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Beyond Rubies has developed a pretty big cast... so HMB did a scorecard so you can keep track! (Colors by PortalComic.)

(http://cnt1.dvvent.com/dvv/open/mcc/misc/beyond_rubies-cast-2014.jpg)

Cue people still telling me they all look the same in 3...2...

I never had a problem with them looking the same.  I think this is just a distilled form of pure awesome, and I only wish it were possible to get more.

I love the hairstyles. I'm left with the impression that in addition to morally dubious mind control research Quine has an experimental hairstyle division.

I'm going to take a guess that you may be HMB's new favorite commenter. :)

lady are not same, look at the shape of the faces and the chins
love the hair
the Cast was get big
Now we know who is who!

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This is wonderful. Thanks, HMB and Daphne!

I notice some changes in hair colors (Charlotte, Emily, Marina, Andrea, Laura). Is that due to a change in colorist, and will it be permanent? On HMB's deviantArt version of this picture, Emily and Marina are white, so I'd imagine this is just part of Portalcomic getting to know the characters. I find the easiest way to keep track of all these characters is through hair (style and color), so it would be nice to keep things consistent.

Where did we meet Marina?

Illustrator snaffu saw the wrong version lettered, is all.  I noticed it last night and it should be corrected across the board now.

Yeah, Portal is just getting acquainted with the large cast and since no two colorists are created equal, he has some different rendering styles and pallets.  (Which I like, because not everyone has the same brown color hair and it helps separate the ladies a bit more.)  It's no small task, there was a lot of scenes where the red glow makes it hard to distinguish colors in general.


As for Laura, her hair was never supposed to be red.  That was a coloring error that we just went with (deadlines people) and I've since regretted especially after seeing her and Andrea in the same scene together. Now I wanted to meet in the middle and make her hair a more strawberry blond to help set her apart a bit more.
A simple trip to the salon is hardly out of the question for these ladies.

I understand that it can be frustrating, that's why I wanted to make this image so we have a nice reference point for new and old readers.
Hopefully everything stays nice and consistent going forward.

Issue 4, I think.  Page 5.  Nick waves to her on his way into the Quine building.  She had a white shirt there, instead of the blue one she wears in issue 6 where we really...ahem...get to know her.

I didn't notice this Amazing job guys

Very hot. Which is the one Nick is screwing to get back at his boss?

Currently it is Andrea and Laura.
Andrea being his old mistress from the beginning & current secretary.
Laura being the Executive Vice-President of Quine.

Good choices. Laura especially. 

Any news on an actual release date for #13???
 

Thread for issue 13 discussion and announcement is here: http://mindcontrolcomics.com/forum/index.php?topic=1192.0

Also: "Soon".
Likely December as November's schedule is full.

So exactly what positions do Alice, Beverly and Claire hold in the company?

If I've tracked the story right, Alice is VP Global Operations, Claire is a board member and I believe Beverly was supposed to become Oliver's admin.

Now she is. Before the ruby, she was Oliver's boss - something in accounting or finance.

Still trying to identify who is who, here's what I got so far.

Julie - Nick's Wife
Catherine - Julie Friend,
Katie - Julie's Friend, was having an affair with Nick possibly even before he gave her the ruby necklace.
Miri - Julie's friend, seduced by Katie to make her more desirable for Nick. Looks like a China girl.  
Janice - Laura's Assistant
Charlotte - Another of Julie's friends, Wealthy, owns a building, Monsonis meets her at the opera
Emily - Monsonis Secretary
Marine - Security Guard
Gabby - Programmer, Elaine's assistant (trying to escape slavery)
Elaine - Executive VP of Operations, Gabby's Boss (trying to escape slavery)
Andrea - Monsonis Mistress / Secretary
Laura - Executive Vice-President of Quine
Alice - VP Global Operations, enslaved by Janice.
Beverly - Oliver's boss in Accounting, Enslaved by Oliver, now he's the boss.
Clair - Board Member, Enslaved by Schegman.


Helena - Oliver's wife, I guess Oliver told her to got for a walk to get her out of the house so he could enslave Beverly without interruptions.  

Some quick adjustments and updates:


Nick
Julie (4*)- Nick's Wife.  Got the ruby from Nick via Andrea.  Transformed in issue 2 by Andrea.
Andrea (5)- Julie's best friend who gives her the ruby.  Was having an affair with Nick before he gave her the ruby necklace.
Catherine (4)- Another of Julie's friends, Wealthy, owns a building, Monsonis enslaves her at the opera.  Transformed by Andrea.
Katie (4)- Julie's artist friend.  Transformed by Julie.
Miri (4)- Julie's friend, seduced by Andrea to make her more desirable for Nick. Looks like a China girl.  Transformed by Andrea and Katie.

Monsonis
Laura (4)- Executive Vice-President of Quine.  Transformed by Emily and Monsonis.
Janice (4)- Laura's Assistant.  Transformed by Nick and Laura.
Gabby (4)- Programmer, Elaine's assistant (trying to escape slavery)  Transformed with Elaine.
Elaine (4)- Executive VP of Operations, Gabby's Boss (trying to escape slavery)  Transformed with Gabby.
Charlotte (4)- Monsonis Mistress / Secretary.  Transformed by Monsonis (off page)
Emily (4)- Monsonis Secretary.  Transformed by Laura and Monsonis (off page)
Marina (4)- Security Guard.  Transformed by Andrea and Katie.
Estella (4)- Maintenance.  Transformed by Marina while she was breaking into Monsonis' office.
Lizzy (2) - Security Guard, appears in issue 14.
Shanti (3)- ???.  Employee being experimented on in Quine Lab.
Alice (4)- VP Global Operations, enslaved and transformed by Janice.
Claire (4)- Board Member, enslaved and transformed by Schegman.


Oliver
Helena (4)- Oliver's wife.  Enslaved and transformed by Oliver and Beverly at Beverly's apartment.
Beverly (4)- Oliver's boss in Accounting.  Enslaved and transformed by Oliver.

* Transformation level (out of 4)

I'm glad someone is keeping track of this!

Andrea's transformation in the last issue, but I'm wondering if the mental side effects are unavoidable. Or if there are any other side effects... (lactation etc)

Thanks for the clarification, I was pretty close.


Well Andrea has had the Rubies the longest, she is a good indicator what the other women's future bodies will look like. In the issue Monsonis has Elaine put the Rubies on, you can see his computer screen, options like Hair, Breast, Limbo, Waist, etc since there hair and breast are permanent, it stands to reason there Limbo is as well. Monsonis just must like Women with huge breasts, there's no reason why you can't uncheck those options and enjoy the benefits of the women without the massive changes to there bodies. Or allow them to transform a little and turn off the options when she had the ideal body for you. Bra's are going to be an issue, Bra's sizes typically run from A to G and the largest commercially available bra size is N, Sarah Marie Summer wears a 32M, and she's no where near as large as these women are. Of course if the future world of Rubies dictates that all women should be topless, make it a law even, bra's are a non-issue.   

Andrea got zapped by the machine they used on Julie, Gabby and Elaine to break their control.
It's not "supposed" to do that.
Having it the longest doesn't really mean anything.  (Although, she is using a prototype version, as are the original 5 women that Nick gave the rubies to.)

The sound of scientific discovery is not "Eureka!" as you are taught in school. It is more like, "Huh. Why'd that happen?"

It's estimated that 33% to 50% of discoveries are completely accidental in one way of another.  Viagra for example was suppose to be blood pressure control medication, which it completely failed to fulfill.  It would have been written off as a dead-end and forgotten if no one participating in the human trails told the evaluators that every time they took the medication they have a rock hard, hard on within 15 minutes for an hour.