Skjie wrote:
Wark wrote:
Actually, I think Impy said that around 400 pages, meaning the entire comic would have around 1200. Seeing as we're at *checks* 575 or so, we've got about half a story left.
Course, my memory could be wrong (and my local archive could be giving me weird numbers for some odd reason).
Still, that's freaking epic.
Actually, I remember hearing a rather long time ago that when Ian came back, that was halfway. However, I can't verify that.
That was the event which I recall being the 1/3 point.
Also, going by quotes from Ozymandius and the Random Idiot, we were about 1/3 of the way through the combined length of both poems there.
I wonder if the story is actually set up in nice thirds. It seems like Ian's return marks a nice point in the story there that evenly divides the story thus far with the story subsequent to it. In the first... lets call it movement, in the musical sense. In the first movement (excluding the prologue), we begin with Meji in Tsuiraku, who then picks up Jon, and later Ian, and after losing Ian, Sarine... the whole thing culminating with Ian's return with godlike powers, and the breakup of that little party. The plot of that movement was "the quest for the second volume of the Lorenzel Excavations and whatever the hell it contains", namely, the location Anilis' resting place.
Now the second movement begins with Sarine in Praeternabulis (sp?), who has now come to pick up Jon, and it looks like they're going to unexpectedly pick up Sara as well - we've got a nice little adventuring party again. I imagine that the main plot of this movement will be far more political than the previous one, involving actions of the Ensigerum and the Wraiths, as well as related issues of Elven and Veracian politics. I suspect that Ian and Meji will probably play the same minor roles in this movement that the Ensigerum/Wraith conflicts did in the first movement; important asides, but not the main plot of this part of the story.
I will make the prognostication now that this second movement of the story will culminate when our two separate plots once again collide, tensions high in the Elven and Veracian governments, Ensigerum/Wraith conflict coming to a point, and then Ian and Meji show up on the scene, perhaps Meji herself with godlike powers, having found Senilis' resting place in the meanwhile. (Odd that Ian gets the she-god and Meji gets the he-god). The resolution of THAT cliffhanger will be the third and final movement of Poe's grand masterpiece.
And in the end, Frodo will return to the shi... er, Meji will return to Tsuirakushiti and make the place earn it's name by crashing the whole damn floating whatsit into the ocean, graduating with honors and moving on to bigger and better things. Like Ian's.