- Vernon: Whoa!
- Reginar: Get down! All of you!
- Salena: Watch out, Fabius!
- Reginar: You’ll all hang for this! Next week already, if Gaia wills!
- Alissa: Hmm…
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The Way Back Home 115
└ posted on Tuesday, 27 March 2018, by Novil
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hmm indeed…
The cultists defeated as easily as that? If so, I guess they overestimated themselves. Surely Eldor is to smart to overestimate them? Or would this come as a chock for him?
Just a thought… Alyssa is the only female hero that Eldor has not been able to manipulate so far… He operated on Vivi (even if we do not know exactly what he did), has Lili in his control and did something to San.
@ Marterius:
Eldor controls the San clone. So he very likely knew what would happen and seems to have willingly sacrificed his henchmen.
Well, that went well
Wait. This is the Shadowdancers’ place, right? That Eldor took something from?
“There is no one here (of importance), but this artifact. It seems to be… Counting down.”
This looks familiar. Like that one door at the shadowdancers lair.
Plus: that guard(?) seems to be very sure that there will be a “next week” …
Jack wrote:
Pretty sure this isn’t Shadowdancers’ place as it is shown in Tower in the Sky 023 and 048. In this current strip, the door with glowing circle is doesn’t seem to be blue and the walls around it aren’t rocky.
On other hand, since this seems to be a hideout of Disciples of Two Heavens, I hope this place isn’t linked to the trap in another hideout in Aracona where San clone went with Leigh, Kairos and the dragons, according to The Way Back Home 084.
Marterius wrote:
They were here for a meeting with Eldor; they weren’t expecting a fight. They may not even have brought any weapons, in which case it’d be like shooting fish in a barrel.
It seems clear that the guards here are on Ryn & Alissa’s side. Probably the King’s forces.
Jack wrote:
No, these are the cultists. The ones trying to kill Sandril & Dyson.
I wouldn’t miss the lightning guy in the third panel, but I would miss any of the masked attendees being shot down. They were the ones smart enough to try to conceal their identity in front of dozens of witless witnesses.
Look out, it’s Captain Star! He’s got a badge, a hit crew, and he’s there to raid the place like Ness and the Untouchables. Yes, it’s Prohibition, 1200AD. I still say poisoned wine is a bad idea. If Eldor wanted them dead, he’d just send someone to kill most of them at home at night. Or the hall doors would be locked and archers would fire into the crowd. It doesn’t seem like anyone’s going to try the wine, so let’s see if Alyssia found a door knob, or an elvish version of a claymore mine?
It’s a very bad idea to tell people who are still fighting that they’ll be executed if they are taken alive. Just saying.
The one that was tagged last strip, Zoran… That’s the guy responsible for distributing spiral berry extract bottles, right?
I’m pretty sure his tag isn’t just for show. I think he might do something about this situation. Maybe Eldor have predicted this bust operation and told Zoran in advance…
ratfox wrote:
If only I could upvote comments.
It kind of raises the question of why they’re even bothering to capture them, or to tell them to stand down.
@ SlugFiller:
I assume that things were going so well that Reginar (if that’s the name of the guy) wanted to lower down the morale of the cultists just by saying that. I think he probably didn’t have enough experience of the enemy’s desperate “corned rat will bite the cat” mentality.
ratfox wrote:
Perhaps, but the Cultists knew they would be deep in the brown if they were ever caught, so death was always on the cards. But the guards are supposed to be the good guys, meaning they can’t just run around terminating people out of hand. There’ll be the little matter of a trial first, but after that…
Marterius wrote:
Think back to the attack on the academy in the first chapter. The main reason that went so well is the cultists attacked with total surprise and large numbers. Well, the Midgard Guard is just returning the favor.
Why do they both have black hair?
So basically Alissa and Ryn are finally getting their revenge for the Red Hall attack?
@ Ardour:
Not quite. They haven’t gotten to catching the Red Hall Attack’s mastermind yet.
At least they got the person responsible for Lili’s false sentence though.
hellsheep wrote:
They dyed it black to be harder to recognize?
Anyway, I’ll echo the sentiment that the commander really shouldn’t go and tell the cultist they have no reason to surrender. This could cost one or more of his soldiers their lives.
@ SlugFiller:
Cultist: really? well then you’re going down with me, fuck you.
Actually, “you’re going to hang in a week” is a demoralizing threat – if they fight they will die, but if they surrender they get to stand trial etc, it will buy them time: extending their lives and giving Eldor (the great archmage) time to rescue them.
Still I’d like to know how many guards they sent – from what we know there are about 200 cultists, so maybe 100+ in this room. And they should be able to fight even if they aren’t trained guards.
Razel wrote:
And I don’t think they plan to—they specifically waited until Eldor left to launch this attack.
hellsheep wrote:
Dye job. A “clever disguise”.
SIL wrote:
Well, they are taking out his minions first. Divide and conquer.
Marterius wrote:
Nine months… (Pops out of a TV The Ring style)
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2016/02/05/breaking-all-barriers-144/
Many of you seem to miss the fact that none of the cultists around Reginar are still fighting. A voice doesn’t reach far in a noisy environment such as this one.
I’m confused, being told that I have 0 chance of being spared even if I go peacefully (You’ll all hang for this) would make me fight harder
And Reginar is Captain Badge?
Offers of amnesty (or death) wouldn’t matter to some cultists. Being Caught is the unforgivable crime.
Novil wrote:
Even the tied up ones are more likely to resist as much as they can, if they have nothing to lose (Which would at least make gathering them slower, if not riskier). It’s really something you don’t say until they’re in cells.
Is that the same door in the last panel as the one in the shadowkeep, the one Viviana went through in a dream and saw the tower?
Novil wrote:
We cannot see very far in the fifth panel. While what you say makes sense, it was not at all obvious that things would make sense.
Both Fabius, Reginar and Salena (looks like a female guard?) have their first appearance and are given tags. I guess we will see more of them.
Panel 3: Looks like he took that blast, …fabulously.