September 11th, 2020
11 Sept 2020 · page 1019 of 1306
Heya, I know a lot of you folks read excellent webcomic The Sword Interval- the artist and his wife lost everything they own in the wildfires yesterday, so please visit the gofundme for them and drop 'em some help if you can.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Nicola Barber
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I still reckon that Knotty could have got Pryce off.
"I was talking about my sister, but sure"
Ha, had the same thought XD
1. Eliza is such a good friend ^_^
2. I swear I thought Nicola was going to say 'Yes, I know Harriet won't' (bad brain, bad TuT)
Maybe they could get Eliza, Harry, and Sid working on it together!
First question: Ask Mr O'Malley what he saw in Pryce's spirit that made him turn down the job and run away.
Wasn't there some implication that he was leaving anyway? I do remember Pryce saying Mal gave a funny look at something above his head, so he did see something unpleasant or untrustworthy about him, so that is worth following up on. It just wasn't his primary reason for running away.
I got it like Mal was going "for a walk" (as it was written in the note), to be alone and think about his life situation for a while, when he met Pryce and this meeting made him hesitant about return to Widdershins. [Like, I doubt Mal would have left a note like that if he had a thought about going away forever at that time.]
Later, when PHoH suggested they'd return home, Mal said it's dangerous for his friends and PHoH called Pryce "the bad man" (bc Mal told it so? or buggerrup can feel these things, too?)
Pryce to 'Harry Barber': "Just gave me a look like I was wearing the wrong kinda hat, then he skedaddled.": [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-14th-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-14th-2020")
Definitly worth following up on.
Eliza, Harry, Sid and Ben ^_^
The romance would get in the way of the plot. Or perhaps the romance would be the plot. Perhaps Pryce would kidnap one half of each couple in order to put leverage on the other.
My question is: will/did Eliza stand Ben up in order to pursue Pryce?
No, she did it because in truth... Eliza is a spy from the USA, sent to find the witch, and using this opportunity (chasing Pryce) to report back to her bosses
Joke ^_^
Seriously though, I do hope we get to see them go on that date they arranged
Sorry for not being a comment about the comic, but thank you for boosting that GoFundMe!!
of course, hope it helps
Ben did the artwork on an upcoming project of mine. He's a good dude.
he is! he did a killer commission of my shadowrun rpg party the other year
(my character is the mid-air selfie idiot, of course)
This is the cover he did for me. I liked his tailed serpent man so much I changed it in the game.
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
He saw those movies! I mean, literally. It's in his character write-up.
I'm curious about your upcoming project now! And Kate, thanks for posting the gofundme link. Can't do a lot, but it all adds up.
Ehh... any other day I'd happily talk about it, but I don't wanna take the focus off of Ben. :)
Holy shit, that's a good SR campaign alright. <3
I'll see what I can do. I've never read Sword Interval although it's been on my list to try for awhile.
It's absolutely delicious.
Pemberton buying/threatening his way out of accountability is a nice touch. With the sins under lock and key, there's always terrestrial villains to watch out for, and who better than a Victorian-era tycoon?
An AMERICAN Victorian-era tycoon. The type to tie madams up and put them on railroad tracks.
Stop giving Ms Ashwin ideas :-)
Like any of the women in this comic would allow that to be done to them.....
It will be Mr Thackerey tied to the tracks and Ms Swift doing the rescuing.
More than likely, though I'll point out that Florrie is the type that could function as a damsel in distress.
Yeah, why don't you ask Voss how that goes? [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-23rd-2014 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-23rd-2014")
She'd probably enjoy it, at least retrospectively. At the very least she'd milk it forever and ever.
His moustache needs handlebar curls.
The spirit Mal saw above Pemberton's head was just Snidely Whiplash
Where's Nyree, though?
Either in the cells charged with indecent exposure or in the Hunter’s Folly leading a singsong.
Hmm, why "must it be to do with the fourth anchor"? Did Pryce mention the fourth anchor at some point and I missed it? Or is this just Eliza's obsession peeking through again?
"Pryce imports is backing a search for a potential fourth Anchor in the Americas!": [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-21st-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-21st-2020")
Ah, that would be it, thanks! I had forgotten the details from that long ago!
But we all know there's no such thing as the fourth anchor. :-)
I keep imagining that it got obliterated by the dinosaur-killer.
Eliza's gun thus dubbed "the dinosaur-killer".
DINOBANE.
That raises an interesting question. If the anchors predate humanity, does this mean that at one point there were non-human witches? Possibly even non-sentient witches? Non-animal witches??? How far back does this thing go? Were there or were there not cyanobacteria with the sight? Prophets among protozoa? Arcane archaea?
It's only ridiculous until you prove it.
Definitely Mt. Shasta. That place has got everything. Reptoids, hollow earthers, a portal to the land of the dead, the Comte de bloody Saint Germaine. Anchor'd fit right in.
Unless it's the so-called "Devil's Gate" under the Arroyo Seco. Or whatever the supposed opposing armies of good and evil witches were fighting over in the caves beneath Mt. Machemoodus when the mysterious agent of the Crown, Dr. Steele resolved the situation in 1760. Or the nexus at the future site of Montauk Air Force Station. Or the Puerta de Hayu Marca. Oak Island. Mel's Hole. There are five hundred buildings in the United States whose elevators go deeper than the basement. Someone fetch me my revolver.
And whip.
Mapimi
Thanks so much for reminding me of Sword Interval! It stopped showing up in my RSS reader in February for some reason and I guess I must have just assumed it had hiated.
Sword Interval is going into endgame.
Bloody Americans, always breaking the law and paying people off.
You Brits do the same thing (or at least your rich folks do), you're just less blatant about it. Same substance, different form. Every culture is the same in most respects beneath the surface. ^_^
I agree on all your points but one.
I'm actually American.
Since when do we pay people off?
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"Working hours" . . . do we still even know what a witch does for work? X) Most of them seem to just kind of be around for when troublesome things happen.
Guess he is using existing laws for wizards in employment of the city. They adventure did begin helping out with the 'Bugger Ups' so their must be existing guidelines.
"Malforms," if you please. XD
But that wasn't under the "Witch of Widdershins" contract, because they didn't seem to know that he was a witch, much less the Witch particularly for Widdershins.
Two little words that will have Mr O'Malley running screaming for the hills.
We don't, but Knotty has read the fine print and knows.
At least he didn't use his husband's diplomatic immunity...
Also, the small ad panel above the events list is showing an ad for Widdershins, which I'm pretty sure shouldn't happen.
"Sure, you go off and deal with magic conspiracies and the whatnot. Got too much of that junk in my family already."
Ben's an amazing artist, it's so sad to hear that he's lost everything!
(Sigh) Now I just need to find a globe.
Subordinates like Eliza, best thing is to point them in the right direction and get out of their way. Good to see that Nicola is a good manager and recognizes that. ^_^
The Captain knows exactly when to apply the stick and when to hand out the reward...
I'm catching up on missed pages now and AHH HUGS AHH KNOTTY AHHHHHHHH SID GETTING ALL SET UP THERE IS MUCH TO CELEBRATE
Solid gold Nicola expressions there!