Well, Plan A of "shoving her over" is off the table, now what?
fwiw, i'll be skipping an update over the holidays- probably the new year's one!
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Sidney Malik
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Happy holidays everyone! Our at least safe content ones. Can we get a small spirit of contentment before the comic finishes please? As for this strip, I have no idea what Mal could be planning, but I love the purple love bug sitting on Harry's head.
The Purple Hippo of Happiness is loving this day of visibility!
It’s so delighted to be able to just jump into Wolfe’s arms for a cuddle!
“The friend of the O’Malley is rubbing my tummy! Oh rapture unbounded! Oh ginger peachy!”
Ben saying “Mal” instead of “O’Malley” still makes me go 🥰😍🥹
I don’t exactly know what emotion “Zelda Fairy but with Legs” is meant to be, but I know that I love it.
Hold up. Gravity ALWAYS works. The first thing you learn in TTRPGs is, you can’t dodge falling damage.
I know at least one TTRPG where you can, although most prefer to parry. Fortunately, Widdershins (and more importantly Thea) don’t operate at the same power level as Exalted.
Immunity to falling damage is relatively easy to have, though hardly universal, in most TTRPGs I’ve played.
Oho! Mal… has a PLAN? 😁
“Possible you're not recalling some of his previous plans.”
Would shooting Thea be considered unsporting?
A little American magic for the Amrican witch? I don’t know about sporting, but it might feel anticlimactic.
Yes, but it’s not a sport so it’s fine.
… Wolfe, how good’s your sneak-up-and-crouch-behind-her-knees-ere-Mal-pushes-her-fu?
Harry’s got a friend!
The PHOH was always meant to get a good scritch from Wolfe. This is proper and correct, and actually why the ancor went heywire in the first place. Simply, to facilitate this interaction.
Also, I am deeply enjoying this victory lap! Everyone has come so far, and they are all working together and enjoying eachother’s company. There’s so much in this one page! Instead of panicing or disparing, Mal is thinking through the problem (with some help with Wolfe). He leans on Harry’s hunting skills, cause he knows what the team is good at, and Harry’s little cheeky response just makes it so much better. God, I love this story, and these characters. Well done Kate!
Was reading through the archives a bit and looking back at some of the Q&A’s specifically from Feb,18, 2015, and I just have to ask. Is the Purple Hippo of Happiness the real reason The Crown doesn’t currently have magic? Couldn’t take the crown jewels so he took The Crown’s Stability and traded it for a biscuit?
I wonder if whatever Mal’s looking for is something we’ve seen before. Thea has all the conduits already….maybe something related to how he was blinded by his own reflection in Chapter 7? She has 3 anchors’ worth of power, something that could overload her senses?
Or maybe something more abstract than that? Something to convince her to stop?
Mal does have the advantage of being the only witch with a team. All they need now are themed uniforms and either a lock and load montage or a transformation sequence.
Denouement: Initiated!