Level 12: #1
Chapter: Level 12 — Post-Mortem
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Sorry, Princess, but your castle is in another, er… location.
It is true that the last three levels have given them a lot to go over. Some is even actually post-mortem.
Post mortem.. It’s gonna involve whitey, isn’t it?
Probably Madeline. We still do not know what she remembered from being dead. (Or do we? Kinda lost track…)
We do not. However Madeline remembers at least some. It just hasn’t been shared yet.
Possibly both.
For some reason, I had to turn over the princess saying “use to” instead of “used to” a few times in my head.
The castle used to be somewhere else. So it *did*… use to be somewhere else?
I think she’s correct, and that I’d been saying it wrong in my head half the time. Auxillary verbs are weird once you start thinking about them.
“didn’t use to” is completely correct, yeah
It’s correct, but due to the set phrase nature of “used to”, many people will do a “double past” thing and use “did used to” without noticing. Especially since the pronunciation is the same anyway; people don’t say “usèd to” with distinct d and t sounds.
Shouldn’t she be pointing to the right, away from the forest? The castle didn’t use to be in the trees, that’s where it was headed when it was a golem.
Both are away from the forest. She had to emerge to get a clear view.
From her current position, presumably facing the castle, pointing to the right is in the direction of the forest near the castle.
Yeah. The right is the direction the castle was moving – ie in the direction of the drawbridge. She should be pointing to the left, which is where it came from.
Oh well.
So, ironically, Stabs is actually right here, when she’s supposed to be wrong, which itself would be irony. The scene is ironically unironic.
If it’s to the right for one person, it’s to the left for a person facing that one.
Is this really the first time after so many years we see Princess– SMILE? It is so uncanny!
She smiled in 10-34.
Wow, great memory! Thank you! (Still strange to look at nontheless, I think.)
For anyone reading the comments on an archive binge, also 1-23 and 1-39.
Looking forward to Real Princess meeting Fake Princess.
The Princess is aware that Roxy is filling in. (Placeholder for a placeholder.)
OTOH, Roxy is not aware that the Princess is aware. . . .
Imagine the look that will be on Malevolus’ face. Something tells me a gift of fungicide isn’t going to make it up to Real Princess for his little attempt at regicide after the Games.
This is going to give her some serious FOMO.
Thinking about the chapter title. Maybe the change of address for the castle causes problems for the undead mail carriers. Do they have undead mail carriers? If not, perhaps they will in the near future.
Maybe a mimic posing as an unassuming post meets a tragic yet comically-timed end?
I had to go in the archives revisit the story arc with the Princess and Mimic. I had no idea who the tied person on the Princess’s shoulder was.
That story act merely ended on Oct 13, 2021. Really not that far away (OK, a bit far away). Must be getting old.
I don’t regret the archive diving. Got the see again the wonderful panels with the guest artists.
When first we met Princess all the way back in Level 1, she was like this 20-something stuck in “rebellious teen” mode, with her anarchy shirt, smoking, attitude, etc. Still had a bit of it in Level 4, when her main source of grief was her boyfriend being turned (not that way). Then in Level 5 she was more like this grouchy boss in mid-life crisis, punishing Presti for exacerbating the royal hangover after the mage risked life, limb, and brain to save her Royal Hineyness from a Magic Missile strike.
The grouchy crisis personality continued in Level 8, during the Gnomish Baseball Games, which for Princess ended with her being ungraciously yeeted out of the Stadium by her recurring nemesis, Calamitus. After an attempt on her life by Malevolus, Princess had a moment of introspection and decided to leave her station without notice to her subjects, out of a misguided attempt to draw aggression away from them.
Then, most recently in Level 10, Mimic and Stabs find Princess in disguise as the seaside mob boss Ragnar Ruffenuff, hiding from her responsibilities as Princess while convincing herself it would somehow be for the best to leave her kingdom without its leader, and to her knowledge an empty seat that the likes of Malevolus would try to take advantage of. Then Mimic, Stabs, and Wade-ahem, Anti-Madeline come looking for her, and after a scuffle with one disgruntled dwarf pirate seeking revenge for her abrupt disinheritance, the Princess began to show signs of maturity when she changed her mind about killing the plaid-haired corsair, and further when she ceded to Stabs’ point that she can’t just ignore the jobs she doesn’t like.
Now Princess seems tired, yet more mellow, a sign that she’s finally, truly beginning to mature. She perhaps has finally come to realize she can’t solve every problem by either hitting it or hitting the bottle. She needs more than strength and butt-kicking martial arts to be a good leader.
When the fertilizer inevitably hits the rotating blades of wind, we’ll see how she handles adversity compared to her favored past tactic of angrily charging at the source of her problems in an attempt to inflict as much bodily harm on said source as possible. For there is no greater measurement of maturity than seeing how one handles matters that don’t go their way.
One notes that Ragnar Ruffenuff can not success by coasting. As him, she would need to use both force and judgment to keep her place.