page 1196 – lots of pocket space
FINALLY! Sorry again for the delay, gang, but these are just about the WORST possible pages to have next in line to work on when I’m already distracted with other stuff. I mean, just LOOK at all the nonsense going on in that last panel! I had to redraw that wall of shelves from scratch THREE TIMES because I kept getting the perspective wrong. In fact, I’m STILL not pleased with all the details in that panel. There’s a good chance that, by the time to finally read this, I’ll have already re-posted this page with lots of little distracting bits in the back changed, but I really needed to hurry up and get SOMETHING posted before Tuesday ran out.
But yeah, in case you forgot, we HAVE seen a version of this technology once before, so I’m not totally pulling it out of thin air. Of course, I still AM having to immediately concoct a series of explanations for why Mariska had to go through the rigamarole of renting an experimental ship and couldn’t just use one of these things to warp directly where she needed to go. That’s how writing scifi works. Step One: dream up near-magical super technology. Step Two: Nerf that technology so that it doesn’t totally break your storytelling.
So, as much as I hate continuing to mess with update schedules, clearly I need to do SOMETHING to get back on track here. Part of that is taking care of itself, since I got that extra load of Patreon updates and Digimon comics out of the way already, but I’m still pretty dang beat and WAY behind on even the normal stuff. So, in the interest of getting a head start on page 1197, I’m not going to do a new TWC voting incentive this week. The story is ALMOST done, just one or two more pages, so I hate to take another break this close to the conclusion. But still, it’ll just be for one week, and I gotta find time to recharge SOMEPLACE over the next few days. Sorry to keep doing this, guys!
Oh, so it’s NOT a storage device, so much as a teleporter to a moon covered in all the Nitpicker’s stuff.
…the contents of that moon might actually be quite valuable, given how much trouble and expensive things Nitpickers end up handling. Even if they only keep 0.1% of those.
Yeah, but you also have to remember the propensity of Nitpickers to get obsessed with really dumb, random things. So, for every one rare, valuable object you might find on that moon, there’d been about a dozen shelves full of absolutely worthless brickabrack that only the person who left it there thinks is worth anything.
There’s probably at least one nitpicker or trainee on that moon who have been wandering around lost for years after misplacing their portal gizmo.
One of the chores of Nitpickers who work at the Guild headquarters is probably hoping down a portal to the moon and checking all the nooks and crannies for anybody who got lost. It’s probably a VERY unpopular chore.