Social engineering is the biggest risk to the modern enterprise. Outright hacks and attacks are rare– social engineering, however, will be a risk for as long as people continue to be people.
I wonder if ants are particularly vulnerable to social engineering, or particularly resistant to it? I suppose we’re about to find out!
Lunchboxes in our world are usually made of plastic, not metal. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it’s quite plausible that the ones in the Rustyverse are, too.
(indeed, it’s weird – my attempts to find *plastic* lunch boxes only turn up either Tupperware tray style boxes, or soft, insulated ‘bags’, neither of which look ANYTHING like what we see above. Again, weird because *I* grew up going through both hard plastic and metal lunchboxes…)
I’m here from the terrible future of 2023… WotC sucks. They’ve thoroughly drank the Hasbro and WOKE Flavor-aide and have somehow combined both in the worst possible ways.
For, like, a half-second, I forgot about Patina and started shipping these two.
I mean, I’ll still do it, but I think the moral is we’ve gotta get some canon gays in this comic before I lose my mind and start shipping Cube with himself or something.
Are you sure you want to bring that particular discussion of morality into a very nice webcomic? Most people seem rather vehemently opinionated one way or the other on the topic, if I’m not mistaken. It’s a very necessary topic to resolve, but I don’t think this is the place.
I had to take a look back to confirm, but it appears that the formian worker in this strip (9-35) was the same one from two strips ago (9-33 panel 4) standing next to the dismissed soldiers, who was also present when the group first arrived (9-7 panel 3 far right) holding the same lunch box.
He might not be trying to gain personal access to Rusty. He might be explaining to the soldiers that Rusty is a celebrity (hence the blush in the last panel) to try and get their cooperation.
That’s nothing like the plan Maddie and YT were last seen hatching. Neither of them have illusion spells of their own, and they’ve both agreed (YT with reluctance) that further tormenting the souls that power the artifact is out of bounds.
Meanwhile, the lunchbox-toting anthop and the newly-jobless suit-wearing heavies WERE recently seen watching Rusty dragged away, and looking like they (or the little guy, at least) wanted to do something about it.
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Come on. How can you say no to that adorable face?
That is what you have to train your guards for.
That killing stuff is easy.
Social engineering is the biggest risk to the modern enterprise. Outright hacks and attacks are rare– social engineering, however, will be a risk for as long as people continue to be people.
I wonder if ants are particularly vulnerable to social engineering, or particularly resistant to it? I suppose we’re about to find out!
Social engineering they’re fine with. It’s eusocial engineering they have to worry about
“Hack the plane, ants!”
Rusty has fan clubs, even in the Hotel California.
Isn’t it ESPECIALLY in hotel California?
Califormian!
Bug fight time! Hopefully rusty’s fan helps him against the guards
Eat lunchbox?
Just enough to etch his name into it, of course. How else is he supposed to sign it?
I’ve been over this last time.
Lunchboxes in our world are usually made of plastic, not metal. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it’s quite plausible that the ones in the Rustyverse are, too.
Depends on your age. Metal ones were hella common in the days before plastic.
Wondering which world you’re in, because in THIS world metal lunchboxes are STILL common;
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Plain-Metal-Customizable-Lunch-Box/PRD1T3KN2Z41UQJ
https://www.stanley-pmi.com/shop/classic-lunch-box
https://www.lunchbox.com/collections/plain-metal-lunch-boxes
https://www.amazon.ca/Company-497607-12-Disney-Lunchbox-Assorted/dp/B00JH9MUXA?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_12
(indeed, it’s weird – my attempts to find *plastic* lunch boxes only turn up either Tupperware tray style boxes, or soft, insulated ‘bags’, neither of which look ANYTHING like what we see above. Again, weird because *I* grew up going through both hard plastic and metal lunchboxes…)
Plastic lunchboxes? What will they think of next? An unbreakable thermos?
But wouldn’t a metal lunch box be more like a fancy cookie for Rusty?
He antiques metal things as a hobby. He can cope.
Marilyn Manson would like me to remind everyone that metal lunchboxes are a deadly weapon.
They …tied his tendrils together? They learned their lesson from the YT free-tail event, I suppose. From their predecessors, of course.
9-22 has the first visible tendril tie-up (9-21 appears to be untied), and the tail event is 9-25, warned against 9-24.
Fun fact: 9-21 appears to show that the dungeon-themed spa is actually on a higher level than the hall YT found Rusty in.
I’m not the only one who remembers how our valiant comic creator got in intellectual property trouble with WOTC, am I?
How is that relevant to this particular page?
Rust monseter merchandise
If it’s not real, it’s not an issue.
Which is to say, also, I don’t think the Rustyverse has any Beachside Mages…
God, Wizards sucks
You mean “Hasbro sucks”, but yeah.
I’m here from the terrible future of 2023… WotC sucks. They’ve thoroughly drank the Hasbro and WOKE Flavor-aide and have somehow combined both in the worst possible ways.
Vive la rustistance!
Oh Bra-vo, sir!
Vive la rustistance!
One question remains unanswered: What’s inside the lunchbox?
Orange lightbulb?
A healthy lunch containing the four basic groups: Iron, Copper, Lead, and Aluminium.
Huh. I suppose lead probably isn’t poisonous to rust monsters.
Then again, who knows. Is there anything that rust monsters can technically eat, but isn’t healthy for them?
Too much Uranium 235. Gives them, shall we say, extreme indigestion.
It’s not Rusty’s lunchbox; it contains whatever a Formian eats. Probably butt-honey from Arcadian aphids.
For, like, a half-second, I forgot about Patina and started shipping these two.
I mean, I’ll still do it, but I think the moral is we’ve gotta get some canon gays in this comic before I lose my mind and start shipping Cube with himself or something.
Isn’t Cube married with kids? I’m sure that came up long ago. And if memory serves (and it may not) I seem to recall that Mimic was Cube’s best man.
Married, yes, but no mention of kids. Mimic was indeed Best Mimic.
Maybe they’re poly! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything about rust monsters being monogamous, at least…
Polyhedral?
Are you sure you want to bring that particular discussion of morality into a very nice webcomic? Most people seem rather vehemently opinionated one way or the other on the topic, if I’m not mistaken. It’s a very necessary topic to resolve, but I don’t think this is the place.
I had to take a look back to confirm, but it appears that the formian worker in this strip (9-35) was the same one from two strips ago (9-33 panel 4) standing next to the dismissed soldiers, who was also present when the group first arrived (9-7 panel 3 far right) holding the same lunch box.
Or it could be a mass-produced lunchbox design.
I was looking at the dot pattern on the worker’s face.
Huh. Individual ants have different dot patterns that they can be identified by. That’s a clever detail that I hadn’t noticed before.
He might not be trying to gain personal access to Rusty. He might be explaining to the soldiers that Rusty is a celebrity (hence the blush in the last panel) to try and get their cooperation.
Rusty looks kinda … boxed in.
Calling it – the little dude with the lunch box is Maddie under an illusion spell and the big one is Y-T.
???
That’s nothing like the plan Maddie and YT were last seen hatching. Neither of them have illusion spells of their own, and they’ve both agreed (YT with reluctance) that further tormenting the souls that power the artifact is out of bounds.
Meanwhile, the lunchbox-toting anthop and the newly-jobless suit-wearing heavies WERE recently seen watching Rusty dragged away, and looking like they (or the little guy, at least) wanted to do something about it.
I believe that is only implied mucat. I suspect she is planning an imaginative use of that turkey.
Neither need to have illusion spells of their own. They have an artifact that seems to be able to spit out any arcane spell you can spell.
I note that one of the jobless heavies is also on-scene. Maybe the plan is to use him to bring the crossbow wielding guards into resistance.