Strip 274 -- First Seen: 2009-10-01
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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
Wide panel. Pan across each of the students describing the music.

Manjula: It was – very faint at first.

Second student: It seemed to grow almost organically out of the background, the wind noise.

Heinrich: After a while, you could not ignore it. It seemed to demand attention.

Fourth student: Sometimes, it wasn't only music. There were also, uh, voices.

Fifth student: But always vague, and ethereal.

Irina: Not all of us heard voices.

Seventh Student: But we did all hear the same music.


Panel 2
Angle shot so we see Reggie in the background left, and Fourth Student and Heinrich (from behind) in the right foreground.
Reggie: Waitaminit. How do you know it was the same music?

Fourth student: Heinrich and I both have musical backgrounds. We each transcribed the music we heard ...

Panel 3
Medium close-up of Reggie, reacting in shock to what the student is saying.
Fourth student: When we compared notes, we saw they were virtually identical.