April 8th, 2022
8 Apr 2022 · page 1106 of 1306
Wizards are good and all but sometimes you just need a guy who can yell at the exact right time
Cast: Patience Rattaker, Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang, Verity Cunningham
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It makes sense that the stage magician is good at redirecting people's attention at crucial moments
Exactly.
Oh, it's better than that. How is he redirecting their attention? By introducing doubt, otherwise known as the inverse of certainty.
I told y'all he was the Grifter.
this scene is one of the best action sequences in Widdershins imo !
Wish i had a link to the castle chase page in Darken handy.
Your wish is my command.
[https://darkencomic.com/dar...](https://darkencomic.com/darken/july-1st-2010/ "https://darkencomic.com/darken/july-1st-2010/")
Nearly twelve years and i still remember it vividly.
We'll never get it -- Kate's too busy -- but I really want Darken v. 2
Ah, well. Having Widdershins is better.
Am I the only one a trifle concerned about all these squiggly white lines that have started appearing?
Not sure, is it air? Does it mean it's windy now? It does seem like there are waves...
They [started appearing ](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-25th-2022 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-25th-2022")just before she started casting, so I'm going to go with it being a way of showing that it's windy.
I don't think so. It looks to me like the squiggly lines appeared as the door itself started appearing.
N-no, I don't think they bode well at all.
They're visible from the start of [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-25th-2022 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-25th-2022"), and Thea doesn't start casting until the end of the page.
Have you noticed the sea getting stirred up too? A result of opening the anchor?
But-but... the door! Can she get through the door or not? Is Lei jumping on her so we can find out? WHY CAN'T WE FOCUS ON THE DOOR???
Don't worry, I'm sure Thea's 100% right and the sudden appearance of the door in a place nobody expected is completely unimportant and won't mess up anybody's plans at all! They can just continue to ignore it, and it'll all be fine.
Don't miss the next exciting episode of Widdershins: Sea Change!
Witch Change?
flawless
You know, Vee is the only one here who’s seen a witch opening their door before. Has she recognized it as such, or is she distracted by sneaking into the bathysphere?
yes
I seem to be searching the archive a lot today: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-4th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-4th-2020")
And it seems to me, not only did Pryce and his goons see Mal opening his door, their attention was called in that direction at just that moment. ;)
… but perhaps you meant the only one on the protagonist side? Yeah, might be. And indeed, I'm not sure she even has a line of sight at the door here, and even if she did, she seems to be looking the other way. Can't say for sure what happens between frames, mind …
Ah, right! I forgot about that scene.
There is a difference, though; in the scene I was thinking of (https://www.widdershinscomi... "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-7th-2016)") the door is being opened from the outside and coming into existence for the first time, whereas in the scene you linked Mal is opening it from the other side, so the effect is a little different from what just happened with Thea.
So Thea was in on the plan all along.
Is Thea gonna turn out to be the sea witch? :3
unlikely as so far there's indications that a wizarding and witching don't go well together.
I think witches can do circles in the same way as wizards, they just don't need to - in Chapter 7 Mal drew circles and had Harry recite the words, it just turned out his own presence and intent were enough on their own.
Could be wrong, but my money's still on Thea.
"They'd be a lot more attuned to the spirits than a wizard, certainly. They have a natural control over magic that can't be taught …"
Indeed, witches can do circles in the same way as wizards. It's just that Mal wasn't trained. And Isabella was planning on teaching him: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-1st-2016 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-1st-2016")
She also says that she expects the witch to be a wizard.
I'm partial to the Thea witch theory too, but gokalie has a point - Mal specifically says that wizards can't enter the Witch Space. [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-14th-2016 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-14th-2016")
Wizards other than the Witch, perhaps.
Or maybe you wouldn't consider the witch to be a wizard, but if they can use the same powers as a wizard and don't know they're a witch, isn't that what they'd think they are?
I'm betting on either Tim or Lei.
She seems to be the only one who can see the door right now, and when we saw Mal at the anchor, he was the only one who could see the door until he touched it too.
Putting that art of misdirection to brilliant use, our favorite magician
Definitely windy - check Tim's coat and Thea's skirts.
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I'm fairly sure they can't move the anchor - Pryce is still thinking in terms of a ship's anchor i'd wager - but is the door fixed to the ship?
If they move the ship, will the door be hanging in mid-air ... or is the ship now irrevocably fixed in that spot?
I'm betting the door stays put.
But you're absolutely right that Pryce is imagining the Anchor completely wrong.
I am going to laugh my socks off if the whole ship is now anchored to the anchor.
nice save!
I like that she's so ready to fight him on it that she's picking up a weapon taking off her helmet to do so...
so it just occured to me... A door appears where the anchor is or will be yes? If its above the water but the anchor appears to be under water.... doesn't that mean some sort of natural environmental event is due to bring it above water? like the eruption of a underwater volcano to create a new landmass?
I don't think you can say the door appears where the anchor is or will be. The door of Widdershins appeared far above the depths where the anchor was said to be, and Arpana apparently uses the door of Chomolungma, even though she said no one had ever yet made the climb to the anchor itself.
It isn't the engineering that seems flimsy here!
It's not an octopus she meets down below, but the fierce battling Smacktopus that deals "hundred thousand handslaps of pain".
The Root and Branch webcomic creator has a standalone comic that is the absolutely perfect prequel to this page, or even this sequence. It's called
'the Fantastic Voyage of the RSV Conch' and it's a steampunk adventure about ladies learning to deep sea dive, inventing submarines and a first gen deepsea diving costume, just like this one!