August 29th, 2017
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Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Oh dear. That is not very promising.
Nice catch though Harry!
Obvious solution:
Harry: cradles Mal I shall awaken my sweet prince with a kiss! puckers up
Mal: gag retch awaken Wa' ever ye were about to do, stop it!
Harry: unpucker Glad to. :-)
Contactless fairytalement - invented in Widdershins by Harriet Barber.
>:=)>
I have two theories. One is that Ben will be the one to stand strong and save everyone. The second is that Sid will stand strong here and Ben will be the one to stand strong against greed.
I am also still waiting for the contract to come into play or for the council woman to show back up.
It will be Verity. She is way too hyper to succumb to sloth.
I do hope we find out what happened to the councilwoman. Like Nicola, I was really not satisfied with the way she just vanished without a trace...
Um... Didn't Sloth EAT her?
Well, the offering was "eat all of sleep", there was nothing to be said about eating... mmm... the body. And it was gone.
Yeah but it was also said that whoever got all their sleep eaten would die.
(Also, stop imitating it! That's creepy!)
The body wasn't found.
That actually just made me think of something.
Maybe Sloth is STILL eating the councilwoman's sleep. How long does it take for a person to die from sleep deprivation?
Edit: Apparently 11 days is the known max in current time.
Way scary.
That....is a very horrifying twist on that whole thing.
My thing is that since the theme of this story is that everyone comes back for the finale she could as well. Especially since they're going back to where they started.
I'd say Sid is the most manic of the group, but he's had his spotlight enough for a while. Really not sure how this one will go. Maybe a rousing violin tune will save the day?
But Wolfe gave his violin to Voss for safe keeping.
The witch being affected by a deadly while inside the anchor's space between worlds seems to be having severe consequences
"This... is... worrisome."
Indubitably, but you've got quotation marks, and I can't catch the quote from the three words. Might I have a source?
Lol, I didn't expect anyone to recognize it, but my built-in anti-plagiarism defenses don't allow me to quote something without quotation marks. It's from my favorite show, Platoon of Power Squadron by Jake Jarvi, on Youtube. Watch it, you'll love it. : )
Love is... ah... such a strong word... XP
Haha, well, there are two things I always try to tell people about: Platoon of Power Squadron and Widdershins. I wish I'd found both of them much sooner than I did!
Two so very different things!
Yep. It seems that that whole "afraid of witches" didn't just come from somewhere. It looks like in the geographic location of their anchor, a witch can exert/wield incredible influence.
Ben just want to go home and take a nap.
And he even hasn't home now, poor guy. :(
No home... no books... D:
Oh, right :|
Guess this is the brains and brawn power duo segment, then.
Or the sugar and coffee power duo segment.
I'd like you to be mistaken.
I still don't lose hope.
Now that's a complication I didn't expect! I like Harry catching Mal one-handed as he collapses.
Especially since she was apparently a yard or two away when he started falling. Good reflexes.
I took that as a "Great, something else going wrong..." sort of slump more than tiredness.
He was yawning a couple of pages ago though...
I should have said, not just tiredness. He's definitely exhausted, but the "hff" sounded to me like an exasperated/resigned sigh.
It' blue :(
Wasn't the lamp oil last time particularly effective on wizards? Since Sidney, Mal, and Ben seem to have reacted the strongest, this is probably the case again.
>I like Ben so I hope he won't succumb!
Me too!
Ooh, this is a very nice page! Everything feels so ominous---if it were a film, I'd imagine all sound save for footsteps and voices would be muffled.
Mal and his big mouth eh
Didn't we burn this place down last time?
The building was in almost the same state, an year ago: [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-3rd-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-3rd-2012/")
Looks like the inside was gutted but the roof didn't catch and the structure is still more or less intact. Let's see if our heroes can do a better job this time round.
We all spent so many days squeeing over Mal and his blue things, and now we're all panicking because Mal's gotten his blue all over the place.
>.> Mal! Clean up after yourself!
He couldn't keep his magic contained and it just blue up all over the place.
That's AWFUL. Go sit in the corner!
Hey now, it wasn't that bad. Don't faint or anything. I didn't mean to make you feel blue. I guess I just mist the social cues around here. I do my best, but sometimes I haven't the foggiest...
(I'm not sorry.)
A punner who's sorry? I've never met such a thing.
I can't stress enough how I love Kate's way of painting each chapter with each Deadly's distinct color. This is a great introduction to Sloth. With a creepy, dark blanket of fog. I have a gut instinct that Sidney in particular is going to shine here.
So, is that Harry's "..hfff" coming through the mist....?
Ben's, I think.
If it were Harry, it would be a "Hrm".
Well, taking out Pride seriously wore him out. Sloth, I imagine, preys on one's desire to just not having to worry about things, on how much you just want to let go of your cares and woes and just lay down and embrace a reprieve from all your troubles.
Ben definitely seems like he might want everything to just be over after that episode with Pride.
Added a tier to the Widdershins Patreon- if we get a little more a month, I'll pay Disqus their dang blood money to remove the ads from the bottom of the comments- [https://www.patreon.com/Wid...](https://www.patreon.com/Widdershins "https://www.patreon.com/Widdershins")
Points to Harry for solid concussion-preventing reflexes.
"It was better than the giraffe". (c) Sorry. :)
Well done, Harry!
Mal has enough trouble with headaches as it is - he really doesn't need a concussion too!
QC didn't update for me yesterday, so I'm only just now coming to say--I recognized Kel's art, but when I got to Jeph's note and saw you credited too I had to come /applaud!
Haha thanks! I only wrote it but it was a fun thing to do :3
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