Comic 1410 - Riotary Considerations
Author Notes:
UPDATE (3:10 PM MST): Terri called around 11 AM to let me know that she was in recovery. (I did not post then because I was in bed, having taken a sleeping pill to try to knock my ass out rather than spending the entire day worrying.) The bad news is that one of the bypasses has closed up; the good news is that the cardiologist was able to open up the OEM artery that had required the bypass. Two more stents have been placed (not certain of which vessels have been stented, however). She is apparently going to be staying overnight for observation. No further info available just yet.
UPDATE (5:20 PM MST): The cardiologist says that what Terri has is aggressive coronary disease, but adjustments to her medications may knock the "aggressive" part off. The two stents were placed in the right coronary artery; the bypass on that vessel is 80% occluded, unfortunately, but clearing the original artery and placing the stents should compensate. She is resting comfortably in recovery, reports no pain, and is definitely staying overnight for observation; that last part's pretty important, because an arterial catheter procedure on someone who's on blood thinners runs a risk of nasty complications like all their red stuff leaking out by accident.
Comments:
LOL. Poor Noctis getting insulted like that; however, she DID sound like Luna-Comm there! :-D
The important question is how can they save Acantha now? They have some time, but their options are certainly being reduced in a hurry.
Aimed at the people largely responsible for a lot of the stuff mentioned.
... WAAAIIIT ... She's a Little Sister of the Immaculate Chainsaw, isn't she ?
We are.
Maybe Kyle can help them? ^_^
Really the problem seems to be that none of the current brainstormers are plugged into intimate knowledge of the medical resources available in Nova Roma, so they don't know what resources they have to work with. They are apparently starting with the most conventional and only just starting to work their way down the list. I expect a superior solution will manifest shortly. (Remember, it's weeks for us, but only seconds for them. ^_^) So much of Nova Roma's population and workforce is meat, health care facilities have to be pretty prevalent. There may even be more of them than in New Troy -- at least at the level for dealing with typical anti-social violence and workplace accident. New Troy would have a vast edge in android-capable machine shops per city block for addressing the maintenance issues of their majority population. ^_^ (Or so I would expect.)
* - Of course, the map on the Tech Page has two different locations marked for Logrin's Bunker, separated by about 1000 miles, so perhaps a grain of salt is in order? ^_^)
The rest kinda makes sense, although I don't see Dolly being willing to leave Lynne's side either, wounded or not.
Another small but not insignificant detail that no-one is considering is that both Dr. Silver and "Charlie" are currently in a situation where if they step out of the building they will be shot, and that has not been rescinded, even with the Cease fire.
Apparently Cassians don't like cyberpaths for some reason...
oh an @Mudge: NO.! bring in an unknown to work on Queen.. yeah ,, NO.
i forsee city ( ? Areanus ?) bringing things under control now that hes repaired
I could easily see the current group breaking up, if there was any reason to, but there really isn't (IMHO). However, the following links would necessarily be preserved (again, IMHO):
Ada will not leave her patient (Acantha).
TeeDee will not leave Ada.
Maxus will not leave Acantha.
Noctis will not leave Maxus. (She will strongly discourage Maxus from leaving Acantha, but obey direct orders if necessary. However, see above.)
Dolly will not leave Lynn.
Lynn will be strongly motivated to stay with Acantha, but might be persuaded with sufficient pressure.
Tokyo Rose will keep trying to stall them all to stay in the room with Nox's head until one of her other agents can arrive on the scene because she doesn't trust everyone to act properly without her being able to influence the situation in some way if another attack of the 'stupids' breaks out. (Thanks, Kyle. ^_^)
Nox's remains will not leave the room. (It would undoubtedly appeal to Tokyo Rose's macabre sense of humor if she could manipulate the situation so that she can arrange for Maxus to be carrying a severed head when he emerges from the tunnels, but not enough that she will put in the energy it would require to make it happen. She has more important things on her plate.)
Just my guesses ... maybe all of them are wrong. Guess we'll find out.
If nothing else, then because Tokyo Rose's humor *is* a bit .. dark. :D
Properly macabre, that would be.
They may be far away and no good at emergency medical services, but they are masters of communication. No doubt they have been following what's going on as closely as possible. Maybe the chaos is NOT very followable, but if anyone has the ability to glean intelligence from a mass of frightened comms, it's Luna Com.
To me that seems analogous to a riot situation in (for example) Dublin, Ireland. In order to find the nearest available hospital, you contact the American CIA with their network of spy satellites, rather than calling the Dublin Police? Okay ... possible, I suppose. Especially if the Dublin police have just been the target of a vicious hack attack on their information network, but still ... not the way I would go.
If she's qualified, why not take Acantha to the palace's med center after Maxus sends his troops to secure it and put the fires out? And why not have Ada use the equipment there to save her?
I'm thinking that if Ada, an android from New Troy, gets the credit for performing surgery on and saving the life of Acantha - their princess and new regent - that would go a long way towards both restoring public opinion of androids and improving relations with New Troy. (That, or at least minimizing the fallout of this incident. The New Troy team did provide guns, supplies, and data to the rebels, helping to organize this rebellion.)
Of course, that might lead to questions of why a New Troy android is there and they probably don't want the whole story out. The part about restoring Aeneas, in particular, needs to be handled carefully. But it's not like the public isn't going to find out that Aeneas is restored, anyway. That's one cat that they can't keep in the bag.
I hope you both are well...
I was thinking myself if there was anything NOT on fire at this point.
Trust me, you can ask my mother, my kids, my brothers and all of my friends.
I am one person you DON'T want to get upset.
So TAKE CARE OF YOU!!!
We'll hold the fort for you.
And wait for you magic.
Also I am thinking two things now. One Ada's gonna hit someone if they don't get to a med bay stat, and that tedee andnoctus should just kiss and get it over with!
One merely does not get in her way anymore and let her do what she will!
That said, I need somewhere to vent, it's almost on topic, and this is as good a place as any (and better than most).
To The Five Brainless Shitpotatoes Who Are Having A Violently Emotional Shouting Match Ten Feet From My Fucking Window In The Goddamn Parking Lot:
You're all absolutely fucking right. One and all, you are sluts, cheaters, liars, thieves, racists, sluts*, and assholes. This is definitely the time and place. No, you don't need to call Casey and obtain further testimony on the subject of slutting, cheating, lying, thieving, racism, and assholery, because you are all clearly experts in said fields. Casey probably couldn't contribute meaningfully to the conversation, since from all verbal evidence, he or she must be terribly busy having extraordinarily complicated sex with an astonishing number of people. No, good sir, may I suggest you use the phrase "bushels of dicks", since "tons of dicks" seems rather bland. Yes, I concur that one or more of you needs to "step up" to one or more of the others and "start something", though I pose the fucking question of whether "something" has already been "started" by virtue of this goddamn screaming match. Please, miss, please stop crying, it sounds like what one would expect to hear if the world's most inept whaler was trying to kill a walrus with a harpoon that is clenched firmly between their asscheeks. DO ANY OF YOU SHITFLINGERS EVEN LIVE HERE?!
* This is being repeated frequently enough from all parties involved that I have to give it more than one entry.
I appreciate the sharing, @Tokyo Rose, but now I'm going to be caught up in wondering about the fate of poor Casey, and whether or not he ever manages to find True Love in a parking lot, or just ends up dragging himself through a sad, meaningless existence surrounded by those lacking the gift of truly imaginative invective.
To aid those of you who may want assistance in finding your happy place, I offer this little thought: Imagine, if you will, the reaction of one of these five people if it should turn out that they are regular readers of the DataChasers webcomic. ^_^ Hope that helps.
Yes sir! Yes sir! Three bags full!
Have you any dicks,
Yes Sir, Yes sir,
Three times six.
Six for old Casey,
Six for Bishop too,
That leaves six,
I can paint blue.
YOU FUCKING MAGNIFICENT LYRICAL GENIUS.
Don't forget that Casey's sad, meaningless existence will also be surrounded by staggering quantities of sex. Seriously, the way they were going on, Casey is some kind of Olympic-level fuck impresario.
However, given the obvious thickness of the skulls of these evidently otherwise thin skinned and loose legged individuals, I am uncertain as to the efficiency of anything short of an 88mm anti-tank gun at dispatching them.
In other words, I can relate.
{quote= Dragonrider} Sounds like a typical Friday night around here. {/quote}
{quote= CptKerion} ...In other words, I can relate. {/quote}
O_O I don't think that I've ever been more glad that I live out in the boonies.
Even if the projectile remained intact, the extreme levels of sugar in the blood would be detected, and the weapon could be easily identified based on the residues in it, and its nature as being able to fire such a payload.
A further challenge is that the rock candy, even if intact at a sufficient scale to cause lethal injury, would scatter a lot, and I'd imagine that it looks really suspicious when there are high velocity impacts with a bunch of sugar in them.
Edit - LUCK very much is wished for you. :-)
It's a good thing for Terri she has a cardiologist who's been around the block a time or two. ^_^