My boss was a tinkerer of heroes. And of Fiends.
And one day, he comes off craaaazier than usual.
Ferris finds out what he’s up to, and he doesn’t like that….
Not. One. Bit.
So, the tubies watching, he takes the glowy hand to him..
He calls me… etc etc
OK, they are in a public place, so Carol can’t do her there.
Shanna was frowning when she checked her watch in frame #1, so either she arrived early or Carol is late. Carol picked her out no problem, and she is smiling and confident …
It is just a hunch, but I think Shanna shouldn’t get back in her car.
I don’t know… Carol’s in too deep at this point by disposing of Ferris’ body, but I don’t think she’s crossed the Moral Event Horizon…
… yet. She’s pretty darned close to it as far as protecting Dedalus (and herself) is concerned, while Shanna present a serious threat to his secret dreams of an apotheosis.
I just realized- Carol’s acting completely calm and in control here. She’s just been an accessory (after the fact) to murder. She knew when “Felinda” was snooping around that she could be trouble. But to act like that is out of place, when- were she still morally horrified- she should be doing her best to stay away from a given snoop.
Wait, where is this starbucks that has a bookshelf…with books on it? I have never seen actual literature in there before (unless you count magazines and local newspapers)..I count THREE bookcases piled with books, AND a comfy couch.
In some places, it’s not uncommon for Starbucks to share digs with Chapters (large chain bookstore). My local one has comfy chairs and a fireplace, but space is grossly inadequate to meet demand and it’s almost always packed. No lack of good reading material, though!
My local Barnes & Noble has a Starbucks INSIDE. Not that I can even stand most of their coffee, but I can’t resist the occasional caramel macchiato, and they also serve FUCKING CHEESECAKE!
OK, so now Carol has not only committed the federal felony of unauthorized access to an internet server by logging in to someone else’s Facebook account, she has publicly implicated herself in that crime. Not particularly smart.
FYI, “unauthorized access to an internet server” would require her to hack into Facebook’s mainframe server. A user account is not a server. Posting “I LIKE DICKS” on your friend’s timeline is not a felony.
Plus, there’s no reason to believe he didn’t give her access willingly. In fact, he almost certainly did, as part of the contract he signed when he started working at Hurricane Entertainment. It’s likely that anything he worked on at work became the property of the company, which includes his social media accounts.
[“Posting “I LIKE DICKS” on your friend’s timeline is not a felony.”]
Tell that to the federal prosecutors. They’ve succeeded in convicting people on that basis.
[“Plus, there’s no reason to believe he didn’t give her access willingly.”]
And if he did, then he *also* committed that same crime, by letting someone else impersonate him on Facebook’s server. Of course, he’s dead now, so in his case any charges are moot.
Also, before this gets lost in the shuffle, let’s keep in mind that Carol is outright saying that Ferris was fired, and yet she is still accessing his Facebook account. If I’m the reporter in that situation, I’d be licking my lips at the windfall that just fell into my hands. And I’d be considering whether to bring up possible FBI involvement or keep that as a hidden trump card.
I doubt someone can be charged with a felony for writing that on someone’s account – it would seriously depend on the circumstances. i.e. doing it to a friend’s personal account would be one thing; doing it to a major business’ main FB page would be another.
And, yeah, I agree with your last post there, EGS Reference. Revealing that she has access to Ferris’ account or even implying he told her at this point after he could officially classify as “disappeared” is a very, very bad move in the long term. She must have some short-term solution planned.
Earlier, she hinted that Ferris sent her an angry email of resignation. It would look kind of suspicious to an investigator, but not THAT suspicious. If word of her meeting with Shanna gets out, it is flat-out the noose that Carol hangs herself with.
I don’t believe she actually said she got into his account. In fact, it would be quite simple for her to say “We saw Ferris was meeting with a reporter who we knew was snooping around our offices. We decided to fire him as we felt he was no longer trustworthy and I am here to tell you as much. Afterall it was posted Facebook. Not like it was hard for us to find it.”
Very forward approach by Carol. She’d better hope whatever plan she has is good, because if this Shanna is anything like the original, Carol’s bitten off a lot more than she realizes.
Yeah, right. Run from a place where Carol can try anything stupid against you to a far-away place, preferably a dark alley where no one will hear you scream for help. That’s really the best move. (ironic and sarcastic)
No no no, Carol, this isn’t how you murder somebody at ALL. I mean, you’re in public, in the open, and your hands aren’t even SLIGHTLY glowing with dark mystical energy! You really need to take some notes from H.R.
Oh she doesn’t need to murder her, just break her. I know roleplaying experience isn’t the best to quote, but some of the most chilling encounters with your enemies are the ones where you know they won’t kill you. When they just come out to meet you in public where neither of you can actually do much beyond sit there and talk, where the villain shows you just enough to tell you how impossibly out of your league you are and the smartest thing you can do is just walk away.
RUN BITCH RUN
GTFO is now life-saving advice. Mark the day, ladies and gents.
“Run Bitch Run” was indeed the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this strip, so I would say… yes, GTFO just got remastered.
i always think of this when bad stuff is about to happen:
Excellent avatar for the occasion.
Run ? What could Carol do against her in front of so many people ?
Force choking?
That’s a killer smile
It looks nice.
Y’wanna know how I got this smile?
My boss was a tinkerer of heroes. And of Fiends.
And one day, he comes off craaaazier than usual.
Ferris finds out what he’s up to, and he doesn’t like that….
Not. One. Bit.
So, the tubies watching, he takes the glowy hand to him..
He calls me… etc etc
I’m thinking more “Will the lawful owner come looking for it?”
OK, they are in a public place, so Carol can’t do her there.
Shanna was frowning when she checked her watch in frame #1, so either she arrived early or Carol is late. Carol picked her out no problem, and she is smiling and confident …
It is just a hunch, but I think Shanna shouldn’t get back in her car.
Whatever you do, don’t sweeten that coffee with stevia!
Doing anyone in public is generally fowned upon, yes.
Yes!
Actually, there is this one local coffee joint…
They have a table with free razors and cyanide tablets…
Down, not across.
500 years into the future, it happens at every Starbucks.
thank you. +1
500 years into the future it is Starbucks’ primary service.
I don’t know… Carol’s in too deep at this point by disposing of Ferris’ body, but I don’t think she’s crossed the Moral Event Horizon…
… yet. She’s pretty darned close to it as far as protecting Dedalus (and herself) is concerned, while Shanna present a serious threat to his secret dreams of an apotheosis.
I think there is a chance, a small chance, they will bring her in on the project, just to keep her silent.
I say bring her in and while she’s staring wide eyed at the tubes push her into one and lock her in the game.
I think you’re right…
I just realized- Carol’s acting completely calm and in control here. She’s just been an accessory (after the fact) to murder. She knew when “Felinda” was snooping around that she could be trouble. But to act like that is out of place, when- were she still morally horrified- she should be doing her best to stay away from a given snoop.
They need an extra hand?
No, that’s not trouble. That’s just how Starbuck’s mochaccinos are.
+1
That look on her face… No coffee can make someone that alert…
Or I’ve been drinking all the wrong coffees.
Wait, where is this starbucks that has a bookshelf…with books on it? I have never seen actual literature in there before (unless you count magazines and local newspapers)..I count THREE bookcases piled with books, AND a comfy couch.
…I might just have to move there.
In some places, it’s not uncommon for Starbucks to share digs with Chapters (large chain bookstore). My local one has comfy chairs and a fireplace, but space is grossly inadequate to meet demand and it’s almost always packed. No lack of good reading material, though!
My local Barnes & Noble has a Starbucks INSIDE. Not that I can even stand most of their coffee, but I can’t resist the occasional caramel macchiato, and they also serve FUCKING CHEESECAKE!
Is it considered ‘doing it’ in a starbucks if you have a fucking cheesecake?
Having it? No.
Eating it? Yes.
Lucky. My local B&N (Irmo, SC) just announced it will be closing after Christmas.
OK, so now Carol has not only committed the federal felony of unauthorized access to an internet server by logging in to someone else’s Facebook account, she has publicly implicated herself in that crime. Not particularly smart.
FYI, “unauthorized access to an internet server” would require her to hack into Facebook’s mainframe server. A user account is not a server. Posting “I LIKE DICKS” on your friend’s timeline is not a felony.
Plus, there’s no reason to believe he didn’t give her access willingly. In fact, he almost certainly did, as part of the contract he signed when he started working at Hurricane Entertainment. It’s likely that anything he worked on at work became the property of the company, which includes his social media accounts.
[“Posting “I LIKE DICKS” on your friend’s timeline is not a felony.”]
Tell that to the federal prosecutors. They’ve succeeded in convicting people on that basis.
[“Plus, there’s no reason to believe he didn’t give her access willingly.”]
And if he did, then he *also* committed that same crime, by letting someone else impersonate him on Facebook’s server. Of course, he’s dead now, so in his case any charges are moot.
Also, before this gets lost in the shuffle, let’s keep in mind that Carol is outright saying that Ferris was fired, and yet she is still accessing his Facebook account. If I’m the reporter in that situation, I’d be licking my lips at the windfall that just fell into my hands. And I’d be considering whether to bring up possible FBI involvement or keep that as a hidden trump card.
I doubt someone can be charged with a felony for writing that on someone’s account – it would seriously depend on the circumstances. i.e. doing it to a friend’s personal account would be one thing; doing it to a major business’ main FB page would be another.
And, yeah, I agree with your last post there, EGS Reference. Revealing that she has access to Ferris’ account or even implying he told her at this point after he could officially classify as “disappeared” is a very, very bad move in the long term. She must have some short-term solution planned.
Earlier, she hinted that Ferris sent her an angry email of resignation. It would look kind of suspicious to an investigator, but not THAT suspicious. If word of her meeting with Shanna gets out, it is flat-out the noose that Carol hangs herself with.
I don’t believe she actually said she got into his account. In fact, it would be quite simple for her to say “We saw Ferris was meeting with a reporter who we knew was snooping around our offices. We decided to fire him as we felt he was no longer trustworthy and I am here to tell you as much. Afterall it was posted Facebook. Not like it was hard for us to find it.”
Carol seems to have received some training in being an evil mastermind, Judging from that smile anyways.
The dark apprentice.
Very forward approach by Carol. She’d better hope whatever plan she has is good, because if this Shanna is anything like the original, Carol’s bitten off a lot more than she realizes.
It started out as a normal daly but soon it turned out to be not so fellindacious…
Remember when people complained in these forums that Sepia world was too boring and that they can hardly wait to get back to Arkerra?
Yeah. It was, like, two sepia comics ago.
It’s probably bad that I prefer these to Arkerra. Like, the guild arcs and all aren’t bad, but these have me hooked and interested.
Yes, I remember. Let us never go back to that Sepia world. Let us keep this one, where things are happening on the pages that are shown to us.
RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
Yeah, right. Run from a place where Carol can try anything stupid against you to a far-away place, preferably a dark alley where no one will hear you scream for help. That’s really the best move. (ironic and sarcastic)
No no no, Carol, this isn’t how you murder somebody at ALL. I mean, you’re in public, in the open, and your hands aren’t even SLIGHTLY glowing with dark mystical energy! You really need to take some notes from H.R.
Oh she doesn’t need to murder her, just break her. I know roleplaying experience isn’t the best to quote, but some of the most chilling encounters with your enemies are the ones where you know they won’t kill you. When they just come out to meet you in public where neither of you can actually do much beyond sit there and talk, where the villain shows you just enough to tell you how impossibly out of your league you are and the smartest thing you can do is just walk away.
*internal screaming*
Not sure it’s going to go the way Carol is planning, given that the cover of the chapter shows her coffee cup is crushed and Shanna’s is intact.
well that made me go back and look and I think it’s a different starbucks as the layout is different with no books.
But perhaps they meet up in another one later and if they still have the same drinks you could be right.
Those are my thoughts as well. I’m surprised more commenters haven’t commented on that.
When first glancing over the comic, I misread Carol’s line as, “Ferris has been dismantled.”
Which might be actual, but not quite as… tactful.
Uh oh, I smell a wacky road trip comedy brewing!
Shanna is Steve Martin and Carol is John Candy.
this is the correct prediction
Comedy ensues as these two unlikely friends journey to find love, happiness, and the friend that brought them all together.
“What do you mean Ferris was last seen here? This is the edge of a cliff!”
*wah wah wah*
Carol has a grin like a Cheshire cat and she knows your alias and real identity.
Best you run. Forever.
Is this how Kur’ik entered Arkerra?
The word “dealing” has never sounded so ominous.
I dunno, I think it’s frequently very ominous, being as it is a common euphemism for killing someone (in the phrase ‘dealing with them/him/her/you’)….
“Now just swallow this pill and I won’t beat your head against the table”
Yeah, right. In front of everyone … I didn’t know being a evil mastermind wannabe implied being stupid.
“Take one of these pills”
“Which pill? The red one, or the blue one?”
“You… You know about colors?!?! So… You’ve been in the game?”
“Yeah… Wait! … Are you – ?”
“And, you’re – ?”
both: “SQUEEEEEEEE!!! BFFs!!!”
(I wish I could draw. I’d love to see that as a guest comic)
WOW I FEEL SO FUCKING STUPID. I just caught on that she’s essentially Shanna from Faans! …. I’m an idiot.
“Ferris has been dismissed. With extreme prejudice.”
“You’ll be dealing with me and my freakishly large kneecap today.”
FTFY