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on May 9, 2025
at 3:00 am
couldn’t make the heat-resistant artifact and the being-able-to-breathe artifact two different artifacts?
Aurora
A fantasy webcomic. Updates M-W-F.
couldn’t make the heat-resistant artifact and the being-able-to-breathe artifact two different artifacts?
Something something cats always land on their feet
Yadda yadda hang in there, Falst.
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: stuck the landing!
Image source: snag
Tumblr Text: it’s ok guys cats always land on their feet
Bluesky Text: this plan’s getting worse all the time
Oh nooooo, he’s going through so muuuuch! Poor poor Falst! He’ll never even want to sit close to a fire again…
Quick, someone, distract Rakhn with a nice pic of Mauna Loa, or Mount Mayon with the clouds!
‘Never want to sit next to a fire again’? Ahem *Dainix* 👀
Exactly!!! Imagine the… dra… ma…. oooh noooooo, that’s a great story sideline! “I don’t like heaaaaaaat I dun wanna but I do want to be near Dainix AH THE ANGST”
FIRST
not quite
I was…but by the time my comment was uploaded, like 4 people got their first lol.
You were never first. The comments take time to upload. Also, please don’t make these kinds of comments, I know they’re harmless but they’re just so annoying to see. They just devalue any comment section
Fall to certain death
Thwarted by trusty blue scarf
Now the cat goes splat
*gasp* That’s also one very, very small artifact pulling double-duty. Really, Caliban, you need to take this one back to the designers.
Double? I count triple. Breath filter, heat protection, and whip.
Are you kidding, this thing just demonstrated how impressively-versatile it is. I’d imagine Tahraim would be thrilled to have seen it used in a way he didn’t design it for. The Mk II version will probably have a nice long-and-durable tassel (maybe braided like a whip) to allow it to be used this way without being removed from the face, though.
So you’re saying Caliban gave Falst a sneed?
Bingo.
Oh my God, you’re right!!
OH SHIT SHIT SHIT UHHH
dang, perilous enough to make me comment about it, good work
Why do I so very, very much hope that Rakhn notices Falst going through so much to help his friend, and that he is so enraptured by the novelty of this story that he decides to help instead of chopping Kendal to pieces, just because this whole scenario is something he has never witnessed before and it intrigues him? I guess my need for harmony is strong today.
I was thinking the same thing lol
I was imagining that maybe the ignans would realise he was there and go “wait, why’s there a cat here??” And try to help him, but this is a much more interesting idea
Woo got here so early you can’t even “next” your way here yet! Also hecccc! Falst, you gotta do everything the hardest way don’t you D:
Red’s panelling is amazing!! As always, but it really stands out to me on this page!
Fleeting hope, now gone
Falling into certain death
Barely save yourself
Poor little guy is really going through it. I’m also a smidge worried about how frayed that sling looked earlier. Fingers crossed Falst makes it to the fireseed with Dainix still on his back…
Same…
Ouch, hang in there Falst!
[Mission Impossible theme blaring in the background]
With lightning speed, Falst braces his fall
With the scarf, and then swings to a rock, close call!
Uh oh, volcanic rocks are sharp, it would be awkward if he bled out to death on this rock though.
Not to worry, he’s got a healing factor.
A healing factor that doesn’t help against infections from open wounds.
Although, whatever extremophile infection he might pick up on that rock probably won’t like his body.
… I’ll have to go look up how infections work in Aurora. Has Red ever said anything on that?
Oh, there are microbes!: https://www.tumblr.com/comicaurora/718876098148057088/are-infections-caused-by-microbes-in-aurora-or-is
Given the ignans I assume there’d be fire-adapted microbes as well living in this volcano, who’ll just freeze to death as soon as Falst leaves. Maaaybe infection from cuts won’t be a problem here.
Joseph Joestar?
PARKOUR!
At first I was all excited for update, then I saw Falst falling in a volcano and was just like ‘wait wut’
Cat on a hot ̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶r̶o̶o̶f̶ obsidian floor
His face sure is durable.
Falst is having an interesting time.
Red loves giving her characters tons of problems huh. We got Kendal fighting for his life against Rakhn, Falst is *this* close to falling into a lava lake, Erin is crippled, Dainix is still a rock, and Alinua (the HEALER!) is presumably off in the ocean somewhere. Are we gonna see more divine intervention or are they just gonna “tough it out” as the saying goes?
All I can think of are those motivational “hang in there” posters with the branch and the kitty and I can’t stop giggling. Sorry, Falst.
I feel like that’s exactly how Red intended it lol
Dude I keep reading this with the “My Fox Walter” YouTube video audio playing in my head it’s so funny
I would be so SO much more concerned if this were not Aurora and he were not a main character.
I’m still REALLY CONCERNED.
He just keeps getting closer to the fire lake??? bro Falst please no you are Flammable
TL;DR: Cats always land on their feet.
If the heat-resistant artifact and the able-to-breathe artifact were separate artifacts, you would have two separate points of failure. Losing both at once sucks, but losing either would still suck enough to make it hard to retrieve the dropped artifact.
CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP…
OH GOD FALST
on my birthday too!
Happy (late) birthday! Hope it was a good one!
Oof ouch his ribs. Also oof ouch his LUNGS.
He’ll be glad to find somewhere chilly with fresh air after all this.
this segment is gonna send me to an early grave, I swear
Ya’ll have no idea how many ‘hang in there’ jokes I’ve seen from panel 4 in the past day alone!
This page gave me secondhand feelings like you missed a step on the stairs, or tip back too far on a chair.
Molten millipides! Moltepides! We’re cooked!