Somehow trying to imagine lava-fueled piping going through a portal with a mobile end on a train and a fixed end inside a volcano – while all this remaining apparently stiffly immobile at the point of junction makes my poor brain melt. Rather appropriately.
The trick is you put it in buckets, and you put the buckets in a box that is it two places at once, with one of the places being the inside of the train. You then construct a robot arm to retrieve the buckets from the box and dump them into your magma system.
A pair of tuned LGB – w/ one in the volcano, the other on the train, and perhaps another pair to drain away the excess. Points for those who get the reference.
(TUNE: “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover”, Paul Simon)
Now Ruby warns us as we reach the engine room,
But it’s gonna be some typical Mad Science, we assume …
Then we look in … it’s like the center of Mount Doom!
There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!
It’s like the games we used to play, not long before,
When we would say, “OK, you die if you just barely touch the floor!”
And now it’s happened! … It’s just a shame there isn’t more!
There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!
We’re feeling the heat, Pete!
It’s more than just warm, Norm!
It’s igneous rock, Jock!
Mad Scientists rule!
It’s glow-y and red, Fred!
So just listen, what Ed said!
A spot that’s so hot, Dot,
Is totally cool!
Not to add any work for an overtaxed web-cartoonist, but that last panel would look really, really, cool in color and blown up to whatever size my computer wallpaper is (I expect you to know, because I’m eating waffles and typing and don’t have a hand free to work my mouse to check). If it ever comes to fruition, let me know. I live for the day when Skin-Horse is at least in my sunday paper and in color, might as well practice now.
Now, is Ruby’s dialogue in the first panel edited by Shaenon for webcomics purposes, edited by U.N.I.T.Y.’s brain (i.e., we’re reading what she hears), or unedited?
I get a chuckle out of the thought that Ruby stopped to warn them and dumbed down the warning so our heroes would understand ^_^
It’s a game many kids have played … pretend the floor is lava, and try to cross the room without touching it. (Involves using chairs, tables, shelves, usually results in breakages and angry parents.)
Somehow I expected more Science instead of Mad.
Now – if this was a portal to somewhere else and this is tapping of a volcano somewhere, THAT is an entirely different kettle of brains.
Somehow trying to imagine lava-fueled piping going through a portal with a mobile end on a train and a fixed end inside a volcano – while all this remaining apparently stiffly immobile at the point of junction makes my poor brain melt. Rather appropriately.
The trick is you put it in buckets, and you put the buckets in a box that is it two places at once, with one of the places being the inside of the train. You then construct a robot arm to retrieve the buckets from the box and dump them into your magma system.
A pair of tuned LGB – w/ one in the volcano, the other on the train, and perhaps another pair to drain away the excess. Points for those who get the reference.
I am about 90% sure I’ve done this in Minecraft.
Aside from the train part, because it wasn’t possible to make Ender Chest carts, I’m about 100% sure I’ve done that in Minecraft.
I’m foreseeing a lemmings like demise for our Zombie horde. If Zombies were lemmings.
it’s…. beautiful…
(TUNE: “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover”, Paul Simon)
Now Ruby warns us as we reach the engine room,
But it’s gonna be some typical Mad Science, we assume …
Then we look in … it’s like the center of Mount Doom!
There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!
It’s like the games we used to play, not long before,
When we would say, “OK, you die if you just barely touch the floor!”
And now it’s happened! … It’s just a shame there isn’t more!
There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!
We’re feeling the heat, Pete!
It’s more than just warm, Norm!
It’s igneous rock, Jock!
Mad Scientists rule!
It’s glow-y and red, Fred!
So just listen, what Ed said!
A spot that’s so hot, Dot,
Is totally cool!
I made it into a Narbonic filksong! 10 Q, Eddurd^_^
Skin-Horse filksong*. An easy mistake to make first thing in the morning.
Despite never having mentioned my Scottishness here, I’m choosing to believe that “Jock” is a reference to me…
Well, it’s not like we thought you were Greek, but I thought Daibhid was the Irish spelling.
[applause, hollering and whistling, buying-of-beers]
Where are the couches? That is the only way to combat a floor made of lava!
Not to add any work for an overtaxed web-cartoonist, but that last panel would look really, really, cool in color and blown up to whatever size my computer wallpaper is (I expect you to know, because I’m eating waffles and typing and don’t have a hand free to work my mouse to check). If it ever comes to fruition, let me know. I live for the day when Skin-Horse is at least in my sunday paper and in color, might as well practice now.
correction, it was the second panel. Oops, short term memory and waffles, bad combo.
This turns out not to be the case. Waffles are great with a bit of short-term memory and maple syrup. Just ask U.N.I.T.Y. ^_^
Now, is Ruby’s dialogue in the first panel edited by Shaenon for webcomics purposes, edited by U.N.I.T.Y.’s brain (i.e., we’re reading what she hears), or unedited?
I get a chuckle out of the thought that Ruby stopped to warn them and dumbed down the warning so our heroes would understand ^_^
That’s what I thought at first too, but if you follow the stem of the voice balloon you’ll see that that line of dialogue belongs to Sweetheart.
Me too. That stim would work a lot better if it was not curved toward Ruby. It’s kind of confusing the first read though.
I see. I sit corrected. Again, FTITM ^_^
Person wearing a lab coat over a bunny suit and holding a glowing staff: That is one _hell_ of a fashion statement.
Bunny suit? that would be cool, but I don’t see it.
“Bunny suit” is a slang word for those decontamination suits of the sort seen in Intel Pentium II ads from the 90s.
Somehow I see him using the phrase “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” at some point in the near future.
It’s the staff, that plus the fire just completes the image.
UNITY is having the time of her life in here.
Re UNITY’s last line: someone told her that the floor was lava and she didn’t believe it until now?
It’s a game many kids have played … pretend the floor is lava, and try to cross the room without touching it. (Involves using chairs, tables, shelves, usually results in breakages and angry parents.)
Wait, did UNITY have a childhood? Is she still having a childhood? The mind bagels.
Think about it. How old is she?
Mmmmm…. mind bagels. With butter and cream cheese and wit jam. Can I have some cogitate bacon to go with that?
mnem
Are you sure that’s not “50 Ways to Love Your Liver”?