Comic for Thursday, July 28th
Well, it’s still technically Thursday by my time. Barely.
Anyway, new page!
Will make it my goal to build up a buffer next week. We’ll see. Historically when I do that I just start posting them faster 😐
Bringing magic to a gunfight is sort of cheating. While Avon, the Orish, and quite a few others have weaponized autocasters, they are far from universal, and unless you can use the fancier ones well, usually not as effective as a gun. Their main selling point would be trying to defeat mages, and effecting mages with magic directly is notoriously difficult, and most indirect approaches are equally thwarted by the same defense.
I would note that based on this page one could assume there is a link between being a designer child and being a mage. While it’s not one-to-one (Don, for example, does not appear to be a natural mage), it isn’t unrelated. There is more then one reason for this though.
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They work well together. 🙂
I like the Paneling on this page It conveys the chaos of combat while being (for me anyway) pretty easy to follow.
It’s going to be interesting to see how Tyler handles an Eidos Construct. 🙂
Well, imagine they’ve had at least some practice, and Tyler seems like the type to not let teamwork slip up too much…
I’ve been trying to play around the paneling. I know that the ‘fractured’ look can be confusing, especially in action scenes where I have a tendency to double down on it, so I’ve tried using some floating panels to keep the page panels from breaking down too much. We’ll see; my inclination for action scenes is to go for bigger panels, but I feel that tends to drag actions scenes out too much.
Eidos Constructs are tricky, as they best dealt with by other Eidos Constructs (or by dealing with the mage creating it). And this is a pretty fancy one – making an ‘animated’ one with a complex shape is tricky, and that tends to make them more stable as well.
Very interesting. Mione’s magic here looks more like a disassembling ray than a disintegration ray. It does not seem to simply bore a hole through them. Makes me wonder what happens is she hits the arm… Considering Tyler’s comment about “literally” disarming.
I am curious though, why does it need to be a “ray” or “beam” at all if it is a disassembling spell? Couldn’t she just directly cast it on their weapons and not have to worry about hitting arms?
Your assumption is fairly close to correct. As for why not cast it directly, it has to do with activation range and interference. Casting a spell fifteen meters from you is something most mages cannot do. What she’s doing is more like… Eidos email? She creates the calculation inside her range, then fires it.
It is a purely “informational” attack, just telling whatever it hits to fall apart, more or less. It’s effect on humans is less dramatic and more localized (due to magic effecting humans far less readily), but not exactly friendly. There is a reason she has to aim to miss them 😐
Some, historically, called that sort of magic ‘curses’, as their effects tend to be seem more mystical as they don’t directly rely on physical medium levers (like, say, accelerating a rock or freezing something where it’s obvious what is happening), though modern magical scholars now understand the mechanics behind Eidos calculations far better, and that the difference in the ‘types’ of magic is mostly artificial distinctions.
sooo… while its not imposible for her to do a “everything fall apart” aoe spell. it would have serious range, calculation, and mana issues. not to mention the possibility of ally’s stuff falling apart. (or her own clothes, if calculations are just a bit off) and a localized area at range would also have issues of maybe taking off fingers or missing if they move suddenly.
easier, cheaper, and less harmful with a “beam” style attack.
heh reminds me of 3rd ed d&d where “ranged touch attack” was a weapon profficancy… useful mainly for spell casters.
also enjoying marc’s “oh yay im a -wall-” face
Not impossible by the magic system, but there are a few factors that would make it exceedingly hard.
The ranged touch attack is a good analogy, as she could almost certainly do the same thing at point without the ‘delivery’ part of the spell.
Marc’s glare is incase the bullets go through the shield and he has to glare them down 😉
with the power of that glare im surprised anyone is still alive lol