Yes, Then still exists.
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Gien: K'Limdai. A word?
Scar: Aah! Gien!
Scar: Gien, I am promising of you, I was not bothering him. He was wishing to spekaing with me and--
Gien: Scar, calm down. I'm not here to berate you over the myriad terrible decisions you've chosen to call a life.
Gien: I simply wanted to tell you that I am going to be making some changes to the housing development plans.
It has been brought to my attention that our needs may be better served by expanding Havei Jin Suir to the surface surrounding this lake.
I will be working the details out with Then when he returns from his offices, but I wanted to ask for your support.
Scar: Aah! Gien!
Scar: Gien, I am promising of you, I was not bothering him. He was wishing to spekaing with me and--
Gien: Scar, calm down. I'm not here to berate you over the myriad terrible decisions you've chosen to call a life.
Gien: I simply wanted to tell you that I am going to be making some changes to the housing development plans.
It has been brought to my attention that our needs may be better served by expanding Havei Jin Suir to the surface surrounding this lake.
I will be working the details out with Then when he returns from his offices, but I wanted to ask for your support.
Agent Adverb, on duty.
Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here…
Yea!! That School House Rocks song is the song that I always hear in my head when Then makes an appearance 🙂
Oh… This manipulative little creep…
Well, with Scar basically being at least half of the construction crew, it makes sense to let him know that changes are afoot.
He’s not asking Scar for his opinion, or asking for his support; just letting him know that there are other plans he’s considering, or implementing.
Get a couple of construction crews to put onshore housing in the area and the emergency is resolved. You’d be amazed what the Army Corps of Engineers can pull off if authorized.
“I wanted to ask for your support” that’s kind of exactly what he’s doing?
Well, is this a bad thing or a good thing?
Selkie got through to him, and he doesn’t seem to have any ulterior motive… but I don’t know.
He’s not suggesting this is Selkie’s idea; he’s going to take the credit if it works.
If it doesn’t work, it’s probably “we should be more insular and support Mayor Gien, because humans aren’t actually helpful”…
One hopes that Selkie’s magiick has transformed him.
It occurs to me that (assuming Sarnothi are freshwater animals, which very much seems to be the case but I don’t think has been clearly established yet), then their entire would would consist essentially of five very large lakes and *maybe* some much, much smaller lakes in the region durning summer.
They clearly have, at any time in the past severa centuries, stayed off the land, or humans would have noticed them. They can’t live in streams or smal lakes in the region year-round, since they freeze.
So their entire world would be very much like living in the UK (similar area and also an island), if the British Isles were not near anything else. It’s big, obviously more than enough space to start a perfectly good nation (see: England), but since they don’t appear to have wide-reaching explorers and/or contact with populations in other large bodies of freshwater, and don’t seem have sattelites or advanced remote sensing technology, it seems like their understandig of the rest of the planet would be extremely limited apart from what they’d learned through direct interaction with the US government.
It has been established that they’re fresh-water humanoids. As far as extra living space in freshwater bodies goes, most bodies of water, while freezing over, are deep enough to have liquid water underneath year-round. Now, I can’t speak for the U.S., but I can name more than a few Canadian lakes that are large enough to support a good-sized Sarnothi polulation. That’s one thing this comic has not touched on – the refugees that wound up on the other side of the 49th parallel.
Is there any chance that Gien could be her father? I’ve got a lot going on, so I don’t remember, please be kind.
I don’t think so, no.
It’s just possible that Plo Quar complained about her ex to him over a bottle of wine…but I think we all hope that this is not actually the case.
Is Gien speaking English or Tensei?
English, apparently, since Tensei is usually denoted by speech being enclosed by . Probably just a typo, though, as I don’t know why two Sarnothi would speak to each other in English.
Edit: Forgot about message formatting. That should be “enclosed by Chevron Brackets”
I always thought Gien was going to end up as some sort of villain and then he ends up being kind of a reasonable character, so good job with that Dave. You surprised me.
“Yes, Then still exists.”
Yes, but when will Then be Now?
Soon.
Soon!
Soon(TM) – as every gamer knows. 😉
Oooh, that’s going to maybe cause conflict with the humans. Don’t go up there.