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Chapter: Level 14 — The Mother of Invention
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Is frame 3 a scene of Presti learning to use her finger to perform Presti digitation?
I just tried upvoting and downvoting at the same time. It’s not allowed. Fiiiiine, take your upvote. But don’t think I’m not groaning.
Re: Alt text
Looks like the prodigal daughter wasn’t the princess.
Quite possible.
I’m worried about what’s going to happen next.
Ditto! Flashbacks to carefree childhood days almost never end well….
I don’t think someone with living parents owning an estate would get into as much debt as Presti did for her education.
Unless they cut off contact with their parents for some reason…
Well, the estate looks more “middle class” than “rich nobles”, and we have no idea how much a spellcasting education costs.
Eh, that’s just snob zoning that limits the number of residences on the lot. They’d be in much better financial shape if the board hadn’t rejected their attempt to re-zone it “multi-family residential”.
…I am so mad at myself that I never even considered that interpretation.
I don’t know if the alt-text was going for that. (Being a prodigy would make her “prodigious”, not “prodigal.” Or maybe it’s a highbrow pun?)
But whether or not the alt-text refers to the daughter, that silhouette very well might, so yeah: this looks like a bad surprise.
Excuse me while I panic about the airship being designed by someone who might not be the right person for the job after all.
You mean like the shadow in the door is a prodigal daughter to someone? It’s not impossible, but the shadow in the door isn’t displaying any prodigality, unlike the toddler doing cantrips.
I think it’s more that the shadow in the door looks like one of the big bads, so by going to work for the good guys, Presti is a prodigal daughter to them. Also I think the alt-text is going for that, even if “prodigal” isn’t the adjectival form of “prodigy” it’s still a pun.
Oh, I really could not parse that. But in that case,
I don’t think this is one of the four fiends we saw at the end of the baseball episode. The boiler stoker was very clearly the pink fiend(two narrow horns pointing straight up at the center of the head), but none of the four fiends have diagonal horns like the silhouette here.
Ha, well you called that right! Or at least the shape is not the shape of one of the fiends.
Call it a hallucination but the first thing I saw was someone with a pointy ear and a lot of reasonably long hair, arm raised into it
Wait! Wasn’t Roxy supposed to be the prodigal daughter (Elf raised by barbarians)?! Or Maddie (returned from the afterlife)? Or Antimaddie (separated at birth)? Why Princess?
Living among barbarians usually isn’t considered very prodigal. Nobility and royalty? Well, they’re supposed to be prodigal (kind of).
In the prodigal son story, the son has been away for a while only to return. Some folks who interpreted the prophecy that way were guessing the princess, since she’s the character who has been most notably away from her home.
It’ll be interesting to see if the prophecy goes off the actual meaning of prodigal (“wastefully or recklessly extravagant”) or the meaning it’s come to acquire (of returning after absence). Or both.
The interpretation is yet to be clear. Hence, the field is wide open for speculation.
We have no one to blame but ourselves if it turns out to be Stabs merely because we never thought of her.
Common mistake, you’re thinking of the prodigal Doogan.
At this point, it could be Ms. Bao
Could those be wooden figurines of gelatinous cubes? Or perhaps large unmarked D6s?
Then it’s a good thing they’re not D4s. I hear that it’s no fun to step on those.
You only HEARD that?
High-Int characters learn from other people’s mistakes.
High Wisdom. Intelligence can only let you know it’s not a good idea. Actually following through is Wisdom
I often say that Intellect is knowing how to do something, and Wisdom is knowing whether or not you should.
Indeed. Intelligent people can come up with a good idea. Wise people can tell them why it’s *not* a good idea.
im extremely high int, extremely low wis and cha. so I’m smart enough not to leave d4s on the floor, but will probably step on it if you leave it on the floor and scream like a little girl
D4s, or “caltrops” as they’re called in-universe.
She doesn’t seem scared… I think the silhouette isn’t the actually scary thing that’s gonna happen.
Perhaps this person just has a scary silhouette or is a friendly gnoll. Or maybe Presti is expecting someone friendly that she can hide from as a prank, and this coincidentally saves her hide.
That shadow in the doorway doesn’t have an 18 charisma, does it?
2d4+12 years ago?
Between 14 and 20 years
It’s also almost exactly half of the 1e wizard starting age (2d8+24) implying that Presti is enough of a prodigy to become a wizard in half the time it takes other people.
Hard to tell but I’d guess she’s already around d4+3 years old here, though. So not quite half the time but still a bit faster on average.
So, 26-40? I’d say Presti could be at the start of that age range, if we assume she’s 6 here and the scene is set 20 years ago. But then, she is a prodigy, so she could well be ahead of her peers.
That is 2d6+15 for a human in third edition, which I think the comic is more attuned with…
They searched the elven city for 2d4 hours
So, would hours and minutes of a day be measured with a d12, d6, and d10? Do stores open at d4+5 AM and close at d10+2 PM?