Soooo ,,,kind’a disappointed that C’rhynne is being a little slow here and not informing Trevor of the Raise The Dead Dust she dumped out. If there’s one person anywhere nearby that should know that detail, Trevor is obviously informed and brilliant enough to (largely) negate any nasty loss of initiative vs. surprise.
Been wondering for quite a while now if the dead will rise all angry and put-off, or if maybe C’rhynne will suddenly have (somewhat/sort of) "allies" that are bound to her or otherwise grateful or subservient, etc.
Which iissss … why she refers to it in the first panel?
C’rhynne does not strike me as someone who is absent-minded. Although, I guess that’s exactly what I accused her of in my original comment.
Anyway. These are the small discontinuities that one cannot get hung up on when enjoying a good story. C’rhynne recalls in quite some detail her encounters with a young Glon while forgetting that Trevor should probably know about Resurrection Dust blowing & swirling around the city streets outside. This is like Harry Potter levels of turning a blind eye to plot devices.
• "Resurrection dust + fresh severed head = head woken up for further torment (unless the Rannites were just trolling me.)"
• "Scattering resurrection dust on ground = wasting the Rannites’ valuable material component, and pissing them off."
Yeah, from our side of the Fourth Wall, WE know there’s no way we’ve seen the last of that dust…but nothing C’rhynne has said, done, or thought, indicates that SHE knows that. Hell, could be that all the other necromantic magic she’s encountered in her career only worked on the freshly dead. Not her fault that this time, she’s on screen in a story. 😉
C’rhynne strikes me as the sort of person who locks onto her target and engages with full focus. This surely makes her a great keeper of the peace, and a most capable fighter when needed. Glon is no slouch with a blade, and her focus on the point of their battle — incapacitating a potential threat, not simply displaying better sword form — reinforces, in my mind at least, this strength of hers.
This said, though…if you’ll forgive a Unix simile, the processor that runs a single foreground task at nice –20, so to speak, is devoting markedly fewer resources to other tasks.
To continue this analogy, Trevor is, I suspect, a many-core processor running in reduced clock speed and hyperthreading with dozens of processes humming along in the background, while C’rhynne has dropped hyperthreading to enjoy the resultant clock speed boost to a single ultra-high-priority thread. Trevor is a server; C’rhynne is a high-performance specialty workstation. (To judge from Lyle’s sense of humor, wit, and easy charisma, the man’s a next-gen gaming console.)
We still need to consider the fifth wall – the wall of Rich’s mind. Maybe he decided C’rhynne forgot about the powder for simplicity and comedic effect 🙂
But for reasons unknown, the Rannites have been reluctant to seize the Library. If it IS Rannites at the door, maybe they’re afraid to simply storm the place, and want C’rhynne to come to them instead.
So I get that this is a webcomic, not a fencing manual. Still, interesting advice to give from the person who was disarmed first. Also, I highly doubt keeping his grip would have helped Glon prevent getting clocked.
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"I mean, that’s EXACTLY what I always used to tell yo…used to tell the Smith’s kid."
Nah, that was why she was able to disarm him, when they met at the door.
Iiii have a feeling C’rhynne and Glon will be fighting more than just guards.
Oh, YAY! We back!
Soooo ,,,kind’a disappointed that C’rhynne is being a little slow here and not informing Trevor of the Raise The Dead Dust she dumped out. If there’s one person anywhere nearby that should know that detail, Trevor is obviously informed and brilliant enough to (largely) negate any nasty loss of initiative vs. surprise.
Been wondering for quite a while now if the dead will rise all angry and put-off, or if maybe C’rhynne will suddenly have (somewhat/sort of) "allies" that are bound to her or otherwise grateful or subservient, etc.
Glad to see you back, Rich!
She probably forgot all about it by now.
Which iissss … why she refers to it in the first panel?
C’rhynne does not strike me as someone who is absent-minded. Although, I guess that’s exactly what I accused her of in my original comment.
Anyway. These are the small discontinuities that one cannot get hung up on when enjoying a good story. C’rhynne recalls in quite some detail her encounters with a young Glon while forgetting that Trevor should probably know about Resurrection Dust blowing & swirling around the city streets outside. This is like Harry Potter levels of turning a blind eye to plot devices.
She’s referring to the Rannites, not the undead hordes 😉
In C’rhynne’s mind, though,
• "Resurrection dust + fresh severed head = head woken up for further torment (unless the Rannites were just trolling me.)"
• "Scattering resurrection dust on ground = wasting the Rannites’ valuable material component, and pissing them off."
Yeah, from our side of the Fourth Wall, WE know there’s no way we’ve seen the last of that dust…but nothing C’rhynne has said, done, or thought, indicates that SHE knows that. Hell, could be that all the other necromantic magic she’s encountered in her career only worked on the freshly dead. Not her fault that this time, she’s on screen in a story. 😉
C’rhynne strikes me as the sort of person who locks onto her target and engages with full focus. This surely makes her a great keeper of the peace, and a most capable fighter when needed. Glon is no slouch with a blade, and her focus on the point of their battle — incapacitating a potential threat, not simply displaying better sword form — reinforces, in my mind at least, this strength of hers.
This said, though…if you’ll forgive a Unix simile, the processor that runs a single foreground task at nice –20, so to speak, is devoting markedly fewer resources to other tasks.
To continue this analogy, Trevor is, I suspect, a many-core processor running in reduced clock speed and hyperthreading with dozens of processes humming along in the background, while C’rhynne has dropped hyperthreading to enjoy the resultant clock speed boost to a single ultra-high-priority thread. Trevor is a server; C’rhynne is a high-performance specialty workstation. (To judge from Lyle’s sense of humor, wit, and easy charisma, the man’s a next-gen gaming console.)
We still need to consider the fifth wall – the wall of Rich’s mind. Maybe he decided C’rhynne forgot about the powder for simplicity and comedic effect 🙂
Oh, certainly, understood, Aaron. I’m approaching the question purely from a character study perspective.
Not Rannites- doubt they would be so polite as to knock first and wait patiently
But for reasons unknown, the Rannites have been reluctant to seize the Library. If it IS Rannites at the door, maybe they’re afraid to simply storm the place, and want C’rhynne to come to them instead.
All things being equal I think I know why [ Something Rich has mentioned in the strip] – but will say nothing in case I’m right
Once a teacher, always a teacher. 🙂
As the son of teachers, I can confirm this.
It’s the rag and bone man 😀
If they are not singing "Only Human" I’m going to be upset.
If they sing "any old iron" they’ll get a sword up ’em.
Hee. I love how in-character C’rhynne’s version of ‘Thank you’ is.
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Yeah, she’s thanking Glon in the best way she knows how: with valuable staying-alive tips.
o/~ It’s about to get crazy
It’s about to go down… o/~
o/~ If freaky you want then freaky you’ll get,
Cause I, oh I, I got something for ya, baby… o/~
I’m thinking wonky teeth and a crooked smile 😀
So I get that this is a webcomic, not a fencing manual. Still, interesting advice to give from the person who was disarmed first. Also, I highly doubt keeping his grip would have helped Glon prevent getting clocked.