Strip 75 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-12-26
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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!

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Strip 75

Panel 1
Wide panel showing for the first time the exterior of Section 12-327. It looks fairly intact, but Section 326 to the left is seriously warped with several ruptures, Section 325 farther to the left is an almost unrecognizable mass of metal. The connection to Section 328 on the right is also askew. The Sections stretch across the surface of a huge iron boulder. Leave room for the EFT logo etc.

Caption: Guy, Fiorella and Lorna are trapped in a sealed-off Corridor Section. The temperature inside is dropping rapidly, and their prospects for rescue are unknown.

Panel 2
Inside the Section, we see the three of them cocooned together inside the thermal blanket, gently resting against the “floor” of the Corridor, in the micro-gravity.

Guy: I must say, I’m feeling rather toasty now. What’s the room temperature?

Panel 3
Close-up of the 3 of them inside the blanket. Lorna has her PDA up near her face, looking at the small holo-display.

Lorna: Minus 27. This blanket is rated to minus 100.

Lorna (2): With the 3 of us in here we can probably do okay down to minus 120 or so.

Panel 4
Same shot. Guy and Fiorella are speaking as Lorna looks on.

Guy: Penny for your thoughts?

Fiorella: All I can think about is our chief sitting on her fat ass in her comfy chair in her comfy office, licking her chops over the bounty she expects us to bring in.


Panel 5
Same shot. Guy is scandalized.

Guy: Fiorella --!

Fiorella: Does our fat chief – or her even fatter superiors – ever risk their necks, or the fortunes they have stashed in their secret UAE accounts, wresting wealth out of cold, unforgiving rock and vacuum the way these Outies do?


Panel 6
Guy is even more scandalized. Now Fiorella is looking apologetically at Lorna, who is looking amused.

Guy: Fiorella!!

Fiorella: Sorry, that slipped out. No offense intended.

Lorna: It’s okay, honey.

Panel 7
Now we’re back outside, looking at the stricken Section 12-327. Leave space above and below it for the word balloons.


Lorna (from inside section): Cheer up kids, my buddies and I have been in worse situations than this.

Fiorella: You have?

Lorna: Oh yeah.... Unfortunately, none of us survived!

Guy: *Chortle*

Fiorella: *Giggle*