Chapter 41 – Page 6
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Fourth panel, second speech bubble should be “But they can only track you when YOU use it.”
In Soviet Sepia World they track you when they use…your…bank account…I guess.
I’d actually thought about that to. :/ Not the Soviet part, but just the best of both worlds for the criminal working for private interests- cash withdrawal and Bing!, they’re over there.
This one is on me. Sorry, Phil. Change when you get the chance?
NO.
… Yes.
–For the love of God, Simon, what the fuck is your deal?
–You don’t invite me to your parties, do you know how that feels?
–Are you freaking serious? You killed all my guests! Just ’cause you felt left out?
–NO! …Yes.
How is it that dozens of us saw this early yesterday and didn’t notice? >_>
This is why we need more Patreon subscribers! THE TYPO BRIGADE WOULD HAVE UNPRECEDENTED ADVANCED-NOTICE TYPO CHECKING OPPORTUNITIES!!!
Didn’t realize Daniel and Chrissie were so short – shorter than Xan!
I guess I don’t know squat; I was sure stumped. You are what you eat, so maybe they munchkin only on shrimp and small fry’s? In the little boy’s room is it Dan’s hobbit to runt in and squirt a half pint out of a teeny weeny?
Okay I’m sorry for that last one.
Or is Shanna really tall?
Yes, Xan. Nobody suspects hobo Red/Ash.
I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those pokemans.
Unpopular Opinion: Ash is the worst Pokemon trainer ever.
Unpopular or most sensible opinion?
Didn’t want to get the fanboys’ jimmies all rustled.
No I’m pretty sure it’s true. “OK, awesome powerful Pokemon, I’m releasing you against both our wishes so I can be horrible again and then be all distraught when I don’t win in the [league name] League! BYYYYEEE!”
Ash is a terrible Pokémon trainer.
He’s actually a Pokémon Whisperer.
No one that has lived or ever lived will ever understand, empathize with, or just “get” a Pokémon like Ash Ketchum can or would. No one sees them as true equals quite like him.
Is he a good trainer? Fuck no.
Is he a secret Idiot Savant? You bet your ass.
Ahhh, so he’s essentially Goku or Naruto: the “idiot Messiah” character that even their enemies come to not just like but respect, even though they never seem to learn and honestly appear to be pretty dim bulbs about most things.
Exactly.
Japan has a cultural boner for hard-working idiocy. Honestly, most countries do to some extent… but most aren’t quite so blatant about it as Japan is. The propaganda is strong with them. “Don’t think. Just obey.”
LOL… Great point… What is the difference?
You’d think the Feds would have a lot more resources.
Maybe. Maybe not. They are competing against an international mega-corporation.
and also the feds can’t put up their pictures on a game site with the banner, “spot one of these 4 gamers and get a legendary weapon.”
They’d know where those 4 were in about 20 seconds.
…and everybody going from bank to bank together withdrawing their money sn’t noticeable AT ALL.
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BTW – i lost track – who was the murdered woman’s character? (Though i have my suspicions.)
Scorpio. Chrissie has Bandit, and Daniel has E-Merl.
Going from bank to bank withdrawing money would, at most, tell someone who’s tracking them that they’re going on the run. Which any pursuer would know as soon as they’re not at their home anyway, and their pursuer is not in a position to show up at the next bank in the list before they’re all done.
Scorpio? Scipio, maybe?
What i meant was, the same group hitting branches of different banks and showing up on surveillance cameras is gonna catch someone’s eye – the cops routinely look for those kinds of patterns, anyway.
I’m not sure I follow the group’s logic. They have video footage of an assassin trying to kill them and instead of going to the Feds they think it’s safer to go off the grid?
Nor did going off grid seem to help Shanna or Xan anyways.
I’m with you on this one; I’m a little lost, too. I can only guess that they assume a bit like Shanna has and that no one will believe them when they say there are people being held in tubes in the basement of a video game company HQ.
But you’re right; they should have the video, but then again, if no one hit record…
Probably nobody hit record. Also, if they do have a video and go to the feds, they’ll wind up in protective custody unable to do anything until the feds either catch the guy or quit looking. There won’t be any traceable ties back to HR’s company, so even if the hitman does get caught, it’ll just mean that they won’t know what the next one looks like, and he probably won’t be so cuddly.
Only real option is to break into Hurricane’s basement and pull the fire alarm. Sure you might go to jail for criminal trespass, but at least the hitman should leave you alone once he knows he won’t get paid.
The fact that they’ll probably be responsible for the deaths of everyone in the tubes when ham-handed paramedics decide to try to disconnect them is something they don’t have the information to predict yet unfortunately. As is the fact that the basement is their target. Counter-threat against Carol if she doesn’t call off the dogs is probably their best strategy with the information they have at the moment.
So is Shanna really tall or the others really short..
both. The difference in height is more pronounced when you have really tall people walking next to really short people. and Shanna may be wearing heels and the others are in flats.
“And every time they watch for a transaction that never comes, that’s energy they’re wasting.”
Or they just get someone to set up a program that notifies them when someone uses the account, then go do other things.
But no, no, your idea’s good.
It’s good for pretentiously demonstrating how smarter you supposedly are than the rest of the group.
“Here, look at me draining an infinitesimally small amount of resources from the people with unlimited resources!”
There’s probably a bit more investment. True, they don’t need someone sitting there watching a computer screen all day. But financial transactions will likely be encrypted. So they’d have to work with the bank to set up some method of monitoring transactions. Not sure how difficult that it is.
Has it finally happened? The first strip of a Sepia World segment and no one is complaining about an integral part of the story pulling them out of the story? *holds breath*
We want Matlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Oh my … is Xan another one of those anti-gov dudes who fancy portraying the gov as a maffia and criminals like Al Capone?