March 27th, 2018
27 Mar 2018 · page 783 of 1306
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Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Time for Acedia to finally get her comeuppance? :D
Oh! Right! She's still lurking about and is likely the reason these people are asleep. So they're not only fighting Lux but Acedia, too!
I totally had to go back and check if she had been captured or not. xD
I would certainly wish so.
The only weird color in the sky is pink!
Hm. Sid is going to have to bring up the Barber family backstory, I think, before they go any further.
Also a sort of grey-blue: Sloth's colors
I think (although I could be wrong) that that's less of a Sloth color, and more of a night-time color.
Hmm, wondering if the act of binding all the deadlies away just let Lux summon them again, but this time under his bidding, or so he gets their powers, or something.
OK, so go back and look at the first page of this chapter... [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/curtain-call/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/curtain-call/")
oh dear..
wait, are they in a spotlight now?
So....Do we think that Acedia is the original witch that summoned Lux or not?
I doubt it. For one thing, she's a completely different body shape from Izzy's ancestress as shown here: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-25th-2015/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-25th-2015/")
I don't think she's the original witch, but I have a feeling she might be yet another descendant of the witch.
Whilst any person in the active generation in this story would have four or five thousand direct ancestors at the time of Lux's summoning it seems unlikely that Acedia is a descendent of the witch or the bloodline requirement,the whole of Envy's quest, would have been much simpler.
That’s a really good point. If Acedia was descended from the witch who originally summoned Lust, then her attempted summoning with little Mal would have worked, because she would have had the required bloodline.
Kate said something about witchiness not being inherited somewhere along the line.
Oh, I know. I didn't mean that the witchiness was inherited, but there was a single line in the flashback storyline that said that someone of the original witch's bloodline (not the witch status) was needed to seal Lust away again (which is why Harry's grandmother was seeking to do so). I'll try to find the page again, if you want. :)
::edit:: Found it anyway~ [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-3rd-2015/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-3rd-2015/") Her first line in the third panel, specifically. :)
Was Sloth so willing to be dismissed before because it know that Acedia was sill going to be there supporting its efforts? After all, why fight something when you can let someone else do it for you...
Idk, hard to tell with Sloth, it could just be because it doesn't care about anything.
Meh, I was thinking that it probably said, "Meh, no point in stressing out about it. I'll just let her take care of it."
I mean, that sounds like Sloth in action to me...
In "action"... XD
That sounds like Sloth inaction to me...
"I don't need you all passing out on us again."
I hope that's just directed at Wolfe and Sid, Verity, seeing as your cousin Benji resisted Sloth even longer than you did...
I got it as "you (all)" are Wolfe and Sid, and "us" are she and Ben.
And I keep thinking Verity is asking for (her personal) trouble, saying things like that.
>I got it as "you (all)" are Wolfe and Sid, and "us" are she and Ben.
That would make sense!
This reminds me of what Envy said in the second panel of [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-3rd-2017/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-3rd-2017/") He seems to imply that he will be back again like some kind of Terminator.
maybe its going to be 7 sins at price of 1
Going back to Pride part ( [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-14th-2017/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-14th-2017/") ), I think the yellow-haired wizard is "I look terrible in these robes" guy and the girl Ben touches is one saying "I've always loved her!" And the third wizard seems to be in that panel, too.
Yeah, I haven't anything more relevant to tell. :)
They are at the anchor, where feeling a strong emotion can lead you to accidentally summon something. And between the four of them, they've felt all seven of the deadlies. I have a feeling that all the work they just did binding the first six is about to be undone.
> And between the four of them, they've felt all seven of the deadlies.
To be fair, the most of that they felt over influence of the free and powerful Deadlies. In any case, they can't break new-casted binding, can they?
Well, it's not like Lux hasn't poisoned people with Sloth before.
Will someone please remind me of the word for the emotion expressed by Ben's face in the last panel? It's something I feel extremely often, but somehow I cannot remember the word for it?
Confusion? Dismay?
No, I'm sorry, but no. What I'm seeing is an expression of someone who wishes they were more surprised than they actually are due to their cynical nature.
Exasperation. When you think to yourself "Again? Why am I not surprised?"
All of the definitions of pique, rolled into one? :P
I would think pique would be more likely to be felt often by less cynical people?
Resignation
Maybe it's resignation mixed with frustration, which would make a lot of sense...
The atmosphere on this page is really freaking me out, actually. The more that we don't know where Lux is or what it's doing, the more it's starting to feel like in a scary movie where the good guys are looking for something and you know there is a monster that's about to jump out...
Suddenly I wonder how "Lecta phasmia" works. A wizard just gets to know (by magic!) the right answer or (s)he feels something (s)he must interpret yet?
Interesting question. All the wizards we've seen use it seem to get the answer right away, so I suspect the knowledge just appears in their head.
Incidentally, I think this might be the first time we've seen Ben use "Lecta phasmia". Sid's used it a few times, and Isabelle did in the flashback (plus Queen Elizabeth I in the bit with Lux's execution), but Ben hasn't had occasion to use it in the comic before.
I think it might work a bit like Mal's power, but less visual. It amplifies surrounding magic until the wizard can feel it, and then through their connection to the spirit world/practice they can decipher what they're dealing with.
Allow me to reiterate: Well crap.
Here's something I've just realized: wizards can't go through Mal's blue door--but ordinary people can, i.e. Harry. Is Acedia ordinary enough to enter the anchor?
That is a very good question, and I have no idea what the answer is, tbh.
No, she is a wizard.
Thanks for clarifying that. Whew! I had all kinds of messy scenes in mind!
And if I remember correctly, a really powerful wizard, or one who would be really powerful if she wasn't so slothful...
I am wondering which one of them will be impersonated by Lux. I suspect that that will be the method he may use in his effort to defeat the good guys. The only one who will be able to see him in his real person will be Jack O'Malley, unless a certain bird steals his amulet.
Amulet?
Bill Perkins was probably referring to the amulet into which Lux put their shapechanging power, the Liar's Heart.
However, the amulet no longer has that power in it: [Lux took it back after](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/") Izzie bound the other six the first time. [Harry has the remains](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-6th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-6th-2016/") of the Liar's Heart and plans to use it as a conduit to bind Lux.
Hey. Random question, but does anyone know where I could find the character Q&A filler from, like, a year ago? I've checked the filler archive and can't seem to find it.
Between the end of Find the Lady and the beginning of Curtain Call I see 3 pieces of filler: Strange Brew, a set of 3 character Q&A strips, and Horticultural Heresy. The Q&A strips are from 2 years ago, but as far as I know that is the most recent set of Q&A strips we had.
I've put them in stasis for now- I can't keep them at the start of the chapter as they contain spoilers for it, and I'm extremely opposed to mid-chapter filler in archives. Once Curtain Call is over I'll shuffle them in behind the chapter.
Maybe those could be on, like, a separate section of the website? Like with the filler artwork and stuff? That would be really cool...
I had forgotten about those Q&A pages until I saw them in the links you posted. Looking at them I understand why after the chapter is the best place for them, so I guess we'll have to wait a few more months for them to get a home.
Gave a fuller answer to John up there as to why I've temporarily cleared those out, but here's the direct links for you-
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/qanda2.jpg "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/qanda2.jpg")