Its about to get interesting!
If Charlie is about to attack now, wouldn’t it make sense to crowd the portal with cannon fodder to soak up hits? I was thinking that was Artemis’ plan, but she can’t know about the contract and Parson can’t give orders while he’s not Chief Warlord. Still, I can’t see this going well for Charlie. His best plans have failed, and now he seems to be acting on emotion.
Good call on the carnied portal, Tabby_Cat.
Somewhat unclear on the artwork - did Wanda just decrypt a bunch of previously non-aligned casters (as well as the restored semi-Archon)? Because if Gobwin Knob just acquired a bunch of (free!) casters, that’s a big deal.
I was wondering about that, too. Some of the decrypted looked like MK casters who took hits during Charlie’s attack. I wonder how MK will feel about that.
If that’s what they are, then that’s far less of an affront to the Magic Kingdom than croaking them in the first place was. And there shouldn’t be any croaked bodies there but casters, because the only non-casters in the Magic Kingdom are Parson’s bodyguard detail, who are already decrypted. I’m puzzled, though, that we didn’t see any corpses there before.
I had been pondering before the wisdom (or lack thereof) of Charlie trying to use veiled units to invade the Magic Kingdom, given that every sort of caster we’ve seen seems to have some form of special senses or another. I’ll admit, though, that I overlooked the elephant in the room of special senses, Marie’s predictomancy. Which is a pretty solid trump.
We didn’t see corpses, but we saw the characters being hit by bullets.
I just noticed the title of the comic. If Parson is player one, who is player 2?
should be an interesting battle, what with the financial penalties both sides face everytime they hurt/croak an enemy unit.
Indeed. Is Charlie going to incur another violation by sending his archons through the portal? That puts them in the same battlespace as GK, right?
Moving into space where the other signatory has units only incurs a penalty if the side HOLDS the territory militarily. The MK is neutral, and no one holds territory there. For purposes of the truce, it doesn’t even count as a hex.
Am I the only one who finds [Maggie’s linking spell](Erfworld Archives - Book 1 3/127) rather ominous?
I didn’t recognize any of the words, but they typically are some call-out to a meme or trend or pop-sci thing from Earth, right?
I didn’t recognize all of them, but Formians are a D&D race of hive-mind extraplanar ant-people, the Borg are Star Trek’s cyborgs who assimilate all living creatures, and Camazotz is the land visited in A Wrinkle in Time where absolute conformity is enforced by mind control from a giant brain-monster.
Vortigaunt are the enslaved hive-minded lightning-tossing aliens from the game Half-Life.
Borg are hive-minded cyborgs from Star Trek.
All about hive-mind, I guess.
That leaves Ygramul to look up. Ah - It’s (they’re) from The Neverending Story. A spider made of smaller, hornet-like critters, again with a hive mind. Cool.
I like the hook at the end: “Then lightning flashed above and bullets rained down on them all.”
So how quickly can Wanda rez the fallen Archons? Fast enough to have a nice ambush party waiting before the reserves show up?
Meanwhile, both sides’ treasuries must be going crazy right around now. Every single hit in this battle is a transfer of 5 million schmuckers.
Fun special effects. Screenshot! Tango Down! And are the bullets in the last panel going "Cee! Que! Dee!"?
Thanks for sharing that. I was puzzled but didn’t think of initials.
Update
And now they have a live Archon captive…