Fox, can you help guard this chicken coop, please?
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Avery: Gien. Everything okay?
Gien: My disappointment in my fellows remains boundless in the scope and breadth of it's travesty.
Avery: ...Right. Listen, can I impose on you to help Carrie for a moment?
Gien With what?
Avery: Todd and I need to replace our air tanks
Carrie is going to watch the kids. Give her a hand, please?
Gien: It would be my greatest pleasure, Avery.
Gien: My disappointment in my fellows remains boundless in the scope and breadth of it's travesty.
Avery: ...Right. Listen, can I impose on you to help Carrie for a moment?
Gien With what?
Avery: Todd and I need to replace our air tanks
Carrie is going to watch the kids. Give her a hand, please?
Gien: It would be my greatest pleasure, Avery.
No Bonus Commentary available on this comic. Dave couldn't think of anything insightful or clever to share, and he has no one to blame for that but himself and/or/maybe God.
Okay, no, this is getting WAY too perfect for working in Gien’s favor. This whole visit is totally a set up to bring him down a peg or three. Especially with how much a papa bear Todd was first visit, I doubt he’d let just Carrie watch Selkie if this wasn’t all a plan regarding something or another.
I dunno, I kinda think that Todd *probably* trusts both Agent Brown and – by extension – Carrie enough that he wouldn’t be bothered with her keeping an eye on Selkie for a few minutes.
Besides, I don’t think we’ve been given any indication that Agent Brown and/or Todd have any reason to suspect Gien of being up to something at this point in time.
All that said, I’m *very* curious to see what Gien thinks he can do here. Surely not something as (dumb) and as bold as attempting to kidnap her or hold her hostage. I’m betting on some sort of subtle and insidious guilt trip or attempt to poison the well against Todd/humans in general.
I have a hard time believing he would trust them that easy. If he wouldn’t let Selkie stay with Pohl, who he sees more often than Agent Brown, I don’t see why he’s trusting Carrie more, especially with how well visit one went.
And sure, we haven’t been given indication they suspect something, but since Todd contacted Agent Brown with an issue regarding Scar, I don’t see why other Sarnothi wouldn’t bring issues up to him. This one, I admit, is a stretch, as I don’t know why bring issues to Agent Brown specifically. But I’m sure there’s a structure of how to go about complaints about their Voice, and he seems to be their regular check up guy. And as Te Vahn said yesterday, he’s the only one trying to make this place something it’s not, and that might be causing some discontent. Oh! That might be why Agent Brown is checking in, he asks how things are down here, as I’m sure the nation doesn’t want there to be bad blood with their new refugees, and they bring up “Well, it’s okay, but Gien…” and thus this is checking in on that. And it’s not like it’s a secret Gien wants Selkie to work down here, he’s brought it up with Pohl, Scar and Then, I like to think Then has been doing checking on this on his own.
I have a hard time believing he would trust them that easy. If he wouldn’t let Selkie stay with Pohl, who he sees more often than Agent Brown, I don’t see why he’s trusting Carrie more, especially with how well visit one went.
It’s not like he has much choice in the matter aside from taking Selkie with him.
> It’s not like he has much choice in the matter aside from taking Selkie with him.<
Well, yeah. "C'mon, hon. We're going back to the sub. I need to change my air tank."
That's what fathers do.
Basically what Alpo said. That’s literally what Todd did last time. They had to switch tanks, he insisted Selkie come with him back to the sub.
Dude….don’t do it dude…this ends badly…ugh, no reasoning with a zealot.
Sure you can, you can reason all day long.
They just won’t hear anything.
Like the Charley Brown specials, when the parents talk to the kids it’s just wa-wa-wa on the trumpet.
There is absolutely no way this ends well. For Gien. I expect that Scar is somewhere around and will absolutely risk being revealed as Selkie’s father if it becomes a situation where Gien is threatening her in some way. (Also, please don’t kill Scar, Dave!)
“Hey Scorpion, could you hitch a ride with Mr. Frog?”
I’m only just now noticing that Gien’s markings make him look a little like Orochimaru from Naruto. How fitting. XD
Dun dun DUNNNNN!
GIEN I SWEAR TO GOD
HEY!… Don’t swear to ME!… Gien’ll get his comeuppance just fine without any swearing to me!…
😀
Then he got an idea. An awful idea. Gien had a wonderful, awful idea.
…Yeah, Gien, Papa Wolf #2 is still there even if Papa Wolf #1 is up top getting a fresh bottle of air. You REALLY think you’ll be able to blackmail Scar into letting you enslave his daughter?
That shoud ring an alarm to Avery, how many things are Giens ‘gratest pleasure’?
FYI Dave if Todd got Nitrox certifies (a higher percentage of Oxygen) he could stay down much longer. What’s the depth of where they’re staying? At around 30-40 ft it could be closer to 2 hours.
Or Todd could also invest in a re-breather mask. Tbh I’m very surprised that Agent Brown doesn’t already have one. A rebreather scrubs the oxygen and re-uses it. You can be down in the water for like 9 hours without having to leave.
Great way to ensure Selkie never wants to contribute.
So where is the secret commentary?
None on today’s installment because I’m figureing out a new implementation. Yesterdays was hidden under the blog text in pink lettering
Nope, Cannot get the hidden text to show on my i-Pad. Highlighted the whole thing on that page; nada, nix, null,zilch, zip, Nyet, nope.
I was wondering: would White Text under the transcript in the Transcript box work? Or would that also be defeated by color schemes?
Just an idea
Sonny: Dave was using the transcript box to hide it the commentary from those who wanted to experience the comic ‘pure’, without any author’s chatter. In that instance the commentary was hidden but easily available. Now using the transcript box for transcripts, Dave is looking for a new hidden way to get that to be hidden, but easily available for us’uns who want his thoughts (aka:artist’s ramblings)
Oh, I know that.
But sometime the solution is close to the beginning.
And, I figured if he could pull that off, it would be a double hidden commentary……
Carrie gonna kick some butt
But wait! Carrie will protect the kids from Gien’s self-serving plots, won’t sh—
-_- …oh wait, right. Carrie is about as assertive as an infant puppy dog.
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Go for the throat, Benny!
He’s not planning on kidnapping Selkie is he?
dun, Dun DUUUUUUUUUN!!!
I’m fairly sure that whatever he’s about to try is going to backfire spectacularly. I’m just concerned about the possible fallout, because I don’t think he’s above using what I’m sure he fondly thinks of as a trump card regarding Selkie’s parentage.
Gien: Now I shall have my opportunity to lecture the children on CIVICS! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” >:D
Selkie: “Ooooh, do I hears someone doing an evil scientist laughs?”
Gien: “This is going to be easier than I thought.”
Selkie Book Three: The Rise and Ascendency of She!
Hello, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Doctor. Doctor Terrorhammer!
That card may not be worth as much as he thinks it is, and may work against him if it IS worth as much as he thinks it is and it is deployed.
Benny and Carrie are full-blood Sar’Teri and they don’t seem to get any flak. If the rest of the settlement doesn’t give a 💲🧲👁️🗨️🚋 about Selkie being a daughter of Sar’Teri, Gien’s ‘trump’ card has the effect of a fart in a paper bag.
If being a hybrid alienates her from the rest of the settlement, she leaves forever. Too bad, so sad; get used to your new place in life, Gien.