- Caption: After a short walk.
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The Letter Of Jael Bara 013
└ posted on Tuesday, 24 December 2013, by Novil
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@ Landbark:
With the magic of stairs!
My guess is that she just is making some final preparations for tomorrow. Checking that she can use the Avaril without fault, and…breaking into a house? Oh, I get it! It is Lilith’s home! She is going to get Lilith’s essentials and personal items before the big breakout, since it will be the first place the cops will look.
Ya know, I like to think of myself as a mature adult who still holds appreciation and fascination for good comics/cartoons/anime.
But when Viv is around doing her thing, I get all fanboy…………Do I need help?
(The next support group meeting will be in Room B at the community center at 5:30…………………..)
Yes, this is supposedly a “training session” covered by “mirages”, but all the same — what is Viviana using the Avaril in broad daylight where anybody who happens to look up can see her? What’s wrong with using the stairs?
I hate to think that super-cautious, nail-down-every-loose-end, don’t-take-any-unnecessary-risks Viviana is just hot-dogging it for no good reason other than it’s cool.
Two seconds later, she walks away with a piece of bread in her hands while saying “Nothing like a good morning’s breakfast on the way to a prison break!”
Yay ^^ she can fly!
Although the takeoff was so much more dramatic than the landing, I fell like we’re missing something in-between.
I know lets do what ever I can to get sent to jail that way we only have to figure out how to break out instead of in.
Is she… is she about to steal an apple pie!? D:
Why is her right leg glowing on the 5th panel?
Luxeraph wrote:
It’s the glass cutter.
Why bother with diamond points when you can use Bluestream?
Let’s what this Avarils her. A host of curious people for one if anyone was looking up at the time.
Viviana’s plan obviously requires that spatula, as it just can’t be a good plan without one.
John the Wysard wrote:
I don’t think so. The glass cutter was apparently in her pack (frame 6), not her trousers…
PMark wrote:
In pannels 1 and 2 we can see a broken (and somehow patched) window and the door blocked with planks. For me it means that this building (and probably the surrounding ones) are uninhabited, empty, abandoned. If the whole area is empty, it’s a very good place to test Viv’s floating abilities. She is very cautious, but probably needs to test the Avaril on heights bigger than Baltor’s house.
There of course is a question: why is such densely built area abandoned? We know it was… maybe not crowded, but inhabited area 11 years ago.
@ Apsik:
Her murder scene shown in the flashback would certainly lead to the area being condemned And explain how she knew it would be abandoned.
@ PMark:
You know, I don’t look up all the time. There is rarely anything interesting in the sky during the day. In a world dominated by magic a girl jumping off the roof of a building might just be normal.
@ Crestlinger:
I believe something worse than these murders 11 years ago happened in the Red Hall and it’s not abandoned. If 6 dead bodies in the area (Baras, unlucky guy in the window and [3 bad guys]) would be enough to cause people to flee from their homes and not come back after even 11 years from these events, probably the whole country would have been abandoned by now.
I don’t question the fact she knows the area is deserted – she had time to make sure about it.
@ HardWearJunkie:
Looking up all the time or not, if something fell of the roof 30 meters ahead of you, you would have probably noticed it. It’s more about how we unconsciously react to fast moving objects we see with the corners of our eyes (like a girl jumping off the roofs edge – it’s a fast action, after the take off and before she started floating [JB 12, pannel 5]). You don’t have to pay attention, you just notice the fact something moved in an unexpected spot.
Don’t tell me you wouldn’t notice a girl like Viviana floating form the sky and landing a few steps from you. 😛
@ Apsik:
For anyone to notice the action must be visibly different from the scene and within your forward field of view. Even with our peripheral vision we tend to dial out a lot of action to concentrate on the important stuff. That’s how slight-of-hand artists do their tricks: they are deceiving your sight by making you look away from what they want to hide.
And this is a world of magic. People falling down from the sky is probably a normal occurrence (especially when testing teleportation spells). If you are at thirty meters (one American football field, minus endzones and minus ten yards) you would notice her falling and then see her floating slowly at the end. You would probably shrug and continue on your way. Only if she went splat at the end would you have been shocked.
@ Crestlinger:
WAIT. Wait a second.
FLASHBACK!?
Are you telling me the whole Red Hall incident with the bad guys happened eleven years ago!?
I thought it happened rather recently!
inb4slowpoke
Is it just me, or is she glowing in the 1st panel?
@ Amindele:
Yes, she is glowing in the first panel. It’s the Avril, which, it appears, is the gem on her necklace.
I just noticed we’ve seen Viviana flying before, in shadowdancers-090.
Who else expected a parashute to unfold from that backpack of her?
Oh yeah, she still has The Avaril.
You’d be surprised at how easy it is to forget about magical artifacts when they’re smaller than a fingernail.