Strip 378 -- First Seen: 2010-02-24
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QV on a short break

QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.

In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.

Kickstarter successful and closed

The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.

Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.

(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Narrow panel. Doris and Fiorella, their ruck-sacks in hand, emerge through frosted-glass doors from a short passageway.

Caption: Their Fokker secured, Doris and Fiorella enter the Mandala Hotel lobby.

Panel 2
Panel fills remainder of this strip's half-page: Establishing shot the lobby of the Hotel Mandala.

It should be a scene of jaw-dropping ostentatious splendor, highly-decorated walls and ceilings, Ming vases, overstuffed furniture, go nuts. Inhabiting the scene should be a smattering of people in varying genders and colors and clothing, milling about or lounging. Mix in a couple or three people wearing clothing that suggests 'hotel staff,' doing the sorts of things top-shelf hotel staff do.

There is a noticeable curvature in the floor (and ceiling where we see it), similar to the scene inside the Big Wheel Space Station in 2001 where Heywood Floyd chats with some Russian friends, only a bit more so. The acceleration effect here is a tiny bit more than Ceres gravity, at 0.05 gee. Which means people 'walk' by gliding around on tippy-toe, like on Ceres. However, since most guests are from heavier-gravity worlds, hand-rails are placed strategically to help 'heavy-leggers' get around.

The girls stand in the middle of it all, looking about in wonderment.

Voice (OP-right): Mesdames –!