9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
At first it puzzled me that he went ‘hell yes’ at a chrono being off, but then I realized that the point was that it was off by the exact predicted interval, meaning that whatever the hell is distorting things, it at least distorts them /consistently/. And as long as it’s consistent, you can work with or around it.
I just realized. This goes all the way back to when Professor Clarence Gage told Jessica Tindal that sunrise was one second early, the last two days (#14, 2004-07-12). Whatever the Mist is, or is a side-effect of, seems to be affecting the whole world. But it looks like the time-distortion effect is more severe in some areas, like here.
Ian didn’t spend eleven minutes doing his jump. HERE is eleven minutes different from THERE.
The Mist is supposed to tear apart machines made of metal – I assume that they’re at the edge of the Mist proper. I wonder if the time distortion is what has torn the machines apart (like gravity tides).
Ian didn’t spend eleven minutes doing his jump. HERE is eleven minutes different from THERE.
Correct. They are right on the outer most periphery of it right now.