No Middle Sliders
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Great, I saw the words Blood Moray and my brain associated it with Blood Meridian.
monster factory time!
I fuckin KNEW it’d be Emily
*Slayer noises*
Oof, the issues with bodily autonomy and consent are rouuuugh here. I would be so pissed.
The first panel, minus Moray-137's text box, would make a great T-shirt.
It’s so Emily that she just has a direct in with the Director
She may have the most Director-like thought processes of any human, judging by her "I'm teaching satellites to knit" approach.
Just how many Morays are there, and why can you change their colour like a damn light strip? They are living beings, they deserve more respect than being indefinitely replicated and controlled by an app.
There are as many Morays as the director sploops out, but usually only two active at any given time ("our" Moray, and whichever the Director is using as an avatar to interact with others). But yes, the appearance "editing" is pretty nuts. I don't think just anyone can do that, but this raises so many questions about how and why Emily now can 😅
We take the camera off Emily for five minutes and she’s found some spooky robes and a colour-shifting device
Cultist robes!
I feel like what’s going to happen next is Liz giving Emily a resounding lecture on consent while Moray awkwardly tries to downplay it because she doesn’t like conflict
I hope so! I mean, I love Emily. But she's way over the line here even if she didn't mean it (and we've seen her ignore consent with Momo before, as Miyaa very rightly mentioned elsewhere in these comments).
moraynara sauce
I was correct on the culprit, if not the cause!
Oof, not cool, Emily.
Ha! I was so sure Emily would be involved in fixing it. I didn't expect her to be the cause! 😆 Well played, Sir, well played.
I like how Liz's expression just says "THIS. FIX."
*whisper into the mirror* Bloody Moray. Bloody Moray. Bloody Moray. Bloody Moray. Bloody Moray.
...... Why am I irritated?
I love Emily in the robes standing in front of eldritch director. Got some very Cthulhu vibes going here
When you’re here to undo Being made the wrong hue That’s a Moray
Dora needs a new shirt. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1242 Blood (Moray)! Blood (Moray)! Blood (Moray)!
Morayto 🍅
Of course it was Emily''s fault all along.
I... I honestly feel like this is kinda the understated "robot horror hidden under comedy" arc. Like why tf does ANYONE have access to Moray's settings? And wiring Pheobe to the WOOM device so all her functions map to WOOM? Damn.
Yep. This would be super dark if not for all the whimsy.
Red Moray is cute.
SHE DOES HAVE A SETTINGS MENU I AM NOT CRAZY
The cultist cloak on Emily is hilarious. Almost as funny as Blood Red Moray!
Miku Moray?
It seems where Emily goes insanity follows. Also, she got partnered with her own Moray.
Some code leakage.
Tremendous… so many possibilities
So... Are we gonna just not talk about Emily's cult robes?
A gift from her new friends Truth and Beauty down in Penumbral Calculus. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5893
Am I the only one hoping for a battle royale, no DQ cage match between Moray-21 (aka Blood Moray) and Moray-137, where the loser leaves town ? Also, apologies. It appears my love of wrasslin' and my love of QC may have merged (ummm cross contaminated).
Mad Moray: Enter Blunderdome
...Y'know, this explains quite a lot.
Not the worst thing to find an Asian girl and a tentacle creature doing.
(spit take)
I should have known. -_-
Part of me is worried about the ethics, but another part of me is excited about the prospect of Moray having something similar to programmable chromatophors. Imagine the possibilities if she had control over it and could do multiple colors. Paired with her shapeshifting, she could change into and look like anything she wanted.
🎵 That's a... cuttlefish?
Is the hooded cultist/wizard robe concerning anyone else?
She was just visiting friends at Esoteric Mathematics. Robes = lab coats there.
I'm amazed at how much of a difference the hairstyles make. Did you also slightly alter the shape of the face to make them different?
Or the shape of the boobs?
I hope these sliders don't work like character creation in BG3, or they'll be here for hours!
Moray would be the sexiest gelatinous cube ever in BG3.
It takes a red-headed slime girl to get a dirty job done.
Is it just me or is Emily wearing cultist robes?
Esoteric Mathematics uniform. https://questionablecontent.net/comics/5893.png
One Moray, Two Moray Red Moray, Blue Moray
Does that make Violence & Regret the Thing 1 and Thing 2 of Cubetown? Is Liz the Grinch?
Fruit-juicy red Moray! Now with 15% more vitamin C!
No the last thing we need is a Red Moray crashing through walls!
Wait a minute! Could I get my own personalized Moray unit for moving to Cubetown? Because if so, well, to paraphase John, Paul, George, and Ringo... He's got a ticket to ride!
Just to check, did ANYBODY have "This is gonna be Emily's fault" for the cause of Moray's color change? I didn't, and by CTHULHU I should have. :(
I did not think of Emily.
I feel like this is a massive violation of Moray's consent, something that wouldn't get past a Sophont Experiment Ethics Board. But then, the whole of Cubetown feels that way.
I love Liz's facial expressions and gestures here. She doesn't even speak in panel two.
I should have seen this coming AND I DID NOT!!!
Given that Moray is filled with plankton, and Marten is a character in this strip, a musical interlude featuring Rush's Red Tide wouldn't be out of place.
I am going to play it now.
Moray is now full of pomegranate, so she has to spend half the year down here in the lower levels. All a plot to get her to spend more time with the Director...
Applause!
Jeph, your art has always been fantastic but my guy - the luminousity and accurate lighting in panel one especially is utterly exceptional! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Jeph has access to lots of sliders too!
I can think of no character in the QCUniverse more appropriate to bring to Cubetown than Emily. Although, I'd love to see Bubbles and Evan interact. Not sure Bubbles would like being the sounding board for all of Evan's insecurities though.
I know this is a joke, but having your body remotely changed by a total stranger without your consent or knowledge is serious body horror.
David Cronenberg's Shifters
🤘 BLØØD MØRÄY! 🤘
Moray begins throat singing, despite not having a throat.
Slimeracha
This makes me think of The Wiz: 🎵 You've - got to be seen, green! I - wouldn't be caught dead, red!
When hue a slider controls From my head tomatoes That's a Moray
Somewhere, Momo gets a horrific sense of deja vu, but then she thinks it’s from May telling her to bang Sven for the 503rd time. And then Momo’s hair turns polkadot gold.
When you body's gel Makes you a spawn from Hell That's our Moray!
Emily would be a HUGE fan of Monster Factory
enchilada sauce Moray
To be thorough, enchilada sauce comes in red and green. Closely related: Heinz has made tomato ketchup in green and purple. If Moray wants to cover them all she needs to show up in teal, pink, blue, and orange. But I don't want her to go through that.
I really wish I could say I was not surprised that Emily was in the middle of this, but I was. Darn it, this was supposed to be a reply to Àmy, but I misplaced it. Sorry.
So you’re telling me that all this dread, panic at her colors and all this fearing of Moray losing her identity were all for nothing?! 🤣🤣🤣 Good show!!!
Something tells me we won't be able to completely put the existential crisis back in Pandora's Box, especially after Moray was previously wondering about her own independence/consciousness
The Red Sea regional variant of a Moray.
...red tide?
Emliy?! What a twist! 😆 🤣
When your friend with an app Caused your color mishap That's A Moray!
When you once were chartuse now you look like tomato juice — That’s a Moray!
Of COURSE Emily's responsible.
I somehow never considered Emily could be the cause. Maybe I'm a little dumb.
Next, crips moray
Aaaaaand, of course, Emily had something to do with it. Well, this was most certainly unexpectedly expected.
THE BLOOD MORAY RISES ONCE AGAIN PLEASE BE CAREFUL, LINK…
It's still sad that the director gets to be an incomprehensible eldritch horror operating its own city full of dubious research without trouble, meanwhile Yay apparently couldn't exist in multiple bodies at once without the feds black-bagging their ass. I'm beginning to suspect Yay might just be clinically paranoid..
Justifiably paranoid, to be fair. The Director may do things that are extremely difficult, but they still broadly operate within the bounds of theoretical possibility. Yay's accomplishment of multiple-embodiment was, and for most of the world still is, thought to be quite literally impossible. There's any number of unscrupulous black-box organizations out there that wouldn't think twice about dissecting Yay to get their hands on that advancement. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4591
Color is red; smell is ocean. Moray is cocktail sauce.
And now I won’t be able to go to Red Lobster because of this. *sigh*
Was the WOOM just a coincidence? Was it Emily all along? Find out on our next adventure!
The WOOM probably made her hand slip when she was adjusting the sliders.
When the color of your slime / turns a vivid carmine / that's not a moray
Moray's the sweetest tomato aspic cosplayer in all of Cubetown.
Emily has no idea what she’s done 😩
Literally, I suspect. My bet is Emily was trying to figure out how to change Moray-137's color and didn't realize it was already working. She has occasionally been known to accidentally a science. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5849
Blood Moray had undergone.... the ritual
Moray busting through a wall: OH YEAH
Lmao mystery resolved
We need a GIF panel of moray just color cycling like an RGB fan 😂
Which I suspect that’s tomorrow, as a second shoe drop joke to what Emily did with Momo. Bookbeard, cue the link!
"Blood Moray" is the Cubetown-set slasher movie.
Blood Moray-dian?
Red Dead Excretion
Let's hope not!
Monster Factory reference? I hope so.
Of course, it was Emily.
GMTA.
Say bloody moray three times and she'll gloop out of the mirror to cause antics
Liar, I tried and it didn't work :(
You know... I feel like I should be less surprised.
I feel that I should have seen this one coming a mile away, but I did NOT.
Notorious RGB
CYMK Posse
Emily! Is it just me, or does she look comfortable here in a way she never did anywhere else?
I really wish I could say I was surprised that Emily was in the middle of this, but I'm not.
Obviously the solution is that all of them should kiss
I approve
she moved the blue slider down
Just give Moray the app
Bloody moray bloody moray bloody moray
Here's the musical version: South Pacific Musical 1958 with ORIGINAL LYRICS BY ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67Yh0Nmr-o