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Dive Bar
12th Apr 2016, 11:01 PM in Season One - Part 4: Havenport Hardcore
Average Rating: 4.6 (10 votes)
Author Notes:
Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Mercy is an alcoholic, straight up.

Her investigations often include drinking, even when others might be able to do it without drinking...

Special thanks to my good friend lirvilas (of Winners and Losers and MSV fame) for the booze in panel 3. The bottles are Olde Claymore and Blitzkrieg Fortified Rhine Wine (warning: NSFW!).

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SarahSophia
SarahSophia
In the Autumn Bay See n' Say Mercy goes glug glug. Or maybe puff puff.
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User comments:
Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
Woo boy hopefully she doesn't get totally shit faced.:D
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Do you know how much she has to drink to get that way? :D
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Call Me Tom
Call Me Tom
Well at least Mercy can put the drinks to shodow light as part of her investergation!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yes. Yes she can!
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HeSerpenty
HeSerpenty
In all of this... the only one I am truly worried for is Mercy's liver...

Aaah but it's prolly as tough as SHE is, we're good! You do you, Mercy! You do you <3
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I, too, am worried about her liver... :D
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melaredblu
melaredblu
Being drunk on the job probably won't help your observation skills. Just sayin'.
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lirvilas
lirvilas
So drinking in a bar for an hour makes you an alcoholic? What does getting blitzed at home mean--you're Hitler?

No, not getting defensive here at all. And I can stop any time I want.

#godwinslaw #denial
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Delta-v
Ehh, I think it's the other way around. She was already an alcoholic before she went in--it kinda makes the wasted hour less annoying for her, that's all. :)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Correct!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
No, the fact that she's an alcoholic makes her an alcoholic.

The first step is realizing you have a problem.

#StopUsingHitlerInArguments :P
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Delta-v
I notice that none of the lowlifes seemed to have hit on her, thus showing that even they have SOME self-preservation instinct left.....
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
She doesn't mind people hitting on her, but unless it REALLY solidifies a lead, she's not going to pursue it when she's on the clock...
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anonymous coward (Guest)
In my experience, hanging around in bars is usually a pretty bad way to start rumours or fish for information. The reason for that is because you're talking to drunks. This may be high magic Mercy is performing right here if her bar crawl actually constitutes a useful form of search/research into the activities of Starry Wisdom.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I am not commenting on any complicated information gathering ritual Mercy may partake of that involves casting one's name into the aether as bait for one's search...

I will also not comment on everything being connected to everything else in one way or another.

What I will do is recommend one returns to this comic to see the fruits of Ms. Black's labors! :)
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Ooh, ooh! Is it gonna be melon balls? Fresh melon balls are an essential part of most fruit salads!
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SarahSophia
SarahSophia
We just ate watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.
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anonymous coward (Guest)
....Score?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
SCORE!

Mercy's fruit of choice is apples, as in "how do you like them apples?"
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anonymous coward (Guest)
She's Matt Damon's sister? I would've never guessed.
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ZeroGee
ZeroGee
Dive hopping. Good times... Good times.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yep! And this is part of what Mercy calls "her job"! :D
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NeilKapit
NeilKapit
You can't be an effective detective without an addiction to either opium or alcohol, and alcohol's a lot cheaper.
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anonymous coward (Guest)
He was fictional, but I think Sherlock Holmes got by with a little bit of cocaine... or am I getting to old to remember that right?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I believe the Holmes-cocaine connection is correct - injected it, IIRC.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Also, alcohol is something that opium isn't: LEGAL.
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AmeliaP
AmeliaP
Look those guys around you, Mercy... Run! (before you can feel their smell) XD
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