Alone

[Maxgoof]

It never really hit me before now, but Quentyn is truly alone, now.

I'm truly afraid for him.

[Namrepus221]

That's true.

You'd expect Squidge to go with him as a way to do some stuff to help. But him staying behind kinda kills that idea (Have squidge "haunt" houses and have quintyn "save" the day from the "monster" while being in cahoots with him)

[Dapple]

Knowing how cheap life is in middle age society, I can realy appreteate how safe and stabble the Rac Cona Diehm have made there lands. Quentyn better keep his wits about him.

[Bigdude]

It could have been worse. He could have been approached by the sort of local military who say things like "wingleader, I have bogey in sight, heatseakers aren't getting a lock but radar guided is a go"...

[BrockthePaine]

That's true.

You'd expect Squidge to go with him as a way to do some stuff to help. But him staying behind kinda kills that idea (Have squidge "haunt" houses and have quintyn "save" the day from the "monster" while being in cahoots with him)

Have you ever seen Dragonheart?

[Madmoonie]

That's true.

You'd expect Squidge to go with him as a way to do some stuff to help. But him staying behind kinda kills that idea (Have squidge "haunt" houses and have quintyn "save" the day from the "monster" while being in cahoots with him)

Have you ever seen Dragonheart?

Yes. First Scottish dragon I have ever seen. Not to mention that it looks a great deal like Sean Connery. Yes, I do realize he did the voice.

[Timtitan]

Is that a knight I spy?



cool

[Zobeid]

Is that a knight I spy?

A knight girded for battle, in full plate armor? It sure makes a romantic image -- even iconic -- but you don't ride around in plate like that for recreation or routine travel. Makes me wonder what he's doing there.

That kind of armor in our world was a product of seemingly endless warfare in Europe, plus the Crusades. The so-called "knight in shining armor" was a brutally efficient killing machine -- as we saw when the last of them, the conquistadores, raped and massacred their way through the Americas. If this is the first thing Quentin sees of the outside world, it really doesn't bode well for the conditions of the world in general.

BTW, I noticed a technical flaw in the last couple of strips. . . Both of them show the luftship with a sail billowing in front. As any balloonist knows, a sail on a balloon won't function at all. The balloon is its own sail, it moves at the same speed and direction as the wind, so any additional sail you might add is merely dead weight.

I may have mentioned something of that before, but it still nags at me.

[BrockthePaine]

BTW, I noticed a technical flaw in the last couple of strips. . . Both of them show the luftship with a sail billowing in front. As any balloonist knows, a sail on a balloon won't function at all. The balloon is its own sail, it moves at the same speed and direction as the wind, so any additional sail you might add is merely dead weight.

Could perhaps be that part of the machinery aboard the QuestPro is some sort of lux-derived engine for channelling the wind into the sail. I figure with as many airships as the Racconna seem to have, they'd have eventually figured out a way to increase the speed of a balloon using the wind.

[Timtitan]

yep thats them, brutally efficient killing machines. But with all due respect the conquistadores are not good examples of knights. In that period there really were no knights left wether they held to the code of chivalry or not. The conquistadores were by and large just well armoured soldiers on horseback. Knights generally weren't very pleasant individuals, but by and large comparing them in any way to conquistadores is just silly. Different roles, and completly different outlooks.

[Namrepus221]

That's true.

You'd expect Squidge to go with him as a way to do some stuff to help. But him staying behind kinda kills that idea (Have squidge "haunt" houses and have quintyn "save" the day from the "monster" while being in cahoots with him)

Have you ever seen Dragonheart?

Not all the way through.

[Maxgoof]

I suspect the sail is more of a rudder than a sail, actually.

[Rokas]

BTW, I noticed a technical flaw in the last couple of strips. . . Both of them show the luftship with a sail billowing in front. As any balloonist knows, a sail on a balloon won't function at all. The balloon is its own sail, it moves at the same speed and direction as the wind, so any additional sail you might add is merely dead weight.

I may have mentioned something of that before, but it still nags at me.

Now, I may not be a balloonist, but I do have common sense, and doesn't it make sense that, the more surface area you add to a sail, the more wind it catches and therefore the more thrust it gains? I understand that there is a limit to that, as eventully the sails' mass gets too big for them to add any more propulsive effect, but on a little diridgible(sp?) like that, you'd think a small sail would at least help out with a little extra oomph.

Plus, Maxgoof makes a good point by suggesting it might be for steering, makes sense given its position and relative size.

[Kerry Skydancer]

We've been through this. An actual balloon has a huge surface area all by itself. It rapidly accelerates to the same speed as the air it's floating in, at which point any sails hang limp and the balloon moves with the wind.

Dirigibles have thrust, which is why they don't just float around like balloons.

Lux-ships have something equivalent to either a lux-keel or lux-powered thrusters, so they -can- use sails to steer.

[TMLutas]

We've been through this. An actual balloon has a huge surface area all by itself. It rapidly accelerates to the same speed as the air it's floating in, at which point any sails hang limp and the balloon moves with the wind.

Dirigibles have thrust, which is why they don't just float around like balloons.

Lux-ships have something equivalent to either a lux-keel or lux-powered thrusters, so they -can- use sails to steer.

But will the lux thrusters find enough lux to continue to work outside the mistwall?