True! Although I would have thought that the high priests of the demigods would like be see the proceedings even if they didn’t get to vote. I have a hard time seeing them getting excluded from even observer status, although I suppose it’s possible, and if they were watching they’d know they were wanted.
Still, the best way to keep someone from returning home is to make sure they never leave, isn’t it?
The law of tragedies states that all attempts to thwart prophecies must be done in as roundabout and ineffective a manner as possible.
Well of course. If there is a bad prophecy about when he “next returned home”, the obvious solution is to send him far away and hope he never comes home. Never thinking that this only creates the situation for his eventual return.
You know who else is a demigod? The Dark One is a demigod. 'Nuff said.
Durkon has used Thor’s might in the past and it seems to increase size by more than 2X. I’d say 4X.
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My interpretation is that the demigods’ HPs could have been in the Great Nave during the meeting, but chose not to. They were rarely (or perhaps never) called on to break ties before, so they tend not to get too enthused about attending the actual meeting. And, of course, it would be very disrespectful for them to play cards in the meeting room.
So keep him as a prisoner in his own home for the rest of his life? That’s as likely to be successful as what they actually did. Especially if they don’t tell him why he’s being kept prisoner, just as they didn’t tell him the reason for his “mission”.
Right. And we’ve already been told they are elsewhere, playing cards.
About the scale thing, someone pointed this out in the GitP forum: the scale in that last panel is not consistent.
First go back to when Roy and Wrecan were at the railing. Note that the railing is waist high to Roy. Now compare the sizes of Roy and the railing in the last panel. Either Roy is too small or the railing is too high. Based on Roy, Durkula is at least 20 feet high. Based on the railing, he’s only 15 feet high. This is what the title “Not to Scale” is refering to.
Ooh! Some story progress.
Rich doesn’t often get a reaction out of me other than generic content enjoyment, but that last panel definitely rated a big ol’ smile.
I didn’t shout “YEAAAAHHHH!” but I did in my head.
Woot!
Man, remind me not to piss Roy off.
OK, so that’s obviously a critical hit. And it has the green fire effect. How much damage is that? Could it be an insta-kill?
One thing I didn’t catch: why is the story of Roy’s brother the tip that it’s not actually Durkon in charge?
We also seem to have a “green fire” clue - it doesn’t work unless Roy is invested in the fight. He didn’t really want to be battling Durkula until just now.
Either that, or it’s operating under a “dramatically appropriate” meta-rule.
Woohoo!
I assume it’s for dramatic effect but Roy’s not wounded in the last panel.
spoilers, guys!
I’m guessing not, since Durkula’s eyes haven’t turned into Xs.
'Bout time Roy wised up.
I think it was the bit where Durkula says he “always wondered” how many pieces the body was in. That would never have occurred to Durkon.
More broadly, we’vealready seen that Durkula is incapable of understanding the links between Durkon’s memories, or understanding how a person might be affected by the things they experience - I suspect that this strip holds the key to Durkula’s ultimate defeat, but I can’t see how precisely. But that would be more fitting than Belkar* climbing back up the mountain to get revenge as this whole story has been about Durkon: an internal resolution that comes about because he understood his memories better than Durkula will be very satisfying.
*Belkar can’t climb up the mountain, of course, because he’s dead now.