November 17th, 2023
17 Nov 2023 · page 1189 of 1306
Still fine. Just fine.
Cast: Thea Pryce
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Nooo! Thea, what’s happened to you? Where’s that girl who liked to curl up in a corner of the ship’s deck and draw?
"Thea, what's happened to you?!"
"I WAS TRAPPED FOR FOUR FUCKING YEARS IN A MAGICAL ANCHOR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?!"
"Well jeez you don't gotta be so surly about it."
They didn't check that stuff into the Royal Society? Even if we’re not worried about safety, think of the bounty!
Well, given that only three people in the entire world can open a door to this room (well, four now) it's probably the safest place they know. They could at least have put them in a box, though.
Are you thinking of a "box" bolted to the floor with a lock on the front, or one with a handle to facilitate carrying it away ... ?
Now I'm actually surprised that the witches haven't furnished the anchor space like some sort of flat-share
Anyway, they thought that only the three of them had access to anchor space, making it extremely secure. Until Thea went f[ph]ishing for four years and found a back door
I fail to see how this could possibly end badly.
Guess who's coming to dinner...
Oh she doesn't look healthy. Better than drowned, though, I guess.
For someone who's been under water for that long, she doesn't look bad.
Sigh. There's always someone who turns up late after the show has started. Bet she hasn't turned her mobile off.
She looks more confused than malevolent here
She looks like a combination of a malform and a victim of drowning. The good news is she found the other anchor.
NO NOT THE LUXURIA NECKLACE-
wait I just realized that's Arpana's door. Is she not going to Widdershins?
WATERWITCH
So, the clothes are close to the same as when she was pulled in. The vest and scarf/ascot are gone. She still has her girdle over the undershirt, but that has become short sleeved verses long. Her quill was still in her hair when she was pulled in as well, <s> but this comic isn't known for planting subtle details to be referenced later, so no worries </s>.
Also, her hands aren't fully black. Her right palm has two white slashes on it in the last panel, and you can see one under the Lux pendant in the fourth panel
She's worryingly non-verbal as well. I wonder if we'll find out the cause of other witches' doors being opened.
I worry that an Anchor(and Witch!) is about to be in trouble... and not the usual one.
...yet.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Arpana's status as the most senior of the witches will make her a match for... whatever Thea is now.
I for one hail our new radiant queen.
Time for replacing monarchy with a full-on representative system?
Yes but... Priorities. Are you a good witch? Or a BAd witch?
How many of the sins does Thea have? She's got pride, greed, and envy easily. She waited for four years, so that sounds like sloth. And we're all about to see her wrath, probably. Does she have Gluttony and Lust?
Hmmm, I'm not so sure about sloth. Did Thea actually know about the door all along, or did she just notice it when there were no less than two other witches waiting in the "meetingroom" for a while? Even :if: she knew it was there, how much of an idea did she have what she'd find behind it?
Sloth would imply that she could and should have entered sooner but chose not to bother. It might simply have taken this long to prepare (implying perseverance), or something about the coronation and the missing crown makes this the ideal time (implying patience)
She's just a little slimy, she's still good, she's still good
She’s… looking a little worse for wear. :(
She's back! And, uh, more 'sea witch' than she went in.
Thea ? !
Thea, you look...different.
There's still some of the BAd stuff on the ground when she turns her attention to the emergency(-after-)exit ... can anyone discern which of ye olde foes she's taking along?
I believe she picked up Lust's pendant, but dropped it when she noticed another door maybe?
It appears that the "Giant Tar Oil Octopus" Enteroctopus petrolatum, that was inhabiting the undersea anchor didn't appreciate Thea moving in.
And the winner of the "Miss Innsmouth" pageant is...
too bad innsmouth is not updating
Nothing like a little sea witch complication. Thankfully she at least dropped the pendant before heading for the door!
She seems fine.
So... she tastes magic right? I believe that's the only sense not covered so far