Level 6: #61
Chapter: Comic, Level 6 — Fangs for Nothing
By popular demand, the wallpaper version of that final panel.
Rusty & Co.
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By popular demand, the wallpaper version of that final panel.
can we have that last panel separate?
Going to have to second this.
third
All righty then.
Thanks.
Incidentally your wallpaper proves me right on the name, the lady is Ezra, not Konig 🙂
(I don’t know if it was clarified or not, there was this doubt.)
Good for her, never give up, never give in!
Okay, time to place bets on which off screen character will save the day? Mimic using the artifact? Rusty being hit with the artifact and eating dead flesh? Or the likely bet, the undead invisible lamia and her mysterious message of DOOM?
Either way, on pins and needles for the next few comics.
Called it. Using infinite monkey, sure, but still.
Great call-back to level 2.
Great spakling job.
This. Is. Awesome!
Yes! This is what Madeline so cool!
Ok, Madeline was always my favorite character, but this has just promoted her to Epic levels of cool 😀
The force is equal to the paladin Cubed. And may it definitely be with you.
Very nice.
nice pun 😉
Now that’s teamwork! Look like Maddie’s been taking levels in Awesome.
“Margery, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel -very- well.”
Out of idle curiosity, does it still count as a wooden stake to the heart if the wood is attached to a shovel?
Mayhap that would suffice, if that shovel is both silvered and holy?
“does it still count as a wooden stake to the heart if the wood is attached to a shovel?”
Short answer, yes.
Actually, you have two schools of thought on this. In Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula/Sherlock Holmes series, any iron/steel head wouldn’t go in in the first place. But that’s Bram Stoker’s level of vampire badass.
For “a certain well-known RPG game”-type vampire, as in Richard Lee Byers’ Unclean/Undead/Unholy series, as long as the metal head punches though the body to leave the wooden shaft through the heart…
However, contrary to Buffy-type vampires, in both above cases a wooden stake is not enough to kill the vampire. It will just render it helpless (which is nonetheless a desirable state to achieve, mind you). Remove the stake, and you will find suddenly facing a hungry and very pissed-off bloodsucker. As many clueless adventurers found out the hard way.
Only way to be sure: cut its head, insert carrots in its ears and boil it. With garlic or lemon, I don’t remember.
ROFLMAO
Actually that’s original vampire lore from the earliest legends. Remove the stake and the vampire re-animates. To keep it dead you are supposed to cut the head off and fill the mouth with either garlic or communion wafers and then, if I remember right, burn it.
Also I have to say one thing. Madeline with an assist for the win!
I would have to bet on Garlic, I doubt lemon would’ve been as widely available in Stoker’s era, let alone earlier.
And since there’s still some of Cube’s sword left, I think that they’d be able to cover the beheading part easily enough. Or they could just shove the whole disabled vamp into cube and just wait for the body to dissolve; I suspect that would work too, since the gaseous form would be disabled by the stake.
Assuming Cube considers undead hipster sufficiently appetizing.
The lemon bit (and the carrots) were a reference to Terry Pratchett’s novel Carpe Jugulum (dog latin for “seize the throat”). Written at a time before sparkling vampires became the fashion 🙂
The lemon thing predates Pratchett by a good long time – Saxony lore centuries older than Bram Stoker’s story.
And compulsive counting did not start with Count Von Count…. a scattering of mustard seeds could keep a vampire busy counting long enough to make an escape….
And, in some stories, the stake must transfix the heart and penetrate into the earth, pinning the spirit to the body and the body to the grave.
“Bram Stoker’s level of vampire badass” is an odd expression, considering that Dracula was slaughtered by a couple of guys with knives. Big knives, sure, and in his (last seconds of) daylight sleep, but plain steel.
Oh?
My bad, I must be confusing Bram Stoker’s novel with another book. I should read it again.
That might have been in her nature, you know, before the Python affected her.
I take it that this means she took Spring Attack..
She used this technique to get at Captain Plaidbeard’s ship, too.
I believe the technical term is “Owned!”
References to her canine ancestory are optional, but encouraged.
Immortal or not, that’s gotta hurt like blazes.
That vipster is going to need some Spakfilla.
Wouldn’t that be ‘vampster’?
Hampire?
I would be kinda worried about my hand if I stuck it inside cube…
She’s done it before.
She was wearing a glove, which would get a save v. acid per the materials versus hazards chart *and* since ‘cube is intelligent he may have decided not to try and have his pal’s hand for a light snack.
She’s wearing gloves here as well.
Boomf – spring – launch – spakk will be in my next AD&D session. Thank you.
Just found your comic and love it. Thanks for the read and I’ll definitely keep following.
Can G-cubes get a concussion if they land on their “heads”?
Perhaps a die roll to determine (d6 of course)
Now I have to ask was Madeline grabbing cube or vice versa?
From the motion lines, and the relative changes in position from panel to panel, I’m thinking that Cube grabbed Maddie, swung around to give her a landing platform, and she took full advantage of the tactical opportunity.
Awesome teamwork; those two have a really neat unspoken rapport.
The grab text is green, so it’s a Cube thing. 🙂 Green grabs the pally – o.
I agree with the others. Note that her hand is open – she’s not gripping anything, she’s being held by Cube.
No children for that vampire hipster, she’s just been spade…
Spade through the heart, and you’re to blame! You give non-hipster vampires a bad name!
That. Dress. Was. VINTAGE!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Vampy landed on/in Cube; does she get to save? Is she invulnerable? Febrile minds wanna know
That last frame may be my favorite frame out of the entire comic. All of which is awesome.
Should have taken her head off again though. Sure, it doesn’t kill her, but it slows her down more than stabbing her in the chest does.