Annotated 8-24
Happy… Valentine’s Day?
Man, Phil and John are just killing it here. This is all about the visual storytelling, and any play-by-play I could give would be superfluous.
After Byron fought past the berserker spell once in Chapter 7, it’s reasonable for Syr’Nj to hope, however desperately, that he might do so again. At this point, it would be reasonable for the reader to expect Syr’Nj dying at Byron’s hand, and the still-established pattern that chapters ended at page 24 might’ve reinforced that expectation.
Instead, as the page ends, everyone is down or dead but the healer. Because of the healer’s usual role, that does mean there’s the slight hint of hope. Maybe Syr’Nj gave Byron not only sleeping potion, but Potion of Seeming Death, like in Romeo and Juliet? If she doses herself with the same before the archers start firing, maybe she could survive. And maybe one of her serums is even a Potion of Death-Reversing–
Tomorrow: No.
I’m surprised that stuff got into his system considering that spear thrust made his heart a casserole. Then again, that should have ALSO meant his ‘berzerking’ wouldn’t have amounted to more than drooling face-first in the dirt.
Going back and looking at it… seems a little low for the heart. Might’ve just taken out his stomach, maybe?
But as they say, that IS the way to a man’s heart!
Potion of Death-Reversing?
Yeah, no. That’s not healing, that’s necromancy.
Entirely different skill tree.
Necromancy is just healing you do if your to late
EKG paddles DO fit the frankenstein precedent…
That is brilliant, and I am stealing it for future use. Thank you!
He’s in her arms…just notthe way she envisioned.
*not the