And we are back! And back to mondays! We’ll see how this goes 🙂
This is the first time we’ve seen Lily, though I think we’ve seen her mentioned before as Kyle’s wife and Peter & Mari’s mother. The dissembled thing? Well, that certainly looks like the Query mobile unit that was last seen slightly shot.
I would note that for convenience sake when everyone is speaking the same language, I don’t bother with language markers most of time; consequently it’s safe to assume that they are not, in fact, speaking Malsan here, I just didn’t want to use language tags for the whole scene.
An Eidos Interface being like an autocaster would be like any of the autocasters we’ve seen that work without buttons. Some autocasters – the easiest to use – have an actual physical manual interface, but those tend to be very limited. They are specialized to doing pretty much one thing, they still require a user with a key to activate them, but you the intentionality to do so is triggered by a manual interface. But we’ve seen autocasters before that don’t have a button, and these would use the Eidos Interface; they are still far simpler to use than manually writing to Eidos, but require you to be able be able to at least interface with it, which isn’t something people can typically do without training, though in Lily’s case she’s using a tool to detect and the interface and attempt to communicate with it. It’s like an Eidos API.
Hopefully we’ll be able to stick to weekly again for a bit, and thanks for hanging in there 🙂
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“like an eidos API”
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Huh. Cool.
Panel 4: Whatever this part it is emitting -> Whatever this part is, it is emitting
I used the extra time to examine the pictures in greater detail.
The far one makes cannon Peter and his sisters Halloween costumes as kids (assuming it’s not just an easter egg).
The closer one I don’t recognize beyond that it’s almost certainly Miko, Peter, and Mari, and two adults that don’t fit the profile Arron, Kyle, or Lily. My guess is this picture is actually a much bigger hidden clue than the other one, and is the first time we see Arron and Kyle’s missing sister; Miko’s parents.
Even now PastUtopia is being sneaky and cramming new details into the background…
That’s some good noticing!
The more feminine looking haircut is red haired like Keplers tend to have. The male looking adult has black hair, like Miko.
I think you’re right!
…It’s only been a week, but we are almost certainly behind schedule; hopefully Tuesday or Wednesday. Sorry, my last week ended up being pretty chaotic.
Comic! Yay! Thank you, PastU.
Lily seems less tuned into the political situation than one might have guessed she would be.
Conversely, my guess is that the shot Query is still quite tuned in and serving at least part of (its? his?) intended purpose. “Emitting a clear Eidos interface,” indeed! I’d have thought that Kyle’s reaction to that would have been to basically say, “Um… I think we need to interdict this thing. Or tell it everything that’s going on. Either way.”
He must be quite distracted. ̶M̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶’̶s̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶o̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶t̶.̶.̶.̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶d̶.̶ ̶W̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶.̶ I wonder what happened.
I believe that the last time we saw Kyle, he had just encountered Mium. That alone would be cause for severe distraction.
To be fair, anyone who encounters Mium seems likely to either be distracted by him, his oddness, his impossibleness, or whatever brought him to need you to encounter him.
I am surprised Mium didn’t repair or replace the module, but I guess as the central-side representative of the magic bureau he had more important things to do.
Couldn’t replace it, as (if I read Lily’s description right), it contains one of those rare (salvaged) Korish remotes.
None to spare, since Mium needed the latest one for the F5.
I thought Kyle had decided that the bot had hacked his implants to make use of his Eidos key when it saved him from getting shot. That being the case something similar to a piece of an autocaster shouldn’t be surprising to Kyle, distracted or not.