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DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary
That is indeed a nice hat

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Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Warmachine posted:

it's a loving jungle.
I thought we agreed to stop talking about that.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 228 days!
I'm getting the notion that things will be less sexy and more insecty once they head out to work.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Hodgepodge posted:

I'm getting the notion that things will be less sexy and more insecty once they head out to work.

What's the difference?

Dr Subterfuge
Aug 31, 2005

TIME TO ROC N' ROLL
If this were like any other story I would expect something to go wrong (they get stranded somehow, someone gets sick or injured, they encounter some beast of the forest, the usual) that forces them even closer, but since this is GC it's at least as likely that this will just be an ordinary, life-changing expedition with handsome science boy. And that's fine.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
A+++ bug would stare at enviously again

maswastaken
Nov 12, 2011

Is there just too much walking involved in this or is the woman who can turn herself into fire struggling with the heat?

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


I don't think they (Surma/Annie lineage) produce actual fire? It's clearly magical "fire" that can selectively burn someone, selectively produce heat, etc. The rule "Surma is flame resistant and heat resistant" might not be a thing.

Or....she is resistant, but only after transformation? Thrre could be many ways her flame capabilities work, and I suspect we may learn some about it when Surma reveals her nature to Carver. For example, perhaps she's baking right now because she doesn't want to show off her fire elemental form.

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


Humidity sucks.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
There's a good "it's not the heat (fire), it's the humidity" joke somewhere, but I'm not finding it.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Alternatively, backpacking through the jungle is hard. Heat, humidity, bugs, rough ground, overgrowth, and I'm guessing that for all of Surma's forest adventures, she's never done a straight up backpacking expedition where she has to carry everything she needs to survive on her back.

I bet those boots shoes aren't even broken in. Rookie mistake.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

He's a hunk, Surma, accept it.

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
This does look more like Surma got a ticket to the gunshow then a trip to the jungle.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Kikas posted:

This does look more like Surma got a ticket to the gunshow then a trip to the jungle.
:golfclap:

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Tony's ditto face

Fecha
Nov 4, 2006

Did I... did I miss anything important?
Heart of Darkness 2: protagonist ventures into jungle, discovers that without social norms or the pressures of Western culture, a dude is actually pretty cute

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Tony has a disease where his neck gets 10% longer every page.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Lurdiak posted:

Tony has a disease where his neck gets 10% longer every page.

I don't care, and I don't think Surma does either. :swoon:

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
surma's unnaturally attracted to giraffes and is subconsciously overlaying their traits over her perspective of tony

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Lurdiak posted:

Tony has a disease where his neck gets 10% longer every page.
He's coming out of his shell.

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Lurdiak posted:

Tony has a disease where his neck gets 10% longer every page.

The same condition was responsible for Annie's unfortunate head shape aged 11, but fortunately it did not persist into adulthood for her.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Lurdiak posted:

Tony has a disease where his neck gets 10% longer every page.

Nope.

Dodgeball
Sep 24, 2003

Oh no! Dodgeball is really scary!

ftfy

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

:thejoke:

Dodgeball
Sep 24, 2003

Oh no! Dodgeball is really scary!

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

This would be an amazing avatar.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 228 days!
Well, this plot is thickening up nicely.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Yeah I'm a buff handsome super spy, no biggee *grows another inch of shoulders & neck*

madjack
Dec 31, 2013
I wonder if hes been getting these since he was a kid.

"I have work."

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Do we know anything about Tony's parents?

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 228 days!

Scholtz posted:

Do we know anything about Tony's parents?

They didn't raise an emotionally well-adjusted son.

Soooo... they're British?

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.
Omega and Fire Elemental Symbol? How... peculiar.

madjack
Dec 31, 2013

Iceclaw posted:

Omega and Fire Elemental Symbol? How... peculiar.

The other symbol is Bismuth, not the fire elemental 'crown'.

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.
Oh right. There goes my theory that omega would be Tony's codename.

PubicMice
Feb 14, 2012

looking for information on posts
Omega?

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
This is basically like a happy-go-lucky version of gendo and yui from evangelion.

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.

Yup. Fits a bit too well. It does explain why they wanted him onboard in present time though.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Splicer posted:

Yeah I'm a buff handsome super spy, no biggee *grows another inch of shoulders & neck*

Can't wait for him to become a full on gym rat

Eyes Only is making me laugh a lot but also curious are they saying "no remote viewing/scrying" or something?

Tendales
Mar 9, 2012

EmmyOk posted:

Eyes Only is making me laugh a lot but also curious are they saying "no remote viewing/scrying" or something?

Eyes Only is a jargon term for classified documents intended to be read by a particular person or people, rather than being available to anyone with sufficient clearance.

This being Gunnerkrigg, there could easily be more significance to the phrase than that, though.

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

We are thinking on the basest of planes. What we need, Surma, are more eyes.

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