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That’s It

by Paul Taylor on September 19, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Digit, Valerie
Location: Gryphon Library

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Discussion (28) ¬

  1. Robert Nowall
    September 19, 2023, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

    How fast can Valerie’s paranoia lose all touch with reality?

    • Mark N
      September 19, 2023, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

      She can do 0-lightspeed in 5 seconds.

      • Fairportfan
        September 19, 2023, 10:10 pm | #

        Heck – she can do the Kessel run in 11 parsecs…

  2. Mark N
    September 19, 2023, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

    Awwwwwwwwwww

  3. Radiolaria
    September 19, 2023, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

    When my wife sneaks up on me with a cup of coffee it always ends with a “Smack” MUAH!

  4. Fairportfan
    September 19, 2023, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

    Ummm – “shipping list”?

    What is the school shipping, and to where/whom?

    =====================

    ALso, Digit demonstrating here that she is not QUITE human?

  5. Joe Minotaur
    September 19, 2023, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

    Paul, 3rd balloon: “What is there was something…”

  6. Dave
    September 19, 2023, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

    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 🙂

    • Dave
      September 19, 2023, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

      Meant this to be in response to Fairportfan…

    • FreeFlier
      September 19, 2023, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t forget the Attar of Sanctity.

      • Dave
        September 20, 2023, 1:07 pm | #

        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?

    • Michael Scott
      September 20, 2023, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      Is the CDT aware of this cultural exchange?

      • Dave
        September 20, 2023, 4:07 pm | #

        I imagine Retief probably knows.

        The higher-ups in the CDT simply do not Need To Know.

    • FreeFlier
      September 20, 2023, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

      I love the way the regulars here can run with relatively obscure references . . .

  7. The Old Wolf
    September 20, 2023, 5:33 am | # | Reply

    I have wicked bad ADHD, but I’m grateful that I don’t overthink things with this kind of internal dialogue. O.o

  8. JM McNemo
    September 20, 2023, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    Like I said, Drive-By Cuddles.

  9. Sirnomad
    September 20, 2023, 10:00 am | # | Reply

    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.

  10. Fairportfan
    September 20, 2023, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    I thought that i recalled Valerie’s mask with a “mouth”

    • Paul Taylor
      September 20, 2023, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      She had a new one made because she thought the other looked too creepy.

      • Yarner
        September 21, 2023, 1:38 am | #

        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… 🙂

      • Robert Nowall
        September 21, 2023, 6:51 am | #

        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.

      • Paul Taylor
        September 21, 2023, 1:04 pm | #

        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.

      • Fairportfan
        September 21, 2023, 5:34 pm | #

        A: I bet her dad had some really good mother-in-law stories

        B: First time i ever saw a porcelain mask blush

      • Bratty Roger
        October 14, 2023, 4:26 am | #

        @Paul Taylor

        This would explain why Valerieʾs mask became so much more expressive and animated.

        🤔 But when did she get the new mask❓

  11. V6
    September 20, 2023, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar…

    • Thorfinntk
      September 20, 2023, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, but when dealing with Valerie, it needs to come with a solemn declaration under oath that a cigar is indeed all it is

      • Yarner
        September 21, 2023, 1:35 am | #

        But then she’ll just think “she doth protest too much!”

  12. Centaur71
    September 21, 2023, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    I never knew poor Valerie was so paranoid…

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