Which leaves our intrepid sharkhoppers in an unenviable position. Shipwreck to the left of me, giant unstable hostiles underfoot, and here I am…stuck in the middle with you, as the song goes.
I’m not sure this is so much any sort of prediction as it is a celebration of the folks in question, but…Levena seems the type to me to scream into the wind triumphantly the entire way down, then show up later chuckling that it was only breaks and dislocations, she walked ’em off.
Zak, meanwhile, seems the type to me to not really notice the fall or landing. I can just see him chuckling "Boo-yah! Someone’s gonna feel THAT one in the morning…" about the ground, into which he just splashed out a glorious impact crater.
This is one more thing I love so about YAFGC: the way it dances between heart-gripping plausibility and wild high fantasy hijinks, and owns both of these moods with style.
Yeah, not really a surprise here, this result was almost inevitable, it was just the details that were lacking (using acupuncture on the dragon was just irritating it rather than relaxing it 😛 )
Wouldn’t have done any difference: it’s skin (and bone) was too tough (you can see three arrows sticking out of it’s skull between it’s horns, with possibly two more between it’s horn and ear)
… Now why do you suppose setting fire to a floating skyship would cause it to *fall*?
It’s not like it’s taking on heavy water through a hole. If anything, if some section of it was blasted off, the ship would be lighter and it would rise. Not even getting into thermodynamics where a warmer ship would probably be more buoyant in the cold, high altitude air as well.
It depends what it is that makes it fly. If there are, like, magic crystals arranged at strategic places throughout the ship, then destroying any of those might break the enchantment. It certainly *looks* like it's going down in the last panel.
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Oh dear.
Indeed! It begins to look as though the "return to the Azure Osprey" plan may not be the ideal option.
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Which leaves our intrepid sharkhoppers in an unenviable position. Shipwreck to the left of me, giant unstable hostiles underfoot, and here I am…stuck in the middle with you, as the song goes.
Levena seem the type to you to have a rope arrow?
Course, that does no good with the ship plummeting. Hang gliders as escape pods?
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I’m not sure this is so much any sort of prediction as it is a celebration of the folks in question, but…Levena seems the type to me to scream into the wind triumphantly the entire way down, then show up later chuckling that it was only breaks and dislocations, she walked ’em off.
Zak, meanwhile, seems the type to me to not really notice the fall or landing. I can just see him chuckling "Boo-yah! Someone’s gonna feel THAT one in the morning…" about the ground, into which he just splashed out a glorious impact crater.
This is one more thing I love so about YAFGC: the way it dances between heart-gripping plausibility and wild high fantasy hijinks, and owns both of these moods with style.
Yeah, not really a surprise here, this result was almost inevitable, it was just the details that were lacking (using acupuncture on the dragon was just irritating it rather than relaxing it 😛 )
Not sure she actually shot it before it breathed
She did- last strip, panel 4
Wouldn’t have done any difference: it’s skin (and bone) was too tough (you can see three arrows sticking out of it’s skull between it’s horns, with possibly two more between it’s horn and ear)
Levena did NOT do a good job on this one.
"Seriously…. nothing surprises them anymore."
This is not something you should say out loud to the universe. It has ears…
"Um… do the lifeboats also fly?"
"You know… we never checked."
Betcha the lifeboats all have parachutes attatched!
I see a similarity with Godzilla firing his atomic blast.
Heh, ‘Tailburn’ is what Sydney just went through in "Grrl Power" 😛
reminds me of Bender in "Beast with a Billion Backs" checking his black box after being sent to check out the anomaly.
Worst case of bad breath i’ve seen in a long time
It’s not bad if it does exactly what it’s supposed to do.
"Into this lifeboat!"
"We’re not sinking.. we’re CRASHING!!!"
… Now why do you suppose setting fire to a floating skyship would cause it to *fall*?
It’s not like it’s taking on heavy water through a hole. If anything, if some section of it was blasted off, the ship would be lighter and it would rise. Not even getting into thermodynamics where a warmer ship would probably be more buoyant in the cold, high altitude air as well.
Ah well…
It depends what it is that makes it fly. If there are, like, magic crystals arranged at strategic places throughout the ship, then destroying any of those might break the enchantment. It certainly *looks* like it's going down in the last panel.