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WCDT Strips 3831-3835 (17-21 September, 2018)
Tova:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 20 Sep 2018, 20:15 ---That was pretty good overall. Still kinda want to know what Robot Jail is, but...
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Why?
Is it cold in here?:
Because it is there.
It might help us understand May better.
BenRG:
I'm just loving the way that May is genuinely trying to be friendly and helpful and then her temper gets the better of her and she's all snarky again. This is starting to feel like a really fleshed-out character with a consistent personality and some depth to her.
Meanwhile... am I the only one who would like to see May's parolebot in the position of being effectively an elementary school teacher having to mediate a playground spat between Roko and May? "No, I don't care that she won't 'let you win'!"
I really hope that Roko decides to stick it out because I think she's more interesting as being the cast's window into local government and the authorities of the QC universe than she'd ever be as just another generic Synthetic with a single kink to define her. Fighting for change and believing that you can make a difference is more interesting in narrative terms than giving up and walking away to a random future.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Sep 2018, 17:49 ---May can never qualify for a police job with her record, but imagine them as private investigators!
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Roko, yes. May, no way in bloody Hell.
However, May, as a convenience store clerk, works at the physical margins of "the Underworld." (So does everyone else at Coffee of Doom, just not quite as close to the frontier.) People there, cab drivers, doormen, all night cafe waitstaff, see and hear things. She doesn't need to be Roko's "snitch" and go looking for information - information comes to people who live and work there whether they want it or not. Sometimes they can't keep mum but would rather talk to someone they know. May will go to Roko.
Edit - broken link fixed. I HATE doing HTML on a tablet.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Sep 2018, 22:12 ---It might help us understand May better.
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That seems unlikely to me. And I'm not normally one to make predictions, but I predict we'll never find out.
All we need know is that May was traumatised by it. That it was so terrible, she can't talk about it.
Each of us has in our own heads some version of her experience. We are, each of us, imagining pretty much the most dreadful thing we can think of.
What happens if Jeph tries to describe it? Maybe it will match what you are thinking of. More likely, it will be a diluted version of what you're thinking of, which would weaken its impact.
It really is best kept in the abstract.
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