Space Pulp

Oh god...
*iri bursts out laughing* I'm all in!
*everyone else* I fold.
She had a pair of twos.

"Clear" isn't precisely what I had in mind, unfortunately.

Don't worry, I'm mildly confused yet intrigued and curious. And enjoying the color choices and chiaroscuro. I usually have my screen's brightness turned down, yet everything still looks visible. Turning the brightness to probably what everyone else uses, it still conveys the mood of a sparsely-lit set of corridors and a dive-y bar. In the second panel I was a little unsure at first if the figures were sitting in a booth or further out in the room. Then I figured out that there was a bar counter behind them.

That could be due to sleep deprivation, but I'll check on this page later and see if it still instills a similar reaction.

Adorable Badass ... two words that rarely go together, but I do agree, they fit with Ayata. :)

I'd hazard a guess that she is in the bowels of the ship with some of the rest of the crew.

But that's one of Strakh's crewwomen in the red dress...

I'm guessing she was smuggled onboard in a cargo container, or maybe someone's luggage.

Now I'm imagining some hapless fellow unzipping their carry-on and Iri springing out, waving her sword and screaming "No-one expects the Temple Huntress!"

I'm also guessing that there's some other mercenaries dressed like Iri, as fans of the movie series. Eventually the on-board security decided to turn off the recognition software after too many false-positives.

Kind of like from that comedy adaptation of Zorro.

If you can see the future, it ought to be fairly easy to sneak around the enemy.

The thing that's odd is that the burbic seems to know who she is, since the main reason to refuse her would be knowing she is a psycher.

On the other side, she could be abusing the burbic psychologic limitations, and how they now see all poison monkeys on the ship as allies. Heck, although unlikely, there's also the possibility that Strakh is also vulnerable to 'considering people on a ship that as paid as non-targets', and as such dismissing Iri, although that does seem somewhat unlikely given how angry he was at her.

It hadn't even occurred to me that the Burbic might simply not recognize her, but that actually may be a possibility...

"Your disguise doesn't fool me! You're Iridium Lake!" :P