All These Worlds Are Yours

This feels like a Night Vale reference. If you see the Librarians, do not make eye contact. Also, don't run; that way you won't be out of breath when you start screaming.

JourneymanWizard

So happy to see the 2010 reference ("All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.") For those who haven't read / seen it, I'd highly recommend. The movie lacks the beauty of the first (Kubrick!) but it has its moments and I do really enjoy it.

Or suffer my curse!

Captain Button

“Picking up”

Mad Marie

Too many posts. Has anyone mentioned "Coffee black, full of stars"?

Matt Grayson

So...is it related to the Black Monolith? (Cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWs3c3YNs4)

Ursus Ridens

Quoi?

Ursus Ridens

I wonder what Bubbles would think of it. It's a AI in a body with zero points of articulation?

Sleepy John

I hope tomorrow's script is Dora whacking it with a club...

Richard

If this turns out to be true, you should go out and play the lottery tomorrow.

Miyaa

If you want me to go to that link, you're going to need a less disconcerting way to frame it.

Some Ed

I'm pretty sure most of us know Ursula here.

Some Ed

Before touching the monolith... QC tech level is a bit uncertain on this point. There's also a question of whether Claire would actually *want* to, though that might be more clear to me if I were more obsessive about the comic. After touching the monolith, yes.

Some Ed

Just let it talk to the register in peace

Bagge

Now I'm wondering what circumstances Hanners *would* order the orbital strike o.o

jimfromtx

Emily would just get the Slab its drink....

David Howe

I bet it likes its coffee dark.

Summer Sudbrink

Flo for short.

Summer Sudbrink

Floslemloum

Summer Sudbrink

"Coffee... black... very black..."

Jon Guyer

In fairness, that low hum is not the most disconcerting sound it makes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZRM3my10A

Jon Guyer

This makes me think Dora should make an effort to hire an AnthroPC for these situations...

Sean Morgan

Also what immediately came to my mind.

William Handrigan

Delivery Slab is picking up coffees for it's friends (and also for money).

Mitchel Huffa

Raaammmeeesss! (The man in charge! The man in charge!)

Miyaa

The AnthroPCs have all evolved: Pintsize shows up in next panel twirling something bone-shaped in the air. Or, you know, *bone*-shaped.

OH MY GOD. IT'S FULL OF BEANS!

They're from Jamac.....I mean Europa

MikeT

Nah, looks more like about 1:3:6. It's a _little_ monolith, short and stout.

Brooks Moses

And now, the weather.

DrummerGeek

Finally, someone else who remembers DORD!

Peregi Tamas

Are it’s dimensions in a ratio of 1:4:9?

Martin Krikorian

Reeetuuuuurn the slaaaaab

Nicolas Dao-Phan

We are now the monolith who says "ickyickyptangboingwoop"!

sjlxndr

*thus spake zarathustra intensifies*

Daniel S

C'mon, throw the slab a bone.

Timothy Roller

"Return the Slab!"

Thomas Halpin

I am digging the Sakurai-Sensei crown of flying sweat.

Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé

Also check out the last two items on the menu, "Advice" and "Good Advice" --N

Nobilis Reed (personal)

QC is fairly psychedelic most of the time, but this is a turn for the bizarre that I had not expected. --N

Nobilis Reed (personal)

However, it only pays in cereal. Steve is strangely ok with this.

Brian Mann

My god, it’s full of coffee!

Eric Sieck

How about the Shame Orb?

Bruce Steinberg

Just watch out for flying bones.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Can Claire reproduce? Otherwise it seems a little pointless for her to be touched by the monolith...

We definitely do not have normalcy...

Obviously asking for earl gray with almond milk. I don’t understand the confusion.

Mitch Megaw

Call Yay.

R L

I’m afraid I can’t do that Slab

doorbender

Not far, you just have to find the right old oak door.

William Cole

Hannalore knows the need to qualify. So which of the other Monoliths have also visited Coffee of Doom? Silent Monolith, Monolith that emits a high pitched squeal, Monolith that Rick rolls, or some Monolith I haven't met?

Some Ed

Every day we get closer to a crossover with my favorite OTHER Jacques' comic. That's right. It's time for DORD. (Seriously though, Alice Grove was wonderful too though)

Jeremy J Nickurak

Now THAT sounds like a challenge.

Rob Vary

💜

Carrie

I always thought Night Vale was in the Southwest, so at least a couple thousand miles?

Trip Space-Parasite

Is... is that from Night Vale? Just how close is the QC setting to Night Vale?

Nathan Hevenstone

Emily enters and promptly begins speaking to the slab in hummspeech. “They said that they need compensation for use of their likeness on the ‘Be nice to a robot’ poster over there on the wall.”

Mad Marie

Call Emily, she can't make the situation worse

Ace of Hearts

Thus Spake Dorathustra

Andrew

I’m thinking coffee beans.

Andrew

I really loved Alice Grove. I found her strangely hot and attractive....

Paul Britt

Came here for the 2001 references and was not disappointed

Jim Feldman

::snerk::

Shawn K. Younkin

'You also made grammatical errors here, here, and here.' 'COMMENCE THE OMEGA SANCTION.'

Dean Reilly

We invented TOOLS the first time... that we used to HELP with murder... we had already created murder by then.

Shawn K. Younkin

A censor bar in search of a Pintsize

Sebastian

It's full of something, but I don't think it's stars.

kaitou

Oh, they are just the worse to serve.

Edward Clayton Andrews

Nice callback. Will Jeph unite all stories into a single QC-verse?

Sean Kinlin

“Open the Keurig pod bay doors, Hal-nelore.”

Mad Marie

Any chance of it being a probability device in need of a strong cup of tea?

Jason Wotzko

Floating Slab that Emits a Low Hum? Any relation to the Black Cube of Darkness?

James Redekop

If one side of the slab becomes a doorway and Alice Grove steps out, I'm outta here!

Czarzhan

Oh snap!

Miyaa

Tomorrow the monolith visits Steve and gives him his next assignment: find out who stole $8 million worth of maple syrup from the Canadian maple syrup reserve.

Miyaa

All…your…worlds…are belong to us.

Mad Marie

"Dora! It wants a decaf proto-human with a side of femur. Wasn't that last week's special?"

Matt Grayson

Something WONDERFUL!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Last time we invented murder. This time...?

Captain Button

Just don't try ordering tea from a Nutrimatic machine.

Jeffrey Anderson

Very plausible.

Miyaa

Welcome to your first day Claire!!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Does Marten knows his Xbox is hitting on Claire?

Miyaa

Look, it is C&C Music Factory! (A thing that makes you go hmmm)

Kevin Tangney

Yay, meet Monolith That Emits a Low Hum. Monolith, this is Yay.

Elf Sternberg

Yay walks in and says: Mom?

Michael Boettger

The espresso machine begins singing “Bicycle built for two”

Mad Marie

I guess it needed some way to get up to the counter

Andrew Mitchell

Ah, it's Welcome to Night Vale crossover week! Lovely!

Ted Van Roekel

The first time it showed up, a chimp killed Sara by hitting her over the head with a bone (the allosaur scavenged her remains). So Dora knows to get away from the monolith ASAP.

ljdbjlasfbjk

It's monumental

Andrew Mitchell

Valid

Andrew Mitchell

Next time, Claire leaves Marten for the clipart monolith.

ERRORCODE616

I suspect it wants a single espresso. I'm not quite sure why, but it seems appropriate to a floating slab who emits a low hum in much the same way that tea is appropriate to a robot.

Yonatan Zunger

Oh good, a Monolith. Just when you thought the QC singularity helped avoid the whole Hal 9000 bit... still good to know even star children need coffee.

Douglas E. Smith

…except Europa. Atempt no landing…oh can I get a double shot mocha to go.

Nicholas Villa

Oh good! You're back!

Rie Sheridan Rose

Floating?

Carl Fink

Class Euclid.

Simon Green

And a customer service veteran’s dream.

Yvonne Hanafee

I, for one, welcome our new caffeine addicted, low hum emitting, monolithic overlords.

Simon Green

lmao wtf

Daryl Sawyer

Maybe all they need is an old bone to throw in the air...

Stormfalcon

ah, the monument is here

obw

Be nice to it

Bill Silvia

The mini version of the monolith from 2001? That emits a mood elevating hum?

Michael Boettger

So now we know QC ends with a space baby

Hope

It just takes them awhile to figure out thier order.

Michael

A customer service newbie's worst nightmare.

Chris Giesy

Oh. I know the Floating Slab that Emits a Low Hum. We went to school together. Pleasent Slab.

Joel Bateman

Ah, we are getting a better taste of how weird the QC setting is this week. Excelent.

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