- Scarlet: I’m so hungry.
- Tibor: A shipment of firebeets from Hallos is supposed to arrive tomorrow.
- Scarlet: Do you think the cube is edible?
- Tibor: Unlikely. Unless you’ve recently developed the ability to digest metal.
- Scarlet: Maybe the inside is made out of rainbow meat.
- Tibor: What the heck is rainbow meat?
- Scarlet: The chimera in the Radessian legend of the sky stones had rainbow-colored flesh. It was supposedly very tasty.
- Tibor: You make no goddamn sense! What does this metal cube have to do with a mythical creature?
- Scarlet: Well, this stupid blinking cube has to be good for something!
- Tibor: Well, it’s pretty.
- Scarlet: Kirkiok should sell it to Callisto. They like flashy artifacts devoid of any utility.
- Tibor: Not a bad idea, actually.
Machine Girl 030
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10 thoughts on “Machine Girl 030”
El Príncipe Austral
Too hungry to think clearly?
Yeah, been there… Kinda of… Well I missed afternoon tea… But I couldn’t think clearly by supper!!
SadBeaver
Metal has high thermal conductivity, so sitting on a huge metal cube in freezing temperatures would feel terribly cold. But Scarlet and Tibor seem comfortable. Perhaps this cube has some internal heat source?
Vicious Sand
Stealing local monuments/tourist attractions to resell to other cities? Nothing like public mischief/theft to keep your mind off your breakfast. Here’s hoping one of them doesn’t get faint from hunger or low blood sugar in the middle of loading the Cube onto a truck bed. Even better the hint that there’s a whole city or area that likes such things and collects them. Any culture with highly advanced technology able to cross space is sure to create a lot of very useful things that woodsman-level people wouldn’t even recognize, let alone find out how to operate. It would be like telling Columbus to use GPS or to tell a random pre-1492 European king to use Bluetooth. Industrial machinery is often large, and unapologetic mysterious outside it’s setting.
Rainbow meat sounds interesting, though if chimeras are involved, it’s probably poisonous.
'Drew Bergy
It’s a Giant Rubix Cube! She solves it puzzle, and it unlocks the Great Machine of Eternal Summer!
Werwolfe
If she manages to invent “gamer lighting” I will reach through that comic page and give her the dope slap of a lifetime.
Melkior
I’m gonna go out on a limb again and guess that the cube is actually a monitor device for the Machine, and the various flashing symbols are an ancient language which is supposed to tell people about the Machine’s current status, but people have been so used to the machine operating without needing any intervention for so long that everyone simply forgot about it, long ago. If that’s true, then maybe there will be books containing descriptions of the symbols and their meanings. But then again, it may be so long ago that any such books either rotted away or were deliberately thrown away once people forgot what they were used for.
Mark
Observation.
The cube has shrunk.
Arthur
well it is cold out.
ToBeFree
The cube’s size doesn’t appear to be well-defined and strictly kept the same across the comic pages; it seems to be larger again on the next page. Which is fine though!
Llywenna
Checkhov’s cube has made it’s entrance.
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