- Gavin Carolus: What’s going--
- Soldier: Damn. I lost sight of the girl with the red hair.
- Reva: I think she ran that way. I’ll take care of her.
The Machine of Eternal Summer 027
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- Gavin Carolus: What’s going--
- Soldier: Damn. I lost sight of the girl with the red hair.
- Reva: I think she ran that way. I’ll take care of her.
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22 thoughts on “The Machine of Eternal Summer 027”
Intrebute
What?! Just like that? That’s messed up!
HKMaly
It is but … they need to keep the moment of surprise. Single person fleeing and alerting authorities can doom the whole invasion.
scottjm
Does not excuse deliberately targeting civilians.
You go for capture first on non-combatants.
JW
But then you need to guard them, which leaves you with too few men to achieve your objectives.
From an evil invading army point of view, it makes sense to just shoot everyone.
Vicious Sand
Yeah, Free Haircuts Day has gone too far.
nnea
I… don’t think I like the story any more. Especially since I guess Scarlet will now have to join forces with Tibor and I don’t like that guy either.
HKMaly
… Tibor IS classified as main character on cast list. Always was, too.
It’s almost like if the story got on fast forward to get us through the unoriginal parts. Maybe when this part end it will became interesting again.
Puyon
I’ll grant that the dad’s death lacks the same weight and compositional strength as the mom’s, but as for complaining of the direction of the story…
It’s really tricky with a webcomic with the pace of updates, trying to find when is and isn’t the right time to condense the action of a scene. This page definitely needed some extra attention I feel (maybe him getting an extra panel to ask what’s going on and being interrupted by the blast in the next panel?) but everyone acting so surprised by the introduction of war and death and all these other things that feel so abrupt like we aren’t on page 27 of a long form comic… it’s a prologue folks, we have to hit the ground running at some point.
Paver
Hey Novil i wpuld like to ask you did foxes and Wolves are maturing Foster than humans in recompesate fir their shorter lifespan, if Yes whet they hit their eqivment of 16,18 and 25? What us their pregnacy leght ?Sorry for spelling errors English is my second language
Sekhmet
The human soldier is “Soldier” and the fox soldier is “Reva”. I wonder if this character is a special one?
(This is really a reminder of Vivi’s childhood and the brutal murder of her parents, with Vivi holding the secret box vs Scarlet holding her favorite book. She is younger, after all).
Chris
I am actually liking where this story is going. It does a good job of capturing the shocking mundanity of people that seemed like they could be part of the latter story just up and dying suddenly. As would happen in war. I always like when a story, even one rooted in magics and fantasy elements, takes on certain gritty or realistic elements from our own world.
Eric
I think it’s just that the story is throwing too many things at the reader at once, without enough context or buildup. The sheer number of narrative coincidences ends up feeling false and confusing, leaning into outright tropes:
– magic machine happens to be accessed from her basement but no one’s ever noticed before
– secret attack just happens to appear at their farm through tunnels no one ever detected into caves we weren’t told exist
– country we’ve never heard referred to attacks a society that was otherwise depicted as so peaceful a turnip farmer can take his crop to market without a gun
– soldiers so accurate they can drop a fleeing civilian with one shot but happen to miss our protagonist
All of this happens within a day or two, it’s just too much to easily get one’s head around. It’s not the details, it’s the presentation. For example, by the time the major Red Hall surprise attack happens in Gaia, we’ve already been given much more narrative context than a whole series of tropes strung together.
I’m excited to keep reading, but this arc feels below Novil’s usual standards.
Crystalgate
The part with the machine being in the cellar seems really unlikely, so unlikely I suspect something is not as it seems. For example, what we are seeing could be Scarlet’s memory rather than what really happened and the trauma is twisting her memory.
Manabi
We know once she’s older Scarlet’s older she’s going on a quest to find the machine and her finding it for real helps explain that. She’s not searching for it based on her childish love of that book, but because she knows it’s real, because she found it as a child. But immediately afterward the war started and she was forced to flee and couldn’t do anything about it then.
Crystalgate
Scarlett just needs to believe she has seen it, she does not have to actually have seen it.
Ing
of course a soul just can’t hit her. She has plot armor!
Crystalgate
Something like this was expected. From the settings page:
“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. ”
Anyway, I wonder if Scarlet seemingly seeing the machine and the attacks are connected. It could also easily just be a war about resources.
JW
Orphanhood, the first step towards becoming a heroine.
John C.
Is it established that Scarlett’s parents are indeed dead? The weapons do not fire projectiles, but beams of energy, and they may stun those hit by them, though I suspect a head hit would be less survivable than a torso hit. If they were energy beams capable of killing instantly, I would expect to see some sort of external damage; scorch marks, at least, but they are unmarked.
Opus the Poet
There is smoke/steam rising from her father’s head in panel 4. Pretty conclusive external damage there.
Vicious Sand
I question if it’s the same shot that barely missed Scarlett, or if it’s a second shot? OK, there’s an incline, and the soldier is on higher ground. But the shot missing what is Scarlett’s head height, while Scarlett is on the presumably level ground area of the house, “seems unlikely” to hit Mr Carolus in the head.
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