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Chapter: Comic, Level 10 — Speakeasies & Sea Monsters
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  1. Tseralith
    January 13, 2021, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    To be fair, snakes aren’t known for their eyesight either.

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    • Athaic
      January 13, 2021, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      To be even more fair, I would have thought that a snake would not be interested in a big talking box. A sticky-and-smelly one, to boot.
      Well, not interested in eating it, anyway. I have no idea how curious a snake could be.

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      • Milo
        January 13, 2021, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

        Mimics may take the forms of inanimate objects, but they’re considered to be living creatures, made of flesh. They just look like wood.

        The disguise might not even be all that effective on creatures with a good sense of smell. Given Mimic’s surprise at Prestige’s achievement here, it seems likely that he can’t do that himself.

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    • CT
      January 13, 2021, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      Doesn’t the snake look sort of like Tarta?

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      • TGY
        January 14, 2021, 9:50 am | # | Reply

        Serpently!

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        • Nagatobimaru
          January 16, 2021, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

          Serpendipity!

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  2. Isenoxyd
    January 13, 2021, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

    Why did it have to be snakes…

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    • Isenoxyd
      January 14, 2021, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I still think that the genre DID change already! When do we see snakes in Noir?
      Mimic is now Indiana Jones instead of Sam Spade (just the hat is still a Fedora). And this is what Stabs is trying to tell…

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      • Milo
        January 15, 2021, 3:23 am | # | Reply

        When do we see mimics or druids in Noir?

        Noir does generally adhere to the idea that humans (or dwarves), not nature, are the real source of most problems (except for that incessant rain, although even that might be due to air pollution from factories). But which do druids count as?

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        • Mary Catelli
          January 16, 2021, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

          Presumably to urban wildlife, since there are parks and all the scavenger wildlife.

          The belt has to do what it can with what it’s got

  3. Pterocards
    January 13, 2021, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

    I wouldn’t worry too much, our new Dwarven druid has already proven to be a bit of a hugger….especially in her choice of animals!

  4. CT
    January 13, 2021, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

    Not related to this strip, but, now that the Scavenger Hunt is over, I wanted to mention that, searching for a call bell, where I thought it would be (9-43, panel 6) I found that the myrmarchs showed up with the book and the candle, but no bell.

  5. RP
    January 13, 2021, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    Tarta returns, it appears.

  6. St Fan
    January 13, 2021, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

    Anti-Madeline can look unusually tall next to a halfling.

    • Milo
      January 13, 2021, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

      I guess she looks like she’s about a quarterling.

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    • SanityOrMadness
      January 14, 2021, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      Given their relative sizes in panel 3, there must be some *serious* forced perspective for Bizarro Madeline to look as big relative to Stabs as she does in panel 5.

      • Milo
        January 14, 2021, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        Even in panel 3, she looks about one-third Stabs’s height… just much less heavy due to weight/volume scaling as the third power of height, and also due to halflings tending to be on the plump side for their height.

      • Mike R.
        January 14, 2021, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, that wasn’t great work on my part. I’ve fixed it now.

  7. Composer99
    January 13, 2021, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like Tarta finally got through the door.

  8. Fu Leng
    January 13, 2021, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

    Growing up, when one of us would fail to find something in plain sight inches away from where we were looking, my father would always say, “If it were a snake, it would have bit you.”.

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    • Philadelphus
      January 15, 2021, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      Ha! My father said that too, and for some reason out of the blue I was reminded of it just a few days ago.

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  9. TB Tabby
    January 14, 2021, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    Mimic’s not worried because he doesn’t have a wind pipe to crush.

    • Milo
      January 14, 2021, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      Constrictors don’t generally crush windpipes. They stop your blood flow by squeezing hard enough to pinch your blood vessels shut.

      Also Mimic doesn’t seem to have enjoyed being constricted last time it happened, although he’s clearly gotten over it since. I guess with Tarta he at least made friends first 🙂

      • Philadelphus
        January 15, 2021, 4:03 am | # | Reply

        Well, what constrictors actually do is prevent their prey from expanding their lungs, by ratcheting in every time the prey exhales, thus causing it to die of asphyxiation. Snakes aren’t strong enough to actually crush anything or squeeze incompressible liquids.

        At least, non-magical snakes aren’t.

        • Milo
          January 15, 2021, 7:31 am | # | Reply

          Or, here’s a more layman-friendly article.

        • theangelJean
          January 17, 2021, 7:19 am | # | Reply

          Liquids might be (near) incompressible, but blood vessels certainly aren’t. A constrictor doesn’t need to compress blood at all to kill an animal, all it needs to do is stop the flow of blood reaching the heart or vital organs. Veins are particularly compressible – that’s why a finger with an elastic band on it will gradually turn red, as blood starts getting stuck there and can’t return to the rest of the body. A constrictor applying the same principle by winding around the animal’s torso and compressing the major veins could stop most blood flowing back to the heart, and leave it with nothing to supply the lungs and brain.

          BTW Milo that link is – not exactly paywalled, but requires subscription to read the full article.

          • Milo
            January 17, 2021, 8:47 am | # | Reply

            “BTW Milo that link is – not exactly paywalled, but requires subscription to read the full article.”

            Umm, it’s not?

            Although that site also serves paywalled articles, the one I linked to is free. At least for me, it has a “Download full-text PDF” button that works fine even with cookies disabled entirely. (My browser is configured to block all cookies from any website that I haven’t explicitly whitelisted, and I haven’t whitelisted this one. I certainly don’t have an account there.)

            The layman-friendly article I linked afterwards also looks fine to me.

            Which one are you having trouble with and what are you seeing?

      • Wyvern
        January 15, 2021, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

        I doubt that mimics have blood either.

        • Milo
          January 16, 2021, 4:45 am | # | Reply

          They do. Looks like it’s red, even.

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  10. Exasperation
    January 14, 2021, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    There’s nothing *fundamentally* wrong with his perception, it’s just that right now he’s suffering a blindness penalty for keeping his eye shut.

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  11. Milo
    January 15, 2021, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Wrong.

    • Milo
      January 15, 2021, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      Oops, it looks like I posted this in the wrong place 🙁 Can that be fixed? It’s meant to be a reply to Philadelphus above.

  12. Goth Guru
    January 17, 2021, 4:09 am | # | Reply

    The Druid probably found the black market by scent. Wacky weed supposedly smells like oregano. I’m not sure Mimic wants a hug now.

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