Thanks.
And the prequel pages are just now reaching that aftermath, so we might be getting more information about that deal in the next week or three. Or he might decide we’ve learned enough for now and instead move onto a different phase of backstory; hard to tell.
Is this thing even a comic anymore?
Sizemore is a whiny bitch.
Sizemore has been through quite a bit of culture shock over the past couple of hundred turns. At one time in his life he believed that his Casting powers had only peaceful and defensive applications. Now, each time Parson calls upon his services, it takes him further out of the station in life to which he believed he was assigned (and suited). He may well find one turn, that he is fated to rule a Side. If that happens, I hope he is emotionally ptepared to accept both the burden and the mind-bending departure from his expectations.
Just to note that with Epilogue 25 we’ve officially come to the end of Book 2, and have done so with an extremely dramatic last-panel twist. Parson may have a few tricks up his sleeve but Charlie’s got a helluva surprise for him.
We’ll eventually get the rest of Book 0 once some of the side projects are finished but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for Book 3 any time this generation. Maybe our grandchildren will get to read the end of this story some day.
I made a separate thread about it, but people may not have noticed, so I’ll bump this one with the news that there’s an erfworld kickstarter up for Book 3. It needs 15,000 dollars more to fund drawing book 3 as a comic.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1554093685/erfworld-print-book-2-and-draw-book-3
ETA: This post on erfworld makes me sad -
Those 926 people pledged almost 80,000 $
im in for the $25 arkendish package. Only seemed fair to weigh in after enjoying the work
In for the same. Only fair, I’ve had erf on my favourites since forever.
For those who recently pledged, there’s a thank you update, but the reason I wanted to put this up is it has Arthur Chu, for those of you who watch Jeopardy
If anyone is still keeping up with this, can you help me understand what’s going on with this mindstream post?
Charlie’s prime goal is to capture Parson, failing that he wants him dead and the body captured to prevent him being decrypted.
He apparently has machine guns (I assume that’s what the tripod refers to. He’s ready but reluctant to fire through the portal, both due to the financial penalties for killing Gobwin Knob units under truce and for the political ramifications of killing casters in the MK.
If he does have to go through with it he then plans to capture Spacerock to get back the money he would have lost. His treasury is huuuuge almost 700 million schmuckers
Yeah, that’s my take on it as well. Charlie clearly thinks he knows what Parson’s going to do, but IMO that’s the absolute worst mistake anyone can make about Parson. Also we don’t know if Charlie knows that the predictamancer is in play.
What was Charlie talking about that Parson would be in breach of the contract and fined another 500,000 schmuckers if he steps through the portal? I thought that was just for material actions against another party of the truce. Is it true that Parson will breach the truce simply by stepping foot through the portal to Charlescomm? If so, why does Charlie think that Parson doesn’t know that, unless he’s referring to some obscure edge case in the contract?
Interesting point that I don’t know if it was deliberate: Charlie speaks of killing Parson. “Killing”, not “croaking”. Has any other Erfworlder used that word?
Parson admitted to Lilith a few updates ago that he’s not sure of the contract terms. But given what we know of Erfworld Rules, intruding into another Side’s capitol uninvited automagically puts your two Sides into the same battlespace (where each experiences the other’s Turn during their day), so that’s probably a truce violation right there.
And Charlie basically confirms what Parson thought - that Charlescomm can claim Lilith (not just cities) for future treaty violations.
Also, it looks like Charlie’s defenses on “the vault” are oriented toward stopping intruders. They may not be set up to block Lilith from reaching the portal, and Charlie doesn’t want to injure her anyway. He thinks she’s heading to the portal to prepare for Parson’s invasion, which he wants to occur. So she’s probably got a good chance of reaching it. Dunno how she’ll get through the barriers to the gate without damaging it or some Archons, though.
Wonder what he’s going to claim. Parson? Looking forward to hearing how claims work. Can Charlie choose cities / units specifically or does GK get to decide how to meet the value owing
Made a claim for the moon and sky. Parson either accepts or parlays, and it looks like the parlay was the preferred outcome.
I wonder what the alarms were about, though.
Time limit as the claim for damages is enforced by the contract
And obviously, the new offer that Charlie is going to offer in the parlay is going to be Parson himself.
What Parson could do is try to arrange the situation such that whatever units are traded (including him) are committed to harming other GK units at the time of the trade. Time it so that the harm is done after they officially become Charlie’s units, and he could then clean out Charlie’s treasury in the same way.
I’m afraid that’s not consistent with Parson’s personal set of ethics.
Also, it’s parley, not parlay (however fitting that word would be, considering the setup of the Portal Room).
I actually suspect those are “fate alarms”. The right thing to do for fate to be fulfilled is to parley, and so only when he decides to parley the alarms go silent. They get louder when he is thinking about something that is not parley.