"Saving Go!Anna's arse": Annie's making reference to this scene...! And of course she's going to say arse, not ass... she's an Australian! BTW... even though that plane rescue scene happened months and months ago by our time, it was only last month by Magellan reckoning.
Black Team: Panel one in today's update shows Black team... apparently no more successful than Kaycee's Blue Team. We see (l-r): Fatima (half octopus gal), Nadine (speedster), Joe (turns into gas guy) and Louis (able to jump tall buildings in a single bound boy). To understand the joke about Joe losing his clothes you'll have to go back to this scene...! You'll have to fill in the blanks yourself.
Gas-masks: There was a good question in the forum about the use of gas-maskes by Rochelle and Kaycee - here's my answer:
My thinking is that the training has a degree of simulation such that there is actually gas in the Mutex canister, although obiously it isn't Mutex. instead it would be sleep inducing and cause any cadet who might catch a wiff of it to pass out - this essentially means they've been 'exposed to Mutex' and a sixth bug-bot would be introduced into the exercise to simulate that the cadet had transmogrified into one of weevils bugs. This might happen if the gas canister is ruptured or in any number of other scenarios.
In the Chandra Scale Charisma has an invulnerability to toxins (which would include biotoxins, knock-out gases etc) - her ranking is very high, the highest one can get in fact - see her Classified sheet.
Bill has no invulnerability to toxins at all. He really should have put on a gas mask before smashing his way into the control room - even though the release of the gas is controlled via a conduit to the masks of the hostage kid-bots there's no guarentee he would not be exposed to stray whiffs of mutex whilst smashing things up in the control room. In fact, that might have happened had Spence not called a halt to the exercise after Kaycee, Sioni and Montana-Rose were already out of play.
So Rochelle and Kaycee were correctly engaging with the scenario - a tick for them, Bill would get a big cross! Charisma, being Charisma had no need for one either way.
Red Team: Charisma, Chang, Maya and Rochelle... last seen a few scenes ago in pages4.72 and 4.73.
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Archives: The Magellan archives are free! Some quick stepping stones to the start of each chapter are available below. Happy reading:
Chapter 1: Wannabe: It all begins here... Kaycee heads off for Magellan Academy, the origin of Brelvis, Go!Anna takes on a small mystery, plus many characters are introduced - Nadine, Fatima, Freya, Tom, Charisma, Wombat-man and Epoch.
[60p]
Chapter 2: The Great Leap Forward: Kaycee faces up to her first moment of truth... will she be able to stand toe-to-tentacle with the best of her fellow cadets? Go!Anna's investigations go awry and Brelvis cuts loose.
[67p]
Chapter 3: Daze: Go!Anna has a piece of the puzzle to her investigations - little does she realise it leads to greater, more deadly problems. Introduces Bugle, Captain Victoria and Master Drake. Brelvis and Freya show up too!
[42p]
Chapter 4: Bad Karma: Karma's not who she pretends to be and she's woven a complex web of deceit within the very the heart of the Magellan Academy. She has a number of targets in her sights... including Kaycee.
[300p]
Reckless Hero: A story featuring cadet Gifford Foss with guest art by Jean-François Poulin. Gifford has been branded a reckless adventurer by his own people - the goblin Grorb of Byronia - but when the rampaging Rolf attack the Grorb's village can Gifford come to he rescue?
[20p]
Buying the Stairway to Heaven: A Magellan/Mindmistress crossover story. Mindmistress has dropped in to Magellan for a bit of tutoring time with hyper-brainy cadet Rochelle Kwan. Unknown to them both, Mindmistress has brought an unwelcome guest.
[24p]
Magellan History: A ten page backgrounder into the history of the Magellan Universe up to the end of Chpter 1. Read it here...
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