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Double Date - 69 - HD
🕑 Added 2024-09-07 03:00:06 +0000 UTCKitty rescue!
"After much deliberation, we've decided to congratulate the person who actually did something while we were ineffectually discussing what to do. Good work, team!"
Commentary
I had different ideas for Catalina rescue (and also Catalina peril), and I'll elaborate on the different rescues in a later comic commentary.
As for the potential perils, some weren't even Catalina in peril. For example, one option was accidentally throwing a bowling ball high enough, and/or in a bad enough place, that property damage was the danger.
Another was the old favorite of accidentally throwing the ball backward, putting the people behind Catalina in danger.
Catalina herself was also in potential danger for something worse than what happened, but I'm not sure it would've been physically possible? Sure, that won't stop me if magic's involved, or it would be funny enough, or if it's a Tuesday, but it was a Thursday comic when she fell, and this would have been purely physical.
Basically, she would have slipped AND thrown the ball in the air in a way that it would be hurtling towards her face.
HUGE yikes, but I'm not sure how she'd have actually managed that, and the solution would've forced Rhoda to prioritize the ball, not Catalina, which I find less interesting (also the problem with pretty much every scenario concerned with the ball hitting something).
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Comments
Dan Curtis
I once had a ceiling tile at a bowling alley fall on my head after a dripping pipe made the tile heavy enough.
Some Ed
For what it's worth, it's my understanding that if one throws the ball hard enough that it reaches the back of the pin collector before it otherwise lands, you have a good chance of causing property damage. Make of that what you will. At this point in time, I am uncertain of whether I observed such a thing, or just someone throwing their ball hard enough it made management concerned about the possibility of such a thing. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even playing in the game.
M.
I don't think Rhoda is growing more hair, more lengthening/enlarging what's there. She's lengthened her own arm before, at the start of Goonmanji 2.
A Red Mage Named Blue
Increasing Catalina's hair whilst reducing her size is genius on Rhoda's part. Not only does it reduce her mass, but also provides a cushion for her head
AstroChaos
It's irrelevant who cast magic (obviously Rhoda, for several reasons) but the real question is... Who spotted them doing it? 🤔
Foradain
Now that the Royal Aura has been mentioned (I had completely forgotten that plot point), I can mentally remove it to see that, yes, that does seem to be Rhoda. ^_^ Which brings us to the next question: does growing more hair to cushion Kat's skull count as a new spell for Rhoda?
David Fenger
Oh! Nicely spotted on the aura, I was too distracted by the other sparklies.
David Fenger
My guess is that Rhoda did that deliberately to provide Catalina a cushion to land on.
Jared Fattmann
I was really expecting Catalina to reflexively use her transformation spell to land on her feet(/hands)
Windscion
So ... the jacket is not affected, and Cat's hair is actually growing -- you can see it below her knees. I guess the hair is forming a cushion under Catalina? But that's not size magic unless it is very very thick. Also, nice Royal Aura, Queen Rhoda!
John Chidester
Maybe Rhoda doesn't consider a person's hair to be part of them?
John Chidester
I'm REALLY curious why Catalina's shirt, shorts, and shoes all shrank but not her HAIR! I feel like it's been pretty well established that magic considers a person's hair part of them and not a separate object.
Sleep
Royal aura confirmed, and the first time we've seen visual effects for Rhoda's spells. Presumably about what Jay or Ashley or Edward would see, rather than Tedd or Arthur.
Daryl Sawyer
Rherorical? If not, obviously Rhoda shrank her to reduce the fall damage.
Foradain
Okay, who cast that spell? ^_^
