To be fair I don’t see this conversation or the comic as making any headway… (sorry couldn’t resist). Somehow I don’t think this is the last of our vampiress… nor the last of the silly puns either.
She leaps over giant monsters with the greatest of ease…
She seems to prefer either cleanly beheading or getting her opponent to surrender…
(The wounds in panel 3 make it appear that she’s targeting the neck, and don’t make me start more puns with the word “disarmed”, just look at panel 2.)
She senses ranged attacks from behind…
As has been pointed out before, she prefers parrying to dodging…
And now, after being hit with a mace the size of a tree trunk, she….well, just LOOK!
she could the head off while holding the shovel in her right…. i’d guess she can fight with one or the other…. doesn’t matter…
also i want her shovel…. or is it a spade? i forgot…
I was always told that shovels were the pointy ones, and spades were square-tipped… but then why are spades (the card suit) pointy? Maybe it’s handle style – all the spades I’ve seen have short shafts with a T- or D-shaped end handle while shovels have all had long shafts with no end handle … In either case it would seem Madeline’s weapon is a shovel. (So useful when fighting undead – you can kill and re-bury them with the same implement!)
Is it just me or does Madeline have the most graphic on screen kills? Her sweet disposition and wholesome attitude while covered in blood is rather disconcerting.
It SHOULD be snicker-snack, but I seem to recall Vampires being immune to the beheading power of Vorpal blades unless it’s a natural 20, maybe I”m wrong though.
A vorpal weapon requires a nat 20 to function at all (and a critical confirmation roll). It also requires a head, and golems are immune, as well as undead, except (and it specifies this) vampires.
Then all you have to do is point them at each other. Divide and conquer — and slip away while they fight about which is the original and which the pale, cliched copy.
(Hmmm. looks at time. One suspects that someone may have gotten a visit from Sandy this week.)
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Off with her head!!!
That’s gotta sting. So cliche.
(And the small problem with divide and conquer is that if they can conquer you individually, dividing will do nothing much to help.)
She really shouldn’t have gotten separated from her brother.
Nor should she have gotten her head separated from her body. Rookie mistake.
But… but we never found out her name…
She’s just lost her head, nothing more — patience is clearly needed.
A lot of patience if it falls over the side of the stairs.
I knew that vampire was getting ahead of herself.
She should have quit while she was ahead.
For a moment, it seemed she was going to win, but Madeline headed her off.
Something tells me this discussion is heading towards a lot of silly puns.
Our necks are on the line at this stage.
I guess we better cut this short.
Knock it off. [couldn’t resist]
She’ll need to see her neckromancer about that! At least she won’t be creating any vampire spawn now she’s been spade.
Holy Crap.
To be fair I don’t see this conversation or the comic as making any headway… (sorry couldn’t resist). Somehow I don’t think this is the last of our vampiress… nor the last of the silly puns either.
I think this thread is about caput…
–Dave
Oh c’mon guys, she’ll do great. She’ll always be a head in undeath now.
Nice foot in panel 2, many artist can’t do them well, cause they aren’t shown that often, but that one is well done. Proves a good craftmanship.
Mike just likes to one-up Rob Liefeld. http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-15-2/
She wears flipflops? Isn’t that overdone? Not to mention incredibly hard to run in?
That was very well drawn. I actually winced. Now, gather round, chillun, and hear the terrifying tale of the Headless Hipster of Sleepy Hollow!
I notice that she fights with her eyes closed.
If you took the Blind Fighting feat, might as well use it, huh? 🙂
She always fights with her eyes closed, inspiring long comment threads about the possible reasons.
STAND BACK! She has her eyes closed!!
Because she believes in a fair fight.
Well, let’s see…
She fights blind…deliberately…
She leaps over giant monsters with the greatest of ease…
She seems to prefer either cleanly beheading or getting her opponent to surrender…
(The wounds in panel 3 make it appear that she’s targeting the neck, and don’t make me start more puns with the word “disarmed”, just look at panel 2.)
She senses ranged attacks from behind…
As has been pointed out before, she prefers parrying to dodging…
And now, after being hit with a mace the size of a tree trunk, she….well, just LOOK!
It’s all becoming clear now…
She’s not JUST a paladin…
She’s a JEDI!
Moral: do not mess with left-handed paladins.
she could the head off while holding the shovel in her right…. i’d guess she can fight with one or the other…. doesn’t matter…
also i want her shovel…. or is it a spade? i forgot…
I was always told that shovels were the pointy ones, and spades were square-tipped… but then why are spades (the card suit) pointy? Maybe it’s handle style – all the spades I’ve seen have short shafts with a T- or D-shaped end handle while shovels have all had long shafts with no end handle … In either case it would seem Madeline’s weapon is a shovel. (So useful when fighting undead – you can kill and re-bury them with the same implement!)
Is it just me or does Madeline have the most graphic on screen kills? Her sweet disposition and wholesome attitude while covered in blood is rather disconcerting.
In this case, it is hers.
***
I love you, Madeline!
Q: What sound does a vorpal blade make when severing the head of a hipster vampire?
A: You’ve never heard it before.
But the sound of a vampire’s healing is a “ssssss” hiss, in purple.
It SHOULD be snicker-snack, but I seem to recall Vampires being immune to the beheading power of Vorpal blades unless it’s a natural 20, maybe I”m wrong though.
A vorpal weapon requires a nat 20 to function at all (and a critical confirmation roll). It also requires a head, and golems are immune, as well as undead, except (and it specifies this) vampires.
As rusty once said, when she called it a vorpal halberd, “who am I to argue?”
Rusty is the rust monster! Mimic is the… I guess it’s obvious. 🙂
whoups. You’re right. I always was bad with names. 🙂
And she beheaded the Remorhaz too… Maybe it really is vorpal because she believes it’s vorpal?
Great, a Paladin Signer.
(Planescape joke, for those who are members of the Clueless)
She makes quite the compelling counter-argument.
I can honestly say I wasn’t expecting this kind of face off.
I mean… I thought she would take the vampire head on.
I’m sure that the Vamp was telling the absolute truth.
The beheading didn’t hurt at all.
And then the body grew another head, and the head another body. Oh dear.
Then all you have to do is point them at each other. Divide and conquer — and slip away while they fight about which is the original and which the pale, cliched copy.
(Hmmm. looks at time. One suspects that someone may have gotten a visit from Sandy this week.)
Why no update?
Hope you weren’t caught up in Sandy! Prayers going out for everyone affected.
Thanks to everyone who left inquiring comments and email. I’m fine and my friends and loved ones are all fine too. Lots of power outages and some property damage and shaken pets, but we’ll be okay.
Just thought I’d point out that if you count Critical missives, this is the 200th Comic. Congratulations!
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