Or Elan just considers trying to convince Roy to join them part of “taking him down”. After all, if Roy flips sides then Elan doesn’t have to poke him any more and it’s not as though Elan would win in an actual melee fight. Makes sense when you’re a dominated bard with the INT score of a raccoon.
A guy named Yendor at the GIDP forums did, and translated Sigi’s name from the runes, somewhere around the post discussing one of following three strips or so.
Kinda neat, when all I thought they were going to say were things like “these runes don’t mean anything”, etc…
Nemo, I thought another really important ‘throwaway’ detail was the map, way back in Blood Runs In The Family, that showed the Elven Lands on the same longitude as the Windy Valley. Which then showed that lunchtime in the Elven Lands (when Darth V cast familicide) could be the same time as lunchtime in Girard’s Pyramid. The detail he packs in a little stick figure strip can be impressive.
The Elan quips are hilarious. I don’t care if a Bard should actually have pretty decent Will saves (even with his abysmal Wisdom), if ignoring them gives me lines like those.
It’s not like Elan is trying to convert Roy instead of trying to stab him. He’s doing both.
Yeah, part of taking him down.
As I noted a strip or two ago, Elan’s not even using his skills to their best since he’s attacking with his mediocre Strength modifier instead of using his Dashing Swordsman Charisma modifier.
You only get to make a save if you’re told to do something against your nature, not just because something unpleasant has been done to you. Durkula only told her to “come here”, not “give me the baby”; he probably took Kudzu from her arms himself.
If he’d specifically said “stay still while I take Kudzu”, that would have been a command, and Hilgya could have gotten a new saving throw. But she’s standing still because that’s the default when you’re Dominated. No such luck.
I like where you’re going with this, and that would be a massive plot twist. But it would require an incredibly specific prophecy to pull off, as well as a lot of clever storytelling on the Giant’s part.
Hmm. Not so much. If his mom knew the only way he’d come back is posthumously she could certainly prep for him to be rezzed. Sort of ‘having one in the bank’.
Not that Rich hasn’t been pretty good at clever writing during the run of the comic, though.
But that prophecy came much later; his mother would have paid the money long before Durkon even became a cleric (and potentially before he was born). This would have had to be a different prophecy.
Still - we’ve had one from Odin that was a major plot point; perhaps Thor had a good day at one point and actually planned for the future (although that then raises the question about why the gods wouldn’t have known about Hel’s plan). A more likely way for this particular scenario to happen would be for a pregnant Sigi to go to the Oracle and ask what the best thing she could do to help her son would be.
Ouch!
I know he’s at the bottom of the hp barrel but Roy sure can take the hits, huh?
No doubt. Now he’s starting to look like he did in the Thog fight.
Wonder who clued Haley and Elan in to start fighting effectively?
As noted on the comic’s forums, when you go back to the crayon flashback of the fire troll fight, you can see the blond bearded Dwarf running towards a chest. Just like the chest he later gives Sigdi in this strip.
I wonder if there’s any narrative reason for drawing some flashbacks as crayon-style, and others as a regular strip with a fuzzy border?
The crayons are used when someone is relating the past events. Durkon’s memory doesn’t count as that.
Have crayons been used anywhere except the Crayons of Time, the backstory recounted by Red Cloak in SoD, and strip #991 (death of Tenrin)?
The crayon strips are when someone is recounting a story, usually one they have heard from someone else. There may be an unreliable narrator, he may exaggerate bits, miss out details, there may be things the narrator has misunderstood or doesn’t know about.
Anything in the normal style is canonically true.
A good example being the story Thirden told to Durkon. He’s telling what he has heard about the story. He wasn’t personally involved so it’s hearsay. And, as it turns out, there’s more to the story than he knows.
They were also used in Start of Darkness, to tell much the same story as the Crayons of Time, but from a different point of view.
Look at you, predicting the immediate future! What do you think, will I need an umbrella tomorrow?
Haley? With a dagger? Haley doen’t do melee!
Thank you. Note that the first one was not a 2nd hand telling. Jirix was relating his own experience. He may have left stuff out, even besides what he told Red Cloak afterwards.
Yes, that’s what I meant by “the backstory recounted by Red Cloak in SoD”.
She does when her bowstrings have been cut.