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Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:30 am
by Jethreuel
New ones posted:

http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider146.html
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider147.html

Now, why did they not bring these to him before? And what will be their reactions to the food he has?

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:40 am
by boldilocks
Jethreuel wrote:New ones posted:

http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider146.html
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider147.html

Now, why did they not bring these to him before? And what will be their reactions to the food he has?
You can't enjoy the age-old joke of feeding the foreign dignitary your most disgusting food and pretending it's luxurious cuisine if you hand him his own rations.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:09 am
by Krulle
"you are officially my hero"

Then embrace and kiss! /fandemands


I'm sure Alex will enjoy the astronaut food supply, as long as it lasts....

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:45 am
by GeoModder
Barcodes are still a thing in the 22nd century? :ugeek:

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:45 am
by raistlin34
As a human, Jardin consumes more oxygen and nutrients than Loroi, right?

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:25 am
by folti
GeoModder wrote:Barcodes are still a thing in the 22nd century? :ugeek:
Why not? If it works now, it'll work then too, they'll still have the computerized inventory tracking in the future, where barcodes (and the 2 dimensional codes like QR) will work for.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:40 am
by dragoongfa
Can anyone figure out what it says on the label?

I think that it says 'PREUS DEWD' at the top right of the label and 'GDR' at the bottom left.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:59 am
by Zorg56
GDR- German Democratic Republic.

The Reds will rise up again!

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:12 pm
by Krulle
We're slowly wandering through the instances, and we'll take over Berlin!

Fun aside,
I tried reading the text too, but could not make sense out of the images.
The second word in the upper right corner seems to be "dried".
Maybe a Patreon has access to higher resolutions?
(And who wants a wager that they won't have enough water for Alex to rehydrate his rations?)

And I presume barcodes will remain for a long while. They're extremely cheap, and all they need is a printer.
A little printing on a package needs to be done anyway and it uses less ressources than an RFID.


One thing though I keep stumbling over...
The food did not agree with Alex, or Alex did not agree with the food? (page 147 - panel 1)

Other side notes, I like how the "A" changes its form from panel 1 to last panel. (nametag page 147).
In panel 1 the A-"legs" seem to rather triangular, in the last panel the A-"legs" are nearly parallel to each other...
It just shows that the characters are hand drawn.
Image
I like it.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:21 pm
by Mithramuse
dragoongfa wrote:Can anyone figure out what it says on the label?

I think that it says 'PREUS DEWD' at the top right of the label and 'GDR' at the bottom left.
I'm definitely going with "Freeze Dried" on the upper right, but really not sure what the lower left is supposed to be.

So... Astronaut Ice Cream, anyone? ;)


Edited to add:
Krulle wrote:One thing though I keep stumbling over...
The food did not agree with Alex, or Alex did not agree with the food? (page 147 - panel 1)
Based on the text on the lower right corner of the Chapter 2 splash page, the puke-color bun disagreed with Alex for sure, another caused nausea... other foods it might have been more his disagreement with even trying it ("Eyeball thing," lol!). I am curious which of the foods was rated to be 'edible' though.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:28 pm
by Krulle
Could just be the manufacturer.
The small text will likely be the kind of dish, and the preparation instruction.

I thought they had everything on the ship in "trade"....?
Or I am mixing up stories in my head....?
(I once read a story of first-contact too, and there the contact mission changed a lot on ship to prevent anyone from deducting anything about Earth and its position. They changed the light colour, dyed the personnels skin a tad, changed the writings of monitors and permanent markings on the wall to the "trade language", .... - to make it appear as if "we" evolved under a sun of a different colour, so their search algorithms would run into nothingness.)


Edit: I think I'm mixing it up with the "Gibraltar Earth" series from Michael McCollum

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:59 pm
by volrath77
Krulle wrote:(And who wants a wager that they won't have enough water for Alex to rehydrate his rations?)
Well, Jardin can certainly pee on his rations. Current MREs can be rehydrated using any water including urine, right? I'd like to think that future rations would likely retain that bit as a contingency. If his own is not enough, well...

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:03 pm
by Krulle
You still need a certain volume. And over time the volume your kidneys will expell will reduce if there's no additional water inflow.

And... - yuck. personal opinion, but your fetish is yours...

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:26 pm
by icekatze
hi hi
Jethreuel wrote:Now, why did they not bring these to him before? And what will be their reactions to the food he has?
Hopefully because they were analyzing them so that they can synthesize more of it when the reach someplace that has the appropriate facilities. If Alex is going to be stuck in Loroi space for potentially the rest of his life, those rations may not last very long.

Although, with the way things are looking now, the rest of his life may not be very long. ;)

--
Also, looking at Beryl's expressions between the two pages, I daresay she's prodding Alex on purpose on page 146. I'd give it even odds that she's trying to get him to relax and open up, distract from the otherwise grim situation by being overly jovial, or a bit of both. She kind of reminds me of those parents who are trying to convince their kids that the camping trip really is going to be super fun, even if there's no internet or cell phone reception.

Alex is of course not having any of it, and in my opinion, rightfully so. Survival first, and all that.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:26 pm
by man_of_foul_tofu
Survive, hide, panic, eat and then ... ew eliminate.

I bet that if there is any consolidation to preserve warmth that takes place, there is zero romance, or a terrifying variation of what human intimacy works with.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:27 pm
by Werra
icekatze wrote:Also, looking at Beryl's expressions between the two pages, I daresay she's prodding Alex on purpose on page 146. I'd give it even odds that she's trying to get him to relax and open up, distract from the otherwise grim situation by being overly jovial, or a bit of both. She kind of reminds me of those parents who are trying to convince their kids that the camping trip really is going to be super fun, even if there's no internet or cell phone reception.
Precisely. She's nice to Alex, but keeps the ugly truth from him, like a mom talking down to her kids. Let's not kid ourselves, the variables she still needs are how long Alex will last, not anything about the Loroi.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:51 pm
by GeoModder
folti wrote:
GeoModder wrote:Barcodes are still a thing in the 22nd century? :ugeek:
Why not? If it works now, it'll work then too, they'll still have the computerized inventory tracking in the future, where barcodes (and the 2 dimensional codes like QR) will work for.
I'd expected something more advanced like a holographic watermark or something.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:53 pm
by folti
GeoModder wrote:
folti wrote:
GeoModder wrote:Barcodes are still a thing in the 22nd century? :ugeek:
Why not? If it works now, it'll work then too, they'll still have the computerized inventory tracking in the future, where barcodes (and the 2 dimensional codes like QR) will work for.
I'd expected something more advanced like a holographic watermark or something.
Why bother, when you already have a rugged and sturdy system, something that will be more important to stuff that might be around for decades, and can be easily readable by anything with a light source and camera/laser sensor, and an optional datalink to a database to parse the information.

Infrastructure have an inertia, and even if they start to use something better, like the aforementioned RFID, the older methods might be kept around as a backup solution, in case of the RFID chip say gets fried by excess radiation, or just breaks down say 10 years down the road. Especially if they are dirt cheap as barcodes.

EDIT: plus on the artist's side, it's much easier to draw barcodes, and they are more recognizable to the readers than whetever gizmo they can come up with.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:10 am
by boldilocks
Guys, it's already established that the Loroi have blanket technology.

Re: Pages 146, 147: You are officially my Hero

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:43 am
by SVlad
dragoongfa wrote:Can anyone figure out what it says on the label?

I think that it says 'PREUS DEWD' at the top right of the label and 'GDR' at the bottom left.
Generic Daily Ration, maybe?