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WCDT strips 4376-4380 (Oct 19th to Oct 23rd 2020)
Cornelius:
What are the odds on Elliott having to escort a heavily drunk Clinton out before his shift is over?
Masshole #21:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 19 Oct 2020, 21:44 ---Clinton is a bit on the lightweight side - so that little girl on the left must be tiny. Maybe Elliot should check her ID a little more closely?
--- End quote ---
Massachusetts IDs that were issued when the person was not 21 years old have a portrait layout. Massachusetts IDs that were issued when the person was at least 21 years old have a landscape layout. If a person's Massachusetts ID is landscape, that person is at least 21 years old. This also protects the privacy of the person whose ID it is: kudos to that bar for not requiring scanning IDs upon entry. IDs have more data on them than is necessary to verify whether the person is at least 21 years old.
Massachusetts IDs have special elements that interact with light in a special way. That helps establish the validity of the document. That's probably what the flashlight is for. For this purpose, plain light is sufficient. An ID checker might tilt the ID to try to catch ambient light or use a flashlight.
See also: https://massclearinghouse.ehs.state.ma.us/PROG-BSAS-YTH/SA1087.html
BenRG:
Here's an out-there idea about where this could all go that won't happen.
Yay turns up and tries to help by bullying Clinton and giving Elliot the chance to be the knight in shining armour for him. Brun intervenes, 'saves' Clinton (threatening a weirded-out Yay with her harpoon). Clinton is drunk enough that Brun is convinced that he's concussed and she leaves early with him because she thinks that she should make sure that he is unharmed by monitoring him as he sleeps in her bed. (Minds out of the gutter, people; she's planning on napping in her bed-side chair with her watch on hour charm so she can check on him.)
YAY: "Well... That was unexpected."
ELLIOT: "Yeah. Thanks for your 'help'."
Next morning, Brun explains herself to a hungover Clinton who, in an unguarded moment, calls it 'the sweetest thing anyone's ever done for me'. The two find that they can laugh about the whole mess and then, to their mutual surprise, kiss in response to an impulse.
Meanwhile, an understandably-aggrieved Elliott rebounds into an ill-considered one-night stand, possibly with Renee (complicating the Dan thing) or Roko. Thus begins a 1,000+ strip arc to resolve the Elliot-Brun-Clinton love-triangle.
Meanwhile, a thoroughly-confused Yay runs into a sweet and shy but nerdly little non-binary student in the bar who was invited out by their extrovert roomie and is utterly out of their depth in a social situation. Yay strikes up a conversation with them on the nature of AI consciousness and several other nodes turn up to assist. The resulting group unobtrusively leave together as the night gets too rowdy for their tastes...
de_la_Nae:
one day you'll have to actually just take the fanfiction plunge you know that right
ihaveavoice:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Oct 2020, 23:25 ---I'm beginning to think my worst fears about this arc are being realised. Jeph, having failed to come up with a way to make a believable chemistry between Clinton and Elliot, has just arbitrarily declared that they're crushing on each-other (ignoring that their older interactions involved Clinton being afraid that he might get in a fight with Elliot over Brun) and just writing a load of light-weight cute comedy strips and expecting us to take the 'chemistry' thing as read.
--- End quote ---
We've already seen Clinton get all hot and bothered imagining touching Elliot's arms and stuff, and we know that Clinton decided to do this because it turns out he is physically attracted to Elliot, and he wants to hang out with him and see how he feels (and he is being very good and brave about it [/Claire]). I certainly got the nervous energy and romantic chemistry Jeph was going for from the confession comics, and I'm clearly not the only one here who's perfectly happy to see where he's planning on taking this. Which is something that nobody knows, especially not from a bit of friendly interaction at the start of the evening.
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