Numberless Hordes
so many Morays
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How is Moray-0118 999 881 999 119 725...3 doing?
I just sang that, you bastard.
I love Claire, as a trans person, understanding the deep importance and significance of picking your own name, but still letting the librarian in her prefer that things be ordered
When the Director's voice Gets a number by choice, That's a-Moray!
Why is Moray-6 afraid of Moray-7?
Or Moray-789?
the exception is Moray-9. when the Director tried to create her, she attempted to crystalize his entire body. close call, that.
“My big sister analogue was traumatized to such an extent that she no longer considers IRL safe and stays with mother all the time.” “Wait your names aren’t ordered?”
420 69? Nice :)
It kept saying "nice" whenever she was called by name. The orca warned her to stop. She didn't. It really was her own fault.
Honestly, there must be hundreds of them, not unlike the Morays themselves.
If you cheerfully chat, then return to the vat, that's a Moray.
If you only exist to assume mortal risk, that's a Moray.
When your form is a blob and you are not a snob, that a Moray.
I keep waiting for the 🎵that's a Moray🎶 joke
I think there was one in the bottom-right text?
Whenever the Director tries to manifest Moray-601, she immediately overloads from the Strain.
Moray-8675309. Yeah, she is an odd one.
I got it, I got it.
When your errant thoughts can wander away and get eaten by an orca.
Morays/the Director are/is the Great Link from DS9.
The discussion of how and why Morays choose their numbers has successfully distracted everyone from the question of how and why Morays all choose to look like Neolithic fertility goddesses. Not a complaint, just an observation :)
I also wonder how it was Moray-42069’s fault that she got eaten by a orca. Was she deep sea diving and playing with one? Do they keep orcas as domesticated pets?
Moray-numberwang
Now I’m wondering what the Canadian version of Numberwang is like.
Moray-90210 Moray-90125 Moray-867-5309
To your middle one, I can only say Yes.
So Moray is basically a Horcrux of The Director.
We don’t talk about Moray-666.
no, no, no
Moray 2600 was very blocky and nearly caused the complete collapse of Cubetown when they recruited an extraterrestrial.
Moray 58008, the only "calculated" choice... Ah, calculators. That takes me back.
5318008?
Does "our" Moray retain a connection to the Director and that's why she knows about the fate of all the other Morays, or did she just see/hear about it? How early do we think she was?
I'd assume so, in some capacity. Given our Moray didn't seem to know whether or not the Director splooped out another Moray, it's at the very least not realtime.
I have questions about why the director apparently always makes Moray units with big boobs. They’re not helping the tentacle reputation..
Listen, if you found yourself cursed with embodiment for some indefinite period of time, BUT you could change your shape however you liked because your body was made of goo, wouldn't you indulge in big boobs? Frankly, it's the most relatable thing about her.
Is the body type of the Morays controlled by the director? Never knew jellyfish liked ladies with curves!
If she's made of gooey computer... Bigger boobs means more RAM?
Unter Moray-32168 Geht es rund Die ganze Nacht... (Spider Moray Gang - Skandal In Würfelstetten)
Did they also find all the pieces of Moray-42069? Did she also get reabsorbed by the director? Have many Morays been in accidents and gone back to the Director? That sounds quite traumatic for the Director.
Orcas are not famous for giving things back, so I think we have to assume no.
Yeah. Orcas'll do that.
Moray-404 not found
Ha, there should have been a joke about that xD
Moray-6502 and Moray-8088, well, we don't like to talk about it
I don't get the 6502 thing.
I love everything about this page.
No Moray 24601?
She's in jail
They meant to go sequentially at first but they got caught up in the Mersenne Twister
I hella feel Claire in the last panel
So they are ℵ₀y
Moray-3.14 is an approximate piece of pi
Every Moray is a whole snack, though.
Her information and experiences are part of the orca now
There's probably a project in Cubetown to study the orca.
Obligatory Moray-80085
Moray-NaN
Moray-42069 was also known as Leroy Jenkins.
At least she has cetacean
When you drop the hazmat and a robot goes splat, that's a Moray.
While I understand the need for order, I think Claire would understand wanting to go by a chosen name/number.
inb4 LifeofSharks chimes in on how Orcas are assholes
[channels inner Looney Tunes] Is there a Moray-Q38 Explosive Space Modulator
Moray, I've got your number...86753091
Has there been a "that's a Moray" joke yet?
It’s a joke that we crack Hey let’s all take a whack
*cringing, pulling back reflexively* nice
Moray-5318008
“Moray 4-2-1: why aren’t you at your post? Moray 4-2-1 do you copy?”
Now we know which Moray to get invested in as a character.
Just call them all mate, mate. Which one of the Morays are you mate.
Ok, I’ll ask: I don’t get the 42069 joke. What’s the reference?
A number joke in two parts - 4.20 pm (weed oclock), and 69 the sex position.
I’m with Claire, that’s going to bug me forever.
Moray-2501 reintegrated and gave everyone a headache.
...and, for a while, an obsession with Muppet Pasta.
It's interesting to me that the Moray units all seem to identify as female. It makes me wonder if the Director would use feminine plural pronouns in those existed in English
That can't have been good for the Orca.
I wonder if they would survive the process through the orca and out the other side. If so, great data collection!
Ooh, so many questions. Are the Morays limited or infinite? Are they actual parts of the Director, or a substance that it creates, and in either case is it finite or replenishable? Even if they are limitless, is there a delay in how quickly they can be created or absorbed, like if you baked three cakes over three days but tried to eat them all on the fourth! Do you think they smell like bubblegum?
^as per the latter question, headcanon now says yes.
Moray-✓-1 ???
i don't think that's a real Moray
Also apparently Morays "sploop" rather than forking, this verb is important to know.
They don't fork? There are going to be lots of unhappy fans
Can Morays integrate with each other, and share info that way? If they can, can they also separate again? Do they have to upload to the director and then disappear forever, or when a 'new' one with the same number is glooped out does that mean the consciousness is back? If something understands numbers enough to pick a favorite, why would it not also understand naming conventions (like sequentialism and uniqueness?) I am MADE of questions!
I'm 100% for a Voltron Moray
Don't worry, Claire. Moray-[unpredictably assigned unique ID] is a well-known classification method and is actually preferred over sequential in many instances for security reasons. (It doesn't leak Moray count information)
You aren't wrong
Sploop here she is!
Gotta wonder what she was up to with that orca... and why she sassed him...
When a.... Pseudopod sploots out some humanoid goop That's a Moray...
Someone had to say it…. :)
Moray-8675309 is my favorite
For a good time For a good time poolg
Wait until she tells her that numerous have picked the same number.
I appreciate you taking the time to answer the questions about Moray numbering.
Random thought: Moray-## emerges and picks a favourite number. Does that suggest Morays already have a conscious sentience before emergence?
Not necessarily, but it does suggest each consciousness is different once shlooped out.
I wonder if all the Morays have used she/her.
42069? Sigh....
The situation with the Morays reminds me slightly of the Interpreters from Look to Windward.
Well that's not very nice.
Moray-8675309
Beat me to it!
Moray-42069 died, somewhat appropriately, by oral ingestion.
who says she's dead?
RIP Moray-42069 🫡
Oh! We're actually discussing this? It wasn't just a gag? Fascinating!
The Orca gagged on her.
I admire Claire’s patience. I’d be sooo done with this place and on the next flight home by now
Claire will likely ask for a number of Morays to be put at her disposal. Not only as liaisons to the director, but as eyes and ears, such as they are, for Claire.
I LOVE MORAY SO MUCH LMAO
Panel 6: Two kinds of people
To start with, until the cataloging system is out of beta.
She's ambergris now.
I wonder if there is a Moray-24601
Theater kids must pewish