Comic for Thursday, November 24th
Okay… this page is a little rough. I may redraw it when I get home, but decided to put it up anyway. I maybe forgot to install photoshop on my tablet. Anyway… I said I’d try to put something up, so I decided to go for it. Monday’s page will definitely be delayed till Wednesday or Thursday, but there will still be two comics next week.
Spelling might be a nightmare as well, but I’ve given it my best shot (which, let’s be honest, has been established to be subpar… 😛 )
Anyway… Assume the magic circle on the ground is similar to the ones we’ve seen before, but new… 😛
Spacial Coordinate Manipulation is what most people would call “teleporting”. It’s one of those things that most mages would say is “theoretically possible” but practically not possible. It’s mechanically speaking fairly simple for magic; it is not about moving in a traditional sense or deconstructing the body and reconstructing it somewhere else, but simply changing the spacial coordinate of the Eidos object. Since reality will reflect Eidos, the object will simply be moved to the new spot. Unfortunately the more basic a principle of the Form is in physics, the harder it is to directly manipulate (or at least the more complicated the equation to change it in a stable manner is), and “Spacial Location” is one of the most basic pieces of an Eidos object.
It’s easier to manipulate things that in turn manipulate the spacial location – like acceleration or something. Directly modifying the location without using something else isn’t something that most mages know how to do (and by most I mean… none that we’ve seen besides maybe this one, assuming she isn’t using some sort of trick like having been standing there invisible…).
It’s something hopefully I will get to expound upon more some way or another, but for now I should leave it at that…
It is worth noting that she used such magic appears to be Miko’s assumption.
Happy Thanksgiving to those in Thanksgiving relevant areas! Happy Thursday to the rest of you! 😉
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I will always love that bottom panel…
Just a quick update that I am back and will have updates soon. Hopefully tomorrow, maybe the day after. Still optimistically aiming for 2 this week so none are missed in total.
Feel free to miss one. Rather have the comic late than have you killing yourself over it.
Yeah, sorry. For now we have slipped a bit on the schedule. I do plan on catching up, but we are running behind. Unfortunately I had a bigger pile of work waiting for me when I got back than anticipated.
We’ll see, but at least one comic should be up Friday evening.
Hmmmm The thing I find most interesting is that Peter was building a teleporter because he was aware of this ability. Also it would seem the blue gun wielding murder person represents one of Peter’s guesses apparently about the aristocracy. For baseless speculation I offer that I doubt Miko will reveal any hidden power because I am dubious PastUtopia is ready to drop any hints about her yet. I have also not forgotten about invisible crowbar wielding Tom who I suspect may pop in and do cop like things to people doing not cop like things. I am also thinking Naomi may try the MSB for help before Miko as she has no reason not to involve heavy hitters from her own country.
The aristocracy has been only touched on a little bit, but they will play a bigger role in time. Keep in mind that Arkady was also noted as being from the old Aristoracy.
Tom tends to be better at avoiding trouble then winding up in it, though he’d claim to be a trouble magnet. I doubt Miko would be much happier to see him in than Miko is to see this lady.
I have not forgotten Arkady but he seems to be a potential Ila minion so no worries :). To be fair I doubt Miko is happy to see anyone, ever.
Looking at Miko’s analysis of Blue Girl, I’m struck by how much like the commenters here she sounds. ^^
She’d fit right in with the rest of us. ^^ ^^
I reckon even Miko thinks would agree with that. If I see a “Miko” start commenting on the comic I’m going to get very suspicious… 😐
Miko would certainly prefer to be commenting about things online than walking around the stupid real world and dealing with stupid people barging[teleporting?] in.
I’m gonna add something to the Miko is weird/unusual list:
She can talk with Mium/M.Y.M. pretty much anywhere, anytime without any gear. Everybody else at least needs something like a phone to do that.
She has an ear piece, that you see once in a while.
But that could just be for listening to her tunes.
An ear piece that because of her hair would be almost incapable of clearly picking up her voice.
Why would hair stop an earpiece from working? Hair doesn’t muffle sound that much to begin with, and this world has generally better tech than ours.
Well, I’ve seen enough people talking to their iphone earbuds to suspect that they work better than I would assume. Additionally, Mium can probably hear a lot better than a human can. They at least can explain how Miko can frequently hear Mium, though maybe Miko just wears them to avoid looking ENTIRELY insane talking away while alone. Not sure that’s something Miko would worry about though…
That said, well, we’ll see a bit more about Mium and Miko before too long… 😉
Hair is irrelevant. The sound is transmitted via her bones, i.e., her skull.
That’s why hearing a recording of your voice is so much different than hearing yourself speak. Stick your fingers in your ears and listen to yourself.
Someone breaks into Miko’s house using teleportation sounding like there’s murder about to happen.
Miko’s response? Commentary on how this is only another in a long list of annoyances of the day. Sounding completely unconcerned, possibly a dash of uncaring. (About the “danger”, not about how annoying it is.)
Sweet mother of sanity, I love Miko.
I… I am not sure… erm… sanity… is the right aspect to invoke when referring to Miko… 😛
Miko’s response to surprising things rarely involves been surprised, and usually involves a combination of clinical evaluation and insults. Occasionally some shouting with Miko is extra annoyed. With an extra dose of the insulting.
Oh. Poor blue girl, we hardly knew ye.
Step into my parlor said the spider to the fly.
’tis a dangerous hobby, being a teleporting-gun-toting-Miko-attacking-baddy. Of course, so is being a Peter, Miko, or Naomi for that matter.
I do not know how you manage to consistently introduce new pieces to the puzzle while solving the old pieces. If I had to pick one thing I like about this comic, that would be it (fortunately I do not have to pick only one).
Let us break this down a little bit. It has been hinted at for awhile that there may be more than one source of unnatural hair coloring, with some people having mismatched hair and eyes. One of my leading theories on that were that they were the natural children of designer children… but it was implied all the designer children were young (Peter’s generation or so). But if the hair color is something that was originally from the aristocracy (likely implying they started manipulating genes a long time ago) than this theory is back on the table.
Of course, the other possibility is that Miko just means that aristocracy just has more money to fine tune their designer children to have better innate talents and stronger magic. This is the theory I would go with if not for the other fitting the puzzle piece of mismatched unnatural eyes and hair.
The teleport ability seems like it would have immense potential, but it would depend a lot on what its limitations are. I was a little curious to how capable or well protected Miko was during the Avon incident, due to the fact that at no point does she indicate being worried about being harmed. I suspect we will see the answer to that.
If Miko gets injured or kidnapped, I imagine we will see what happens when you actually upset an AI. Of course, with Naomi already in danger, I think the chance we are going to see Mium go all out is raising rapidly to 100%. I expect that to be awesome and maybe terrifying.
Well, maybe we’ll hear Peter’s side of the teleport theory eventually. But we do have a candidate for all sorts of mischief now…
Maybe Mium doesn’t have a vengeance-murder-mayhem.exe? Seems like something you shouldn’t install in an AI. Hmm… 😐
@PastUtopia don’t be too hard on yourself about the spelling, you are far from the worst. It is something you are aware of and are working to change. Change rarely happens instantly and it never happens for those who don’t make an effort to change, because change is not easy.
Try to always look towards the positive. Like change its not always easy. For instance, if your spelling were golf, sub-par would be better.
Ah yes, the good old so-bad-I’m-good-at-golf scoring.
I just get annoyed with the spelling because they are sort of silly sometimes. Keeps some of the commentators entertained though? 😛 I do appreciate all those that help out.
Miko in the last panel is like, U known that equation for a while, but I can’t figure out where to put the last n.
Or it’s a typo.
Ah, fixed I think. just misspelled unknown. Thanks!
You didn’t misspell that word… You left out a letter like ha gman. 🙂
I bet fast typing meant you hit the space bar instead of the ‘n’.
If I ever start playing hangman with the dialogue, we’ll know that I got really desperate for more comments 😛
Seems like a sure fire approach though… 😉
Oh dear, this seems to be a bad day for everybody. We may have yet another player trying to mess with the game.
Though Miko’s reaction to the whole thing is kinda funny.
Assuming this is teleportation, I am curious what the range on it is, and how it interacts with teleportation into another object/person (I guess teleportation near/into another person would be impossible because of their interference field).
I wonder how how Miko is going to deal with the assassination attempt, something in their bag?
Anyway, great page.
We’ve definitely hit the good ol’ wheels-come-off stage of the plan. Hopefully everyone involved has some spares or we’ll get sparks and crashing.
I imagine a lot of people in comic would have similar questions. There are a handful of caveats that I suspect we’ll see one way or the other eventually… 😛
Teleporting directly into something is probably not a huge risk, since you’d have to write the target coordinates, which means you have to know the target coordinates, which probably involves some degree of secondary skill (or technology) of gathering a target coordinate environmental variable. Well. I hopes. Or it seems like it would be super dangerous.
Teleporting into someONE, as you say, would probably be nixed by their interference field. Though you could probably get fairly close, especially to someone not currently using magic. Seems a little dangerous though, depending on how the spell fails if it gets a little scrambled… 😐
The smart way to handle the teleport-into-objects problem is to make a two part procedure; the first attempts to make a very subtle and temporary Eidos construct at the destination, which pushes any small objects out of the way. If the teleportation is unsafe, the construct fails to form or gets broken.
If the construct survives, the second part does the actual teleportation which puts the user inside the construct, dispersing it in the process. If the construct doesn’t survive, the second part aborts.
Your depiction looks like a three step procedure – targeting/setup (panel 3), an intermediate step (panel 4) that would involve this construct, and actual transit (panel 5)
ANNNDDDD!!!… the grand reveal. I knew it!
I cannot wait (but wait I will) for the next big one.
It is what really makes me love your comic so much.
Enjoy ^_^
If I was in the business of wild speculation (I am), my speculation is that the next reveal will have to do with Miko. I have everything from “Miko is actually a prototype” to “Miko is actually a natural mage” on the table.
Naomi was heading to Miko’s, but right before that she decided she needed to go somewhere to hide or somewhere to fix her arm. As her own regeneration seems unable to recovery that, naturally it seems like she would go somewhere that someone can fix it. And she decided to go to Miko’s place.
The anticlimactic (but still likely to be awesome) answer is that Mium is there. Even without magic Mium can probably just run “DoSurgery.exe” and become a doctor, and would probably be a nasty shock to our new teleporting friend. Some reveal about Miko seems equally likely though.
Remember, “Peter Kepler” is bait for a trap. Peter was only upset that plans got rushed. This was a trap to get the opposition to show their cards.
Miko is a **REDACTED**. We know of a thing that caused Peter to go rogue. And we know that his cousin disappeared about the same time. I suspect that it was more than information. A person like Peter will already have an idea what is happening, just from the way the chess pieces are moving, so that finding out something like “OMG Kor’s world is real?!!” is not a big factor in his setting up this elaborate charade.
Peter would probably play chess by gluing his pawns to the board so the other player can’t get to him, then arming his rooks with catapults. Miko would probably play chess by putting the other players moves into a computer and letting the computer beat them. Mium, well he’d sort of be the computer. Don’t play Mium chess. He cheats.
Between the three of them, they probably have quite a few layers of schemes.
Don’t forget Naomi’s method of playing chess: “So, you captured my bishop, huh?” *SMITE* ^^