Level 13: #25
Chapter: Level 13 — That Old Elvish Spirit
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Mary Catelli’s comment from last week, about plans, still applies.
At least they are not being hotly pursued. I suppose that’s progress.
They are getting better. This time the attack actually hit the target.
Cube will get shit done.
Either that, or we’ll find him in some sort of elvish spa, acting as a revolutionary new beauty treatment.
At least the ghost is causing enough trouble anyway, so they can use plausible deniability for damages.
Yes, but what’s more, their failed plans might even turn out to be a net positive; overall damage might actually be lower than if the ghost could wreak havoc completely unobstructed. They keep him (somewhat) busy.
Of course the question remains how long they (elves + rusty+co.) can sustain this war of attrition. If the rate of damage the ghost inflicts is higher than the elven ability to repair the damage, it’s only a matter of time before there’s nothing left to deface and nobody left to terrorize. Maybe not the best strategy in the long run, from the ghost’s perspective, assuming that he wants to keep his job.
Two more plans and then she’ll have to throw in the towel.
«No. Not Plan B. Plan 2. “Plan B” implies we only have 26.»
– Cyclops, X-Men
As any deplorable Excel geek/victim (such as yours truly) would interject, Z is not the end of the story. We still have plenty of two-letter combinations left. AA, AB, AC…
Plan AA is when all your plans failed and you turned to drinking.
Plan AAA is when you tried so hard you need assistance for your car.
And Plan XXX is ye olde standard Bard routine # “bow chicka wow wow”.
Plan BBB is when the Adventurer’s Guild isn’t treating its employees fairly
True nerds would point out that Unicode currently has over 150 000 characters, so why limit yourself to the Latin alphabet?
Yeah but everybody knows we can’t possibly go beyond 65535 or the universe will implode. Although that might incidentally also solve the ghost problem, so…
Was that an Acme trip wire?
It’s dental floss. Roxy’s going through the items from 13-14.
That means the next plans will involve four bananas, an eyepatch, and a towel.
Excellent catch.
Wow. That is some STRONG dental floss! It’s stronger than the post, which is in turn stronger than the building facades.
You think leaf licker engineering can match up against proper craftsdwarfship?
“Elven infrastructure is no match for dwarven dental floss.”
I confess, if I was a player I would be yelling about DM shenanigans!
Who is this guy? The Aquamarine Surfer?
That dwarven dental floss is clearly made of adamant strands, has the dwarf fortress dug too deep? Will the clowns be released?
I think the next plan should be “Rusty??? Eat board!” It’s solid enough for to be caught by the dwarven dental floss, so Rusty should be able to eat it. If not, at least he tried.
Well they kinda need the board, right? For want of nail and whatnot.
That’s the thing they’re trying to get back.
It’s not the board they need, but the stone embedded in it. Eating the board would make it easier to access the stone.
On the other hand, the board might not be metal. Of course, it *is* stronger than the lamppost’s anchors, so maybe it *is* metallic.
There is no “stone embedded” in this board. As others have said, I also suspect the ‘board’ is the stone. As in it is stone and it is the artifact itself.
Yeah, we saw both sides of the board last page, there’s no stone in there.
Oh Roxy I know that ACME has good prices and quick delivery, but honestly choose a better catalogue!
Unrelated to the current day’s comic, but I dreamed that the ultimate resolution of this plot arc was to invent extreme sports and give the ghost something to be distracted by, and somewhat more constructive on top of that. It doesn’t really fit the theme they’re going for, but that’s what the dream said it was.
I think they just need to talk to him and explain they need the board to make a bitchin magitech airship and invite him to help crew it. I think he’s just bored, give him some adventure and he might just be onboard…
Eh, eh? Onboard?
I’ll see myself out.
Do we want a reckless thrillseeker on a mission that could decide the fate of the entire world?
I’m jealous. Dreaming about this comic sounds awesome.
Roxy introducing dwarven deities to the elven city (Clanggeden, Clanggeden,…).
My question from last week (bottom comment, sob) remains unanswered.
Why would it only be hypothetical?
I don’t think the events here work as hypotheticals, because they show information Roxy didn’t have when she left Rue’s office and events that could be avoided if Roxy put them in a hypothetical.
Roxy has no way to know that Skippy has enough force behind him to break elven lamp posts or that he could notice her sneaking.
Including “And then we hit an elf behind Skippy” in a hypothetical doesn’t make sense, because the hypothetical could just involve making sure Skippy isn’t in front of an elf when she fires her slingshot.
That ghost is a pole lotta trouble.
Chase Ghost, Post to Post!