PaRARGdox 208
Looking for Olga: She’s gotta be somewhere… right? Fatima’s underwater, one-way telepathy is one thing, but Kaycee is shooting for something different here…
Updates… I don’t know how many times I tell myself (and you) that I won’t leave you hanging. And then I do. Yep, I suck. Apologies, as always, and thank you for sticking by while I sort my shit out. On the positive front, I have several pages buffered now. AND I have been working on the final few pages of Families (I know, where’s the real Grace and what have I done with her)… more on when that will restart shortly.
Patrons: Page 7.213 is now up on Patreon… 7.214 published soon…
Next update: October 8, 2023: Touching base…
These telepathy calls- always coming when you’re in the shower or fighting for your life against alien hordes!
And 90% of the time, it’s telemarketers!😡
*new layer of meaning to that word*
One of the PC psychics in an old Villains & Vigilantes game I played in set up a mental partition with a limited sub-intelligence whose sole purpose was to intercept, process, prioritize and if needed, record any “incoming calls” so their mainbrain consciousness didn’t have to deal with all of them. I believe he got the idea from one of Foglio’s What’s New strips in Dragon Magazine where some wizard was constantly being bothered by dream sendings while sleeping so he set up a magical answering machine.
“I’m sorry, Intellecto the Megabrain is currently out of his mind. Please leave a telepathic message with callback ideation when you think of a polka-dot manatee and he’ll get back to you.”
I REMember that one. “This is the Wizard of the White Sea. I’m in REM sleep right now.” Or something pretty close to that.
A hilarious concept! Bonus points for mentioning Dragon magazine and “What’s New”; that really takes me back…
“I’m sorry, Intellecto the Megabrain is currently out of his mind. Please leave a telepathic message with callback ideation when you think of a polka-dot manatee and he’ll get back to you.”
Heh, that’s pretty good. I remember seeing one at work some years ago:
“I have gone out to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here until I return.”
lol
Oddly enough Beh and Jones have had the mental experience of cephalomaid communication patterns during Lock(e)down, in addition to many telepathic communication scenes shared.
I wonder if using that imprint pattern makes Jones stand out more though the telepathic chatter to Beh, even though not underwater. Like someone in a crowded room starts singing in a unusual mental pitch. Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carrie comes to mind.
Downside potential imagine Audio parallel ead to a situation similar to the singing egg in the bath from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when heard screeching in the Common room. That might still draw the desired attention, if annoying.
How this interplays with the Rarg Telepathy is another layer issue. How much detail do they share telepathically and how much is intercepted? I believe Jones is likely cautious about what is telepathically projected. Jones has mental discipline and paid attention classes related to Rarg.
Ah, the telepathic equivalent of sending up a flare. Hope it works out for you. If not, there’s always yelling REAL LOUD!!
Grace – you don’t suck! Life sucks. We have been with Magellan this long and have been through dry spells before, but you always pop back to us as soon as you can. I would prefer to have a happy, healthy Grace while waiting for Magellan than having a Magellan every week with a miserable Grace that is killing herself over it. I came for the story, stayed for the fam. 🙂
You have been giving out free ice cream. Then, for a while and without explanation, you stopped giving out free ice cream. Now, you have started giving out free ice cream again.
As a recipient of this free ice cream, why would I complain? What sort of ungrateful blankity-blank so-and-so would I have to be to complain about it?
Obviously, the “ice cream” is not literal, but I find that stating it that way helps people (including the author) be less horrible to the author, and sometimes even grateful (as they should be to the person giving out free stuff). Thanks for sharing with us.
I like ice cream… Just sayin’🍨😋
“Gola Beh cannot come to the psychic swichboard at this time…please leave a message and the sound of the tone…”
We all forget to change our answering machine greetings…
My mother died last year. The voice mail greeting is still one my mother recorded about 10 years ago. The first time I called Dad after her memorial freaked me out a bit when I heard her voice again.
Xmung, this comic is on the list of Irregularly-Updating Comics That I Love And Will Check Daily Anyways. That’s a VERY good place to be, let’s be clear.
I seem to remember Kaycee had her brain rewired by the space pickle to make her resistant/immune to mental attacks. I wonder if that makes her a worse transmitter or a better one?
I dunno. I’ve tried to “think loudly” but it doesn’t seem any different from my ordinary thinking.
Yay, July 30 has arrived!
Thanks a lot, have my votes now.