I totally totally now want a suit like that. Totally.
Totally.
Erik Anderson
However, this _does_ make me wonder what price will need paying later — does the symbiont only need its host for transportation, or does it need to eat at some point? And _what_ does it eat?
russell styles
There will be some cost if it is a symbiote, but the cost should not be too high, or it would be a parasite.
Sardtok
Parasitism is also symbiosis. We’re just so used to talking about symbiosis as if it is necessarily mutualism, although any relationship between different species where one part benefits is symbiosis.
FlySwatter
Oh man, they weren’t even close!
Peter Ware
I was wondering when the symbiont was going to do something useful.
Kaidah
Looks like someone rolled nat 20’s on their “I flap my arms REALLY hard” check.
karenth
I don’t post here much, but…I just adore Spacetrawler, okay? 🙂
*Sinks cheerfully back into the shadows*
TB
Deus Ex Regalia?
Nomi
+1 for that
M.A.
I think I like the comments here nearly as much as I like the comic. Also, I want that jacket!
TTTT
Oh god I love them
Nomi
Yay, symbiont!
Coyoty
First Aitaina’s clothes saved them, then Tesfay’s… What’s Chiphu’s clothes going to do?
Night-Gaunt49
Not a RUM, more like a DEM as in dues ex machina here. So a god’s “hand” or noodle appendage perhaps, interfered and caused the wings to appear.
You can’t be that!
Pete Rogan
SYMBIONT SYMBI—**!!!** — I just inhaled a jujube!
Well, this just tosses the entire supposition of the symbiont needing transportation from its host. Obviously its purpose is larger, and now more mysterious. Ditto its capabilities. What ELSE can it manifest at great need? Or doesn’t it need great need? Will Tesfay even ask? And what do they plan to do with Joy-boy, now that they’re not dead from his prank? Something humane?
Monday can’t come too soon.
Sardtok
I just noticed something strange. Chiphu would not have made it. Unless he has impossibly strong hands. Aitana would be fine, because she is being lifted from underneath, but Chiphu has one arm around her back. Her super princess dress must have some crazy friction for his belief in physics to pull that off. Or perhaps the RUM entity is doing something we can’t see.
Pete Rogan
Chiphu has one hand around Aitana and the other, thankfully, grabbing the railing. He made it, all right. Not hard to do if he was moving in that direction to begin with. Still a close thing.
Not useless. I doubt if it has much speed or range, but it was enough here.
Random technology that some would call magick maybe?
Random biology that some would call magick maybe?
Any sufficiently advanced science is indishtinguable from magic…
Or spellcheck.
Don’t forget the reverse axiom,
“Any sufficiently researched magic is indistinguishable from technology”- Agatha Hetrodyne
And ‘Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.’
+1 for Girl Genius Reference 😉
+2 from me, too! (B-D
+ 3 from me!
I see bolded words and automatically think “acronym” – and agree with Chiphu that it was a RUM thing!
The symbiont in Tesfay’s coat?
Most plans require random unexpected magic to succeed.
http://cafehayek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/miracle_cartoon.jpg
I totally totally now want a suit like that. Totally.
Totally.
However, this _does_ make me wonder what price will need paying later — does the symbiont only need its host for transportation, or does it need to eat at some point? And _what_ does it eat?
There will be some cost if it is a symbiote, but the cost should not be too high, or it would be a parasite.
Parasitism is also symbiosis. We’re just so used to talking about symbiosis as if it is necessarily mutualism, although any relationship between different species where one part benefits is symbiosis.
Oh man, they weren’t even close!
I was wondering when the symbiont was going to do something useful.
Looks like someone rolled nat 20’s on their “I flap my arms REALLY hard” check.
I don’t post here much, but…I just adore Spacetrawler, okay? 🙂
*Sinks cheerfully back into the shadows*
Deus Ex Regalia?
+1 for that
I think I like the comments here nearly as much as I like the comic. Also, I want that jacket!
Oh god I love them
Yay, symbiont!
First Aitaina’s clothes saved them, then Tesfay’s… What’s Chiphu’s clothes going to do?
Not a RUM, more like a DEM as in dues ex machina here. So a god’s “hand” or noodle appendage perhaps, interfered and caused the wings to appear.
You can’t be that!
SYMBIONT SYMBI—**!!!** — I just inhaled a jujube!
Well, this just tosses the entire supposition of the symbiont needing transportation from its host. Obviously its purpose is larger, and now more mysterious. Ditto its capabilities. What ELSE can it manifest at great need? Or doesn’t it need great need? Will Tesfay even ask? And what do they plan to do with Joy-boy, now that they’re not dead from his prank? Something humane?
Monday can’t come too soon.
I just noticed something strange. Chiphu would not have made it. Unless he has impossibly strong hands. Aitana would be fine, because she is being lifted from underneath, but Chiphu has one arm around her back. Her super princess dress must have some crazy friction for his belief in physics to pull that off. Or perhaps the RUM entity is doing something we can’t see.
Chiphu has one hand around Aitana and the other, thankfully, grabbing the railing. He made it, all right. Not hard to do if he was moving in that direction to begin with. Still a close thing.
Wait, why did this update suddenly get so many more comments than usual?
It’s called “quarantine.”
Now we see why the symbiont that looks like a shirt pays back.
I want me one of them!!!