Anon wasn’t very clear – magic in Ra actually behaves a lot like a branch of physics, it isn’t just studied like one.
I see… I think the interesting question about settings like that is this:
What makes it magic, rather than actually another branch of physics like electromagnetism?
As best I remember, I had to get tetanus vaccinations to go to school. Tetanus is caused by bacteria in the ground when they enter an open wound. The wikipedia article is slightly horrifying. (But not as bad as the rabies one.)
Ahh, makes sense. We’ve got an event that a) creates open wounds and b) knocks people to the ground, so there’d be a high risk of that kind of infection in this scenario. Not to mention any bacteria that may have been on the glass in the first place.
“See you Sunday for more 12.6!” Umm, you sure about that? Might want to scroll down a little bit more.
Ahaha, yeah, that was a really silly moment. 😛
In my defense, the spoiler protection script I use to hide character tags and potentially spoilery comments – thanks again to sharedvi for that – had for some reason not activated on that page (after an update reboot of my computer, it’s working again). The additional page length from the unhidden comments made the scroll bar look like I wasn’t even halfway through the chapter, so I didn’t think I needed to check whether or not I was getting close to the end.
Can we know more about the hardass teacher who started a wrestling club? That sounds like an interesting story
She was a strict old grump who wouldn’t accept less than perfect work in her Arts & Crafts classes. Far from my favorite teacher, especially considering I was not really good at it myself. It was no fun being shit at knitting/stitching/etc. and then having her aggressive disappointment over my shoulder instead of, y’know, actual support.
And at some point we learned that long before I became her student, in 1981, she was involved in starting the local wrestling club, taking the position of the club’s first leader. It made sense, honestly, she had the personality for it.
Sorry, might not be as interesting as you were hoping. But hey, now her legacy has been preserved in the form of a Worm headcanon – I’m sure she… wouldn’t appreciate that at all.
A ward is what they should have used to prevent the demons they summoned from destroying the city, it makes total sense
Pfft, good point!
Given that Krixwell loves Bonesaw has anyone shared the “recycle, reduce, reuse” art by respicepostte? It’s pretty great.
Yep! That was a really fun piece. 😛
Not sure about Hawaii, Iceland or New Orleans, but apparently Oslo was Leviathan’s first ever target.
Ouch. I guess Bergen or Trondheim is the capital of Norway now, because I highly doubt the heroes were able to save the city the first time he attacked.
Then again, maybe the remaining people of Oslo were able to rebuild enough to make the place habitable again? This would’ve been, what, 20-30 years ago, probably, so they’d have both time and money to do it by the story’s present day, as long as they could get it properly organized.
It’s not like we haven’t rebuilt cities before, though far smaller ones, probably less damaged than Leviathan would leave Oslo, and during a time where the political environment was far more stable and in favor of the government helping out than it was in the 1990′s and early 2000′s.
One thing that’s interesting regarding Leviathan attacking Oslo is its location. Brockton Bay seems to be straightforwardly located on a simple, accessible coast. Newfoundland and Kyushu were surrounded by the sea. Oslo is also located on the coast, but it’s situated like this:
Oslo City proper is larger than the immediate watery area off its coast. But Leviathan has an insane range – the area in this map is, as far as I can tell, far smaller than Kyushu, and Leviathan was able to hammer at that island from all sides.
So Leviathan would have limited immediately close resources for attacking Oslo, and a bottleneck to go through for an approach/escape by water, but he’d also be in a position to attack a whole bunch of cities from in between them.
Incidentally, out of the five million people in Norway, around two million live immediately around this waterway. By attacking this place, Leviathan would make a very significant dent into the Norwegian population.
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Whoo! 😀
…wait, what are we celebrating? Skitter’s victory?
Could ‘going west’ have anything to do with being exiled? I’m vaguely aware that a number of infamous vikings were kicked out to Iceland.
Huh, that’s an interesting hypothesis.
Uh. Funny thing, in french “être à l’Ouest ” (translated: to be in the West) means not being all there, either distracted or a little bit crazy.
Huh, neat. I wonder if that brings us back to the sea again? Or maybe it’s more about old stereotypes about western France, or something.
The connection between Leviathan and the Fukushima disaster has been commented on before; here’s how Wildbow responded.
This is an interesting response. I didn’t realize Wildbow would have this perspective on the idea of tying in with real world disasters, but it’s a perspective I can appreciate and respect. 🙂
This also seems like confirmation that the other Endbringers are even deadlier than Levvy, but that’s something I was pretty much taking for granted.
(I’m a bit intrigued by the redacted bits, but I’ll refrain from speculating too much on what might be behind there.)
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