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| Triangle and Robert #1573 | The procedure is fairly straightforward. The anesthetized patient is lain as flat as possible on an operating table, over which is suspended an oversized anvil. / Which is then rapidly lowered onto the patient, flattening the problematic curvature?
/ We prefer the term"dropped".
/ This sounds like a rather... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1573 |
| Triangle and Robert #1574 | We've hit a complication.
/ With the anvil?
/ No, tranquilizing the Meat Sentry. / Oh no. Her pointy things reflex. Are any nurses dead?
/ We saw that much coming and used a blowgun. The problem is more that the tranquilizer doesn't appear to be working. / What letter does it start with?
/ What?
/ She builds... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1574 |
| Triangle and Robert #1575 | Was that noise of impact the operation?
/ Yes, and it went perfectly. Come this way. / And here she is. According to the laser plane, she now has zero curvature and is two-dimensional again.
/ Her upper edge is ringed with a halo of tiny roast fowl. / A harmless short-term side effect of anvil therapy.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1575 |
| Triangle and Robert #1576 | She's coming out of anesthesia.
/ {{reversed}} What happened?
/ Turn around. / {{reversed}} What? {{normal}} Oh! My symmetries! / Assuming you don't have a relapse, we should be able to discharge you sometime tomorrow.
/ Great! Just out of curiosity, what anesthetic did you take me down with? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1576 |
| Triangle and Robert #1577 | I am prepared to return to space in pursuit of the mortal bodies of the Chosen One and sidekick.
/ {{annotation: (not supposed to be nipples)}}
/ Such mockery is uncalled for. / The pudding with which I have infused myself is sufficient in quantity for the task, although there is rather more tapioca than... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1577 |
| Triangle and Robert #1578 | I've never explained the significance of tapioca within the strip.
/ Do you have the words to do so?
/ Not with any specificity.
/ Then leave it. / It should be sufficient to state that it has fundamental incompatibilities with the butterscotch of which the universe was formed.
/ But inaccurate.
/ It will... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1578 |
| Triangle and Robert #1579 | And so, the Pudding-Watcher or Igneous Sentry departs the Earth, hoping to return bearing the bodies of the Cartoonist's protagonists. / The MSG entity has just informed Triangle, still waiting within the mind of the entity for rescue, of this development:
/ WHAT percentage?
/ 15.7% tapioca. / What is... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1579 |
| Triangle and Robert #1580 | The Pudding-Watcher can only be slain by the Chosen One, if at all. I would not slay him, but if he dies coming to my aid, that could count. Well, that leaves one option.
/ Does it? / Eject my body and Robert's from the rocket so Orpuddex can find them at a safe speed. You'll have to return me to my... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1580 |
| Triangle and Robert #1581 | Hi.
/ Hi. / So, we're simultaneously dead. I suppose it had to happen sooner or later.
/ How's the rescue going? / It's up to Orpuddex. I had the MSG jettison our corpses so Orpuddex could reach them safely in space. I hope he means to. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1581 |
| Triangle and Robert #1582 | This is the first time I've died and not been poorly lectured at by an underprepared disembodied voice. / Service is slow. They're still dealing with the backlog of souls Orpuddex released from his factory.
/ Some of them are from before polygons, right? / I think there are ones from the First through... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1582 |
| Triangle and Robert #1583 | The identity of the Sixth Race has no bearing on anything which has happened in the strip wahtsoever. I'll reveal it before the ending, but just to prove how irrelevant it really was. / You can go solve some other mysteries though.
/ Or we can solve that one.
/ Or we can solve a different one.
/ Right. / TRIANGLE,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1583 |
| Triangle and Robert #1584 | TRIANGLE!
/ Yes?
/ NEVER MIND! / That was extra-pointless.
/ Usually there's at least a token effort to pretend there's something important for me to know. / They're very busy.
/ Indeed. Let's go find adventure or something.
/ I hope we find the something. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1584 |
| Triangle and Robert #1585 | How do we get around without bodies?
/ I can use cuisine-magic. Do you remember the time you made a sheild out of text? / Yes, and the time we rubbed speech lines together to make fire. Maybe if I say enough tildes they'll work like motion lines. / That should cover movement. Navigation on the other... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1585 |
| Triangle and Robert #1586 | Here's a thing.
/ Slow down! / This must be the line for the Fifth Race.
/ ~ ~ ~
/ Baa!
/ Baa.
/ Am fuirich sinn fada 'n so?
/ Baa.
/ Baaa? / What language was that one in the middle?
/ I don't know. Maybe the Cartoonist just made it up so the readers would get angry trying to figure it out.
/ Baa? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1586 |
| Triangle and Robert #1587 | So... Fifth Race. Adventure opportunities?
/ Maybe the Grass Sentry.
/ Good idea, and we know it's already learned English. / Direction and distance are hard, but if there's a Sentry around I'm guessing this way.
/ Hold on, I'm not sure I can go diagonally. / Hello, polygons. I feel a great power in the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1587 |
| Triangle and Robert #1588 | Z Z Z
/ Are you tired? Can the dead even get tired? / I was doing diagonal motion lines.
/ How delightfully abstract.
/ The ways of polygons are strange to me in general, but the ways of that rhombus are particularly so. / The Fifth Race were funny looking.
/ Robert!
/ It had to be said.
/ Aesthetics aside,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1588 |
| Triangle and Robert #1589 | I apologize for my sidekick.
/ Insulting the spirits of powerful ancient dead is where adventure comes from!
/ No apology is needed. Your rhombus is easily bored and desires some manner of conflict. / My rhombus?
/ I stand corrected, the rhombus is an autonomous being. I was thinking in terms of my own... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1589 |
| Triangle and Robert #1590 | You kept polygons as slaves!
/ Robert...
/ You raise sheep for food. / Yes, and that's almost exactly the same thing!
/ What?
/ The polygons of our time were no more intelligent than the non-telepathic sheep of yours. Some could be reprogrammed over a serial connection. / Wow, that sounds just as barbaric... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1590 |
| Triangle and Robert #1591 | The Fourth Race apparently used rhombi for special tasks too.
/ The ancient rhombi had special behaviour programming for humans to operate them without equipment or training. We sheep couldn't take advantage of that, but the rhombus was still an excellent tool. / The origins of the Seventh Race are certainly... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1591 |
| Triangle and Robert #1592 | In our time none of your works survive. What happened?
/ Our works did survive. We did not build edifices or design machines. We actually never even bothered with written language. / So that leaves...
/ Though individuals, we also in many ways thought as a species. Our view of time was somewhat different... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1592 |
| Triangle and Robert #1593 | So grazing was your art and your architecture, not just your cuisine.
/ Correct. The root, the soil, the slope of the land, all this was part of the grass. We did not cook, we cultivated and we bred. You seem to have the beginnings of understanding. / So tell me of your food groups.
/ We knew the grouping... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1593 |
| Triangle and Robert #1594 | You lost me at global climate models.
/ You lost me at dirt.
/ Your frame of reference differs so much from that of my people. I cannot explain any more clearly. I apologize. / It's a lot to think about, but I'm sure I can at least work it into a salad of some sort.
/ Foods are funny!
/ Triangle, your mind... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1594 |
| Triangle and Robert #1595 | Are we in the clear?
/ Change the subject! If we talk about Prozac it'll just make him more likely to appear!
/ Okay... Grass Sentry, what do you know about the other Races?
/ Little. / You didn't talk to anyone all that time in the Vat of Despair?
/ Only a Sentry or one of similar power could move within... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1595 |
| Triangle and Robert #1596 | My special abilities are derived from the presence of the Cartoonist and the comic strip. I'm basically allowed to get away with things regardless of whether they have a physical mechanism.
/ Almost exactly like... / I'm still subject to time's arrow. If something happened to me in the past, it has still... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1596 |
| Triangle and Robert #1597 | In a portion of deep space which for some reason is white rather than black...
/ It was actually a sort of beige, originally. / I suppose it would be. Anyway, Orpuddex is quickly approaching the bodies of Triangle and Robert.
/ I see no spacecraft. / Why do they drift without the vessel? Has something... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1597 |
| Triangle and Robert #1598 | This is it. If you mean to save them, save them both. If you came here to die, save the one who can kill you and abandon Robert.
/ Came here to die? / I know you left Earth with too much tapioca to reach the MSG rocketship.
/ I did?
/ Fifteen point seven percent tapioca.
/ Fifteen WHAT? / The MSG entity... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1598 |
| Triangle and Robert #1599 | Limbs would make this stage far simpler. I had hoped to grow some for the journey, but time had run short.... / You would have ended up with even more tapioca if you'd tried growing limbs with the Tetrean pudding.
/ I am trying not to contemplate the tapioca. / This is uncomfortable.
/ Hopefully you're... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1599 |
| Triangle and Robert #1600 | Is time of the essence now?
/ I think safety's more important.
/ I will return at low speed. / You have no idea just how dangerous it is to travel through space with this much tapioca.
/ Not really, no.
/ The bodies of the Chosen One and sidekick seem to be sinking into the pudding of my body. / Is that... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1600 |
| Triangle and Robert #1601 | Orpuddex is returning to Earth with your bodies now.
/ I was worried. / I don't think he knew how much tapioca there was beneath Tetris.
/ Isn't knowing about tapioca sort of his job? / Being an ancient puddic being doesn't automatically make someone competent. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1601 |
| Triangle and Robert #1602 | ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ / Robert?
/ We've been talking to the dead sheep for long enough. Let's talk to other dead things before we have to go back to life. / He does have a point. We'll probably meet again sometime, though.
/ From what I understand of your comic strip, I don't doubt it. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1602 |
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