Comic for Monday, August 10th
Aug10
An unexpected reappearance?!
It’s a good thing someone that likes to talk showed up. There has been a lack of talking recently. And boy does he love to talk.
I think some of the back lighting panels maybe didn’t work quite right. Mium’s lack of thought bubbles and highly subdued expressions don’t give me a lot to work with, so I try to get a little creative, but my artistic ability is not always able to deliver 😛
Last time we saw this friendly-red-eyed-gentlemen and his supposed immortality.
We haven’t seen his business card yet. I’m somehow a little doubtful of his claim regarding it…
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‘There is always a higher roof to be on’ -Mium.
Haha 😀
That’s a pretty good moto for him 😉
Oh good, now we have immortals, too. Ordinary people must feel pretty dull and useless in this universe.
Haha, well, self proclaimed immortals anyway, I doubt he’d volunteer for an indepth test of it 😉
In a world where basic magic theory has been codified and can be taught or programmed into autocasters, ordinary becomes fairly hard to find.
The least magically capable person we’ve met in depth is Peter, and while some people would you assure he is unless, I doubt he feels dull 😛
I should have asked this for the Q&A I suppose… but based on this can anyone become a mage? Early on people distinguish between ‘natural’ mage and people using autocasters, can only some people because a ‘natural’ mage but anyone can use an autocaster?
It’s difficult to say – anyone can be a mage in the same sense that anyone can learn to do multi-variable calculus in their head in a foreign language of which they know none of the words.
Technically? Probably. Realistically? Probably not. I had trouble with both high end calculus and learning Chinese and I had time, calculators, and dictionaries, so I’m probably out.
The natural mages are the ones to which the process of reading and writing Eidos data is usually fairly intuitive to varying degrees; when you ingrain something deep enough in the brain it becomes second nature, usually from an early age.
That said, modern autocasters are almost universally usable, though the more complicated ones require more complicated user input.
The problem with testing the limits of immortality, if you happen to find a limit… well the results of learning that you are in fact not unable to die means that you are no longer not dead.
“I’m a good guy. It says so on my business card.” Might be my favorite quote now.
😀
It’s a golden line of logic that has definitely made me reconsider my need for business cards… 😉
Oh, good! I’ve been wondering about him ever since Ila blew his britches off (Yeah, the blast shredded all his clothes, but “britches” just sounds funnier. 🙂
At least he got in some monologue, this time. ^^
He’s one of the characters that is sort of best thought of as “the hero of another story”; regardless he shows up enough in the story we are reading that we’ll probably get to know him, for the better or the worse 😛