Strip 585 -- First Seen: 2010-12-03
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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
At the restaurant in the Hôtel de Crillon. This time Merry is having lunch with the boys, keeping in touch. Merry is speaking to Lawrence.
Merry: So, Lawrence, you and Kinko are both moving out tomorrow?
Lawrence: Yeah, we both got jobs at NoPoTo-2, and the commute from here is a real bitch – pardon the expression.

Panel 2
Kinko, Merry and Lawrence
Kinko: Yeah, we're getting a 2-bedroom apartment at the tower.
Merry (to Lawrence): So I'd heard Kinko got that hog-farming job, but how did you end up working there?

Panel 3
Medium shot of Lawrence, smiling and shrugging.
Lawrence: Hey, not many people know I'm a master grower as well as a, ah, consumer of the herb superb.

Panel 4
Flash-back scene, Lawrence tending a large indoor marijuana 'grow garden,' hydroponic trays filled with 5-foot tall, blossoming hemp plants. He's carefully examining one of the buds attached to one of the plants.
Caption (Lawrence): 'I was once the top grower in Mendocino County, in the California sector.
Caption: 'My customers referred to the doobies from my plants as 'Larry Loads.'

Panel 5
Cut to a scene at the Mojave Spaceport on Terra. In a darkened corner, Lawrence is meeting with Kinko and Morris, who is handing #10 envelopes to the other two men while looking over his shoulder. The scene is very paranoid-tense.
Caption (Lawrence): 'Unfortunately the UW did not share my customers' high regard for my product.
Caption: 'I was just one step ahead of them when I met Lawrence and Morris.

Panel 6
Back to the hotel restaurant, Lawrence is finishing his story. We see everyone at the table. Kinko is raising his glass to Morris in a toast-gesture, but Morris is looking bored.
Lawrence: Morris had connections and got us letters of transit, that allowed us to escape from Terra.
Kinko: Yeah, man, we owe our freedom to Morris.
Morris: Damn straight.