Logic wrote:
Slamlander wrote:
Logic wrote:
Third: I've been trying to figure it out without much success, but how much time in the comic has passed?
Only a few months. It's not even been a year. Actually, it had better not have been a year or Meji's already failed her final.
Well, she had three months to complete her final project, and it'd be a slight plot hole if it was never mentioned after all this time. I get the feeling it's been around a month, maybe two. But I'd like to know for sure.
Let see... Meji leaves Tsuiraku, meets Jon in Saus probably the next day; the two then walk to Emerylon (another day or two) and meet Ian; the three then flee Emerylon back to Saus on foot (another day or two); explosions ensue and they escape by slowboat to Farrell (another few days perhaps); Sarine joins the party and spends a day talking; I seem to recall at least two nights (one of them quite vividly) during the quest for the Big Magic Potato Thingy; Ian shows up again later that night after meeting the Pedo-fairies; the next day he and Meji are flying around and left for Santauriel (which I doubt took more than a day), and now it's been, what, two days in Santauriel?
So it's been about two weeks so far, unless I'm overlooking something. Man, this story moves almost as slow as MegaTokyo... no offense meant to either Poe or Piro. It's just surprising when you look back on something you've been following for over four years and realize that only two weeks of story time has elapsed.
It's also interesting to note that Ian only beat Meji to the magic potato because Meji was stuck on a slow-ass boat with Jon all the way from Veracia to Farrell, while Ian hopped a warp gate to Tsuiraku and then straight to Farrell; and also that Ian only beat them by a day, maybe two at most. Likewise, Sarine spent a day in Praeternublis Atsu and it probably took her a day at least to track down Jon again, even negating all travel time thanks to warp gates; and it must have taken Jon a day or two to get from that dinky town in south Farrell to his sniper's nest in Veracia, so the Sara-Jon-Sarine-Warrel showdown may actually be happening *right now* parallel to these events in Santauriel. Likewise, the Elven army may not have even left Praeternublis Atsu yet. The other thing that strikes me is that it must have taken Chris a few days at least to find the Ensigerum, so it's no wonder he's still a nobody there, getting his ass kicked... he's only been around a bit over a week.