December 14th, 2011
14 Dec 2011 · page 26 of 1306
Harry Used Rip Off Pink Bow! Formal Wear loses!
Hey it's our first spell! Nice and simple one to start with.
Cast: Harriet Barber, Sidney Malik
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Summoning an anger spirit because your neighbors dog won't stay out of garden sounds perfectly reasonable to me!
Getting angry and putting up a tall, electrified fence because the neighbours' dog keeps using your garden as its personal potty seems more reasonable to me. Or, if you're a wizard with enough power to conjure spirits, why not a tall fence imbued with the essence of angry felines? >:)
Oooooh, that fence idea sounds best of all actually. XD
Why, thank you! ^^
I'd prefer a Venus dog trap.
Nifty worldbuilding here! :)
Thanks, I'm trying to introduce how magic works without doing a big ol' infodump or having someone explain it to someone outright. Hopefully it'll work..!
I hope you pull that off, it's a great sign of story telling skill. ^-^
They're friends now, woot! :)
Your art has become so much better in Widdershins! Gotta love all the background detail.
Thanks! I've been trying to get into backgrounds a lot more, glad its paying off!
and so the Romantic yet Dangerous adventure starts! im usually not much of a comentarist in Webcomics but somehow writing about this story is kinda alluring haha!
It's lovely to hear that I've driven you to commenting! I love comments :D
So we have Greed, Impatience, and Anger magics. Kind of makes one wonder if there are magics based off of more, you know, positive feelings.
Ah, now that depends quite strongly on the wizard :)
So Malik could use Adorable Magics? ;D
He strikes me as being able to use the more powerful Adorkable magics. ;-)
Just making sure... Am I the only one who's getting a 'Murder on the Orient Express'-kind of vibe? ^^;
I would have said "The Great Train Robbery*" myself.
Yes, that dreadful 1979 cinematic trainwreck *dodges thrown shoe that starred Sean Connery and Micheal Caine. I'm convinced that the only reason that they made it was to cash in on the success of their previous co-starring turn, "The Man Who Would Be King".
I have seen 'the man who would be king', and rather liked it. I seem to have either missed or forgotten about 'the great train robbery', though, so I'm not entitled to comment as to its quality or lack thereof. ^^
I'm told that the movie was based on actual events (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1979_film)#Origins_of_the_plot)") and others I know who have seen it liked it, but I didn't find it much to my taste. "Widdershins" seems to be doing a much better job of capturing the atmosphere of that era and telling the story.
i had a hard time getting into the new story at first, but a month vacation (for me) and catching up on updates and now i love it! sidney is hilariously upbeat and harry is so grouchy they're just perfect together! now i'm excited to keep reading!
I see he was successful with the arcana roll this time around. Maybe he stole all the dice today. :)
They are so disgustingly cute sometimes. Or Malik is, anyway, and anyone around him can't help but be drawn in. (...if he had glasses as well, he'd hit 100% on my Sekrit Fetish for tall, thin, slightly daft wizards with glasses. I blame Antryg Windrose.)
Ahem, see that "no smoking" sign there Harry.
She seems to have thoughtfully positioned herself so that her pipe smoke will conceal it.
I'm really loving this story. After coming from Darken it's good to see the quality of your work upheld. Also... is that some foreshadowing i see there in that last panel?
Heh heh heh.
Ooh! Words that look suspiciously like illuminated Latin scripts. MUST. INVESTIGATE.
My Latin is decidedly rusty. But with the help of my trusty dictionary I have deduced that "lecta" means "to select or pick out", and "phasmia" means something along the lines of "ghost". Soooo... either magic relies on spirits in this world, or it's more of a metaphor, and he's searching out the influences (the spirits) in the air.
Well! Now that I've successfully made myself look like an educated silly with a dictionary, I'm off. Lenaru away!
That train won't get far without a tender to carry water & coal for the locomotive.
Unless it runs entirely on magic and thus burns no coal. (Or perhaps a very small amount - there is smoke coming off it)
Interesting idea of imbuing emotions into objects like that.
He's... so... nice...how?
... I sure hope the impatient train never leaves before schedule, just 'cause it gets antsy waiting around...
Amusingly, google keeps asking me to translate this page from French (likely on account of the French transcriot being duplicated).
I don't think I noticed the coin twirl Sidney's doing with his non-dominant hand, the first time I read through... Neat little detail.
The background details are so pretty! I especially love the little candle holder thingy