Just a reminder, Te Fahn and Tehk and Rahn have been on the surface longer than their current placement in Selkie’s school. They took some preliminary study of English and basic social etiquette to help with assimilation.
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Gien: You want us to move up on land? Impossible. We can’t survive on land long-term.
Selkie: Whaaaaat? I’ve been up there three years! And not just me.
My school has Tel’Dora and a Mor’Kama there.
Gien: The MOR’KAMA have a presence on the surface?!
Selkie: Yes, sir. But I don’t see any other Jin’Sorai yet.
Mister Gien? How do you feel about being the
last one to finish a race?
Gien: The only outcome I would consider worse...is realizing I didn’t even know I was losing.
Selkie: Yep, yep. Same.
Selkie: Whaaaaat? I’ve been up there three years! And not just me.
My school has Tel’Dora and a Mor’Kama there.
Gien: The MOR’KAMA have a presence on the surface?!
Selkie: Yes, sir. But I don’t see any other Jin’Sorai yet.
Mister Gien? How do you feel about being the
last one to finish a race?
Gien: The only outcome I would consider worse...is realizing I didn’t even know I was losing.
Selkie: Yep, yep. Same.
Competitive natures know their own.
ha ha ha
+1
That has to be a 19 or 20 on her Persuasion roll, which is impressive considering she has to be rolling with disadvantage.
(I’ve been on a D&D kick for a week or two now.)
And here we see Selkie displaying a perfect mastery of the aspect of being an Echo that does not involve glowing.
Lol this did not go how i expected, and it is delightful to see the little evil genius flip the script on Gien.
I have a feeling that Selkie read what he was trying to do right away.
This is for the better, actually. She wants to help, and he wants her to do the things she’s supposed to do. This way both of them get what they want, in a sense. Hopefully he’ll come around and be less… of a jerk about it.
Huh! This might be easier than I anticipated. Well done, Selkie!
Oh, well PLAYED, Sel!
Ditto!!
I sense that Selkie picked up on what her friends told her, about Jin’Sorai… And can see that Gien is “one of THOSE”… Like it was offensive to her at first, cuz, yeah that’s racist. But here’s THIS GUY. Doing THE THING. So she’s going to play his ego.
The school has 2 Mor’Kamas.
The school has a Mor’Kama child and a teacher that is Mor’Kama, but is only there for speech therapy, so not really part of the school staff. Selkie’s right to say there’s a Mor’Kama.
Or she was only counting students in her class. Obviously she knows Pohl and family as well, but didn’t count them in her count-off, and also not Benny who (presumably) goes/went to her school since Brown was at the PTA as a parent not an agent?
I don’t think Benny goes there cause he’s a teenager, and as Agent Brown said, his son is in middle school. Pohl and family, while not at the school because they are just babies, are also Tel’Dora, I think, I just know they’re not Jin’Sorai or Mor’Kama. I think she’s just counting people she’s in classes with, since Rahn isn’t in her normal class, just the speech therapy class. I am surprised more kids haven’t approached Selkie, but drama queen Jin’Sorai may be avoided, possibly.
Given the herds of Sarnothi that were kicked out of Sarnoth and turned up on the shores of Lake Superior, i would wager there are more Mor’Kama and probably even Jin’Sorai on land than Selkie knows about. In any case, Selkie found the button to push.
Aw, they’re bonding. 🙂
Gien might turn out to be a decent influence on Selkie after all, once he finally gets over his own ego.
You know what if we can give Andi a second chance I think we can give the “Just lost my entire meaning of life and frantically clinging to any semblance for normalcy I can” Guy a bit of slack. Just a bit. The same may you give your bigoted uncle some slack if he just doesn’t talk about his hang ups at the dinner table.
……oh. Oh. OH.
Selkie… You adorable, sneaky little sea witch, you. Ohhhh, well done.
Dang, I expected him to be indignant and say something about tradition, but looks like he has better priorities. Not great, but better. I love that he went to all that effort to get to talk to Selkie, and it’s her who’s winning him over!
No other Jin’Sorai … yet.
Selkie you clever clever little mad scientist!
I love this. Now, it’s a matter of Pride
And possibly a matter of racial extinction.
Phoenix Wright would be proud of that turnabout.
I like how Selkie appears to be leaning on the panel divider
Selkie’s interaction with the panels, plus her nonchalance about up-down-sideways, is really cool, yeah!
I was worried he would swindle Selkie… But it seems they really connect on a very deep level!
That and the fact that Selkie took him for a walk…
isnt it Te Fahn who’s been on the surface, not Te Vahn?
You’re correct, I mis-typed. Te Fahn is the surface kid.
And somewhere on the bottom of a lake – a star shines. Selkie is brilliant!
It’s both. Te Fahn is Pohl’s wife and they’ve lived on land for a while now. Te Vahn is the young Sarnothi girl that Selkie has befriended. She and her family have also been on land for a while now. All the Sarnothi kids attending Selkie’s school have been on land for some time.
Partially right. Pohl’s wife is Sai Fen. Te Fahn is the surface kid. Te Vahn is the eel farmer.
Ooh, my bad.
My bad. I replied to the wrong comment. I was trying to reply to Haley above and selected the wrong thing.
Wait, how does Gien not know Sarnothi can adapt to land life? Pohl’s family, Carrie and Benny, and Then have been up there for years. Where does he think Selkie has been all this time?
What’s funniest about this… is we have UNDERWATER construction equipment too. 😛
Hey Dave, I just wanted to let you know, I believe the random button is broken. Every time I click on it, it goes to comic 421.
For me it’s always comic 1097.
I’m seeing that too, my guess is that the random cache isn’t clearing on the new page. Will have to look into how to fix, thanks for the heads up.