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Chapter: Comic, Level 8 — Wait… is he seriously doing a baseball episode?
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  1. Jaded Cynic
    September 4, 2019, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    And so, EVERYONE comes together to help repel this universally unwanted intruder.

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    • Mary Catelli
      September 4, 2019, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah. Anti-M helping saving the world — how ODD.

      • Rock
        September 5, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

        Not really. She likes to blow stuff up and ruin other people’s day.
        Now she got to cause a BIG explosion and ruin the day of an eldritch abomination that might have ruined her playground. It’s all win for her.

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        • mucat
          September 9, 2019, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

          “The world is where I pull some of my best sh*t.”

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      • Fal
        September 5, 2019, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        Chaos is, Chaos does.

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        • Wyvern
          September 7, 2019, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

          Some people just like to watch the world go ka-BLAM.

          3
          • Mary Catelli
            September 9, 2019, 8:30 pm | # | Reply

            She’s clearly a bit conflicted about it.

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  2. SomeGuy411
    September 4, 2019, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    I don’t care your alignment-blowing up eldritch abominations is FUN

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    • Marvin the Martian
      September 4, 2019, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      Absolutely, it’s a blast!

      4
      • A Lexus, order 3 cans of creamed corn
        September 4, 2019, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

        Frankly, I find the adrenaline rush to be downright explosive!

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        • Jaded Cynic
          September 10, 2019, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

          You could say the compulsion to let an outburst happen is all-consuming.

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  3. Cygwulf
    September 4, 2019, 11:08 am | # | Reply

    Anti-Maddie doesn’t care who get’s blown up, as long as there is -someone- exploding.

    3
    • TGY
      September 4, 2019, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

      CHAOTIC evil, thankyouverymuch. There’s a definition that fits, somewhere…

      2
      • mike stone
        September 5, 2019, 1:40 am | # | Reply

        “I am compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility”

        • Verycoolname
          September 6, 2019, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

          I always thought it was ‘f%$# it, why not? I’m not the one who’s gonna pay for it.’

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  4. IRS Agent
    September 4, 2019, 11:26 am | # | Reply

    Since she took out an eye, we’ll have to call her Madelne now.

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    • FanOfMostEverything
      September 4, 2019, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      That or Ant-Madeline. Which still works.

      2
      • Thorr-kan
        September 4, 2019, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

        You can *BOTH* go to your rooms. You know what you’ve done.

        (Terrible, terrible puns…)

        1
        • Mary Catelli
          September 7, 2019, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

          You thnk so?

          1
  5. Will
    September 4, 2019, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

    To blow something up or not to blow something up, that is the question. Oh wait, no it isn’t. When in doubt, explosions.

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    • Torn
      September 5, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      *ears ringing* “What?!”

      • Jaded Cynic
        September 10, 2019, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

        “Play anything, just play it LOUD!!!”

  6. Temia Eszteri
    September 4, 2019, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

    Watch out for the falling bits.

    • HappyHead
      September 4, 2019, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      You wouldn’t want that thing to have it’s eye on you.

    • Fortis
      September 6, 2019, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

      Gotta keep an eye out for them.

  7. mucat
    September 4, 2019, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    “As the size of the explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero. And I have no regrets.”

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    • A Lexus, order 3 cans of creamed corn
      September 4, 2019, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

      “…and that would be wrong.”

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      • Rock
        September 5, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

        I applaud both of your OOTS-fu. ^_^

  8. HKMaly
    September 4, 2019, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

    WHY don’t she get XP for that?

    • Rock
      September 5, 2019, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      It’s a group effort. Presumably so many people are attacking the eldritch abomination that the individual XP gain is minimal.

    • Jaded Cynic
      September 10, 2019, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

      …also she was hired by the Viscount to BRING about Ar-MEH-geddon; so taking action in PREVENTING it from completing would negate any XP that she would’ve earned for doing the job. (and as stated, the XP for purely taking out that extradimensional abomination is being shared so broadly as to be negligible)

  9. Composer99
    September 4, 2019, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    Thus endeth the Ar-meh-geddon.

    I won’t say sorry if that’s already been done, because that would be a lie – I don’t feel sorry.

  10. Athaic
    September 4, 2019, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

    As above, so below.
    Madeline is the perfect Paladin. All Good, all Lawful.
    So it makes sense that Anti-Maddie is her perfect opposite.

    And as everybody who had to suffer a Chaotic character in their party, these type of people cannot pass an occasion to make things go boom.

  11. Matthias von Schwarzwald
    September 4, 2019, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, those faces. Beautiful.

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  12. TGY
    September 4, 2019, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    Throw another shrimp on the barbie..WOAH! big one. USE MORE HIGH EXPLOSIVE. That did it. Blow’d up real good.

    Pass the Dave’s Insanity Sauce.

  13. msyendor
    September 4, 2019, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    Myth-busting go boom

  14. Marcus Surrealius
    September 4, 2019, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    A sufficient quantity of low explosives in high places…

  15. Snuff
    September 4, 2019, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

    … and this means Anti-Mad chose NOT to push the button when the bag was over home plate … interesting …

    • Eric J Weatherby
      September 4, 2019, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

      Being Chaotic means that you’re never required to do what people expect. 😉

      • Rock
        September 5, 2019, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        She was probably as mesmerized by the exchange between Robespierre and Draco as the rest of us were.

        • Mary Catelli
          September 5, 2019, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

          Or possibly she found Angelissa and the abomination more interesting and will never know what she missed

    • Simon
      September 5, 2019, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

      I figure it’s like this – she has the detonator to a big bag of explosives. It’s not about whether she’s going to blow something up… but if she only has the one bag, then it’s very important to chose the right moment. I figure that’s what’s going through her head in those four panels… asking herself “is this the most bang I can get from this bag?”

  16. MicrowaveMan
    September 4, 2019, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

    Chaotic Neutral means never having to say no.

    • A Lexus, order 3 cans of creamed corn
      September 4, 2019, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

      Being Chaotic Evil means never having to be told no.

      • Simon
        September 5, 2019, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

        Chaotic evil means blowing up anyone who tells you no.

  17. Dakkath
    September 4, 2019, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

    I just have one question for you. EXPLOSIONS?!

    • Scarlet Knight
      September 5, 2019, 5:58 am | # | Reply

      Reminds me of the finale of “The Natural”… There goes Robspierre…the best there ever was.

  18. Man in the Mists
    September 4, 2019, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    So, those of us on this side of the fourth wall, are we safe from Anti-Madeline when she finds out what’s in the alt-text?

    • DStaal
      September 5, 2019, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      We’re not safe either way.

  19. TB Tabby
    September 5, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Push the button, Fra–er, Anti-Maddie.

  20. blot runner
    September 5, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    “Henderson here. Figured out what the nasties are weak against.”
    “What’s that, Mr. Henderson?”
    “Point blank annihilation.”
    ‘click’

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    • TBeholder
      September 5, 2019, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      Well, not “point blank”, since this one wasn’t ramming. But other than that, yes.

    • A Lexus, order 3 cans of creamed corn
      September 5, 2019, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

      Also works on Zombies. And Orcs.
      And Zombie Orcs.

    • Taytay
      September 7, 2019, 4:25 am | # | Reply

      I was unfamiliar with Old Man Henderson until tonight, and now I am enlightened. Thank you.

  21. Angel
    September 5, 2019, 4:07 am | # | Reply

    Jamie: “..what were we trying to prove again?”
    Adam: “Don’t know, don’t care.”

    I do hope my poor angel was not standing too close to that though. At least I don’t see any angel feathers flying….

    • TBeholder
      September 5, 2019, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      She probably got a face full of bug goo, however.

  22. Puzzled in MT
    September 5, 2019, 4:17 am | # | Reply

    I still don’t know how that hit will be scored, since it definitely didn’t make it out of the park — but I think Robespierre is about to use his axe to make *Draco* “out!” for that pitch! Even if Draco turns tail to run, axes can also be thrown… It was also clearly a “special victory condition”!

  23. Scarlet Knight
    September 5, 2019, 5:55 am | # | Reply

    “It is high…it is far…. touch ’em all, Petey! It’s a Barbarian Blast!”

  24. Silver Griffon
    September 5, 2019, 10:17 am | # | Reply

    I believe the meh-nsters next word is going to approximate OW!

  25. Just some guy, y'know?
    September 5, 2019, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    Does this mean Derrick gets a new yellow magic 8 ball?
    Maybe it will shrink and turn black as it dries.

    • Just some guy, y'know?
      September 5, 2019, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      On second thought, that looks more like a 1 ball.

  26. Fellow
    September 5, 2019, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

    Crab cakes for everyone!

  27. Blue_Elite
    September 5, 2019, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

    Anti-Madeline’s face in the 2nd-to-last panel is just pure, unfiltered joy.

  28. Daydream
    September 5, 2019, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

    So, a Type VII Necklace of Fireballs (3.5 D&D edition), if it’s ‘accidentally’ detonated before any of the beads on it are used, will inflict a total of 58d6 (as in, 58 rolls of a 6-sided die) fire damage to anything in the blast radius.
    At least 95% of the time, that’ll be 182 points of damage.

    I wonder how many d6s of explosives are in that bag?

    • Simon
      September 5, 2019, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      The necklace is probably a low estimate… if each of the “balls” is equivalent to a standard fireball (8d6 in 5e) and the bag has a dozen or so balls, you’re looking at about a hundred dice… call it 350 points of damage on average.

      • A Lexus, order 3 cans of corn
        September 7, 2019, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

        Shouldn’t you get a damage bonus for the cumulative shockwaves generated by the explosion?
        Let’s call it…hm…1d6 Sonic damage for every four balls.

        And, since as you know no one ever defends against Sonic damage…

  29. Threadnaught
    September 5, 2019, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

    I was expecting a big climax, but for me it ‘s just…

    Meh. \m/-_-\m/

  30. Wiwaxia
    September 6, 2019, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

    I’m loving that brief moment of inner conflict between “evil” and “explosions”.

  31. The Gorch
    September 9, 2019, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    Who gets XP for defeating it?

    • IRS Agent
      September 12, 2019, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      Somewhere, a bomb-maker just got a halo and has no idea why.

  32. Puzzled in MT
    September 14, 2019, 3:08 am | # | Reply

    On further thought, any Murderball scorecard just has to include headings for (murdered), (location), (cause-of-death). It was a spectator (all those eyeballs!) and was present for the inning & pitch — although one team didn’t field enough players, it’s up to the rulebook for the game to determine if that constitutes an automatic forfeit for the inning or the game. So, Draco could actually have a win on this one… and the Meh-nster becomes a mere “spectator bykill”.

  33. Envisioner Will
    March 12, 2023, 7:37 am | # | Reply

    If Anti-Maddie had a player…

    GM: “I just want to be clear, this thing is 12 CR above your level, you are NOT getting any XP for it.”

    AM: “yeah, but I still get to tell the story.”

    GM: “Okay, as long as we’re agreed.”

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