June 17th, 2016
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Come with me if you want to live.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley
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I didn't think Mal was THAT much bigger than Ben, huh.
Ben's only a little taller than Henry! That is pretty short. Mal's reasonably tall, he just hunches a lot.
The Violin is saved !
...
if they think of taking it at all.
...To be honest I really hope they save the violin too XD
I'm also joining in on the bandwagon of concern for the violin!
#SaveTheViolin
A true musician would forget to grab his pants in an emergency before he'd forget his axe.
... Gimli?
He's already wearing his pants, though. The violin was the only thing left to forget.
What about Wolfe's journal (I think that's the book in panel 1)? It at least has some very detailed notes on Slothe, and probably stuff on their more recent adventures.
Only if it's right there to be grabbed. I'll mourn it if it burns, sure, and so will Wolfe, but he has borrowed an instrument before now. Friends are not so easily replaced.
It is there to be grabbed, in the corner of the first panel.
"Come with me if you want to live."
With me. In my apartment. I need a roommate.
[https://youtu.be/p8H1RjjoGK...](https://youtu.be/p8H1RjjoGKs?t=71 "https://youtu.be/p8H1RjjoGKs?t=71")
XD That totally made my morning.
You want to banish, abjure or dismiss it, not desummon.
Or just kill it, apparently.
Points to those three for working the problem, by the way. Wolfe figured out a way to at least get one person out. O'Malley was ready to die well and defiantly. Ben tried to do magic at it. Decent instincts all around.
Yay for stalwart Ben, generous Wolfe, and effectively heroic Harry! What was Mal getting ready to do with the chair? Smash the window if it didn't open?
Hit the monster over the head, probably
I thought of that, but hitting a fire monster with a wooden chair would just be fueling the flames, right?
Hey, I never said it was a good idea
So what is the incantation for tipping a bucket of water over someone's head?
Oh, what a world, what a world...
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopdD9Cu-So "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopdD9Cu-So")
In my head Harry has suddenly gone more Yorkshire. Like she has reached required level of heroic awesome and even her accent has leveled up.
When she suddenly spouts tea at random apostrophes, she'll have hit peak. ;)
BLESS.
Hey, don't just drop the bucket like that! Perfectly good bucket.
Ah, yes, I had forgotten what an excellent spellcaster Harry is. Ala-ka-bleedin'-zam.
Here I come to save the daayyyy!
The window is small because of the window tax [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax")
Barber's Unmagical Bucket of Quenching.
Learned it from the Wet Blanket of Bristol.
Barbers to the rescue
It occurs to me that I seen magic spells for starting fires, convenient for lighting cigarettes and fireplaces, but I don't recall ever seeing a spell for putting one out.
Given the amount of magical accidents that seem to occur, most wizards probably don't get that far.
One Musician, one Witch, and one Actual Wizard, and nobody tries to quench the burning anger with a proper bucket of water.
Now I'm going to be wondering what Ben was trying to do and if it would have worked.
I think he might have been planning to break out the window before he saw how small it was, but then again wielding chairs has to be a multi-purpose skill!
I was totally thinking that line when I saw the last panel.
Lords, Harry is such a badass.
Can we talk about how precious Ben is here? He's got friends now, and he's not leaving them behind...
Now, as Mr Thackerey is clearly the wizard, will Ms Barber make the obvious mistake and assume that he is the witch?
Gott im Himmel! You are the fraulein from the freight train, no?
[http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-1st-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-1st-2012/")
Good memory. Thought they had met before, but couldn't remember where
oh my god they're finally together this is finally happening they're gonna team up
That's the Harry we love. Hocus-bloody-pocus, and all that.