- Edwyn: Ready?
- Lilith: Yes.
- Teglen: Yeah!
- Edwyn: Run straight towards the wall!
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The Letter Of Jael Bara 040
└ posted on Tuesday, 1 April 2014, by Novil
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Ok, there goes your C4 spell. Better hope the rest of the Shadowdancers are in position to get you over. Also, are those numbnuts shooting ARROWS? Against a MAGIC SHIELD? To be fair, we did see arrows peirce a shield before, but those were special enchanted bad guy arrows. Somehow, I think they’d have a better shot by trying to get guys with swords through the shield.
So our intrepid trio have successfully broken out into the yard – now come the trickier bits:
(a) maintaining the shield at full strength for the next few minutes minimum, regardless of what the guards throw at her,
(b) breaking through the outer wall (while still keeping the shield up),
(c) keeping it up until they’re out of range of the prison guards,
(d) disappearing PDQ.
They could really use another distraction now – where’s a dragon when you need one? 🙂
na na na na na na na na na na
BATMANLILITH!Umm What happens if they don’t all have the same pace?
Wheeoo, wheeoo! 🙂
This is an interesting piece of information here, shields possibly being semipermeable. Makes them so much more useful! Also in case of sudden onset of spell sickness… 😉
To the walls!
Falcon wrote:
Shadowdancers don’t need to get them over the wall; Lilith’s plan as of the previous strip was to create stairs for them. Once they’re over, the rest of the Shadowdancers have an escape route planned.
And no one is shooting arrows (that we’ve seen, yet.) If you mean the smoking projectiles in the “WHEEOO” panel, those are fragments of wall. (Hope they don’t hit anyone.) And the white and black radial lines in the last panels are just the shield throwing off energy, I think…
@ Falcon:
I’m sure the arrows still weaken the shield, if one considers magic another form of energy, then one thing must always be true, when you hit magic entity or magic entity hits you, both you and the entity exert equal amounts of force on each other, while there are more efficient ways to redirect or disperse the force then others they all require energy, and once that energy is gone the shield might go poof.
Hm. Disappointing.
A good plan would’ve had them merely strolling out. Oh well.
One word: CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!!!!!!
*Bugle plays cavalry tune*
Unless a more appropriate phrase here would be “LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEENKIIIIIIINS!!!”
Whatever anybody might think, but she is overpowered and it really is a good reason for some people to want to kill her. Well anyway at some point they will create country where they will be heroes. Well there are enough people wanting that from what it looks like.
*plays A-Team theme*
@ illeatyourself:
Teglen: We have two or three minutes! Do we really need to escape this dungeon, or can we skip it?
Edwyn: Viviana wants Lilith to open a lock for her.
Telgen: *Sigh* Alright, I’ll deal with Lilith’s handcuffs, you’ll start dropping your rocksplosion crystal, and then we’ll need to –
Lilith: Alright, times up – let’s do this. LIIIIIILLLIIIITTTHHH CAAAIIILLLEEEAAANNNN!
Edwyn: …She just ran in.
Telgen: Save her! Save her! Stick to the plan!
this just does not compute as a very good plan to me.
the set up was excellent
getting the target was wonderful
but depending on the target to get you out? HUH?
as somebody said a couple pages back. you must plan as if your target is as helpful as a bag of potatoes.
prepare for the worst so you can handle the reality.
Ruby wrote:
you’re dating yourself (and me, since I knew exactly what you were referring to).
Why I suddenly hear “Run to the Hills” in my head???
Cool ‘ready’ pose on the first panel! XD
Dude! I love that the alarm is WHEEOO WHEEOO WHEEOO. So awesome!
mhalpern wrote:
I see you are new in this “magic” thing. I bet you still believe in that second thermodynamic hypothesis as well …
(That said, I do suppose that every hit is depleting that shield a little until the opposite would be shown/mentioned. I just don’t agree with the optimisticly general statements you used in the argumentation. Also, I think that the reason they are running is that they want to be gone before mages get here, not because they need to limit the amount of arrows that hit them.)
A good plan involves getting out unnoticed, a great plan involves using the distraction of the main event to get something else and plant contingencies unnoticed. There is a contingency if she can’t get passed the wall, but it is easier to sneak a small army in or around when they are focused on keeping someone from getting out.
@ hkmaly:
In many universes, magic is described as a form of energy that can be manipulated by the minds of some people, and is limited by the amount of energy those people have access to. They need to run for both those reasons, the mages can probably weaken the shield more effectively and take down the stairway Lilith plans to make, but remember of the two close enough to give chase. They both are a little spent and one of them probably can’t run that fast
everyone else is debating the flaws with the plan, and here I am being awed at the neat lighting effects in panel one.
I wonder,is Illias will have a role in the plan?It’ll be kinda lame for him to greet Lilith in the Shadowkeep AFTER she has gone through one-hell-of-a-day,and he was just sitting idly there.Then again,it will hurt him,mostly.Lilith is smart enough,so she will hardly think something of it.’Sides,their relationship is not of that kind(not from where Lili’s standing,at least).
But,anyway Illias hasn’t shown anything yet(by that I mean-he always does the easy part-talking,or just being somewhere).I hope time will come for him to prove a MC status.Just,please,don’t let it be anime-style “I am the Determinator,who will own everyone just by the SHEER POWER OF WILL!CHAAAAAARGE!!!!!”.
That would be horible 🙁
At the wall: *Tink ‘Keep running!’ *Tink *Tink *Tink
‘Where Are They?!’
‘Can I stop running at the wall now?’
‘NO!’
I see “wheeoo wheeoo” and I read “beedo beedo”. The minions are sounding the alarm!
@ Seth Dillingham:
I LOVE IT!
I love the artwork of the first panel.
Well they at least know how to make an exit
@ mhalpern:
Oh, whoever isn’t keeping pace with Lilith will just be maimed, stabbed, targeted, shot at, wounded, blown to bits, and/or killed.
Ruby wrote:
That’s a lot of elemental Sodium, is she planning on a-salting someone?
BTW, Seth Dillingham wrote:
Quick! Get the fire extinguisher!
@ Trimutius:
Not really overpowered, overpowered wouldn’t have let herself get caught again in the first place. As I said in a comment on a previous page, she seems to have more subtle control over her magic. She can manipulate energy fields easily, but doesn’t have the power to brute force through obstacles. Like the robot, seemed really impressive with its magic display, but I think it was using those weird magic crystals that Viviana was collecting earlier, fire-breath, bubbles, and belches used properly are devastating.
@ Falcon:
They’re not bad guys, they’re guards.
@ OrpheusEx:
I meant what damage the shield may cause.
@ illeatyourself:
Argh, need the ability to spam up vote. XD
At first blush, I thought the bubble that is the first panel was actually part of the third, flying high over the prison yard after they’d blown the wall -the second panel corrected my misconception. Nice misdirection with the artwork. 🙂
What I think is going to happen is Lilith won’t create a set of stairs, but a ramp instead, and with their combined momentum, the sphere will be propelled -over- the wall (rather than them having the hassle of stopping to go -through- the wall). This will leave the guards with the headache of getting out of the prison to pursue the rescuers/escapee… especially any who rushed into the prison yard after the wall exploded expecting to find our heroes stuck there.
@ cwDeici:
Falcon was actually referring to the bad guys of Red Hall that killed everyone (and specifically in this case, Ars).
cwDeici wrote:
Which is why Falcon was implying they WOULDN’T have access to the special Bad Guy Arrows.
Trimutius wrote:
Lilith has spent the entire time in her cell practicing the formation of spells with waveforms that break down immediately, so as not to be detected by the anti-magic monitor, as seen in Shadowdancers 030. This is apparently an unusual trick she learned directly from Hel Rekdal, the now-deceased former director of the academy, thought apparently also someone greatly interested in her potential given he was the one who convinced her parents to enroll her in Tower in the Sky 002.
Given that there is absolutely nothing else for her to do as apparently they don’t even supply a bloody library to their inmates in this metal box-dungeon, it can be presumed that Lilith has wiled her time away doing nothing except practice esoteric spellcrafting, as she’s even see doing it as subtly as possible after her cafeteria encounter in Shadowdancers 045.
All we’ve seen of Lilith, which admittedly isn’t much, has shown her to be both intuitively quick and also a hard-worker. She is talented, and that alone is an absolutely stupid and/or petty reason to want her dead, not a good one. It’s pretty obvious Eldor’s reason is that he wants to make hardships for the young to force their growth, as stated in Tower in the Sky 020, and Delvor wants her dead for his own political aspirations.
cheese it, it’s the Banana Guards!
The spell of the Hamster ball?
Wow, their “Rocksplosion Alarms” sound like ours…
Our “Police Alarms”… SIRENS, I mean…