July 20th, 2021
20 Jul 2021 · page 1070 of 1306
It's all good.
Cast: Patience Rattaker, Verity Cunningham
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I do wonder how much "certainty" will be left once the passengers realise they are suddenly thousands of miles away from where they thought they were headed, and are suddenly going to miss all their important appointments.
They seem to still be along the line of pylons, so they're still on the route.
If they're on the West coast of America then they're on the opposite side of where you generally expect to be if you leave England and getto America by boat.
Right, they are not on the generally expected route, but since someone has taken the trouble to erect pylons there, someone expected this route.
Right?
I think the certainty made them teleport to somwhere near-ish to their destination, so they will actually be too early
Well, that depends. Certainty of what?
But why do you want to visit Mexico? Of course, they are really here for the fourth anchor.
Well, everything is legal in Mexico. It's the American way, after all. XD
Along WHOSE west coast?
Asking the important questions. I'd reckon America - and jumping from the Atlantic to Pacific would be hella impressive.
Lots of planets have a West
Also, along WHENS west coast?
Third base.
But WHO's on Third Base?!?!
Probably England. So Cornwall or the Irish Sea.
Hard to imagine that -- Lesser and Greater Britain are +4 relative to the east coast of the US, and the sun is setting in panel 1.
Hmmmm. Good point, I forgot we started in the US.
And considering we saw local sunset before the jump here: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-1st-2021 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-1st-2021")
All that comes to mind would be the West Coast of Florida that would let us see last light here. I guess we wait for the next update.
Patience is American, I think, so if she says "the west coast" without specifying, she probably means North America's.
Problem there is that it's three hours earlier on the West Coast than on the East, and I don't think they quite made it to midnight before teleporting.
It's August, and the sun sets in San Diego at 6:39 PT. (Time zones are a recent thing.) If that is truly sunset, then it only needed to be 9:30-ish if they left from a southern port.
Where I live, it would have had to be well after midnight; visual sunset here is well after 9PM PST
I don't believe you. That sounds like a made-up thing like Americans being real.
Well, there is that. :)
"YES, THEY ARE!"
I…I love you for this, Kate.
Hrm. I wonder if they can run a magical signal through telegraph wires.
Maybe they jumped through time as well as space? It'd make the trip feel shorter for the riders at least.
Patience is right, engineering is not an exact science, it’s more that you’re trying to wrangle dozens of factors at once and then slapping on a factor of safety to hopefully hold it all together.
Is this the line for Verity?
Talking shop? Firting. Competitive engineering? Flirting. Mortal combat? Definitely flirting. Engineering is more of an art. HOW VERY DARE YOU!
Just as you start to think you know someone... D:
The ship is sunk it seems
Pylones \\o/
Engineering is an exact science.
Gadgeteering is an art.
Which of them is which, though?
Yes.
Well, at least... the ship is still on the ocean?
(Though since 70 % of the planet's surface is ocean, that ain't saying much...)
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm just glad this didn't end up like the Philadelphia Project.
There's still time.
That's what they want you to think: [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.co...](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1345 "https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1345")
So shall we preemptively call this one SCP-7010 'widderships' when it all inevitably goes wrong?
Without a doubt.
Indeed there is, given the history of events in widdershins some or all of this is going to go sideways in the fifth dimension.
They were heading west, towards the sunset.
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-1st-2021 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-1st-2021")
Full dark fell.
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-9th-2021 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-9th-2021")
The sun is now behind them. If they left from, say, Boston at 10 PM it would be 7 PM in San Francisco, and 3 AM in London. Sunset in early August for San Francisco is around 9 PM, and 5 AM for London. I think they very well may have gone east.
Pryce is about to become very, very rich, or very, very disappeared.
That glow isn't the sunrise / sunset. That's the glow from the portal to hell that the SS Good Intentions just ripped in the fabric of reality.
That's the stern in the first comic, they're heading east, away from the sunset so... britain=success? Though that would imply the ship did a 180 somewhere along the line for no reason.
Florence Ambrose would disagree Ms Rattaker.
[http://freefall.purrsia.com...](http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03103.htm "http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03103.htm")
I like how that laugh before "Jackpot" tells us right away that it's Patience talking before we can see the characters.
Don’t try to harsh her vibe, Verity, she’s high on Confidence
Mad Sciencing is not an exact science. A. H,
I was going to say Patience was very much like Lei, a tinkerer who imbues her gadgets with magic. Then I realized, this is Thea's work. Lei might be able to bring Thea out of her shell. Out of all the passengers on that boat, Thea has the least confidence... in herself.
YES IT IS
She seems a bit uncertain about their location. Backlash from the engine perhaps?
Thank goodness they teleported the entire boat and it landed upright. Sea-faring vessels don't respond well to having chunks missing.
I'm impressed that she matched the local level after going around a chunk of the planet!
That's pretty much standard operating procedure for teleportation, isn't it? Ms Acedia didn't seem to have any trouble with that … [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-7th-2015 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-7th-2015")
(Whereas magicking them across water would have been trouble alright – "that wouldn't work, obviously" – but then, thanks to those pylons, the Good Intentions "never technically left the ground" …)
Oh, nice work making that connection! So that's the real reason for the pylons...
That last panel suggests that the good ship Parity is going to be a bit of a fixer-upper were she ever to leave port.
Reminds me a bit of the Bones-Spock dynamic of arguing logic versus emotion, haha!
'Cept with 100 percent more coy glove pulling. Tell me that look isn't some smug flirting and I'll.. Well, I'll disagree with you politely!
For those who think that Pemberton hasn't thought this through, ship transportation is one of the few that pretty much requires knowing the layout of the stars. As long as the teleportation was instantaneous and not on a delay, the crew should be able to figure out the general destination within five minutes.
As an engineer, I feel the sudden urge to smack the hell out of Patience for that last statement. ^_^
Just to be clear: they did NOT travel through time accidentally? Alexa and/or Sam aren't gonna make another (welcome!) appearance?
Holy shit, I think I know that JC Penny's
Apparently it's the Puente Hills Mall in Industry, CA. It's a Burlington Coat Factory now?
Yup, I know that place. Didn't know what it was called, though
Just glad they 'ported onto water. Also when you mess with space... time is a factor.
I'm placing my money on them travelling through time instead of space
Nice accurate map of the North American borders prior to the Texas War of Independence
Ok If Rattaker doesn't invent the Arrogance drive as an evolution of the certainty engine, then I don't know what hellish upside-down negative realm we've entered.