December 11th, 2020
11 Dec 2020 · page 1040 of 1306
All aboard.
Cast: Lei Feng, Verity Cunningham
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Look V, we all know business is your pleasure.
Wait, so when you said boat crimes, did you mean solving them, or...? Because I assumed they were hired by Jack and company to track down our witch hunting american.
Or maybe they were hired by that witch-hunting American?
What do you mean "or"?
This is a story separate from Harry and co I think, albeit one that might end up feeding back into the main one in the end, as these things tend to do.
As far as Nicola is concerned, Eliza is on the job
Not in America, she isn't. Out of jurisdiction, and would cause all kinds of red tape headaches.
A bounty hunter, on the other hand, is barely official and perfect for "if you get caught, I don't know you" investigations. Which is why it's Verity and not Harry.
Either Vee didn't know ahead of time which deck she had tickets for, or she knew, but didn't want it said out loud when she was trying to impress Lei!
In the first case, someone could send her tickets with a description of the task they want her to do.
Which is silly, since Lei was impressed that she had tickets at all.
And also she was about to find out one way or another.
If it's a British luxury liner then third class/steerage won't actually be too bad. The Titanic's third class passengers had good amenities for the time and place... with what would end up being one glaring exception, of course.
Is "purser" rich people talk for "cashier"?
Less "rich people talk" and more "sailor talk". Purser is a position in a ship's crew that apparently handles money? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purser "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purser")
Dealing with the accounts and passengers, two things that real sailors don't want to have anything to do with.
Fair enough. But "purser" is still specifically nautical, at the very least.
It's also used on planes, basically the head of the cabin crew. But planes and ships are not too dissimilar (in that you're all cooped up together and can't get off easily, and after God, the Captain is the boss).
A lot of aeronautical terminology is specifically based on nautical terms. (And I just realized that even "aeronautical" itself has its root in "nautical".)
Could it be an offshoot of "bursar", or are the purser's duties different?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purser "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purser")
Anyone know what "Swedish bread" would have been? (Bread made in Sweden, obviously, but what kind? Googling "Swedish bread" returns at least three possible candidates.)
Ah yes... no shuffleboard. Those poor people.
Can't help noticing that Lei said the ship is fast while remaining comfortable for luxury passengers. Didn't say anything about steerage...
OoooOOOOoOh that boat is done for.
C'mon, V. Have you learned nothing from your match with Pride?
Do you really need to ask?
Well, it's remarkable she says about them both, "our presence" and all.
I wonder if she did so as Harry's partner, in contrast to her rival attitude after their break-up?
And you're about to get your own boxes falling on you~
really, how she managed to hold them for so long is such a skill.
reminds me of an old game called "the ship" which is all about hunting people and being hunted by people, IT IS TIME TO KILL QUARRY.
Tuesday: Lei trips on the edge of the stair tread {or so she says} and drops all the luggage.
Forward...
The luggage turns on it's little legs and stares at her accusingly with its Knot holes
Just curious; were the immigration segregation gates in between the third class and the rest in place during this time? I was going to comment that "there were locks placed on outside of the third class passengers doors because of people like Verity" but I decided to look into actual facts. No, that was just dramatization in that stupid overrated movie.
However, the wikipedia article does mention that there were gates because of United States immigration laws that partitioned the accommodative areas because of disease... which turned out to not be effective enough, as the notorious Spanish Influenza hit the States six years later.
Urgh... talking about cruise boats and diseases is reminding me I hate this year overall.
Actually, it looks as if the US may have been one of the main hot spots of the "Spanish" flu - it got that name because of press censorship, actually.
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I read the hover text as "All absurd" at first...
Feel like that would be equally accurate by the end of things.
Eh, you can still enjoy quite a bit of the luxury of a cruise while in cattle class, or so a friend told me...
... a friend that shared a small cabin on a cruise ship just above the waterline with me and one other friend.
I wonder how to what extent Vee's goat would be got if someone were to remark that Harry could probably afford second class tickets - or, worse yet, that her sister would simply insist that she - and Sid, of course - absolutely, positively had to sail *first* class!
A moment of silence to appreciate how strong Lei is. O^O
okay folks I have a PLAN. gonna scale back to just friday updates for just a lil while til I finish the kickstarter fulfillment, then when that's done I will take a short break.
apologies for the interruption but me and drawing are having a bit of a falling out and I gotta recover so I can come back stronger better faster
Take all the time you need!
Good plan
Are you becoming the bionic webcomic author?
if anyone would like to suggest any cybernetic parts to bolt on now would absolutely be the time
So I take it that you're currently perpetually wearing Verity's expression in panel 3?
Thank you for letting us know! (And watch out for those repetitive-stress injuries! They're a bear!)