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I mean, you go through all this trouble building a dungeon and the heroes can't even quip on cue?  SO lame.

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Level 6: #40

Chapter: Comic, Level 6 — Fangs for Nothing
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  1. Mary
    October 17, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Ah! Madeline, the soul of unironic attitude! She has found their fatal flaw!

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  2. Viashino_wizard
    October 17, 2012, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

    No, not the hat!

    • Mary
      October 17, 2012, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

      Remember Madeline has a magical clean-clothes attribute! The hat will be fine once she trounces the vampire.

      Or is rescued.

      Or the vampire gets distracted.

      Or, for that matter, the vampire think she’s too cliche and runs off.

    • idanbhk
      April 7, 2025, 9:24 am | # | Reply

      Izzet a problem?

  3. Korith
    October 17, 2012, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    Panel 1 – absolutely beautiful illustration
    Love the perspective used on this page!

  4. biffboff
    October 17, 2012, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Aaah, the “Whiff” factor – the bane of RPG combat design; should have been followed by “THACO” or “Crit”.

  5. Max
    October 17, 2012, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, if she hit Madeline with a hand, why is there blood on the mace?

    • Springheeled Jack
      October 17, 2012, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      I believe her hand is only flourishing. She backhanded again with the mace.

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      • Timber
        October 23, 2012, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

        Follow the action lines.

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  6. wanderingbishop
    October 17, 2012, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

    aaand instead of dodging, she backhands the giant stone hammer with a garden shovel, slicing it in half. This is why Madeline is awesome. Did I mention Madeline is awesome? She’s awesome.

    • Simon
      October 17, 2012, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

      It’s also proving a disturbingly effective weapon, for a garden implement… cuts through stone, cuts through metal. Is this a *vorpal* garden hoe, as well as being a holy avenger?

      • pasko
        October 17, 2012, 5:11 pm | # | Reply

        she said it was vorpal, so, yes.

        • Man in the Mists
          October 17, 2012, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

          I can’t help but wonder if there’s a Warhammer 40K Ork somewhere in her family tree.

          Quick, someone make her clothes red and see if she gets faster.

          • pasko
            October 19, 2012, 3:24 am | # | Reply

            Yes, that’s exactly how I picture her.
            She believes it SO HARD that her tool actually becomes a vorpal holy avenger.

        • Mary
          October 17, 2012, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

          It did cut off the remorhaz’s head.

        • Tim
          October 17, 2012, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

          While Madeline may not be able to lie, she could be deceived. But, the shovel going snicker-snack as it took the worm’s head is proof that she wasn’t, and it is indeed a vorpal blade.

          • Kenshin Ryuu
            October 17, 2012, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

            And apparently it has an adamant shaft. Or maybe Dark Wood. Regardless, normal wood couldn’t deflect a blow like that

          • wanderingbishop
            October 17, 2012, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

            My personal theory is that when someone tricks her into buying a garden implement claiming it to be a vorpal sword or something, she believes it so sincerely that her faith actually transforms the implement into a vorpal sword.

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        • Simon
          October 18, 2012, 11:19 am | # | Reply

          Ah, yes… I’d forgotten the remorhaz…

          • Acrox
            October 19, 2012, 1:34 am | # | Reply

            I remember playing once a game where a certain legendary weapon was, in fact, a hoe. The backstory involved, IIRC, some wizard who made his fame with weapon enchantments, but would also perform magic sharpening in more ordinary implements to help locals. At some point, he misplaced enchantments and ended simply sharpening the “would-be infinity+5 sword” while placing the enchantments meant for the sword in the hoe. The glad warrior killed the wizard, as usual, and yadda yadda. I can’t remember what it was, but the concept of “overkill farm implements” (and some very ornate weapon with crap enchantment) isn’t foreign to me.

  7. LurkerAbove
    October 17, 2012, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    Panel 2 – red door is watching open-mouthed
    Nice touch 🙂

  8. Sus
    October 18, 2012, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Captain Obvious to the rescue! 😀

  9. mrtt
    October 18, 2012, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    Why is she keeping her eyes closed throughout the fight?

    • Kd7sov
      October 18, 2012, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Her Blindfight modifier is better than her normal modifiers, is my guess. It’s quite consistent, though, all the way back to the first time we saw her.

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      • Simon
        October 21, 2012, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve always assumed it’s some power of divine guidance… close your eyes, have faith in your god, and the twenties keep coming.

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    • Viva Wereboar
      October 18, 2012, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps this is a game system where Intelligence modifies your attack roll, -except- when you’re fighting invisible opponents… or ones you can’t see.

  10. JoseB
    October 18, 2012, 9:13 am | # | Reply

    @mrtt: Madeline has *always* fought with her eyes closed 🙂 Check it out 🙂

    • mrtt
      October 24, 2012, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      Her always doing it doesn’t explain WHY she is doing it 🙂

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      • JoseB
        October 26, 2012, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        Maybe because she is using the “blind combat” feat and is of the opinion that, if you have a feat, you should use it? 🙂

  11. LurkerAbove
    October 25, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Maybe seeing blood would distract her too much during the fight ?

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  12. Iamus_Septimus
    October 12, 2014, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Say what you will about that Gnome’s stocks, he doesn’t skimp out on the enchantments…

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