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Chapter: Comic, Level 7 — Circus Minimus
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  1. Baldric
    September 18, 2013, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

    You can tell Dinkum is distraught : he missed the opportunity to sell a gardening tool to Madeline.

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    • TBeholder
      September 23, 2013, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

      And that’s why Madeline is distraught.

  2. spudwalt
    September 18, 2013, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, but thinking and planning before rushing in is necessary to prevent things from going horribly wrong later.

    And yeah, Madeline’s totally going to need a rake or something. Maybe she’ll come across a fey garden or something.

    • Anonymoose
      September 18, 2013, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      Keep in mind Madeline has an Intelligence Score somewhere between zero and five.

      • Ed8
        September 18, 2013, 6:35 pm | # | Reply

        It can’t be less than 3, she’s human and not blonde, so she has no racial modifiers. I actually think her Int is about average. (The average person tends to vastly overestimate how smart “average” intelligence is.)

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        • Baldric
          September 18, 2013, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

          At least, we can all agree that her Bluff and Sense Motive skills are somewhere around -20.

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          • Ed8
            September 18, 2013, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

            True, but Maddie would regard Bluffing as dishonest anyway.

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        • Mary
          September 19, 2013, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

          We know it’s her dump stat.

      • Zzzzzx
        September 19, 2013, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

        I noticed she speaks monosyllablicly (think that’s a word).

        • bonless
          September 19, 2013, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

          You may have doomed some of us to an archive run.

          • Bubbles
            July 1, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

            Just looking a few pages back she uses some multiple syllable words like paladin and gotta.

        • enigma2378
          February 10, 2018, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

          Polysyllabic.

      • Rpgamer
        September 20, 2013, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        honestly I pegged her int at an 7 or 8, its obviously her dump stat but she doesn’t seem so bad off that i’d assume more then a -1 modifer.

        • Pat
          September 20, 2013, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

          7 is -2.

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    • Nebulous
      September 18, 2013, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      And what’s even worse is that they keep their eyes open when they’re fighting.

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      • Ed8
        September 19, 2013, 12:38 am | # | Reply

        That’s just craziness! How do they ever manage to hit anything with their eyes open?!

        • TBeholder
          September 23, 2013, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

          No wonder they are always distracted.

  3. VivaWereboar
    September 18, 2013, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    Is that… -thing- Stabs is eyeballing in Panel 5 a cameo of some kind? Looks like a corporate icon for a company that makes childrens’ toys, candy, and nerve gas.

    • Ed8
      September 18, 2013, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

      I think I know the company you are referring to. Aren’t they the makers of “Happy Fun Ball”?

  4. Thisfellow
    September 18, 2013, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    This is the first time I noticed just how skinny prestige is.

    • Anonymoose
      September 18, 2013, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Well duh, she’s a Mage, they only get 1d4 hit dice.

      You can know every spell in existence, or you can have a body that isn’t anemic and wasted, but not both.

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      • Thisfellow
        September 18, 2013, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

        I think I can’t both agree on this and that she remained unscratched earlier becouse of her high con.

    • VivaWereboar
      September 19, 2013, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      Well, none of the ladies have the right build to join the Womens’ Olympic Weight-Lifting Team. Except Stabs, who has the right body shape but the wrong tonnage…

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  5. Junii
    September 18, 2013, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

    What… I think we all know how well Roxie’s rapier wit will be handled.

    • ArchaeanDragon
      September 19, 2013, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

      Perfect weapon for a bard..

      Now she just needs to tell really bad puns whilst using it. 😀

      oots++

      • Ed8
        September 21, 2013, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

        Doesn’t she have to take a level in Dashing Swordswoman first for that to work? Now, is that a level up, or up a level, or would they have to go down a level first for her to level up….

  6. msyendor
    September 18, 2013, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    Darn, that party was last week? Why didnt someone tell me it was going on? I just found this recipe for cotton candy wrapped bacon that I’m going to try for Holloween

  7. TehTimmah
    September 18, 2013, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    She’s an elf bard, of course she knows how to use a rapier. I only hope she has weapons finesse,cuz she aint gonna get much of a strength bonus.

    Of course something just occurred to me, other than Dink, do the heroes know any guys?

    • Number 6
      September 18, 2013, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      Sure: Robespierre, Sir Malevolus, Grinner, The Princess’s Wight boyfriend, Plaidbeard, Calamitus(Maybe?).

      One might wonder, though, if they know any guys who aren’t out to kill them.

      • DocSavage
        September 19, 2013, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

        Remember? The Wight Knight was turned a few levels ago.

        I’m wondering if that old sword will turn out to be a real Holy Avenger that only activates in Maddie’s hands? Hope not, I like our garden tool paladin the way she is =)

      • Rpgamer
        September 20, 2013, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        didn’t Plaidbeard get a magic missile droped on him? or am i remembering wrong?

        • Plaidbeard
          September 21, 2013, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

          Just a flesh wound! No problem, I’ll be fine, don’t worry ’bout me.

        • Mary
          September 23, 2013, 9:29 am | # | Reply

          Having Cube eat you is no obstacle to a long and happy life in this comic.

          Even twice.

          A mere magic missile? Pshaw — wouldn’t stand a chance.

      • WJS
        October 3, 2016, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

        Korg has shown up a few times as well.

  8. TehTimmah
    September 19, 2013, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Ah, right,the Wight. I mean,they’ve encountered a bunch of guys, but almost all of them have been on the business end of a weapon or spell. Gordie the Pizza Dude might count later on but he would be about the only guy they spend any time with, and I suspect that will only be for food

  9. RedEye
    September 19, 2013, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    wait, Stabs is not staying behind? Might she actually be part of an adventure start to finish? ’bout time!

  10. Thisfellow
    September 19, 2013, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

    Roxy’s gaining new abilities by the gallon it seems.

  11. AMRIV
    September 19, 2013, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

    I kinda wonder if it’s more than “plus one old rapier” and is actually a +1 old rapier.

    • WJS
      October 3, 2016, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

      Well, by level 7 you’d hope they’d have magic weapons. Low-magic campaigns are kinda punishing if the DM doesn’t remember that the standard CR for things assumes regular gear.

  12. LurkerAbove
    September 19, 2013, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

    It looks like Stabs is carrying a sack with provisions for a whole week 🙂

    Also, Madeline didn’t get a new weapon – how is she going to fight ?

    • TehTimmah
      September 20, 2013, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      someone will convince her a pair of garden trowels are actually powerful daggers of some kind, which she will promptly use to kick butt

    • Number 6
      September 20, 2013, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      Sure, make the 3 ft tall member of the part carry the 50lb sack

      • RedEye
        September 20, 2013, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

        yep, finally somebody else spotting the anti-halfling bias around here.

        • Sam
          September 21, 2013, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

          Oh, it’s like that everywhere. You’ve got some incredibly dangerous mission into the heart of enemy territory with no hope of survival, with relentless undying trackers on your heels the whole time, to carry an artifact that rots your very soul just by holding it, leaving you an empty shell even if you do survive, who do you give that to? The ultra-powerful Wizard? The high-level warrior? No, the halfling of course! Hmmmph!

          • Daniel
            September 22, 2013, 8:29 am | # | Reply

            There were two very specific reasons for that:

            1. The artifact had a greater effect on you the more powerful you were. Halflings were largely resistant to that effect.

            2. He’d already been exposed to it for a while, so minimizing spread seemed appropriate.

          • Sam
            September 22, 2013, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

            Oh, there’s always some excuse for it, but at the end of the day, it’s always the halfling that gets the short end of the stick.

      • Mary
        September 25, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

        This is Stabs. You would probably have to fight to get it away from her.

  13. Envisioner
    September 21, 2013, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

    Tsk. I have previously liked Madeline a lot, but her automatically equating intelligence with deviousness is not something I approve of, as it’s a fallacy that runs rampant here in America, and leads overwhelmingly to the incompetence of our leadership and the decay of our culture.

    • Ed8
      September 21, 2013, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Except that she is completely correct that deliberate obfuscation of meaning through the use of unnecessarily verbose, esoteric, obscure, or archaic language and, even more significantly, avoidance of responsibility through inaction masquerading as “planning”, is a sign of deviousness; and I would maintain that it is primarily that which leads to the incompetence of our leadership and decay of our culture, rather than a distrust of intelligence (which is hardly uniquely American, but is common to essentially every known human society throughout history as it is simply ingrained human nature.)

      • Lady Jenn
        September 22, 2013, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        I support Maddie’s distrust of people using large words to mask intent. You can lie just fine using normal language! It’s the ones using the big words that are ACTIVELY trying to confuse and mislead you rather than just lying. It sets up for future snowball lies. Like, you know, politics. Those speeches are very carefully run through the wordsmiths to ensure maximum obfuscation. Although using large words doesn’t make you smart.

        That having been said, it’s a Bard (and an elf at that), a Mage, and another Mage she’s talking to, you can’t expect normal language from creative or magical folks. Then there’s Stabs, who seems to always make HER point(s) very clear!

    • TBeholder
      September 23, 2013, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      The fallacy that runs rampant there in America is that using long words is the same as being smart. Outside of America, this notion is present just as widely, but typically wears out at the age 9, tops. :]

      • Sam
        September 23, 2013, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

        Whereas after age 9 they prove their intelligence by pretentiously bashing other countries from their safely anonymous position on the internet, it would seem.

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        • Lady Jenn
          October 2, 2013, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

          Funny, I’m an American living in Europe and I find WAY more people here trying to fancy up their lingo with longer, typically incorrectly used words than Americans. Most Americans prefer very short, concise, and often impolite language where I’m from.

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    • WJS
      March 19, 2016, 4:15 am | # | Reply

      I think the worst part is that she thinks they were using big words before the last panel. That last one was pushing it a bit, but before that?

  14. Baldric
    September 21, 2013, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

    On a different subject, I wonder what the Encounter Table for the plane they’re walking through is like ?

    • Number 6
      September 21, 2013, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      A cross between Alice in Wonderland, an acid trip, and My Little Pony? (ugggggh! ~shivers~)

      • Lady Jenn
        October 2, 2013, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

        Aw man….. I don’t wanna encounter any mobile cards with screaming baby heads mounted on butterflies with horse legs and unicorn horns! At least not again!

  15. RedEye
    September 22, 2013, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

    In Wonderland it is d3, d5, d7, d11, d13, etc
    all dice have a prime number of sides

    • Ed8
      September 22, 2013, 10:45 pm | # | Reply

      Except on Wednesdays.

  16. WJS
    October 3, 2016, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

    Aw, no Maddie… They just want to rescue their friends, not die in the attempt.

  17. RealityUnhinged
    March 13, 2018, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    Maddie rushes in?

    -RU =)

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