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Chapter: Shock and Awe
Characters: ambassador mitchel, ambassador Palas, fintas, lilly, named, rat, ser phinas, t'axl
Location: office, restaurant, street
└ Tags: lil surprise, the pitch

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  1. Paul
    August 17, 2022, 20:10 | # | Reply

    HMMM! Sounds like it might be an appealing deal.
    Rescued by a “Knight’ in a bus named Pegasus.
    Does the bus fly by any chance?

    • Robnot
      August 17, 2022, 21:52 | # | Reply

      HMH-463 Pegasus. Marine unit.

  2. Scarsdale
    August 17, 2022, 20:15 | # | Reply

    Jim is driving hard towards the basket! lol No I’m not into basketball just picked up a few things,
    But I do believe he’s showing he’s not only determined but well prepared as well.

    I figured that’s what the rat was inferring was the case if the shitbats are that uncouth I’m surprised
    they didn’t come up with a reason sooner. I figured Shitbats would try something else, glad to
    see the P’tero were already on top of it. Must be a reason they are so determined to talk to the dogs
    other than to punish them…

    • Petercat
      August 17, 2022, 21:54 | # | Reply

      Patience, Scarsdale, patience.

      • Scarsdale
        August 18, 2022, 12:39 | # | Reply

        Oh i am, just curious…

  3. Bill Mullins
    August 17, 2022, 21:39 | # | Reply

    “Hammerheads”? Have we encountered them before? Would appreciate
    a page reference to refresh my memory.

    • Petercat
      August 17, 2022, 21:53 | # | Reply

      Not yet. I have the character, but haven’t shown it yet.

  4. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    August 17, 2022, 22:23 | # | Reply

    Love the lines on that bus, very 1930s.
    Does it roll on wheels? Or float on….?

    • Paul
      August 17, 2022, 22:50 | # | Reply

      Wheels. Frame 8 by the blue circle is a wheel.
      It looks like a 50s style white wall.

    • rob stanley
      August 18, 2022, 09:50 | # | Reply

      heh,, both, the wheels retract when it reaches speed…

    • Scarsdale
      August 19, 2022, 01:14 | # | Reply

      I’d place more like early 50’s although the grill does look in the late 30’s, nice
      retro look to it, that P’tero looks kinda youngish might be the perspective but
      he/she looks shorter than the 3 while the one’s the admiral met were well over
      a foot taller than the cats.

  5. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    August 17, 2022, 22:25 | # | Reply

    And I’d love to see how this handsome stranger’s family
    is going to keep the Bats and the Hammerheads busy.

    • Jochi
      August 18, 2022, 00:19 | # | Reply

      I suspect we’ll see it as they drive by. I’m sure we’ll at least hear about it.

    • Scarsdale
      August 18, 2022, 12:42 | # | Reply

      I’m sure it’ll be a good laugh at least! The P’tero have a good sense of humor 😉

  6. Dreamfox
    August 18, 2022, 05:56 | # | Reply

    Now the Bats are simply careless.
    The result of the vote, especially the Dragon’s involvement, is probably sending
    shock waves around the planet at the moment.
    The news of the Bats unsuccessfully trying to strong-arm an ambassador will follow
    soon. Not to mention who was having dinner with who and who defended who will raise
    interest.
    And if those guys can have a rescue bus there in time as well as a diversion for
    the ambush? Others will know too.
    Their message is rather clear. “We don’t care about the rules or diplomacy” Sure,
    it was like this for a long time, but I’m guessing not this openly. So this will
    shake things up.
    The Bats are only starting to figure out that something is going on in the fringe.
    Many of the others will have less, if any, information.

    As for that party? They better plan big, because I’m thinking a lot of uninvited
    people will be interested in attending. There will be quite a few that will want
    to meet the new kids on the block. And they will want to know what is going on here.

    • Scarsdale
      August 18, 2022, 12:36 | # | Reply

      The “rocks” have started to fall. All the major players got took down a notch or two and they are panicking.
      So of course they are lashing out at their favorites? PC knows, but I suspect the P’tero seen the vote and
      knew the ambassadors might need backup, which proved correct. The party will have members that supported
      the vote and a few that wanted to but were afraid to speak out. The Shitbats and Hammerheads will show up,
      but with that many witnesses they will have a hard time forcing anyone! And if they do, their actions will be
      against the treaty, so it’s my hope they will be removed from the counsel.

  7. notStanley
    August 18, 2022, 14:53 | # | Reply

    Think the mouse-over text is good for both story lines!

    Though Jim’s is much friendlier and win-win for those involved :}

  8. Paul Ebermann
    August 18, 2022, 15:59 | # | Reply

    So they measure distances in kilometers, but area in acres?
    (The 1000 acres are roughly 4 km², the 20000 acres are 80 km².)

    • Scarsdale
      August 18, 2022, 20:42 | # | Reply

      Farms are the same way granted in the USA mostly still use imperial but they
      use acres for fields and pastures rather than feet, yards, and miles.
      A tree farm is still a farm and Jim has shown them a much bigger one!
      An Acre is assumed to be a square while if you use the meters you have
      to give the dimensions. Our land is trapezoid-shaped so that’s a long sentence LOL!

    • rob stanley
      August 18, 2022, 22:53 | # | Reply

      see in the US.. us farm boys know the size of an acre,, one football field..
      so one square mile is 640 acres.. so that 23,000 would be 35.9 square miles..
      or roughly the size of Congaree national park SC.
      but ask us that fancy metric cra.. stuff. an you get blank looks..

    • StripeCoat
      August 18, 2022, 22:55 | # | Reply

      Actually the metric unit for large areas is the Hectare (approximately 2.4 acres)
      So my 59 Hectare property works out as 140 acres.
      The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later for economic reasons,
      and the longer it takes for you to do so the more it will cost you.

      • Scarsdale
        August 19, 2022, 00:51 | # | Reply

        I’m learning it, mainly because my 3D printer
        was made in china, so everything is in metric.
        1 kg is 2.2 pounds, an inch is roughly 2.7 cm, and so on…
        (ok my head hurts… gonna lay down now… LOL)

      • Bill Mullins
        August 19, 2022, 10:48 | # | Reply

        “The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later”
        I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. We can be stubborn when we take a
        mind to be. Actually, in many ways we already are metric. Most
        consumer goods are sold in metric units or marked in both. But I do not
        see the U.S. going exclusively metric any time soon. Question. What
        would the economic reasons be for us going exclusively metric? We’re doing
        fine right now with a mixture. You also have to understand the American
        mindset. The fact that you Europeans are so insistent that we go metric is
        (to many folks’ minds) a strong argument AGAINST doing so. We tend
        not to take having stuff forced down our throats well.

        • Scarsdale
          August 19, 2022, 11:28 | # | Reply

          I agree Bill, they were teaching in when I was in high school, mostly conversions.
          And where it came from and why. Wasn’t fun or easy and like most students my
          eyes tended to glass over LOL.

    • Curtis
      August 19, 2022, 18:00 | # | Reply

      I watch a show named “Escape To The Country” on Dabble. British real estate —
      they refer to the size of land in acres.

  9. Jochi
    August 18, 2022, 16:28 | # | Reply

    Given their job titles, there’s really only one person Jim needs to convince.
    Everyone else is an advisor.

    • Scarsdale
      August 18, 2022, 20:27 | # | Reply

      Just keep in mind in the corporate world, yes the CEO has final word, but does usually take advice from their advisors.
      And the share holders and so on if everyone else in that room agrees I’m sure so will the boss, given the conversation
      with Emma, I suspect Carl will give a convincing counter argument that leaves some fear in Jim of him. I’m sure Jim will
      win out, but he’s going to be Jim and think Carl is pissed at him.

      It took a lot for me to go behind the top engineer and indirectly my boss to fix that machine right and I heard about it
      every chance he got. The lesson is (for him) think of the thing to make/do/buy and talk to the operators AND the mechanics
      as to what’s wrong with it BEFORE you build it or buy it. Been saying that about the automotive engineers since I was 16!

      • Petercat
        August 18, 2022, 20:45 | # | Reply

        Ah, geeze… I remember visiting an engineering firm in Kansas when a couple of engineers
        boiled out into the hallway, trying to beat the hell out of each other. Why?
        One of them specified 3/8″ grade 3 bolts in an assembly, the other kept changing them
        to 5/16″ grade 5.
        They’d probably been annoying each other for years.

        • Scarsdale
          August 19, 2022, 01:02 | # | Reply

          Grade 3?!? Hell I would of beat that guy! That’s the garbage grade I only used grade 8 on everything
          and stainless steel on anything exposed to water etc… Yeah grade 3 was cheap and that’s all, I could
          twist one off in a vice with 2 fingers and a wrench. They were made with the throw-away “bad batch”
          at the foundry. Might as well used lead bolts…

          • Petercat
            August 19, 2022, 11:00 | # | Reply

            Nah, grade 3 is useful in some places.
            This was more a case of engineers being so territorial.
            You know, “How dare you make changes to my design!

            • Scarsdale
              August 19, 2022, 11:50 | # | Reply

              Sure, like holding guards in place and other light duty apps. Too often
              someone would use them in a normal repair and of course they’d fail
              requiring an un-needed repair. Or worse a major one! I worked on machines
              that measured in the thousands of pounds to tons, you CAN’T fudge
              around like that!
              I spent a day on my back, laying in an inch of water replacing 34 3/8″ bolts
              that held a convenor track that had broke loose and started a big fire
              because someone didn’t bother to check the grade, yeah all they heard
              my cussing load and clear that day! It’s a good thing I’m not claustrophobic
              it was pretty tight under there. Not to mention I had to free it and drag it
              out, cut off the chewed up end and fab up a replacement to weld on…

              • Petercat
                August 19, 2022, 12:02 | # | Reply

                What’s even worse are the counterfeit fasteners. They’re everywhere, and people don’t
                realize it. I learned that in the Army when we saw injuries caused by low-grade fasteners
                marked as high-grade. Some of them came from the factory that way, like the seat belt
                bolts in a run of XXXXXXXXX. They were all replaced, but I never saw a recall for the civilian
                version, the XXXXXXX. Hmmm…..
                (Xs because I don’t want to be sued. It never happened, y’know?)

                • Scarsdale
                  August 19, 2022, 17:58 | # | Reply

                  One of our suppliers introduced a “new grade” that was called 8.1 turns out it was grade 3
                  they “rebranded” as that to boost sales… luckily we figured it out or it could of cost the factory
                  up to millions in damage and downtime over time.
                  I know what you mean what we made was pretty flammable and bits of metal in the grinder/blender
                  was very bad. I was caught in a small explosion from the fire suppression system not 2 days after
                  I started there… almost quit on the spot! Felt like someone had slapped me with a sheet of plywood
                  flat on! Plus there was no air and I had no idea where I was or where the exit was. One of the in-house
                  fire team got me out thankfully.

                  • Petercat
                    August 22, 2022, 02:37 | # | Reply

                    Reminds me of the guy that tried to grind a magnesium sheet for some reason.
                    When the wheel got clogged he just pushed harder, until…

  10. StripeCoat
    August 18, 2022, 22:43 | # | Reply

    So I am away (in hospital) with a busted leg for a couple of months.
    Still not allowed to drive for another four to six weeks.
    Naturally I expected the comic situation to change
    somewhat and Boy have they!
    I hadn’t expected the council vote to come up so soon,
    and knew it would be close but a tied result wasn’t expected,
    with the dragons actually voting to break came as a surprise.
    Looks like a few core species are still reeling from the shock
    of things not going their way for once and reacting without
    thinking – really big mistake.

    • Scarsdale
      August 19, 2022, 00:46 | # | Reply

      OUCH hang in there! yeah it’s rough trust me I know.
      Shattered a bone in my foot was in a cast for 8 weeks.
      what was bad is I had a stick shift in my car, try driving
      that one footed and it was my right foot to boot! An
      old ’73 Nova converted to a floor shift.

    • Petercat
      August 19, 2022, 11:03 | # | Reply

      I hope you are doing better. Wish I’d known.
      There are a lot of readers who used to comment but no longer do, I miss them and their input.

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