Honestly, Moustachio. Tigerlily spends literally minutes making you a set of arms, and you just leave them lying around. Now you want a favour from someone who takes better care of theirs?
Wait. How was Moustachio supposed to do anything to save those masks? He was bolted to the floor before and after the Very Bad Day, until Tigerlily took Annex One as her lair. Heck, the bulk of his body still is bolted to the floor.
And how did he get them down without arms, even after he had been given little legs?
He rammed into the wall until the masks fell down. He was able to collapse a shopping mall that way, knocking down stuff hanging on the wall would have taken a tiny fraction of his power.
It’s unclear how Moustachio has ever carried out any office tasks, but I like to think that nowadays his go-to is to get up on those spider legs and ram his little robot head at the problem until it falls over.
Being prescient, at the time she gave him the Emergency Protocol, Gavotte undoubtedly already knew that Tigerlily would give Moustachio his spider legs. And we don’t know exactly what his legs are capable of – after all, he was able to attach himself to Hitty’s hull without assistance, so removing the masks from the wall would be relatively simple by comparison.
What’s Gavotte’s immediate response to hearing that he carried out the protocol? “I’d hardly dared hope.”
The protocol was probably something simple and open-ended like “In the event of an emergency, protect the tiki masks in my office and bring them to me as soon as possible, without letting anyone know you’re doing it.”
Since Moustachio’s loyalty is unquestionable and his determination resolute, the only reason for Gavotte to express even mild surprise that he carried out his task was the minor detail of it having been completely physically impossible at the time she gave the order.
TL; DR: Gavotte expected Moustachio to fail. But she also secretly hoped that he’d succeed. Arms or no arms.
I take her surprise to be at the fact that no one else had either trashed or stolen the masks before he had a chance to carry out his task, since she knew he wouldn’t be able to do it right away. So, not so much that she expected him to fail (because that would imply a shortcoming on his part), but that she expected an outside party to render his task incompletable.
Gavotte’s fondness of collecting Tiki masks is right there in the cast bio… (and having re-read that recently, this is probably the first and only occurrence in the history of the comic when I got an obscure-ish reference immediately).
…Nah, that’s not gonna make things weirder.
Moustachio stalks, tikka tikka.
Gavotte’s masks, tiki tiki.
Honestly, Moustachio. Tigerlily spends literally minutes making you a set of arms, and you just leave them lying around. Now you want a favour from someone who takes better care of theirs?
He gave his arms up for love.
Not like his little T-Rex arms could have hung the masks up anyway.
Wait. How was Moustachio supposed to do anything to save those masks? He was bolted to the floor before and after the Very Bad Day, until Tigerlily took Annex One as her lair. Heck, the bulk of his body still is bolted to the floor.
And how did he get them down without arms, even after he had been given little legs?
I think about this stuff too much; I’m trapped.
He rammed into the wall until the masks fell down. He was able to collapse a shopping mall that way, knocking down stuff hanging on the wall would have taken a tiny fraction of his power.
It’s unclear how Moustachio has ever carried out any office tasks, but I like to think that nowadays his go-to is to get up on those spider legs and ram his little robot head at the problem until it falls over.
Being prescient, at the time she gave him the Emergency Protocol, Gavotte undoubtedly already knew that Tigerlily would give Moustachio his spider legs. And we don’t know exactly what his legs are capable of – after all, he was able to attach himself to Hitty’s hull without assistance, so removing the masks from the wall would be relatively simple by comparison.
Agreed, awgiedawgie. This seems a highly likely scenario, given the characters in question.
Nah, you guys are over-thinking it.
What’s Gavotte’s immediate response to hearing that he carried out the protocol? “I’d hardly dared hope.”
The protocol was probably something simple and open-ended like “In the event of an emergency, protect the tiki masks in my office and bring them to me as soon as possible, without letting anyone know you’re doing it.”
Since Moustachio’s loyalty is unquestionable and his determination resolute, the only reason for Gavotte to express even mild surprise that he carried out his task was the minor detail of it having been completely physically impossible at the time she gave the order.
TL; DR: Gavotte expected Moustachio to fail. But she also secretly hoped that he’d succeed. Arms or no arms.
I take her surprise to be at the fact that no one else had either trashed or stolen the masks before he had a chance to carry out his task, since she knew he wouldn’t be able to do it right away. So, not so much that she expected him to fail (because that would imply a shortcoming on his part), but that she expected an outside party to render his task incompletable.
To put it another way…
She didn’t predict that Tigerlily Jones would upgrade him with spider legs so he’d be able to get the job done. That’s ridiculous.
She knowingly gave Moustachio an impossible task, knowing from past experience that there was a decent chance he’d find a way.
There’s no shame in being told that someone thought your impossible task was a longshot all along.
I mean, he was literally bolted to the customer service desk! You might as well ask a water cooler to helm a ship. Oh wait.
“She didn’t predict that Tigerlily Jones would upgrade him with spider legs”
Seriously? She was collecting nuclear reactors to power a giant robot, but you think it’s ridiculous that she foresaw Moustachio having legs?
I was wondering when Shaenon would work tikis into the artwork.
Probably the first instance: http://skin-horse.com/comic/the-sound-of/
Glad to see them back!
Stone masks? dose this mean vampires? I suppose that this would not be the most bizarre turn of events.
Gavotte’s fondness of collecting Tiki masks is right there in the cast bio… (and having re-read that recently, this is probably the first and only occurrence in the history of the comic when I got an obscure-ish reference immediately).
Well she was friends with a sentient swamp, maybe she also knows some loas?
Well, back in Grillo Parlante Nera and Jonah ran into actual spirits (or something very good at faking it) in Hawaii, so I’d hardly find it unlikely.
(Speaking of Nera, I wonder what’s going on with her rather unusually talented Mom).
One never knows, do one….
This scene, or Elrond handing Anduril to Aragorn?
I’m gonna go with this.
“Who dares disturb our eternal slumber?”
“If it’s eternal, why are you awake?”
It’s really more of an “eternal hitting the alarm snooze”. Apparently, being a Deep One doesn’t qualify you for deep sleep?
Wasn’t the one on the left on “Gilligan’s Island”?
I love this so much!
Like the great playwright Pavel Chekov said: If in the first act there are tiki masks hanging on the wall, then in the last act they must go off.
Did anyone else hear Latin chanting as the trunk was opened? Maybe some orchestral music backing them?