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Good grief! She found the USAF survival manual, not Masters&Johnson, the Idiots Guide to Sex or How to Make Atomic Devices. Katherine worked on helicopters. She also managed to get a degree in Archaeology with a specialty in textiles. She has been a recluse up until her recent acquisition of family. She collects and studies Arachnida. So, what kind of books does our Ms. Gilchrist have in her library?

cmdrpowers wrote:Good grief! She found the USAF survival manual, not Masters&Johnson, the Idiots Guide to Sex or How to Make Atomic Devices. Katherine worked on helicopters. She also managed to get a degree in Archaeology with a specialty in textiles. She has been a recluse up until her recent acquisition of family. She collects and studies Arachnida. So, what kind of books does our Ms. Gilchrist have in her library?

Do we know she DOESN'T have Masters and Johnson - and maybe other things, like the Hite Report - in there? Given her archaeology background, let's hope she doesn't have something like "The Beginner's Guide to the Necronomicon".

I would assume there are plenty of books with pictures. That might be what she expected Pickle to go to. But children... children...

(I wonder what Castela eats? Besides ice cream and doughnuts, which are universal (and essential) kid foods. Is she a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, or does she eat dirt?)

I suspect she's an omnivore.

The Air Force has a manual for everything.

The book she may be pulling out may be the S&R Survival Training Manual.

That... could be interesting.

It all looks like quality reading material. If she was going to a regular school, those kinds of books would put her years ahead of her class mates, but a school for paranormals should have a contingency plan for that. It's probably in the teacher's manual right between how to handle kids who belch fire and fart demons.

Two Things;

I just spent an unexpected/unscheduled overnight in Santa Rosa, CA. (yes, I could have purchased a room for the night, but I choose not too; partly due to the observational fun I was having with the local fauna...)

"Why the heck would bein' there be relevant?" you ask?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ros ... ble_people

Lets see who finds the connection...

Nearly all of my reading material when I was a kid I obtained from either wrecked vehicles or by stripping bodies. So I had a selection of subjects that tended towards equal parts things like "How To Service Your Tank's Engine" or "Top Twenty Naked Girls From This Past Year's Editions!!!". I was so confused when I eventually got my hands on a copy of The Hobbit and initially assumed that it was another nonfiction guide.

eee wrote:(I wonder what Castela eats? Besides ice cream and doughnuts, which are universal (and essential) kid foods. Is she a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, or does she eat dirt?)

Milk, cake, carrot sticks, and turkey are all on her menu. So she seems to have human-type abilities when it comes to nourishment.

The more interesting question to me is how does she go about getting nourishment from what she eats.

Catawampus wrote:The more interesting question to me is how does she go about getting nourishment from what she eats.

And what happens to its remains, should she go all briar patch before it's all digested...

I was wondering if she might not have been a pilot. Flying a chopper is not as easy as a fixed wing aircraft so her knowledge of how to do it along with the selection of books makes me think she may have been a search and rescue or medivac pilot.

Well, two things; Kath did instruct Atsali on non-fixed wing operation, 'member?

Oh and, who wrote the book Castela just finished reading?

Drakkenmensch wrote:So where do you think she's going to settle? There's so many age-inappropriate books a precocious child with the potty mouth of a salty sailor can settle on!

“Dis-disc Wor-worl- world"

Either that or she's going to learn about guns and other military machines. Kath strikes me as the type to keep the risque stuff in her own bedroom too make sure Pickle can't chance upon it. Granted, that wouldn't matter much when she came across Nanny Ogg.

lake_wrangler wrote:

Catawampus wrote:The more interesting question to me is how does she go about getting nourishment from what she eats.

And what happens to its remains, should she go all briar patch before it's all digested...

That might have been the Whatsit version of toilet-training.

(The Whatsit version of teething was even worse. . .)

Septuagenarian wrote:I was wondering if she might not have been a pilot. Flying a chopper is not as easy as a fixed wing aircraft so her knowledge of how to do it along with the selection of books makes me think she may have been a search and rescue or medivac pilot.

I recall that there was a picture of her all covered in grease and wearing camouflage trousers, apparently performing maintenance on some type of aircraft. While any good pilot ought to be able to perform at least basic repairs and maintenance on their aircraft when needed, I think that it is usually left to the ground crew in the normal course of events. I'm not exactly expert on USAF procedures, however.

Kath was a mechanic...
And let's not forget that the little stink-weed has a fondness for brownies, too.

TazManiac wrote:Two Things;

I just spent an unexpected/unscheduled overnight in Santa Rosa, CA. (yes, I could have purchased a room for the night, but I choose not too; partly due to the observational fun I was having with the local fauna...)

"Why the heck would bein' there be relevant?" you ask?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ros ... ble_people

Lets see who finds the connection...

You think Luther Burbank had something to do with Pickle's creation? He would be high on the list of mundanes who might have played around with that sort of plant crossbreeding, but the timing seems a bit off?

*Zing!* Dave, wrong, (on purpose), Strikes Again!

As for Castela; she must have some sort of nutrient absorption process, but keep in mind she's not 100% plant, she's a plant/animal Hybrid...

Jabberwonky wrote:Kath was a mechanic...

She may or may not be a licensed/qualified chopper pilot, too.

She was able to describe PRECISELY how to fire up the slick, take off, hover or maneuver, and work the ordnance...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:Kath was a mechanic...

She may or may not be a licensed/qualified chopper pilot, too.

She was able to describe PRECISELY how to fire up the slick, take off, hover or maneuver, and work the ordnance...

I'm not going to paint with too broad a brush, but I can see a mechanic knowing how to describe the workings of flying better than I can see the pilot getting greasy working on the guts of the engines...
At least not in my experience on the military bases I was on...

Might it be possible she was a Pararescueman (PJ)?

Jabberwonky wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:Kath was a mechanic...

She may or may not be a licensed/qualified chopper pilot, too.

She was able to describe PRECISELY how to fire up the slick, take off, hover or maneuver, and work the ordnance...

I'm not going to paint with too broad a brush, but I can see a mechanic knowing how to describe the workings of flying better than I can see the pilot getting greasy working on the guts of the engines...

At least not in my experience on the military bases I was on...

I was saying that, in addition to being a tech/mech, she may have a license of her own, obtained on her own, not as part of her duties..

JSStryker wrote:Might it be possible she was a Pararescueman (PJ)?

That would explain SOO many things!

Jabberwonky wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:Kath was a mechanic...

She may or may not be a licensed/qualified chopper pilot, too.

She was able to describe PRECISELY how to fire up the slick, take off, hover or maneuver, and work the ordnance...

I'm not going to paint with too broad a brush, but I can see a mechanic knowing how to describe the workings of flying better than I can see the pilot getting greasy working on the guts of the engines...
At least not in my experience on the military bases I was on...

my thoughts exactly... to be able to trouble-shoot the symptoms/ problems reported, one needs to know the PROPER operation first, THEN you can figure out "what if?" scenarios over broken parts/ misalignment's/ etc... and how that will cause symptom XYZ that is reported by the pilot/aircrew...