Level 12: #4
Chapter: Level 12 — Post-Mortem
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I was today years old when I realized “creminions” = “cremini” + “minions”. As in the type of mushroom.
:facepalm:
You should check the Monster Guide (from the About menu at the top of the page).
It’s not entirely correct, though. It refers to gelatinous cubes as “mindless” whereas in the comic itself, we know that of Dorilys, Presti, and Cube, none of them took Int as a dump score.
(Cube is brainless but not mindless.)
Asking the Princess to promise something impossible probably isn’t going to end well for Dori….
I wonder if they’ll resurrect Whitey and Grawlf now that they’ve been fungicided. I suppose if Derek is 13th level, he could in theory do it. We know he’s at least 11th level for the planar ally spell to summon Bigguns.
(Or if it’s funnier with them around. I liked Grawlf in the games arc.)
Well, if Derek is the same level as the main cast, he just hit 12th level.
Planar Ally caps out at a normal run-of-the-mill 12 HD Astral Deva. Angelissa, as a deva with class levels, is far beyond that limit (her creator said she reached around level 30, though we don’t know her stats in this strip). So we’re looking at Greater Planar Ally minimum, if not Gate, leaving us with Hyssop at level 15 or 17 respectively. In any case, he would certainly be powerful enough to cast Resurrection.
Assuming the fungicide works as advertised, Whitey will pose an interesting case. I can’t currently recall why he got turned into an undead and not resurrected in the first place (need to binge the archive again), but we’re looking either at him getting restored to pre-undead state, or at a cooperation with an evil spellcaster to cast Revive Undead. I guess it depends on how autonomous Princess wants him to be.
He was introduced as undead. I think it was implied that it happened when the Princess was captured.
Remove Disease can usually cure fungal and parasitic infections without killing the patient.
Looking at Dr. Grawlf’s and Whitey’s very photogenic crania, I’d say we’re well past the point of ‘remove disease’.
Remove disease kills and gets rid of parasitic infections, so Whitey will have lost a lot of mass. If “destroyed”, he can then be resurrected, but not simply raised. The corpse might be made whole, then raised, but that’s an extra step.
The Princess still seems to have some fondness toward Whitey.
She keeps bothering to resurrect him, doesn’t she?
This will be the second time. And the first, she thought she’d get the Knight Wight back.
This calls for someone who can put the romance back in necromance!
Everybody always asks for a necromancer, but there are two other types no one ever asks for:
The mage who summons candy; The Neccomancer.
The mage who summons catgirls; The Nekomancer.
Just two?
The mage who summons opiates: The Narcomancer.
The mage who summons hook-and-loop fasteners: The Velcromancer.
The mage who enlarges stuff: the Macromancer.
The mage who shrinks stuff: the Micromancer.
The micromancer cannot cast spells, but will stand behind the mage’s shoulder and will keep telling them that they have the wrong quantities of materials, they should use a different wand, they should position their hands differently for this spell, they should pronounce the spell more clearly, …
And the one who gives great hickies – the Neck-romancer.
Common misconception. -mancy refers to divination. A cartomancer reads cards (eg. Tarot divination) or possibly maps if you’re feeling cheeky. A pyromancer sees visions in flames. An oneiromancer interprets dreams. A necromancer consults the spirits of the dead (which usually requires summoning them from the afterlife hence the broader meaning).
Semantic drift is a wonderful thing. That is the meaning of the root word, not the thing.
A spectrum of services is not dead, even though specters are.
Spectres are *un*dead, which poses a significant problem when encountered in the wild.
On the other hand, both spectres and spectra of services are incorporeal.
Exactly! Sir Isaac Newton named the spectrum as the disembodied essence of color.
Semantic drift is a horrible thing that should be fought against whenever it appears. We have a perfectly workable Greek root for what you want in -urgy (as in thaumaturgy), but no other Greek root for divination if you abuse -mancy into losing its meaning.
To be pedantic, the Greek root in thaumaturgy is not “urgy,” it is erg, “work,” as in “energy.” Thus, “metallurgy” is working metal, and has nothing to do with magic.
On the other hand, “thamato-” is “wonder,” so we could form words like “necrothaumatist” to mean someone who raises the undead. I doubt it will catch on, though.
It’s funny that such a sunny smile can evoke so much dread: Rigth now everything seems to be running exactly according to plans for the Marquis – and we know wich masters he serves…
If you foiled the villain from the start, where’s the story?
I’m sure someone has written that story… I am pretty sure I’ve never read it though…
You either fight the villain, or win long enough to become one yourself.
I think it’s time to ZoT Malevolous…
If Cube can be saturated with chemicals, imagine giving him some household detergent and hiring him to just slide through your home, cleaning the walls and floor.
I mean, Gelatinous Cubes are known for cleaning dungeon walls and floors just in general. It’s like the #2 clue that one might be on the prowl, if you notice that the corridors are suspiciously clean. (The #1 clue being if you open a door into a 10x10x10 room and immediately see a skeleton hanging suspended in midair somewhere near the room’s middle.)
A good lawyer would argue that this is entrapment, but I’m not sure there’s a legal case to be made against envelopment.
R.I.P. White Knight. You put up a great fight. Sadly, you fell to a barrel’s wooden might, much to a Derro dog tamer’s delight. Then you were turned into a fungus, by a doctor who kept his secret among us. Now you’re a pile of bones once again, after a gelatinous cube made you his din-din.
The Knight
He might
Get better
Sooner or latter
(See myself out…)
You know, I have to ask, because it’s bugged me since last week; Can cubes BE assimilated?
They don’t have a solid body, nor an actual physical brain, for the spores to take hold in. The spores would just…dissolve, even without the anti-fungal. Cube IS an anti-fungal.
Why risk it?
Okay, strap in kids… Grandpa Science is gonna try to explain… no that’ll take to long, I’ll sum up:
In the real world there are no “oozes”, so we don’t have anything like a ‘gelatinous cube’, but slimes are a close kissing cousin. Some slimes used to be classified as fungus, but that taxonomy has undergone some shake up lately, and slimes are now being reclassified away. Can slimes catch a fungus? I can’t find any info on that, but as slimes are single cell organisms, sometimes kinda big ones, and sometimes clustered as a group pretending to be multi-celluer. So I’m geussing a slime could catch a fungus… maybe. I dunno.
Okay, some follow-up:
Acidophilic fungi can and do live and thrive in highly acid environments, so yes it’s possible that their could be a type of fungi that could infest Cube. However, the creminions haven’t show this tendency so Cube is probably straight up ‘immune’ to them, but no reason not to go in prepared just in case they prepared for Cube.