- Cyril: Scarlet! You know it’s forbidden to walk around with a gun in Kirkiok.
- Scarlet: I prefer not to take any risks in Arkvale South.
- Cyril: What are you up to anyway?
- Scarlet: I’m distributing these leaflets. One per home.
- Cyril: “Facts about the Machine of Eternal Summer – The passageway in… blah blah blah“ Hey, what’s that formula at the bottom of the page?
- Scarlet: That’s a function that’s continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere.
- Cyril: Why on Lavarel would anyone care about that?
- Scarlet: Because I discovered it. It disproves a conjecture by famous mathematician Zolt Cator.
- Cyril: Really? Shouldn’t you rather send a discovery like that to the Ministry of Education or something?
- Scarlet: I sent several letters to various institutions in Oris, but never got any reply.
Machine Girl 038
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8 thoughts on “Machine Girl 038”
ToBeFree
Ceterum censeo f(x) = sum of a^n * cos(b^n * x)
Arent
I like how Scarlet is meanwhile being known to the police as harmless genius. Basically, they admonish her for carrying a gun, but believe her when she tells them about such a formula.
I dislike that the story is jumping so much. The places abruptly change and this makes me loose track of what the characters are doing.
Bernard
Can we please get a timeline of the events from the start up to this panel? I’m slowly getting lost.
QuickBrownFox
I’ve made a simple one here, showing Chapter, Page, Scarlet’s approximate age, the location, and a brief description of the page’s events.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT0EtTsF3yw0I38j19M0SsQ1wAuhsqRcr6kjjDF_CHcpmN-X5hHzpPTBcvB6L0RtQPbutTIainfHtHi/pub
SadBeaver
Great job! But I think the seasons changing throughout this chapter mean that Scarlet has been living in Kirkiok for 2 years now (it’s her 3rd summer here), and she’s around 15 already. Here’s a copy of what I posted under MG-036:
The year Scarlet arrived to Kirkiok:
MG#011-013 – there are green leaves on trees, so it’s spring or summer. Still the same year as the spring shown in SFOS#085.
MG#015 – “one week later” – the leaves are yellow now, which means the autumn. This also means MG#011-013 were in late summer.
MG#022-023 – leaves are still yellow – still the same autumn.
MG#025 panel 2 – leaves are falling, so it’s late autumn.
MG#025 panel 3 – snow, the winter began.
Scarlet’s 2nd year in Kirkiok:
MG#025 panel 4 – the leaves are green again – spring or summer.
MG#029-031 – snow – winter.
Scarlet’s 3rd year in Kirkiok:
MG#035-036 – green leaves – spring or summer.
Vicious Sand
Not conclusive. There’s lots of trees that are green in winter. Also, it’s always winter. They haven’t been in Kirkiok for than a month or so.
Anonymous Pie
I can’t help but imagine “Dang it, Scarlet” has become a common refrain at the police station.
ehrgeiz0
I once read mythologist Bruce Campbell describe God as a circle whose center was everywhere but whose circumference was nowhere.
Did Scarlet just mathematically prove the existence of God?
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