidemic, Nera says the drop-off in hits on their blog is almost totally in the US. And the few times Mr. Green has talked about his larger goals, he’s been pretty “MURRICA”.
Safe to say A-Sig is starting locally (ish) before moving on to the rest of the world, assuming they care about anywhere else.
I’m sure this has been discussed and I missed it, but I’m still wondering how to speak in lowercase, especially with enthusiasm as here.
You have to have a naturally high-pitched voice, which is why it comes so easily to toddlers and turtles.
Makes sense. But I just checked an E.E. Cummings reading on YouTube, and his voice has medium pitch. Whatever the answer is, it still can’t be harder than talking like Deacon Mushrat.
What does E.E. Cummings have to do with it? The whole lowercase thing with him was all his publisher’s idea. He wasn’t even in favour of it.
Maybe his publisher had a high-pitched voice.
I’m hearing #12 like Buddy Hackett or Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
Don’t forget, he might be weak on capitals, but he can do superscript and shift for symbols.
I have a sneaking suspicion I know which boat he’s going to end up on.