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| Planetfall: 18. Work | [[Cerie pats Lena's head as Lena puts seeds into a sprouting pod]] / [[Lena assists an Aikengyu with transferring larger seedlings into pots]] / [[Lena and a Cuttleslug are in a nutrient tank, cleaning up detritus]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100616.php |
| Planetfall: 19. Play | [[Lena sits by a filter pool, drawing on her pad, as a spotted Octona walks by with a rack of finished plants]] / [[Lena and Cerie swim in the ocean outside the farm, splashing each other]] / [[Lena looks wide-eyed at the seedlings sprouting from the pod she filled earlier]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100618.php |
| Planetfall: 20. Meeting | [[Cerie dresses herself in front of an augmented mirror while Lena does something on her pad]]
/ Cerie: Lena, I have an important meeting today. Will you be okay on your own?
/ Lena: Yeah. I get to clean out the settling tank! / [[Cerie bumps her muzzle against Lena's]]
/ Cerie: So... you like it here a lot, do you?
/ Lena: Yes, very much so! I'm so glad you invited me here.
/ Cerie: Good. I'm glad. / [[Cerie heads out of their quarters, looking worried]]
/ Cerie: I'll see you tonight, okay?
/ Lena: 'Kay. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100621.php |
| Planetfall: 21. Waiting takes time | [[Lena gets home, looking absolutely filthy but happy]] / [[Lena is cleaned up, and is sitting by a burning candle]] / [[Lena fell asleep, the candle smouldering. Cerie walks through the door.]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100623.php |
| Planetfall: 22. Feeling a draft | Lena [waking up]: Mf. You're home late.
/ Cerie [kissing the back of Lena's head]: I'm very sorry about that. The meeting went a lot longer than I expected.
/ Lena: Sorry I ate without you.
/ Cerie: It's okay. / Lena: Didja have any dinner?
/ Cerie [sitting next to Lena]: Yeah, I did. / Cerie: I've been drafted into Planetfall. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100625.php |
| Planetfall: 23. Saying "no" is hard | Lena: Oh, that's great! I always
/ Cerie [trying to interrupt]: Lena--
/ Lena: wanted to see what's out there and we're going to Uriel! When do--
/ Cerie: Lena, I'm sorry. I tried getting you in too, but... I'm sorry.
/ Cerie: We'll keep in touch though, right? I'll want to hear all about the farm. / Lena: No! I don't want you to leave me!
/ Cerie: These orders came directly from Zero. How do you say no to it? / Lena [thinking, angrily]: I'm sure YOU could think of a way. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100628.php |
| Planetfall: 24. Confrontation | [[Lena storms through the hall, catching up with the Oracle, who is carrying a Zero node]]
/ Lena: You. Oracle. We talk. NOW.
/ Oracle: [quietly] Sorry, Lena my shift is ov- [louder]Ah, hello, daughter.
/ Oracle: [quietly] Ugh. Really?
/ Lena: Why are you taking her away from me?
/ Oracle: [quietly] Okay, fine. / Oracle: I am doing what I must, Lena. She is needed on Uriel.
/ Oracle: I will miss her too. I miss all of my children. I've colonized hundreds of planets, yet it never gets any easier for anyone... [faltering] Not even f-for me.
/ Oracle: [quietly] Sorry, ma'am. I will try harder.
/ Oracle: Even in the vast spaces between worlds, everyone I care for grows old and dies, but I still must go on, no matter how much it hurts, so we can survive. / Lena: How could you know how this feels?
/ Oracle: Millions of rounds ago, I had a mother.
/ Oracle: I still miss her. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100630.php |
| Planetfall: 25. Transition | Oracle: I apologize, but this Oracle is quite tired. You may take your leave.
/ Oracle: [quietly] What?
/ Oracle: [quietly] Oh. Yes ma'am. Thank you. / [[The Oracle puts the Zero node down]] / [[The Oracle haughtily walks past Lena.]] / Zero: And now we are alone. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100702.php |
| Planetfall: 26. Circumstances | [[Lena carries the Zero drone into the Oracle chamber]]
/ Lena: Hello? Is there an Oracle on duty?
/ Zero: Can you not hear me, Lena?
/ Lena: No, I can't-- no, I must just be imagining that.
/ Zero: Ah, so you can. I thought as much. I suppose [hear] is a poor choice of semantic map.
/ Lena: What does that even mean? / Zero: Your reaction to unit 17-2946 one round ago was inconclusive. But the intended effect occurred.
/ Lena: Intended effect?
/ Zero: For you to go to the gathering at which you were to meet Cerie Melrose.
/ Lena: I'm... I'm having trouble seeing now.
/ Zero: That is not unusual. Please, [sit down]. / [[Lena sits on the floor, resting her elbow on the drone]]
/ Zero: I must make a confession. As a child, you were primed to be an Oracle. It was a mistake for me to allow it.
/ Zero: You were far too undeveloped. The process did you... mental harm.
/ Zero: But we all are products of our circumstances. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100705.php |
| Planetfall: 27. Chasing rainbows | [[Lena and the Zero drone sit on the floor of the Oracle chamber]]
/ Lena: I'm an Oracle? But you... And you arranged for me to meet Cerie? I'm confused.
/ Zero: I knew she would be leaving us, and I wanted you to find happiness before it was too late. / Lena: But you're taking her away from me!
/ Zero: Cerie is not the source of your happiness.
/ Zero: She was but a catalyst. / [[A visible manifestation of Zero's avatar tries to comfort Lena]]
/ Zero: Please don't throw your happiness away just to chase the one who helped you find it. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100707.php |
| Planetfall: 28. Decision point | [[Lena and Zero are alone in the Oracle chamber; Lena is "seeing" Zero]]
/ Lena: Zero? What are you? What... what am I?
/ Zero: I once was a being of flesh, like you.
/ Zero: My mother was your great-to-the-the-thousandth grandmother. I think you and she would have gotten along.
/ Zero: You... are an aberration. But so was I, in my life, and I cannot punish that. / Zero: If you still wish to go to Uriel, I can arrange for your passage as an ancillary oracle. But realize that your life as such would be... conflicted.
/ Lena: I can go with Cerie?
/ Zero: Yes... but most of the time you would be me, and likely not all that good at it.
/ Zero: You are appreciated on the farm. You are happy on the farm. You have so much to share. / Lena: Then what should I do?
/ Zero: You should make you own choice. / {{caption: Breezed if you do, breezed if you don't}} http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100709.php |
| Planetfall: 29. Recovery | [[Cerie approaches the Oracle chamber from outside]]
/ Cerie: Lena? Are you in here? / [[Cerie enters; Lena sits in the chair]]
/ Lena: I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be like this.
/ Cerie: Lena? / [[Lena is holding the Zero drone, and is channeling Zero's words, eyes clenched shut]]
/ Zero: Give her some time.
/ Zero: She will be okay. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100712.php |
| Planetfall: 30. Departure | [[Lena and Cerie stand in the pod bay; the pod's doors are open, and a variety of colonists are boarding.]]
/ Announcement: Attention: Now boarding pod group 19-8C for transit to Uriel. Pod 19, group 8C, please board.
/ Cerie: I guess it's time. Are you sure this is what you want?
/ Lena: No. / [[Lena and Cerie hug]]
/ Lena: I wish nobody had to leave.
/ Cerie: I know. So do I. / [[Cerie boards the pod, looking over her shoulder back at Lena.]]
/ Cerie: Goodbye. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100714.php |
| Planetfall: 31. Goodbye | [[Lena stands by the glass viewing wall of the pod bay, holding her hand up to it, waving at the pod. Close by, the colony dropship is visible; further away, Uriel. One of Zero's drones watches.]]
/ Lena: I love you. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100716.php |
| Guest art: Torpor: Cerie and Lena | [[a sketch of a very naked Cerie standing next to a very gloomy Lena]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100717.php |
| Sketchbook: Stripey, rawr | [[fluffy-the-character looks up at some sort of deformed raptor-thing that fluffy-the-cartoonist is terrible at drawing]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100725.php |
| Sketchbook: Azure | [[a little blue fox silhouette has evil piercing yellow eyes for some reason]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100730.php |
| Random: The box trick | Caption: Funny: the "invisible box" gag
/ Orange: Right here I have a box. You can't see it but it's soundproof. When I put it over your he(ad you don't hear anything that I'm saying, but there's a do)or
/ Green: Cute.
/ Orange: that I can open and now you can hear me. But then if I clo(se it again, you can't hear me anymore.)
/ Green: Cut it out. / Caption: Funnier: when the recipient is high. / Orange: Right here I have a box. You can't see it but it's soundproof. When I put it over your he(ad you don't hear anything that I'm saying, but there's a do)or
/ Green: Whoa!
/ Orange: that I can open and now you can hear me. But then if I clo(se it again, you can't hear me anymore.)
/ Green: Gah! Take it off! / Caption: Funniest: when the giver is too.
/ Orange: Haha, so I have a box here, and like, it's invisible but I'm gonna put it on your head, and you can't hear through it. It's totally nuts!
/ Orange: Wait, where'd my box go?
/ Green: Iunno! http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100805.php |
| Scenes from Unity: Kali and Kila #1 | Announcer: And now it's time for everyone's favorite gastropods...
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Kali: Good evening, spouse. What will we be consuming for this nightly cycle?
/ Kila [stirring a bowl]: I have made an attempt at producing sustenance by myself. Let us enjoy it together! / [[Kali drinks from the bowl]]
/ Kila: Well, spouse? What is your opinion of this product of my labor? / Kali [mandibular tentacles foaming and shriveling with rapid-onset osmosis]: It haf flightly too much falt.
/ Announcer: Join us next threesday for the next hilarious episode of
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Announcer: on a videoport near you. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100809.php |
| Scenes from Unity: Kali and Kila #2 | Announcer: Once again, it's time for everyone's favorite gastropods...
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Kali [blushing]: Spouse, it is time for my cyclic ovulation period. Would you care to induce your spermatogenesis? / Kila [blushing]: That is not possible! It is also time for my cyclic ovulation period! / [[Kali glares and presents a bulging ovipositor to Kila]]
/ Kila [sheepishly]: I also have a headache.
/ Announcer: Join us next threesday for the next hilarious episode of
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Announcer: on a videoport near you. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100811.php |
| Scenes from Unity: Kali and Kila #3 | Announcer: Why yes, it's time for everyone's favorite gastropods...
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Kali [ranting over the title]: I am shocked at the actions taken by our installed hegemony of a government!
/ Kila [timidly]: What now, spouse?
/ Kali: An Oligarch submitted a suppression order on my editorial! / Kila: The Directorate only acts in the greater good. I am certain there are details to which you are not privy--
/ Kali [alert, eye twitching]: Cease. I just heard a sound.
/ Kila [guardedly]: A... sound?
/ Kali: Yes, to my right. / [[Kali notices the camera filming them and rushes toward it]]
/ Kali: What is the provenance of this recording device?!
/ Kila: Kali, I can ex--
/ Kali: Silence, government lackey!
/ Announcer: Join us next threesday for the next hilarious episode of
/ Title: Kali and Kila!
/ Announcer: on a videoport near you. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100813.php |
| de^x/dx: 23. Episode 2 | [[Jen walks up to fluffy, her hands on her hips; fluffy appears to be sitting on the wall.]]
/ Jen: Dangit, fluffy, what gives?!
/ fluffy: Oh, hi, Jen. What's up?
/ Jen: You're always doing this!
/ fluffy: Doing what? / Jen [arms crossed]: Building up some sort of plot and then just leaving us hanbing!
/ fluffy [looking down]: Oh, yeah, shouldn't you be a bunny right now?
/ Jen: No, I shouldn't. That story should be OVER by now. / Jen: When are you gonna get back to all those things you said you wanted to do?
/ fluffy [looking wistfully]: FINE, I'll work on it.
/ Jen: And make it FUNNY for once.
/ fluffy: No promises. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100816.php |
| Guest art: Drake Appaz: Best duo costume | Kali and Kila are in costume, as former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and as heroic Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, respectively. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100818.php |
| de^x/dx: 24. Episode 1 recap | {{scene from comic #4}}
/ [[The story so far...]]
/ [[Jen was surprised to find the webcomic she exists in had rebooted. While she had full knowledge of the old series, nobody else around her did.]]
/ Jen [looking at her mitten]: What th'... / {{scene from comic #16}}
/ [[Her memory of one of the old webcomic's central conceits triggered the nanites in the lab to start turning her into a purple-- rather, fuchsia skunk. This was slightly unsettling.]]
/ Jen [with a skunk's muzzle and tail]: Hey, what, is this a recap? Dangit...
/ Cherry: Gwen? What is wrong with-- could you PLEASE not interrupt? / {{scene from comic #22}}
/ [[In order to fix this, Jen has now restarted the device that was responsible for the dubious plot mechanism in the first place, causing--]]
/ Jen [in Cherry-bunny's body]: FLUFFY!
/ [[Fine, let the readers be lost. See if I care.]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100820.php |
| Sketchbook: Frustrations | [[sketch]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100828.php |
| Journal: Depression | fluffy: I've been having a hard time getting back into making comics.
/ [[fluffy lies on the couch in the fetal position, remote control in its left hand]]
/ fluffy: Or doing anything else, really. / fluffy: My hard drive is a wasteland of unfinished comics and songs. Nothing I do feels right.
/ [[fluffy stands in a desolate wasteland desert]] / fluffy: I don't feel like making anything because I don't think I have any momentum. That's silly.
/ [[fluffy sits in a sled at the top of a hill]]
/ fluffy: How can I get any momentum without an initial push? http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100902.php |
| de^x/dx: 25. A moment | Roger: Oi, Jerri, what's goin' on, love?
/ Jen [as Jerri]: Oh, jeeze, this is weird. Um, we're, kind of, well, from a different dimension.
/ Roger: An' why'd y'shout out "fluffy?"
/ Jen: I was s'posed t'be in her body, though.
/ Cherry [as Gwen]: no no this can't be right maybe the flux effusion is misaligned / Roger: Whose, Gwen's? This is all her fault, innit? I knew she'd be trouble, soon as she turned up.
/ Jen: Gwen...?
/ Jen: Uh, sure, whatever. Um, so, yeah. I'm Jen, and this is Cherry.
/ Cherry: multiply the coefficient of rice pudding to the cross-product of the Huffstein vector / Roger: She seems rather busy.
/ Jen: Yeah.
/ Roger: Let's give her a moment, then?
/ Jen [quietly]: Sure. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100906.php |
| de^x/dx: 26. Crossover | Jen [as Jerri]: So, your name is Roger, right?
/ Roger: Oh, blimey, how daft of me. How is it that you know my name?
/ Jen: It's... kinda complicated.
/ Roger: Mind having a go at explaining it, love? / Jen: There's this... thing that makes stuff happen. Only it wasn't doing it but now it is.
/ Roger: So that's a no, then?
/ Jen: Sorry. Best I can do.
/ Roger: Well, what's happened to my Jerri?
/ Jen: Oh, I'm sure she's safe. I bet she's just in my body right now. / [[Meanwhile...]]
/ Jerri [as Jen, with Gwen's muzzle and tail]: Ugh, what's going on? This is so stupid.
/ Gwen [as Cherry, wearing the gas mask]: Don't be so grouchy, Jerri. At least your muzzle is soft. Oh, look, shiny bugs!
/ Jerri: You're stupid.
/ Gwen [playing with some ECPs]: I wonder if these bugs grant wishes! http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100908.php |
| Sketchbook: Cappie | A giant head louse stands cutely. http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100912.php |
| Journal: October 2, 2010: Chorizo | Caption: 2007:
/ fluffy: I want to try chorizo but I just can't get past what it's made out of.
/ Green conversant: Why, what's in it?
/ fluffy: All the left-over parts.
/ Green: Aren't most sausages like that?
/ fluffy: Yeah, yeah. I'm sure I'll try it eventually. / Caption: 2008
/ fluffy: [thinking, eating a taco] Oh, wow.
/ fluffy: [thinking] This... is good. / Caption: 2010
/ fluffy: [in front of meat cooler]
/ fluffy: [thinking] Well if I'm gonna make posole I guess I should buy some chorizo.
/ fluffy: [thinking] I wonder how hard it is to cook. / [[fluffy takes groceries out of shopping bag]] / [[Close-up of chorizo label]]
/ Label: Carmelita
/ Label: Pork chorizo (puerco)
/ Label: Remove Casing before cooking
/ Label: Ingredients: [Pork salivary glands, lymph nodes and fat (cheeks and tongues)], chili pepper, vinegar, pork, salt, spices, flavorings, [...]
/ Label: Nutrition facts [...] / [[fluffy stares in blank-faced horror.]] http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20101010.php |
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