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3394 Hanging In The Sky In Much The Same Way That Bricks Dont

on October 21, 2020
Chapter: Conclusions
Characters: Captain Darcy, Turg
Location: Azure Osprey, Ch'Thier's Celestial Tomb, Elegrost Fields, Island of the Forever Dragon

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Discussion (59) ¬

  1. t!
    October 21, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    I suppose that when you’re going to pilot an airship, learning to fall is the first thing they teach you.

    The Temple looks much the worse for wear, alas.

    t!

    • t!
      October 21, 2020, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Also – bricks are heavy.

      t!

    • mucat
      October 21, 2020, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      The Temple is a mess, but I’d judge it a mess-with-hope-of-survival.

      And now we have a new answer to the age-old tourist’s question, "Why did [Ancient Civilization] build so many ruins?"

      "They didn’t. They built temples, but then they dropped them from a great height."

    • Fnordius
      October 21, 2020, 4:07 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, it seems the good captain aimed well, using the first tree as a trampoline, leaving the sails up to brake forward momentum and parachute some, and then using the second grove as a cushion. The keel may now be broken, the hull breached by branches, but a small price to pay for getting down in one piece.

      As for the temple, I would imagine that the mana-clouds didn’t just go from "we can hold up a temple!" to "guess what, we’re just water vapour droplets!" at once, and as they are dissipating they provided some cushioning as well. It could also explain why the towers tilt as their foundation is no more, instead of collapsing into bricks, or glass shards, or whatever the darn thing is made of.

      • Timberwere
        October 21, 2020, 4:15 am | # | Reply

        It also seems to me that the actual fall might not even have been that high, but that the temple landed on that mountaintop and slid down the rest of the way, making the impact at least somewhat more survivable.

        • t!
          October 21, 2020, 8:38 am | # | Reply

          That’s a good point!

          And it’s reassuring to remember the occupants were not in the towers.

          t!

          • NotRichard
            October 21, 2020, 12:39 pm | #

            The towers might actually have been a safer location, considering *they* at least look reasonably intact, if toppled

          • Rancourt
            October 21, 2020, 9:31 pm | #

            > And it’s reassuring to remember the occupants were not in the towers.

            Seconded emphatically. Hoping for a few bruises, at worst, among the until-a-moment-ago survivors!

      • THAT bard
        October 21, 2020, 9:42 am | # | Reply

        I was also thinking, that the clouds went all the way with the rest of the temple together indicates that it still has some magical properties. As such, we don’t know how quickly the temple fall. It might have obeyed proper physics law, but it also could have descended in an uncomfortable, yet surviveble speed. Like descending with a roller-coaster…

    • Aaron
      October 21, 2020, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      It’s a templary situation. 😛

  2. p!enapple
    October 21, 2020, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    the last panel… turg’s amazement, captain darcy’s wild-eyed, bruised, clothes a-shamble look, and the juxtaposition with his calm, matter-of-fact statement. made a stressful day sooo much better for the laugh!!

    and love the title: very bulwer-lytton-esque! https://www.bulwer-lytton.com

    • Jax
      October 21, 2020, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      Or referencing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, where the same basic phrase is used.

      • Rich Morris
        October 21, 2020, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        Not just the same basic phrase, it’s a direct quote. 🙂

        • t!
          October 21, 2020, 8:44 am | # | Reply

          And so far, the ground *has* been friendly.

          t!

        • Eric
          October 21, 2020, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

          Shocking that more didn’t know the quote!
          Kids these days….

          • Eric
            October 21, 2020, 5:07 pm | #

            And yes, I know some did, but maybe only a half dozen.

          • Rancourt
            October 21, 2020, 5:51 pm | #

            Perhaps a few hoopy froods who know where their towels are just smiled quietly.

          • Eolhin
            October 23, 2020, 2:30 am | #

            Don’t assume ages, or knowledge. As Rancourt suspected, I, and I suspect quite a few others, got the reference, but as it had already been commented on, did not feel the need to comment further on it. *has been called a Hooloovoo, and admitted it*

    • David Nuttall
      October 21, 2020, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      During an aircraft emergency, it is essential that the pilots remain calm and think through the problem and their options, so that damage to passengers and aircraft is minimized.

      Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing where the aircraft can be flown again without extensive repairs is a great landing. Hmm, I guess that means that none of the space shuttles’ landings could be considered great, because they needed extensive repairs and refurbishment after each landing.

      • HKMaly
        October 21, 2020, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

        Of course space shuttles’ landings were not great, what do you expect from flying bricks? But we don’t have technology to make truly reusable vehicle capable of both landing on wings and aerodynamic braking. In fact, I suspect we don’t have technology to make truly reusable vehicle capable of aerodynamic braking period, or at least we didn’t had any when space shuttles were designed.

        • NotRichard
          October 22, 2020, 1:40 am | # | Reply

          Always figured the majority of the damage came from the re-entry (what with the super-heating), not the landing, good to know the real facts

    • p!enapple
      October 21, 2020, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

      dammit i _knew_ it sounded like i should recognize it. not that adams didn’t have a bent for writing that could be entered in the b-l contest, that i thoroughly enjoyed, but there’s no excuse 🙁 i knew i was overdue to reread the trilogy, so here’s my kick in the ass to do so. After i rewatch the movies lol

  3. jeffepp
    October 21, 2020, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    That life, the universe, and everything.

  4. Mark N
    October 21, 2020, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Great use of Hitchhikers Guide there.

  5. Fnordius
    October 21, 2020, 3:57 am | # | Reply

    Well, for all of the gods that have gone, at leat the most important one, the one they call Richmorris, has shown mercy. Physics may be merciless and unforgiving, but every now and then Luck and Grace get a vote in the quantum way things manage to fall just right.

    Of course there will be casualties, that landing won’t be kind to Eddy’s old bones, and Lewie will be discovering that having flesh again means being able to feel bruises, and even a seemingly barren mountain may have some goats that got crushed, but all in all it seems everyone did pretty good in stopping the goddess of cruelty.

    Go (ouch!) team! (medic!)

  6. Snowqueen
    October 21, 2020, 5:19 am | # | Reply

    Ten thousand points for the reference, Rich, plus several hundreds more for the captain’s hoopy piloting skills.

  7. bububub2
    October 21, 2020, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of why Scrooge hired Launchpad in ducktales. Sure he crashes all the time- but everyone always *always* walks away from his crashes.

  8. T-Chall
    October 21, 2020, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    Bravo, Captain Darcy!

  9. Opus the Poet
    October 21, 2020, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    I understood that reference dot gif

  10. MDF
    October 21, 2020, 9:25 am | # | Reply

    Captain Darcy = The Sully Sullenberger of YAFGC.

    Also appreciate the Hitchhiker references.

    • David Nuttall
      October 21, 2020, 9:39 am | # | Reply

      I thought the aircraft fell due to the loss of magic, not ingestion of geese in the engines. Sullenberger’s landing was a lot smoother and did not bounce.

      • mucat
        October 21, 2020, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

        Little-known fact: ingesting geese causes planes to crash not because they clog the jets’ air intake, but because geese radiate strong anti-magic fields. You don’t think 80,000 kg of metal and fuel stay in the air by PHYSICS, do you?

        • Rich Morris
          October 21, 2020, 11:01 pm | # | Reply

          Hahah… actually my Dad was an aeronautics engineer. I remember him telling us about a 747 engine that came into the workshop one day that had sucked up a Canada Goose. They couldn’t salvage much of it apparently. He told us it was …. messy.

          • t!
            October 22, 2020, 8:03 am | #

            Is it true that the biggest problem engines have with geese is less their actual bodies, but rather those occasions when the bodies contain buckshot?

            t!

          • Rich Morris
            October 23, 2020, 12:01 pm | #

            That’s a good question. I don’t know. I never thought to ask!

          • mucat
            October 23, 2020, 12:53 am | #

            > They couldn’t salvage much of it apparently.

            Much of the engine, or much of the goose?

          • Rich Morris
            October 23, 2020, 12:01 pm | #

            Couldn’t even scrape together a post-Christmas leftovers snack. 🙂

          • Fnordius
            October 23, 2020, 11:44 am | #

            Ah, yes, throwing a bag of meat and bone into a system of rotating blades whose axle is balanced within a flaming controlled explosion will…
            …make the explosion less controlled. And the spinning metal bits can be quite destructive to the other high-speed moving metal bits.

          • Rich Morris
            October 23, 2020, 12:02 pm | #

            And goopy, too!

          • T-Chall
            October 23, 2020, 12:54 pm | #

            Worst pate de foie gras, ever!

  11. Archangel
    October 21, 2020, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    Doubly impressive considering that the airship can’t autorotate or anything.

  12. Eolhin
    October 21, 2020, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    Skidding down a mountain makes a handy breaking system… of sorts. Hopefully those remaining clouds were ‘programed’ to preferentially cushion living things in case of a fall. So now the surviving mages, some no doubt injured, are stranded on an island, and without magic, communications and travel for them will be a LOT harder then it used to be. Hopefully some of that fleet of ships that had come for the conflict can be dispatched as a rescue group to get the mages.

    That was a fantastic job by Darcy, particularly given likely waking up already in the beginnings of the fall!

  13. BigTuk
    October 21, 2020, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    Gravity is cruel, but also patient mistress. She knows that stairs are an inevitability.

    Elsewhere I suspect Lewie is starting to remember all the benefits that came with being a Lich.

    • Elfguy
      October 21, 2020, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, Being a Lich right now would be bad. A Lich is heavily reliant on strong Mana. A Lich in a no mana zone is a pile of bones.

  14. Fang FanGirl
    October 21, 2020, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who heard a bowling ball and pins crashing when looking at panels 2,3 & 4?

    • mucat
      October 21, 2020, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

      Well, damn. Now I always *will* hear that every time I see this strip…

      • Fang FanGirl
        October 21, 2020, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

        My work here is done
        *hands you some cookies in apology

        • Rancourt
          October 22, 2020, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

          Thank you, Fang FanGirl. This is some heavy subject matter, and I dearly needed the laugh you just shared with me.

          • t!
            October 22, 2020, 2:25 pm | #

            I must be misreading.

            I know, in the context of this strip above all others, you never would have used the word ‘heavy.’

            t!

          • Rancourt
            October 22, 2020, 4:36 pm | #

            *headdesk*

            It seems I do indeed roll a 1 sometimes. Profound apologies, t!

          • Fang FanGirl
            October 22, 2020, 4:51 pm | #

            You’re welcome! Cookie?

          • t!
            October 22, 2020, 6:08 pm | #

            > Profound apologies, t!

            Rejected.

            Deliberate formal tone of my reply notwithstanding, I had a decent chuckle.

            I only accept apologies what are owed.

            t!

  15. Jonathan in Mississippi
    October 21, 2020, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

    Along with the law of gravity, there seems to be another, lesser known law that unconscious people tend to raise a leg in the air.

    • Rich Morris
      October 21, 2020, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

      Hehehe… it’s a fun way of showing a chaotic pile of bodies and also an excuse t draw legs and feet, if one were needed. Feet are funny.

      • NotRichard
        October 22, 2020, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        Just hope it isn’t the Captain’s leg!

      • Fnordius
        October 23, 2020, 11:40 am | # | Reply

        I put it there with "burning wheel rolling away from the wrecked vehicle". Not including it would break several natural laws.

  16. Lord Venenum
    October 21, 2020, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

    1: Love the HHGTTG reference
    2: assume crash positions!

  17. Nikary Flare
    October 21, 2020, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

    I think Captain Darcy is my new favorite character now.

  18. Leorin
    October 22, 2020, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

    *insert witticisms about air suspension systems/air-cushioned insoles here*

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