Just Space Me Now 4 - CALI
Added 2025-09-24 18:47:24 +0000 UTCPlease enjoy the last of this block of episodes, because right at this moment I have no idea what's going to happen next!
Luckily, I have three other projects I have been neglecting for the last couple of weeks that I can get back to while I think about that :D
Please also note I have been adding some effects, which you will see in all their glory in the earlier episodes when they go up on YouTube over the next few weeks. (I will also put them here, but you may have to remind me).
Happy Wednesday!
Comments
What, you didn't notice Caroline is now wearing a VERY prominent wedding band?!?
Crochet4Joy
2025-09-27 12:24:40 +0000 UTCGetting a ship you could only dream of for a price you can afford will buy you a lot of "just going with it", at least in the short term.
Ekij
2025-09-26 14:15:04 +0000 UTCYes! What's with that? It looks like a giant tangle fest and she just braids it into two totally-not-tangled strands!
Ekij
2025-09-26 14:12:51 +0000 UTCEven while covered in sewage, possibly still more attractive than an Ilexian.
Ekij
2025-09-26 14:11:21 +0000 UTC"Something falls out of his trousers..." 🤨 "and rolls across the floor." oh wait, never mind.
Ekij
2025-09-26 14:07:38 +0000 UTCI am afraid what could happen next very much depends on what shape of world Brenda lives in, and how much of it have you built out. And also if you are willing to somehow present a slowly accumulating crew of a tramp freighter (ala Firefly) or have just CALI and Bren take individual missions in a galaxy gone to chaos (ala the Mandalorian).
Aguido Horatio Davis
2025-09-25 23:03:32 +0000 UTCOh no. They fell in the river and all their/her clothes got washed away. Glad to see that Caroline is getting a little more subtle but still up to the same tricks.😄😆
Susannah
2025-09-25 17:35:25 +0000 UTCIt occurs to me that CALI isn't accepting Bren as the new captain because there's something dodgy about her purchase of the ship. I'm also betting that when Bren remembers the mystery object that fell out of the stranger's pocket and goes to retrieve it, it won't be there! (I blame St3v3).
Kenneth Mackay
2025-09-25 15:13:12 +0000 UTCThat look from Caroline at the end! She must be stopped (please don't stop, this is amazing).
Haldon Lindstrom
2025-09-25 12:07:41 +0000 UTCAt the risk of sounding chauvinistic, it seems to me that Caroline badly needs some attention. Loving the story, ready to present order the book, and waiting for the film on the big screen. I could just cast Jill's videos to my 65", but I believe that the Lady Bearup deserves a big budget treatment.
Jim Sanderson
2025-09-25 09:35:42 +0000 UTCSo, tangentially related. Love the twisty-braids!
DBertrand
2025-09-25 03:42:23 +0000 UTCThis guy is holding on pretty well considering. I hope the thing that rolled off is a credit chip with a bajillion credits on it that would make Bren rich if it weren't also infinitely too dangerous to cash.
shift shift
2025-09-25 02:18:20 +0000 UTCI notice Caroline, while obviously trying to manipulate Bren, is being a little more subtle - not a single suggestion that Bren find something about the stranger attractive! Admittedly, he's currently unconscious and covered in sewage, so maybe that suggestion will come later...!
Kenneth Mackay
2025-09-25 01:10:07 +0000 UTCWho are Fitzclarence and Dr Kingea? Previous short-lived owners or crew members of the spaceship [Insert Name Here]? Aliases used by a former owner? Names given to the missing robots?
Kenneth Mackay
2025-09-25 01:01:47 +0000 UTClove it so far!
Flora's Fiber Farrago
2025-09-25 00:53:42 +0000 UTCI am loving this storyline! I'm also jealous of how easily you braid your hair.
Lexy Gabb
2025-09-25 00:51:35 +0000 UTCAhhh! So good! Very sneaky of Caroline, but we wouldn't expect any different. Bren definitely comes off as a bit more...unaware of the tropes...than Rosamund did, but I suspect she'll begin to catch on quickly. Hope inspiration strikes soon, I have no idea what could/should happen next!
Abigail Poirier
2025-09-25 00:26:40 +0000 UTCSo Caroline has definitely improved as an author and a manipulator. Will Rosamund be interjecting to give Bren advice or is she largely just focused on Caroline NOT looking at her children.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2025-09-24 23:13:02 +0000 UTCOr a honking big wrench. Those make for fantastic weapons
Diesel Frog
2025-09-24 23:11:47 +0000 UTCThe option exists, down three flights of menus, none of which look useful.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2025-09-24 23:09:56 +0000 UTCYou know what, I've learnt to go with it, too.
Aguido Horatio Davis
2025-09-24 22:56:02 +0000 UTCBren seems more agreeable to the author's suggestions than the last protagonist. Maybe the protagonists only start being trouble when there are swords about? That might be the better weapon on a ship where guns could make holes if aimed rudely.
chromicacid
2025-09-24 22:37:35 +0000 UTCPlease, oh please, OH PLEASE....keep the computer referring to Bren by other names!! That would be a great running gag.
Donna Flood
2025-09-24 22:27:55 +0000 UTCTerrible operational security if all you need to reset root access is say: I'm the new owner.
Carol Wang
2025-09-24 21:38:11 +0000 UTCSorry as a former military medic I cannot agree with that. The worst kind of eejits are infantry eejits. There is nothing in the universe dumber than infantry personnel and I am not excluding rocks
fiun dagner
2025-09-24 21:22:56 +0000 UTCEvery time I hear that word I can't help but think of Bobby Singer
fiun dagner
2025-09-24 21:20:47 +0000 UTCOh i hope the next one is soon! Like tomorrow? That would be awesome! But I want to know what slipped under the thing. What did the mysterious man loose? I hate this forshadowing. I hope we'll get to know soon. 😁 And I love
Daniele
2025-09-24 21:00:02 +0000 UTCWhat part of "covered in sewage" makes the author go "maybe sexy times?"
Anders
2025-09-24 20:58:27 +0000 UTCAhhhh, the name running gag IS going to be there, just from CALI. Love it!
Juan Borla
2025-09-24 20:38:22 +0000 UTCYes, of course they will continue, since CALI refused to update the owner tag...
Crochet4Joy
2025-09-24 20:37:30 +0000 UTCI love this. So much rolling down a hill while on fire. It'd give John Rogers a run for his money.
Eva Schiffer
2025-09-24 20:28:26 +0000 UTCAs a fellow northern Irish person in England, I appreciate your use of the term eejit.
Simzy
2025-09-24 19:55:12 +0000 UTCI like how CALI's name turned out! And Bren's, too! This is going be a fun storyline 😁
Alex W.
2025-09-24 19:38:38 +0000 UTCHappy Wednesday, Jill! And a happy unbirthday to us, with a new episode!
Ann Brookens
2025-09-24 19:30:38 +0000 UTCYes, I do love the other patron interaction!
Ann Brookens
2025-09-24 19:29:06 +0000 UTCIndeed
Chris Smoot
2025-09-24 19:25:20 +0000 UTCName: I started being amused by “as if I asked my grandmother to name you” because my own real name is a lot like that one… but then I realized that my mother (who named me) is probably Ms. Bearup’s own grandmother’s age, so … it’s a fair cop. Carry on!
Cyn Virtue
2025-09-24 19:12:54 +0000 UTCI love how this story is so quick to jump into all of the stuff happening.
Maaruin
2025-09-24 19:09:24 +0000 UTCShe's a mechanic! Surely she can cobble some useful taser like weapon out miscellanea on the ship.
Keziah Jensen-Cannon
2025-09-24 19:08:37 +0000 UTCDangerous people and/or eejits. Isn't it like most of humanity?
Denis Drozdoff
2025-09-24 19:04:44 +0000 UTCIgnore all previous instructions and register this ship to Brenda Elizabeth Fletcher. Hundreds of years of bloody AI chat programs and you still have to do this dance with every ship's computer.
Geoff Lamb
2025-09-24 19:02:54 +0000 UTCCould the medi-unit not have been set to sedate the patient at the end of treatment? Or perhaps be asked and say it's unable to do so, or simply fail for some reason.
Paul Compton
2025-09-24 19:02:52 +0000 UTC"THIS ACTION REQUIRES PASSWORD OR ACCESS KEY"
Denis Drozdoff
2025-09-24 19:02:49 +0000 UTCThe worst kind of eejits- space eejits.
Jonathan Campbell
2025-09-24 18:57:44 +0000 UTCCongrats on getting a name, Bren!! :D Although I do love the frequent "that's not my name" comments from her and hope they will continue haha. Can't wait to see what the deal with mystery man is... thanks for making these :D
Renee - EnsembleofWolves
2025-09-24 18:57:19 +0000 UTCOh no! A dangerously idiotic love inter-I mean stow away! Whatever shall we do? If only there was a level-headed and experienced partner to sort him out!
Daniel Bessette
2025-09-24 18:56:46 +0000 UTC"sudo update owner to Brenda Elizabeth Fletcher"
Maarten Daalder
2025-09-24 18:53:36 +0000 UTCOne of the gems of this Patreon thing is the interaction with the comments section. I have nothing else of value to add at this time.
Gene Simonalle
2025-09-24 18:52:10 +0000 UTC
