Figure It Out 2014-09-25

Hanineal · Post by **Hanineal** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:23 am

Shelly definitely knows what to say to light a fire under Monica's ass!

Post by **Dave** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:33 am

I don't think we have ever seen Phix do a facepalm before...

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Opus the Poet · Post by **Opus the Poet** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:35 am

I was wondering which one that was, Shelly or her Mom. And I am ashamed it took me more than one reading to figure out who was being referred to in the last sentence, strictly because we are dealing with a fae as a character in this story...

themadkansan · Post by **themadkansan** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:54 am

...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND Shel demonstrates that she's =still= got all the tact of a thrown brick...

~>:L

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:58 am

themadkansan wrote:...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND Shel demonstrates that she's =still= got all the tact of a thrown brick...

~>:L

Nah.

She's been taking Nudge Lessons.

shadowinthelight · Post by **shadowinthelight** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:11 am

But is she running on all fours again?

themadkansan · Post by **themadkansan** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:20 am

AnotherFairportfan wrote:
themadkansan wrote:...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND Shel demonstrates that she's =still= got all the tact of a thrown brick...

~>:L
Nah.

She's been taking Nudge Lessons.

Pft. She doesn't =need= lessons in being a bull in a china shop. ~:P

DilyV · Post by **DilyV** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:30 am

If I remember correctly, isn't Shelly arachnophobic?

oldmanmickey · Post by **oldmanmickey** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:32 am

The living embodiment of "with friends like her you don't need enemies."

My2Cents · Post by **My2Cents** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:39 am

Shelly sure made it sound like Calista had 'kicked the dog' and 'taken a high dive'. Wonder if Monica is going to:

Race to the bottom to save Calista, then find out she stopped 117.
Poit! Calista into her hand and demand to know what she did to her dog.
Chase Calista to level 117. Somehow I suspect Monica will not arrive out of breath, her exercize issues are only in her head now.
any more ideas ... ?

Tomorrow is the Friday cliffhanger.

MerchManDan · Post by **MerchManDan** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:04 am

Shelly Wahnee: THE name to trust for when you need to say exactly the wrong thing without knowing it.

oldmanmickey · Post by **oldmanmickey** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:44 am

My2Cents wrote:Shelly sure made it sound like Calista had 'kicked the dog' and 'taken a high dive'. Wonder if Monica is going to:

Race to the bottom to save Calista, then find out she stopped 117.

Poit! Calista into her hand and demand to know what she did to her dog.

Chase Calista to level 117. Somehow I suspect Monica will not arrive out of breath, her exercize issues are only in her head now.

any more ideas ... ?
Tomorrow is the Friday cliffhanger.

she runs past them in the starwell, notices the happy expression of the face of Dieztel and does a wtf moment.

Elvis · Post by **Elvis** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 4:23 am

One Phix Facepalm equals

KnightDelight · Post by **KnightDelight** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 4:59 am

I haven't read all the comments for the past few days so I don't know if anyone's said this yet, but ... Monica has a dog in this fight now. It had to be done. I suppose Phix can query the Library system to find out where Calista & Co. are going, allowing Monica take the more conventional, and quicker, transport system to that location.

Count on Shelly when foot absolutely positively must meet mouth. Still, someone had to tell Monica about it since it involved Dietzel.

EDIT: Oh, I get it now. I thought Shelly was talking about Calista in the last frame. It's Monica. So then, how will she know where Calista went? Course I'm also wondering how she will go down that many stories on the spider silk in the first place. It can't be THAT long.

It aint easy being Phix. Holding it all together like she does. Especially when she's surrounded by newbie demi-gods and blabby relatives blurting ill-considered narratives. Then there's Nudge. It's a wonder she doesn't just sock the daylights out of the next being she comes across ... oh wait ...

zachariah · Post by **zachariah** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:02 am

The last part of Shelly's comment can be confusing as Cricket is a Fae, which are considered elf's. We do forget that Shelly has consistently refereed to to Monica as an Elf. The Pixie with the rack. So Monica heard Shelly and took off to SAVE Cricket assuming a possible suicide attempt. Thus completely missing the spider and web swinging information.

Good Job Shellly!!!! Someone always should be ready to add to the confusion and insanity going on at the worst possible moment. We now know one of her major roles in the Wapsiverse.

Grantwhy · Post by **Grantwhy** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:24 am

Dave wrote:I don't think we have ever seen Phix do a facepalm before...

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retractable or not, when your 'fingers' have claws capable of ripping off someone's face, doing a facepalm is not recommended

ActionKermit · Post by **ActionKermit** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:15 am

Anyone want to take bets on what's going to happen when our favorite pocket elf goes barreling over the atrium ledge and breaks the strand of spider silk that Cricket is hanging on?

Post by **Dave** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:57 am

DilyV wrote:If I remember correctly, isn't Shelly arachnophobic?

You do remember correctly. It may apply only nearby spiders, though... those close enough to crawl on her.

KnightDelight wrote:I haven't read all the comments for the past few days so I don't know if anyone's said this yet, but ... Monica has a dog in this fight now. It had to be done.

Yup. The honor of the Forum must be maintained.

It probably also calls for at least a small offering to the Pun Jar.

So then, how will she know where Calista went?

We've seen that Monica's nose can shift to a distinctly cat-like configuration when she goes through a full Jaguar Girl transformation (e.g. when she resurrected in the Library after Phix ripped her face off). Possibly, in Jaguar Girl form, she also acquires a hunting cat's sense of smell, and other tracking abilities? If so, then the familiar scent trace of pizza-infused dog would probably be all she needs.

ActionKermit wrote:Anyone want to take bets on what's going to happen when our favorite pocket elf goes barreling over the atrium ledge and breaks the strand of spider silk that Cricket is hanging on?

I have no idea whether jumping spiders such as Squee appears to be, are capable of ballooning.

Can Fae fly at all? We know that Cricket can leap like a grasshopper, and land safely, but leaping requires something to leap from/against, and there may be limits to how far she can fall (and how much weight she cn be carrying) and still absorb the landing-shock safely. Ending up with a payload of mashed dog al blut would not be good.

illiad · Post by **illiad** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:25 am

do remember spider silk is very strong, and in the library, even more so...

...so set your bracing for tomorrows cliff hanger...

ActionKermit · Post by **ActionKermit** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:32 am

Scariness factor aside, I'm not too worried about what will happen to Calista if she goes into freefall. If we assume she has a loaded mass approximately equal to a guinea pig (0.73 kg/1.6 lbs), her terminal velocity under 1G of acceleration in an atmosphere similar to Earth's is only (37 kph/23 miles per hour). By contrast, a human of average mass has a terminal velocity of (201.6kph/125.3 miles per hour), which means that M will probably instinctively overestimate the seriousness of Cricket's danger if she falls from an arbitrary height. The rule of thumb is that if you throw various animals down a mineshaft, an insect will bounce, a cat will break a few legs, a human will die, and a cow will splash. Given that Fae are paranormally resilient by all accounts, and that Dietzel and Squee are both bug-sized at the moment, they'd probably all walk away from a hard landing none the worse for wear (which may explain why Calista doesn't look afraid at the prospect of descending 200 stories by sliding down a piece of spider silk). Monica might actually end up doing more damage by trying to save them than if she just let them drop.

If Paul happens to read this (and finds this sort of math amusing), do you have any input as to Calista's mass? It looks like she interacts normally with the world when she glamors herself to human size, so I can't tell if she changes mass when she changes size.

Some of the funner sources I dug up while doing these calculations:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questi ... l-velocity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_righting_reflex
https://what-if.xkcd.com/62/
http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/10/08/a-re ... th-helium/
http://www.academia.edu/5999711/How_the ... perception
http://www.cognitionandculture.net/home ... k-the-kids

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