Comic for Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Alright… next week of comics is queued up, going to work on queuing them up on Patreon too.
See ya’ll in a week (that’s a lie, I’ll still be online probably more than intermittently on my phone, probably not all that much less than usual considering airports, hotels, and other places where I’ll have nothing better to do).
Kally (and arguably Peter) are people that were raised for a very different world than then ended up in. There just aren’t enough problems that can be solved by massive destruction for Kally to truly feel at home. Naomi would probably sympathize to an extent, though she ended up in a similar position from a different very different angle I guess. I think most people would say that Peter adapted better, but I guess that’s a bit of an open question.
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Re_”Author’s Comments”:
In your last paragraph, you say:
“…a very different world than then ended up in.”
… based on the context, I’m guessing you meant not “THEN”, but “THEY”, & you got tripped-up by that sneaky AutoCorrect …?
When you can make a dragon out of magic but still can’t get out of politics. :'(
I suspect that being able to make a dragon out of magic makes it harder to get out of politics than not… for some reason the world pays more attention to you when you can make a dragon out of magic… at least pays attention to the fact that you can make a dragon out of magic…
And I suspect that depends on how many politicians you set on fire.
After the first 80 or so they should catch on.
You would think. I wouldn’t assume too much though.
I think one of the more puzzling questions has always been “why does Kally actually even like Peter in the first place?” given that he spends most of his time being sort of an asshole. This might be part of the answer here, Peter is utterly unfazed by the fact that she happens to be a tactical mage, that’s just another data point to him. She also trusts that he can see the fallout of unleashing her power even if she can’t, so it makes sense why she’d want him around at least.
I will probably continue Minus Years at some point, with the goal of sort of answering that question. Kally and Peter’s relationship isn’t really a central facet, but it does impact a lot of their interactions and consequently has quite a bit of influence throughout. I’m not sure I’d call their relationship necessarily healthy or stable, but considering the people involved… well, that’s an upper limit to what can be hoped for.
I would suggest taking a break completely. We’ll keep. I suggest taking a nap. that’s what I try to do at the terminal.
Unless I’m flying, at night and then again even though I am flying at night, I tend to be in a window seat taking pictures of the ground from 50,000 feet and I have a couple of really neat screenshots of my GPS on the phone showing the altitude and the speed correctly because I got a real GPS lock on the ground prior to taking off. A GPS lock that wasn’t Cellular Tower based.
Basically get a window seat. Go into airplane mode right away. Turn on wifi &Attach to plane wifi if so equipped, put the back of the phone against the window and open a GPS supporting application. It may take a few minutes to get a lock without cellular assist. But once you do it will be a good solid lock that you can use throughout the flight as long as you keep the phone no more than 8-12 inches from the window.
If you are super geeky, and have 1-2G free on your sd or storage, before you go, download Avare And the airport sectionals for your starting and destination airports and any plates between the two as well as the high-level routing plate. Then you’ll be able to follow the route and understand what you’re flying over because the sectionals describe things on the ground in reference to what a pilot would see which isn’t directly below the airplane but is usually half a mile or so in front of or off the wing. the GPS lock would mean that you would know exactly where the plane is.
If you are unfortunate enough to be sitting next to me I would bore you to death with this and not care.
Haha, well, I prefer when the person next to me has something interesting to talk about like that compared to most things I’ve ever had a stranger talk to me about on a flight. Still, the flight I have tomorrow is a 10-11 hour flight or something, so… probably going to need more than just scenery and geography.
I am unfortunately terrible at sleeping in general, though I hope I’ll be able to sleep a little on that flight…
Anything is better than the terrible terrible movies they have for selection though… don’t much like movies in general, but I swear they must trawl the bottom for inflight entertainment.
So Malsa is almost the IDS equivalent of Levensworth – dangerous assets kept in reserve. Not quite an ammunition depot, but still potentially volatile place if something high-energy goes in. Full of possibilities for a disruptor.
That is a good note on the parallel there, as I realize that has to be intentional.
We have already seen Malsa start to pull the Levenworth resources once things got serious (Tyler, Marc, Arkady, etc). I wonder if we will ever get to the point where the IDS actually gets serious about fighting someone besides themselves and recalls Kally?
That also begs the bigger question, if the IDS recalled Peter to fight Kor’s World, would he go? It seems sort of implied here they were trying to keep him out of the way giving him a task that was ultimately beneath him, and he wandered off to do bigger things. If Kor’s World made a big play against the IDS, would he work with them? Or is the bridge burned? He may just view the IDS as too corrupt and incompetent to be worth working with, but it is possible that other branches of the IDS are more functional than Malsa if it is sort of their dumping ground for problems.
Maybe if he believed the IDS was the best place to go to fight Kor’s World? The latter seems to be the one actor he both fears and refers to as evil, but as long as it is only raiding this world, he might still consider current resources preferable to the fetters that come with IDS firepower.
It is an excellent question that could play out very soon. The current fighting saps everyone else, Kor’s is oddly quiet, and the tanks are just too close to its magitech style for it to not either have a hand in them or take advantage of the opportunity to infiltrate.
I had the impression that Peter left the IDS because he found out about the IDS’ plan to take over Palindra, and possibly a lack of seriousness about dealing with the Kor’s World issue. He went to Malsa, as they seemed to have the sorts of resources that would be needed to deal with Kor’s World, and unlike Orin, Malsa seemed likely to accept his help. It’s also conceivable if Orin has a bunch of other immortal warmages like Rovak, they don’t actually need Peter’s help. Also, his Palindran assistant was from there and wanted to focus on helping her homeland first and foremost.
Did he operate in Malsa specifically before going rogue? I always assumed that was where his IDS branch was, but I don’t remember if the prequel comic ever specified where it took place.
I’ve always assumed what brought him to Malsa was Avon, as he definitely has some unexplained ties there, even if he isn’t Doctor Martin, he almost certainly worked with him.
The IDS Office that Arron is the Director of is more than just Malsa, it’s sort of a regional office, though that’s not really addressed in comic all that much. I know that the details of geography are a little fuzzy as I rarely provide maps, but I figure it’s better than following my personal inclination to bog down in the details.
3rd panel: “But until than…” than -> then
Fixed, thanks. 🙂
perhaps this would be helpful:
*E*lapsed time >> then
*A*nother thing >> than