Strip 443 -- First Seen: 2010-05-19
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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.

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Panel 1
Robyn, still in her prison jumpsuit (she also has a pass badge clipped to her lapel but we can't see it in this panel with her back mostly to us) and looking nervous, pressing the door buzzer at the outer-airlock hatch to Norman's apartment (there's a nameplate next to the hatch).

Caption: 22:00 on Thursday

SFX: b-deep b-deep

Panel 2
The hatch opens inward, and we see Carla, standing within the 2-meter-long airlock connecting the hallway and the apartment. Carla is about 4 inches taller than Robyn, barely 18, blond, and fairly pretty, with D-cup breasts. She does not look happy and obviously isn't a volunteer 'uh … personal assistant.' She speaks perfunctorily.

Carla: Hi, I'm Carla. Please come in, Robyn.

Carla: We've been expecting you.

Panel 3
Wide panel, establishing shot of Norman's apartment. Reverse angle so we see Robyn walking through the inner hatchway as Carla stands to one side. The living room is decorated in early 'Playboy Philosophy.' Walls covered in dark-flocked wallpaper, a few cheap reproductions of Leroy Neiman semi-abstract sports paintings. Important to include: a large Alexander Calder-'inspired' mobile and ESPECIALLY a cheap knockoff of a Eusebio Sempere metal sculpture made of stainless steel rods of varying lengths.

The knock-off should not be as wide and should have fewer rods. Some of the rods should be about a meter or so long.

Robyn (thought): Tres bordello