Gaia in German/auf Deutsch | 
Sandra and Woo (our comedy comic)
|
|
|
We’re looking for Gaia guest art! Read this news post for more details!
- Caption: The next day
- Eike: This guy here…
- Ilias: Ilias.
- Eike: … says he’s got news for Viviana.
- Korahan: Not now. She’s busy.
- Ilias: Are you sure? She’s just sitting there.
- Caption: Jailbreak
- Korahan: You have no idea…
|
|
Gaia by Oliver Knörzer is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. See the About page for details.
8888 | Report offensive ads | Privacy Policy | Impressum | © 2004 – 2013 Oliver Knörzer
Flowcharts!
It looks as though she’s already ruled some options out (bribing the guards, winged boots (sorry Mercury!) and the rather shocking experience top centre)…
This is exactly how my daydreams go, only with less bribing and more explosions.
This must be what the mind of a genius looks like. If (s)he was a thief, that is.
Eat your heart out, Michael Scofield.
Viviana don’t need no tattoo, she does it all it her head.
Ah! So in the vein of Tesla, Viviana also does all her workings in her head, thus ensuring her ideas may not be stolen and when she dies they may no longer be used.
Though with magic, one wonders if that would still work…
Generally if you want to plan for everything, you make sure everything happens.
I never really liked flowcharts. They just always end up with too many twists and turns to follow when you really need to act. That’s just my own bias, however.
It does look like Viviana is doing some hefty planning… I guess it works for her!
Meanwhile, what Ilias wanted to tell her is “The key is under guard by a single saber toothed squirrel. Don’t laugh yet… that thing took out 12 men in a minute flat. They call her ‘Ye Thuza’.” *Or some similar plan shattering news*
Narrator: After days of planning and some key information fro Ilias, Viviana developed a full-proof plan for the ages. One never equaled in detail, depth or cunning. However, a slight communication breakdown with her cohorts resulted in something that looked more like Rube Goldberg meets The A Team.
;^)
And my parents wonder why I love video games and fanfiction so much. To them, I’m doing nothing. To me, I’m doing what she’s doing. XD
BlueDragon_Z wrote:
You misspelled “fool-proof”.
Looks like your spell-checker needs some fool-proofing as well. XD
I am now 98% sure Viviana is my lost cousin!
I think this is my favorite comic out of the series. Viviana’s face in the last panel is priceless x)
If someone were to make the last panel into a standalone poster, I would buy it!
@ illeatyourself:
Problem is when fool-proof plan clashed not with fools, but with idiots and morons
I find myself wishing that I could zoom in to read all the writing on that blueprint, but I can see it well enough to tell that it’s incomprehensible
Okay, I wasn’t so sure before, but now I’m convinced that this whole jailbreak thing might just be a big deal.
Good luck, guys!
Why does Vivi always seem to be blushing. Does she have Rosacea?
This is an excellent example of what happens in my mind pretty frequently.
You have no idea how often I think of blueprints.
@ Bucc_i:
That is not a blush. That is her being angry (My guess would be that she is angry at the fact that the plan is not quite falling into place. Each one of those X’s is contributing to the face.)
in then somebody distracts her and she loses her train of thought
Viviana is SO DAMN CUTE when she’s thinking!
I guess Ilias was given the walk of the place? Welcome to the shadowdancers, guy? Now that you know us and how to get to our secret lair you’re either part of the family or a “liability”, so which is it going to be?
This level of planning requires the services of one Dot Matrix.
This planning-thing doesn’t seem to be working out too well right now…
a long time ago i saw a cartoon: one guy has drawn a rediculously flowchart on a blackboard, and on the far right it says,” ->[then a miracle occurs]->[done].” second guy points at the “miracle” box and says, “i think we need more detail there.”
1. Viviana’s face in the last pael is made of giant piles of WIN.
2. Related to yesterday’s comic (because the website wouldn’t let me comment):
Ryn, there are other ways of exerting your anger, even if she did deserve it.
“Contrary to popular belief, you need intelligence to become a thief”
um no you need intelligence to become a master thief all you need to become a ordinary thief is out-thinking the other side
a bit cowardly to disallow comments for the previous strip, esp when the content is pretty controversial.
don’t why he hit her, but I say he’s a jackass (ren).
Flying shoes? Nah. nah. nah….
May I suggest some improvements in her thought process? Adding some combinations of “crossed” things into one overall strategy. Besides having carefully planed failures will put enemy in false sense of security.
The scheme does not seem overall complex, but it could do as a start. First one mus really understand how minds of oposition work to taylor efficient strategy taking advantage of both enemy strength and weaknesses.
I got here late, did the comments in the previous comic get so out of hand they had to be closed or was it planned ahead of time?
@ Henix:
I knew I wasn’t the only one…
@ Paeris Kiran:
The problem with idiot proofing is that idiots are so ingenious.
@ Red:
You only say that because he has a penis and she a vagina. Remove that filter of sexual prejudice and look at what she said. She was everything short of screaming “hit me.” And since she had plenty of indications that pushing him further was a bad idea, she can’t claim it to be an honest mistake. Feeling sorry for her is like feeling sorry for somebody who throws rocks at soldiers until they get fed up and open fire.
The comments were closed to avoid comments from misandrists like yourself, who can do nothing to a thread but derail it with flaming rooted in circular logic and open bigotry. And it was a good choice.
@ LuckyStar7:
He reacted like most would. She was just begging for a good slap.
It really can’t be THAT difficult, can it? Getting in won’t be much of a problem because A. people don’t expect one to break IN to jail and B. there is no shortage of ways to get put in jail. I’m guessing low-priority, non-mage inmates get put in your basic cell without magic monitors, making a break-out easier. Having someone on the inside can’t hurt either. Find the shadiest guard there and bribe them into smuggling supplies into a cell and having you put into that cell. Or set up the shadiest guard at the prison to require a day off and have a willing accomplice offer to cover his shift for a price. Then have that person smuggle supplies in or fudge up a body search. A diversion can’t hurt either. A massive disturbance, even if it’s not at the prison, should divert the attention of the guards enough to impact their alertness to someone sneaking around. A jailbreak is also more effective if you stretch the guards resources thin enough. Instead of opening just one cell, open all of them. While the guards are chasing after every other inmate, you can get out with the one you want.
If you want to avoid the jailbreak altogether, simply show that the person you want out of jail is innocent. Show up in public in disguise as that person, cause a little havoc, taunt the people for believing your trick, take credit for the attack, and boast that your disguise worked. The more people who see the performance, the better. A well planned escape later, and the inmate’s guilt will be suspect since there’s another one of them running around. Destroy your disguise and the watch won’t know who to go after, leaving you in the clear. The possibility of an impersonator committing the crime would seem more likely than the school’s best student turning traitor AND it wouldn’t conflict with the witness’ statement. This approach also eliminates the need for the target to flee the area since their name could be cleared and the charges dropped, making the suspect seem the victim and allowing them to return to a normal life.
And I JUST came up with all that on the spot. Who said planning a jail break was hard?
@ Metaldude:
But there is a shortage of how to get into prison and retain means to actualy do something reasonable inside. There is only low amount of guards who would get bribed to get out verytable traitor to the goverment that employ them… you know if this goverments get out of bussines they do… common thief of killer, sure… traytors, not so much.
You would need someone without single working brain cell… and I think those would not be guarding mages… Plus… how can you guarantee you will get into RIGHT prison and not some on the other side of the Empire…
They have mages there… and seems that reasonably good ones, so in all likelihood any distraction would be swiftly quelled by overwhelming firepower of their spells.
@Metaldude: A “false Lilith” wouldn’t work simply because the government has no interest in reopening the case, period. They are uninterested, and more or less done. Thus all but the most elaborate duplicate ruses would be summarily dismissed, especailly as Lilith was already found guilty in court using evidence found IN HER HOME. This isn’t a situation where you can easily pull the “evil twin” distraction and have it mean anything.
As for your first paragraph the assumption is that Vivianna is already considering all of that, only she’s including the practical and physical steps needed, whereas all you did was list vague outlines of possibilities. If you suggest she “create a massive disturbance”, Vivianna is already considering what type of disturbances are available, where to perform them, or what guards would be most susceptible (or at what time). She’s dealing with the particulars of the plan and not just the impression, so she obviously has a lot more to consider.
You go, Ryn!