Sense Of Balance 2013-03-07

[Fairportfan]

Oh, good.

Another minor thing to worry about.

[Atomic]

Graybeard called it!

Welcome to Tumbledown Manor! Come this way and watch your footing, please.

[sonicthunder]

So they're on a ledge over a large pit with open access to the sky, and Atsali can not only fly but has shown she can easily carry Katherine in enclosed spaces.

Who wants to wager this never occurs as an option to Atsali, and she just continues to follow Kat's lead? She strikes me as the type to overlook something like that.

[zachariah]

Graybeard called it!

Welcome to Tumbledown Manor! Come this way and watch your footing, please.

That he did. Of course I blame Paul for poor structural design in the first place. This thing was built like a house of cards. At least we know they will be going up not down to find the other dolls.

[TheDOCTOR]

WHO wants to bet Katherine pushes Atsali between herself and the wall and Katherine "sticks" to the wall like Spiderman?

[zachariah]

WHO wants to bet Katherine pushes Atsali between herself and the wall and Katherine "sticks" to the wall like Spiderman?

Sadly you're probably right about that. Kath should just run to the wall and let Atsali take the hit this time.

[DilyV]

Graybeard called it!

Welcome to Tumbledown Manor! Come this way and watch your footing, please.

Actually..... I called it first....

I called it!!! The entry way further into somewhere is in the hourglass.

They are at the lower end of the spider and it exactly looks like the one on the vase. Didn't expect the whole place to collapse that way though. MIB eyes in the sky can see this easily. Expect visitors soon,

Okay, I have to admit, based on the artwork in the previous strips, I never saw this particular situation coming... some of the panels clearly showed the rockfall had buried them in the alcove

after

things stopped falling. I find it odd there is absolutely none of the rubble on the ledge left hanging from the side of the crater wall. Aren't mesas formed from volcanic structures that flatten out due to wind action and time? If so... I hope Kath doesn't have the same luck as Monica and Jin...

Oh, and Kath? that ledge can't be too stable... I wouldn't dally there for very much longer...

Damn I'm good... LOL

[Atomic]

I stand corrected, that is, as long as this wobbly ledge remains underfoot. After that, who knows...

[Dave]

Damn I'm good... LOL

So... did you find that coming up with those correct predictions was as easy as falling off a log (or a ledge)?

[Wyvern]

So they're on a ledge over a large pit with open access to the sky, and Atsali can not only fly but has shown she can easily carry Katherine in enclosed spaces. Who wants to wager this never occurs as an option to Atsali, and she just continues to follow Kat's lead? She strikes me as the type to overlook something like that.

Atsali has that thing going where adults marvel that she hasn't gotten herself killed in her own bedroom yet. (Many teenagers fall into this at least occasionally; most eventually grow out of it.) Sooner or later Katherine will point out to Atsali that she can fly - this is even TV Tropes' specific example of contrived stupidity among the superpowered set, some of whom only remember they can fly once hurled into mid-air.

[illiad]

Wyvern: yep, these teens !!


Low..... attention..... 'hey, bunnies!!!'

[KnightDelight]

Atsali has that thing going where adults marvel that she hasn't gotten herself killed in her own bedroom yet. (Many teenagers fall into this at least occasionally; most eventually grow out of it.) Sooner or later Katherine will point out to Atsali that she can fly - this is even TV Tropes' specific example of contrived stupidity among the superpowered set, some of whom only remember they can fly once hurled into mid-air.

Which is what may happen next in this situation.

This will probably get me ostracized, but ... what is it with this childish preoccupation/ego trip with who said what first? I cringe when I see "called it." Or when someone feels compelled to quote something they said earlier just to show they mentioned it first. Not that this thread is by any means the first time it's occurred so I'm not picking on anyone in particular. It's an ongoing battle of oneupmanship. If someone else points out that someone said something first, fine. Just that this self horn blowing seems so petty to me.

And yes, it did occur to me that even pointing this out may be perceived as being petty as well, but I needed to get it off my chest.

[Atomic]

Well, nanny nanny poo poo to you! Phbbbbbffttttt!! So there! Nyah!

....


Oh hell... Atsali's ditzyness is catching....

Never mind.

[DilyV]

Damn I'm good... LOL

So... did you find that coming up with those correct predictions was as easy as falling off a log (or a ledge)?

I didn't have to fall far... it just made sense. Usually societies who worship something dangerous look to them as protectors and is usually reflected in their art.

[Dave]

I didn't have to fall far... it just made sense. Usually societies who worship something dangerous look to them as protectors and is usually reflected in their art.

Good point... and I wonder whether the role and portrayal of handguns in America, and the occasionally hysterical tone of the present debates over gun control, are an example of this sort of worship-phenomenon?

[analyst]

The "Perils of Pauline" are nothing compared to the "Katastrophes of Katherine". Tosses in a slightly dented 2nd place spelling bee trophy from the 5th grade.

[bmonk]

This will probably get me ostracized, but ... what is it with this childish preoccupation/ego trip with who said what first? I cringe when I see "called it." Or when someone feels compelled to quote something they said earlier just to show they mentioned it first. Not that this thread is by any means the first time it's occurred so I'm not picking on anyone in particular. It's an ongoing battle of oneupmanship. If someone else points out that someone said something first, fine. Just that this self horn blowing seems so petty to me.

And yes, it did occur to me that even pointing this out may be perceived as being petty as well, but I needed to get it off my chest.

Nah, I doubt it will get you ostracized, unless you point it out in a nasty way.
I suspect that the temptation to crow about getting it right is because Paul has such a fiendishly twisty mind that people rarely can anticipate the next turn of the tail before it happens. And so, on those rare occasions it does, we like to point it out.

[kingklash]

There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a hole, there's a hole,
There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.

There's a spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a hole, there's a hole,
There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.

There's a ledge under the spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a ledge under the spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a hole, there's a hole,
There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.

There are girls on the ledge under the spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There are girls on the ledge under the spider on the side of the hole in the bottom of the mine.
There's a hole, there's a hole,
There's a hole in the bottom of the mine.

[MerchManDan]

This will probably get me ostracized, but ... what is it with this childish preoccupation/ego trip with who said what first? I cringe when I see "called it." Or when someone feels compelled to quote something they said earlier just to show they mentioned it first. Not that this thread is by any means the first time it's occurred so I'm not picking on anyone in particular. It's an ongoing battle of oneupmanship. If someone else points out that someone said something first, fine. Just that this self horn blowing seems so petty to me.

And yes, it did occur to me that even pointing this out may be perceived as being petty as well, but I needed to get it off my chest.

Nah, I doubt it will get you ostracized, unless you point it out in a nasty way.
I suspect that the temptation to crow about getting it right is because Paul has such a fiendishly twisty mind that people rarely can anticipate the next turn of the tail before it happens. And so, on those rare occasions it does, we like to point it out.

Precisely this. Paul is quite adept at placing hairpin turns in his narrative; there have been so many times when something completely unexpected has happened, that any guess that's been proven correct is celebrated.

[DilyV]

This will probably get me ostracized, but ... what is it with this childish preoccupation/ego trip with who said what first? I cringe when I see "called it." Or when someone feels compelled to quote something they said earlier just to show they mentioned it first. Not that this thread is by any means the first time it's occurred so I'm not picking on anyone in particular. It's an ongoing battle of oneupmanship. If someone else points out that someone said something first, fine. Just that this self horn blowing seems so petty to me.

And yes, it did occur to me that even pointing this out may be perceived as being petty as well, but I needed to get it off my chest.

Nah, I doubt it will get you ostracized, unless you point it out in a nasty way.
I suspect that the temptation to crow about getting it right is because Paul has such a fiendishly twisty mind that people rarely can anticipate the next turn of the tail before it happens. And so, on those rare occasions it does, we like to point it out.

Precisely this. Paul is quite adept at placing hairpin turns in his narrative; there have been so many times when something completely unexpected has happened, that any guess that's been proven correct is celebrated.

*celebrates* YAY! hehe

Actually, think about it... Look at what happened to my thoughts on this comedy of errors that Kath is living right now... I'd said that with the amount of rubble that collapsed on top of them they should be dead, without the suspension of belief. The rubble should have piled up and spread into any nook and cranny, crushing the life out of both Kath and Atsali. Physics and fluid dynamics are pretty hard to get around... unless of course you completely drop the whole kit and caboodle down a crater the size of new joisey... NO ONE saw that one coming and I had to admit I was surprised and didn't see it coming... but the weakened ledge was common sense seeing as how the rest of it was ripped away and dropped into the abyss... Climb Kath... Climb fast.