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10 thoughts on “540 – Trick Hello”

  1. Scarsdale

    Called it, she figured he’d do this, if by choice or by zombie voodoo. I’m sure the “friendlier” questioning will start soon, if she doesn’t just kill him out-right. Or just add him to the herd.

  2. Crazyman

    Gotcha! 😉

  3. Zombatar

    This turn of events is a surprise only to Eustace. And, maybe, Eustace’s subconscious. After all, this way he doesn’t have to actually risk actually attacking Suzie, which gives him a greater chance of survival than actually attacking her. I wonder what he was promised/threatened with?

  4. ConcordBob

    Not to nit-pick, but since sights are on target, finger should be on the trigger. Especially this close.
    The usual rule is “keep finger straight and off trigger until sights are on target”.

  5. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Not to nit-pick, but since that was current philosophies regarding trigger discipline have evolved.
    Of course, it will depend on who you get/got your training from.
    Experiments have determined that the fraction of a second to go from finger off the trigger to finger firing when appropriate is insignificant, and the risk of firing unintended is greatly reduced.

  6. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I did the google thing and I believe I saw how you reached this conclusion … but there are two parts to it – One should not omit the second part.
    “Trigger Finger Discipline: · The practice of keeping your finger “off the trigger” until your sights are on target AND YOU ARE READY TO DISCHARGE THE FIREARM.” (Caps are my own)

  7. Crazyman

    She wants him alive so she can question him; otherwise, he’d already be dead. 💀

  8. ConcordBob

    Good discussion on trigger discipline!
    His skin is very pale / gray. Is this malnourishment, or has he been poisoned with a mind-control drug? I would have to go back and look a t all various of skin tone.

    1. TKG

      On a prior page we discussed what he’s likely got running in his system. I suggested that it’s probably Borrochero (Brugmansia arbora) which is already used by Colombian cartels to eradicate the free will of their victims.

  9. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Now can we satisfy my curiosity? Colt, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, or other timeline variant?

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540 – Trick Hello
Posted on February 26, 2025 by Dawn

Suzie hearkening back to the last time Eustace was faked out. She probably regrets not being able to sneak the Lawn Ranger into the bedcovers to be the victim of the stabbing.

And with that, it's Episode 23 time! Welcome back to the Ranch, everyone!

Timing is everything…

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Clint
“Timing is everything” is a phrase you usually hear applied to comedy, but it’s equally applicable to tragedy. Maybe even more so. Consider the ending of Romeo & Juliet, if Romeo arrives 10 minutes later or Juliet awakens 10 minutes earlier. For that matter, there’s that message the Friar sends to Romeo telling him that Juliet is going to fake her death… the messenger gets delayed and those crucial words that could have changed everything are never read. My most recent poll asks the question, “Do you think Muriel would have left peacefully if Zeke had been handed over?” Not one person so far has given an assured Yes, but at least a handful voted that it was a possibility as long as things weren’t allowed to escalate the way they did. Unfortunately, people in possession of the information that could have changed the situation just didn’t know that it mattered, or didn’t get to convey it in time. There’s a TV Trope that sort of covers these situations, called Poor Communication Kills. I say ‘sort of’ because the way the trope is defined heavily weighs on the side of inexplicable and out of character lack of communication employed by a writer in order for a plot to proceed. That’s (hopefully) not what I’ve put together in our last arc… I set the locations, timing, and various egos (or lack thereof) up in such a way that a feasible tragedy could occur. Yes, it’s possible that communication could have set it right, but that’s the truth of most tragedies, including ones that take place in real life. Shakespeare knew that well, as did the Greeks (though those dramatists were helped out by their cultural audience being preconditioned to the idea of unavoidable fates). The trick, then, is to arrange the elements so that the characters have palatable reasons to not speak, or speak but not be listened to. Information that could defuse the issue arrives too late, or never at all… but for dramatic reasons it’s usually the former, so that the survivors know along with the audience that things have taken a terrible turn. And for my money, it’s even worse(better?) for us in the modern era where we feel fate is something that isn’t predestined and wonder on those small things that could have led to a happy ending instead. But so long as the characters’ actions feel right, and the timing is right (if also oh-so-wrong), then the tale should feel solid, no matter its conclusion.