Well, at least fear doesn’t stop Fiona…that’s a plus 🙂
Because this comic has scary stuff sometimes, and you can be sure that Bata Neart in 2020 will have plenty more of that 😉
With that post I’m afraid I must give the comic it’s usual break. However this time I must ask for a little extra patience and do a 2 week break instead of two. The holiday period made it hard to keep the page buffer intact, so I’ll need that time to get some extra pages ready.
Please call back on:
Friday 24th of January 2020
Where we’ll start to countdown the final 5 pages of this chapter.
Are you deaf? I told you this is not the bus you were looking for. Now, watch your toes. 😛
Good on you, Professor. Remember, courage is not being without fear. Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
And she can drive a manual transmission. <3 That's a bloody dying art here in the U. S.
@Azrael: When you said, “This is not the bus you’re looking for,” you forgot the Jedi handwave to banish plot holes and suspend disbelief. 😉
So is this a bit like telling Fiona that the Boogeyman is real?
@Azreal: Manual transmission is still the norm for most of Europe, Ireland included. If you want an unrestricted driver’s license in most European countries you must take your test in a Manual transmission car. (Taking it with an Automatic transmission car results in you being restricted to only cars with Automatic).
It’s only in recent years with the rise of Hybrid and Electric cars that you are starting to see Automatic cars becoming popular in Europe.
@Kessy: Alas for Fiona, she is interested and well versed in Irish folklore. Also alas for her…that folklore is choc full of monsters…..and now they might all be real….Fiona is having an awesome night so far ;D
Smart, cute, brave, and she can drive stick shift. Yea Fiona is definitely becoming my favorite side character. I’m not sure I would have the strength to do that after realizing I had witnessed these things sucking out someones soul… Especially after the only one of them who really knew how to fight them being taken down.
“It was nice dodging you, crazy-talking, crazy driver-lady. Please drive caref-, um, you know what? Never mind….”
I’d done some previous reading on Irish mythology, and came to the conclusion that they believed that: Everything that moved out there could kill or enslave you, everything that didn’t move was a trap that could kill or enslave you, and that anythng you couldn’t see was also out to kill or enslave you–it’s a wonder anyone ever left their house. 🙂
@Delta: They basically lived in the wilderness. Everything out there really could kill you. A moving bush could just be the wind, or it could be a predator looking to make you their lunch. A rock could just be a rock, or there could be a deadly snake sleeping under it. If you slip and fall, that could well be fatal. There’s a very good reason that ancient mythologies just in general tended to portray the natural world as at least potentially hostile and dangerous. Even today, people who go out into the wilderness on their own go missing on a fairly regular basis.
…And the next morning Fiona awoke to find that the soles of all her shoes had been chewed away. Because Fomorians eat soles…
(dives behind the sofa for cover)
@Kessy: You’d better hide!!
(Angrily waves half-eaten shoe in direction of sofa)
(Peeks out from behind the sofa.) Hey, at least they left you the uppers. They’re considerate sole-eaters, after all. A puppy would chew up the entire shoe!
Hmmm, what would it take to house break a Fomorian? Suddenly I’m imaging Aoife with a rolled up newspaper…
Or a squirt bottle filled with blessed water. 😛
Haha, a squirt bottle filled with blessed water, huh? Actually, there’s this other webcomic I read where one of the main characters uses exactly that as their weapon.
I think it was back in the now-cult classic movie “Lost Boys” that they used holy water in squirt guns against vampires in the min-80s. It has since been copied but for all I know the writers stole the idea from an older manga before manga became popular in the US.