Somehow all this time I thought Marigold was the one who cast the Shield of Boringness, and it operated in her near vicinity, but not all over town (and in the woods, and those lovely grass-filled meadows……….) But it also had a component for people who encountered her to forget anything unusual (like horns and her speech pattern) even when she wasn’t in Shield range. I wonder if Harry Dresden is up on this……….
In magic, those rhyming sentences are called couplets. In Nicholas Stuart Gray’s 1963 book “Grimbold’s Other World” (in which a unicorn figures rather prominently; it also contains a short but stirring poem titled “Unicorn”), the main human character, an adopted boy called Muffler, learned magic from Grimbold, a cat. A few of Muffler’s couplets were real groaners (poetically speaking, as a moving stone door in a mountainside actually told him) although they worked magically, but most of them—as well as his poems—were beautiful.
Averagemoe over 6 years ago
The thinnest air would be near vacuum, but that’s not a life sustaining environment, so the error is forgivable.
codycab over 6 years ago
Marigold talked just like both luna and zecora in the second panel.
Troglodyte over 6 years ago
Going from believing in unicorns to “horn osmosis” is a short leap!
asrialfeeple over 6 years ago
At least the manual got straigth to the point.
Neo Stryder over 6 years ago
“hornmosis”, is shorter.
BiggerNate91 over 6 years ago
A spell for a manual for a spell.
imjustlurking over 6 years ago
I hope the osmosis can help her read through the holes in the manual…
Godfreydaniel over 6 years ago
Somehow all this time I thought Marigold was the one who cast the Shield of Boringness, and it operated in her near vicinity, but not all over town (and in the woods, and those lovely grass-filled meadows……….) But it also had a component for people who encountered her to forget anything unusual (like horns and her speech pattern) even when she wasn’t in Shield range. I wonder if Harry Dresden is up on this……….
Aurora Griffin over 6 years ago
LOL! There’s always “A Thing” with Unicorns, isn’t there? XD
bigcatbusiness over 6 years ago
Horn osmosis? That sounds… uncomfortable.
blackshire over 6 years ago
In magic, those rhyming sentences are called couplets. In Nicholas Stuart Gray’s 1963 book “Grimbold’s Other World” (in which a unicorn figures rather prominently; it also contains a short but stirring poem titled “Unicorn”), the main human character, an adopted boy called Muffler, learned magic from Grimbold, a cat. A few of Muffler’s couplets were real groaners (poetically speaking, as a moving stone door in a mountainside actually told him) although they worked magically, but most of them—as well as his poems—were beautiful.
L Ron Pony about 6 years ago
This doesn’t work with automotive shop manuals.