So how many versions of Olga/Gola is this now? A little fact, the new costume (with goggles, pleat skirt, gloves, etc) almost debuted with her arrival on the scene back at page 6.93… that was in the original draft. But the more I thought about it the more she needed to go through a few stages of confusion before she could get her footing, we had spent most of the story around her in this chapter dealing with how unsure she was about who she was as a younger person/cadet. That’s why I changed her to Original Gola on that page and stepped through some more complexity to get her into a more stable, self-assured state. And yeah… so now we have Olga and Kaycee as PherNian cephelomaids! You may recall Fatima did a stint as a “human” (along with Gifford and Jenna) back on page 5.134 courtesy of Maya’s mind mojo and now it’s Kaycee’s turn to role play!
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So, at some level, Olga still remembers her old life as Gola?
And Olga is just using this as an excuse to get Kaycee’s shirt off, isn’t she?
Olga remembers her life as Gola up to 1972 (I think that was about 32 or 34 years old, which is how old she is mentally although not physically). As for Kaycee’s shirt… no comment!
I assumed that since Olga was in ‘elderly Gola’ form in panel 1, it might be an indication that she might still have subconscious memories of that part of her life.
aha… well, she still has memory of herself as an elderly person from the six or so months between the events of Bad Karma and Redux which is what she was most likely recalling in this instance.
Great update! The Olga action persona is an unexpected twist. Presumably her “real” self doesn’t even know she exists yet? Or has she already designed her own costume?
Spelling police: recieved should be received. And in 6.96: effected should be affected.
Thanks! Olga is certainly all over the place but seems to be settling down (transmogrification into a PherNian notwithstanding!). I’ll sort out that typo shortly – a few people have told me about effect and I’ve been to busy/lazy to fix it.
Yay Olga!
Also, I see she has the Magellan insignia on her costume, which, IIRC, you only wear if you’re a graduate of the academy. Gola wouldn’t have graduated, but Olga will. Interesting detail to add on the fly!
Also, I don’t quite understand the response “No, which is plain weird.” Can you explain?
It seems to me (as a fellow reader, so I might have this wrong) that what’s “just plain weird” is that a non-telepath is visiting someone else’s mindscape.
It’s not so much weird that Kaycee is a non-telepath – it’s weird that a non-telepath is here, of all places.
That’s right – she’s commenting on the weirdness of Kaycee not being a telepath but still being able to a/ escape her own nightmare and b/ astral project. I’ll see if I can’t make it clearer.
As Olga says “I’ve been badly disoriented…” , losing a huge slice of her memories and being dramatically youth-ed must have had a huge mental effect. Under intense pressure Olga/Gola pulls it together
I liked the bottom left panel were she uses her memories from long ago, showing that she is now mentally whole. I’m not sure how she is going to fit in with the first year students after this, she is now an experienced 32/34 year old who happens to have a teenage body. In the meantime go go go team Kaycee/Olga.
Woah, didn’t see this coming. Very cool development, though!
great page
Go Olga! Time to start using your experience and put it to some applications people can respect. Instead of how those in the know just assume you know everything and give you a pass, which causes problems…
Olga seems somewhat unstable. And her thoughts are leaking, assuming that ’69 reference was unintentionally being broadcast.
The ’69 reference was a thought to herself, I put them in lower case to make it easier to discern it was a ‘quiet thought’… as a telepath that’s something she can do which Kaycee can’t.
I must say I wondered about that. Since there are pure “thought” at the moment hiding your own thought could be tricky. But a trained telepath could have some abilities in that regards.
I must say I was thinking of some recent GPF were the action take place in the mind of a character and he finds out he cannot hide is own thoughts which I thought was logical for the situation.
Yes, I figured that would be a useful trick to keep up her sleeve!
fitting costume choice for olga. to her, it has the comfort of familiarity without being identical to the old costume. to others it looks like a tibute to ‘aunt gola.’ the blue hair on the cephalomaid form looks good. maybe she should consider a dye job in rl. she has a good eye for detail with the custom jewelry. speaking of which, maybe the ‘costume’ she wears in cephalomaid form would make her more popular!
Ha ha! But notice the ever present modest garland