May 12th, 2023
12 May 2023 · page 1166 of 1306
Apologies for the break last week, back at it now!
Cast: Lei Feng, Pemberton Pryce
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That's... very bad. What exactly did Thea just do with/to the fourth anchor? And did she only destabilize magic locally, or did messing with one of the four cause the whole house of cards to fall down?
No need to apologize for multiple medical emergencies, we're an understanding bunch.
OK, that's done, back to playing Tears of the Kingdom.
Oh you've got it already? Lucky, I've still got to get out of school and bike to Target.
omg this is so exciting! I wonder if all the magical cast's magic is going to be gone?? Is Thea stealing the magic to store as her own I wonder?
Are The People finally free of the Tyranny of Magic?! Will we no longer be in the thrall of magiconormative entitled wizards?! Magic Power?! No Thanks!!
I'm stealing "magiconormative" for future fics XD
Magiconormative hegemony is even better
What do you have against magic and wizards?
Magic is only available to an elite, selected by birth, giving them undeserved and unelected power in society. Development of ‘magitech’ inhibits development of more egalitarian non-magical science and engineering. Magical artefacts are so dangerous there’s an entire official organisation necessary to hunt them down and contain them.
And I’ve read the previous ten books in the series. :-)
It's a good point! I always thought the unused 'Eliza has a magical allergy' plotline sounded so interesting like in this magical society what does not being able to interact with magic look like? Would that be a form of disability? That's what I'm excited to explore when I finally do my fancomic lol
also I'm both really intrigued to see what suddenly not being a wizard actually comprises of (like is it the same as just being a normal person now or will there be other effects?) and also screaming crying etc. because this is now very similar to my planned fanfic plot 😭guess it's one of those concepts that just has to be done lol
You have to learn how to use a faucet instead of magically making water appear, learn how to use keys instead of magical lockpicks, learn that there's another use for your broom... 😉
Oh boy. Is this something like what Lei herself planned to do way back in Vanishing Act - removing/stifling the magic in the area by blocking up the Anchor? She wanted to be able to prove herself without magic, but I wonder how she feels about it now...
So maybe the fourth anchor closes the circle and shorts the circuit thingmy (can’t think of a better analogy not that it works) that made magic possible?
Exciting !
Possibly, magic was only ever a side effect of an imbalance in the anchors which is now being corrected. With all four active, spirits are contained to their own world, the energies hit a stable equilibrium and there is no magic.
Holy cow, that's an interesting theory!
However, our glimpse into the future where magic is still a thing (albeit antiquated) argues otherwise.
well, sh*t
I wonder if Thea realized it was Lei up there and went specifically after her...
If so, why is has all the magitech failed too?
Tasty side dish?
So if something ate the magitek, and something ate Lei's magic, could said same thing have eaten a magically imbued crown?
I suppose so - though that still leaves unsolved the mystery how said crown, originally being pretty much on the other side of the planet, got anywhere near the area of effect outlined by other two in the first place.
MMMM! MAGIC!
The Ocean Witch is coming to the surface? I dare say it's a poor time for Thearising.
groooan
Thea pulling a pre-character-growth Lei!
the ocean witch ATE IT
Don't feel you have to apologize. Real life gets in the way. I have one strip that I'm reading that hasn't had an update since NOVEMBER. I can live with a week or so! Thanks.
Say what you want about science, but I've yet to hear "my science is gone"...
I'd wager a guess that one of the last people (so far) who had reason for such a statement would be Hendrik Antoon Lorentz after hearing of the Trouton-Rankine experiment, so it's not very surprising that you've never heard it in person ...
So... the Anchor moved?