Strip 497 -- First Seen: 2010-08-03
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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
Tall panel. Bert is kneeling in the top center of the inverted Mass Driver, ready to catch a large rock (about 25 cm in diameter, with one flat side) being tossed at him (remember, very low gravity, so if you show an arc, it should be a really flat one) by Ernie.
Caption: The Brothers formed a two-man 'bucket brigade' to load rocks into the hoppers.
 
Panel 2
Medium shot of Bert, slightly elevated, as he carefully places the rock he just caught into one of the three hoppers welded to the inverted top side of the Mass Driver (refer to the sketch). There would be several smaller rocks already in that hopper, and if we see the other two hoppers, they are also partially filled with rocks of roughly the same size. (The rocks will be varying sizes, starting at about soft-ball sized, with the smallest rocks on the bottom and getting progressively larger as the hoppers fill up.)
 
Bert: More rocks, Ernie, more rocks!
 
Panel 3
Medium shot of Ernie, on the surface, picking up another good-sized rock.
Ernie: Aye Captain, I'm giving it all I can.
Ernie: I canna change the laws o' physics!