- Scarlet: The Machine!
The Machine of Eternal Summer 024
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- Scarlet: The Machine!
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28 thoughts on “The Machine of Eternal Summer 024”
Novil
I’m still working on improving the coloration and the presentation of this double page on the website.
BlackDragonSlayer
Any guesses as to whether this machine is actually here, or if this is a dream sequence/vision? Regardless, it is a pretty impressive machine. If it really is underneath their farmhouse, that may imply that her ancestors (or the people who used to live there) might have been caretakers to the machine in some regard.
Sekhmet
What is really weird is that the Machine looks exactly like the one from the story. Either Scarlet is dreaming, or Abel’s book is pretty dang accurate… why?
Or is it a magical place where all your dream become some sort of reality, and the Machine is created from Scarlet’s mind? After all, at this point she dreams of the Machine.
Or maybe all these pages are memories of Scarlet (and Tibor), and in her memories, she mixed the Machine from the book and the Machine she sees here… ?
HKMaly
I don’t think Scarlet is IMAGINING the machine in the story. It seems more likely there is illustration. Or very detailed description. And yes, Abel’s book might be based on reality …
Cirom
Wow, that was easy, we already found it.
Frith Ra
Now, how do we make it work without breaking it?
Naldrin
They can turn it off and on again. Or, as there’s a lot of water, maybe it got wet and they have to put it in rice overnight
Jake
Well, we found Sampo guys. Game over at page 24. Next series?
dangle O'Saxon
that was fast
Thanatos
That bridge is off-center and it makes me itch…
MAC089
Me too, and it only seems to be the one, which is worse.
Vicious Sand
That was quick. Assuming this is the Summer Machine, and not the start of a lengthy one-man (Scarlett) investigation into an entire lost civilization, in violation of all archeological documentation practices.
Maybe it’s the house’s water boiler. All those pipes seem to be going to various places in the water. If it’s a water purifier, who changes the filters? What would it need several turbine generators for? Maybe it’s the magic coin machine.
“Why has no one ever found this before?” “We were growing beets on top of it.”
HKMaly
The only difference between water boiler and Machine of Ethernal Summer is scale.
Orr …. the water is for cooling. Warming whole planet is just SIDEEFECT.
Crystalgate
This depends on why the temperature is dropping. If the temperature is dropping due to reduced sunlight, then a planet warming machine may make things warmer, but plants will still get less and less sunlight for each year. If the reason for the temperature drop is something else, then the machine can help more.
Sekhmet
I re-read the “setting” page, and it says:
“But deep inside Lavarel there is a giant machine. A machine that, once put back into operation, will finally bring warm weather to Lavarel again. At least that’s what war refugee Scarlet Carolus believes. Join the brave girl on her long and dangerous quest to find the Machine of Eternal Summer!”
Since her quest is to *find* it (and reactivate it), I see two options:
– most reasonable: vision or dream, maybe magically induced,
– other option, this is the real Machine. If this is real, then this Ancient Machine might used to have various (portal) access from different places in the world, and with the time passing, most of them stopped working. Sometimes, randomly, one started to work again, like the one under Scarlet’s house. But in a few days it will stop working, and she will have to spend a decade or more finding another one.
It is far-fetched, though. The vision/dream thing is way more likely (even if this vision is of the real Machine). But we know Novil’s got a twisted mind… 🙂
Vicious Sand
We see a machine on Page 2, so I think we’re supposed to think that this is The Machine. It’s more likely a substation or lookalike that does something different. Writer Oliver was said to be a programmer, so he might have had a few bouts of factory programming. Substations and control modules, with codexes and command line authorization/rejection might be something that he’s using here. A machine that wraps Object in plastic is not the same as the machine that does Important Thing #5. The computer, of course, can disagree.
HKMaly
Any actual machine capable of warm whole planet without overheating one part is going to be planet-sized or, well, network of machines. It’s possible this is part of the Machine of Eternal Summer but what she will be searching for is control center, or in general other parts of the Machine.
So, dream, part of machine, different machine … or the comics will be shorter than expected.
Graybeard
So given that the most likely explanation for this arc is that it’s a dream sequence, at what point in it did it cease to be wakeful Scarlet and start to be dream/vision?
HKMaly
There wasn’t any such point, so I would say it’s either all real or all dream/vision.
Wayne
Reminds me of some places I’ve seen in Lord of the Rings Online.
Anonymous Pie
Now I’m just waiting for Zathras to show up.
Vicious Sand
Anon, you wonderful (unprintable, as well as in Minbari.) For every Ancient Machine, there’s some forgotten broom pusher keeping it working until the Chosen One shows up. But will his shall of pelts be Woo-replicas?
Anonymous Pie
Aaawe, thank you 🙂
Either way Zathras will be at right right temperature for Zathras, yes. *Nods*
Novil
I’ve finished my work on the coloration.
Banjomike
After Scarlet dashes back to Daddy and tells him what she found I wonder if the secret door won’t work…
LurkerAbove
Is that red light in the background a warning or alarm ?
Fred
So there’s the cesspit!
Werwolfe
It’s only a model…
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