Shading and jaggy bits. You know what that means.

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It means this strip would have been up eight hours ago if it weren't for the puking-in-a-trashcan followed by passing out in the storage room at work. Verily, I drank way too much. And shall now pass out some more.

09:47 <@ejp> well, you're not dead.
09:51 <@solios> that's a damned lie, that.
09:51 <@ejp> heh
09:51 <@ejp> wtf did you do to yourself?
09:52 <@solios> got drunk with a guy who makes torpedo guidance systems.
09:52 <@ejp> aah.
09:52 <@solios> or... something. involving torpedoes.
09:52 <@ejp> yay for extreme drunkeness
09:55 <@solios> why do we keep doing it when it hurts so fucking much? :|
09:55 <@ejp> in my case? girls.
09:55 <@solios> word
09:55 <@ejp> though tonight I'm determined to get Floaty and not Spinny.
09:55 <@solios> :o
09:55 <@ejp> because being more sober than those around you is ++
09:57 <@solios> I've heard

Nothing to be proud of (far from it) but I'm aware of no other method for hard-rebooting a sleeping schedule that's even half as effective.

I've also redacted a bunch of unnecessary shit from the book 3 script - having hacked and gutted all but the most important Heirotus bits, I ought to be able to fit the thing into six chapters (read: "issues") of Industry Standard Length.