Well, this is a little something for your patience the past few weeks – I’m uploading this page early. It was a minimalistic page, anyway. I also happen to be visiting my family for the holiday, and I’m STILL sick, so I’m going to be brief and just let things be as they are. It’s been a weird and surreal couple of days, but, well… I continue to live in hope.
Happy Easter, everybody.
Is he waking up (or whatever)? Talk about trippy…
😀
He hasn’t even encountered The Monolith, yet, and… I… I’ve said too much. 😉
but did you set it up?
Nice shading effect. Hope you get better…
Is that you DaCosta? Zaballa? Santelli? Capt. (or is it Stabsfeldwebel) Hoffman?
Have to check back next week, I guess!
Muwahahahah!
Seriously though, are there two Hoffmans? Or was that a mistake back on Ch. 4?
If this has you going through files, I’m really sorry!
I made this commont on the other page, not realizing that todays was up early. You might might want to add a “location: 1977” box back on the chinhook’s flying page to give some reference of how far back in alternalte history the flashback is. Its something Mike would have gleaned from the memory dump once he found out where they were so adding it to that page is another option.
Hope you feel better. a bunch of people at our office got nailed with the second version of a bug over the last week. We get viral imports from all over with several people traveling all of the time.
Yeah, it’s clearing up, but man, everyone seems to be getting a secondary version of it now. Stupid dust. They should have known better.
Hey Mathieu, I tried to email you before, but never got a reply so I figured I’d try my luck here. I am putting together an ad for Stymie, and hope you wouldn’t mind if I quoted you in it. I just wanted to get your approval before I do so. it’s from when I guest page’d, and you said (paraphrasing) Stymie was from your point of view, “one of the most sophisticated dramas in the world of webcomics”.
Anyways, I do hope you get better. Seems illness keeps taking a liking to you, but fight it off as best you can! Best of luck and thank you for your time.
Oh, good heavens, I’m sorry I missed this. Of course you’re welcome to quote me – I meant what I said, of course!
Excellent! I just tend to err on the side of caution. Thanks!
Well, at least the Matrix like illusion that he was caught up in ended. That’s a big relief. Now the questions are- Was M1ke trying to teach him a lesson? Or was it just an arbitrarily retrieved memory? Or, was M1ke’s state of mind what triggered him to recall that because it was a similar emotional experience to what M1ke felt when retrieving Sarah?
I don’t think the matrix thing is over at all.
I think the setting here is the big white empty background that the matrix looks like when there’s no program running. I guess the correct term would be the Loading Buffer.
Haulley’s shock reactions were probably enough to terminate the memory-flashback program. An expert system that understood human physiology would almost have to include that kind of fail safe, unless its intent was Hostile.
So the soldier and the AI are still immersed in their little pocket universe, but the connection has been weakened by stress, to the point where auditory nerve signals are just barely eeking through to Haulley’s consciousness.
That’s my best set of guesses.
The presence of a directional light source, and to a lesser extent, the random debris swirling around, are the only things that give me pause.
I could be completely wrong, though.
But what do the chicken feathers mean? :- D :- D
A bit late to add comments but… I just noticed for litterally the very first time that Haulley is wearing a ring… Is he MARRIED?
Well, Haulley’s attitude makes sense to me now. My old man got that treatment in Nam, and he forever hated all SEAs afterwards. It took years of drug-induced reprogramming at the VA before he was at all a coherent, stable human again. Haulley needs a good round of ecstasy-infused CBT.
A change of flag on M1ke’s arm? In the flashback, the constellation in the canton was circular – explained as a 51-star battle standard, if memory serves. On this page, it’s rectangular, like the 50-star flag in our world. I can’t tell at this resolution how many stars there are on it; there’s a ‘stable’ staggered-rows pattern for 50, as used in our world, but also for 51 or even 52.