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| Triangle and Robert #1471 | We're fed. Show us more.
/ Tell. Recapulon doesn't appear to do pictures.
/ Either way. / Recapulon, cancel suspend, semicolon, resume recap, open paren, year two, close paren.
/ Error, resumption cache expired. Error, error exception in error handler. / That's a new one.
/ Just wait, it's a recoverable... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1471 |
| Triangle and Robert #1544 | Was the rhombus expecting aid from / the Pudding Watcher?
/ Probably not. Why, did he get it?
/ The Watcher has stated such. / I understand that it's hard to do inside your own consciousness, but please work on your font size. It makes communicating a lot easier.
/ Agree http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1544 |
| Triangle and Robert #1545 | This is a fortress?
/ Yes. The bottling plant of Tater Fizz has disproportionately strong defenses. / I don't believe you.
/ Try throwing a pebble at a window. / Later, at a burn clinic:
/ Every laser after the eighth one was just redundant.
/ Probably. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1545 |
| Triangle and Robert #1546 | You did what?
/ We verified the integrity of the defenses of our new headquarters. / They are adequate for our needs.
/ Hence our current ointment-requiring state. / How much longer will you be in here?
/ They're discharging us tonight.
/ We don't have insurance. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1546 |
| Triangle and Robert #1547 | ...and so, in order to return to space, I must first return to the city of Tetris.
/ So, what is it you need me for? / Take me to Tetris.
/ I've done all the archaeology in Tetris that I'm going to. You can't make me go back there. It just isn't safe. / My intent was not to force you.
/ Can't you go yourself?
/ I... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1547 |
| Triangle and Robert #1548 | For eons I distained the company of mortals, believing their very existence to be a reminder of my own failure. / I was not meant to be alone, hexahedron. I wish to travel with a companion, to Tetris and then to space.
/ You know, part of me actually wants to believe you. / Most of me doesn't want to... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1548 |
| Triangle and Robert #1549 | On the ocean floor...
/ A proto-polygon. I near Tetris. / Oh. Guards. / At this distance from the city an eruption of pudding should do little damage. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1549 |
| Triangle and Robert #1550 | The restaurant was busy, and from the description of your wounds there seemed no need for my attention. Have you recovered?
/ Arf? / We are filled with painkillers.
/ Say no to drugs! / I see. Let us hope that the seismic activity near Tetris holds no threat until you can stand, then.
/ Seismafuzzywu... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1550 |
| Triangle and Robert #1551 | Did I just...
/ Trigger a massive seaquake and attendant tidal waves? Yes. / It is fortunate that this happened far from land. Why did it happen at all? I intended a small eruption directed at the guards of Tetris. / Remember when you activated the Tetrean pudding pumps?
/ Yes. It is to again tap them... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1551 |
| Triangle and Robert #1552 | The pumps have been running at full capacity since I last came here?
/ Slightly above full. As you may recall, you broke some valves making it go faster. / And faster it went! But now I appear to have violently destroyed my chances of using the output of the pumps to power myself.
/ Not entirely. / It'll... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1552 |
| Triangle and Robert #1553 | Is this a flashback?
/ No, you're coming out of heavy painkillers. / I smell cheese.
/ You are the Dairy Sentry. If there's cheese around, you'd smell it. / A lot of cheese.
/ I don't smell any cheese.
/ Then it's a flashback. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1553 |
| Triangle and Robert #1554 | The Fondue!
/ Of Four Thousand Cheeses? Here? Now? / No, it couldn't be here now. I'm smelling a memory.
/ Of when Prozac got into the sheep cheese and nearly killed us? / No, not that incident. Much earlier, before we met. I think it's when I learned the recipe.
/ You remember how you learned it? Tell!... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1554 |
| Triangle and Robert #1555 | It's still dim. There was a cow, I'm sure of that. I think it was my cow.
/ You used to farm? / I don't know! I must have. I think that when I learned the Fondue it displaced all my previous memories. The cow was a giant flying reptile.
/ I see. / I don't get that part either. Maybe I'm remembering a... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1555 |
| Triangle and Robert #1556 | I don't remember where the D came from, but I do remember it. It was a pet and a helper. It was there.
/ Where? / It's all fading again.
/ Oh. What a pointless interlude. / It'll come back. I'll try to write it down then.
/ Maybe Cube's Recapulon can also help. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1556 |
| Triangle and Robert #1557 | I'm an unreliable narrator for reasons beyond my making the story up as I go along and getting sidetracked. There are also events taking place within the story which I deliberately conceal for one reason or another. Try not to forget that. / You're warning me not to trust you.
/ There's more than that.
/ But... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1557 |
| Triangle and Robert #1558 | You've had an ending planned?
/ Yes, almost since the beginning of the MSG entity.
/ Is it a good ending?
/ Good how? / I mean for the story. Not for us.
/ I thought it was pretty effective, but as it turns out I hadn't taken everything into account. / What did you forget?
/ Orpuddex can break apart Beta... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1558 |
| Triangle and Robert #1559 | In my planned ending, the MSG would have proven unstoppable. With its help polygons would build huge fleets of spaceships and colonize the galaxies, leaving the glutamate planet that was Earth behind forever. / There was a little more after that involving the Beforings' plan and such.
/ How's that an... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1559 |
| Triangle and Robert #1560 | I don't think I understand.
/ It probably doesn't matter. I'd assumed that there were three major arcs: the Orpuddex arc, the Oval arc, and the MSG arc. / I'd been implicitly supposing Orpuddex's reformation to be the end of his arc. I'd overlooked that the reformed Pudding-Watcher would do everything... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1560 |
| Triangle and Robert #1561 | I saw it coming.
/ No, you didn't. / Well, not the specifics. It felt like you were intending to end it after your fifth year, though.
/ I'm not convinced that you even knew that much. / How's the rescue coming along, anyway?
/ Orpuddex hasn't left Earth in a very long time. Don't expect him to hurry... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1561 |
| Triangle and Robert #1562 | The output'll probably be a little garbled on account of I've been trying to convince the thing to output to a printer instead of speech, but you're welcome to give it a try. / I guess you Sentries must have your reasons.
/ Recap the Fondue of Four Thousand Cheeses! / Warning: recipe is not narrative.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1562 |
| Triangle and Robert #1563 | Continue?
/ Affirmative.
/ Continue?
/ Continue.
/ Continue?
/ Please? / Continue?
/ Cube, help me.
/ Continue? / It can't do interactive errors at the moment. You'll have to try again after I've finished working on it.
/ Continue? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1563 |
| Triangle and Robert #1564 | I like the security, but this place is small! Why do we only have this tiny section?
/ The remainder of the building produces Tater Fizz. / I doubt it!
/ It does seem that the quantities produced are disproportionate to the beverage's actual level of popularity.
/ We should investigate! / To investigate... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1564 |
| Triangle and Robert #1565 | I can't see anything!
/ I'm not drawing anything.
/ I can't see off panel either! / I'm more explicitly not drawing than usual because I don't know what's going on.
/ I was planning to investigate the Tater Fizz plant out of sheer nosiness. / I know, but I don't know how a bottling plant is usually laid... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1565 |
| Triangle and Robert #1566 | Why am I outside the bottling plant now? I was just walking down a hallway!
/ From an overly technical perspective, you were never "inside" the bottling plant. / Is this going to be a geometry pun?
/ Topology, actually. / A Klein bottling plant. Have you no shame?
/ Possibly. I think the plant has good... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1566 |
| Triangle and Robert #1567 | Back insi... Back in the interior of the convex hull of the bottling plant's projection into three-dimensional space:
/ You there! Stop! / I saw you sneaking around! Stop running! / Oh. This is awkward. ((Oh. This is awkward. ((Oh| aw| http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1567 |
| Triangle and Robert #1568 | You should probably back up. If you keep trying to follow yourself around the loop you might actually catch yourself. / {{unreadable overlapping copies}} Why are ... many of... / There's only one of you. You're just standing in a tight curve of space and seeing yourself from behind. If you don't back... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1568 |
| Triangle and Robert #1569 | {{reversed}} Did something just happen?
/ Yes. / {{reversed}} What?
/ You would appear to have everted yourself. / {{reversed}} I hate topology!
/ I think you may have a right to. Left to. Justification to. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1569 |
| Triangle and Robert #1570 | Miss Concarne? Is that you? You look different somehow.
/ {{reversed}} Help! / Are you... does it hurt?
/ {{reversed}} Only when I run into walls. / Perhaps I should take you to a hospital.
/ {{reversed}} Hey, that's a really great idea! http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1570 |
| Triangle and Robert #1571 | Your friend is suffering from an eversion. In two dimensions this is equivalent to a rotation, and so the normal treatment is simply to spin the patient around. / Linda, however, happens to have picked up a third dimension.
/ I thought that three-dimensionality was congenital. / You're probably thinking... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1571 |
| Triangle and Robert #1572 | Adult-onset subpixel curvature is normally harmless and only noticed when it leads to other complications. / You're lucky this happened when it did, there's a new procedure which has been very effective in cases of curvature and certain hedronisms.
/ Why are you telling me? / Linda is the patient, not... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1572 |
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