Level 6: #68
Chapter: Comic, Level 6 — Fangs for Nothing
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A twist at the end!
But we did see those tents up front. . .
You know what’s Madeleine’s problem? Two tents. It’s going to give her a sharp back pain.
Wow! That’s perfectly awful… I LIKE it, but it’s perfectly awful. B-)
Two tents? Hey! I wasn’t told there’d be math in this comic!
Since the vampires have been using the python about, I’m going to assume that cleave-hand has a bow now.
if i were cleavehand i´d rather choose a big arm-mounted two-hand-used crossbow, ok, i´ts clearly too unacurate to do real damage and too slow to be usefull, but you can yield at the enemy “hey look! my weapon is bigger than yours” and kill him just by the psycological effect collapsig his mind as he realices how tiny is his (though it only works with males), and anyway rusty´s gonna eat the arrow in the end so you can´t expect a bow to do something more than that.
nah, truth is that archer is just using a new habillity: “ranged gibbs-smack” on her to remind her what was she going to use the rope to.
PD: now that i think about it i remember a comic where someone hired the gnolls to kill them so it shouldn´t be a “plot twist” but rather a recoming from an older plot
Since we were expecting this to end right now, I think this does qualify as a twist.
The best sort of twists surprise you while being obvious in hindsight.
That´s what i was talking about, all this lvl i´ve been thinking “and now come the gnoll, no wait NOW, no… now?” and so on so at this point, even if i have to admit the author has waited enought to catch me off-guard my reaction has been more like “oh, and there they finally are, they´ve taken they´re time eh” that of surprise, as with normal twists, it would have been a twist if a random dragon tries to steal rusty´s sack (and if it´s a metallyc one better, i want to know if rusty can actually eat one of those, that would put him on the top of the food-chain), or if the gorgon suddently tries to kill them, sumarising, something that changes the plot, this is more a rehearsal or “the returning of mister villiain” as we´ve denomined this thigs on my roll group, a master-crafted one, but not an actual twist, it´s just something of vocabulary.
You may have expected it, but that does not mean the rest of us did. I, at least, expected the current adventure to end, and for the party to get on another adventure next week, probably with Roxanne.
A plot twist does not have to come completely out of the blue; something in relation to a previous event can also be a plot twist. Moreover, this can go a long way to creating a sense of continuity.
It is true that the recurring villan is an often used trope. Not being a new concept in storytelling doesn’t disqualify it from being a twist, though. After all, that dragon out of the blue of yours would be a ‘rehersal’ of monthy python’s “and now for something completely different”.
Almost nothing is new in storytelling, but that doesn’t put a concept into some sort of ‘old and used’ basket wherin it can be nothing but a dead horse, albeit sometimes a well crafted one.
and now that i think so, you know what could be a great twist? the arrow to hit the gorgon and kill him, and then the gnolls to flee with no apparent reason, that would definetelly be a grat twist…
PD: in other terms, the gorgon says that the customer died, and they all act as if he were definetelly dead (if he revives erza will find the truth quickly), but if the vampire perks aren´t out he´s more than probable to come back from the dead at least once (on a d&d play long ago the “Mr villian, vi-count of evilness”, a very recurrent vampire created by an uninspired gm came back from the graveyard more than 10 times (the master later recognised he revived so much because he wasn´t suposed to die in first place, as he was supposed to end killing the king and taking his place on the 25th lvl to make things hard and epic at the same time and as ne didn´t wanted to create a new enemy he just made up the things on the fly, he even ended as a larva mage -a weird thing as he was no mage before- and after that his servant revived him as a liche and after as a demi-liche) but the first 4 it was just cuz vampires tend to regenerate almost everything, which is supposed to apply to ezra´s brother no?
Why you want gorgie to be evil? He is cute, yes?
Why you want Gordie beink evil? Is cute, yes?
The accent is hard to get right.
i don´t want gordie beink evil, he´s actually one of my fav. secondary characters, i was just describing things that would have counted as “plot twists”, what i really want to happen is anyone to tell me if rusty can actually eat a metallyc dragon, that´s what i really want
No. Dragons aren’t literally made of metal, they’re just all shiny. (There are probably some variants that are, but your normal metallic dragons aren’t)
PD2: making some algorithms on the shot´s trayectory it´s not going towards madeline, it´s mor probable that it ends up directly in the cube´s back (or front, who knows, even maths can´t explain which one is cube´s back side)
I actually thought it was going for Rusty’s lunch.
Eat arrowhead?
I was actually referring to the tasty sack of metal on his back.
However, if it hits rusty´s sack he´ll just think “MOAR FOOD, YEEEEEEEYYYY!”, and sitethise it in “eat arrow”, so no big loss
PD: now there´s not only IRONY here jajajajaja, god, that was the lamest of jokes xD
The arrow is going to make a ding noise, isn’t it?
This is driving me crazy. What WAS she going to use that rope for?
To help Rusty out of where he had fallen.
Oh, wow, that was way back from page 50! I forgot all about it.
wait, wait, wait……. this comic’s SCRIPTED?!?!?!
At first I thought the archer was Anti-Maddy. But the silhouette is not right. Above think it is a gnoll. Anybody have a page number to compare the silhouette?
Rusty! Eat arrow! EAT ARROW!
Don’t worry too much for Rusty, remember the Tentacallis made it clear to the gnoll that they wanted him alive….
It’s not Cleave-Hand, he’s well and truly, most sincerely dead. It’s the Grinner, remember he was hired by the Tentacallis to exact their revenge.
It may not necessarily be the Grinner, but one of his cronies.
Also, I can’t tell if that’s a scar over the gnoll’s eye or a glint of light.
“Q: Will we ever see _________ again?
A: Yes.”
~F.A.Q
Nobody stays dead in this comic. Remember when calamitus got digested? I’m just saying it would be impractical for cleave-hand to shoot a bow, and that’s exactly the kind of behavior the python would cause.
The first time we saw someone not staying dead was that dwarf in the beginning, who was eaten by cube and the “got better,” and he wasn’t very significant or liked, so no matter who gets hit with the arrow or who shot it, nobody’s disappearing anytime soon
I’m just using calamitus becouse he’s more ‘plot relevant’ so to speak.
Wow! This is in-tents! I camp wait to find out what happens next!
Oh, and will the arrow hit Anti-Madeline?
Rope of forgetfulness! Sweet, more cursed items.