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The Claireten Wedding

9 (3.5%)

An exploration of AI childhood

29 (11.2%)

Canon polyamorous relationship

22 (8.5%)

Crisis at Coffee of Doom (financial or staffing)

5 (1.9%)

Emily's origin story

28 (10.8%)

Hannelore seriously working on her AI charity

14 (5.4%)

Lots of Spookybot cameos pointing towards an Agenda of some sort

15 (5.8%)

Faye and Bubbles' big break in publicity terms may be a problem in disguise

19 (7.3%)

The Daligold Wedding!!! (With Momo and May as bridesmaids!!!)

11 (4.2%)

Angus returns and wants Faye back

19 (7.3%)

Corporate shenanigans at Ellicott-Chatham Incorporated

19 (7.3%)

Sam IS struggling at school; the main cast try to help

14 (5.4%)

After an unspecified issue, Marten, Faye, Bubbles, Claire and Hannelore have to move into a new house

23 (8.9%)

First night at the new (and LEGAL) Ultimate Robot Fighting League

26 (10%)

Other (please describe in comments)

6 (2.3%)

Total Members Voted: 81

[Near Lurker]

The nerd looks like a cross between Dr. Ellicot-Chatham and Dr. Case...

...you don't think...

[Case]

The nerd looks like a cross between Dr. Ellicot-Chatham and Dr. Case...

...you don't think...

Slander! Rumour and Slander!

[Case]

ZOMG The red pumps!

[dreed]

Woho.  Hanners channelling her mother right now.
Gloves are off.


By the end of it Beatrice will be so proud.

[Tova]

Hurricane Hannelore has touched down, and it looks like Beatrice didn't pay proper attention to the Hurricane Warning.

[mof920]

Maybe this will push Hanners to do more with the Ellicott-Chatham Empire!! She did mention about how she still doesn't know how or when she'll be using her responsibility of taking the reigns and it's possible, just a teensy bit, that she might not return to Northampton when she sees her mother. Honestly, I'm quite excited about Beatrice being back in the plot.

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_{power women turn me on}

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Does taser shocking turn you on too? Don´t forget Robohorse treatment...

Well, at first, it started with light bondage, but at the end of my last relationship, we were fucking around with electosex toys. I say, don't dis it till you try it!

[mercykills]

.......

That was the sexiest, most boss, most BADASS thing I've seen in...3 hours and 23 minutes.

It begins. Everyone start munching on their pop-ped kernels now:



Bonus: It looks as if Tilly is staying outside for this one. Yay.

Tilly gets eaten by a dinosaur.

I can get behind that. I can get behind that in a major way.

[Timemaster]

Dune reference! 

Will Hanners put her Gom Jabar to Beatrices neck?

[TinPenguin]

My headcanon is that the two identical men-in-suits are called Frank and Brank and they have never met before this day (and neither do they notice anything unusual now that they have).

[BenRG]

Am I the only one who hears the "No, Luke! I am your father!" variation of The Imperial March after reading and digesting panel 4?

We know that Hannelore has a significant dark side; violent, unforgiving and selfish. She's learned to control it nearly perfectly but I think that she feels able to give it rein when she's confronting her mother. However, fighting fire with fire is difficult at best even for a master and I think her lack of experience in controlling herself under stress may be her undoing. It will be very interesting to see how Hannelore will react when Beatrice idly waves aside her demands (because she will). I don't think Hannelore will succumb to the temptation to do violence but I think it will be a near run thing.

My guess? Hannelore will disown Beatrice, renounce all connection to her (and of being her heir) and will storm out with a parting crack along the lines of: "Goodbye, Miz Chatham."

[DaiJB]

Entered "Other" in the poll again, mostly just for the hell of it... 

Let's see...We will find out what Hannelore intends to do with the proceeds of her sale of Chatham Enterprises after kicking her mother out and taking over...

[traroth]

I can't remember any real conflict happening before in QC. Am I wrong?

I'm really curious to see what will happen now...

[Marco]

For an instant, I thought I've seen Ardent.

It's not him, though. No tail, and the nose is not right.

[badbum61]

ZOMG The red pumps!

There's no place like home!

[Cornelius]

I think the staff is terrified for their future, right now. Hanners bringing the voice and the attitude... Then again, there's something like Stockholm syndrome...

[TinPenguin]

Or lionesses clearing out of the way when two lions fight.

[traroth]

When I saw that, I just had to copy that here...

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Tilly/@48.8785004,1.5588499,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e6bab01c387549:0x40b82c3688c36b0!8m2!3d48.881929!4d1.575533

[Nepiophage]

And this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tserclaes,_Count_of_Tilly

[shanejayell]

Bea, "I have NEVER been prouder of you!"

Hanners, "What."

[Case]

Dune reference! 

Will Hanners put her Gom Jabar to Beatrices neck?

If Hanners is channelling St. Alia of the Knife, she'll be wary of crossing Atreides' Gom Jabbars ... (What's the plural of Gom Jabbar?) - possessing a full set of her mother's memories within her ancestral "other memories" since birth, along with e.g. the Prana-Bindu training the latter received, she'd rather go for a contest of brute strength & speed than one of cunning.

Tilly gets eaten by a dinosaur.

I can get behind that. I can get behind that in a major way.

It's traditional on this forum to reference Allosaurs in connection with the "sadly fell prey to timeline non-compliant Jurassic fauna"-method of putting a character on a bus.

[Welu]

Bea, "I have NEVER been prouder of you!"

Hanners, "What."

That's exactly what I'm expecting too.

[TheEvilDog]

.....Why the hell is Nightcrawler on Beatrice's staff?

[Bad Superman]

Hannelore in full Righteous Anger Mode is really cool to see, but... Beatrice is no pushover. I'm sure she handled much worse situations than Hannelore throwing a fit, being the leader of an international corporation and such. Sure, in her own way she loves her daughter, but this time it's about the company..! I hope she faces the "temper tantrum of an unruly child" like the cold and calculating corporate exec she is!

Oh... I'd like to see Beatrice go Agent Smith on Hannelore...

[JimC]

I'm reminded of Hannermon in 927...

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=927

So yeah, I think shanejayell has it right...

[tustin2121]

I saw the room Beatrice was sitting in and I thought "Oh no, are we getting closer to that hypothetical situation where Hannelore releases the killer virus on the world?" (The comic of which I can't seem to find right now?)

...Also, I really need to watch/read Dune sometime...

[hakko504]

I saw the room Beatrice was sitting in and I thought "Oh no, are we getting closer to that hypothetical situation where Hannelore releases the killer virus on the world?" (The comic of which I can't seem to find right now?)

2443. It's a part of the arc where Angus starts to talk to Faye about her five year plan, because he's off to an audition.

[Gyrre]

Hanners does look a lot like Spookybot with her hair like that plus the suit.

I think her mom is going to be astonished. Maybe even flabbergasted.

The outfit was Tilly's idea, but I'd wager that Hanner's knows what Spookybot looks like and chose to fashion her hair as such.

[hedgie]

Bonus: It looks as if Tilly is staying outside for this one. Yay.

Apparently they have some level of self-preservation.

[OldGoat]

My headcanon is that the two identical men-in-suits are called Frank and Brank and they have never met before this day (and neither do they notice anything unusual now that they have).

I was wondering about that pair as well.  They're obviously a matched set.  Twins?  Clones?  HiFi AI bots?

[OldGoat]

Hmmmm.....

The inventor of "Miss Shilling's orifice".

I know "Tilly" is a traditional diminutive of "Matilda," but this is news to me.

[Roborat]

Oh noes! Now they all have eyes stuck disease.  It is spreading, activate containment procedures.

[OldGoat]

For an instant, I thought I've seen Ardent.

It's not him, though. No tail, and the nose is not right.

Nope, just some drudge who's been into the Spice.

[A Duck]

I do wonder if this whole Tilly situation wasn't planned by Hannelore's mother to achieve precisely this result.

[blt]

I bet BlueGuy is Tilly's dad.  It all makes sense to me.

[Clovis Man]

"Mother, you and I have unfinished business..."

[Tova]

I do wonder if this whole Tilly situation wasn't planned by Hannelore's mother to achieve precisely this result.

I think you're giving Beatrice too much credit.

[TheEvilDog]

I do wonder if this whole Tilly situation wasn't planned by Hannelore's mother to achieve precisely this result.

I think you're giving Beatrice too much credit.

Yeah, its been established that Beatrice doesn't know that much about her own daughter that she really can't play psychological games that will work in her favour. You can see the surprise in Beatrice's face, that's the face of a woman who is having an "Oh Crap!" moment. This is a plan backfiring.

[Thrudd]

Hannelore in full Righteous Anger Mode is really cool to see, but... Beatrice is no pushover. I'm sure she handled much worse situations than Hannelore throwing a fit, being the leader of an international corporation and such. Sure, in her own way she loves her daughter, but this time it's about the company..! I hope she faces the "temper tantrum of an unruly child" like the cold and calculating corporate exec she is

The venn diagram for business leadership and intelligence has as little overlap as scruples or a conscience compared to lets say, cunning or Machiavellian tendencies.

[Marco]

.....Why the hell is Nightcrawler on Beatrice's staff?

Again, no tail...

Wait, where the Praeses reading X-Men comics when they created Alice Grove universe? Any parallel in QCverse too? I know Jeph is more into classic Sci-Fi like Herbert or Gibson, but...

(Yep, Neuromancer is a classic now. I'm feeling horribly old.)

[mof920]

Hannelore in full Righteous Anger Mode is really cool to see, but... Beatrice is no pushover. I'm sure she handled much worse situations than Hannelore throwing a fit, being the leader of an international corporation and such. Sure, in her own way she loves her daughter, but this time it's about the company..! I hope she faces the "temper tantrum of an unruly child" like the cold and calculating corporate exec she is

The venn diagram for business leadership and intelligence has as little overlap as scruples or a conscience compared to lets say, cunning or Machiavellian tendencies.

I don't know about that one. I work in a corporate environment, currently, and have been submerged in it since 16. I've seen the company president dance circles around people that he sees as intelligently inferior, milked them for each last dime or service and cackle maniacally for it. I've also seen him outright yell and fire people on the grounds of being an idiot (including his grand daughter who he has no patience for). He's also one of the most amazing leaders I have ever met and I will follow him until the day he keels over (which might be soon, sadly )

A woman like Beatrice didn't get to a position of power by playing by the "rules" (I know some of my bosses dirty secrets and they're not pretty) and you're right, she'll be far from a pushover in a situation like this. I could see her wanting to compromise in some way and getting what she wants in one way or another. Still, I'm sure that Hanners will not hesitate to throw the EC Empire under the bus in the sake of social justice; Tilly is being used really badly here and there's a word for that in my office: fucked up. I'm sure Hanners will have no part in this and demand that Tilly be taken care of for this. I can't wait to see what happens~

If Bea does indeed have any sort of heart, Hanners will bring it out in this situation (quick note: my corp VP's and President don't bring emotion into work at all and for good reason)

-OR-

Bea will handle the situation as she did when Hanners starting freaking out over trying out clothes, although, it most probably won't work as it did then. Hanners has changed significantly since then.

[Elder Sign]

I really, really want this to turn out as awesome as the setup hints it will be.

That said, that's all the more reason for me to expect a nasty subversion somehow, and that this will get bogged down in an ugly mess long before it gets any better.  And all because the Rule of Drama demands it.

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[Perfectly Reasonable]

O--kay now... Which of these mooks is TillyDad?
Not that I feel sorry for them or anything. When the self-forging tungsten rods start dropping from orbit---

... Ya know, we haven't heard from Barry in quite a while. Wonder how he's doing?

[Storel]

It will be very interesting to see how Hannelore will react when Beatrice idly waves aside her demands (because she will). I don't think Hannelore will succumb to the temptation to do violence but I think it will be a near run thing.

I'm envisioning Hanners getting so beside herself that she starts speaking in eldritch runes (again)... at which point her mother surrenders.

[QuestionableIntentions]

Hanners is about to face the Mom Jabbar.


Also, Hannermom keeps male twins around, hm?

[mof920]

Oh. Fuck.

[BenRG]

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Yeah, I called it. Hannelore is out of there. Her mother is in last chance saloon and it'll take something pretty spectacular to heal this particular wound.

You see, the thing is that I can't see Hannelore initiating any contact, at least not for a very long while. Every time she's tempted, she'll remember these events and decide that she can't trust her mother and she doesn't want to 'reward' her in any way, no matter how convenient it would be for her to accept mother's help. Oh, I expect some passive-aggressive attempts at manipulation or coercion on Beatrice's part but that will only hurt her cause, not aid it.

So, what's next? Next, Hannelore has to sit down with Tilly and they have to decide what Tilly does next. My concern is that I don't think that Tilly's dad is any more forgiving of the perception of failure than Beatrice is. Things may be hard for them, at least for a while.

[Bad Superman]

Well, that was anticlimactic... 

[traroth]

That was probably cathartic, but kind of disappointing, from the point of view of narration...

[omgpuppies]

Personally, I think I'd be more upset with someone for forcing me to adopt an assistant "for my own good" than I would be if they were doing it for selfish reasons.

[TinPenguin]

Anticlimactic? Disappointing? Did we see the same comic?

Because I don't watch sports, but I just roared like my favourite sports team sportsed real hard.