PaRARGdox 96
Kick in the guts: No surprise that Tom Bass, blinded by rage over Freya’s horrific and cold blooded murder by Sista Superior, has stumbled into this first year cadet error… disappointing though! Maybe he should retake the curriculum… oh, wait, he can’t. He dead. And this probably isn’t much of a surprise either… keen eyed readers already spotted Tom, looking somewhat deceased, way back on page 7.08.
Does this mean we are getting closer to those apocalyptic events? Yep.
Heatwave: Sorry for the delay, currently working through a summer heatwave down here in Australia. Several days in a row of 40C/100+F (without air-con) make it very hard to focus on drawing, as you might imagine. It’s slowed me down a bit but I’m still working…
Patrons: Over on Patreon page 98 is now up… page 99 should go up in 1-2 days… 😎
Next update: Sunday January 31, 2021: She-Hog and Full Metal Frog! Hoping to have it up by this coming Sunday.
I can’t resist. “She-Hog and Full Metal Frog! Hoping to have it up by this coming Sunday.” Hoping, or Hopping? 🙂
Getting close to the end of the world, but NOT the end of the story 😕 Not the way things usually go, but not without precedent.
How many major characters are gonna die here… I’m starting to really just. Not sure how to feel about this.
All or Almost All seem to be the best guesses right now.
‘course, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be written out of the story.
Yeah, I know what you mean. This is getting ridiculous. Like, there’s no way this can go unfixed at this point; it’s just nuts.
The Chekhov’s Gun at this point would seem to be Ranger Bill’s secret moonbase. I have no thoughts on how Ambrosia’s power will be significant there.
However, from what we’ve seen of time travel rules for the Magellanverse, unless something new comes along that can change history, these events must forever remain part of the multiverse as one alternative.
Which means the Magellan we know must actually be the next universe over.
ThundaKlap has been deleted from the narrative
I guess nobody has plot armor around here
I guess, normally, they have their powers and don’t require any…! 😀
“He dead.”
You SoHem people, with your heatwaves. Cold and rainy, here.
I still think it’d be really cool if they DID find a way forward, even with all the deaths so far, but I have to agree that I think it’s likely Grace has a reset of some sort in mind. Looking forward to the rest of the story!
A cool change with possible rain has arrived a whole day early, so that’s awesome.
Nice 🙂 Here on the other side of the world, I’m on a skiing vacation. Heatwaves sound far away. The temperature here is between -20 °C and -15 °C.
I wonder if it was the kick alone that killed him, considering how strong Sista Superior is, or if it took the grenade’s explosion to do it as well. Not that it really matters when the end result is his death, but it is the morbid curiosity in me.
Was the kick… ☹️
The grenade went off after he was *well* on his way out of the area.
The kick was almost certainly sufficient to be fatal in fairly short order (he flew MUCH higher than a kick from a horse, and those can be fatal!), but the landing could quite possibly have gotten there first, as that would also almost certainly be sufficient to be fatal, as well.
She may have lost most of her habit, but she still has her combat boots…
Oh yeah, and super-strength. Yeah, that’d do it.
By the way, folks… if it helps… we’re almost at page 100 (yay) and, by my estimate, we’re only half way through the story soooooo… make of that what you will!
The shortest Magellan chapter in recent history!
Possibly, on the other hand, I estimated the same for Bad Karma at the 100 page mark…!
I mean, on the one hand, I absolutely don’t want you to stress yourself out. On the other, seven (7) is my favourite number, and I had long ago hoped that chapter seven would end up being your longest.
Oh well. Your well-being trumps my OCD.
I was almost about to mention the infamous Bad Karma estimate. Then again, IIRC your estimates have gotten closer and closer to reality. Finally though: the page count doesn’t matter. The content does, and the content is awesome!
A thought just occurs to me . . . Tros has difficulty with earth idioms, yes? “Fire in the hole” may not be sufficient warning to our alien friend about the explosive.
Hopefully Tros will be smart enough to know to just avoid the explosion by general training, though.
I’m not sure if this is meant to be comical but given the amount of death and how farcical Tom bouncing around like a ball is, I can’t help but laugh.
I can appreciate that!
Consider it black humor – I do.
Hopefully he didn’t die in vain and that grenade finally finished Sista Superior.
At most? Probably just scrambled and singed the -other- side of her head.
Yeah. Still going after two direct hits from an RPG means a nearby hand grenade isn’t going to do much to her.
Grief does make your judgment get cloudy.
Also, Grace is talking about a heatwave in the author comments and here I am, bundled up in a blanket while reading the page (I also have a sweatshirt on). I can see my breath (a bit), and I’m inside. But of course not a cloud in the sky, so no chance of snow, the only thing that makes a freezing cold day worth it.
Also: 100 degrees Fahrenheit and above is my type of weather. I’m jealous.
I highly recommend you get a sauna. The colder the weather, the more I enjoy it.
Well, I like a dry heat, not humidity. The Mojave Desert is my sort of area. If it had more people there, I’d want to live there.
A sauna does not have to be humid, it can be dry. Generally used in combination with temperatures that sound somewhat ridiculous, like 100 °C. Bring a small bottle of water and don’t sit too long 🙂
Have to say I’m a fan of the dry (Turkish) sauna…
We DO have snow …
Yeah, it just started snowing over here, too. Yay!
Turns out I was wrong about no chance of snow.
40 C? I think you need to paint the continent silver or something. (And we need to do that here in California, too.)
Hey, beach sand has high surface albedo! 😉
Altering a significant portion of planet albedo is a *really* bad idea. As in “bring on another ice age” bad, and the Earth hasn’t really recovered from the last one yet, so going back in would be easy (and *REALLY horrible*).