March 17th, 2020
17 Mar 2020 · page 971 of 1306
'ey up, sorry for the lack of updates, had a pretty nasty illness that i originally took for a cold but it seems quite likely that it was covid.. kinda took me out entirely for a week with coughs. yes, we isolated ourselves! still staying indoors for another week too.
all back to work now though, thanks for your patience! updates will resume as normal!
Cast: Harriet Barber, Nyree
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Eek, glad to hear you're on the mend!
Mind you don't push yourself too hard while recovering (but it's good to see the comic back too).
I hope you feel better soon. This covid business is no joke. If you need extra time for recovery I think the readership will understand.
i'm pretty okay now, thanks! down to just a light cough and a bit of extra tiredness now. quite excited to get back to doing something other than lying in bed!
Glad to hear that you are on the mend. Now you are over the virus, does this mean you are free to go out into this wonderful new world where there is hardly any traffic on the roads, you can get served in the pub and there's always a free table at the restaurant?
hell no, staying in another week just in case!
Yeah, whatever I had in January left me pretty wiped out for another two weeks after the first two. I hear Japan keeps people in the hospital for 30 days until they're no longer shedding virus.
makes sense. we're very lucky in that me and my other half can both work from home, so we're just staying in for right now. no idea if it even was covid we had- the symptoms certainly fit, but you can't really get a test unless you're in an at risk group- so we're just acting as if it was for safety's sake.
The same with my son and grandson: Some of their symptons fit, others don't. They didn't got a test either, but have done the sensible thing and isolated themselves. I'm so glad that you're all getting better!
good on them. they're doing the right thing! i'm sure they'll be fine soon too!
It is not certain yet that immunity will automatically be gained after this covid-19 infection......I'd be very, very cautious
I am stricken with envy. New York and its neighbor states shut down all the bars, restaurants, gyms, and any other reason to leave the house starting at 8PM yesterday.
Let the cabin fever commence!
Finally, I have an excuse not to leave the house and not to talk to anyone!
One man's trash is another man's treasure....
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May I send you some pipe tobacco?
Doggy!
(look at the beast)
Kitty?
Birdie?
Err...
OK. Doggy!
Griffin! (Or Gryphon). Cute skeletal vulture-y griffin!
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Glad to hear you're doing better! Get all the rest you need!
Take care of yourself! We all wanna know what happens next.
Congratulations on becoming a WHO recovery statistic!
More likely to have joined one of the hidden recovery statistics if was never officially tested for it :/
that's the badger! gave it a try but they were very uninterested in testing us. understandable given limited tests but does make the numbers a little.. skewed.
It does, indeed.
While the WHO is saying "Test, test and test again", too. 🤔
Anyway, many many congratulations on weathering this particular
storm!
(Raises glass o' beverageofchoice in your direction)
I'm in a similar position; I came down with a cold on the 2nd, it knocked me flat with a dry cough for ten days and I didn't leave the house for twelve, but it didn't send me to the hospital and I hadn't been outside the country or met anyone who had -- and the first confirmed community transmission here was a few days after that -- so I'll probably never know if it was covid unless they start mass testing for antibodies instead of/as well as current infections.
sucks, doesn't it?! glad whatever it was didn't hit you too hard! definitely sounds very similar to what we had, that horrible wracking retching cough, ugh.
Halfway through my nose started running too, but at least the cough started to subside around then. (My throat's still a little irritated/oversensitive today.)
I'll also never know if I was feverish because even though I really wanted an answer to that question over that weekend when it was worst, when I finally found our ancient digital ear thermometer it wouldn't even turn on. Didn't have trouble breathing in BETWEEN horrible coughing fits, at least.
Yikes. Glad you're making a recovery! Take care.
Good to hear you recovered!
Pryce: "Hunt witch!"
Wolfe: "Witch hunt!?"
Mal: "No witch."
Nyree: "NO HUNT!"
If we were on Reddit I'd be giving you silver right now.
Take care of yourself first!
Don't shoot the guardian of the forest yo.
And ouch. Stay safe.
So glad you're feeling better. Hope that trend continues.
"We come in Peace! Shoot to KILL!" -Star Trekkin song lyrics
"It's life Jim, but not as we know it,
not as we know it,
not as we know it."
"What are you waiting for? Shoot him! Shoot him! SHOOT! HIM!" Gul Dukat.
"He's bringing love! Don't let him get away!"
"Coronacon"?
yep, it's the hashtag being used on twitter since all of the comic conventions are being cancelled, so we're trying to do virtual ones!
...Forgive me for being a bit clueless, but how is a virtual convention different from surfing the web normally?
a lot of people have bought stock for the con season, so essentially we're going "agh please buy things because we're short on money now"! i'm pretty okay personally (didn't buy new stock just yet) but it still felt like a good time to throw out a discount.
So Stocker's remorse?
So glad you're feeling better and taking more precautions, Kate. We're beginning to hunker down over here, too. Maybe. Somewhat.
Okay now to today's page. By the coloration of the mane, I'd say this has something to do with Harry herself. IIRC, Mal saw her as a red knight in armor. Here on Nyree's island, perhaps her soul is a lion with a red and white mask. Harry going through the door may have created this creature and shooting it would kill Harry. What do y'all think?
I'm wondering if there's any significance to its being shaped sort of like Pride.
Well it IS a Lion.
Glad I'm no longer the only one who sees the resemblance
"You! You ruined the last of my tobacco! EAT LEAD!"
Glad to hear that you've made it through to the other side!
Glad to hear you've recovered from the pandemic! May the rest of your self-isolation period go well.
Greetings from the now "shelter in place" location of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Glad that you are feeling better. Hope your SO is one of the people who can deal with it with low level symptoms. Very happy to see that you are being a responsible member of society.
That is a very interesting looking beast.
we both got it not long after each other- he got it less than i did, but i'm a foot shorter than him so clearly it was a case of surface area :V
My theory is that it's an ordinary lion (or other variety of big cat) and the mask is an imbued item that is causing problems. Nyree doesn't want the animal shot since A) it's innocent and B) it wouldn't actually solve anything. (Of course, I didn't think there were any big cats (cats at all?) native to that region, but the things I don't know about that region all put together probably rival the moon in size.
Another possibility is that it's a spirit Nyree already knows and she thinks it'll help a lot more to ask it what the heck is going on. (Somewhat belied by the fact that she seemed to have no idea what Harry was talking about when she mentioned "the monster.")
That or she's just a decent person who doesn't think the problem is at "resort to violence" level of severity just yet.
So glad you're fine, Kate, take care!
No! Don't shoot Fluffy! O_O
Prolly the island spirit mafinested.
Oh! I missed the Kate-has-Covid scare! Glad to hear you're doing better.
. . .
From the look of the thing, Nyree's door has been et by a magic, super-fast-growing rata - a kind of parasitic tree-eating tree/vine native to New Zealand.
doing okay thanks :) it kinda pops up again randomly when it fancies, but could be worse