Will Save World for Gold

[stsasser]

Why does Odie always do the dumbest possible thing at all times? You'd think he'd learn eventually.

In his role of moral and incompetent foil to Ardon's amoral and supremely competent, learning is counter productive.
His function is to put himself and others in danger, then break a high-heel and fall in the path of the looming threat.

Ardon's attitude of 'well, monsters gotta eat too' is an echo of every annoyed audience's secret thought, 'Leave the damned idiot to fend for her or himself'.

[Draconi Redfir]

my guess is he's going back to the elder kidney to try and figure out what it was that spooked him about Ardon.

Part 1 has proven true. lets see about part 2.

Edit: AAAAND i was wrong!

My first thought was that he saw someone from his village among the slaves.
Maybe he wants to save them.

That might involve talking to the Elder Kidney. I can't believe I wrote that with a straight face. I mean those things are ridiculous.

Looks like Kantaki got it right after all!

[Lizard Lord]

Odie: Would it help the moral quandry to know that those babies will mature by devouring a slaves kidney and the transforming/taking over the slave's body.

Which...really doesn't make sense even when you take things like magic and psychic crab monsters from the future into account. I know these things are kidney themed, but that still doesn't explain why the kidney's would be the only thing that would have to go for them to turn a slave into a kidney pincher. Do they at least melt the brain with acid and/or psychic powers?

[stsasser]

Odie: Would it help the moral quandry to know that those babies will mature by devouring a slaves kidney and the transforming/taking over the slave's body.

Which...really doesn't make sense even when you take things like magic and psychic crab monsters from the future into account. I know these things are kidney themed, but that still doesn't explain why the kidney's would be the only thing that would have to go for them to turn a slave into a kidney pincher. Do they at least melt the brain with acid and/or psychic powers?

There is no moral quandary for Odie. He can walk away clean, knowing by now that Ardon will do the wet work. No loose threads. No enemies coming back to be recurrent nemeses,

[Kantaki]

Moral quandary... Sure. It's not as if the clown in the mummy costume didn't mention how his kind grows up.
This why no one likes good aligned people. They have to make a drama out of everything.

Just fry them Odi. The only quandary about that is wether you serve them with a white or a red.
And what you choose as the side dish maybe.

Looks like Kantaki got it right after all!

Even a blind chicken can find a corn. Or something like that.

[Celestia]

I love this comic. It's definitely one of the better ones I've ever read. The characters are fantastic, and their interactions are always entertaining.

I do wonder when we'll find out who that mysterious masked person is, though. I bet it's someone from Odie's village.

[Anteros]

I love this comic. It's definitely one of the better ones I've ever read. The characters are fantastic, and their interactions are always entertaining.

I do wonder when we'll find out who that mysterious masked person is, though. I bet it's someone from Odie's village.

I thought she was a mummy.

[Celestia]

I thought she was a mummy.

If she was a mummy, then why have we never seen her use mummy blast?

[Anteros]

Because she's trying to hide her identity obviously.

[Leewei]

Man, those kidney pinchers - they're like discount, crabby mindflayers with a side of Mojo Jojo.

[stsasser]

Curse you, LSN!

Now I have to keep reading another five months!

[Draconi Redfir]

latest comic just makes me consider dming a custom play-by-post even more. Hope that some player has an evil/rival brother or sister or something that always tries to kill them.

Then the brother gets in trouble, or the PC gets in trouble from something bigger then the brother. So the PC/Brother help one annother despite everything because damnit they're still family.

[Douglas]

Nice to see Ardon's learned enough to come up with a better point than "why do they matter?"

[Kantaki]

Nice to see Ardon's learned enough to come up with a better point than "why do they matter?"

Still a rather... evil approach.
Also does this mean that Ardon’s people keep the world in a technological stasis?
That's kinda worrying considering the kind of people we talk about.

[Draconi Redfir]

sounds like it. it would make sense if they were preventing their own technology from being stolen / abused, but if other cultures come up with it indepentantly... that's a whole different story alltogether.

[Anteros]

They've been depicted as unrepentantly evil at every possibility, so it's not like we should be surprised.

[Kantaki]

They've been depicted as unrepentantly evil at every possibility, so it's not like we should be surprised.

Well, for me at least the fact that they act the way they act makes the whole technology suppression more worrying.

I mean it would be bad either way, but if they were less evil I could fool myself into thinking they have some non-evil motivation.

Leaving the fact that a less evil society most likely wouldn't do that. Or at least not this way.

[Draconi Redfir]

Man... she just can't catch a break...

[stsasser]

Man... she just can't catch a break...

From the smile on her face, I'd say she is gonna try to guilt them out of some loot while enjoying being shed of the whole resurrection thing.

Or I need to make a sarcasm check.

[Ibrinar]

Don't forget the mysterious bow person whose identity is entirely a mystery must have passed her on the way out and might have informed her of the armed people coming to kill everyone so she might have already known. Which makes guilting them into something more likely.

[Draconi Redfir]

From the smile on her face, I'd say she is gonna try to guilt them out of some loot while enjoying being shed of the whole resurrection thing.

Or I need to make a sarcasm check.

i saw it as her mind snapping a bit. like she /knoes/ it happened but is trying to hold on to faith, like when y6ou hear a sound in the night and just know your dog knocked over your new lamp.... again. but you're trying to pretend it didmt happen.

can almost see her eye twitching.

[Kantaki]

They use nukes?
I guess that explains where the time travelling seafood keeps coming from.
And if that is the case I suspect it's on purpose...

[Celestia]

She is waaay too nice for her own good.

[ImperatorV]

Whoah. Triple length comic. Way to kick off the new story arc.

[Celestia]

Holy ****. Did the innkeeper just get killed? We knew that guy!

[Anteros]

He was dead the second he hired Schmoopy.

[stsasser]

He was dead the second he hired Schmoopy.

Welcome to Schmoopy's Boot's & Buttocks.
That's his future employment issues sorted.

[Draconi Redfir]

weeeeeeelllll...
...
... Balls....

[Emperor Time]

It fine since the important thing is that Schmoopy survived. But at this rate, Schmoopy might live forever which is a fate much worse than death.

[stsasser]

It fine since the important thing is that Schmoopy survived. But at this rate, Schmoopy might live forever which is a fate much worse than death.

ls Schmoopy gaining levels as he survives encounters with Ardon's Army?