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Alice Grove MCDLT - July 2016
brasca:
Strip is up
And we get to meet a new character, Ellie who seems friendly enough, but possibly incontinent.
Apparently they haven't penetrated the bunker yet, but if Ardent can upgrade whatever digging machine they got they might get through in a day instead of a month.
Either that or Alice will just punch a hole into the roof.
BenRG:
So, the archeophiles are into a set of underground bunkers and are trying to dig up something well protected. Seriously, I think that a pissed-off robotic weapon is more likely than a spaceship at this point (why put a rocket into an extra-tough bunker?) but we'll see.
Meanwhile, it looks like Sedna has her own 'townsfolk' with whom she has regular dealings. Unlike Alice, she doesn't subscribe to the "I am the Witch; don't ask questions, just do exactly as I say" method of getting things done.
pwhodges:
Interesting that Sedna found it necessary to tell Ellie that "the blue one" was from orbit; that could imply that there are other possibilities.
Also it's starting to look as if Jeph is making this a distinctly matriarchal society.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Jul 2016, 14:58 ---So, the archeophiles are into a set of underground bunkers and are trying to dig up something well protected. Seriously, I think that a pissed-off robotic weapon is more likely than a spaceship at this point (why put a rocket into an extra-tough bunker?) but we'll see.
Meanwhile, it looks like Sedna has her own 'townsfolk' with whom she has regular dealings. Unlike Alice, she doesn't subscribe to the "I am the Witch; don't ask questions, just do exactly as I say" method of getting things done.
--- End quote ---
Well it's been established that they have different philosophical outlooks to being immortal so this isn't too surprising. Moreover, Sedna probably gets more by trading her knowledge of the distant past for whatever guns they dig up than with Alice's methods.
And it could be the bunkers are adjacent to silos that contain the rockets.
Neko_Ali:
You've come to the conclusion of it being a matriarchal society based on.. not even two examples? Alice can be argued that she runs her community. And I'm sure she would argue that she doesn't. But her word is the one that goes there. All we know about Ellie she she knows Sedna. She could just be a ditch digger there, not necessarily the leader. As far as the blue one and the pissed off looking one.. she was just identifying the kids. Maybe there are instances of blue skinned people on Earth. But even if there weren't, why would Ellie assume blue skin means from orbit. Something it seems people don't believe is supposed to happen. If they even know that people live in orbit. Alice and Sedna have more knowledge about such things than most.
As far as rockets in a bunker, that's easy to explain. ICBMs or their equivalent. Surface based technological sites that survived the Blink were probably long ago scavenged for raw materials or fell to the passage of time. An underground bunker there might still be salvageable stuff left. And since a bunker could well mean military, they might be able to find useful information about old tech, even if they don't find any rockets there.
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