Felt that one in the ego.
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Gien: So, that's... all the progress you've made? Off and on?
Selkie: Yeah.
Selkie: But I'm working really hard, to get better!
Selkie: And I have a lot of ideas for how I can help, and be a really good Echo!
Gien: Oh? And what would these ideas be?
Selkie: You know how it's just Mister Pohl and Mister Scar who are doing all of the work?
Gien: Of course. They are the Echoes. That is their responsibility.
Selkie: Well, I decided that's an INCREDIBLY STUPID IDEA!
Gien: ...You'll have to walk me through that one. Carefully.
Selkie: Yeah.
Selkie: But I'm working really hard, to get better!
Selkie: And I have a lot of ideas for how I can help, and be a really good Echo!
Gien: Oh? And what would these ideas be?
Selkie: You know how it's just Mister Pohl and Mister Scar who are doing all of the work?
Gien: Of course. They are the Echoes. That is their responsibility.
Selkie: Well, I decided that's an INCREDIBLY STUPID IDEA!
Gien: ...You'll have to walk me through that one. Carefully.
"I'm gonna destroy this man's whole career" Selkie right now
Yeah, I don’t think he’s going to get a lot of traction with his “We have to make her take her traditional role in our antiquated caste based society” angle.
And now I somehow love her even more! <3
+1!!!
I can’t believe I was worried about Gien’s influence on Selkie. She is a one woman maelstrom.
‘Hurricane Selkie’ has a pretty good ring to it.
I originally went with one woman hurricane/typhoon but, you know, underwater civilization haha.
She’s a Tselknami!
Like this.
Perhaps Charybdis; the titled Maelstrom. It without a gender it is hard to know if you address it as Lord or Lady, Sir or Dame Charybdis. These things are tricky.
Charybdis looks like a feminine Greek name to me, and Wikipedia uses “she” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis), so I think we’re safe to say “Lady.”
I think I know what she’s getting at.
The two most powerful entities in the colony, and all they seem to be doing is make bricks.
Yeah, it seems like in the city they tended to make the tools that make the tools that make the tools that everybody uses. Though I wouldn’t call it stupid, they need a bit of production right now rather than a lot later on so more “necessarily shortsighted” or something.
Is something wrong with the secret commentary?
>”I’m gonna destroy this man’s whole career” Selkie rn <
It does not appear to be all there.
No, that’s all of it.
It’s internet speak. rn being “right now” (as in, that is what Selkie is thinking right now)
Thank you. I don’t speak internet. I have enough trouble trying to speak English, although I am fairly fluent in American. 🙂
I’ll say… “I’M” American, and i consider myself ‘average’ in the ways of the internet, but i didn’t understand that abbreviation of “m” either. i also thought the sentence was cut-off…
It appears that your font kerning is a little off.
It’s not “m”- it’s “R N” only in lowercase. Stands for “Right Now”.
Trying to respond to Anvildude, but there is no REPLY button next to him.
Thank you also. I went up to the secret commentary and greatly enlarged the comment, and how about that. It does not say “m”. It says “r n”.
Of course I would not have known what that meant either. 😀
I initially assumed it was registered nurse.
[Ob Scurity] I always preferred nn to rn
Heh. Heheheheheh. Selkie is going to put Gien to work! That girl was born to lead(take over).
You say potayto, I say potahto …. Lead, … take over,… meh!
Election, ouster, putsch, revolution, … It’s all just semantics.
Well done, Dave. Just when I think I have a grasp on the direction this is going,… The Plot always has a twist in it that wrenches itself free of any predictions I have made.
I’m wondering if Selkie’s new plan is going to involve robots of some type…
Oh yeah. Gien is about to find out exactly why his plan is absolutely terrible. 🙂
Hope he has the sense to apologize to Te Vahn.
The thought of apologizing is probably a foreign concept to his mind. From what I’ve seen of his personality (and some from other people i know IRL) i can just about guarantee that’ he’s never apologized even once in his life, unless it was to someone of higher rank, and/or to an Echo… as it is, since Te Vahn is ‘beneath him’ in social status… he won’t even acknowledge the fact that he wrong until it’s WAY too late to do anything about it…
Heck, just look at his facial expressions in this strip:
P1: he’s disappointed that that’s all she can do, but he’s going to forge ahead with his plan…
P3: He’s over-joyed that she’s actively thinking of ways to HELP him… um i mean Helping the ECHOS… yeah, the Echos, THAT’S what he meant… (yeah, right)
P4: he’s fricking PISSED that she has the temerity to tell him HE’S WRONG…
At first, I read this wrong, and thought Selkie was saying that she had an incredibly stupid idea that she wanted to present and was going “Is…is this slang? Is she trying to be hip?” Only took me revisiting about 3 times to read comments to realize I derped really hard on the last panel.
And yes, Selkie, explain why, when you only have 2 available echos right now, relying on only them is a really terrible idea.
I’m pretty sure that she’s going to suggest that they get those refugees that have nothing at all and have no job that they can do HERE (sure they may have been a wiz at video game design back in Sarnoth, but here… sorry nobody’s making any video games in the near future… find something else do provide for the family), and have them start doing some of the manual labor of making the bricks, transporting them, and maybe even start building the homes, etc… kinda like how us surface dwellers divide up the labor… granted, the newly appointed brick-makers, teamsters, and masons will need training to unlearn all they knew and to actually learn their new job functions, but hey, it’s baby-steps…
either way i am almost positive that once Gien hears “The Plan” that he’s going to flip-out… probably right in from of them no less…
curious, has it ever been really established that echos are completely distinct from non-echoes? or is there a spectrum where just the average sanothi would struggle with just getting eyes to glow?
we have seen non-echos able to use echo made body parts, so it stands to reason that even the average sarnothi has a base line connection to the echo abilities.
we have even seen pol’s wife using a blade to cut stone with something that seems similar to echo abilities.
so it stands to reason that echos can make tools for the average sarrnothi to use.
My mind is going with “instead of them doing all the work directly why not have them make tools and teach non echoes to use them?” As a continuation of her lessons in her granddads shop.
Exactly! I hope that she tries to suggest to Todd and Avery to get her grandpa down there to teach them, or maybe get a bunch of them up to his house in order to be taught… of course, she’s not realizing that what she’s suggesting can be done by the Government quicker and easier (for a given value of quick and easy, that is) than her grandpa could, because they have a whole lot more experienced workers and better facilities, etc than just a garage-workshop of one individual…
I didn’t read this for all of last year and I just caught up in a day and a half. 😭
Welcome back! C’mon in – the water’s fine! Although it seems some of the Sarnothi are a bit unhinged.
Selkie is just crushing expectations left and right and I am so happy for this outcome.
Every good villain needs her henchmen and every mad scientist her Igor.
This one deserves Comment of the Week status!
igors muspth sthpeak with a listhp, ellth they are not proper igors.
I just found this comic and read through it, very good.
I am assuming we are about to get an “each according to their ability” type suggestion from Selkie. Lumping everything on the Echos seems inefficient.