Wait, so did Tarquin not tell Laurin and Miron what Nale told him about the rifts/Snarl before asking them to come to Windy Canyon? What a terrible teammate.
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Wait, so did Tarquin not tell Laurin and Miron what Nale told him about the rifts/Snarl before asking them to come to Windy Canyon? What a terrible teammate.
Holy...I will admit, I was a little worried, but then I realized who it was, but then I realized would they be unmade?
I put my money there, after all the Snarl is the previous creation cords. Maybe after being trapped so long, the Snarl got rested and begin to restore the previous plane (without life only the material plane) until feel Laurin mind.
Oddly, that remind me Narnia and LOTR way to create their worlds.
mmm Laurin will become the "Queen of the snarl?"
I think it's less a casual dismissal and more an effort to let V make vir own choices? Like, it's basically, "I really messed up and I think it might be good for me to go fix it." "I'll let you decide that yourself, but I don't think that it's a very good time."
Four. But entirely possible.
Much yes to both of them. I guess that Laurin's favor would involve the Rift, but I don't think anyone saw the bit with Hannah being the desalination project manager, which is obvious in retrospect and also cracks me up. And the panel with the Snarl exploding from the Rift sent chills down my spine.Quote:
Also, I love the desalination idea (and the art).
Maybe the Snarl is like an anglerfish, and it dangles that world to attract souls on which to feast....
Kickass comic. I wish the caster guy had bought the farm there, though.
:smalleek: :smallconfused: WTF :smalleek: :smallconfused: what is going on??? :smalleek: :smallconfused:
Due Tarquin didn't care. The comic 0912 6-7, Tarquin never cared about the Snarl, he was "helping" Nale to rejoin him.
I wonder if this is how Tarquin's group gets involved with the main gate quest. At a minimum, Miron now knows something really nasty is in the valley. I just hope Laurin will be ok. Those eyes. :smalleek:
With the splashing water, there is both the snarl and a planet there. Weird given the crayon story, but time will tell what's going on.
Random thought.
Guess it's a good thing Redcloak never tossed any prisioners into the Rift, eh? :smallamused:
I suppose setting up a direct magical/mental connection with the universe destroying abomination, born to kill gods before the world was formed, is a bad idea.
...Maybe they should put warning labels on these rifts.
Blimey! Nice visualisation of the crayonstuff.
and y'know whats most terrifying about this?
none of the main characters know. Not OOTS, not Team Evil, not Azure City...
and
Spoiler: Start of Darkness Spoilers
Redcloak's plan involves moving the gate near the gods, not controlling it.
so the OOTS might consider allowing the Snarl to be controlled to spare the world from destruction....only to find out that it cannot be controlled using his ritual and that now since the Snarl (if it exists) is coming through, all Redcloak is going to do, is make it worse...
which makes me think: Redcloak is pretty much anything but a card-carrying villain, not stating his plan, not even to his partner and generally being as competent as possible. All of this is only happening because Redcloak is so good at what he does. if he was just another cackling mad villain who shouted to the world "muahahaha! I'm going to move this Gate so that I can blackmail the gods into giving equal rights for goblins!" no one would be trying to destroy the Gates, because they all think he is trying to control the Snarl, when he isn't, which would mean he would have a better chance of actually getting his plan done, since no one would destroy the Gates, since they would know its all to just threaten the gods rather than rule over everyone else.
but then again maybe not, since there is probably shortage of wizards that would care about such a plan, and people would be trying to stop him specifically rather than protect the Gates.
so yeah, all this is happening because Redcloak is too good at what he does.
...Jeez.
That's... wow.
My guess is that nobody tried to do anything with the Azure City rift. This is the first interaction we've seen with a rift (other than the goblin throwing chickens into it, and we saw how well that turned out).
Maybe an outside force is necessary for it to do anything out of its cage.
With luck, the next strip will feature the abrupt and permanent demises of Laurin and Miron, leaving the Laurinear Guild as Tarquin, Jacinda, and U. N. Owen.
No, I don't really expect it, unless Laurin and Miron do something uncharacteristically stupid rather than immediately fleeing as fast as they can. Sigh.
To the folks who are saying Roy is cold/uncaring for telling V that they could leave if they wanted, I want to share how I saw it.
I didn't see Roy as uncaring so much as understanding when he said that. V had just confessed to killing hundred if not thousands of innocents. V feels terrible about this and wants to do what s/he can to make it right. What right does Roy have to stop them from doing so?
Roy gave an honest answer, that he wouldn't stop V from leaving. But as pointed out s/he may be in the greatest position to do penance where they are now.
But that's just my take on it.
One of the guards is clearly getting skewered. This is definitely Mr. Snarl. :smalleek:
D: And thats not even the Snarl's final form :smallbiggrin: I'll see myself out now
Don't forget, we can't hear the tone of voice which Roy said it.
Personally I didn't think it was cold at all.
I doubt it. It was pretty obvious that Redcloak didn't want to do it. Combine that with all of the talk about 'sceintific method' and I'd say this was the first time he attempted such a 'test.
The Snarl is the world in the rift, and the world is the snarl. There is no diffrence between them, which is why telepathy will hurt. You can understand a god, as it represents a facet of mortal extisence. But, it is a limited facet, nothing compared to the full burden of ecistence.
Reading the crayon drawings again, it sounds like the Snarl exists "in" a single planet in each of multiple dimensions - the OOTS planet being "Snarl planet" in the OOTS dimension - and those Snarl planets, critically, overlap each other somehow. So perhaps rifts appear between any two Snarl planets that have begun to diverge (for unknown reasons).
In other words, the Snarl could also reach from the OOTS planet into the desert-rift planet, but since there's nothing to destroy in the desert-rift planet, it doesn't bother. (Or perhaps it cleaned out the desert-rift planet sometime pre-Scribble). But when Laurin telepathically told the Snarl in the desert-rift planet, "hey, fresh meat here in OOTS planet", it listened.
To clarify: the Snarl can only act *between* Snarl planets, through a rift. Not upon a single Snarl planet.
ETA: I predict that the desert-rift planet and the Gobbotopia-rift planet are different.
ETA2: I posit that the IFCC desires to create/open as many rifts between Snarl planets as it can. Perhaps to let the Snarl tear stuff up, or perhaps because rifts are the only way to access those dimensions.
ETA3: perhaps the Snarl is there to prevent interdimensional travel.
Wild speculation, yes, but I'm still saving a link to this post for later :smallsmile:
"Snarl actually exists"--Now firmly established beyond any reasonable doubt.
"What happens to living sentient beings who are attacked/come under the Snarl's influence"--not yet firmly established.