I went to the archive list to see what the title of this comic was. Before it loaded, I thought to myself, “I’ll bet it’s the Johnny Cash song.”
I can now meaninglessly pat myself on the back.
Is it possible that Myron’s power is based on some non-class power? I’m thinking of Malack and how we knew he was a cleric but the fact he was a Yuan-Ti (apparently) and a vampire were concealed. Maybe Myron belongs to some race with distinctive facial features and his scarf conceals this.
There’s a Simpsons episode where the Yakuza is fighting Fat Tony’s gang on the Simpson’s lawn. When Marge drags Homer inside Homer says “But Marge, the little guy hasn’t done anything yet! You know when he does it’ll be really cool!”
Miron reminds me of that little guy.
For the current comic, all you have to do is look over at the bar on the left of the page. You only need to check the archive for older comics.
He might know about Z and Malack, from the Blood Plasma TV.
So, is the working assumption now that V is a Trojan Horse, carrying some sort of magical virus that will be triggered when the appropriate stimulus is provided? If this has been discussed already my pardon.
If we had, I missed it. What are you talking about?
He’s talking about V being under control of the 3 fiends sometimes.
John DiFool, V owes the Three Fiends 20-some minutes of her soul. The TF can basically take her out of the game for those time periods (two separate time periods remaining) and hold her prisoner, ineffective, for that time. They apparently can’t take over her body or compel her to do things. She’s just on time-out, if and when.
Yeah, but I don’t quite get the point of it from V’s point of view. Obviously V would prefer not to be beholden but them’s the breaks. Now, if something damaging to the Fiends’ plan comes up, V can either try to do something about it and get stolen or fear getting stolen and not do anything about it. Either way, nothing happens but in the former case, V’s one instance closer to being out of their control.
I don’t think we know this as a fact. Up until twenty minutes ago, Vaarsuvius didn’t know that the fiends could call in their debt while V was still alive. So while V may now think that the fiends can only call a “time-out” and remove V from the scene, we don’t know that’s true either. Perhaps they can take over V’s body and use it on the material plane and have just chosen to not reveal this yet.
I thought we’d already determined that the LE Fiend ruled out possession of the body.
We have , in comic 897. The fields don’t get to control V, they just get to remove him from the situation for a period of time.
No - we know that a fiend said something that sounded like that. Fiends being fiends, there’s no reason to assume that the obvious meaning of the statement is the true one. Lying by telling the truth is an LE/devilish specialty.
V: “You claimed you wouldn’t possess my body!”
Fiend: “Nor have we. We have no responsibility for the actions of third parties that happen to find an unoccupied body lying about, however.”
Der makes a good point. Rules ain’t rules until the fat fiend sings. Maybe I’ll amend my explanation to John DiFool to begin with, “here’s our understanding so far:”
Is that a quote from the comic, or speculation about a future one?
They specifically promised to shield his body from all harm for the duration. That would include preventing third parties taking it.
Speculation.
No…it would only including keeping the body undamaged.
BTW - “smell of bat poop and burning flesh” ? Is bat guano one of V’s fire spell components or something, and Belkar remembers that smell?
It’s definitely a component for fireball. I’d have to look up the others.
I’m just wondering why Belkar thought it distinctive - it seems like every single fireball spell in the world would smell like bat guano and burning flesh, right?
It’s something of a callback.
Arcanolypse Now: “I love the smell of bat guano in the morning.”