Second Patreon bonus strip for JANUARY 2026 — AMBER

Posted on February 7, 2026 by David M Willis

Every month at the Dumbing of Age Patreon there’s two new exclusive bonus strips — one that patrons get to vote on, and another that’s my choice!   This month, we see how AMBER got from A to Z!   Check out this strip and the backlog of hundreds of previous bonus strips at the Dumbing of Age Patreon! Also, if you pledge $5 or more per month, you can read tomorrow’s strip a full day-and-five-minutes early, every single dang night! You could be reading tomorrow’s strip right now!

2 thoughts on “Second Patreon bonus strip for JANUARY 2026 — AMBER”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Mission: AMBPOSSIBLE

  2. Owlmirror

    [I originally wrote this for the strip named “whyclimb”. I am rewriting it, because I didn’t phrase it quite right, and in light of this bonus strip ]
     
    I looked at a few maps, because I had no idea how to visualize what was going on.
     
    1) The Read Hall building is laid out like an X. The four wings are the arms of the X. Clark Wing points northwest. Beck Wing points southwest.
    2) Amber’s (and Dina’s) room in Clark is on the southwest side of Clark Wing. We know this because when she looked out her window, she could see parking lots near the building, between the building and the street where the police cars were (that street is Eagleson Ave, BTW). The only parking lots near Read Hall are on the west side, between Beck and Clark Wings.
    3) The lobby for Read Hall is to the south, between the southwest and southeast wings, and the extrusions extend partway along the sides of the southwest and southeast wings.
     
    So if I’m understanding the maps and Amber’s words correctly, Amber is trying to imply that she went out her window on the southwest side of Clark Wing, traversed the outside of Clark Wing to the central hub, then traversed the outside of Beck Wing (passing at least one room of someone she knew) moving southwest, then went around the extreme point of Beck Wing, and started traversing northeast on the other side of Beck Wing until she reached Walky’s (and Booster’s) room above the lobby extrusion (on the southeast side of the wing). That’s quite a shlep in the freezing cold while severely injured, inadequately dressed, and slightly high on pain medications.
     
    (Parenthetically, I am reminded of an old Russian proverb:
     
    The good friend is near — but the way is dangerous.
    The hot garbage is far — but I will move carefully.
     
    (somewhat freely translated))
     
    However, it can be seen in the bonus strip, even without unlocking the post, that [SPOILER in titletag]
     
     
    The good friend is near — but the way is dangerous.
    The hot garbage is far — but I will use cheat codes.
     

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