Where are we now, number 271? How about: Crevasse

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Stay with this arc, GGO! I love the idea of the G-10 conference and G-Force working security there -- I wonder if Spectra will indeed try to disrupt it, or whether Spectra has got agents provocateurs among the demonstrators? P.S. I haven't read last week's instalment yet, will do so now (just in case my questions have already been answered there).

To be honest, Daniella, I hadn't thought that far ahead. It could turn out to be that extreme rarity - the mission where the team goes somewhere and nothing goes pear-shaped. If I were to lift an idea from the original series, I suppose G-4 would befriend a Dire Wolf which would then help the team defeat an army of robot Lemmings, and Tatsunoko being Tatsunoko, the Lemmings would act according to legend and jump off a cliff en masse, although according to a recent episode of QI, in Scandinavia, parents warn their children against teasing Lemmings by telling them that agitated Lemmings will explode.(This, apparently, is also a myth.)

GGO: It is fun to sprinkle in some stuff where they're tense all the time and nothing dire happens. And y'all are making me miss that old Lemmings computer game!

...which reminds me of an Order of the Stick joke - the Dire Lemming, which charges straight past you and leaps of a cliff... only in a particularly dire manner. http://www.giantitp.com/Images/bcx/MonsterMash005.gif

Apparently I am "Forbidden" to access that link GGO! I remember being pretty bad at that Lemmings computer game (but I'm pretty bad at a lot of computer games ). I agree there's potential in this story thread. There's room for it to go in a couple of different directions, which is kinda cool!

Try this one and scroll down until you get to "Dire Lemming." http://www.giantitp.com/comics/Incentives.html If it still doesn't work, it may be something in the way gatchamania.com redirects. Try copying and pasting.

Thanks. That worked!

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl To be honest, Daniella, I hadn't thought that far ahead. It could turn out to be that extreme rarity - the mission where the team goes somewhere and nothing goes pear-shaped. If I were to lift an idea from the original series, I suppose G-4 would befriend a Dire Wolf which would then help the team defeat an army of robot Lemmings, and Tatsunoko being Tatsunoko, the Lemmings would act according to legend and jump off a cliff en masse, although according to a recent episode of QI, in Scandinavia, parents warn their children against teasing Lemmings by telling them that agitated Lemmings will explode.(This, apparently, is also a myth.)

LOL! Sounds more efficient than G-4 befriending a Lemming that then helps them defeat an army of dire wolves, no? BTW, until now I thought dire wolves existed only in GoT -- I actually thought you were going for a BoTP - GoT crossover for a moment [DT runs to hide].

LOL on the dire lemming!!! Dire Wolves were once real, though perhaps not as depicted in GoT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf

Originally posted by Daniella T BTW, until now I thought dire wolves existed only in GoT -- I actually thought you were going for a BoTP - GoT crossover for a moment [DT runs to hide].

That would probably work better with Gatch: The SNT find themselves in Westeros, where Ken and Jun decide to have a very explicitly-described affair with lots of nudity, and Jinpei gets thrown out a window (but he's okay, because he just uses his cape wings to glide to the ground, thus subverting the entire 'three-eyed Raven' subplot.) Dr Nambu attempts salad-spinner surgery on Hodor. Joe gets injured rescuing a Dire Wolf, dies and gets resurrected by Melisandre and Co. Jun falls into a campfire while trying to boil an egg and winds up with a pet dragon. Ryu joins up with those dudes who wear black and patrol the Wall. Sean Bean still gets his head chopped off, because he's Sean Bean. The supporting characters do unspeakable things to each other for six long and turgid books which barely manage to advance the plot at all, then the author suddenly winds everything up in one last season for the TV adaptation at the behest of the network bosses. The White Walikers turn out to be Galactor mechs. Also it would take about twenty years to write and lose a big chunk of its readership on the way. Given that it took me over ten years to finish Crusades I'm probably already pretty well set up there. Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl Also it would take about twenty years to write and lose a big chunk of its readership on the way.

I see what you did there!

Of course, it would also have an awesome soundtrack by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim) which everyone would download on iTunes.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl

Originally posted by Daniella T BTW, until now I thought dire wolves existed only in GoT -- I actually thought you were going for a BoTP - GoT crossover for a moment [DT runs to hide].

That would probably work better with Gatch: The SNT find themselves in Westeros, where Ken and Jun decide to have a very explicitly-described affair with lots of nudity, and Jinpei gets thrown out a window (but he's okay, because he just uses his cape wings to glide to the ground, thus subverting the entire 'three-eyed Raven' subplot.) Dr Nambu attempts salad-spinner surgery on Hodor. Joe gets injured rescuing a Dire Wolf, dies and gets resurrected by Melisandre and Co. Jun falls into a campfire while trying to boil an egg and winds up with a pet dragon. Ryu joins up with those dudes who wear black and patrol the Wall. Sean Bean still gets his head chopped off, because he's Sean Bean. The supporting characters do unspeakable things to each other for six long and turgid books which barely manage to advance the plot at all, then the author suddenly winds everything up in one last season for the TV adaptation at the behest of the network bosses. The White Walikers turn out to be Galactor mechs. Also it would take about twenty years to write and lose a big chunk of its readership on the way. Given that it took me over ten years to finish Crusades I'm probably already pretty well set up there. Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Only one thing left to say, or rather do

Hodor, Hodor? Hodor Hodor Hodor-Hodor. Hodor! Hodor, HodorHodorHodor

LOLOL

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl Hodor, Hodor? Hodor Hodor Hodor-Hodor. Hodor! Hodor, HodorHodorHodor

LOLOL "Don't call me Ser..."