Double Date - 69 - HD
Added 2024-09-07 03:00:06 +0000 UTCKitty rescue!
"After much deliberation, we've decided to congratulate the person who actually did something while we were ineffectually discussing what to do. Good work, team!"
Commentary
I had different ideas for Catalina rescue (and also Catalina peril), and I'll elaborate on the different rescues in a later comic commentary.
As for the potential perils, some weren't even Catalina in peril. For example, one option was accidentally throwing a bowling ball high enough, and/or in a bad enough place, that property damage was the danger.
Another was the old favorite of accidentally throwing the ball backward, putting the people behind Catalina in danger.
Catalina herself was also in potential danger for something worse than what happened, but I'm not sure it would've been physically possible? Sure, that won't stop me if magic's involved, or it would be funny enough, or if it's a Tuesday, but it was a Thursday comic when she fell, and this would have been purely physical.
Basically, she would have slipped AND thrown the ball in the air in a way that it would be hurtling towards her face.
HUGE yikes, but I'm not sure how she'd have actually managed that, and the solution would've forced Rhoda to prioritize the ball, not Catalina, which I find less interesting (also the problem with pretty much every scenario concerned with the ball hitting something).
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Comments
I once had a ceiling tile at a bowling alley fall on my head after a dripping pipe made the tile heavy enough.
Dan Curtis
2024-09-09 17:52:53 +0000 UTCFor what it's worth, it's my understanding that if one throws the ball hard enough that it reaches the back of the pin collector before it otherwise lands, you have a good chance of causing property damage. Make of that what you will. At this point in time, I am uncertain of whether I observed such a thing, or just someone throwing their ball hard enough it made management concerned about the possibility of such a thing. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even playing in the game.
Some Ed
2024-09-09 06:11:56 +0000 UTCI don't think Rhoda is growing more hair, more lengthening/enlarging what's there. She's lengthened her own arm before, at the start of Goonmanji 2.
M.
2024-09-07 14:18:23 +0000 UTCIncreasing Catalina's hair whilst reducing her size is genius on Rhoda's part. Not only does it reduce her mass, but also provides a cushion for her head
A Red Mage Named Blue
2024-09-07 11:25:29 +0000 UTCIt's irrelevant who cast magic (obviously Rhoda, for several reasons) but the real question is... Who spotted them doing it? 🤔
AstroChaos
2024-09-07 10:46:21 +0000 UTCNow that the Royal Aura has been mentioned (I had completely forgotten that plot point), I can mentally remove it to see that, yes, that does seem to be Rhoda. ^_^ Which brings us to the next question: does growing more hair to cushion Kat's skull count as a new spell for Rhoda?
Foradain
2024-09-07 06:04:43 +0000 UTCOh! Nicely spotted on the aura, I was too distracted by the other sparklies.
David Fenger
2024-09-07 05:58:56 +0000 UTCMy guess is that Rhoda did that deliberately to provide Catalina a cushion to land on.
David Fenger
2024-09-07 05:58:14 +0000 UTCI was really expecting Catalina to reflexively use her transformation spell to land on her feet(/hands)
Jared Fattmann
2024-09-07 04:18:48 +0000 UTCSo ... the jacket is not affected, and Cat's hair is actually growing -- you can see it below her knees. I guess the hair is forming a cushion under Catalina? But that's not size magic unless it is very very thick. Also, nice Royal Aura, Queen Rhoda!
Windscion
2024-09-07 03:46:36 +0000 UTCMaybe Rhoda doesn't consider a person's hair to be part of them?
John Chidester
2024-09-07 03:38:05 +0000 UTCI'm REALLY curious why Catalina's shirt, shorts, and shoes all shrank but not her HAIR! I feel like it's been pretty well established that magic considers a person's hair part of them and not a separate object.
John Chidester
2024-09-07 03:37:18 +0000 UTCRoyal aura confirmed, and the first time we've seen visual effects for Rhoda's spells. Presumably about what Jay or Ashley or Edward would see, rather than Tedd or Arthur.
Sleep
2024-09-07 03:36:03 +0000 UTCRherorical? If not, obviously Rhoda shrank her to reduce the fall damage.
Daryl Sawyer
2024-09-07 03:16:32 +0000 UTCOkay, who cast that spell? ^_^
Foradain
2024-09-07 03:02:08 +0000 UTC
