How did JS arrive so quickly?

[Ron Miel]

It took the Mechane three days to travel from Cliffport to Azure City, and they are on the same continent. How come it was able to cross an ocean and a desert in less than one day?

[Hecuba]

The fuel concerns that limit afterburner use are less important when you can use plot-onium as fuel.

[MikelaC1]

Because you didnt know where he started from? He probably didnt stay in Azure after dropping off Elan the first time.

[Shale]

Who says he wasn't already in the area? He's obviously raided the Western Continent at least a few times before.

[Kish]

He used an airship.

[ChristianSt]

Someone spotted an airship in 775 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0775.html) (the speculation was that this ship might be the Mechane in disguise , but I don't think so).
It is certainly possible that there are other airships around, and since there isn't any reason for Julio to be near Azure City Gobbotopia or Cliffport, why can't he be on the Western Continent?

[RMS Oceanic]

As a Dashing Swordsman, Julio can make his vehicles travel at the speed of plot.

[TLhikan]

Julio needed to arrive at the most dramatic moment. Everyone knows thats when the cavalry is supposed to get there.

[Copperdragon]

An Airship Transportation Portal between continents is the obvious answer. Then afterburners.

[Klear]

He used an airship.

This made me laugh, and, eventually, choke.

[Souhiro]

As a Dashing Swordsman, Julio can make his vehicles travel at the speed of plot.

And most important: He's The Goddamn Julio Scoundrel!. He didn't get to the Empire of Blood: The empire of blood and the desert went to him.

That man doesn't live a life of adventures, HE is adventure incarnate. The pauper of the Surf, the Jester of Tortuga, and...
ew.. sorry, wrong song, and wrong guy :p

[Klear]

And most important: He's The Goddamn Julio Scoundrel!. He didn't get to the Empire of Blood: The empire of blood and the desert went to him.

Maybe he let O'Chul blow at the Mechane...

[Cizak]

He has ten levels of Dashing Swordsman. He probably has some class ability that lets him arrive at the right place at the right time.

[Shatteredtower]

As a Dashing Swordsman, Julio can make his vehicles travel at the speed of plot.
Only to be expected of a character with the initials J.S. His middle name is probably Miguel.

[Heksefatter]

Only to be expected of a character with the initials J.S. His middle name is probably Miguel.

As a person whose initials are J. S. I can vouch for the correctness of this observation. We are just that awesome.

[The Pilgrim]

His dramatic instincts had probably led him to the continent from long ago, just waiting for Elan's call to enter the Stage.

[King of Nowhere]

he's been flying around for the last two days and could have intervened any time, but the chivalry has to arrive at exactly the last moment, he was waiting for when everything seemed lost before swooping in.

[Ron Miel]

Who says he wasn't already in the area? He's obviously raided the Western Continent at least a few times before.

Awfully big coincidence, though.

[Gnome Alone]

He used an airship.

Seconded. Motion carried.

[Celisasu]

Awfully big coincidence, though.

He is like Elan. The power of drama is in his bones. So coincidence makes perfect sense for him.

[ThePhantasm]

Awfully big coincidence, though.

:elan: "Really? Wow, what were the chances?"

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6719/scoundrel.png "Pretty good, considering we wouldn't be having this scene if it didn't forward the plot in some way."

:elan: "Oh, right."

[389 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0389.html)]

[Ghost Nappa]

He is like Elan. The power of drama is in his bones. So coincidence makes perfect sense for him.

"As masters of the Force rules of drama, you and I both know that there are no coincidences." -Darth Traya (Kreia)

[hagnat]

The fuel concerns that limit afterburner use are less important when you can use plot-onium as fuel.


As a Dashing Swordsman, Julio can make his vehicles travel at the speed of plot.

being a dashing swordsman makes you an agent of chaos, also entitled to also use the infinite Improbability Drive, which is just a fancier name for the same thing

[BroomGuys]

I gotta confess, there's only one dude I associate with the initials J.S. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8bKN9P9wY)

[Bulldog Psion]

I'm going to throw out an epileptic tree here, and speculate that the Mechane came through the Rift. :smallbiggrin:

[Amphiox]

Perhaps even before Elan contacted him, Julio's Dashing Swordsman special sense/instinct for plot drama led him to take his airship towards the Western Continent, so he was already in the vicinity when he got Elan's Sending.

[Cavenskull]

It took the Mechane three days to travel from Cliffport to Azure City, and they are on the same continent. How come it was able to cross an ocean and a desert in less than one day?
Because the Mechane was traveling at slow speed to give Elan enough time for his training montage (and the real training that came after that first 20 minutes). It normally moves much faster.

[Ramien]

Because the Mechane never actually moves. It's always exactly where the plot requires it to be, and the rest of the world adjusts accordingly.

[Ewig Custos]

The answer is here:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6719/scoundrel.png "The scene calls out to you, asking you to arrive in the nick of time. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html)"

He taught Elan how to use this trick, I'm pretty sure he is more tahn proficient in it himself. 930 only proves it.

Added: That means he was heading there even before the sending. The scene called him.

[Enkai]

The Mechane travels in real time rather than webcomic time.

It's been over 90 strips (a year and nine months) since the call was made, which, even accounting for the time-shattering epic battle between Glass and the Digit Knight, might lead the audience to wonder why he got here so slowly.