Level 7: #97
Chapter: Comic, Level 7 — Circus Minimus
And that wraps up another level. Up next: the Critical Missives mailbag, where Rusty and the rest answer your questions to the best of their abilities. There’s still time to get your emails in!
Then on to level 8!
Aw, Mimic, we love you!
Gain.jpg?
It’s not four panels, but it does look suspiciously similar to the most famous webcomic page of all time.
Curiosity now demands I request further knowledge of this ‘most famous webcomic page of all time’.
I also would like to know.
They’re referencing ‘Loss’, the infamous Ctrl-Alt-Del ‘silent’ comic where the female lead suffers a miscarriage. The sole similarities are that the last panel features a girl in a hospital bed, and there is no dialogue.
Star pendant guy is in the right pose for loss, but with the gesturing hand and clipboard switched, so gain.png seems appropriate.
D’awww.
I second that “D’awwww”.
I third that D’awww.
Shut the D’awww. It’s draughty!
Fourth’d
Not gonna lie, seeing Maddie smile just made my morning. Just wanna hug her. Pretty sure Mimic feels the same.
Having no arms must suck.
On the bright side, it might keep you from hugging her, which might be a little rash in this situation.
I hope that isn’t Derek the Cleric. He looks derpy
I think the probability is high that this is our first glance at Derek. Would another Cleric do it for just flowers?
Mimic traded the gold for the diamonds to pay for the Raise Dead. He then brought flowers for Maddie. That guy just looks derpy to me.
never mind, I followed the sequence more closely. The flowers are for Maddie, Mr Star Amulet may just be the nurse at the hospital.
I think Mimic was just asking for directions at that point.
Your hopes and dreams have been crushed. CRUSHED! Mwahahahaha!
Oh, right. Diamonds for the resurrection.
I was wondering why the gem stone… and then DUH!! Now big smiles <3
Yeah Rez spells aren’t cheap, especially if you’re paying for the components and a caster, that said 100% worth it in this case.
Maddie ^_^
All warm and fuzzy now ^_^
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <3 I am beyond the ability to express coherent emotions aaaaaaaaaaaa <333
Wow, Mimic shelled out the entire price of the Diamonds for Maddie’s ressurection???? NOW THAT’S TEAM LOYALTY!!!
And a hell of a change or show of empathy by normally one of the greediest.
I like that the walking treasure chest carries his gold in a bag on his head.
Whoops, that wasn’t supposed to go there.
Anyway, is Mimic usually greedy? The Princess is the one who was hugging the big gold statue (and telling Rusty “No Eat”).
Mimic’s a true party leader. 🙂
Looks like he could only afford Raise Dead, though.. or there was no one who could cast Res. Hope that DING was also for her to at least get her level back. 🙂
Unless the spell’s changed a lot since I played D&D (which is possible– I was getting out of it around the early ’90s), Raise Dead should’ve been sufficient since a) Maddie’s body was intact and b) she was dead, what, a day at the most? And it’s still not a casual spell to get cast…
Starting in 3rd Edition, they added a negative level to Raise Dead and Resurrection, which can only be recovered by gaining enough XP to return to the level you were upon death.
Though Resurrection also restores you to full HP, and Maddy is clearly injured. So it was probably a Raise Dead.
If Raise Dead will do the job, springing for Resurrection is ridiculously extravagant. Why would you do that? Even if she had missing limbs, Raise Dead + Regenerate is thousands of gp cheaper than Resurrection. If all you’re worried about is hp, Raise Dead + Heal is even cheaper. And that’s assuming whoever they get to cast the spells (if Derek the Cleric is the same level as the rest, he can’t cast them himself yet) insists on them paying full book price. If they can get them at cost, only the actual raising has material components.
Perhaps they switched to Pathfinder? It would make that less harsh do to lesser penalties. Would also account for some of the things the party can do.
Perhaps the reality-altering eldritch horror in the sky did do something after all…
It is in Rusty & Co. witness how many bit characters have come back from the dead.
She was probably a few levels ahead of the rest of the party anyway…
I have to admit that brought a big smile and a few tears of happy.
Very nice. Also, I kinda want that last panel as a desktop…
Well, it’s blurry but here is an enlarged version. If you tell me what size you need I could try to make it fit.
http://i.imgur.com/mZoEuRV.jpg
Today I said goodbye, again, IRL, and seeing this… Yeah, I could use the tears of joy.
I’m so very sorry for your loss.
Thank you ^^
Romancing the party companions, that sly… box.
More of a “Sorry about the explosions” bouquet, but feels are feels.
…and also more “thank you for sacrificing yourself to save my life” than a sleazy come-on. But then, such a supposition says more about the person suggesting it, rather than the entity they’re suggesting it about.
BEAUTIFUL
I have spent some days in hospital, all alone, and know how it feels wen friends pop up just to cheer you a little.
Mike, this one is great
(And also, the bard wasn’t here to ruin this moment!)
OMG THAT’S SO CUTE!!! ^-^
For reals, it brought tears to my eyes, Mimic’s such a sweetie :3
😀
I can already hear the fanfics being written.
Yeah. Mimic-slash-Maddy, Cube-slash-Bard, Rusty-slash-Slobber (because they are both death to iron)…
I hear Elvis singing: “Uh-uh-uh, Uh-uh-uh
Yes-sir-ee, uh, uh
I’m gonna stick like glue
Yeah, yeah, because I’m
Stuck on you !”
Nah. Maddie’s sweet on Derek the Cleric. Or she just blushes randomly whenever she says his name.
That won’t stop the shippers.
We will cargo-ship to the bitter end, I tell you!
Well, it should. If there’s any character who deserves to be forever immune to crack pairings, it’s Madeline.
Gee, it’s like all these shippers have never heard of this thing called “friendship” before; people can’t show any sort of platonic affection for others without it HAVING to be a *romantic* relationship; I’ve stopped in on buddies in the hospital and cheered them just from talking and ‘shooting the shit’.
And yes, I brought flowers most of the time – having spent a few weeks recovering from an eye injury, you won’t believe how bored you get, and any little bit of colour or detail to add to the sameness is a GREAT distraction from the monotony. I’m even proud that one bro I gave flowers to ended up getting a green thumb at home after discovering how great Asiatic Lilies smell. 🙂
I agree to most other comments, that is sweet.
Yea, da feels. 🙂
Does this man that the advice for her was a ref to the tightrope trick she pulled?
I don’t think so. Here is what Zar told Maddie; “Miss Goodlaw: We learn little from victory, but much from defeat.” (Go here http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-7-16/, for the rest.)
The Tightrope Incident, http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-7-69/, I don’t think qualifies as it is a tactical victory for Maddie. Ala, I get past the baddies to save my friends. Others have thought it was http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-7-60/, but I think that is the Trident of Warning she pulled out of the haystack. Dying is definitely a defeat, especially with the level loss, so I think that is going to be it. Since she was brought back at the end of Level 7, I think we’ll find out what she learns in Level 8. These later levels have the stores overlap into the next.
Learn from “the feet”. It’s how she perceived the trap. All the advice are play on words or riddles. The one for Presti, for instance, “aim for the … juggler.”
And I still think our little pally is the long lost daughter of Jax
I still don’t know who’s paying Mimic in panel 1, or for what….
Based on what we can see of the letters on the window, I think Mimic is making a withdrawal at the Bank.
Or possibly getting a loan, which makes this sacrifice even bigger than I previously thought…
Okay, a Crowning moment of heartwarming.