Comic for Thursday, July 20th
Jul20
Sorry I’ve been behind on new bonus drawings and stuff, hit the end of my buffer here. Had a really busy end last week and start to this one at work and some other stuff, all in all just been super busy.
Some would note that Kally herself volunteered to arrest Peter on several occasions, but this is Nathan’s point of view, not Kally’s 🙂
Anyway… I’d love to rant and ramble some more, but I’m tired, g’night (or good morning/afternoon/evening, based on when you read this 🙂 )
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I hope the coat isn’t a lost cause. Seems a pretty awesome coat.
Bizarrely, the only other comment I have is “her, who?”
(Well, that’s a lie. Arron going on about Peter not being “normal” just seems like a “well, obviously”. But seemed a pretty minor point compared to the other two.)
Two hers, actually. The first one, Panel 5, Arron’s speech bubble, is probably his wife who is now gone. It might be a daughter, now deceased, or even a woman he loved who died or left before he could marry her, but I’m betting on deceased wife.
The second one, Panel 7, Nathan’s second speech bubble, is Nathan’s sister Kally.
You’re on your own with the coat. 🙂
I think “her” in panel 5 refers to Arron’s sister. And Nathan is her son and “inheritor of Ka’vil” from her.
I think it is unlikely that Nathan is Arron’s nephew, because that would make Kally and Peter cousins (which, considering they hadn’t met prior to the IDS and have at some point in the past been dating, seems unlikely). On this page we learn that Nathan is indeed Kally’s brother.
That said, it is quite possible that Nathan’s mother is the her, and was a friend of Arron rather than sister. There is likely some connection between Arron and Kally since I doubt she would randomly be assigned to his department after leaving the Monster Hunters considering her skill set (dragons smashing things).
It is also possible that it is not the staff, but the action of writing something back to your own Eidos form he recognizes, as we have not seen anyone do that before.
you know im starting to belive that whatever bianica’s overall plan is, it worried and caused peter to look into something that started him in this direction. tho i still think kyle has some information on it that either peter gave him, or peter took. maybe both. knowing peter probaly both.
I think we know why Tom carries the Crowbar now. It’s cold hardened steel. @PastUtopia must be using that as a Trope for things that can’t be magic-tized. Maybe it’s something that is so firmly not Magic that making it or affecting it with magic is very difficult. Perhaps Tom does not have magic of his own or can’t cast well as such this would be an ideal weapon for him to carry although a bit heavy. It also does a really good job of Smashing parts of bodies when they need it. And it’s not a gun so people don’t think it’s inherently threatening.
It is possible, but if cold hard steel was all that was needed, bullets should work better than they do against magic. Even a traditional bullet is made with steel (beyond maybe the jacket), if steel or iron had antimagic properties they would make them with that.
It is hard to say without knowing more about magic. It could be something like how Form effects Function. The purpose of a crowbar is to pull things apart, so maybe it is inherently more effective in breaking apart magic. Maybe it is that it is a simple object, so there is less complication to its Form data. Maybe it is like you say and it is the material of the crowbar (cold steel or something more exotic).
So brother, then–good to know.
The question of whether he would have to fight Kally over arresting Peter, would seem to depend on how much Peter had annoyed her lately. ^^
Panel two: -( Ka’vil, write to Edos form. )-
Okay, that’s interesting. Does he have a computer assistant that recognizes key words which assists him in spell casting? Is it similar to an autocaster that he ques up, sort of like reloading a gun?
It appears taht Ka’vil is the staff.
Last page Nathan’s title included “inheritor of Ka’vil.
It is quite apparent that he wrote to eidos, but what did he write?
What affect did it have?
My read was that the staff itself. You can also see little magic runes down the staff and his arm. I think he wrote the staff’s data to himself.
Ah ha! It looks like Ka’vil was written to his arm.
For easy storage.
Well, we already knew that magic flaunts conversion of mass so seems possible. A more drastic example then we have seen before though. I wonder if Nathan ways more with Ka’vil written to his arm…
So… what was going on with the coat that got them all worked up?
Speculation: the coat is what renders him “invisible” (in whatever sense) (possibly along with other defenses), and the splat on the coat ruins that effect somehow. Thus, his normal defenses are down, which is obviously dangerous (in general; however, as they noted, Atter can’t make an effective offensive if he’s not in the area).
Are you kidding me? Given the context, isn’t it obvious? Notice how the thing on the coat dissipates into magic sparkles after Tom smacks it with his crowbar?
The sparkles indicates that it was magic. The fact that it was tiny and bug-shaped strongly implies that this was a magic-based listening device.
It was a bug! And Arron said, “he got me”, clearly indicating that he knows who put that there and that this someone is a “he”. As such, it could not have been Bianca. My money is on Atter. Though, it is possible that he was bugged by Peter or one of Peter’s allies.
It is almost certainly Atter based on the last panel. Tom says “even Atter can’t do much without proximity”. You can actually see the little yellow Ethereal/Eidos Form bugs in panels 6 and 8 last page, surprised no one mentioned it (though they are more transparent than Ethereal/Eidos Forms usually are).
My guess is that Atter can use it to listen and maybe see, but Tom is implying that he has to be fairly close to relatively close by to do that. It is possible he can do much worse with it though, if you think about that Kally effectively casts magic through her dragon to do her “dragon fire”.
There were two showing then. Only one gets squished here.
Ah, that was bug-shaped! I will admit, bugs were my first thought, but it just looked like a splat of goo for me, which is why I thought it meant something different.
first question I’d ask in interrogation is
what would
couldhe aim to doMy initial reaction was the same as yours, but I think it is a sentence fragment. The entire question would be something like: “What could he aim to do that he couldn’t [attempt to do working with me in IDS?]”
Oddly, Arron’s dilemma is the same as Myr’s: What do they know that I don’t know?
Yes, I also agree it is a sentence fragment, but I could think of nothing that would use could and couldn’t when referring to the same thing.
Could and couldn’t cancel eachother out. You either can or you can’t.
I think that the “could” and “couldn’t” are not referring to the same thing. The “could” is referring to the aim (the wanting to do something), while the “couldn’t” refers to actually doing it. (E.g. I can aim to fly, but can’t actually fly.)
In addition the “couldn’t” would probably have had a condition/qualifier on it like Danny (boy) showed, in which case removing/changing the condition can change the ability status.
As an example, say: I can aim to fly, but I can’t fly without a plane. If I get a plane, the “can’t” part no longer applies to me since it was conditional on me not having a plane, and thus my aim can be achieved.
Similarly, if Peter aimed to do something that he couldn’t do while working for the IDS, then no longer working for the IDS would remove that obstacle and thus make it (more) possible for him to do whatever it was he aimed to do. So here Arron is assuming that this was Peter’s reasoning, and is wondering what that something is.
If I had Peter in interrogation, my would be, “are there any of your plans which are doomed to fail now that I should be doing clean-up after, for both our sakes?”
Then I’d move on to the questions which he might be more reluctant to answer.