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2012-11-03

by shaenon on November 3, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    November 3, 2012, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Let’s sea what happens next.

    • Axel
      November 3, 2012, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Water we looking for?

      • reynard61
        November 3, 2012, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

        Wet! Wet! Don’t tell me!

        • Dewy
          November 3, 2012, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

          Is it a sea crate?

  2. Andrew
    November 3, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Next time on Skin Horse: Wait are those Sea Monkies?

  3. eddddd the mad genius
    November 3, 2012, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    wwwwait holy crap is GODOT speaking? its abiliteis multiply hourly like festering cave rats!

  4. Eddurd
    November 3, 2012, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Under The Sea”, Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)

    We’re here at the Car Sightseeing,
    Though tra-vel-ing underground!
    The zombie, so far, is being
    Delighted at what she’s found!
    We see on her face emotion
    Of such an ecstatic sort!
    Admiring the lovely ocean
    Like Madblood and Davenport!

    What do we see? What do we see?
    Fishes and coral!
    Please show me more, I’ll
    Giggle with glee!
    Now by the signs, you won’t be fooled!
    Open your eyes, and they’ll be schooled!
    Scenery viewing,
    Aah-ing and ooh-ing,
    That’s what we see!

    Travelling city,
    Re-venge is pretty,
    That’s what we see!

    Now, by my words,
    It’s not for the birds!
    It’s all for the fishes,
    Granting your wishes,
    Flipper and fin, yeah!
    All For The Win, yeah!
    That’s what we see!

  5. Mental Mouse
    November 3, 2012, 5:31 am | # | Reply

    edddd: There is a handy speaker grill — I presume GODOT wasn’t *intended* to communicate by induced paradolia…

  6. Robert The Addled
    November 3, 2012, 6:35 am | # | Reply

    Unity’s perpetual wonder seems to drive the Y in the acronym toward Youth.

    Today is one of those relatively still crisp sunny mornings here – you walk outside, pause, deep breath and look around marveling in the world around you. (I do live rural – Plenty of trees, sometimes deer even, birdfeeder, brook nearby) Even a rainy day has its wonders.

    UNITY is a philosopher w/ ADD….

    • Rex Vivat
      November 3, 2012, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      You are forgetting that UNITY is still VERY young. Her “perpetual” wonder (how long has the strip run, in-story? that’s hardly enough time to call it “perpetual”) is perfectly appropiate for her age.

  7. Lunad
    November 3, 2012, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    wait… is that a coral reef off the coast of Massachusetts?

    • Klyfix
      November 3, 2012, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm, the car shrank and is in the big tank at the New England Aquarium?

      • Anderson
        November 3, 2012, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

        We have a talking canadian dog, a patchwork nanite zombie and Tip Wilkin. A Massachusettian coral reef (or the potential they’re already just off the coast of New Caledonia) is not beyond the limits of presently established wierdness.

    • woozy
      November 3, 2012, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

      Uh, they’ve been in a moving train for two days…

    • Jon
      November 4, 2012, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      Hey, I hear Y’ha-nthlei is pretty this time of year.

    • Lars H
      February 7, 2019, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

      Could be a deep water reef. The largest known such (the Røst Reef) is at 67° North.

  8. Shadowmehr
    November 3, 2012, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    I was about to ask, are they still in Boston, or has St. Charlie a longer range than expected? Coral reefs indicated somewhere in warmer waters than New England, so that would indicated that they are now closer to the equator. These are Mad scientists, so we shouldn’t be surprised at anything, but where does this network end?, if anywhere.

    Suggesting they might end up in a galaxy far, far away is becoming less snark and more prophetic.

    • Tetra Valent
      November 3, 2012, 7:25 am | # | Reply

      Ruby introduced St. Charlie as “the city that never returns”, so Boston is about the only place they couldn’t be.

      • VonZorch
        November 3, 2012, 9:41 am | # | Reply

        It’s a reference to The MTA Song by the Kingston Trio

    • Wayne Zombie
      November 3, 2012, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      You’re assuming that it needs rails.

      “Where we’re going, we don’t need… rails.”

  9. Tetra Valent
    November 3, 2012, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    I keep looking for Madblood’s submarine in the background of panel 3.

    Is GODOT driving the train now as well?

    • Tetra Valent
      November 3, 2012, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

      The sub may be more likely than I thought when I posted that. This strip contains the first of several underwater scenes that Shaenon mentioned in the Narbonic Director’s Cut when introducing the sub a couple of weeks ago.

  10. Norman
    November 3, 2012, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    Add the cost of a few airlocks to the rail system, although I’d think that far less than the cost of all the tunnelling we’ve already seen evidence of. And if those tracks are low enough not to be noticed by casual divers, some severe pressure support is needed for St. Charlie herself.

    I recently read (in an article in a Grantville Gazette) that wet tracks would reduce traction. I wonder what mad science lets St. Charlie get around that.

    • Tetra Valent
      November 3, 2012, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Probably the same mad engineering that keeps that air-filled tube from floating away.

    • VonZorch
      November 3, 2012, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      Linear induction drive. Create in phase magnetic fields at the front and back of the train, this induces a current in the rails, an out of phase field in between will interact with the magnetic field created around the rails by the induced current, moving the train. Yes this sounds like Mad Science, but it actually works.

      • DonRCamp
        November 3, 2012, 11:23 am | # | Reply

        Yes, in fact it does!
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

        • Scott's Folly
          November 5, 2012, 10:13 am | # | Reply

          It works for human transport as well!

  11. Manifesta
    November 3, 2012, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    “Prettiest revenge!” sounds positively Shakespearean. Smart Unity rocks!

  12. Katrika
    November 3, 2012, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

    Holy cheese, Skin Horse has been running for 5 years? It seems much less than that. I can’t remember if I was reading from the beginning or not.

    …considering I was 14 when it started, maybe, but probably not.

    • Katrika
      November 3, 2012, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      To clarify, I’m surprised because Narbonic and Skin Horse have been a huge influence on me. I’m currently rereading Narbonic (again) and playing a Mad Botanist in an rp displaced from a universe that’s basically the Narboniverse with a few serial numbers filed off.

    • Dewy
      November 3, 2012, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

      Wow. 5 year? Crazy.

      I know how you feel, Katrika. When I was your age, it was Bloom County (yes, I’m that old.) I never got to rp Bill the Cat, tho, except some mornings after WAY too much drinking.

      Shaenon, you influenced someone’s youth. That’s gotta feel…weird…

      Grats!

  13. Frank
    November 3, 2012, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

    Now who was it that was asking whether GODOT could mess with sound?

  14. WuseMajor
    November 3, 2012, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

    It occurs to me that an explosive charge underwater could easily flood the city. Of course, it’s possible that no-one would notice and/or the problem would be otherwise easily dealt with (“we’ll just funnel all the incoming water into a different alternate dimension that the one we’re storing most of St. Charlie in!”), but I’d imagine it would briefly satisfy GODOT.

    • Frank
      November 4, 2012, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Why is it that nothing’s exciting unless there’s a bomb involved?

  15. Amonduul
    November 4, 2012, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    You know, I don’t think they’ve established just how big St. Charlie really is. I wonder if you can fit a coral reef in one of those cars…

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