September 18th, 2018
18 Sept 2018 · page 835 of 1306
Hi Eliza.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott
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True friends -- she recognized him not by the sound of his voice or footsteps, but by his pedantic spelling correction.
Ugh... "noticeable" is the worst. It's almost as bad as "unessisarily unneccisarilly unnecisarily unnecessarily"
My teacher gave us a mnemonic for necessary that may help for that :)
Never Eat Cress, Eat Sausage Sandwiches And Remain Young.
Reasonable advice, too.
No elephant can eat strawberry shortcake and raspberry yoghurt!
I am memorizing that I hate having to re-look up "Necessary" every time I do any writing.
Bad? It ain't necessarily so.
It was also the first time she’d given him a chance to speak more than a syllable!
Pedants need love, too.
So Ms. Swift here is a chemist? She gonna get all forensic on the murder case?
I was going to say that it didn't look enough like a chem lab, and then I remembered that chemist means something different in British English and double checked the sign on the storefront. It includes the word "druggist". She seems like a nice person, however.
Until I saw the chalkboard, I thought she was doing that thing where you instinctively try to make the same face as the person/creature you're drawing
Those are some ENORMOUS flasks in Eliza's shop window!
yep! pretty common thing in druggist's windows at that point, it's basically a display
They're just full of colored water, aren't they?
"...I'll take Obscure Early-Victorian Innuendos for $300, Alex."
When you're prescribed medicine by the magnum, you know your problem is serious.
When mixing up various prescriptions, a chemist gets through a lot of syrup and/or sugar. shrugs Lordanum, cocaine, cough medicine or pear drops don't sweeten themselves. ;P
[knotty voice]"You misspelled Laudanum"[/knotty voice]
Blah. Yet, I can spell oxytocin... ;P
Typical chemist window-dressing of the period. Occasionally actually used for storage. :)
Pro-tip: ask before you dip in there. What it says on the label may not be indicative, since each shop does things differently. You might wind up with condoms attempting to be anonymous instead of linctus. ;P
Can we get a bigger view of that board? Pretty please?
I'd love that as well.
I'm pretty sure the large middle bubble is "THE INCIDENT", and I think the bubbles surrounding it are some Wh-question words, if that helps any...
The Incident being the invasion (and subsequent defeat) of the Sins, I would suppose.
sure! some of it is kinda hard to read, i swear i actually wrote words though :V
Much easier to read! Thank you. Looks like Mal is keeping a low profile, since on the right it asks where the witch is.
Ooh, so she's dissecting the Recent Unpleasantness! It'll be interesting to see what that looked like from the POV of someone who wasn't directly involved and doesn't have our inside knowledge of what happened.
ETA: And he's right, she did misspell "noticeable".
Now I want to know if she's akin to Mr. Holmes or to Mr. Conspiracy Theorist. We'll see soon enough, I imagine.
Well, given Widdershins is described as "featuring pipe-smoking bounty hunters, failed wizard stage magicians, apprentice druggist conspiracy theorists, and more" at TWC... :)
TWC?
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The trouble with being a conspiracy theorist in Widdershins is that it's quite hard to come up with a theory more exciting than what actually happened.
She has quite a few places where she is admitting that she does not know the answer, but where she has filled things in her percent correct is a lot higher than I normal expect from a conspiracy theorist.
Promising. Thanks, John. :)
I suspect this may be one of those settings where the two are sometimes one in the same.
Oh this is much easier to see, I had assumed she was doing science related to her work but instead she is sleuthing!
I see four people missing. Does she have any of Our Heroes From Before in that list? If so, which ones? Does she even know about Mal and Wolfe?
Could one be Voss? Depending on what he's been up to in the time between anyone not part of the main cast may just know him as that rich guy who blew in, bought a house to throw a party in, and then vanished.
Harry's missing, obviously, but I'm not sure who else would be on there. Is she tracking missing people from before or after the Incident? Fairbairn went missing a year ago, but she's now been found (and, presumably, officially arrested). Lei was missing in chapter 3, and if she picked the handcuffs and ran off as Vee suggested, the authorities wouldn't know where she is now.
D'you think that Sid is prominent enough to make her list? I'm pretty sure that Ben should be, and she....interacted...with the Widdershins BuggerupBusters team before (during Green-eyed monster), so she probably ought to know about Mal and Wolfe, too.
Replying to myself: Harry's office is right next to the Swift Apothecary, and so it would be odd if she didn't know both Harry and Sid by sight.
Thanks for the reminder about that interaction, I hadn't caught that one. Ben mentions "that apothecary with a swiftness malform" earlier in the chapter, I wonder if he's talking about the same place.
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Had to look it up, I'd forgotten all about it until JWLM mentioned it.
My thought is that this seems to be at least a few days after the events of the last chapter (people are putting up posters about repairing the damage, etc.), so everyone except Harry should have gone back to at least a facsimile of their usual lives by now. Ben, Mal, and Wolfe lost their home, of course, so they won't be in quite their usual place, but I don't see any reason for them or Sid to be listed as missing.
Maybe when they told Sid what happened to Harry, he shot off to travel around the world to find her and dragged Ben, Mal and Wolfe with him, partly out of responsibility/guilt and partly because, hey, their schedule's wide open now.
Actually I really hope that's it and we get to see every second of that road trip. Mal and Wolfe are used to that kind of thing, Sid was flexible enough to roll with it in the first chapter, but Ben. Ben.
> he shot off to travel around the world
Yeah, on money of Florrie, I guess. :) Now, I wonder if she goes with them... :)
Also noticeable is that Ms Swift uses that dreadful American spelling of 'gaol'. :-)
At least you can sound out our spelling, old boy.
It's obsolete over here too. It's been a while since I heard an over-excited TV presenter, obviously reading from an auto-cue, telling is how a dubious politician might well end up going to goal.
Ahem, it's pronounced "*GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!!!*"
I woodn't nesessarily thinque sew...
Yeah, I know. I really loved Oscar Wilde's poem "The Ballad of Reading Jail"
This might make things a bit clearer...
Blackboards? Cash registers? This is high tech stuff.
Huh! I almost thought the cash register was an anachronism, but apparently the first one was invented in 1879! (And patented four years later.)
Of course, it's the 1830s so it's still a slight anachronism, but not as much as I thought. Plus, Lei was running around making robots. Science and technology probably progress a little faster when you can literally summon up curiosity, creativity, focus, etc.
Yes, in this AU they have many wonders that weren't around in our version of 1834. The blackboard was still a relatively new innovation so would have been the equivalent of a modern high definition giant display screen.
Young Master Knott, do you not know that it is terribly rude to interrupt a lady when she is doing science?
It seems she is prepared to forgive him. :P
So Eliza and Vincent were Swifty and Knotty when they were younger. Cute!
So wait... if "Swifty" is a nickname based on her surname, why exactly is it no longer acceptable to call her that?
Old nickname, old associations- it's just how she prefers it is all.
Can anyone else read the chalkboard? It looks like an investigation, but I can’t read anything clearly enough to get more than that.
Kate posted a larger image here:
quietly asides to Eliza You're gorgeous, sis. :)
Right? Talk about goals.
It only just now occurs to me- the hangman's first initial is "G", and his last name is "Knott". Possibly first name "Gordian"?
Edit: I only now realize someone else had the same thought on the last page.
An inspired guess, but the tags say it's "George".
I like your idea better.
Don't lose hope! An appropriate English nickname/alternative of 'George" is "Geordie", so we might still be setting up for a Gordian Knot joke somewhere.
Perhaps his middle name is Yorick. Then he can be "G. Y. Knott"
I guess you could say she made a Noticeable mistake ^-^
It took me a second read through to notice it, and maybe it's a coincidence, but I realize that the isn't the first time we've heard of swiftness and an apothecary!
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