Monday July 21, 2014
Book 15: Delegates and Delegation — Part II: Conflict

Note: When Mako, aka "Officer Libretti," says "Christmas came twice this year," the implication is that Christmas already came once this year. It did! We just missed it. The current Schlockiverse date is December 29th, 3099. Yes, that means Earth is just a few days shy of an "end of the century" celebration. It's not that big a deal though. The New Year's Eve party saw two centuries of steady decline after the loss of Dick Clark, and Dictaphonobot Clark, the World's Oldest Mechanical Teenager, just isn't the same thing.

Transcript

NARRATOR: Plute Plaza, Spire Reno Alpha, Promenade 399...

MAKO: *thought bubble* Pulverized human remains... glad I wasn't any closer.

*thought bubble* And this... ugh.  Bits of amorph.  Still moving...

*thought bubble* Still.  Moving.

MAKO: *thought bubble* A violent crime, and I get to bag my target?  Christmas came twice this year...