Re: the Alt-Txt
If you and your bros are all saying the same thing and not trying to punch one-another, well, yes.
Although here, I’m not sure. I’m not certain if there are 9 distinct, individual Calamitus clones (they seem to act independently, not synchronously, so far), or if there is only a single puppeteer who is quickly body surfing/ego jumping/direct-controlling each ‘wraith’ in turn.
I imagine that the Viscount expects to seize and retain the reins of state, in the power vacuum that results from the Princess and most of the Kingdom’s other powerful figures being dead, disgraced (by letting this happen on their watch), or eternally digested by an eldritch abomination.
Going by the damage done to this stadium already, and the viscount having a possible in with the royal family or other figure heads of the kingdom, I would almost be willing to bet he just happens to have a brother who specializes in construction, with a cousin who just happens to specialize in coliseum repair.
It’s actually pretty simple. Kill the princess, and let the heroes deal with the big eldridtch monstrosity. What heroes, you ask? Look at the games, this is exactly the kind of thing that heroes sign up to do in their down time. They can fight and show off, but aren’t actually in TOO much danger of dying. He probably rightly assumes that half the stadium is filled with various heroes either playing or watching the games.
In a pile of that many do gooders, at least ONE of them has to be the Chosen One who’s turn it is to kill an Elder God today.
Mirror Image is a favorite to use against damage-heavy single-target strikers … make them guess, most likely they’ll miss their first attack, maybe even their second …
Gonna go with Simulacrum, or a variation thereof. I have heard it is exploitable to get multiple clones, but it’s weird. The Viscount could be helping it along, either way
I’m thinking of a simpler solution, Animate dead! Just “find” a few corpses of appropriate height & weight, dress them up and animate them. Instant army of “Calamitus”. And potentially the real Calamitus could be safely away in the dugout all the time. Not sure if an animated dead could cast spells though (so, if in doubt, target the spellcaster first).
Intelligent undead monsters can learn to cast spells (generally by taking levels of spellcasting classes). They are more difficult to reanimate, but epic-level necromancers, or characters who are the focus point of a religion, seem able to create such undead (I thinking of a famous half-elf/half-dragon/lich of a certain paper&dice RPG).
Alternatively, it is possible to paint/tattoo/stitch a spell on a zombie’s skin, making it a walking self-triggering magical wand. But that’s not the case here.
I think I’m done. This “level” has gone for now 175 ish parts. At a week per part (assumeing it comes out on time and its not once every other week) that’s over 3 years of waiting for this to come to a point. The first few “levels” moved very quickly from beginning to middle to end.
Epic games do happen occasionally. I remember one I DM’d several years ago that took maybe 3 years of real time but was only 1 year of game time. It wasn’t until the end that the group found out the sword one of them carried was really Bahamut the platinum dragon. Even comics have plots that seem to run on forever, just look at that never to be sufficiently damned Elf with a Gun in the old Defenders comic book.
BTW, I think the point was to have fun and an interesting story so we “got” to it pretty fast.
So was the idea of forfeiting the match of wraiths came from the wraiths, or the Draco’s team? Because initially it looked as if it was Draco’s smart plan, but now I’m beginning to think he might have been manipulated…
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Whoa. (Matrix reference kind of deliberate.)
Also… Calamitus isn’t looking so much like Skeletor this level.
Wow, did not see this coming. Score one for Calamitus.
Same here.
Now that was a hell of a reveal. Of anything that could have happened, that one came out of left field and took me by surprise.
Didn’t get the out, though. Princess is still up.
Indeed. DM’s Girlfriend is an immensely powerful prestige class.
Must have resist lightning in addition to that stoneskin.
That does seem to be what Mike was hoping back in strip 8-14.
“…if he had an army of assassins or could shoot lightning…” Nice foreshadowing.
*Read the linked page*
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*slow clap*
Well played, sir. Well played.
Thanks for the link!
Calamatus is turning into the Spanish Inquisition of this comic.
Re: the Alt-Txt
If you and your bros are all saying the same thing and not trying to punch one-another, well, yes.
Although here, I’m not sure. I’m not certain if there are 9 distinct, individual Calamitus clones (they seem to act independently, not synchronously, so far), or if there is only a single puppeteer who is quickly body surfing/ego jumping/direct-controlling each ‘wraith’ in turn.
The current question is: What does the Viscount get out of this?
Wanton destruction for no purpose doesn’t really strike me as his style, so I wonder what his endgame is.
At this point, I think we’ve got a gambit pileup of Mehpic proportions.
at least
I imagine that the Viscount expects to seize and retain the reins of state, in the power vacuum that results from the Princess and most of the Kingdom’s other powerful figures being dead, disgraced (by letting this happen on their watch), or eternally digested by an eldritch abomination.
In the words of one Petyr Baelish: “Chaos is a ladder.”
(And that’s why he’s dead; you can get knocked off that ladder far more easily than ascend it. I prefer Machiavelli…)
Going by the damage done to this stadium already, and the viscount having a possible in with the royal family or other figure heads of the kingdom, I would almost be willing to bet he just happens to have a brother who specializes in construction, with a cousin who just happens to specialize in coliseum repair.
Sometimes evil can be banal.
It’s actually pretty simple. Kill the princess, and let the heroes deal with the big eldridtch monstrosity. What heroes, you ask? Look at the games, this is exactly the kind of thing that heroes sign up to do in their down time. They can fight and show off, but aren’t actually in TOO much danger of dying. He probably rightly assumes that half the stadium is filled with various heroes either playing or watching the games.
In a pile of that many do gooders, at least ONE of them has to be the Chosen One who’s turn it is to kill an Elder God today.
Interesting idea. Swiped.
I just read through the entire archive. This is a very good comic!
Mired by a plague of doubt, the land, she mourns~
Ah, our old enema, Calamalol.
You know, I expected a targeted Dispel Magic. The bane of stacked buffs.
That’d be smart casting. Calamitus is more the type to brute force his way through obstacles with raw power.
Mirror Image is a favorite to use against damage-heavy single-target strikers … make them guess, most likely they’ll miss their first attack, maybe even their second …
I get the feeling this is more of a clone-based tactic. Calamitus likes throwing big spells around, rather than rely on actually clever tactics.
Well, this just means we get to see Calamitus die MULTIPLE times. Hopefully some of them are very humiliating!
Okay. Wow. I really did NOT see that coming!
Interesting twist. ^_^
I’m curious, what spell is he doing to pull that off?
Gonna go with Simulacrum, or a variation thereof. I have heard it is exploitable to get multiple clones, but it’s weird. The Viscount could be helping it along, either way
I’m thinking of a simpler solution, Animate dead! Just “find” a few corpses of appropriate height & weight, dress them up and animate them. Instant army of “Calamitus”. And potentially the real Calamitus could be safely away in the dugout all the time. Not sure if an animated dead could cast spells though (so, if in doubt, target the spellcaster first).
Intelligent undead monsters can learn to cast spells (generally by taking levels of spellcasting classes). They are more difficult to reanimate, but epic-level necromancers, or characters who are the focus point of a religion, seem able to create such undead (I thinking of a famous half-elf/half-dragon/lich of a certain paper&dice RPG).
Alternatively, it is possible to paint/tattoo/stitch a spell on a zombie’s skin, making it a walking self-triggering magical wand. But that’s not the case here.
Calamitus’s Chaotic Clones: House rule version of Mirror Image crossed with Blink.
I think I’m done. This “level” has gone for now 175 ish parts. At a week per part (assumeing it comes out on time and its not once every other week) that’s over 3 years of waiting for this to come to a point. The first few “levels” moved very quickly from beginning to middle to end.
I miss that.
Epic games do happen occasionally. I remember one I DM’d several years ago that took maybe 3 years of real time but was only 1 year of game time. It wasn’t until the end that the group found out the sword one of them carried was really Bahamut the platinum dragon. Even comics have plots that seem to run on forever, just look at that never to be sufficiently damned Elf with a Gun in the old Defenders comic book.
BTW, I think the point was to have fun and an interesting story so we “got” to it pretty fast.
Smash hulk!
So was the idea of forfeiting the match of wraiths came from the wraiths, or the Draco’s team? Because initially it looked as if it was Draco’s smart plan, but now I’m beginning to think he might have been manipulated…
Not so much manipulated as being ordere, isn´t it? It seems the viscount is master of not one or two but a whole bunch of puppets…
Personally, I’m expecting the big eldritch monstrosity to be the thing that snaps Maddie, very coolly, out of her funk.
hey skeltors back. and he has some friends