Hmm….looks like Ashling is now “the Aoife”….she’d be very proud if she knew 😀
A bit of a heads up alas. My usually wonderful(ly awful) planning has resulted in me screwing up the Back Office, Bata Neart and Coffee Party schedules. I’m usually pretty far with the Coffee Party stuff by now, but this year due to competition projects earlier on and the house move I haven’t really done anything and now I have two months to create a 10 page manga that isn’t horrible. So with that in mind I was already going to make the usual break 2 weeks instead of 1. However I think I might have to push that up to 3 weeks due to me being kind of wiped out too.
So provisionally, I going to set the following as the next start up date. And again I’m sorry that I keep doing this so often lately 🙁
Friday October 2nd 2020
Hope to see you back then!
*cue “Yakety Sax” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
Here we go again. 😆
Hmm, using Ashling’s full name, the Glare of Death, the Voice of Doom… That’s clearly not the reaction Garda Rachael was expecting. Could the last panel be the thought occurring to her that there may be something out of the ordinary going on?
Or then again maybe she’s just wondering if she’s loosing her touch? Glare of Death and Voice of Doom are important garda skills, after all…
@Azrael: “Yakety Sax” is a good choice, but personally I’m rather partial to “Sing Sing Sing” https://youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A
“Hey. Charlie, aren’t those the humans that could see us earlier?”
“Oh, not this again, Harold. We left them in the parking lot, they couldn’t possibly have gotten up here this fast. You know humans are slow.”
“You didn’t even look at them, Charlie.”
“All humans looks alike, Harold. Or are you going to tell me you can actually tell them apart?”
“No, but that definitely looks like the same magic staff.”
“Look, Harold, there’s a young battle witch here, completely defenseless, with a tragic past. Do you want to eat her soul or not? Because if not you can just go home and I’ll eat your share of her.”
“…Fine. It would be a shame to let a delicious morsel like that get away. But if that human starts blasting, I’m using you as cover.”
“I’m sorry, Garda Rachael, but it would take too long to explain.”
“Let me esplain. No, there is too much. Let me…RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!” Queue Monty Python music.
*plucks lute and yowls discordantly
Brave Sir Ashling ran away.
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
She bravely turned her tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Ashling turned about
And gallantly she chickened out.
Swiftly taking to her feet,
She beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Ashling!
>^.^<
Nice "Monty Python and the Princess Bride" by the way, @Farren. 😆
Maybe Ashling can later convince Garda Rachael that this was all because she was having a flashback due to her PASD: Post Aoife Stress Disorder. Rachael may possibly have some experience with with that malady.
Also, poor Fiona. This is soooooo not what she signed up for. Well, I think we know what story Aunt Fiona is going to tell Ashling’s future children when she wants to embarrass their mom.
@AskAoife: A little birdie told me you sometimes like to play cupid. Have you ever thought about helping out Miss Connors?
It occurs to me this may have been attempted with disastrous consequences for all involved. A partial explanation for Capt. Sharon’s antipathy, perhaps?
@Kessy: NoooooOOooooo. N-no….
That girl is scary…if she even ever was a girl…I’m wondering if she just grew out from a goal-post one day, fully grown, on some distant wind-swept game pitch, all angry and out for her *revenge*…. :O
I did have a dream once where had tried to set her up with someone…the results were wierd…..(wavey lines…into a flashback)
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*Peaceful scene at a quiet fishing village on the coast of Iceland*
Sven: Good catch this morning?
Torleif: Ya, not bad over on the south end and then there was-”
*Distant rumbling*
Sven: What is that sound?
Torleif: It’s getting stronger…
*Birds begin to fly away in panic*
“…….mmmmmmmmmMAC DONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!”
*Trees blasted by the sound wave, Sven & Torleif are launched into the air*
….
*The rumbling dies down, replaced by the sound of countless car alarms blaring*
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(Wavy lines, back to today)
Aoife: ….
Aoife: So, erm….yea. I haven’t really thought about playing Cupid for Miss Connors…..is scary…..
@Azrael: I dunno, if you’ll recall Sharon has often singled out Ashling as the trouble maker of the group, rather than Aoife. No, I suspect her ill temper may be rooted in some horrible trauma in her past. Perhaps involving a camogie match gone horribly wrong, emergency services sirens, and macarena music. Oh, the humanity!
Who knows, maybe Ashling’s mom Rebekka (whom Ashling bears a strong resemblance to) may have been involved somehow? That could explain Sharon’s antipathy toward Ashling.