It begins…
- Caption: Three days later, on the morning of 12 Warmtide 1476.
- Caption: Four hours before the collapse.
- Gramophone: My way back home…
- Eldor: Yes, excellent!
- Cassius Livy: The crystal’s operational!
- Viviana: Great!
- Lilith: The last page.
- Eldor: I’ll be back in two hours.
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Well, we’re nearing The Way Back Home 100. I have a strange feeling; stranger than usual, that is.
The description.. Only too true. There is nothing left but to wait and hope. Also, apparently the phonograph is playing a song called “The Way Back Home”. Also, my previous prediction that San’s doppelganger was Lili was apparently false.
Wow that seems to have been a great jump forward toward the climax. Not 5 pages of recovering the sphere, 3 pages of searching taverns, fake San entering a dungeon, yet more Lillith getting told to focus, no more chases in the forest. Four hours before the climax. So how many pages will it take to get there?
Richard wrote:
A lot of pages. But the non-stop action to reach it will begin with the very next page. All characters and events have now been set up to be in the right spot for it.
@ Novil:
Sounds like the last section of Fullmetal Alchemist.
On another note, I forget: what is “the collapse”?
@ Lucario:
I don’t think we’re supposed to know yet. I presume it’s Eldor’s endgame, involving Lillith casting the allegedly world-ending spell San foresaw,
The music…
I kind of want to play that tune now…
“Four hours before the collapse” That’s not ominous at all.
Why do I have feeling that things won’t go so well for Vivi and Ilias…?
Yay! Eldor’s back! I mean, I know he’s been here recently, but when you follow the comic in real time it seems like a while. Why are the villains always my favorite characters, they always lose….
it looks like she’s sitting in a meeting room with a strange laptop on the credenza…
@ goono bononnen:
…strange laptop?
Are you referring to the gramophone in 2nd panel where Vivi is seen listening to?
What song is playing (if it is a song)? Way back home by Prince? Way back home by Bob Crosby? Short way home by The builders and the butchers?
Thomas wrote:
Give it a try, some of the notes are there =)
Vidad wrote:
** THE ** collapse – not any-old every-day collapse.
Is it wise to have Lili train and even work on the last page of BaB only a few hours before “the collapse”. I’d assume a well rested Lili could make a much better and more reliable job, even though she can tap into a lot of Bluestream…
Damn she kept Ilias Busy if the time had to accelerate that far ahead to when we see her next.
Ah! So Lilith is NOT the doppelganger!
Now I wonder who is… 😛
Vicious Sand wrote:
After a short search, all I can say is: there are a shitload of songs that contain the words “my way back home”: Dawes, Band of horses, Monophonics, Priscilla Ahn, Gugun Blues Shelter, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Nashville Teens, Batmobile, Gene Watson, Denver Harbor, Brian Mcknight, Beautiful Boy, Dave Mackay, Gary Moore, Lee Ann Womack…
I guess musicians have no imagination.
Maybe, just maybe, the score we see could be the guitar score for My way back home from Dawes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Z9b2BEiGg
That’s the closest I found, but I’m not going to go through the next 20 songs >_<
And in the next hour, someone’s going to schedule a “three hour tour.”
Collapse? Then Eldor win? And the breaking spell cause havoc? 🙁 not good
Kaworu wrote:
San herself. Eldor is a time/space mage. It’s how most of his powers work, by tweaking time to produce invulnerability or split causality, or by making holes in space. He’s basically an Onmyouji in the Abenobashi tradition, some spells and enchantments but mostly reality tweaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-9xaUlg9Y
So, he basically went in time to point B, brought San to point D, implanted her memory with a suggestion to come to the town and dropped her at point A, made a split personality of her that he raised until point E, which took over for her at point C, kidnapped the original and raised her as the doppelganger. The doppelganger IS San, through a convoluted and nonsensical time loop.
Well, Eldor finally making his move would help Viviana convince the population. I can not think of anything she can say to convince people of the truth, but if Lilith casts the doomsday spell, it will do the convincing for her. However, it also somewhat (or very largely) diminishes the point of Viviana’s attempt as she is kind of too late.
One person that will be in trouble is Olrik. Even his own subjects may turn on him if Lilith’s doomsday spell is cast.
Sadril and Dyson may want to hurry. I don’t know how they are going to get their +99 sword into the city though seeing as Viviana could not get her smaller items in without a super expensive sphere and she is the experienced one of smuggling.
I wonder what relevance Ryn and Alissa will have. They seem a bit put on the side right now, but they may well get into the action anyway.
Razel wrote:
yeah. that would be a strange laptop. wouldn’t it?
BUSINESS IS PICKING UP! /jimross
I’m getting a bit of an “end of the first half of Final Fantasy VI” vibe here. “The Collapse”, whatever it is, must happen and not be prevented, so even if Eldor gets kicked off the edge of a floating continent in the process some part of his plan will work.
@ Arky:
If that is the case, cue someone like san or lilith killing eldor and taking over…
Which is more scary, an evil Eldor or evil Lilith? 🙁
@ ratfox:
For some reason it made me think of this, but I guess that’s just wilful thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRQPkkgesWY
What.
No scene between Viv and Ilias? I feel cheated. As omnipresent but chronologically-locked story-absorbing creatures of the audience, shouldn’t we get at least a panel showing what went down under the sheets but above the mattress?
Or are we getting that next page…? 😉
Didn’t we have a scene before where eldor just left for two hours and Lilith used the time well…? 😉
If it becomes public that Lilith was involved in the collapse and the government has already stated they executed Lilith. the government is going to lose an awful lot of support and look like they were active participants in protecting Lilith and letting her complete the work.
“The Collapse” is an ominous descriptive term with many interpretations. Does it just mean the barrier collapsed? Does it mean the government collapsed? Does it mean the magic streams collapsed? Does it mean the land collapsed? Does it mean civilization collapsed? So many possibilities here. All ominous with implications of lots of action. And lots of after effects.
Eldor’s door is very very dark purple. I’m going for the collapse of the magic streams into each other.
Samantha wrote:
Gah – if that’s what’s happening, is Novil channeling Stephen Moffat?! It’s more complicated than one of his Doctor Who arcs…
There’s a mistake in the first panel: the year should be 1476, not 1467.
Sounds like things are coming to a head here!
“The Collapse”, however, is a very ominous term…