(1) The school isn’t shipping anything. Valerie is ordering supplies to be shipped _to_ the school… you know, wands, cauldrons, greaves and fetlock powder, six dozen Groaci nose flutes, and all the other things that a hundred or so exotic students will need this year.
{2} This is a list of interpersonal student relationships which are predicted to develop this year. Due to the uncertainties involved in this sort of shipping, the Quantum Mechanics department will be heavily involved.
As to Digit’s humanity – despite all of her work, she’s far from human – she’s remained a magically-transformed spider with a human-appearance glamour. She’s sensitive, gracious, expressive, cares for her friends – she’s going to have to take a whole lot of selfish-bastard pills to really be able to play a human convincingly on television 🙂
I don’t think that’s actually on the school’s order. The Library has a near-infinite supply of that dry, dusty scent of ancient days… after all it has copies of every church book ever written. The school depends on the students inhaling a sufficient dose of Attar during their periodic visits to the Library.
I do wonder about the order for droonge projectors and crater guns… whether those are for the students, teachers, or staff. And, in any of those cases, why?
I can’t recall if this has been ever addressed: is Val “glamour-challenged” or why doesn’t she have a human-presenting face put on (when the school requires kids to present as humans as soon as possible for them)?
Or I’ve just forgotten something obvious… 🙂
Reply to Yarner: It’s been suggested Valerie’s inability to create a face while in human form has something to do with her ancestry. Not confirmed, just suggested.
Yep, her mom was and eldritch being, and her dad was human. Her form is the closest she can come to looking human and no extra magic can help. Much like how Fae magic becomes increasingly unpredictable if more than one spell is done over another, the same with Valerie’s case. The porcelain mask is the best she can do.
How fast can Valerie’s paranoia lose all touch with reality?
She can do 0-lightspeed in 5 seconds.
Heck – she can do the Kessel run in 11 parsecs…
Awwwwwwwwwww
When my wife sneaks up on me with a cup of coffee it always ends with a “Smack” MUAH!
Ummm – “shipping list”?
What is the school shipping, and to where/whom?
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ALso, Digit demonstrating here that she is not QUITE human?
Paul, 3rd balloon: “What is there was something…”
Two possible answers:
(1) The school isn’t shipping anything. Valerie is ordering supplies to be shipped _to_ the school… you know, wands, cauldrons, greaves and fetlock powder, six dozen Groaci nose flutes, and all the other things that a hundred or so exotic students will need this year.
{2} This is a list of interpersonal student relationships which are predicted to develop this year. Due to the uncertainties involved in this sort of shipping, the Quantum Mechanics department will be heavily involved.
As to Digit’s humanity – despite all of her work, she’s far from human – she’s remained a magically-transformed spider with a human-appearance glamour. She’s sensitive, gracious, expressive, cares for her friends – she’s going to have to take a whole lot of selfish-bastard pills to really be able to play a human convincingly on television 🙂
Meant this to be in response to Fairportfan…
Don’t forget the Attar of Sanctity.
I don’t think that’s actually on the school’s order. The Library has a near-infinite supply of that dry, dusty scent of ancient days… after all it has copies of every church book ever written. The school depends on the students inhaling a sufficient dose of Attar during their periodic visits to the Library.
I do wonder about the order for droonge projectors and crater guns… whether those are for the students, teachers, or staff. And, in any of those cases, why?
Is the CDT aware of this cultural exchange?
I imagine Retief probably knows.
The higher-ups in the CDT simply do not Need To Know.
I love the way the regulars here can run with relatively obscure references . . .
I have wicked bad ADHD, but I’m grateful that I don’t overthink things with this kind of internal dialogue. O.o
Like I said, Drive-By Cuddles.
She is and always has been a sweetheart whatever her form.
Add to that, there is a special link between these two that goes beyond mere friendship.
I thought that i recalled Valerie’s mask with a “mouth”
She had a new one made because she thought the other looked too creepy.
I can’t recall if this has been ever addressed: is Val “glamour-challenged” or why doesn’t she have a human-presenting face put on (when the school requires kids to present as humans as soon as possible for them)?
Or I’ve just forgotten something obvious… 🙂
Reply to Yarner: It’s been suggested Valerie’s inability to create a face while in human form has something to do with her ancestry. Not confirmed, just suggested.
Yep, her mom was and eldritch being, and her dad was human. Her form is the closest she can come to looking human and no extra magic can help. Much like how Fae magic becomes increasingly unpredictable if more than one spell is done over another, the same with Valerie’s case. The porcelain mask is the best she can do.
A: I bet her dad had some really good mother-in-law stories
B: First time i ever saw a porcelain mask blush
@Paul Taylor
This would explain why Valerieʾs mask became so much more expressive and animated.
🤔 But when did she get the new mask❓
Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar…
Yeah, but when dealing with Valerie, it needs to come with a solemn declaration under oath that a cigar is indeed all it is
But then she’ll just think “she doth protest too much!”
I never knew poor Valerie was so paranoid…