Yeah, it does, making my previous comment completely off-base. Sigh.
That’s a really useful summary but…“straits”, please. My inner pedant begs you.
So, there’s not enough time to send help … Maybe if they build a big trebuchet, and tie a message to a rock …
I thought it was going to be Atlantis.
Do Andy L ever make AndrewL feel bad because he registered first?
Well, perusing the many posts at the xkcd forum, the consensus has formed around it being around 10,000 years in the future, based on the positionings of the stars during that nightime segment awhile back.
On that forum among other things, they’re also tried to pinpoint the castle (somewhere along the coastline of current South France), one reasonable suggestion was Chateau d’If…
I try not to lord it over him… 
Hey, when did the alt-text change from “Wait for it” to “RUN”?
Good catch!
Yeah - that was a great catch. Can’t remember the last time I went to the actual source page
I wonder how many people are actually watching this webcomic in a webcomic.
Certainly there are a lot of dedicated viewers, but how many casual XKCD fans are completely oblivious to this whole series even existing?
I think XKCD fans tend towards the more dedicated, especially when there’s a known “puzzle”.
I continue to maintain that this will end in a “Your Mom” joke. Like a flashback to a few months earlier when Your Mom took a swim in the Atlantic ocean starting this whole thing off.
Since they are running, hopefully it won’t take them 3 months (our time) to get back.
When they were told that there was nothing they could do to save their tribe (of about 40 people still by the growing sea), it switched to “…” for a pause, and then to “RUN” as they fled.
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I was just going to suggest the Chateau d’If - this link is a reasonable match https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WlHUo_B0vl8/URZiSL3_DqI/AAAAAAAAAGs/S2CfLTyK8C8/s1600/2013-02-09 for the wide view of the castle, if you accept that parts of it have fallen down, and is on an island. It is the model for the prison in “The Count of Monte Christo”.
I’m friends with a local businessman on Facebook who has eschewed the traditional “businesses use the businesses’ end of Facebook” model, and has maxed out the “owner friends as many people as possible” end. He’s a former IT guy gone business owner, who just this morning lamented the lack of humor in xkcd.com. I commented on 1190: “Time”, and that Randall seems to have put his efforts into this lately. No one’s commented on my post - but I’ll push to see what people have actually been paying attention. He has a lot of tech friends, I’m curious to the answer as well.
Is there somewhere one can read the blotted pieces of ‘accented’ dialogue in plain? I’m not enjoying trying to decipher it on screen…
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time#Scene_3_-_Part_3_.28Inside_the_castle.29 although it may update slowly.
Ah, thanks a bunch.
So, this whole thing seems to be taking place near Marseilles? I’m planning to go there (well, the not-too-far vicinity) on vacation two weeks from now, perhaps I’ll manage to have a look around…
Why do you think I have this outrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrageous accent, you silly king?