BAMCOMIX presents: Hidden In The Shadows - Chapter 11: A Girl's Best Friend

This... was a fun installment! Elements of the trademark K-Troop humor, but also a serious tone underlying the levity.

And, uh, yeah... they asked the same questions I have: how will anyone know what an alien artifact looks like? At least Kamiko gave us a well-reasoned explanation of what an alien artifact will not look like.

P. 241 - I love the way Laura is gazing in near reverie at that weapon! She's gonna have some fun with that!

And leave it to the Girl Genius to have the national anthem of Norway stuck in her head!

I agree with Dave! Fantastic installment! Kamiko has everything in hand by the looks of it! Can't wait to see how they get on!

Blondeactionman wrote:

I agree with Dave! Fantastic installment! Kamiko has everything in hand by the looks of it! Can't wait to see how they get on!

Kamiko always has things in hand until they go way out of hand (at least in for my earlier DAZ 3d variant.  This has yet to happen with 1/6 scale Kamiko, but it will. The usual progression is that events suddenly take a wild, unpredictable twist, forcing Kamiko to have a "WTF" moment before she uses her brain power and courage and incredible luck to turn the tables.

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

Blondeactionman wrote:

I agree with Dave! Fantastic installment! Kamiko has everything in hand by the looks of it! Can't wait to see how they get on!

Kamiko always has things in hand until they go way out of hand (at least in for my earlier DAZ 3d variant.  This has yet to happen with 1/6 scale Kamiko, but it will. The usual progression is that events suddenly take a wild, unpredictable twist, forcing Kamiko to have a "WTF" moment before she uses her brain power and courage and incredible luck to turn the tables.

Great installment. Kamiko is very good at getting Laura to do the impossible. Either that or Laura is just a miracle worker and is assigned to a good leader.

One day these poker games might not pay off the dividends KTC want... Ha ha!!!! Or is that me just wishful thinking...

SCU_HQ wrote:

This... was a fun installment! Elements of the trademark K-Troop humor, but also a serious tone underlying the levity.

And, uh, yeah... they asked the same questions I have: how will anyone know what an alien artifact looks like? At least Kamiko gave us a well-reasoned explanation of what an alien artifact will not look like.

P. 241 - I love the way Laura is gazing in near reverie at that weapon! She's gonna have some fun with that!

And leave it to the Girl Genius to have the national anthem of Norway stuck in her head!

The "running around naked singing the national anthem of Norway" is a running gag I've used for at least the last thirty years. Whenever somebody proposed doing something I really didn't want to go, (go to an office Xmas party for instance) I'd say "Thanks, but I'd rather shave my head, paint it purple and run down Ste-Catherine Street naked. (Saint Catherine Street is Montreal's main commercial strip)

I think the problem of what an alien artifact would look like is a good question. Most Star Trek (or sci-fi for that matter) aliens look too human and ergo sci-fi alien gadgets and weapons all look like they were designed to be held and manipulated by humans.

londonroadhog wrote:

Great installment. Kamiko is very good at getting Laura to do the impossible. Either that or Laura is just a miracle worker and is assigned to a good leader.

One day these poker games might not pay off the dividends KTC want... Ha ha!!!! Or is that me just wishful thinking...

Thanks Colin. Kamiko is very good at getting anyone to do pretty much anything, although Laura is a first-rate engineer and much like Scotty of Star Trek fame often claims it will take six hours to do something she can do in two hours just to preserve her reputation as a miracle worker.

Kamiko never loses a card game unless she wants to. No-one has ever been able to adequately explain why this is without hinting at the supernatural and the belief held by many that Kamiko is guided by and protected by the kami, particularly the spirit of her late mother and of Tomoe Gozen, an ancient female samurai. In opinion however, it's highly unlikely that a 13th century Japanese woman would know anything about poker strategies.

Ha ha... Obviously Gary, with Kimono the "Ki" is certainly strong with her, and she knows how to use it. Powerful stuff!!!

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

londonroadhog wrote:

Ha ha... Obviously Gary, with Kimono the "Ki" is certainly strong with her, and she knows how to use it. Powerful stuff!!!  

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

Kamiko is used to getting her way...except maybe with her niece Michiko. It would appear the one thing Kamiko does not know very well how to handle is a teenage girl.

Yeah, teenagers defy the laws of logic, and pretty much anything else. At least out of five kids, I've only got one that is just hanging on to the teenage thing (only months to go before he is twenty!!!). The daughter is now 21 but still seems like a teen at times. Don't tell her I said that out loud...

londonroadhog wrote:

Yeah, teenagers defy the laws of logic, and pretty much anything else. At least out of five kids, I've only got one that is just hanging on to the teenage thing (only months to go before he is twenty!!!). The daughter is now 21 but still seems like a teen at times. Don't tell her I said that out loud...

As i don't know your daughter, the secret is safe with me.

Just finished reading Chapter 11 of Hidden In The Shadows. Some parts of the story made me laugh.

They were supposed to make you laugh. Kimono Troop is funny that way.