Well, that, and taking the opportunity to show off her ass to the Directors.
Sure, but as a succubus that’s practically a job requirement.
A half-fiendish Teevo should be a teevling, no?
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Dunno, but i do know it will always stop recording 30 seconds before your show ends.
Heh, I missed the strip title the first time: “These last few are all from the same sender.” Which would be Roy and now Haley, offing Tarquin’s army.
ETA: it doesn’t seem like a given that those soldiers would all be lawful, or even necessarily Evil. They’re getting paid to be soldiers, so they soldier.
Well, by helmet identification, it looks like only a dozen or so near the top are from the army. The rest of the pile is from the earlier part of the week.
One would at least expect that a fair number of Tarquin’s soldiers would be lawful evil. And we’re not shown the inboxes of any other afterlife-- Maybe those have a few too.
The Giant speaks
Not caring who you kill as long as you get paid is Evil.
Nonsense. Let’s set aside “as long as you get paid” - all professional soldiers get paid. But all soldiers follow orders, and if they’re told to kill someone, they do. They don’t get to ask why.
Have you been living under a rock for the past seventy years? A soldier is both morally and legally obligated to refuse an illegitimate order - “orders are orders” does not cut it.
Arguable and debatable.
I’m not sure the last 70 years of US history are the final authority with regards to the alignment system of a fictional comic based upon an RPG game derived from a medieval fantasy setting. Just saying.
Also, the US doesn’t currently permit conscientious objection on a per-conflict basis. That said, I have some sympathy for the sentiments expressed.
Burlew handled this with his usual precision in today’s comic.
I usually don’t laugh at Elan’s jokes, but I did today. He earned a “Straight Brow” expression from Daddy Tarquin.
I’ve noticed that Burlew makes his characters a little more unpleasant before they are offed (think of Malack and his blood assembly line and Nale being a dick). That said, I somehow find it hard to imagine Tarq dying within the next 10 pages.
Could Elan create an illusion of a monster (eg the Dragon Empress) emerge from the rift?
ETA: Q: Why does Sabine hit it off with V? (A:Why not? A2: Oh yeah, she’s hoping V will kick Tarq’s posterior. Hard.)
If Oots escapes on a flying carpet, I’d expect Tarquin to study the rift and drop a few minions inside it to see what happens. A higher level expedition might follow.
This story is a mess!!
Tarquin would be furious if he realized what a genre-bender his author is. The story has multiple villains (with Tarquin playing a sub-boss - the nerve of that author!) as well as fleshed out sidekicks - too much extraneous detail he would say.
More deeply… I’m rooting for Red-cloak: I’d like to see the gate put into the hands of the Dark One, so that the goblinoid millions might aspire to something other than cannon fodder. It’s worth a shot. Future plot twists aside, this is actually a pretty complex tale. I can’t recall ever favoring a villain’s goals over that of the protagonist for most of an enjoyable story.
It goesway back.
I wonder if V is going to try and get some anti-scrying defences so that the Three won’t know what he / she’s doing? V is 15th level so Mind Blank is a possibility.
Do we know exactly what level V is? I thought they were all just “somewhere around 13-15.”
And surely if the demiplane that Roy’s dad is trapped on can scry right through Xykon’s Epic-level Cloister spell, the three archfiends would have no problem watching Vaarsuvius regardless of any attempt at defenses … right?
I believe most of the characters have made it to level 15.
Mind Blank might be annoying, but it’s easy enough to get around for the IFCC. If V casts Mind Blank on himself, then the fields just scry Blackwing, Roy, Haley, Elan, Durkon, and/or Belkar. The fiends aren’t trying to read his thoughts, so that’s not an issue, they just want to know what he’s up to. Worst case, they just make Qarr follow the Order around and report back.
Not to mention, V only gets 1 8th level spell per day, so the Order is going to wonder why he keeps burning it on a Mind Blank every day.
Is there any reason they must be only at level 15 right now? Or could they be any higher than that if we assumed they were at the high end of the ranges Rich gave years back?
Well, the class and level geekery thread on the forums would be able to answer it better than I. And then think V is only level 15, not having showed any abilities that would indicate otherwise.