March 25th, 2022
25 Mar 2022 · page 1104 of 1306
What could go wrong??
Cast: Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang
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So their plan is literally smash & grab
Grand Theft Anchor!
Smash open the store's windows, and then grab the entire store and teleport it to a safe location where you can become the new proprietor. Yep, pretty sure sure that's where the term originated...
I don't even have anything useful to except hell yeah this is cool !!
If it sticks, give it a good thump. If it breaks it needed replacing anyway.
"Percussive Maintenance". You learn it in Nvy Electronics school.
Or, at least, you did, fifty-four years ago...
One of the reasons the Advanced Passenger Train of the 70s / 80s had so many problems was that it was a piece of precision engineering, while the standard British Rail adjustment tool was a 5lb hammer.
Yeah sorry, but I'm switching sides to root for team bad guy. Pyrce brought me around, this is a great idea. Terribly irresponsible of course, and certain to go horrible given the narrative framing, but very cool.
What do you mean, a stuck door? If the Fourth Witch wanted the door open, I'm sure the door would be open!
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Fourth Witch is about to. I wonder if she will be adapted to oversee the anchor in its present state?
Now I'm picturing the Fourth Witch opening the door just when the team is about to ram it.
And as a result, the whole ship flowing through the door. And through the Witch's place. And exiting... somewhere else.
Classic gag
This anchor already has a witch - who do you think provided the music box? It wasn't Mountain or Island Witch!
...though, I guess the music box was time manipulation magic anyway so maybe this anchor willen on-had a witch in the future?
My impression was that Arpana did provide the music box, but hadn't expected it to open all the doors the way it did. [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-24th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-24th-2020")
I'd always interpreted Arpana's
suspicious look at the "fourth door" as "the Fourth Witch is conning me about things".
Either that, or she's speculating about why the music box opened all the doors except that one - but that look reads far more like "suspicion" than "scientific inquiry" to me!
The question is, is Thea really following her father's plan at this point, or has she already diverged into Doing What Does The Most Good?
Kinda starting to sound like it's her plan, honestly...
I still don't have a handle on her. She keeps her cards close …
She's clearly an active player, using the passengers and their emotions, but is she just carrying out her father's will, or is this something, on some level, of her own?
It seemed like the former, but Pryce is giving her credit for all of the information. If that's true, he wouldn't have known to ask.
I'm now considering that she's been so nervous because she's afraid it won't work. Or maybe even that her idiot dad keeps telling people about her evil plan.
She looks kind of determined there.
But of course, he could be lying.
Or she has a different plan. Lots of ideas.
Mr. Pryce, please do not annoy or fill the person handling the technicalities of the anchor with strong emotions when the anchor is rather sensitive to that sort of thing.
That circle looks awfully familiar...
Role reversal: Price is sure enjoying having Tim as the audience. It would have been so disappointing if there had been no one there to understand how clever he has been...
It's been the downfall of many a great villain
The desire to have everyone know how much time and work you've put into your plans and how well they've worked out (if they have), is a feeling I know all too well.
Not a villain though, just a Gamemaster. Though to some players that's just semantics.
So is he saying that they're using the emotions of everyone on the boat, or is he saying Thea has some witch powers?
I mean, she has been having visions of the anchor, so it's a definite possibility
yeah, let's open the doors to create a vortex that'll suck our ship through to the other side...
...ending up high in the Himalayas?
Or in the middle of Widdershins.
WOW I wish we could see Thea right now in Mal-vision.
What, to determine if she's just a wizard (bright light) or also a witch (can't really see)?
… yeah, I guess that would be cool. :)
just because you can doesn't mean you should
Or, as they say in "Jurassic Park;"
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
I honestly am a little excited about the fact the next Jurassic World movie is going to be bringing back the first set of protagonists alongside the new ones
Seeing as how the anchor is shut tight, is planned to be cracked open now, and has already been in play, obliquely … and seeing how time travel is an established phenomenon in this story …
… might it be Thea who will open (will now have already opened?) the other doors, allowing Harry to escape to the Island Anchor?
...and, she just might turn out to be the Fourth Witch who turns and tells Daddy; "Thanks for the power boost, Dad. Now get lost."
Ah she is the magical heavy.
I'm going to have to re-read this chapter entirely after it ends, because it's extremely hard for me to follow in "real time".