Jun24
Courtney
This boss room’s exit method is a bit antiquated – like A Guy on the previous page pointed out, it was built before glowing blue warp patches became the norm!
I edited the previous comic a bit, thanks to you guys’ suggestions. And the one before it. Betcha didn’t notice that Cyril’s goatee went mysteriously missing in one panel… but I did. Well, it’s back now!
I just love Derk’s reaction. “I have to fight these guys again?”
“Can you guys just surrender? It’s not like you’ve learned any new moves since we beat you last time…”
Those pirates never give up. They are still in drunk mode though. They get rowdy…
I’ve said it several times already, but it’s always a good comic when Skarva gets to play cool!
And a rare comic?
I am surprised that floats, what with all that gold and silver. Maybe it is magical rock that is actually super buoyant?
Those guys really want to fight.
I wondered about that myself, I think, but between magic and the possibility of entrapped, low-density gas, it doesn’t seem implausible.
(In all fairness, I’m not sure that the low-density gas would work; it seems sufficiently plausible for me to think it worth mentioning, at least.)
Just think displacement. It could work.
It could, I think, but I suspect that it would depend significantly on the density of the solid material (including the objects on top of the platform–all that dense gold, for example), the amount of space given over to gas, and the density of the gas.
I’ve been reading a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser collection of late, and one of the regions mentioned in that is the “Sinking Land”, a large chunk of ground that is described as rising from and falling back beneath a body of water on pretty much this principle: gas builds up beneath it, causing it to rise, then escapes once it’s at the surface, causing it to fall again beneath the water–complete with rather alarming rocking as the gas escapes from one side or the other.
(The Sinking Land was likely the reason that the “gas” idea occured to me with regards to this platform.)
Not just that, think of buoyancy. A cargo ship can get a deadweight of around 100,000 tons and it is massive. Basically, if it is wide enough, it could float. The density is only part of buoyancy.
Look at us, just being all scientific stuff.
But recall that a cargo ship will nevertheless contain a lot of matter rather less dense than water, meaning that its average density is lower than water. Indeed, having just gone back to Wikipedia to check my thoughts and refresh myself on the subject, bouyancy is, I believe, related to the average density of the submerged portion of the object in the water.
Intuitively, I’m not sure of whether flattening alone would enable flotation.
Thaumaturge and Falx, scientists extraordinare!
Heh, I like that! ^_^
To my mind, the drop into the ocean has the advantage of being quite stylistically pleasing–that’s not to say that teleportation can’t be (it can)–just that this does have its charm, for me at least. ^_^
On the downside, I imagine that those on the platform and a good portion of the treasure are now pretty soaked from the splash of that thing hitting the water.
Those last four panels are all rather pretty, the last two especially.
(I rather like that way that you represent stars, by the way: I feel that it works rather nicely with your art style, and looks very pretty besides.)
Yes, very pretty indeed.
Yay! I’m back up-to-date! And this continues to be an awesome comic =]
AND THEN THE KRAKEN EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT ATE THEM ALL THE END
LOL! That’ll learn those guys to let free giant octopi!
*Slow hollywood clap for Skärva*
Oh… wait, Now I love Lord Skarva!!!! So clever, I love him!!