Comic for Monday, September 21st, 2020
Naomi found her first snacking opportunity of the day after all I suppose.
Kally is notoriously bad a public transit, and still a little paranoid about taxis for some reasons… Flying Dragons about works better but tends to be on the somewhat conspicuous side. Kally refers to her co-workers here as “old coworkers” because the who she is primarily referring to is Peter and Emmi, nether of which could be considered her coworkers anymore for various reasons. I think there was a bonus comic from Minus Years a long time ago about Kally getting Peter to take her to a Malsan comic book store because she couldn’t figure out how to get there on her own… at least without the Dragon. Though it doesn’t show now, Kally’s Malsan was not always a good until she needed to learn it better for reading their books and comics. As we’ve seen with most IDS folks, even if they’ve almost all studied Malsan, particularly the monster hunters and central army folks generally aren’t very good at it. Peter would be very exasperated with her asking to translate strange words or idioms and designated the task to Query… I’d say some nuance was probably lost there, but I imagine Query would be better at that than Peter anyway, even if Peter was fairly fluent in Malsan by the time he met Kally.
Kally does still speak somewhat accented Malsan. It’s not something I try to render stylistic as I don’t render accents unless they are very pronounced. Originally I had planned to do more with word choice with non-native speakers typically speaking from a more limited word pool, but ultimately I found it not worth trying to render that for the more or less fluent people like. Weber speaks with more accented Malsan than Kally though. Peter tends to speak with a faint accent, but it’s largely affected as he looks like a foreigner.
…welp, that was my strange digression for the day. See you next week, buffer should be up soon. Been working on a lot of stuff, though most of it related to my other hobbies, but life has been more productive now that I’m done moving.
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Uh, oh! Naomi has performed the ritual of of Murphy. She made plans to do stuff before the world starts blowing up again. Murphy has heard her words, and shall now make her suffer!
…oh wait. it’s Naomi. Hmm. If there was a list of people that Murphy is scared of, Naomi would definitely make the list
Not sure it is even possible to PUNCH a random force of nature, but if it is, Naomi would be the one to punch it really, really hard.
Where can I find a friend who likes video games and snacking expeditions!? ’cause I want in! (preferably, someone as cute as Naomi)
I would offer my services, but I doubt we live close enough to actually make snack runs…
Yeah, probably not going to work, I think I’m about the only Australian reader here. (apart from my bro)
Hello fellow Aussie.
G’day, LordRowyn! It’s nice to ken that there are, at least, a few of us here! We’ll have to teach the rest of these slicked-back pelicans a thing or two about the bush, show ’em we’re more useful than screen doors on a submarine, or roll-up tarmac. Yes, sir, we Aussies aren’t the type who couldn’t teach a pig to stink.
Are you two related?
Hey! I’m…oh. Nvm, you asked for cuteness also.
Ah ha! Naomi’s wardrobe choice explained!
Makes sense, Mium did lose a few suits, ties, & dress shoes in recent house explosions, so I expect Naomi is suffering the same kind of loss.
I am surprised that neither Kally nor Naomi seem to use online shopping… because that removes the whole need for inter-person interaction. OK, so maybe Naomi might enjoy talking to people: but if you’re running out of clothing in the middle of saving the world, surely you’d just order some.
Corrections?
“I’m so far out of clothes…” -> “I’m sooo out of clothes…”
Depending on how much time she has to deal with ordering some clothing.
Maybe that’s actually what happened, except she just called her agent, and said, “I’m out of clothes, I need stuff to wear next week. Can you get me stuff?” Or, more likely, because this is an established relationship, just “Get me some clothes to wear by tomorrow.”
Online shopping for clothes may not work well if your clothing needs don’t fit within the standard buckets in which clothes are made in bulk. Naomi in particular seems likely to fall outside of those buckets, as she almost certainly needs clothing that’s several orders of magnitude more durable than typical consumer quality generally is, so she can avoid those awkward, “I jumped over a small building and now my pants are torn”. Kally might want some enhanced durability as well, though probably doesn’t need quite as much as Naomi.
That likely describes, both, Naomi and Kally’s situations. Up until Kally left the IDS, her “uniform(s)” were provided by her employer. So… Clothes shopping may be on the agenda for both of them in the near future.
I don’t know that we’ve established this world having an online shopping experience. While there is clearly lots of automation…. there’s been hints that not all sciences are equally developed.
Even if there is catalog shopping (Earth’s online shopping equivalent a century ago, where Sears played the role of Amazon), delivery of goods still takes time.
If the delivery man gets there and finds a smoking crater…. yeah, clothing shortage here we come.
All of which suggests some interesting content that we should be seeing as Patreon incentives shortly.
Panel 2 – Expeditious -> Expeditions?
I thought that was panel 3, but “snacking expeditions” is probably Naomi’s intended line.
Yes, panel 3, thankyou for correcting my correction 🙂
Fixed, I think 🙂
Naomi uses “Naomi logic”. It is very confusing.
“Naomi logic” is similar to “stoner logic”, but not as grounded in reality. ^^
Speaking of Niome logic…her hair is stll brown …will she go through a stage with magenta roots and dark brown tips? Hopefully not…that might work the other way around.
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we know she heals rapidly while she sleeps. Perhaps she can do something similar with her hair?
Panel 5: “shopping”
There are many “shopping” ‘s in panel 5. The “shoping” in question appears in Naomi’s final word bubble. Though maybe it is intentional?
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Naomi doesn’t seem to hold a grudge, Kally, in case you haven’t figured that out.
I’m not sure that Malsa is ready for the two of them to be wandering around stores together, though!
I do love their just slightly mismatched social awkwardness. I think Naomi largely either has no clue how she comes across or just doesn’t care. This contrasts with Kally’s hyper-aware awk.
Unless you get on her list. We know of a red-armored person who did make the list.
List of things to feed her dragon? . . .
There’s that too.
But Naomi can punch them first, then once properly tenderized, Fluffy can have dinner…
But why, red suited guys are crunchy…like eating ants. Great mouth feel, especially if the wiggling increases saliva….does fluffy have salivary glands?
Didn’t Niome tear off an arm, or was that only of Mark’s sister the teleporter?
I think Naomi tore off the teleporter’s arm, but Fluffy tore an arm off one of the redsuits before stresstesting their shields with dragonfire.
But that was before they started getting curious about eating…