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    So what Sparky effect makes rock brittle?
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    I had never noticed their tiny gloves
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    I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    So what Sparky effect makes rock brittle?
    The crumbling barrier between dimensions? Glass ceiling?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
    The crumbling barrier between dimensions? Glass ceiling?
    Castlebot was able to break off a piece of rock with one teeny-tiny hand. That, plus the text, makes me think the rocks are fragile. Aside from acids and the like, I don't know of many things that make rocks fragile, but it doesn't seem acidy.
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    Artistic exaggeration of neutron embrittlement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    Castlebot was able to break off a piece of rock with one teeny-tiny hand. That, plus the text, makes me think the rocks are fragile. Aside from acids and the like, I don't know of many things that make rocks fragile, but it doesn't seem acidy.
    Maybe its sandstone and the environment inside has changed with all the work done recently to make it turn fragile?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    So what Sparky effect makes rock brittle?
    Perhaps the Lamp. Leaking effect accelerating time around the rocks to the point they are crumbling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eee View Post
    Perhaps the Lamp. Leaking effect accelerating time around the rocks to the point they are crumbling.
    I like this theory. With time even rocks can age.
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    The Castle-bot refers to the stone as 'rotting,' and there are different colored veins all throughout. The ordinary reason for something like this to happen would be a high level of activity by chemosynthetic bacteria within the internal pores of the rock itself, which is quite natural. Any effect that effectively turned bacterial activity up to eleven - radiation, a flush of nutrients, etc. could cause widespread degradation of the overall structure of the rock layers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechalich View Post
    The Castle-bot refers to the stone as 'rotting,' and there are different colored veins all throughout. The ordinary reason for something like this to happen would be a high level of activity by chemosynthetic bacteria within the internal pores of the rock itself, which is quite natural. Any effect that effectively turned bacterial activity up to eleven - radiation, a flush of nutrients, etc. could cause widespread degradation of the overall structure of the rock layers.
    Interesting, and would a 7 or 8 level of bacterial activity over a long period of time (because of Prende's Lantern) have the same effect?


    Today's strip shows that Phil can once again draw, but perhaps Kaja can no longer write dialogue?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechalich View Post
    The Castle-bot refers to the stone as 'rotting,' and there are different colored veins all throughout. The ordinary reason for something like this to happen would be a high level of activity by chemosynthetic bacteria within the internal pores of the rock itself, which is quite natural. Any effect that effectively turned bacterial activity up to eleven - radiation, a flush of nutrients, etc. could cause widespread degradation of the overall structure of the rock layers.
    I dunno, rock isn't widely known for its internal pore system. Yes, it can happen in light igneous rock, or sedimentary rock with water-soluble components or a history of worm activity (have we seen any geologist Sparks yet?) But then they'd have to explain that in comic with real science instead of SCIENCE!! (Can rock that's not immersed in water even <i>get</i> a flush of nutrients? Irradiating bacteria isn't going to make them grow faster if there's nothing to eat, they'll just mutate faster.) Also, the Castle is made of all manner of things, and is filled with curios, but has never seen this before.

    New splash page: looks like many many stories of temples with crumbled floors. I'm betting on some kind of Source.

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    Sea monsters! Which look kind of like the fish people... I don't know why, something about the fins on their heads and the derpy eyes maybe. I wonder if they're trapped?
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    New comic

    Heaven is not, usually, the downwards located place.
    On the other hand those things often lie in the eye of the beholder eyeball-thingy.
    So from a certain point of view it might be heaven for those two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kantaki View Post
    New comic

    Heaven is not, usually, the downwards located place.
    On the other hand those things often lie in the eye of the beholder eyeball-thingy.
    So from a certain point of view it might be heaven for those two.
    Spacetime is curved, therefore if you go downward for sufficiently long, you will arrive at the top.
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    Those look like the guy from the giant whale creature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
    Those look like the guy from the giant whale creature.
    I was thinking the same thing.
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    It could be a pool of Dyne-like water, modified at the source by the Other and the British sparks, so that it has strong karstic effects that the Castle has never seen before. Those could be dyne-transformed Deepdwellers like the one in the whale. We know that the Songkeeper (aka the Cetacean Broadcaster) has gone insane because of cursed water. This could be an inlet leading to his position.
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    I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).

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    I realize it's wildly premature, but I'd like to nominate "Rhaaaaa? Rawr! Wargle!" as the next thread title.
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    Noted.

    I record thread nominations when they are made, no matter how early. After that, it's down to the voting at the other end of the thread.
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    I'm not certain that artistic similarity is sufficient to conclude these creatures are related to the deep dwellers. Also, I'm not sure the deep dwellers are related to the Great Cetaceans at all.

    OTOH, conservation of story suggests these creatures are tied to the main plot.

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    The "Queens need a Dyne-like power source" thesis gets a boost.
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    Well, looking back at the comics where they pinpointed this island to go look at, they did say this was the area in the center of the problem zone the Deep Dwellers and the Cetaceans were concerned about. They obviously had connections.

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    I think we'll be alright as long as there aren't any ducks in this pool.
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    The British conquered the world in search of spices and then decided to use none of them.

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    I keep hoping these two would be like Hope & Crosby, but they are so similar it's like 2 Crosby's with no singing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scarlet Knight View Post
    I keep hoping these two would be like Hope & Crosby, but they are so similar it's like 2 Crosby's with no singing.
    The Road to Mechanicsburg, eh? I would be surprised that you remember them, but then I look at your .signature, and conclude that you are either an immortal or a time traveler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scarlet Knight View Post
    I keep hoping these two would be like Hope & Crosby, but they are so similar it's like 2 Crosby's with no singing.
    So, there's no hope, then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
    So, there's no hope, then.
    Well played.

    Obviously, it's going to take some time for Trainby and Castleby to return to Agatha with news of a Dyne-like power supply. I wonder if we'll next see Agatha, or the men?
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    This bear was not going to touch the statue.... much
    Ponies not only make ME want to be a better person than I was before they entered my life, they make me want to HELP OTHERS be better people too.

    And that is a GOOD thing by any definition.

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    Bear was only comparing paw size to rod size.

    Four armed people is the big reveal. Lady Steelgarter has four arms. That, my friends, cannot be a coincidence, and we may discover that there's a widget that requires four arms to operate.

    It will take Agatha a day or two to build a belt-on clank to give her four arms.
    This ... is my signature finishing move!

    "It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady

    According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    Bear was only comparing paw size to rod size.

    Four armed people is the big reveal. Lady Steelgarter has four arms. That, my friends, cannot be a coincidence, and we may discover that there's a widget that requires four arms to operate.

    It will take Agatha a day or two to build a belt-on clank to give her four arms.
    And do not forget that Gil has a number of four armed people in his service. There seems to be a small but thriving race of them.

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    And do not forget that Gil has a number of four armed people in his service. There seems to be a small but thriving race of them.
    I remember Boris. Who are the others?
    This ... is my signature finishing move!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    It will take Agatha a day or two to build a belt-on clank to give her four arms.
    A DAY OR TWO? Maybe an HOUR or two! And that's only because she had to include laser finger guns and a deploy-able plasma cannon. Obviously.

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