I’m sorry to split hairs but I believe you’re using the wrong character. Þ (thorn) is the more open th, like in “thought”, the one where air passes through the mouth. Whereas “the” has the closed th-option, in Icelandic letters ð (edh). Sorry if I’m being annoying, but this was a fact I happened to know, so felt the need to share.
Well, as we’re splitting hairs anyways, no this isn’t incorrect, historically thorn and eth has been used for the same phoneme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)#English), but some people who want to revive it make a difference between eth and thorn, which has been borrowed from the IPA.
Thorn was used as word-initial “th” for centuries. To the point it was used for abbreviations, thorn with superscript e is “the” (and due to stylistic shifts in how thorn was written, became the origin of “ye”), with superscript t is “that”, with superscript u is “thou”, with superscript s is “this”, and so on.
from 1100-1500 or so, Eth was not even used in English spelling. It’s not completely known if the two letters were perfectly interchangeable before that, but we do have plenty of evidence of both letters being used in the same places.
That makes a lot of sense. I learned these letters in the context of Icelandic rather than Old English, my mistake for assuming they work the same. Sorry.
It wasn’t just þ that behaved this way either, F and S also alternated in voicing. That’s why the third person singular conjugation, the plural suffix and the genitive clitic are all spelled with S but pronounced with Z, why some words that end with F have plurals in V, and why there’s alternation between nouns like safe, breath, house and verbs like save, breathe, house
It’s a refrence to that scene in Spider-Man No Way Home when Matt Murdock/Daredevil shows up for about 5 seconds and deus ex machinas the plot so they could do a multiverse thing instead.
Ignoring non-cryptic, very blatant, godly messages of impending trouble by the secondary main antagonist for a neat rock?!
… Huh, maybe Riordan was right about demigods having ADHD.
Such a wide range of expressions on Erin today; annoyed from Tess’s antics (plus I love that he’s using water magic to dry himself), seriously explaining the situation, smugly confident, shocked, then curious worry. Another best laid plan may be about to fall apart, but all hope is not lost; if Tess knew about the possibility of Volcanic weather, I bet Erin considered that too, and may have countermeasures. Though I wonder if Alinua will be so keen on following Erin’s instructions when the rocks start boring holes in the sail.
The elf lady with the Katara loopies warned them about volcanic weather in 2-1-8, didn’t she? She also mentioned Rakhn, who I presume to be a chaos/volcano god, was butting heads with other gods. I suspect Tess and Erin used their powers to sense for deity influence of wind, water, and lightning, like in 1-15-16, but did they also check for fire? And here we thought ice would be the bigger threat.
… Wait a minute. Rakhn has potential volcanic connotations, Dainix was partially crucible cracking a couple pages back, and now volcanic weather is erupting right in front of the boat.
What if it’s not just seasickness and Falst’s comment doing that to Dainix? What if Rakhn’s influence is playing a role in it, intentionally or otherwise?
Prediction for next week: This is but one pebble before a veritable avalanche of volcanic rock and fire. Alinua will want to turn back, but Erin might want to continue on, thinking he can still deal with it. In any case, Kendal’s Collector warning will have to wait until fairer skies.
I feel like Erin’s “best laid plans” usually fall apart at the seams like this because of major assumptions being proven wrong. In most cases forgivable because there’s no way he could predict correctly using information that he did not know. However he was explicitly told that gods were fighting in this region, and then goes on to say that this storm has no gods controlling it. Erin, sure you have fought storm gods up to now, but there’s more than one god that can be near a storm a a threat to you while you’re in one.
I assumed the “She’s Coming!” line referred to the Light Dragon, but you’re right, the Collector would make more sense for the citizens of Vash (or Vash himself, whoever sent that message to Kendal) to know about. Ah, well, there’s always the possibility that they both get to the ship at the same time!
“A shield would be more efficient!” Erin says,
Before he starts to deflect the rain.
“Now what were you so worried about?”
He asks, his smugness plain.
“Several things,” says Kendal before he catches
A glowing, hissing rock.
“Right now, this one’s most important,” he adds,
As Erin stares at it in shock.
Erin, you really gotta learn to pay attention when the demigod says that something is wrong or bad. That means he’s paying attention to something that you aren’t paying attention to.
Say how hot is that rock and how heat resistant is Kendal? I don’t think anyone else in the Floof gang would be just calmly holding that thing like Kendal does.
To be fair, he is a demigod. It takes more than a hot potato to hurt him. Besides him, I can easily see Tess, Falst, and Dainix calmly holding a hot rock (although ‘calm’ might be the wrong word for Tess). It probably cooled off in the moist sea-stormy air anyway.
We have seen Kendal fight Dainix in the arena while Dainix’s hand was on fire without getting burned so he’s probably pretty fire proof.
As to the heat of the rock, I am aware that the thermodynamics of lava result that it can only glow (when in full sunlight) when it is hotter than the air around it, the glow of the rock is inconsistent across the surface which suggests the outside to be cooler than the the inside which is common in rocks such as this but it is still hot enough to hiss and smolder which suggest that part of the interior of the rock is still melted, thus we can infer that the rock must be slightly cooler than lava and indeed is very very hot.
Thus concludes my extensive over analyses of a picture of a rock.
Erin isn’t listening, so Kendal instead simply stays close enough to intervene. And I love the detail that the rock in Kendal’s hand is wet — it passed through Erin’s shield.
As always, I love the Runnasers sibling energy. At first I though Tess had landed in the water…but then I noticed her atop the mast. And of COURSE she would manage to soak her brother while deflecting the lightning. What looks like a practical solution to one of them looks like showing off to the other…they really aren’t as different as one might think.
If Tess told Erin about her visit to the weather tower, he (hopefully) has volcanic eruption somewhere in Plan Q, R, or T. This pleasure cruise is about to get bumpy…
It’s always a joy to see a reminder of Kendal’s superhuman stats. He makes catching volcanic rocks look effortless but that would be a KO for any regular human hit by it.
Actually, I think it just passed through Erin’s shield. But the image of some god machine gun spitting fiery hot rocks out like spitballs is certainly much funnier.
I bet this is that volcanic weather Tess was looking into earlier and that I was so excited about.
Erupting volcanoes can produce weather events including lightning storms as well as high winds, the stones cast by the eruption can get caught in the wind and send them very long distances so I wonder how close they even are to the volcano or if Erin was aware it could effect them where they are.
Hmm, volcanic debris or meteorite? Probably volcanic debris, maybe some lava obsidian will make the fire magic inside Dainix feel better and stop making him seasick
Rock
Indeed, perhaps from a volcano
… and Stone?
ROCK AND STONE!?
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK AND ROLL AND STONE! oT
ROCK AND STONE!!!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!
Karl would be proud…
Stone and Rock! …Oh, wait…
My life for Rock and Stone!
Rock and stone… Rock and stone…
Can someone explain this to me pls
Phrase from a game about Dwarves. Generally indicates comradery.
STONER ROCK!
Thunder egg.
YES. NOW WHAT KIND OF DRAGON WILL WE ADOPT 😀
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: hey sweet free shiny rock
Image source: bad
Tumblr text: so many sound effects
Twitter text: Everything is fine
“Entirely devoid of deitites” sure, Erin. Sure.
So it wasn’t the collector, guess I have to wait a bit longer
He did say “several things”, I’m sure the Collector is included in that set.
Uh… what þe what is þat?
It seems to’ve come from above; what could be up þere?
I love your use of Thorn- old letters are fun!
I’m sorry to split hairs but I believe you’re using the wrong character. Þ (thorn) is the more open th, like in “thought”, the one where air passes through the mouth. Whereas “the” has the closed th-option, in Icelandic letters ð (edh). Sorry if I’m being annoying, but this was a fact I happened to know, so felt the need to share.
Well, as we’re splitting hairs anyways, no this isn’t incorrect, historically thorn and eth has been used for the same phoneme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)#English), but some people who want to revive it make a difference between eth and thorn, which has been borrowed from the IPA.
Thorn was used as word-initial “th” for centuries. To the point it was used for abbreviations, thorn with superscript e is “the” (and due to stylistic shifts in how thorn was written, became the origin of “ye”), with superscript t is “that”, with superscript u is “thou”, with superscript s is “this”, and so on.
from 1100-1500 or so, Eth was not even used in English spelling. It’s not completely known if the two letters were perfectly interchangeable before that, but we do have plenty of evidence of both letters being used in the same places.
That makes a lot of sense. I learned these letters in the context of Icelandic rather than Old English, my mistake for assuming they work the same. Sorry.
It wasn’t just þ that behaved this way either, F and S also alternated in voicing. That’s why the third person singular conjugation, the plural suffix and the genitive clitic are all spelled with S but pronounced with Z, why some words that end with F have plurals in V, and why there’s alternation between nouns like safe, breath, house and verbs like save, breathe, house
Hay… Can I have that back?
Big “I’m a very good lawyer,” energy on that catch. Well done Kendall.
can’t tell if this is an Ace Attorney reference or I’m missing something
It’s a refrence to that scene in Spider-Man No Way Home when Matt Murdock/Daredevil shows up for about 5 seconds and deus ex machinas the plot so they could do a multiverse thing instead.
awww. this is definitely my Ace Attorney obsessed brain overthinking things
Nah, it’s a reference to a scene from Spiderman No Way Home
Oh hey, volcanic activity. Wonder if Erin can make a shield that deflects scolding rocks, ash and toxic fumes
*scalding
Nah that’s not a typo, we’re getting yelled at by a bunch of rocks
“Piss off ya bloody wizard!”
XD
that is concerning
Ignoring non-cryptic, very blatant, godly messages of impending trouble by the secondary main antagonist for a neat rock?!
… Huh, maybe Riordan was right about demigods having ADHD.
Such a wide range of expressions on Erin today; annoyed from Tess’s antics (plus I love that he’s using water magic to dry himself), seriously explaining the situation, smugly confident, shocked, then curious worry. Another best laid plan may be about to fall apart, but all hope is not lost; if Tess knew about the possibility of Volcanic weather, I bet Erin considered that too, and may have countermeasures. Though I wonder if Alinua will be so keen on following Erin’s instructions when the rocks start boring holes in the sail.
The elf lady with the Katara loopies warned them about volcanic weather in 2-1-8, didn’t she? She also mentioned Rakhn, who I presume to be a chaos/volcano god, was butting heads with other gods. I suspect Tess and Erin used their powers to sense for deity influence of wind, water, and lightning, like in 1-15-16, but did they also check for fire? And here we thought ice would be the bigger threat.
… Wait a minute. Rakhn has potential volcanic connotations, Dainix was partially crucible cracking a couple pages back, and now volcanic weather is erupting right in front of the boat.
What if it’s not just seasickness and Falst’s comment doing that to Dainix? What if Rakhn’s influence is playing a role in it, intentionally or otherwise?
Prediction for next week: This is but one pebble before a veritable avalanche of volcanic rock and fire. Alinua will want to turn back, but Erin might want to continue on, thinking he can still deal with it. In any case, Kendal’s Collector warning will have to wait until fairer skies.
That’s a neat theory on Dainix for sure (and would be a good way to get him involved in the upcoming action)
I feel like Erin’s “best laid plans” usually fall apart at the seams like this because of major assumptions being proven wrong. In most cases forgivable because there’s no way he could predict correctly using information that he did not know. However he was explicitly told that gods were fighting in this region, and then goes on to say that this storm has no gods controlling it. Erin, sure you have fought storm gods up to now, but there’s more than one god that can be near a storm a a threat to you while you’re in one.
I assumed the “She’s Coming!” line referred to the Light Dragon, but you’re right, the Collector would make more sense for the citizens of Vash (or Vash himself, whoever sent that message to Kendal) to know about. Ah, well, there’s always the possibility that they both get to the ship at the same time!
“A shield would be more efficient!” Erin says,
Before he starts to deflect the rain.
“Now what were you so worried about?”
He asks, his smugness plain.
“Several things,” says Kendal before he catches
A glowing, hissing rock.
“Right now, this one’s most important,” he adds,
As Erin stares at it in shock.
Never change, Erin. You’re too funny this way.
New spell script!
Erin’s runes say “HALT THE FALL, SHIELD BELOW”.
Erin, you really gotta learn to pay attention when the demigod says that something is wrong or bad. That means he’s paying attention to something that you aren’t paying attention to.
Erin asserts that they can manage the storm
While Kendal catches rocks in their most sizzling form
The sound effects on this page are great. Now I’m wondering why Tess did that lightning jump thing.
Because she can and there isn’t a reason for her to not have. At least there wasn’t when she jumped.
I can’t see my other comment but I just realized why Tess did that, I just wasn’t paying attention to it enough.
Say how hot is that rock and how heat resistant is Kendal? I don’t think anyone else in the Floof gang would be just calmly holding that thing like Kendal does.
To be fair, he is a demigod. It takes more than a hot potato to hurt him. Besides him, I can easily see Tess, Falst, and Dainix calmly holding a hot rock (although ‘calm’ might be the wrong word for Tess). It probably cooled off in the moist sea-stormy air anyway.
We have seen Kendal fight Dainix in the arena while Dainix’s hand was on fire without getting burned so he’s probably pretty fire proof.
As to the heat of the rock, I am aware that the thermodynamics of lava result that it can only glow (when in full sunlight) when it is hotter than the air around it, the glow of the rock is inconsistent across the surface which suggests the outside to be cooler than the the inside which is common in rocks such as this but it is still hot enough to hiss and smolder which suggest that part of the interior of the rock is still melted, thus we can infer that the rock must be slightly cooler than lava and indeed is very very hot.
Thus concludes my extensive over analyses of a picture of a rock.
That rock is made of Mysterious Colors Unlike Any Seen On Earth!
WOOOHOOO say hello to the murderous trio: ✨ Magenta, Beige, and Chartreuse ✨
“And then the fire nation attacked”
That’s 3 outs at the bottom of the 4th, and the question on everyone’s minds is ‘can Aurora maintain their lead’?
I was JUST thinking, ‘Damn, Kendal would be a good outfielder’ XD
“A shield would be more efficient.” A huh sure. I think Mr. Hubris just likes his way of doing things more. He is a fan of lightning shields.
Kendal, what the heck?
TL;DR: Congrats Mr. Hubris, you just jinxed us all.
So many great expressions on this page.
Erin isn’t listening, so Kendal instead simply stays close enough to intervene. And I love the detail that the rock in Kendal’s hand is wet — it passed through Erin’s shield.
As always, I love the Runnasers sibling energy. At first I though Tess had landed in the water…but then I noticed her atop the mast. And of COURSE she would manage to soak her brother while deflecting the lightning. What looks like a practical solution to one of them looks like showing off to the other…they really aren’t as different as one might think.
If Tess told Erin about her visit to the weather tower, he (hopefully) has volcanic eruption somewhere in Plan Q, R, or T. This pleasure cruise is about to get bumpy…
ohhhh who threw that?
There once was a ship on the sea
Whose captain’s as calm as can be
Until, to his shock,
Kendal grabs a hot rock
And proves the storm’s no cup of tea.
Mm, yes, volcanic weather is a thing…This will be fun.
It’s always a joy to see a reminder of Kendal’s superhuman stats. He makes catching volcanic rocks look effortless but that would be a KO for any regular human hit by it.
and based on the trajectory, it would have KO’ed Erin had Kendal not caught it
Nice catch!
Good on Kendal for catching it but it would be really funny if Erin got burned on his head by the rock
That rock seems to have come with a lot of water for something that’s supposed to be red hot. Someone spitting these things out?
Actually, I think it just passed through Erin’s shield. But the image of some god machine gun spitting fiery hot rocks out like spitballs is certainly much funnier.
I bet this is that volcanic weather Tess was looking into earlier and that I was so excited about.
Erupting volcanoes can produce weather events including lightning storms as well as high winds, the stones cast by the eruption can get caught in the wind and send them very long distances so I wonder how close they even are to the volcano or if Erin was aware it could effect them where they are.
Hmm, volcanic debris or meteorite? Probably volcanic debris, maybe some lava obsidian will make the fire magic inside Dainix feel better and stop making him seasick
Oh they are so gonna get shipwrecked.
A rock????!?!? Whyyyyy????
Rock rain obviously
Yeah. Just hold the rock that is hot enough to glow in your palm, Kendal.
Like it’s nothing. That sizzling? barely enough to feel.
Erin is so good at putting on the airs of leadership that I sometimes forget he’s just the spells guy.
“It’s hard to explain things to him, so I usually just do them and he figures them out later.” Kendal said to Dainix about Erin a few chapters ago.
“Now what were you so worried about.” “several things. *catch* But right now this ones most important.”
I like how these play in to each other.