Strip 33 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-10-29
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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.

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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!

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Strip 33

Panel 1
Looking past B and E at G and F. Guy is looking annoyed.

Guy: You mean to tell me you made this Reginald person King just because he was here first?

Bert: You gotta understand what things were like back then.

Panel 2
Flash-back scene, showing some of the original settlers, in pressure suits, standing around the frozen corpses of their dead comrades, among large chunks of loose ice. Bert and Ernie appear as heads in little inset panels.

Bert: The original settlers really had it rough.

Ernie: Of the first 100, only 35 survived after three Terran years.

Bert: They had to learn how to live in the ice.

Ernie: There were a lot of accidents.

Panel 3
Another flash-back scene – some settlers wearing heavy clothing but not pressure suits, carrying various drilling tools, in a panic as the top of the ice cavern they’re in collapses on them. We see Guy and Bert and Ernie in little inset panels.

Guy: How dangerous can ice be? It’s frozen water. And you have almost no gravity here.

Bert (from out of panel): And no air pressure or heat, but what we can create.

Ernie (from out of panel): The ice has uneven density -- it leaks here, collapses there.