Annotated 6-21
I’ll cop to the fact that Scarlett’s shift from Gigundus-speak back to soliloquy here is a bit “convenient” in terms of explaining everything for the reader.
I think it was important, however, to establish that there was once a real Gigundus, that he was not merely Scarlett’s puppet from the start, and to display the weird mix of deception and delusion at her core. Like, she knows that she’s been animating an empty suit of armor, and yet, in some warped way and on some level, she also thinks she’s brought him back. “I needed him.”
Man, Scarlett turned out to be more flammable than HESTIA.
♫ This girl is on fire ♪
The joke here is that Hestia is named after the Greek goddess of the fireplace.
♪♫ She turned in to a burning ring of fire ♫♪
Ah yes, the start of a Peacemaker’s tradition.
To be fair, it’s a fairly common gamer tradition as well. If in doubt, set it on fire. ;-)
“Yeah, whenever I had a problem, I’d just make a molotov cocktail, and then I’d have an entirely different problem!”
Just as long as our heroes don’t do like this YouTube clip and set the whole mountain on fire OH WAIT THEY DID DO THAT TOO!
When and how did Scarlett get doused in something that combustible? I’m not spotting it during the fight…
She’s just got really, really dry skin.
I’m guessing she got a little backsplash from throwing either all over Frigg during the ambush. If Google is to be believed, and in this case I trust it, then it is: “a pleasant-smelling, colorless, volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is used as an anesthetic and as a solvent or intermediate in industrial processes.”
Excuse me, that should’ve been “ether”.
I guess that’s reasonable, although ether is less “highly inflammable” and more “downright explosive”
Must have been poor quality.
The “highly volatile” means that it won’t stick around long, though. Volatile means evaporative.
Yeah and to be fair at this point it’s been like at least 12 hours. On the other hand, the monastery is probably nice and dank so depending on distance traveled before arrival, and the moisture levels at night when they grabbed Frigg, evaporation might be a tad slowed.
That would also mean Frigg is covered in the stuff, though, so a torch probably would’ve caught her, too…
Didn’t you read the alt text? They used burnsauce.
Don’t sell yourself short, Bandit, you’re at least up to his lower ribs.
OK, this won the day for me.
“Good luck with that.” And yet, it will be Frigg who ends up doing it.