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2019-06-08

by shaenon on June 8, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. David B Huber
    June 8, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    When Ginny has a quiet moment to reflect on what just transpired, she may decide losing control isn’t necessarily a bad thing…

  2. Robert Nowall
    June 8, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    “If I only had a heart [attack]…”

  3. OneUniverse
    June 8, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I’m glad Nick reached for her rather than attacking Ron: It would be kinda unfortunate to have Virginia splattered near where the basement dwellers could be freaked out.

    • Rimwolf
      June 8, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      He’s got really good reaction time, speed, and (at least) hand strength.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 8, 2019, 5:53 am | # | Reply

        Adrenaline is a wonderful and amazing thing.

    • Darwinskeeper
      June 8, 2019, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      My understanding is that Nick is a pacifist so, even if he didn’t love Virginia Lee, attacking Ron wouldn’t have been a priority.

    • David B Huber
      June 8, 2019, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      But where is Ron? Shouldn’t he be visible while Nick is pulling Virginia up?

      • Rimwolf
        June 8, 2019, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe Ron toppled over backwards when the weight on his arm (i.e. Virginia) was released.

        • greenknight32
          June 9, 2019, 1:43 am | # | Reply

          Ron’s armor is still frozen except for the gloves, so yes, he would topple over when he was unbalanced by dropping her.. He’s now lying on his back helplessly wiggling his fingers.

  4. Rimwolf
    June 8, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Do that thing again where you convince us you’re not mad, Virginia?

    • Bruce A Munro
      June 8, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      I dunno: seemed more a Florida Man moment than a Mad Science one.

    • John Campbell
      June 8, 2019, 2:26 am | # | Reply

      Not being a Mad Scientist isn’t the same thing as being sane and well-balanced. If Virginia were totally sane, she wouldn’t even be aware of what’s going on here.

      (And, really, given what we’ve been told about her abilities… she’s not a Mad Scientist because she’s something weirder than a plain old Mad Scientist.)

      • evilmidnightlurker
        June 8, 2019, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

        That depends on your definition of sanity. I can’t classify reality-blindness as anything but a rather dangerous delusion.

    • Mental Mouse
      June 8, 2019, 7:51 am | # | Reply

      Certainly Dangerously Genre Savvy. As A Practical Guide To Evil
      recently reminded me, “nobody important ever dies from falling off a cliff”.

      (PGTE is a web serial, high fantasy deconstructing both the essentialist “alignment” idea, and story tropes — both of which are in-world mechanics! The protagonists have a new approach to Evil….)

    • Rimwolf
      June 8, 2019, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      (I would appreciate any archive cognoscente pointing me to the strip where Sweetheart says something like this.)

      • Rimwolf
        June 8, 2019, 11:56 am | # | Reply

        Ah, found it: http://skin-horse.com/comic/it-was-supposed/

    • Darwinskeeper
      June 8, 2019, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Dr. Virginia Lee isn’t so much mad as she’s an extremely geeky engineer and can become so focused on solving a particular problem that she doesn’t care about the practical result of solving that problem.

      Consider the joke about the Doctor, the Layer and the Engineer in the French Revolution.

      A Doctor, a Lawyer and an Engineer are about to be executed via Guillotine. The Doctor is put in the guillotine but the blade stops a few inches short of his neck. The revolutionaries consider this a sign from God so they spare the man. The same thing happens with the Lawyer. Then as the engineer lies down in the guillotine, he points at something and says, “I think I see your problem.”

  5. Towering Barbarian
    June 8, 2019, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    I’m now reminded of what Archchancellor Ridcully said about the Dean when explaining his fellow wizards to a Mundane who’d expected wizards to have common sense, “He’s got a sense of urgency inferior to that of a paperclip! I’m proud to have him on our team.”. By that standard Ginny would definitely be good Unseen University material. ^_^

  6. Toby Fernsler
    June 8, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    That’s quite the harness-sweater. Something new from REI?

    • casimir
      June 8, 2019, 2:21 am | # | Reply

      It doubles as a PFD.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 8, 2019, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Just a little something Ginny knitted herself using some high-tensile fibers from a different section of A-Sig’s R&D. It’s meant to be the basis of bulletproof materials, but they had some skeins of the stuff left over, so she thought she’d put them to use. Surprisingly comfy, and good for mildly cool weather. (Or the occasional firefight.)

      • Foradain
        June 8, 2019, 10:38 am | # | Reply

        I think she got that deep blue color from dye inside the individual fullerene tubules. And why is my spellcheck freaking out over “fullerene”?

        • David Palmer
          June 8, 2019, 11:15 am | # | Reply

          But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of tactical assault armor. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean field artillery? I think we need artillery here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different defense contractors. And then it, uh, filtered down through the arms bazaars and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.

          • Candace
            June 10, 2019, 12:26 am | #

            +1,000

  7. Darwinskeeper
    June 8, 2019, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    The most surprising thing about Dr. Lee is that she seems to have a lot of fashion sense for an engineer/scientist of her geekatude. Most of the engineers of this type have as much fashion sense as Dave Davenport from Narbonic. Or me on a bad day, there’s a reason I tend to go clothes shopping with my sister.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 8, 2019, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      That’s the reason why I only wear black. I may not have any fashion sense, but no one can tell.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 9, 2019, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

        Hides the dirt, too.

      • Candace
        June 10, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

        Ah, yes, I love black. It’s the best color. So many advantages.

  8. Gyrre
    June 10, 2019, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

    High Int, low Wis combo. Classic.

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