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Level 10: #2

Chapter: Comic, Level 10 — Speakeasies & Sea Monsters
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  1. Huh
    November 4, 2020, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    Genre-savvyness isn’t going to get you out of a good railroading, mimic.

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    • Mary Catelli
      November 4, 2020, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

      You’re not supposed to just take in noir. The point is that you can’t escape AFTER you tried.

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      • Yoda
        November 5, 2020, 5:38 am | # | Reply

        Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.

        • Mary Catelli
          November 5, 2020, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

          Wrong genre. Noir tends to be all try and often enough, no do.

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        • Riley
          November 7, 2020, 3:17 am | # | Reply

          You can’t always get what you want
          But if you try sometime
          You just might find
          that Yoda scolds you

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  2. Ladon
    November 4, 2020, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    That’s your bad, Mimic. The private-eye always turns down the case at first. You’re playing into the trope.

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    • tremor3258
      November 5, 2020, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      Part of the genre is seeing something’s fishy and end up in it anyway, so genre savvy is in-genre for noir, really.

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      • 627235
        November 18, 2023, 8:02 am | # | Reply

        Except they never run for the hills.

  3. Milo
    November 4, 2020, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

    Well, I suppose “Go away.” is more diplomatic than “Get lost.”.

  4. Coldare
    November 4, 2020, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

    Boxford P.I. – a nod to the Rockford Files

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    • Zero
      November 4, 2020, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      It’s just his name.

      • Wyvern
        November 5, 2020, 3:43 am | # | Reply

        Why can’t it be both?

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  5. HatMan
    November 4, 2020, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

    … But then how did he hold the glue bottle?

    • tracer
      November 4, 2020, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      Mimic glue.

      However, he should be able to deal with it easily.

      • Dreadaxe
        November 4, 2020, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

        I guess alcohol doesn’t dissolve mimic glue from the inside. From the look of things, it makes him less able to control it.

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    • Zero
      November 4, 2020, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

      Gluing themselves to things is an ability mimics have. They’re sticky.
      I’m kind of surprised to see it referenced in this comic, though. I don’t believe it’s been referenced before.

      • Dreadaxe
        November 4, 2020, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

        It came up once during the baseball arc.

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        • Mary Catelli
          November 5, 2020, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

          Twice. In that he explained that gluing yourself to a raging barbarian is not a tactically sound move.

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          • Dreadaxe
            November 6, 2020, 4:18 am | # | Reply

            Ah, you’re right. Good memory. I had to go back into the archives to find that quote.

  6. Dreadaxe
    November 4, 2020, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, some dwarf representation! Love to see it.

    • Tsifira
      November 5, 2020, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      She’s not the first dwarf on here. Remember Plaidbeard?

      • CorruptUser
        November 5, 2020, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t forget the dwarf from the very first comic that gave our team their very first quest…

        • Dreadaxe
          November 5, 2020, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

          I remember, it’s just been a while since there’s been a significant dwarf character around.

          • Dreadaxe
            November 5, 2020, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

            Now that I think about it, I guess derro are a type of dwarves. I don’t know if that’s the same thing, though. They seem different enough.

            • Milo
              November 5, 2020, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

              Any association derro have with dwarves is pretty weak. They don’t get any of the dwarven racial traits.

          • Dreadaxe
            November 5, 2020, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

            Agreed. The Monster Guide on the site says they’re basically more subterranean dwarves, but they seem like distant cousins at best.

          • Lumin
            November 10, 2020, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

            I always assumed that derro were to halflings what the drow and duergar are to elves and dwarves.

          • Milo
            November 11, 2020, 3:46 am | # | Reply

            @Lumin:
            That would make more sense, but I do think that there is some officially-published supplement which claims that derro are mutated dwarves, even though that doesn’t fit their stat block or characterization at all. Damn writers can’t keep their short-statured races straight.

    • Will
      November 6, 2020, 6:03 am | # | Reply

      You’re sure she’s not a halfling?

      • Dreadaxe
        November 6, 2020, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        Yep, she’s up on the cast page already. She also has kind of a dwarfy build. Different from the halflings we’ve seen so far.

  7. Erica N.
    November 4, 2020, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

    This whole arc reminds me of an old Sandra and Woo comic.
    http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/01/03/0443-under-a-killer-balloon-episode-1-page-1/

  8. Wyvern
    November 5, 2020, 4:01 am | # | Reply

    “I keep my eye private…” Nice callback to chapter 1.

    • Bree
      November 5, 2020, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      Yup; I think he still canonically has it, just hidden.

      • Milo
        November 5, 2020, 8:16 am | # | Reply

        Which surprises me, since he said he wanted to respec it…

    • Wyvern
      November 5, 2020, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      The funny thing is, I checked the 5th edition Monster Manual, and the mimic artwork clearly depicts it as having eyes (several, in fact). Apparently they must have had eyes in 3rd edition too, even though it doesn’t say so, because in both cases they have darkvision rather than blindsight.

      • Bookwyrm
        November 9, 2020, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

        Looking back at the monster manual, their stats include dark vision, which does imply they have eyes… but that wouldn’t make much sense, as eyes would tend to stand out on a suppsedly inanimate object. Blindsight would suit them much better, if you ask me.
        That does open the funny idea that a mimic’s technique for hunting is… sleeping somewhere where some poor schmuk will be tempted to touch it.

        • Milo
          November 10, 2020, 3:55 am | # | Reply

          Well, that huge mouth Mimic has isn’t exactly good for hiding either, but he can hide it when he needs to actually disguise himself.

  9. TGY
    November 5, 2020, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    That’s definitely a drinking problem.

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  10. Corneel
    November 5, 2020, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    I assume that is “Dame” Tarta Moon-shiner, especially since Mimic knows she is trouble.

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  11. Squint
    November 6, 2020, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

    Is that a halfling wearing shoes?

    • Dreadaxe
      November 6, 2020, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

      The Belt of Genre Changing does change your clothes, but she’s a dwarf.

  12. Kree
    November 8, 2020, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Like most problems that occur in this genre, it’s a problem that can be solved with the application of more alcohol ????

  13. Philistine21
    November 10, 2020, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Huh, Tarta is listed under Allies with “Class: ?” and not Friends. I wonder if she’s going to be a party member.

    In the event that she is a permanent addition I’m guessing either Ranger with some kind of Urban focus or Sorcerer for her class.

    It’s a bit hard to be sure when we haven’t seen her unaffected by the Belt

  14. Goth Guru
    December 13, 2020, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

    What surprises me is Pony Life didn’t come up with that joke first. The pony’s hooves must make glue too.

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