Featuring special guest the twins (panel one).
Transcript
Bug ferrets abound. Their faces have stalk eyes with a pupil shaped like a serif I, two triangular fan-like ears, flat frog-like ears, insectoid mandibles, and a "goatee" of two tufted antennae. Talita abandons her cart in the hall and awkwardly wades through them to get into the server room.Talita: Sorry. Excuse me...
SFX: HUFF. rr. eef. HF! wuff.
Ferrets are scuttling in and around the room, moving stuff. There is a row of numbered black server rigs taller than Talita, each labeled "Calcery."
Talita: …Cal? Hello?
SFX: huff. Rr. wuf.
31 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 15”
candybaroque
HUFF. rr. eef. HF! wuff. huff. Rr. wuf.
Beachfox
Large eyes with vertical slit pupils. Underground ambush predators. Heightened depth perception and ability to perceive color in low light environments while also able to enter high-light environments (like we’re in now) without searing their retinas.
And I love how we have an instance of non-face-to-face touch-language. Also the baby backpacks.
I wonder if these sorts of environments can trigger agoraphobia in them.
Vinemaple
Imagine learning how bugferret eyes work from examining this page. It finally clicked for me!
Bellasaurus
it is eef baby time
hal9000
people still smoke in RttS? damn
Dunephase
baby bug ferrets in a backpack!!!?!! 😭 aaaaaaaaaaaaa so cute!!! also I am just greatly enjoying the bug ferret chaos in general
Septemberdale
Behold the tubelings!
Guest
Well, Calcery certainly passed the Turing test for me!
Zuorai
eef
Thylacereal
I’d like to hear what this room sounds like. All the soft patting noises and occasional wuffs, probably more relaxing than a crowded room of humans lol.
AnormalADN
aah, bring your kids to work day (love that they’re held safe in a backpack)(eef)
Bee
The baby bug ferrets are so adorable
bug ferret irl
eef
Fallingfeather
OGH THE BABY FERRETS. SO CUTE.
Also ohhhh Cal is an AI, that explains a bit.
silverware
ooooh, babes in the backpack!
Baron
Taptaptaptaptap
winged monkey
BACKPACK BABBIES
omg, i love them
Mr. Son
The ferrets like “why she’s saying excuse me? There’s tons of room here, it’s not even crowded”.
Ambrose
taking your kids to work !!!!
Crab
eef
arf
The ‘eefing’ twins?
Sunstorm
Ohhh Cal’s an ai
also, I love the tiny baby bug ferrets <3
planetixin
What’s calcery?
Trees
eef
Hmm. They really could do with some kind of lollipop man or overpass system.
EveryZig314
eef
FANG
taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap
i love it
TotallySomebody
Ooh yo! Cal is AI! Also, I had a dream about centaurs last night! Not Talita, sadly, but a random one with a very *very* stretchy neck.
ECG163
eef
DANGEROUSCOLORS
man that reveal of cal being a sapient ai was great! the fact that he specifically brings up that the written centaur languages arent *net* documented makes for an excellent bit of foreshadowing as well!
Boorango
Oh, Cal is an AI? neat!
Wonder what they’ll think of the bipphones?
Synthaphone
“eef” – the twins