(Mod edit to add a courtesy link to El Goonish Shive.)
Yay! Its back again! I stagger my reading of it to Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday cause there aren't enough good webcomics on those days, so I am not the best person to lead a real time discussion, but it really needs a thread. So in Monday's we see the mysterious return of the dark figure. (linky)
Who is starting to sound really, really desperate.
Also, is it just the art upgrade, or does Ellen's green ray seem more... jeeze, what is a same word to use? Powerful? More powerful then usual?
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Oct 10th 2025 at 12:46:21 PM
Turns out Jay doesn't know about spellbooks. I guess Arthur doesn't tell her jack shit. A very different approach to family and magic than Edward.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Pandora gave Jill a spell? What was it? When?
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In other things, I bet the book is so big because so many spells were from Pandora, so since Hope knows the spells, the book gets info from her since she's making the book.
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576“Copied spells get descriptions based on how you think they work” … and Jay thinks about her spells a lot.
I'm just verbose!
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.Enter freely, and of your own... Wait, this isn't how it works!?
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.In which Hope narrowly avoids becoming a closet case.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.I get the feeling Raven has his own immortal investment fund, Hope. You buy all the books you want.
Jay, you have magic. Just turn into smoke and fly to your car; you probably don’t even need to unlock the doors to get in.
That said, cute moment here.
Do you, sir, have a room? Are you beckoning me in? (Hit it)
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.There does seem to be restriction on who they can kill. This guy was touchable specifically because he killed first. Killed at all, or does it also matter who he killed?
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.So he can kill this guy because this guy killed someone. I wonder how this will impact the characters we actually care about. I don't think Susan is in any danger. She's only killed vampires, and considering how most immortals feel about vampires, I suspect their law has some sort of loophole built in that killing vampires doesn't actually count as killing. However, it's a possibility, so I'll mention it. Grace is probably fine as well as Damien ultimately killed himself. Jay could potentially have a problem. She explicitly killed another human being using magic. It wasn't intentional and it was in self defense, but it's possible the new immortal law doesn't take that into account.
And then there's the feds. Edward has likely killed someone. It's hard to save the world multiple times without doing so. Arthur has almost certainly killed someone. Now, any immortal who actually targeted one of those two would be putting a huge target on their back (I guess the same goes for any immortal who targets Jay), it still might be a possibility.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Just because they can kill doesn't mean it's easy. Voltaire had to get up close. Although, he probably wanted to show Mist...
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Comic Hope 177
Ethics? I've heard of those...
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.