Level 7: #62
Chapter: Comic, Level 7 — Circus Minimus
Hey guys, sorry about the lateness. I’ve started a new job recently and there’s been very little free time during the transition. I’ll try to catch up the missing comic in the next couple weeks as things settle down, and since you’ve all been so supportive through Twitter and email and so on, I’ll try to have some bonus content ASAP too. Thanks, everyone!
YAY! Hope the new job is great!
Good luck on the job!
And I see our false-Stabs found this educational.
she expected the clever one… and got the strong one.
AWESOME!
Madeline, will you marry me? ….
She is married to her holy mission.
Or possibly Derek the Cleric.
And THIS, ladies and gentlebeings, is why you don’t mess with Madeline. Dayum!
Now THAT… is how you go fishing.
Grats on the new job!
Also, it’s official. Even clownfish-pirahnas think that the Girallon/Ogrillion/Multi-armed ape in a tutu is too much.
Poor thing is never gonna get ahead at this rate, but at least the fish will.
Hmm-m-m…
…I’m worried that we may be writing-off our be-tutu-ed nemesis too soon…?
Unless I’m shown a dead body, I fear we may yet discover it returning later – bloody yet unbowed.
What if she REALLY had a Holy Avenger? The mind boggles…!
Who says she doesn’t? The pitchfork pretty clearly gave the benefits of a Trident of Warning… maybe she knows a mage with a weird aesthetic sense. Or maybe the power of her faith gives her magic items for free.
I was thinking along those lines. Maybe her belief turns the item into what she thinks it is.
Er, yeah, she must. The Holy Avenger and Vorpal Halberd could have been delusions caused by her phenomenal fighting abilities, but the Trident of Warning’s powers don’t work like that.
Or maybe it’s simpler than any of us have been thinking. What if the items she says are magic are and have been from the start? What if the Hoe-ly Avenger was a real Holy Avenger? (granted, that doesn’t particularly fit in with what we know of Dinkum’s character, being a less-than-scrupulous businessman as he is, but…) What if that shovel-vorpal halberd really was a vorpal shovel being used as a halberd? Why wouldn’t Zar have a Pitchfork of Warning sitting around? He did have gold coin flowers.
My thinking is that Madeline has a blessing of some kind, presumably with the effect chosen by her deity. Dinkum, I have no doubt, knew of this and sold her a cheap farming tool for primarily ADVERTISING purposes. “Crooked” doesn’t mean “Unopportunistic”, after all.
Eh, Dinkum tried the same trick on our intrepid band, who don’t have that blessing.
It’s plausible.
Depending on what edition this is supposed to be, I think there actually is a feat/alternate class feature that lets you apply magic weapon bonuses and effects to mundane items/natural weapons. That combined with Improvised Weapon Proficiency could make Maddie’s inexplicable armaments rather plausible.
That would make it along the lines of Ork weaponry from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Much of it upon recovery is found to be a general mishmash of components which barely functions in the hands of a non-Ork, or doesn’t function at all. It’s the collective belief by Orkish forces that the weapon will function which causes it to do so, a gestalt psychic field subconsciously generated by that belief (the WAAAGH!, as they would say).
Interesting theory, and very cool stuff. Madeleine herself is quite Orky, after all. Extremely powerful and dangerous in combat, but rather lacking in the intelligence department. If Mimic took the form of a squig…
Maybe it’s just a joke with fluffing things up. The Princess’ job is DM’s Girlfriend, right? Who says the DM can’t just treat these objects as the weapons Maddie treats them as. I know other people have done the same thing as a gag for their games.
Her strength is as the strength of ten,
Because her heart is pure.
😉 I’d rather cross Madeline than Princess, but not by much…
Pretty sure if you crossed Madeline but backed down and apologized immediately, she’d let you off with a stern warning.
Princess on the other hand? You probably wouldn’t get the apology out in time.
What a twist!
Maddie really knows how to stick it to her enemies. 🙂
Oh snap indeed, but it’s just not the same without that GIF of Count Grandpa.
Worth the wait. And congratulations on being employed; I’ve been working on it for about as long as you’ve been drawing girall-clowns.
Madeline has the power of true faith, she believes it’s a magic weapon, so it is.
I sort of wonder if Maddie isn’t several levels higher than everyone else.
Either that, or she took a few levels in the BAMF prestige class.
Nah, she’s just a tank and the others present aren’t. Fighting’s what Maddie does best. Fighting, soaking up damage, and in her case, being nice…
First, congrats on the job. I would rather you keep the quality up than rush it to meet deadlines
Second, am I the only one who is glad that that pink tutu as both bodice and underwear that are attached? Especially the latter?
YES..YES I AM!!! LOL
Congrats on the job. The comic is worth the wait, not to say I mind seeing some extras.
What he said – congrats on the new jerb (hope it’s great) and the comic itself was well worth the wait!
How hungry were those piranhas to eat a gorilla that big?
Well, you always here about Parana skeletonizing cows etc. in minutes, so that’s not really surprising
The records of that are when the piranhas are starving, so they must be really hungry (and pretty numerous) to munch down that giant gorilla in seconds
While you wouldn’t expect wild piranha to be like that, anyone putting them in a trap is obviously going to keep them underfed, or they wouldn’t be so effective.
I think false-Stabs and I had much the same expression
Yeah, that was infinitely more satisfying. Thanks, Mike! 😀
Best of luck on your new job!
Congrats on the new job! We love your comic, but I bet it doesn’t quite pay the bills.
Everytime I gravitate back to other character classes, watching Maddie pulls me back to rolling up a Paladin.
(With a bit more INT, ’cause…)
My son said, “Now we know what the fourth prong on the Trident of Warning is for!”
The comic is back! And the delay was for good and positive reasons too. Great luck on the new job.
Well, he’s… forked.
(Side note: Damn, this girl’s STR and CON must be through the roof… or the big top as it were.)
I see what you did there:
http://static.spiceworks.com/shared/post/0003/4834/wait-what-meme.jpg
Yes “Stabs”, she’s not the mastermind, she’s the party combat monster. You done fucked up.