Also Robot Dude, it’s been established that you dismiss variables you consider irrelevant without investigating their actual relevance. I question your math.
You really don’t need more significant figures in pi than you have in your measurement, and there are always limits to how precise a measurement can be.
Wait. If you can use the Python on itself; Why not use it on itself to give it the power to delete castles?
If it can be used on itself to make it from not being used with repeaters to being used with repeaters, why not ‘Can’t delete castles’ to ‘can delete castles’?
Methinks the robot is not as smart as he thinks he is.
He was precisely as smart as he thinks he is, until he used the Python on himself, and now he is not. It remains to be seen if this was an upgrade or a downgrade.
My prediction: each person in the castle will have one different quality/property flipped. One might be good>evil, one might be brave/cowardly, one smart/stupid.
We might see some pair swaps; I am imagining based on the set-up so far that Presti will trade in her Wizard levels for Fighter levels and that Mama Perkins will become a Wizard.
What if we randomly got some bad qualities reversed to good. Mimic becomes understandable. The Doogans become responsible. Roxy starts forming detailed battle plans that work…
The Python works great with binary values, but as noted by the Viscount, it would also require a lot of power (a sliding scale) to disappear a castle, and Rusty ate the vamp’s amp, so they’re having to make do with what they’ve got.
Anyone on Team Evil trying to attack the castle will be in the cone of the device. This could make the robot more humble and could make the bullywugs more effective, but I foresee unanticipated, interesting results.
0_0 … That robot (or modron, or something?) is much scarier than I had originally given it credit for.
I was a little disappointed when I found out this wasn’t the Grinner returned to wreak more havoc, but this guy is probably a lot more dangerous. Instead of having one solid plan, it has a ton of them!
Mike has to use homebrew characters because of copyright, so whatever this robot is, you won’t find it in D&D. If anything that makes this character more terrifying – we have no idea what this robot’s stats or abilities would be.
That makes it more interesting to my mind, and stretches Mike as a creator, which is good for us!
One might become lefthanded
Another one might become right handed
One might start to dislike their favourite food
A tall one might grow short
A short one might grow tall
Stabs might start to prefer cutting instead of stabbing
The Princess might stop smoking
So… how did he they the python back from YT? Is she okay? Is she back on team evil? You would think her people would have learned by now to keep it safe
In Level 8-191, the Viscount brought the Python back to the Rhyming Demons. Since this was before her adventure with Maddie and Rusty, YT is still on Team Good.
So, he put the Python on a tripod, so now it’s a Mounted Python? Now for something completely different!
On a more serious note, that might explain why Madeline did not immediately put the bucket on her head and exclaim something like “Wow! A Helm of Telepathy!”
There’s obviously at least one joke about Python repeaters that I’m not getting, given my lack of familiarity with guns, westerns, and/or programming languages.
so when does the Marquis try to betray General Maintenance and find out that 1987 of those plans involved the Marquis’ skull being used as a bowling ball?
Uh oh. Uhhh… guys I think we’re neglecting a big, big problem.
The castle, *itself* is alive, in a sense. Oozanka’s basically wearing it like a hermit crab shell. She is basically occupying the *entire* AoE of the Python Repeater. Given that, she may be the first, and most strongly, affected by it.
What if her trait of being harmless to the castle’s occupants gets reversed?
Wait… does that mean everyone in the castle who is good is going to sprout a goatee????
And what if using the Python on itself changed it from a normal artifact into an intelligent one that is just playing along until it can turn the tables on the construct. Possibly by making him illogical and irrational so he gets rusted.
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“The Python can be used on itself?”
“It didn’t, until I used it on itself.”
Also Robot Dude, it’s been established that you dismiss variables you consider irrelevant without investigating their actual relevance. I question your math.
“I question your math” – I would not be surprised if they have the annoying habit of rounding down Pi, when they find it convenient.
You really don’t need more significant figures in pi than you have in your measurement, and there are always limits to how precise a measurement can be.
Three ought to be good enough for most purposes, right?
I’ve memorized eight digits, which is almost always overkill.
You shouldn’t, in fact. This may lead you to rely on data that is not so precise as you think
22/7 is a perfectly fine substitution for most practical purposes.
He questioned his math, up until he used the Python of Mersshaulk on himself.
Maybe he was programmed in Python?
Wait. If you can use the Python on itself; Why not use it on itself to give it the power to delete castles?
If it can be used on itself to make it from not being used with repeaters to being used with repeaters, why not ‘Can’t delete castles’ to ‘can delete castles’?
Methinks the robot is not as smart as he thinks he is.
He was precisely as smart as he thinks he is, until he used the Python on himself, and now he is not. It remains to be seen if this was an upgrade or a downgrade.
Well, if you define the set of possible qualities like this, it’s almost infinite. The artifact’s controls probably can cover only a tiny part of it.
It was capable of giving itself that power, but then he used it on itself and now it isn’t.
So… evil versions of the protags episode coming up? Or Cowardly ones? What would be most helpful to team Bad Guys?
My prediction: each person in the castle will have one different quality/property flipped. One might be good>evil, one might be brave/cowardly, one smart/stupid.
We might see some pair swaps; I am imagining based on the set-up so far that Presti will trade in her Wizard levels for Fighter levels and that Mama Perkins will become a Wizard.
What if we randomly got some bad qualities reversed to good. Mimic becomes understandable. The Doogans become responsible. Roxy starts forming detailed battle plans that work…
We have seen Presti with Popeye arms before…
The Python works great with binary values, but as noted by the Viscount, it would also require a lot of power (a sliding scale) to disappear a castle, and Rusty ate the vamp’s amp, so they’re having to make do with what they’ve got.
OOH, is Anti-Madeline getting her own team?
Madeleine and Anti-Madeleine will just switch places.
I love the callback to level 6 with the Python!
https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-6-51/
Anyone on Team Evil trying to attack the castle will be in the cone of the device. This could make the robot more humble and could make the bullywugs more effective, but I foresee unanticipated, interesting results.
The repeater is slow-acting. A single attack will not yield any adverse side-effect.
0_0 … That robot (or modron, or something?) is much scarier than I had originally given it credit for.
I was a little disappointed when I found out this wasn’t the Grinner returned to wreak more havoc, but this guy is probably a lot more dangerous. Instead of having one solid plan, it has a ton of them!
It’s most probably an Inevitable. But you know what they say, “better a single good plan than a thousand bad ones”.
*Whirr click* 2301 bad ones….
Mike has to use homebrew characters because of copyright, so whatever this robot is, you won’t find it in D&D. If anything that makes this character more terrifying – we have no idea what this robot’s stats or abilities would be.
That makes it more interesting to my mind, and stretches Mike as a creator, which is good for us!
One might become lefthanded
Another one might become right handed
One might start to dislike their favourite food
A tall one might grow short
A short one might grow tall
Stabs might start to prefer cutting instead of stabbing
The Princess might stop smoking
So the python after being used on itself is now an Ouroboros ?
More like “I used the Reversal Artifact on itself so of course there are no unintended consequences…”
“I used the Python on itself” is the stupidest thing I’ve heard uttered by a villain in this comic and Sir Malevolus had himself a wholeass arc once…
I mean, at first it wouldn’t have worked with no unintended consequences, but these he used the Python on itself, and now it does. He’s done the math!
It’s the second time it’s been done, at that.
Exactly! And the Count should know how well that all went.
Bottom left panel: Using the Python so much seems to have converted its into it’s.
And converted the period after “Viscount” in the bottom right panel into a non-period.
Both issues have been fixed.
So… how did he they the python back from YT? Is she okay? Is she back on team evil? You would think her people would have learned by now to keep it safe
In Level 8-191, the Viscount brought the Python back to the Rhyming Demons. Since this was before her adventure with Maddie and Rusty, YT is still on Team Good.
How they got it is still unclear, IIRC.
So, he put the Python on a tripod, so now it’s a Mounted Python? Now for something completely different!
On a more serious note, that might explain why Madeline did not immediately put the bucket on her head and exclaim something like “Wow! A Helm of Telepathy!”
“Mounted Python? Stop it! Stop it! This is a very serious comic and there will be no display naughty bits!”
It is extremely funny to see ‘No, but I used the Python on itself and now it does’ come from someone who isn’t a self-absorbed hipster
At least in one area of expertise. It’s possible the Viscount can do better in other areas.
«I used it to make the castle not solid anymore. Hmm, it appears to become mobile as a side effect.»
“Well, I rendered the Python moot. I changed it so that it now makes a single quality of the target remain the same.”
“You can neutralize the Python?!”
“You could, but I used the Python on itself, and now you can’t.”
There’s obviously at least one joke about Python repeaters that I’m not getting, given my lack of familiarity with guns, westerns, and/or programming languages.
so when does the Marquis try to betray General Maintenance and find out that 1987 of those plans involved the Marquis’ skull being used as a bowling ball?
Uh oh. Uhhh… guys I think we’re neglecting a big, big problem.
The castle, *itself* is alive, in a sense. Oozanka’s basically wearing it like a hermit crab shell. She is basically occupying the *entire* AoE of the Python Repeater. Given that, she may be the first, and most strongly, affected by it.
What if her trait of being harmless to the castle’s occupants gets reversed?
Wait…
Is THAT what made the princess so verbose? I knew there was something suspicious about her speech!
Wait… does that mean everyone in the castle who is good is going to sprout a goatee????
And what if using the Python on itself changed it from a normal artifact into an intelligent one that is just playing along until it can turn the tables on the construct. Possibly by making him illogical and irrational so he gets rusted.
The multiverse does not allow for paradoxes, except in the universe where it does.
Very easily.
Everyone inside the castle is a “defender”. Specifically, a “Defender of the Castle”.
Flip it. Done.
“Offender of the Castle”.
Smartest =/= wisest