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Strip 697 -- First Seen: 2011-05-06
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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
Re-establish the scene of Chang visiting Ed in Ed's recovery room.
Ed: Anarchy is not paradise. Just as in any society, there are bad people who do bad things.
Ed: The only advantage here is that these things are relatively rare. 'Evolution in Action.'
Panel 2
Begin flash-back sequence, we see Vinnie and Neil talking to the former owner of the Hôtel de Crillon, who happens to look a lot like this fellow: http://www.scottbieser.com/showntell/MeFromCamera1-28.JPG
Caption (Ed): 'Some of my friends tracked down the former owner of the Hôtel de Crillon, and asked him if he knew any secret ways into the hotel.
Caption: 'He said there were, and when he heard about Kate, offered to lead a rescue team.'
Panel 3
The Former Owner is standing next to a four-stack of monitors, on which we can see various parts of the hotel – a hallway, the cafe kitchen, a business office, a guest room (currently empty).
Caption (Ed): 'Then he dropped the bombshell. When hotel supplies began disappearing, he had tanglenet cameras installed.'
Caption: 'Turns out the cameras weren't just to stop theft; our boy is a voyeur.'
Panel 4
Looking past the backside of the monitors, at Vinnie, Neil, Former Owner and two other fairly muscular Belters, who are looking at the monitors with wide eyes.
Caption (Ed): 'We found Kate and your 'Special Services Operatives' in a storage room, just meters from the room where the secret entrance came out.
Caption: 'Chang, the rescue team … saw things.'
Panel 5
Pull in closer on the four rescuers. They are looking at the monitors with mixtures of shock, horror, and revulsion.
Caption (Ed): 'Just for their sick amusement, those animals were humiliating and terrorizing Kate.
Caption: 'They had her stripped naked and tied to the storage shelves. They did things ...'
Panel 6
Back to the present. Ed is finishing his somber story. Chang is looking not at Ed, but off into the distance, with a cold fear in his eyes.
Ed: Chang, my men are only human.
Panel 7
Chang is now looking at Ed with a blank expression.
Chang: So what you are telling me is that four of my soldiers went AWOL.
Chang: I guess they could be anywhere by now …
Ed: Yeah.
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