Yes, the bees speak English American.
As is the adjective “Wizard”. The hints have been broad enough. I’m wondering if they are supposed to be spoken with British accents or British isms with American accents. Virginia ‘ s never mentioned any hinges about *english* women living in delaware.
Heck, when she goes into supersedure, she starts using Cockney slang.
When I read it everyone has an English accent!
“maths” – not USA dialect.
Also “wizard”, as an adjective. If they start saying “pip pip”, she’s getting close.
It actually was briefly used in America, after The Phantom Menace came out.
She’s both. “No bus will come for you” is predictive. “The bus is the only way out” is predicative.
Hmmm… in virtual reality, she and Nick actually could kiss, so maybe “buss” is the right word after all. Then again, that also makes “no buss will come for you” all the more depressing.
I am utterly baffled as to where the materials and fuel are supposed to be coming from. Beachfront resorts are not typically known for energy-dense oxidizers or materials that can withstand energy-dense oxidizers oxidizing.
Starting to think in this place, at this beach, if Virginia wants it, it’s going to be there.
VR system. None of this is real, so the rules can be bent to accomodate the game play.
If the laws of physics don’t apply…well, they might as well all be in that “Star Trek” episode with the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral.
The laws of VR game physics apply. For details, check the documentation.
Well it’s not a real beach, just a VR beach simulation, and it wasn’t necessarily coded with realistic rocket fuel formula analysis, so I suppose it’s all a matter of what Ginnie can con the simulation into supplying, or into accepting as a propellant.
Kerbal Kraken Drives? Hmm, are they going to launch themselves by raising the landing legs and then putting them down again really really fast?
I guess the Mad just have the ability to do that with actual reality.
I’ve been saying that for years, but no one ever agreed with me. They always had some explanation for how she could possibly be sane and still do what she does. Now, I see others are finally suspecting that she may have been Mad all along.
Maybe they’re at Chambers Field. Good place for a Virginia.
IIRC there’s a saltwater taffy shop on the north side of the boardwalk, which would make an excellent rocket fuel and I can’t help but wonder if mayhap some saltpetre could be found in old Walnut shell compost piles?
I wondered if you were being facetious, but rocket candy is actually a thing.
There’s also a good chance the simulation WANTS her to succeed. This whole beach thing isn’t part of the normal extirpation VR. Gavotte is in here and one of the very first things Ginny is told is the only way out is to fix what is broken. Sounds like a quest hook to me.
Plenty of walnuts, providing meats and shells thereof. There’s always coconuts, and with Gilligan pedaling on the generator bicycle, I’m sure the Professor can come up with something. Maybe the Soyuz capsule that crash landed has some spare propellant.
Mrs. Apis probably has fertilizer for her garden. Potassium Nitrate is found in fertilizers.
So is the more energetic ammonium nitrate. We’re surrounded with all kinds of stuff that has other uses.
Some paper might be nice, too.
The rocket sled (or whatever the hell it’s supposed to be) will launch without passengers, either by accident or to test it first. It will hit the side of the cliff rather than City Hall itself, causing a huge landslip. Something will be revealed as being inside that huge steep hill.
Yesterday’s comic had someone bringing up the flowers that each of them are wearing. I noted that the flowers on Ms Delphi’s headscarf might be described as being rose in color.
I am reminded that “under the rose” means something like “secret”. Is Delphi keeping a secret?
Maybe she is secretly Mayor Queen?
Your mind is beginning to wander… yesterday you proposed that Mrs. Ape is the Queen.
Beginning to wander? I am constantly wandering the field of generated hypotheses.
I have not forgotten that maybe Mrs. Apis is secretly Mayor Queen, nor that maybe Mayor Queen is a ringer, nor that maybe Mayor Queen, as a component of the swarm, represents the red/Quadling region of Oz. I don’t consider any of these ideas as definitively ruled out, yet.
And I don’t think the idea that “Delphi is secretly Mayor Queen” as being that likely.
If the roses even actually represent a secret/secrets, they might be the sort of standard garb of fortune tellers; a hint at having secret knowledge.
Although now I am reminded of something else: Despite that Delphi specifically claims the title of astrologer, she has not said a single thing that astrologers usually talk about. No mention of or inquiry as to signs, or natal charts, or horoscopes, or mention of Mercury being in retrograde, or planets being in opposition or conjunction, or comets, or personality, or anything related.
Maybe her real secret is that she knows nothing about astrology.
I know I can be a bit slow, but I’ve only just realised that we can’t see any of their eyes!
Maybe a bit slow, and maybe also not reading the comments for the past six weeks or so worth of strips. It’s been discussed quite a lot.
Guilty as charged, all too often recently I have just read the strip and dashed off, sometimes work just gets in the way of the finer things in life.
Indeed… those pesky bills just demand to be paid.
now that’s MAH kind of physics!
The materials and fuel come from hammerspace, of course!
I like how Mrs. Apis is contributing by using a megaphone at the two people actually assembling the rocket. A true member of the management team.
Not sure if it’s actually significant, but this isn’t the first time we’ve heard a character use “wizard” as slang or exclamation. “Oh, wizard!” was Nera’s reaction to meeting Nick.