Comic for Monday, October 19th
Apparently ethereal dragons can still roar. Makes sense to me, seems like a core part of a dragons identity.
It’s unsurprising (from an in-world perspective) that Otte recognizes Kally magic; she’s sort of famous, and sort of famous for summoning dragons to eat things that foolishly annoy her to boot; he would certainly have heard of her even before investigating Peter. Plus, even during her career in Criminal Investigations, she and Peter were becoming very well known as a star team, with only a matter of time before they would be high ranked Special Agents. There is another reason Kally would be well known, but that’ll come up later.
As far as summoning ethereal objects – most mages can make shapes (like the shields) that don’t move of varying resilience – they are simple to conceive and calculate; some can do things like the chain that we saw Red Eyed Friend’s minion use where they are animated; complicated ones like Ila’s hand are harder; few can make an actual creature since it requires both a very high level of calculation/spell to do it, and a high level of projection/imagination to envision what the calculation/spell would be, let alone do it.
There are probably names in the page people won’t know – that’s okay, most or all of them haven’t been used before, but we’ll probably see some more from at least some of those IDS Agents.
Poor Peter – while he complains that he can’t jump off roofs, that really doesn’t seem to bother anyone else. He’s gotta step up his game.
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You know I find it odd that they only seem to know of Kor’s world’s tech by reputation only. Weren’t they the organization that defended the world against these guys? Or is it more that they were formed after the battle took place, and that it was so long ago that without another incident that all the IDS has to go on are the reports?
It’s definitely something that will be expanded on later, but the IDS was mostly formed in the aftermath of that event – a lot of the older/original members were people that had been involved, but most of the characters we see running around here weren’t, though they were alive during it and certainly effected by it.
The faction that would eventually become the IDS were bystanders caught in the middle for most of that war in many ways… though in the end, they were the victor; a combination of the other sides destroying each other and adapting some of the technology and magical knowledge from both sides.
People from Kor’s world were rarely seen as people – they at very least wear heavy armor, usually to the point of looking like robots to the casual veiwer. Though iconic armor that IDS people would recognize instantly isn’t present here, technologically it’s similar; thus why they recognize what it probably is without necessary identifying it.
Kor’s World hasn’t been very active since the Incursion (the first war with them), most IDS agents have never seen one in the field. That said… relics of the war and people trying to recreate the technology are not uncommon (I mean, even the IDS is), and is still what Otte probably assumes he’s dealing with – even Peter wasn’t sure until he saw the red-armored soldier though he suspected as soon as he saw the mechs.
Anyway, I’ve rambled far too long, sorry! 😀
SA Otte’s first team were pretty easy prey for Naomi. So far, I’m not all that impressed with this one, either. Let’s see how they do from here.
If Kally realizes she’s she’s being herded, she’s going to be furious. I don’t envy Agent Rillon. O.o
We’ll see… surpassing the last team shouldn’t be a hard mark. They all at least have similar autocasters to what Otte has – faster and more specialized than the Generalized cell-phone looking models the other team had, though most of them probably don’t have a boost engine on theirs – that’s sort of latest generation tech that’s not been miniaturized for autocasters until recently.
Herding Kally’s is pretty much master level herding, slightly less safe than herding sharks or alligators. That said, Rillon probably wouldn’t try to actually stop Kally, just distract her – these people are familiar with who she is… she has a bit of a reputation… as Peter mentioned, she can’t really cut loose in the middle of a school, this is her still being fairly restrained 😛
Oh, I’m pretty sure she could cut loose in a school. The trick is to keep the school intact afterwords. ;D Although I guess that there would be a lot of paperwork whenever she does cut loose though.
And now I’m reminded of the Godzilla Threshold from tv tropes; The Kally Threshold…
Haha indeed. Something that I suspect will become increasingly relevant…
Most mages can operate on a “small arms” scale; which is to say inflict damage on the scale of a firearm. Some mages can operate on a “artillery” scale – we’ve seen a few rather destructive examples of this. Few mages can operate on a “Tactical” scale. This is usually not a good a thing. 😉
Fortunately for the various worlds, no single mage can operate on a “Strategic” scale as of yet 😉