This is one of those where I pretty shamelessly just put… several pages… of text on one page. The new style may allow certain degrees of irresponsibility. But with the once every two-week update schedule, it felt like makes sense with pages like this that are just a bunch of people walking down hallways talking.
Polls
A reign ends a new one begins, who shall inherit the floppy red crown in this 2021 Santa Hat Showdown? Lightning round 48 hour poll!
- Ila (11%, 44 Votes)
- Naomi's Little Sister (10%, 42 Votes)
- Kally (10%, 42 Votes)
- Miko (7%, 29 Votes)
- Fluffy (5%, 22 Votes)
- The Consul (5%, 21 Votes)
- Eliana (4%, 15 Votes)
- Mari (3%, 12 Votes)
- Mium (3%, 11 Votes)
- Camilla (3%, 11 Votes)
- Vium (3%, 11 Votes)
- Mir (3%, 11 Votes)
- Peter (2%, 7 Votes)
- Ryn (2%, 7 Votes)
- Amy (2%, 7 Votes)
- Artem (2%, 7 Votes)
- Mione (2%, 7 Votes)
- Miss Holmgren (1%, 6 Votes)
- Rovak (1%, 6 Votes)
- Arkady (1%, 6 Votes)
- Magnolia (1%, 6 Votes)
- Saria (1%, 6 Votes)
- Acalia (1%, 5 Votes)
- Kor's World Soldier (1%, 5 Votes)
- Query (1%, 5 Votes)
- Ashvalt (1%, 5 Votes)
- Lily (1%, 4 Votes)
- Tyler (1%, 4 Votes)
- Maia (1%, 4 Votes)
- Tamara (1%, 4 Votes)
- Dendrin (1%, 3 Votes)
- Doctor Hadrian Martin (1%, 3 Votes)
- Nathan (1%, 3 Votes)
- Tom (1%, 3 Votes)
- Sophie (1%, 3 Votes)
- Atter (1%, 3 Votes)
- President Kokato (0%, 2 Votes)
- Ice Cream Shop Owner (0%, 2 Votes)
- Lisa (0%, 2 Votes)
- Emmi Esk (0%, 2 Votes)
- Ashley (0%, 2 Votes)
- Saldur (0%, 1 Votes)
- Regin (0%, 1 Votes)
- David (0%, 1 Votes)
- The MTC Officer (0%, 1 Votes)
- Daelia (0%, 1 Votes)
- Kurun (0%, 1 Votes)
- Korbin (0%, 1 Votes)
- Sparrow (0%, 1 Votes)
- Tokiwa (0%, 1 Votes)
- Yoav (0%, 1 Votes)
- Shemoki (0%, 1 Votes)
- Biana (0%, 1 Votes)
- Vera (0%, 1 Votes)
- Ashian (0%, 1 Votes)
- Kyle (0%, 1 Votes)
- Arron (0%, 1 Votes)
- Jayce (0%, 0 Votes)
- Gate (0%, 0 Votes)
- Semar Lot (0%, 0 Votes)
- Don (0%, 0 Votes)
- Toshe (0%, 0 Votes)
- Kyston (0%, 0 Votes)
- Minerva (0%, 0 Votes)
- Marc (0%, 0 Votes)
- Karov (0%, 0 Votes)
- Ricci (0%, 0 Votes)
- Ann Rillion (0%, 0 Votes)
- Vicksberg (0%, 0 Votes)
- Tefzarin (0%, 0 Votes)
- Nick (0%, 0 Votes)
- Elmon (0%, 0 Votes)
- Nelson (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 106

Interesting. This isn’t that big of news, but confirms that the arm can be replaced. Likely with cybernetics. That likely played a part in Aaron’s willingness to have it removed.
Reminds me of the first time we heard Colonel Ricci mentioned back when Miko was threatening the IDS Soldiers.
Seeing that the actual Ricci can be foul mouthed, I wonder if he knows Miko and what he’d think of her foul-mouthed tirades.
Where did everyone go? Usually there would be several comments by now. Did Biana scare everyone off? Hmmm, was it Biana or Sophie that fired the HVM at Peter?
This is one of those “popcorn” panels where we get a lot of good tone, pacing, and atmosphere, but there isn’t really a huge revelation to speculate about. We’re all still here and enjoying ourselves, there just isn’t anything really to say at this exact moment.
It appears that there was a glitch of some kind. Don’t know if it was on my end or the server’s end. A bunch of comments that now appear were not visible to me earlier.
It warms my heart to see two old friends teasing each other in snarky repartee. ^^
And, yeah, old campaigners really do talk like that….
Not just the old campaigners. I served 86-97 and the teasing bad language and name calling started in basic training. SOB was one of the milder insults.
You botched the delivery of the panel 3 joke. It should be something like “I’d be in a cell, I suppose”. The “with me” isn’t clear enough.
I dunno, seems to be the double joke of being thrown in the cell, and getting slapped while in the cell, so works as written to me.
Past, please don’t apologize for all the text. It gives insight to the characters thinking which wouldn’t have been possible in the old comic format without using a bunch of panels.
The good vs bad count for the meeting is even at 2 and 2. Can someone please identify the guy talking to Briana? Thanks.
He’s probably some Orish guy, since she’s hiding out in Orin and he’s apparently reporting to different people than she is. Is she reporting to anyone? Or is she as rogue as she claims Peter is at this point?