May 20th, 2022
20 May 2022 · page 1111 of 1306
Dangit.
Moving house today, wish us luck!
Cast: Lei Feng, Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang
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Time for the bullet catch trick!
Won't need to catch them if he can make them vanish from the gun
That's more Sid's style than Tim's.
Oh, now, wouldn't that be totally wonderful -- a call back to the time we met Tim. (https://www.widdershinscomi... "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-26th-3-days-left-on-kickstarter)")
I don't care if this is true in world, this is now my complete head-canon.
Just what I was thinking! Tim's surely had SOME opportunity to do a little sleight-of-hand on Price's gun, after chatting with him for so long...
Hmm... potential mass displacement of something deep in the water. No way that will end poorly for the ship.
"something deep".
OK, I know you were talking about water mass, but now I'm starting fearing a more alive "something" being awaken by all these shenanigans.
Anyone know if Dagon or one of their slumbering tentacled pals have been seen around an Anchor?
Oop, there's that certainty starting to disappear!
Don't worry, the loss of certainty couldn't possibly create a negative feedback loop with disastrous consequences for the ship and/or the world.
how much do you wanna bet that the ship will start sinking the next page
How certain are you that that's where this is going?
hm good point. perhaps everyone will be so certain the ship will sink that it will actually fuel the certainty engine more.
Err... I'm not so certain
I would love, if after all of this is over, they have to take the long way home and have to stop in Chile for supplies. I bet then Pryce would appreciate the existence of Chile.
Good luck with the move, Kate. Hope the weather is kind and nothing breakable get dropped.
Good luck, don't hurt your back (or anyplace else)~
Good luck!
Good luck with house moving! Remember: don't move the anchor! :-}
I never realized that houses were portable!
Actually, houses with no basement and pier-and-beam foundations sometimes ARE hoisted onto trucks and moved to another location, but I doubt if that's what Kate is up to. I've just never heard anybody use "move houses" to mean "move from one house to another" before.
Here in New Zealand, people frequently buy second-hand single-story wood-frame houses, and move them to another location on large lorries. There are even used-house lots you can visit to buy them and have them delivered.
The difficulty is in getting buildings insurance for them while they are on the move
Same goes in Australia, especially for Queenslanders, wooden houses that are on tall stumps, and relativity easy to pick up and move (and yes, there are used Queenslander yards too).
I have encountered it in things from English/Scottish/Irish sources and less often {but noticeable} in things from other Commonwealth
Oh no! A sudden complication!
Would now be a good time for Tim to duck away while Shooty McCapitalism has his head turned and isn't restraining Tim in any way? Or is he not quick enough to pull that off? Looking forward to finding out next week, same Widdershins time, same Widdershins channel!
when it's all said and done, verity's arm gun would probably have been pretty useful right now.
Hmm, I feel like their certainty drive is running low on fuel
Given how reliant you are on your hands and arms, I think you should limit yourself to directing operations from an armchair with a nice cup of tea while everyone else does all the heavy lifting.
Your calculations are wrong.
You won't pull it to us, but pull us to it!
It's almost like it's, you know, anchored to something!
"I'll just use a bigger lever! With a big enough lever I can move the world!"
No, wait! You need a place to stand!
wobbling and flapping uselessly in space
"BIGGER Lever!"
... and a fulcrum!
I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Are you talking to Verity and Lei or Patience and Petal?
Kate and company.
Surely you can't be serious?
I'm serious, and stop calling me Shirley.
Surely?!? SHIRLEY!?! SHIRLEY J TEMPLE! DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M KIDDING!
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
Ah, moving time! That wonderful time when you find all the things you had tucked away and promise yourself that you will now use them or toss them . . . Once you get settled, of course. In the meantime, I'll just put them here, where I won't forget them.
Villains threatening a hostage. Lux did it, the former Thief King did it, and it didn't work well for either of them.
Dr. Flack did it too: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-31st-2019 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-31st-2019")
"Go ahead and shoot him. I'll inherit his vast fortune."
May not be true but it will work on Pryce because that is how his mind works.
"Okay." bang trains gun on Lei "So tell me about this fortune..."
Tim should fight back or run away. Pemberton does not have proper control of his hostage, and probably can't afford to shoot Tim as long as Lei is cooperating. In other words, Tim's cooperation is not part of the deal.
Not sure if Tim is the gambling type when it comes to living.
OK, I think I might have literally dreamed an episode of Widdershins at some point, because I could've sworn there was an update where Thea talks about feeling drawn to the Anchor and such and I was all "Aha! I knew it, she is the Ocean Witch!"
Even at that range, on a rolling ship - it's not an easy shot...
Not to nitpick but "y'all" is not usually used to refer to a single person. It's short for "you all" and it usually refers to three or more people as a group.
I noticed that. Writing mistake? Or is Pryce not actually from one of the regions of the US whose dialect includes "y'all" and he's just putting on that accent to convey a bogus air of down-home-ness? (Maybe that doesn't make sense; I'd have to reread this chapter and the last one he was in to see what's been established so far.)
He might be referring to "you and Verity". Which doesn't fit the 3+ rule, but is at least plural. (Which is what I always thought "y'all" was for, but I'm not from the region so I don't know it as well as a native speaker.)
Include Tim, and it's three! No reason to assume they aren't all here together. Especially since he's gambling that they care enough about Tim to surrender in order to spare him.
As a Texan can confirm that y'all is plural (2 or more), but I think he is referring to Lei and Tim. Anyway it didn't read as off to me.
Y'all is usually plural, but there are parts of the South (including Texas, where I live) where it's sometimes singular. If you want to be unambiguously plural, you say "all y'all".
I'm not on Twitter - but also good luck finding your cats...
Oh boy, now Pryce has made the situation in to a trolly problem. That's gonna suck for Lei. :(
Lei: "Wait a minute... You're trying to force me to not stop you from murdering several MILLION people, by threatening to murder ONE? I know I just said that people were more than just numbers, but that's some absurdly poor math there!"