darunia106J-bob in gamesDeath MountainRegistered Userregular
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Listen if a 10 foot tall martial arts god stood before me and his eyes started to glow while chanting "total life obliteration" I would immediately shit my pants and start crying.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
"Every single warrior that comes to that gods-cursed ring thinks they have a chance at their drop of blood. The great tragedy is their inability to perceive that the long line of contenders has stretched not only over months, or years, but over many times the natural lifespans of wiser and saner men who have died old in their beds. What the Emperor wants to see in them, I don't dare to know. He will drink oceans of blood before he does."
Today's comic is a little raw, and I can only apologise for that. You're just going to have to digest it slowly.
I've not got a lot to say today. I've been reading Clive James' "The Crystal Bucket", a collection of his TV criticism from 1976-79, one column a day, for a little while. It's some of the most enriching writing I've ever read. I've never seen 99% of the TV shows, and only heard of perhaps half of the featured players, but every page features some glorious new erudition. It is frequently hilarious. I urge you to seek it out. Here's a roughly contemporary picture of Clive. He looks cool, and his big green typewriter is boss. https://www.clivejames.com/uploads/5/3/9/6/53960769/clive-james-observer-1977_orig.jpg
the plan involves the girl who was not kidnapped but wandered in after the fact and taped herself up ....
Presumably if she taped herself up, those restraints are basically cosmetic. Also their captors are losing focus to not realize how many people they should have. I'm more than a little frustrated with this whole chapter and introducing a wacky element to the scary hostage situation is... a choice, but the above two things are good to think about from the characters' perspectives.
he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
I would sooner expect him to flat-out tank a Great Chariot Cannon and retaliate in kind
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he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
yeah but it wouldn't be "right"
I imagine SD pictures the fight that'll make him bleed as something worthy of legend, a true epic battle that his replacement will earn and will satisfy is inflated sense of self
instead it'll probably be Cio grazing him with one of the stubbly hairs growing out of her arms by mistake, which he will refuse to accept as legitimate under the rules he himself set forth since it'll be too plain, too minute, unearned, etc.
or, and this is the other option presented by the current narrative, this slaughter gets played completely straight and instead we get treated to a little visit inside Solomon's inner sanctum where we will undoubtedly witness his own particular method of achieving functional immortality (which I'm willing to bet money has something to do with the seemingly absent daughters of his expensively widespread bloodline)
the plan involves the girl who was not kidnapped but wandered in after the fact and taped herself up ....
Presumably if she taped herself up, those restraints are basically cosmetic. Also their captors are losing focus to not realize how many people they should have. I'm more than a little frustrated with this whole chapter and introducing a wacky element to the scary hostage situation is... a choice, but the above two things are good to think about from the characters' perspectives.
Also there is some other way into (and thus presumably out of) the basement that nobody on the goon squad is paying attention to.
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he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
I would personally prefer the "oh hey Allison has awoken to her potential" and beats the shit out of Solomon to the point that he is just coughing up blood and he tries to be all magnanimous asshole "Oh you got a drop of blood *cough* congratulations let us stop beating the shit out of me" and she keeps beating the shit out of him.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
the plan involves the girl who was not kidnapped but wandered in after the fact and taped herself up ....
Presumably if she taped herself up, those restraints are basically cosmetic. Also their captors are losing focus to not realize how many people they should have. I'm more than a little frustrated with this whole chapter and introducing a wacky element to the scary hostage situation is... a choice, but the above two things are good to think about from the characters' perspectives.
Also there is some other way into (and thus presumably out of) the basement that nobody on the goon squad is paying attention to.
Dina doesn't operate on logic; she (or at least, her appearances) are squarely into pure gag character territory, the same way Amber's unwillingness to leave her room or perform physical activity because of her video game addiction was a pure gag and had no influence on her Amazi-Girl abilities.
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Gluttony turns out to not want the terrible cost of her immortality, or at least tell herself she doesn't want it
And Greed turns out to not give a damn. How much does he not give a damn - he's completely oblivious and doesn't even know he has a whole society of hapless would-be thieves just living off the hoard
Both have the outward appearance and actual effect as incarnations of their respective sins - Gluttony consumes worlds, Greed accumulates a hoard beyond comprehension - but sandwiched in between is a layer of ineffectual negation that holds together the status quo. Allison then undermines the status quo but is not a mover and shaker in actually getting out alive (in the first case a horde of mercenaries invades the palace for her key, in the second Mottom and the mercenaries attack the bank). Thereafter Mottom loses her eternal youth and Mammon needs to once again fight for his treasure. They are not taught the error of gluttony or greed, they just have their substitute identities taken away, and so embrace their natures once more...
So here's Pride with an outward appearance of demanding universal respect and fear, an ineffectual pretence of desiring to move on from this crass materiality by identifying a worthy successor, and an actual effect of demanding respect and fear... so my guess is that Allison won't have an impact through the arena at all, but instead her secondary plot would allow someone Solomon really holds in utter contempt to to deliver on their own plotting in the last minute. Like, say, those descendants from the beginning of the chapter... the A-team plot is that Allison is in this ring to distract Solomon so that Solomon doesn't notice the B-team sneaking around to nab macguffin boyfriend. We know that B-team has been intercepted by the royal guard. Maybe those guards are acting on Frustrated Heir's orders, who is also gambling on Solomon being suitably distracted in the ring so he can sneak in to nab macguffin boyfriend who Solomon has sworn to protect? What would make Solomon say: well fuck all of you, I'm not Celestial Emperor because of some high principle of regrettably material rungs on the ladder towards true royalty, I'm Celestial Emperor because I deserve to be and nobody else does?
I’m guessing every poor sod that’s standing and coming at him will get exploded into Orange Tang.
Everyone else that’s down will be fine. I mean, this feels like a recruiting trip. Brave enough to enter in the first place, skilled enough to not be dead, wise enough to stay down after the Wave of Tang hits.
Someone who’s down will think they are clever and try to strike at him after initially staying down, and they’ll get double exploded.
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he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
I would personally prefer the "oh hey Allison has awoken to her potential" and beats the shit out of Solomon to the point that he is just coughing up blood and he tries to be all magnanimous asshole "Oh you got a drop of blood *cough* congratulations let us stop beating the shit out of me" and she keeps beating the shit out of him.
Allison might have been able to hurt him at some point during her fight, but she sure as shit can't now. She's fucked up. Needs a nap. Probably a bath.
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he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
I would personally prefer the "oh hey Allison has awoken to her potential" and beats the shit out of Solomon to the point that he is just coughing up blood and he tries to be all magnanimous asshole "Oh you got a drop of blood *cough* congratulations let us stop beating the shit out of me" and she keeps beating the shit out of him.
Allison might have been able to hurt him at some point during her fight, but she sure as shit can't now. She's fucked up. Needs a nap. Probably a bath.
You say that.
And then she goes SSJ.
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the plan involves the girl who was not kidnapped but wandered in after the fact and taped herself up ....
Presumably if she taped herself up, those restraints are basically cosmetic. Also their captors are losing focus to not realize how many people they should have. I'm more than a little frustrated with this whole chapter and introducing a wacky element to the scary hostage situation is... a choice, but the above two things are good to think about from the characters' perspectives.
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this can pretty much only go one way right
he's gonna effortlessly murder everyone in the ring, smugly soliloquize about how another tournament has passed with no worthy challengers, and then notice a single scratch on himself that one of our folks managed to give him when he was too distracted to notice
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I would sooner expect him to flat-out tank a Great Chariot Cannon and retaliate in kind
yeah but it wouldn't be "right"
I imagine SD pictures the fight that'll make him bleed as something worthy of legend, a true epic battle that his replacement will earn and will satisfy is inflated sense of self
instead it'll probably be Cio grazing him with one of the stubbly hairs growing out of her arms by mistake, which he will refuse to accept as legitimate under the rules he himself set forth since it'll be too plain, too minute, unearned, etc.
or, and this is the other option presented by the current narrative, this slaughter gets played completely straight and instead we get treated to a little visit inside Solomon's inner sanctum where we will undoubtedly witness his own particular method of achieving functional immortality (which I'm willing to bet money has something to do with the seemingly absent daughters of his expensively widespread bloodline)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Also there is some other way into (and thus presumably out of) the basement that nobody on the goon squad is paying attention to.
huh yeah, I suppose a sudden but inevitable betrayal by Gog Agog can also fit the chapter's framework
SMBC
I would personally prefer the "oh hey Allison has awoken to her potential" and beats the shit out of Solomon to the point that he is just coughing up blood and he tries to be all magnanimous asshole "Oh you got a drop of blood *cough* congratulations let us stop beating the shit out of me" and she keeps beating the shit out of him.
Dina doesn't operate on logic; she (or at least, her appearances) are squarely into pure gag character territory, the same way Amber's unwillingness to leave her room or perform physical activity because of her video game addiction was a pure gag and had no influence on her Amazi-Girl abilities.
And Greed turns out to not give a damn. How much does he not give a damn - he's completely oblivious and doesn't even know he has a whole society of hapless would-be thieves just living off the hoard
Both have the outward appearance and actual effect as incarnations of their respective sins - Gluttony consumes worlds, Greed accumulates a hoard beyond comprehension - but sandwiched in between is a layer of ineffectual negation that holds together the status quo. Allison then undermines the status quo but is not a mover and shaker in actually getting out alive (in the first case a horde of mercenaries invades the palace for her key, in the second Mottom and the mercenaries attack the bank). Thereafter Mottom loses her eternal youth and Mammon needs to once again fight for his treasure. They are not taught the error of gluttony or greed, they just have their substitute identities taken away, and so embrace their natures once more...
So here's Pride with an outward appearance of demanding universal respect and fear, an ineffectual pretence of desiring to move on from this crass materiality by identifying a worthy successor, and an actual effect of demanding respect and fear... so my guess is that Allison won't have an impact through the arena at all, but instead her secondary plot would allow someone Solomon really holds in utter contempt to to deliver on their own plotting in the last minute. Like, say, those descendants from the beginning of the chapter... the A-team plot is that Allison is in this ring to distract Solomon so that Solomon doesn't notice the B-team sneaking around to nab macguffin boyfriend. We know that B-team has been intercepted by the royal guard. Maybe those guards are acting on Frustrated Heir's orders, who is also gambling on Solomon being suitably distracted in the ring so he can sneak in to nab macguffin boyfriend who Solomon has sworn to protect? What would make Solomon say: well fuck all of you, I'm not Celestial Emperor because of some high principle of regrettably material rungs on the ladder towards true royalty, I'm Celestial Emperor because I deserve to be and nobody else does?
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I’m guessing every poor sod that’s standing and coming at him will get exploded into Orange Tang.
Everyone else that’s down will be fine. I mean, this feels like a recruiting trip. Brave enough to enter in the first place, skilled enough to not be dead, wise enough to stay down after the Wave of Tang hits.
Someone who’s down will think they are clever and try to strike at him after initially staying down, and they’ll get double exploded.
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You say that.
And then she goes SSJ.