March 12th, 2019
12 Mar 2019 · page 881 of 1306
Well that's very reassur- WAIT NO IT ISN'T
Cast: Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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I love how the swearing is the part he apologizes for first. xD
Oh hey, I'm chained to the man who's supposed to murder me.
Murder? No officer, I have a license for this rope.
By the way, would you mind signing the rope at 2 inch intervals? It's for my pension plan.
I wanted a tax cut not a cut rope!
Sir Pterry FTW! 😃
Four years today. GNU PTerry.
kick the hangman out of the vent, forget the wrists are still attached
Did he kick it open or is it just finally starting to buckle under the weight?
Some of both, I think.
You can see both of his feet through the opening. I think he's frantically trying back away, which caused both.
Well at least this secret didn't drag on for half a chapter
Funny you should say that, we're just past halfway through this one now :V
You know what I mean, there's a big secret, main character keeps getting interrupted when he wants to tell it, just before the final battle the secret is revealed by someone else, why didn't you tell me, I tried but there just wasn't an appropriate time, they have an argument, they bond again over fighting the bad guy, etc.
You know, the usual
haha yeah, just figured i'd mention since i was a little surprised myself that we were that far along!
lol, perfect timing
Wow, Chapter 7 really threw off my sense of scale. I figured we were maybe at the 1/3 mark.
And so, through the overwhelming power of WTF, Doctor Flack's influence was shattered! >:=)>
Or maybe through the healing power of "thmp!"s with Sharpe's head? :)
Percussive realignment - if it worked on Hawkeye...?
HANG on a second
Righto lads. Now you can panic.
Not only has the grate fallen open, the vent itself is actually bent and sagging from having two full-grown people sitting in one spot for too long (and getting a little too active)! Looks like Knotty and Will are about to do a reprise of their falling-out-of-a-vent-and-landing-in-a-heap maneuver...
"Well, you know, we in the business strive to really connect with our clients, get to really know them! Yes, some may call it 'morbid' or 'pervese' to insert ourselves into their final hours, but we call it client-connecting! After all, who would you rather be hanged by, a perfect stranger? Or a matey?"
So basically. . . [https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crV5WL6p6OQ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crV5WL6p6OQ")
Sharpe's expression in the penultimate frame is priceless! :)
He's really not taking this as smoothly as I would have thought. "Wait, I'm the one who does the lying and manipulation around here. And you're saying that you misled me, and I didn't know? I need to lie down."
I can just hear the internal gears of his mind straining and grinding.
I love Knotty ordering himself aloud not to panic.
Tacky, having ductwork hanging from the ceiling! Thought wizards had more class.
Hidden ducting wasn't in the budget after they'd installed all those mirrors :P
After that conversation, my brain autocompleted "I'm your" with "boyfriend".
~much later~
Random person: "So how'd you two meet~?"
Sharpe: "Funny story, really. He was supposed to be my hangman, but he was too dazzled by my magnificence to go through with it."
Knotty: "Th-that's not... "
Eliza rolls her eyes all the way to their wedding.
I'm here to give you the Drop.
Looks like they may be about to have a rehearsal for that.
Hee! Whatever one-way sound-proofing magic might have been keeping their conversation unheard until now, is definitely not proof against having the grate kicked open!
**Leans forward, fascinated.**
Gotta sympathize with poor Will here. For him this moment's got to be a creepy jump-scare right out of a horror movie.
I mean, sure, WE know Knotty means well, but Sharpe doesn't. What if the... what if his... hangman goes all "BwahahahaHAAA!" and crawls towards him?
Excellent timing and place for this conversation lol
I should not have cackled at that.
Will's facade of confidence cannot hold in the face of sheer absurdity. Even he is probably aware by now that Vincent is not good hangman material.
Earlier on in this story arc I wondered if there'd be a longer interval between the "not a lawyer" and "actually the guy who's supposed to hang you" reveals, so I kind of love that Knotty's just sort of like, "okay, in for a penny in for a pound."
Now I wonder whether the students are Sharpened or not, and which case would make the situation more interesting. :)
I think they are.
Their speech bubbles are reddened, if I am not mistaken.
At least one of them is an active hater (the blond one). But another one of three seems to me to be just a passive conformist (the dark-haired one).
We'll see by the next page if they have been Sharpened to attack Will like the porter and the cook were. The apparent color in their speech earlier couldn't have been that. They were not aware Will was present, and their eyes weren't lit up.
But yes, their question marks DO now seem to be colored.
AUUHUHUHUHU WILL IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER
It occurs to me that "I'm the hangman" would be a very… vindictive release phrase. Reset them when it's too late for them to do anything about it? Except for Knotty stumbling in there. 🙂
(As much as that would be fun, I expect the actual phrase to come in 'magic font' or similar highlighting.)
Oh good, you're already practicing having doors swing open under your feet. We're going to get on fine.