Topic: Alice Grove MCDT July 2015 (Read 74598 times)

KOK · « **Reply #50 on:** 15 Jul 2015, 00:53 »

Alice is not perfect. She makes a slip of the tongue in the second panel.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #51 on:** 15 Jul 2015, 01:11 »

Gavia is skeptical of Alice's skills.

ReindeerFlotilla · « **Reply #52 on:** 15 Jul 2015, 10:21 »

"Skill skeptical"

Welu · « **Reply #53 on:** 16 Jul 2015, 12:35 »

It took me a couple reads to get that. Brain kept auto-correcting.

ReindeerFlotilla · « **Reply #54 on:** 16 Jul 2015, 12:39 »

Only noticed because I forgot I already looked at the comic this week and looked again.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #55 on:** 16 Jul 2015, 22:17 »

There's only been one update this week. What's up with that?

Kugai · « **Reply #56 on:** 16 Jul 2015, 22:27 »

He did explain he had a lot on this week. Updating two comics while in the midst of it all may be a bit of a stretch even for Lord Jeph

BenRG · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 00:43 »

He's also been having another anxiety attack.

KOK · « **Reply #58 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 09:30 »

Why does he stock peanut butter if he hates the suff?

Zebediah · « **Reply #59 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 09:33 »

One possibility: because his grandkids love the stuff.
Another possibility: he sells or trades it to the rest of the town.

BenRG · « **Reply #60 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 11:31 »

Amos? Pro-tip; don't talk to girls of debatable age about the latest contraceptive technology. You may be misunderstood.

Meanwhile, Alice and Gavia better find Ardent before Maggie kills him.

osaka · « **Reply #61 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 13:38 »

And what if he got some courting tips from Amos? We haven't considered that possibility.

That basically means that we have a bit more time before Ms. Wheelwright slaps the soul out of Ardent.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #62 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 13:40 »

Considering Amos seeming sure Ardent will need some lambskin, he almost certainly gave some advice. Whether that advice will work is another story.

Kugai · « **Reply #63 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 14:40 »

Cue the reappearance of Ms. Wheelwright

Storel · « **Reply #64 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 22:15 »

When I read the strip entitled "Ardent's just here for the food," I thought "...and the nookie." Today's strip confirms it!

BenRG · « **Reply #65 on:** 17 Jul 2015, 23:44 »

Quote from: Storel on 17 Jul 2015, 22:15

When I read the strip entitled "Ardent's just here for the food," I thought "...and the nookie." Today's strip confirms it!

And the booze! Don't forget about the booze!

osaka · « **Reply #66 on:** 18 Jul 2015, 04:46 »

I think there aren't any instances where it's been proven that Ardent is actually interested in booze. Booty, on the other hand, was indeed his first interest, a la Fleece Johnson.

BenRG · « **Reply #67 on:** 18 Jul 2015, 05:47 »

Quote from: osaka on 18 Jul 2015, 04:46

I think there aren't any instances where it's been proven that Ardent is actually interested in booze.

Comic 16; Ardent specifically says that he wants to drink the local culture's alcoholic beverages.

osaka · « **Reply #68 on:** 18 Jul 2015, 06:55 »

Welp, I stand corrected.

DSL · « **Reply #69 on:** 19 Jul 2015, 08:07 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 17 Jul 2015, 13:40

Considering Amos seeming sure Ardent will need some lambskin, he almost certainly gave some advice. Whether that advice will work is another story.

Seems to me Amos's advice is along the lines of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted.

retrosteve · « **Reply #70 on:** 19 Jul 2015, 10:47 »

Quote from: osaka on 17 Jul 2015, 13:38

And what if he got some courting tips from Amos? We haven't considered that possibility.

That basically means that we have a bit more time before Ms. Wheelwright slaps the soul out of Ardent.

I dunno -- Ms. Wheelwright, having gotten over the shock of the bald proposition, may have by now decided she likes the looks of young blue alient boy, and may be more receptive the next time.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #71 on:** 19 Jul 2015, 10:57 »

Quote from: DSL on 19 Jul 2015, 08:07

Seems to me Amos's advice is along the lines of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted.

...is Ardent the horse?

DSL · « **Reply #72 on:** 19 Jul 2015, 19:01 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2015, 10:57

Quote from: DSL on 19 Jul 2015, 08:07
Seems to me Amos's advice is along the lines of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted.
...is Ardent the horse?

A bit of an ass, maybe. Lacking horse sense.

Most likely not a Trojan'd horse.

There's a "bolts snd screws" joke in here somewhere. I'll leave it to y'all.

Kugai · « **Reply #73 on:** 19 Jul 2015, 23:47 »

Nuts!

robinz · « **Reply #74 on:** 20 Jul 2015, 01:54 »

Ohhhhh Amos!

Wildroses · « **Reply #75 on:** 20 Jul 2015, 05:06 »

Anyone else read the first panel and think: "Oh no this is going to end badly." Ardent, you blew your chance with Miss Wheelwright, okay? Speaking from experience (which I rather wish I didn't have) when a guy you have spent mere minutes with asks you for sex the next time that guy tries to talk to you, they do not get second chances to make a better impression.

Of course, this is a fictional world, not the real world, so maybe Ardent will have more luck than that thankfully long gone acquaintance of mine.

BenRG · « **Reply #76 on:** 20 Jul 2015, 05:17 »

Quote from: Wildroses on 20 Jul 2015, 05:06

Anyone else read the first panel and think: "Oh no this is going to end badly." Ardent, you blew your chance with Miss Wheelwright, okay? Speaking from experience (which I rather wish I didn't have) when a guy you have spent mere minutes with asks you for sex the next time that guy tries to talk to you, they do not get second chances to make a better impression.

Of course, this is a fictional world, not the real world, so maybe Ardent will have more luck than that thankfully long gone acquaintance of mine.

FWIW, I think that this is just going to be a hook to draw the character of Margret Wheelright into the main thread of the story for a while. Maybe Alice and Gavia will arrive just after she punches Ardent (again) and an interesting conversation vis low-tech life and living begins between Maggie and Gavia.

For a while, I've wondered if the space kids will make friends amongst the townsfolk and that this will lead to a transformation of their attitude towards life and their own life choices. In truth, whilst Ardent and Gavia generally represent a 'black or white' approach to technology, the real world is shades of grey; the townsfolk might help them understand that.

Welu · « **Reply #77 on:** 21 Jul 2015, 09:16 »

The more I see him, the more I like Amos' design.

jwhouk · « **Reply #78 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 18:27 »

BOOM.

wlewisiii · « **Reply #79 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 18:42 »

Huh. That would have made more sense if it were from being touched by Gavia & her nanobots. Be interesting to see what tomorrow brings.

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #80 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 18:58 »

God DAMN IT Ardent!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #81 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 18:58 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 22 Jul 2015, 18:27

BOOM.

I believe you mean FOOM.

Also wlewisiii, Ardent has nanobots, he just doesn't usually use them. Maybe he wanted to impress Miss Wheelright. (He seemed to be doing better with her this time, at least!)

Zebediah · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 19:53 »

I don't think Ardent deliberately did anything to the water pump. I think Ardent's nanobots detected the broken pump, decided "We can fix this!" and went to work. The result was a little more spectacular than they intended.

Ardent's nanobots are as enthusiastically clueless as he is, in other words.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 20:00 »

I'm all for a return to an agrarian society, but I draw the line at indoor plumbing.

wlewisiii · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 20:07 »

At least the presence of an electric water pump gives us one small use of the juice from the windmill.

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 20:11 »

I'll be interested to see how Alice fixes it.

jheartney · « **Reply #86 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 21:34 »

Where did it say that Ardent uses nanotech? I thought the whole thing with him was that he didn't, and instead relied on genetic innovation.

Perhaps the thread of Ardent as Special Snowflake That Tricked the Praeses is finally coming back. (And about time too.)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #87 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 21:51 »

I'm pretty sure the nanotech is what healed his delightful tail.

jheartney · « **Reply #88 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 23:06 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 22 Jul 2015, 21:51

I'm pretty sure the nanotech is what healed his delightful tail.

Nope. He regrew it.

Read the first panel. Ardent specifically disavows technology.

pwhodges · « **Reply #89 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 23:09 »

I was thinking that perhaps the limited technology in place has some kind of anti-higher-technology detector which Ardent has just managed to trigger.

BenRG · « **Reply #90 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 23:36 »

Firstly, it seems that Ardent has clearly learnt the value of subtlety. He's still overtly trying to get sex but he's at least trying to get Maggie interested in him as a person this time. That is how friendships start.

Secondly, I'm thinking that the standpipe and pump is something that Alice built. Along with the wind turbine, it is an indication that she's trying to subtlety introduce technology to the Low-Tech faction in a way that doesn't create push-back or a response from whatever caused the Blink. It's interesting that Maggie thinks that only Alice can fix it, as if it were magical, taboo or something

Finally, I agree that, whatever happened here wasn't entirely Ardent's fault. I'm pretty sure that he was attempting to fix the pump through some technological means (e.g. genetically-engineered telekinesis). However, I'm thinking that something else responded badly. My feeling is that this will lead into another bit of Alice exposition about the post-Blink world and its hidden true master.

[EDIT]
Alternately, Ardent had nothing whatsoever to do with it. The pump's failure and the explosion were both caused by the same thing. The question then is: Was it blind change or intelligent action? I mean, look at those four flank pipes that appear from nowhere in panel 6. It's as if something just below the surface is trying to eat or at least destroy the pump!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #91 on:** 22 Jul 2015, 23:59 »

Sploosh?

improvnerd · « **Reply #92 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 00:01 »

The pump knows Ardent is two-timing on Margaret, and it doesn't like it.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #93 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 04:29 »

Wait, he is?

improvnerd · « **Reply #94 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 05:13 »

The young lady at the well is not Miss Wheelwright.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #95 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 05:26 »

...it's not? Can someone link to the one where we first met Miss W?

BenRG · « **Reply #96 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 05:26 »

Quote from: improvnerd on 23 Jul 2015, 05:13

The young lady at the well is not Miss Wheelwright.

*Squints* It's possible; there's no automatic reason to suppose that he went right to Miss Wheelwright other than it would be neater and avoid another minor character appearing. She definitely has a different eye colour but you could easily wave that off (with a cry of "Oh shit! They're right! My bad!" from Jeph).

ReindeerFlotilla · « **Reply #97 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 05:44 »

Quote from: DSL on 19 Jul 2015, 19:01

Most likely not a Trojan'd horse.

Condom jokes aside, Ardent is most definitely a trojan horse.

Now we know why the trees went to the effort of getting him Earthside, and have been ignoring the calls home (if it was the trees that did this). Anyway, Gavia may be part of the plot, too. But both of the kids are likely patsies.

Someone wanted to get some kind of tech into the primitive zone, and Ardent was their vector.

Also, that is probably not Margret Wheelwright.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #98 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 06:04 »

Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jul 2015, 05:26

*Squints* It's possible; there's no automatic reason to suppose that he went right to Miss Wheelwright

Not really, he told Amos he was off to look for a girl with a big bottom. There's no reason to assume he didn't mean the Wheel. That's not to say he didn't find a similarly bottomed girl on the way and chat her up instead, though.

Welu · « **Reply #99 on:** 23 Jul 2015, 06:50 »

Miss Wheelright.

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