[6.24] Don’t forget it
on June 1, 2020
at 12:29 am
Don’t worry, we know Kiro’s quite durable.
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6.26 Transcript
Kiro: Wait, don’t leave me! At least give me a clue.
Kechika: There is one way the curse can be broken. If you make it through the winter without killing each other.
Kiro: That’s it?
Kechika: What an arrogant thing to say.
Kechika: Sure, you have food now. There are fuel and supplies at the camp. But how long will it last? Do not underestimate the difficulty of surviving a northern winter.
Kiro: I keep forgetting that you’re the one who started this curse.
Kechika: Yes, and don’t you forget it.
Looks like Kiro’s (now Daisy’s) book on edible plants is going to get quite the workout.
Wait, why 26? Where did 24 and 25 go?
Sorry. I mistyped haha
Kechika’s face in the 5th panel!
“Do not underestimate the difficulty of surviving a northern winter.” Indeed, even for those of us living in a milder climate, how many of us could survive without the support of modern civilization? . . .
In winter? I think they need a book on edible snow. They’re going to run out of seals to turn into jerky eventually, if they haven’t already…
And now I realize that guy with bloodshot eyes earlier was foreshadowing.
I would have expected the one way to end the curse to be every last Dubois descendant to be dead.
Which raises the question: How dead? Brain dead? Or does the heartbeat stopping count? Or the breathing? Or does the body need to decompose entirely?
Either way, there are loopholes.
But if surviving a winter is enough, it is just a matter of preparation.
Except, of course, the curse causes everyone to kill each other when a Dubois of the current generation enters the area. Compelling a Dubois of every generation to wind up in that area seems to be much trickier than compelling people to kill each other though.
And it seems tautological that a way to break the curse is to not be affected by it.
Or if they decided not to have kids. But people just got to have kids I guess.
Yep, Kechika’s basically saying the only way to beat the curse… is to beat the curse. Wonder how long it’ll take Kiro to realize she’s been had!
What I’m most interested in right now is, how is Kiro going to approach this information? Obviously she’s telling Daisy and A, but what next?
What’s more likely – going to the camp and telling everyone, or not doing that? One option leaves the camp unprepared (-> deaths), the other leaves people panicking (-> possible deaths).
Another thing to consider is evidence needed to make people believe a “we’re all gonna die!” message, but thankfully Kiro can just point to the ship (tis a long walk but doable?).
Anyway, I’m hyped to see these events unroll!
Last time a few from the camp tried to go for a walk all but Reina gave up before it got long, IIRC. Sure, that was uphill, but I think Kiro and Daisy and A are the only ones that are actually capable of a long walk. Maybe Reina.
I guess winter is coming
No parachute!!!
Spirit seems like a jerk.
Oh well, time to stock up food and train conflict resolution!
At least it’s regretting it. Should’ve cast a temporarily localized curse just to kill the entire crew, including the captain.
Well, thanks to going overboard we have a story with nifty characters and old industrial scenes. 🙂
And Alaskan nature!
I dunno why, but I love that expression in the fifth panel. Possibly because it’s the first expression other than neutrality or sternness we’ve gotten from her…