This week should be much more on-schedule (knock-on-wood). The house and its devices are kind of lumpy and simplistic-looking, not just because I’m a lazy artist, but because that’s the tech aesthetic they’re going for. So it’s really the Third Era people who are lazy, not me.
…you buy that, right?
Oddly, I do pretty-much buy it. It’s a consistent aesthetic.
Sooo, why can’t they just walk out?
The air outside is like thick tar and you can’t get through it all at once. It’d be kind of lethal to have half your body moving a zillion times faster than the other half, especially if some of those halves were vital organs.
Remember the guy’s hand?
Not to mention blood pressure problems.
I assume teleportation is not an option? It was shown in the trsanti attack but not since. Perhaps it is known but highly unstable as a means of transportation.
Really though, sticking someone in fast-flow time and not severely locking them down (like, petrification or “you ain’t got no air”) is just asking for trouble.
Another thing about time dilation that has teased at the back of my brain is light and heat. You touch on it with Amy needing light, but just as relevant was the hundreds of years of light and heat stacking up on the outer layer of the time field, blasting the house with searing levels of radiation.
But I am clearly over-analyzing the problem.
Teleportation of people is…probably pretty rare, because we haven’t seen it since. In chapter two it was Mori burning up a unique artifact using her scroll gun. (That scroll gun is the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever had in the series, I think, it’s like a gun that only shoots gold coins). Anti-teleportation technology exists mostly to keep people like Sarin from using their hyper-pockets.
As for the light: the field doubles as an energy screen, which is why the house wasn’t cooked from the outside. Otherwise escaping would be a simple matter of positioning a flashlight in the field and pointing it at the machine–the compressed light would make it into a blaster and destroy the machine.
Ah, so they’ve been trapped in the whole house-wide field? I take back everything I said then. I thought they were trapped in a “personal” field barely big enough for the three of them.
That would be a much more effective assassination attempt, but highly unlikely to be feasible when the mind-slave enacting it has, at best, a few seconds to set up and put into motion the plan before people notice and stop him.
On another topic, the house looks fine. though panel 3’s angle makes me want to make a joke involving the “old woman who lived in a shoe” nursery rhyme.