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What is this? Jane not doing a nursery rhyme??? And on a Friday the 13th, no less. Tsk tsk.

Thanks everyone for your well wishes!

I'm on the promised Southern Tour. These are my stops so far:

San Antonio, TX: The Smokehouse (3306 Roland Rd, San Antonio, TX 78210) at 5pm on Friday, Oct 6th.

Austin, TX: Yo So Cool (1201 Barbara Jordan Blvd #1290, Austin, TX 78723) at 8:30pm on Friday, Oct 6th

~~College Station, TX (Sat, Oct 7, around 9am; place TBA)~~

Houston, TX: Pizzitola's Bar-B-Cue (1703 Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77007) at noon (12pm) on Saturday, Oct 7th.

Baton Rouge, LA: Sonny's BBQ (12475 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70815) at 7pm on Saturday, Oct 7th

Tallahassee, FL: Kool Beanz (921 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303) at 6pm on Monday, Oct 9th.

Ft Lauderdale, FL: Moe's Southwest Grill (2400 W Commercial Blvd, Tamarac, FL 33309) at noon (12pm) on Saturday, Oct 14th.

Orlando, FL: Yogurtown Cafe (1499 E Osceola Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34744) at 7pm on Saturday, Oct 14th (date and time change)

Jackonsville, FL: Cheesecake Factory (10260 Midtown Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32246) at 12pm (noon) on Saturday, Oct 21st.

Raleigh, NC: Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q, (4000 Jones Sausage Rd, Garner, NC 27529) at 6pm on Monday, Oct 23rd.

Charlotte, NC: Sweet Frog (8156 S Tryon St Suite C, Charlotte, NC 28273) at 7pm on Tuesday, Oct 24th.

Atlanta, GA (Wed, Oct 25 in the evening)

Nashville, TN (Thurs, Oct 26 in the evening)

Little Rock, AR (Fri, Oct 27 in the evening)

Dallas, TX (Sat, Oct 28 around noon)

Oklahoma City, OK (Sat, Oct 28 in the evening)

Albuquerque, NM (Mon, Oct 30 in the evening)

23 Comments

I can do the nursery rhyme for her:

Die here, die there
no life in Game.
To run nowhere,
completely tame

Make them live,
then so will the dancer.
Or make her live with
a necromancer

The wise, odd Kat
will have time to consider,
but getting mad
will end it bitter.

That was great! How long did it take you to think that up?

… so, who is Jane?

Could be that Jane sees Kat as a good programmer. This page has me thinking that Jane sees her as a specific good programmer, and that this is less a request for a fix, and more a veiled declaration of recognition.

Tho I am prone to seeing dubious plots at work where there are none.
Goodness knows why so many people insist the world is round. It’s common knowledge that the place is flat, and the shortest path from Alaska to Russia is along the bottom side of the Earth….

Who is Jane, really?

I’m starting to think she’s Mina’s mom.

…I have no idea what this means. Neither does Kat.

Even when she’s alone, she can’t be out of character?

“Die here, die there”

Will her children die without the game? She is an outsider but maybe there is a problem with getting food supplies in, or Sandra can get Jane a spot in a city but not her children. It lends creedence to the theory that Jane is Mae’s mom except Jane has never mentioned a significant other and Mae is with her father.

Maybe Jane will be more helpful to Danni if she knows they are in much the same situatiin with Tenka trying to kill them.

It’s a trap!

(I am so sorry)

LOL!
You should be sorry. Everybody knows you’re supposed to say that AFTER the trap closes.

I said this way back in the early days of the comic but, I really really think Jane is Mina’s Mom. The dolls represent her daughters and each have the same hair color as one of her daughters.

My only concern on this theory (which I otherwise love!) is that it appeared Mina’s family uses some kind of headset/keyboard combo, whereas Jane would require an akido in order to have played in the game (as Bloody Mary) and to play now (as Jane), yeah?

it’s not impossible. could be that they have access to 1 akido that she uses when she needs to be Jane/marry but other times when she’s hanging out with her family she could be using what they use to be closer to them, both physically and in how they are dealing with the virtual world. it also could be to cause people to be more willing to dismiss the idea that there is a connection. Which since it sounds like killing off her previous party wasn’t the only dubious thing she’s done.
though if I remember correctly jane also hinted that there was more to that story that shows she wasn’t doing it for malicious reasons, but is unable for some reason to bring that part of it to light.

Can’t be the same woman. Mina’s Mom didn’t even know how to alter basic privacy settings. Jane/Bloody Mary knows basic coding.

If she’s trying to keep her identity secret, what better way than to pretend you know nothing about coding?

Another reason she may have asked Kat to fix it is because her coding skills aren’t up to snuff. Remember Kat remarked on how much of a mess the code was for Jane’s special when they first faced off. Perhaps that was the best Jane could do with her skills and she wants Kat to actually make her code not suck.

Perhaps they have access to a Kido, but only by crawling through a tunnel or something that Mae can’t manage. Otherwise, I think if they had it, they’d want Mae using it.

I’m not sure how Jane’s dolls might affect her real-life kids, but I suppose if she isn’t successful enough in the Game, she won’t be able to afford whatever resources she can get from the Cities.

It is possible, however, that when Jane was blinding the trees earlier and saying that they were killing her kids, she meant the dolls….

The balloon statements have clear sources. But it’s not clear to me who is saying what in the boxed statements. It’s a conversation, but neither side sounds like Jane (nor much like D either).

you mean fix their code is Kat speaking out loud to Jane . the rest is kat thinking or conversing With D

I think it’s Kat talking to D.
first box, she’s commenting to him it’s a mess.
2nd box she’s agreeing that his suggestion is good.
3rd box she’s telling him not to do it yet.
4th and 5th she’s likely having to explain why not when D complained she doesn’t let him do anything.

Thanks to GLJordan and kit ramos!

The boxes do make sense as Kit thinking and as her half of a conversation with D (while the bubbles are Kat speaking out loud to Jane).

I think I was thrown off because we only hear half the conversation. I was trying to interpret it initially as a full conversation, perhaps via the unspoken whisper technology that allows for private conversations that cannot be heard. But as half a private conversation (with D), that makes better sense now.

An AI that can almost instantly find out how to fix someone’s crazy hack-job which they dared call “code”? Where can I get one?

At the end of the world.

Given Kat’s previously stated that the dolls are a hodgepodge of various bits of code which shouldn’t work (yet somehow do), here’s a theory: back in the day, Jane’s Reality self was a member of Deconstuct.Me…
…maybe even unintentionally contributed to the mess surrounding The Ending while trying to fix something…

Not A Villain Webcomic

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