Throwing candles?

BBlalock · Post by **BBlalock** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:58 am

It seems that the candle would go out.

I'll have to test that. If you don't hear from me in a while you'll know that candles don't go out when you throw them.

Rich-online · Post by **Rich-online** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:46 am

OTOH, Millfolk might be using candles with magnesium dust in the wicks -- the same as with the trick birthday candles. Of course, with the relative scarcity of metals, that would get pretty expensive.

-- Rich

Mad Mike · Post by **Mad Mike** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:29 pm

I would think that there are any number of ways to specially treat a candle to keep it from going out easily. The reason it isn't done very often is that there's nothing worse than dropping a candle that won't go out on a carpet or something else that can catch fire. In this case, however, Lady Millfolk may be using special candles to keep them from being blown out by her moving around.

Just a thought, anyway.

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:06 pm

JUst a thought, but the candles we use in modern times are mostly for decoration. Those used when they were an important source of light might have had larger wicks, different construction, or some other difference that'd keep them lit under windy conditions. Still, I'm just calling the candle-throwing thing an example of artistic license.
I just hope it works, or we'll have to go read some other online comic while Ralph mops up the remains of his Questor. Or whatever the "rats" leave of him.

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:40 pm

Eww, no. Mr. Ralph can't kill off Quentyn.

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:55 pm

UncleMonty wrote:JUst a thought, but the candles we use in modern times are mostly for decoration. Those used when they were an important source of light might have had larger wicks, different construction, or some other difference that'd keep them lit under windy conditions. Still, I'm just calling the candle-throwing thing an example of artistic license.
I just hope it works, or we'll have to go read some other online comic while Ralph mops up the remains of his Questor. Or whatever the "rats" leave of him.

Don't worry Unca Monty, RH is pretty good at flaming.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:48 pm

Yuoofox wrote:Eww, no. Mr. Ralph can't kill off Quentyn.

SPOLIER ALERT

He will die, but then he will get much better. This is a comic after all.

Greatbeast · Post by **Greatbeast** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:42 pm

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
Yuoofox wrote:Eww, no. Mr. Ralph can't kill off Quentyn.
SPOLIER ALERT

He will die, but then he will get much better. This is a comic after all.

No no no.....

Killing then getting better in a comic is the most irritating and overused thing there is.

Death should be something final, except in the most absolutely rare cases.

I mean, at least here, there is no reason to have a big "splash cover" of a death of a character every couple months to sell an extra copy or two off the shelves, unlike paper comics.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:06 am

Oh, I don't know. Maybe death can find a loop hole in the system

Got to love that montypithon though:
"I'm not quite dead yet sir.... I'm getting better... I feal fine, I think I'll come with you... alright then.. I'll just, err, sit here then"

Rich-online · Post by **Rich-online** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:06 pm

Quentyn's story is a flashback! Read http://npc.keenspace.com/d/20030330.html

Mad Mike · Post by **Mad Mike** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:23 pm

rich-online wrote:Quentyn's story is a flashback! Read http://npc.keenspace.com/d/20030330.html

Well, he IS narrating the story himself...kinda hard to do narration at the same time as the action you're narrating.

At the same time, I wouldn't use the term "flashback" to describe the story. He is simply relating his adventures from a future perspective - a flashback only occurs if a story shifts from a current point to a point in the past and then shifts back to the current time.

Bigdude · Post by **Bigdude** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:51 pm

The poor kit doesn't need a candle.

He needs the NAACP.

Sure. Because obviously, he's facing a horde of wight supremacists!

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:25 pm

bigdude wrote:The poor kit doesn't need a candle.

He needs the NAACP.

Sure. Because obviously, he's facing a horde of wight supremacists!

Might be. Certainly the Chinese wouldn't be any help. As we all know, two Wongs don't make a wight...

(Skydancer hides behind the Big Dude and pretends he didn't just say that...)

Bigdude · Post by **Bigdude** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:38 pm

Instead of killin' 'em, they should capture them and repossess the lux these things ate.

You'd then have wight power!

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OK, seriously now: who else here, on seeing that panel, got this mental replay of Elton John singing "Candle In The Wind"?

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I can think of something else that might work against these suckers.

Visine.

"Gets the red out!"

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Or just stick 'em in an oven, they're ready for baking...Momma already added levin.

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Right now the artisan master is hanging onto that thing that in turn is holding the sword. In so doing, he becomes RH's first gay character.

He's in drag.

BBlalock · Post by **BBlalock** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:22 am

They go out and paraffin is hard to get out of carpets.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:44 am

They need kathrin, she's always got some weapon of mass insineration hidden on her person ^^;

Greatbeast · Post by **Greatbeast** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:26 am

bigdude wrote:Instead of killin' 'em, they should capture them and repossess the lux these things ate.

You'd then have wight power!

----------------

OK, seriously now: who else here, on seeing that panel, got this mental replay of Elton John singing "Candle In The Wind"?

----------------

I can think of something else that might work against these suckers.

Visine.

"Gets the red out!"

----------------

Or just stick 'em in an oven, they're ready for baking...Momma already added levin.

----------------

Right now the artisan master is hanging onto that thing that in turn is holding the sword. In so doing, he becomes RH's first gay character.

He's in drag.

Its ALL Pun and Games til someone loses an Aye !

Mad Mike · Post by **Mad Mike** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:40 pm

I dunno about an eye, but I think I just lost my lunch...

I guess the pun is mightier than the sword.

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:18 pm

Hmmm..

Lux is power.
Power is might.
And Might makes wight! Yes, It all makes sense now!

Wights are fed by lux!

OK, let's try...
Lux is power.
Power is a charge.
Quentyn charges to battle wights.

So that's how they got.... wait for it...

The Bill of Wights!

See? SEE?? It all FITS TOGETHER!!!

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:32 am

*whimper* Oh the puns, The Puns!

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