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Level 8: #37

Chapter: Comic, Level 8 — Wait… is he seriously doing a baseball episode?
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  1. Joesiph
    June 1, 2016, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

    Mimic, you need to form an eye again, you can’t play ball blind!

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  2. IRS Agent
    June 1, 2016, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    I must admit. I did not see that one coming.

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    • Poil
      June 1, 2016, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      Neither did he.

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    • JasonAW3
      June 1, 2016, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

      Neither did Box!

      1
    • Mary
      June 1, 2016, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

      You notice that Rule of Funny seems to determine whether he can see — he had no difficulty identifying Maddie’s weapon for instance.

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      • Burke
        June 2, 2016, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t mimics have tremorsense? Maddie was in contact with the ground, thus visible. A thrown ball, though?

        • Weatherheight
          June 2, 2016, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

          Doesn’t explain about the weapon, now does it? 😀

          Definitely Rule of Funny.

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        • WJS
          October 4, 2016, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

          Which version would that be in? In 3.5, they can see just fine (with darkvision, even)

          • Tempest
            September 9, 2019, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

            I think mimics have blindsight

  3. matt w
    June 1, 2016, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

    Would’ve been a good time to remember that eye you got back in the 26th strip, Mimic.

    • Yaba
      June 16, 2016, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t he re-spec to replace that level of Beholder with something else?

  4. Gladorn
    June 1, 2016, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

    Details, details.

    Gotta pay attention to them.

    • Zathyr
      June 2, 2016, 4:50 am | # | Reply

      Did we know before this that Mimic was a south paw- er, left-handled?

      • Sock Puppet
        June 4, 2016, 8:22 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, there’s been at least one other that he’s gone lefty, but he might be ambidextrous.

  5. Wyvern
    June 1, 2016, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

    At least he gets to walk now. Unless that rule doesn’t apply in gnomish baseball.

    • Jaded Cynic
      June 1, 2016, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

      …but walking him to first base as ‘hit batter’, DOES NOT ADVANCE ANYONE ELSE (i.e. ‘whiny halfling’).

      Also, given the nature of gnomish baseball, he’s still got to MAKE IT TO first base, past the blades.

      • Kenshin Ryuu
        June 1, 2016, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

        While recovering from a concussion and still blind….

      • CrawlMe
        June 1, 2016, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

        Well per normal baseball rules it would advance whiny halfling (or he might use this chance to steal a base).

        But without the ball? No scoring!

        • Mary
          June 1, 2016, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

          These halflings would steal a base by preference. Playing to their strong suit.

          But remember, this game’s going to go down to the wire. Last inning drama. Can’t go all our guys’ way.

        • wanderingbishop
          June 2, 2016, 7:35 am | # | Reply

          As someone outside the US, baseball rules have never made sense to me…

          • bionicle_fanatic
            June 2, 2016, 8:42 am | # | Reply

            It’s basically ripped off cricket, but with more stumps to run around. [:P]

            Basically. [:P] There’s a lot more nonsense to it than that. [:P]

          • Scarlet Knight
            June 2, 2016, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

            Baseball is a kindly game, where all you want is to go home safely. Sadly, Mimic has just demonstrated the Gnomish version of a sacrifice…

  6. CainSF
    June 1, 2016, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

    Well, at least this sorta gives me my answer on if he’s still multi-classed as a beholder with his eye closed still. . . I’m gonna guess not. That or he’s forgotten about it.

  7. Rota
    June 2, 2016, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Gods I still wanna know the rules to gnomish baseball.

    • Sensei Le Roof
      June 2, 2016, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      …”rules”? What is this strange noise you are make?

      • Rota
        June 6, 2016, 10:17 am | # | Reply

        There was mention of the rules of gnomish baseball being put up at some point during (or likely post) this arc so Gnomish Baseball could be used in a campaign. REALLY excited for it!

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        • LSRagnarok
          June 15, 2016, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

          That’s neat. I was working under the assumption that Gnomish Baseball was a more violent Calvinball.

  8. Tab
    June 2, 2016, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    I object. Mimic has always been aware of his surroundings before. He didn’t need eyes to dodge when Grinner tried to stab him.

    • bionicle_fanatic
      June 2, 2016, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Mimics only have blindsight for a short distance: the ball would be coming in to fast for him to detect it before *pow*.

      • Tab
        June 2, 2016, 10:53 am | # | Reply

        Okay, that’s a good explanation, actually.

        • bionicle_fanatic
          June 3, 2016, 9:33 am | # | Reply

          Shock horror. [:P]

  9. White Rice
    June 2, 2016, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    A thought: maybe his eye/awareness of surroundings is dictated by the situation. Every time he’s been fully aware of things (most notably seeing without an open eye) it’s always been during an adventure of some sort (fighting, exploring, setting up an ambush). Heck, even just hanging out at the bar gives him this awareness (being that many great adventures start in a bar, it has residual adventure all over it). This game, however, doesn’t count as adventure for him, so he isn’t able to use his various bonus’, feats, or other abilities that would help him out (though that’s probably all due to his current mindset, not the fact that they’re playing baseball)

  10. St Fan
    June 2, 2016, 6:22 am | # | Reply

    An old “Ecology of the Mimic” article on Dragon Magazine stated that mimics see through photoreceptors covering their body. They had, however, not very great range, making mimics rather shortsighted, which usually doesn’t bother them much as they live in cramped dungeons. Interestingly this could perfectly fit here, with the pitcher being outside of Mimic’s range of vision.

    • Weatherheight
      June 2, 2016, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

      Research for the win!

      That actually makes a warped kind of sense, given there are some plants that can react to light in a similar manner, albeit much more slowly.

  11. Sensei Le Roof
    June 2, 2016, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, now we see the flaws inherent in the system.

  12. Kensei Seraph
    June 2, 2016, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

    Thanks for the comic.
    I’ve really enjoyed reading it tonight and look forward to more.

  13. tgy
    June 3, 2016, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    Mimics can’t see a baseball (uh..iron ball with spikes) the same way that Roger Rabbit couldn’t have slipped out of handcuffs at just any old time: because of the Rule of Funny.

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny

  14. Shinobi
    June 3, 2016, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    So this is closer to the kind of boxing that Mimic might have heard of before, what with the blunt-force trauma…

  15. msyendor
    June 3, 2016, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

    Well, fair’s fair by Hammer Robby rules. Can’t touch the Cube, so drop the Box.

  16. Gamaran Sepudomyn
    June 5, 2016, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    What happened to his level in Beholder?

  17. Thundararious
    June 7, 2016, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

    didn’t mimic multiclass into beholder in chapter one? so he SHOULD still have an eye right?

    • TheTurboTornado
      June 18, 2016, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      I believe he retrained that.

  18. Aquablast
    June 8, 2016, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t believe no one mentioned this, but it’s kind of cute how happy/enthusiastic Mimic looks in the first panel. XP

  19. Korith
    June 10, 2016, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    Nitpick! Mimics have Darkvision to 60ft according to the 3.5 SRD…

    • Chris
      June 10, 2016, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      The distance from the mound to home plate is 60 feet 6 inches. That would explain why he didn’t see the windup. Now, all we need is a reason he failed to see the ball.

      • Burke
        June 22, 2016, 8:15 am | # | Reply

        It wasn’t dark? (ba dum tsh)

  20. Weatherheight
    June 11, 2016, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

    He was told to keep his eye on the ball?

  21. Voidbane
    June 12, 2016, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

    And then…
    Mimic took the form of a batting machine.

  22. InvaderCupil
    August 29, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    Something just occurred to me, so I’m going to say it here (it’s as good here as anywhere else…)
    Back in 2016, people were asking about Mimic’s multi-class level in Beholder from Level 1 (see here: )http://rustyandco.com/comic/26/

    The problem is that, like the Illithids/Mindflayers from Level 4, (and the Yuan-Ti from 4 & 6,) Beholders are not under the OGL, and thus, that “level” that Mimic took had to be either retrained, or (just as likely/effectively) ret-conned.

    (Remember, the entire “Illithit Activities” story arc was allowed to stay only by special permission from WotC, and Tiffany was ret-conned into a Lamia.)

    TL/DR: Mimic for “reasons” can not have any levels in “Beholder,” now or ever.

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