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Okay, but sick, fever-flushed Sigrun is hot as fuck.

And hilarious, because can you be any more casual than that? Oh, that happens all the time, of course it does. Pff something tells me 99% percent of the time the people you lose contact with really are dead or worse.

One possible argument could be that she has some experience in leading souls, and that there's a church that looks a bit similar to Reynir's dream vision near the place where ghosties originally began following the team. Nothing more would point toward it though, I think...

It's gotta be Scandinavian style, else Tuuri would have known the procedure. She works at a military base. If Finns did the same as the Scands she would know that the base sends help if it promises to, even if contact to the team on the field is lost.

I would even suggest it's mostly a Norwegian/Swedish way of handling this sort of situation, just going by how the different nations deal with trouble in general. Icelanders don't have much to worry about, they don't exactly get into the Silent World. The Danes were so unprepared for what waited for them, that I'm thinking they didn't do much borking around in the Silent World previously, but just got their tanks out and thought that was enough.

Norwegians and Swedes are the people who go get their hands dirty deliberately, and unlike Finns they might have only radio for contacting the base; the base can therefore never be 100% certain that a lost contact means a lost team, so they have to play it safe.

Edited (Gaaah I can't English today...) 2017-05-20 21:29 (UTC)

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=725

... the comic will be on a -ONE WEEK BREAK- STARTING NOW! The reason? Well, I need to draw a whole bunch of pages to put aside. There's a scene coming up later this chapter that I've been pondering back and forth how to present, and have come to the conclusion that posting the pages for it all in one fell swoop is the way to go (posting page-by-page would make the scene read really poorly.)

So don't despair, you'll get the amount of pages skipped this week (and then some) posted in one big chunk some time from now. All in all it's 9 pages that need to be to draw for that update, and my optimistic goal is to finish 6 of them during this break (already got sketches done for that amount). And then slowly knock off the remaining three during any free time over the next few weeks.

WELL, this is interesting.

I find that even in regular contexts, the comic reads best when it's read all at once, rather than page-a-day. So whatever is coming up must be... basically the regular dialed up to 11. I'm really curious about what's going to happen.

But there's nothing to do but sit and wait. :V

Whatever it is must be dramatic, probably...

Okay, we're one day in and I'm already in withdrawl.

How are we gonna survive the whole week? ಥ﹏ಥ

... not? I should be working on an exchange assignment, and all my vaguely creative vibes want me to figure out what's gonna happen. And ofc the 9-page-update is not what Tuesday will pick up with, it's still some while down the road.

~~Although I'd sure be in favour of Emil getting whumped some. Uhh. Mmm.~~
This thing got speculated on in the comments, and... well. I'd not say no. >>

Edited 2017-05-25 06:21 (UTC)

I found an interesting tidbit lately saying that the Icelanders don't exactly have much field experience on land - their military consists of seafaring hunters. In that case, losing contact in the field probably means that ship got sunk by a whale, not much point going to pick up surivors especially since that's the North Atlantic we're talking about, probably not much point considering water temperatures.

And the Danes - don't have much of a military left to speak of after their continued defeats, so it strikes me as unlikely that Sigrun even knows about whatever shape their protocol takes, unless Mikkel divulged some information. It'd be interesting to see her and Mikkel clash over this, if she were less sick - perhaps Taru and Trond instead, over Finnish vs. Norwegian tactics? And Taru says early on that she worked with Swedes in the cleansing of the Pori area, so she ought to be familiar with their way of conducting operations.

Aaaah, I want soooo much backstory fic for Sigrun out of this, though. It could slot quite nicely with the ambush that she mentioned, losing contact and hanging on until help comes. While at least two people die.

Bonus visual parallels, look at her posture and expression!

Icelanders also have what Finns have, a more or less reliable way of contacting the base - mages ind reaming. Finns are only capable of it within certain distance limits, Icelanders cover a larger space. So indeed, if that connection is lost it means the mage is out of the game and most likely the team is done for. Also true that about North Atlantic being kinda deadly for falling in. There's a damn good reason why, if there's a man over board situation, every singe ship that's nearby turns immediately towards the location. Even with a proper floating suit on a person lasts a few hours most.

YES PLEASE to the background story!!!

Mmm, true. Though I suppose it may depend on the Luonto a Finnish mage has? They can't walk on water the way Reynir and other Icelanders can, but Onni had no problem showing up in Reynir's Haven in owl form, so mages with bird Luontos might be able to alert people more easily. That said... either Onni needs to wake up, stat, to let them know they're walking (Taru and Trond should believe him, at least, even if Torbjörn and Siv won't?) or Reynir needs to go looking for a fellow Icelandic mage hopefully aboard the ship that he might alert to them still being alive.

Backstory, backstory, backstory! I have no doubt it'll be covered eventually, but... nowplease. D:D

They can't walk on water the way Reynir and other Icelanders can, but Onni had no problem showing up in Reynir's Haven in owl form, so mages with bird Luontos might be able to alert people more easily

Or maybe it's not related to the soul's form, but has more to do with how experienced the mage is?

Or maybe both. Hard to say when we have so few examples.

We know that Lalli tried to contact Onni in the dreaming. Onni's physical location was too far away by then, so he was unsuccessful, but Lalli definitely knew what he was doing so it can't be a one time only -thing. I'm therefore guessing this is how mages contact the base while they're on field - they aren't too far away as long as they stay somewhat within the same area of Finland.

Luonto might indeed have effect on this though, in which case the above example shows that you only need one mage with a bird shaped luonto to contact another one in the dreamworld magechat. Maybe Finns make sure the base always has some mage/s with bird luonto, so they can rely on having someone who can contact the team on the field.

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=726

The big chunk update won't be posted now. The pages are for a bit later, a good few weeks or so from now. But that's soon!

WELL at least that's cleared up.

...It looks like they might have trouble finding things in good condition, with the ceiling caved in like that.

Edited 2017-05-30 03:02 (UTC)

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=727

Lalli will just keep following Emil around listlessly.

Aaaaaaaand I'll be over here fretting about team morale being at an all-time low.

(Hee. "Bonk.")

Aw, grumpy kitty doesn't want to be aloneeeeeeee.

BONK

Use your words, Lalli. Geez. ;p

Bonk is a word!

WELLLL okay, I guess technically....

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=728

~~~

I love that top panel. ;3; It's so pretty.

...Lalli, that stuff isn't on the list, put it back. :V

- June 1 through June 14 - Nomination Period
- June 17 through June 28 - Signups open
- July 1 - Assignments will be sent out by this date
- August 19 - Assignments are due
- August 25 - Final Pinch Hits Due
- August 26 - Works are revealed
- September 2 - Creators are revealed

Anything below 200 works over 1000 words in English on AO3.

http://rarepairfest.livejournal.com/

Relevant nominations so far:

SSSS:

Agneta/Sigrun Eide/Siv Västerström
Árni Ragnarsson/Sigríður Jónsdóttir
Ensi Hotakainen/Original Icelandic Mage
Ensi Hotakainen/Original Sami Mage Character
Kaino Hotakainen/Helmi
Mikkel Madsen/Hildur Árnadóttir
Mikkel Madsen/Sigrun Eide
Ragnar Árnason/Hildur Bjarnadóttir
Sigrun Eide/"No-Arms"
Sigrun Eide/Tuuri Hotakainen/"No-Arms"
Sigrun Larsen/Ingrid Pedersen
Siv Västerström/Helga Västerström
Tuuri Hotakainen/Original Female Character
Agneta/Sigrun Eide
Aino Hotakainen/Saku Hotakainen
Ensi Hotakainen/Ukko-Pekka
Michael Madsen/Signe Sørensen
Reynir Árnason/Lalli Hotakainen
Reynir Árnason/Onni Hotakainen
Sigrun Eide/Siv Västerström
Tuuri Hotakainen/Sigrun Eide

aRTD:

Hannu Viitanen/Samuli Tiira
Jonna Kuikka/Paju Kinnunen
Jonna Kuikka/Riikka Skärsholm/Paju Kinnunen
Riikka Skärsholm/Paju Kinnunen
Jonna Kuikka/Hannu Viitanen
Jonna Kuikka/Riikka Skärsholm
Joona Kuikka/Hannu Viitanen

Crossovers:

Ensi Hotakainen (Stand Still Stay Silent)/Oona Kuikka (A Redtail's Dream)
Ieva Pajari (Year in Hereafter/Sigrun Eide (Stand Still Stay Silent)
Ieva Pajari (Year in Hereafter/Sigrun Eide (Stand Still Stay Silent)/Tauriel (The Hobbit)
Keith/Shiro (Voltron)/Reynir Árnason/Lalli Hotakainen (Stand Still Stay Silent)
Lance (Voltron)/Joona Kuikka (A Redtail's Dream)
Veeti Harmonsuo/Jaakko Ilmarinen (Year in Hereafter)/Reynir Árnason/Lalli Hotakainen (SSSS)

Edited 2017-06-03 08:06 (UTC)

And because I femslashed out my nominations already, if anybody has slots left, could you drop in:

Agneta/Siv Västerström
Agneta/Female co-worker
Agneta/Female co-worker/Sigrun Eide
Pastor A./Original Female Medic Character

I have more, but they're veering into crackship territory. Not that these aren't already, but. *facepillow*

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