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[Welu]

Jeph's comments are brilliant. Now I want a bread.

[Loki]

Basically, it only works when he's drawing a blank, mentally.

So what you are saying is it works all the time 

[Kugai]

Well, that answers a few things

And it wouldn't be Gavia if she was nice

[Zebediah]

Next time: The nanobots misunderstand Ardent and turn Gavia into ice.

[jwhouk]

And a theory emerges: the Praeses actually sent Ardent down to Earth because they got tired of him "accidentally" changing things Up There.

And they sent Gavia to find him because she was just being majorly annoying.

[Kugai]

That's probably a sucker bet jwhouk

[Skewbrow]

Interesting to see what further tests will reveal.

And I really want to see what happens when Ardent's nanos meet the Nightwalker. Some possibilities:

• The NanoPhoenix is just one gulp to the Nightwalker.
• The NanoPhoenix is just one gulp to the Nightwalker, but will break out of its digestive track, Alien style.
• The Nightwalker is just one gulp to the Nanophoenix.
• All of Arden't nanos will be assimilated.
• The Nightwalker's nanos will be assimilated and (re-)enlisted to help the Praeses cause.
• The Nightwalker finally receives the Signal. The Moon was quite the wrong direction to look for one.
• Battle of the Nanos. The Grove becomes a nano-free zone as a result, but not without
  collateral damage. The end.
• The END.

[DSL]

• The NanoPhoenix is just one gulp to the Nightwalker, but will break out of its digestive track - Alien style.

... Shouting obscenities, Yelling-NanoPhoenix style.

[FunkyTuba]

And this is why Internet Protocol over Avian Carrier is incompatible with windows.

For those few who are unaware, here are the Internet standards that this refers to: Original, QoS update, IPv6 update.

There was an implementation of RFC-1149 by the Bergen Linux User Group back in 2001:

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

Here's a log of the ping session:

Code: [Select]

Script started on Sat Apr 28 11:24:09 2001
[email protected]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig tun0
tun0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
          inet addr:10.0.3.2  P-t-P:10.0.3.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:150  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0
          RX bytes:88 (88.0 b)  TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

[email protected]:~$ ping -i 900 10.0.3.1
PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

--- 10.0.3.1 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms
[email protected]:~$ exit

Script done on Sat Apr 28 14:14:28 2001
Worth it to poke around all the pictures... the captions are priceless

I wonder now nanoPhoenix would do as an Avian Carrier under this protocol. If Ardent were thinking of it in this way, would nanoPhoenix turn into a router?

[Jakk Frost]

Ok, so I finally had to register so I could comment on the current comic, so Hi Everyone!   

Ardent ~ "I guess it wanted to be a real bird"

Sooo, would that make Ardent the blue fairy?

[hedgie]

Meh.  I'll stick with the green fairy.  After all, absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

[Kugai]

Well, he isn't a Smurf

[Method of Madness]

Isn't he, though?

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new person with appropriate cultural reference!

[Jakk Frost]

Many thanks

In a really strange bit of coincidence, (or what Alanis Morrisette would call irony) I just this minute noticed the stickied/pinned post titled "New comic this Thursday, 25th Sept", and upon checking my calendar, thought at first that it was referring to Jeph posting the next page today (I only looked at the date, not the day).  Then I read a little further and realized that pinned post was made exactly one year ago.

So I guess what that means is; Happy First Birthday, Alice Grove!

[jwhouk]

89 comics (plus one "fan filler") over 52 weeks. Not bad for a Patreon "extra" comic.

[Is it cold in here?]

Has Jeph said when the next comic will appear?

[Kugai]

Probably next week sometime.  I think he may be going back to 'Your Regularly Scheduled Program' sometime in the next week or so,

[FunkyTuba]

Confirmed:

Alice Grove will be back this week, most likely Thursday and Friday

— Bed, Batman, & Beyond (@jephjacques) September 29, 2015

[FunkyTuba]

Doh! he snuck one more into September!

so is this a Chekov's Talent? Will show up in a future tense situation as a deus ex Argent?

[Thrudd]

Isn't he, though?

A smurf is 3 apples hi ... not to be confused with macintosh

[Kugai]

She'll have to put him on a short leash.

[BenRG]

I just love the ways Gavia uses her levitation abilities. The mid-air crossed-legs is a really cool trick!

Like Gavia I wonder where the phoenix went. Alice doesn't seem worried, though. Given how paranoid her original reaction to Ardent's powers was, that's interesting in some ways. I guess her attitude is that one biomechanical bird isn't going to be altering much. Or, maybe, there are already enough biomechanically-altered life-forms on the planet (possibly including her) that one more won't matter much.

Yeah, Gavia's right about Ardent's impulse control. However, I do wonder if the test will come when one of the locals is in trouble and the only way Ardent has to help her (because you know it will be a damsel in distress) will be to Upgrade something and then try to control it.

"With great power comes great responsibility."
-- Ben Parker
-- Spider-Man

[Jakk Frost]

Yeah, Gavia's right about Ardent's impulse control. However, I do wonder if the test will come when one of the locals is in trouble and the only way Ardent has to help her (because you know it will be a damsel in distress) will be to Upgrade something and then try to control it.

What I wonder is if Alice has considered the possibility that the Upgrades (is that what we're calling them as a whole?) are contagious?  Stationary water pump, not much of an issue.  Highly mobile rainbow phoenix with at least the flightspeed of an unladen swallow?  Yeah it would be safe to say the (potential) contagion is airborne.

[cesium133]

Ardent's ability is a huge problem, especially if it's contagious. It turns out that

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Margaret Cartwright is a robot. If Ardent ever convinces her to let him touch her, she'll turn into a mega-combat droid.