Ready for the world 2013-08-02

[Julie]

What I found interesting was the only one wearing shoes was the thorny girl, Atsali and Katherine are both barefoot.

Maybe she needs them...orthopedic slippers or something...

[DinkyInky]

Whereas mine is a Paladin with a Tree Elf mother and a Sorcerer father . Sure gits confuzalating at times..but I think that's true for all mixed breeds.

It's an EverQuest Comic board, so my toons were such, and folks liked the random comment so much I made it into a quote sig.

Wood Elf and Wizard parents for a Paladin? Neat. Which Game/edition?

[bmonk]

Oh yes, and it's going to be interesting to see how Lily fits into this family. She is 1/6th Kath's mother, after all. This is going to be a family tree to make genealogists scream in terror!

They're all cowering in the corner already. Shelly's to blame.

"Human, half Anglo and half Comanche, with some recombined ancient sphinx genes from the Neolithic era" was hard enough for them to swallow, but at least the weird ancestry was from long-ago.

Then, it turned out that she's a Nouveau Strange stewpot: 1/4 human, 1/4 sphinx, and 1/2 Mighty Morphing pseudo-Comanche Titan! They went into shock. Called off the annual convention entirely, as I recall, since too many of the presenters had to retract their papers at the last minute.

And now they have worse to consider. Shelly's now an item wirh Justin/Epimetheus. If they have kids... well, both the genealogists and the geneticists are likely to be begging Brandi to open an exit in the World Grid so they can emigrate to a less confusing dimension.

If they would only come to the Confusion Couch, or another suitable Escherian dimension, they could find paper suitable for drawing the full family tree....

[kingklash]

What I found interesting was the only one wearing shoes was the thorny girl, Atsali and Katherine are both barefoot.

Maybe she needs them...orthopedic slippers or something...

Shoes probably keep her from rooting into the ground unintentionally.

[bmonk]

What I found interesting was the only one wearing shoes was the thorny girl, Atsali and Katherine are both barefoot.

Maybe she needs them...orthopedic slippers or something...

Shoes probably keep her from rooting into the ground unintentionally.

Does that mean that the thorny girl is likely to be good at higher math calculations? I mean, she can do several roots almost without thinking.
Admittedly, they are not exactly square roots.

[NOTDilbert]

She can probably solve all kinds of thorny problems.

[ActionKermit]

They're all cowering in the corner already. Shelly's to blame.

"Human, half Anglo and half Comanche, with some recombined ancient sphinx genes from the Neolithic era" was hard enough for them to swallow, but at least the weird ancestry was from long-ago.

Then, it turned out that she's a Nouveau Strange stewpot: 1/4 human, 1/4 sphinx, and 1/2 Mighty Morphing pseudo-Comanche Titan! They went into shock. Called off the annual convention entirely, as I recall, since too many of the presenters had to retract their papers at the last minute.

Didn't Bia say that the 1/4th human part of Shelly was removed? The impression I got was that anything human about Shelly died of severe radiation poisoning as a result of handling the plutonium sample that was contained in the tree. The sphinx part of her wasn't killed because it couldn't be harmed in the forest, and the radiation probably just flowed off of her Titan side like water off a duck's feathers. If I'm right about that, it'd make Shelly 1/3rd sphinx and 2/3rds titan, which is plenty confusing enough enough for the poor genealogists who aren't used to working with fractions that aren't powers of two.

[shadowinthelight]

Didn't Bia say that the 1/4th human part of Shelly was removed? The impression I got was that anything human about Shelly died of severe radiation poisoning as a result of handling the plutonium sample that was contained in the tree. The sphinx part of her wasn't killed because it couldn't be harmed in the forest, and the radiation probably just flowed off of her Titan side like water off a duck's feathers. If I'm right about that, it'd make Shelly 1/3rd sphinx and 2/3rds titan, which is plenty confusing enough enough for the poor genealogists who aren't used to working with fractions that aren't powers of two.

I would't trust what Bia said then (or ever) as at that point she was still lying to Shelly about supposedly being an ancestor a few generations removed instead of her mother.

[scantrontb]

I'm thinking that Bia meant that as more of a figurative meaning, rather than a literal meaning... she was there for 80K+ years, any feeble "human" aspects of her mind would have been psychologically erased after only a few thousand years, leaving just the "Sphinx/Titan" side of them left, remember how Phix said that she was teaching her how to "play nice" again, I think that's part of Shelly's re-integration to mortal society... RE-learning those "mortal" attitudes she had before she went into the Time Forest...

as for this weeks strips, huh, I foresee them doing some "innocent" rough housing (like M's hit to the jaw on Shelly) that will escalate into another mirror-shattering incident like Jin had at Club Cerberus... only this time there will be a LOT more mundane witnesses than there were before... speaking about that, I'm not sure if it has ever been said in-canon, but is Club Cerberus a "supernatural-only" club? or can anybody get in, mundanes and supe's alike? for some reason I have in my mind that CB is a supe's only place and THAT'S why there wasn't much fuss over them poiting in all the time, nor for the damages from the mirror incident... but if they do that kind of thing there at the restaurant, that'll be unacceptably over-the=top, and MIB will have to get called in big-time... much hilarity will ensue...

[Fairportfan]

I would't trust what Bia said then (or ever) as at that point she was still lying to Shelly about supposedly being an ancestor a few generations removed instead of her mother.

Actually, i'd be willing to bet that she was telling the truth - just not all of the truth - i.e., she is Shelly's great-...-great-grandmother.

And her mother.

[jwhouk]

When you live as long as you do, sometimes you like your offspring's grandchildren a bit too much.

[Opus the Poet]

EEwww!

[Fairportfan]

When you live as long as you do, sometimes you like your offspring's grandchildren a bit too much.

The number of "greats" indicated by that ellipsis is sufficient that Shelly is about equally as much related to Charlemagne, Great-great-...-great-Uncle Vlad or Ethelred the Unready as she is to Bia through that line.

[MerchManDan]

she is Shelly's great-...-great-grandmother.

And her mother.

"She's my mother!" *SLAP*
"She's my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother!" *SLAP*
"My mother!" *SLAP*
"My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother!" *SLAP*
"Mother!" *SLAP*
"Great-great-gr--" *SLAPSLAPSLAP*

[Fairportfan]

she is Shelly's great-...-great-grandmother.

And her mother.

"She's my mother!" *SLAP*
"She's my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother!" *SLAP*
"My mother!" *SLAP*
"My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother!" *SLAP*
"Mother!" *SLAP*
"Great-great-gr--" *SLAPSLAPSLAP*

"It's Piraeus, Iacobus."

[My2Cents]

When you live as long as you do, sometimes you like your offspring's grandchildren a bit too much.

The number of "greats" indicated by that ellipsis is sufficient that Shelly is about equally as much related to Charlemagne, Great-great-...-great-Uncle Vlad or Ethelred the Unready as she is to Bia through that line.

Those statistics assume both sides of the family are human. Shelly is only ¼ human, so add 2 more greats.

Kathryn on the other hand probably needs 500 or so greats on her grand-sons/daughters to reach any of them.