1 GM: Paris' player is coming back from vacation. We need to sort out how we're going to reintroduce her into the campaign.
2 Serron: Oh man! You're the GM! It's up to you to figure out a way out of this mess we've created! Why should we take any responsibility?!
3 Iki Piki: Why did she go on such a long vacation anyway?
4 GM: {holding head in heands} To get away from you guys...

Unfortunately the GM never gets to go on these sort of vacations.

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2014-10-20 Rerun commentary: I used real starfields for the backgrounds through the Legacy windows. In this case I seem to have used two different ones for the two successive panels in the middle. I'm not sure why I did that, since it seems rather obviously mismatched.

I always intended to collect a huge set of different starfields to use for this purpose (using one for any given strip, but varying them from strip to strip), but laziness won out and I only ever managed to assemble about a dozen different ones.