Escape is relative though. First, Rusty is still in that room, and Maddie is completely stoned. Second, whether she aims to save them or not, she still needs to not just check out, but leave.
Lamia jump physics: Imagine her starting out near-horizontal, like a real snake. Then she pushes against the ground to “stand up” into the standard lamia stance (or better yet, into her “stilt” stance of five pages ago). Do it fast enough, and inertia will continue carrying her body upwards after she stops pushing.
The wonderful things about lamias
is lamias a wonderful thing
their tops are made out of humans
their bottoms are made out of snakes
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss get all the best breaksss!
Their topsss are made out of people
Their bottomsss are made out of sssnakesss!
They’re tricky, sssticky, ssslithery, ssscaley,
Hisss! Hisss! Hisss!
But the luckiest thing about lamiasss
Isss I’m ssstill alive to sssing thisss!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss have all the best fun!
You may find one sssipping on mulled wine,
Or basssking on rocksss in the sssun
They’re languid, lecherousss, treacherousss, twisssty,
Sssneak! Cheat! Con!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss
You’ll never find out till we’re gone!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss make all their own luck!
They’re ssspringy and full of sssurprissess
If you’ve got legsss then sssorry; you’re f*cked.
Conssstricty, ssslippery, clever, coily,
Grab! Sssqueeze! Hug!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss is
I jussst trounced your thugsss!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss know how to sssurvive!
When zombies start crashing their party,
They don’t hesitate to take five.
Sssolid, sssturdy, ssstalwart, sssteely,
Resssilient! Hardy! Hale!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss isss
I’m the only one in this tale!
Look up “flying snake” on Wikipedia, they’re a real genus of snakes which can launch themselves into the air from tree branches and sort of “glide” or “slither” through the air much further than if they were simply following a ballistic trajectory.
On that note, she asks “did we not say”. Is she so full of herself that she’s using the “royal we” (even though she’s not even the queen), or is this hinting that she was mentally influenced by another entity?
And she didn’t even rattle a warning…
Then again, I doubt she’s Lawful Good enough to bother 😉
Texas snake, rattles on the tail, wonder if ants are immune to venom ?
She does lend a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘like a coiled spring’ though…
I love that she first used the ants holding her as a leverage point to knock the artifact out of the way and then shed her skin to get out of their grip.
Given that she has what appears to be a free body diagram, various physics formulas, and I think something on circular motion, I think she was calculating where the artifact would land.
Tiff really needs to be added to the main party, she fits the whole ‘Monster adventurer’ criteria and the cast page’s listing of her as an enemy seems hilariously outdated by now..
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She seems pretty calm for having the artifact snatched out from under her!
True, it’s covered up though so maybe it’s an artifical artifact ? a decoy device ? mocked up magic ?
Mind…blown…by creativity of escape.
I swear the zombies with arms up in the next to last panel are signalling a ‘good field goal’. Score!
Same.
Shedding. Like a snake. Because she is a snake person.
It should be cannon in the monster books.
Escape is relative though. First, Rusty is still in that room, and Maddie is completely stoned. Second, whether she aims to save them or not, she still needs to not just check out, but leave.
We haven’t actually seen Maddie. Odds are good but not certain
Not only did she shed her inhibitions…6my7
I am vindicated! Lovely display of snake kwon do. Don’t quite get the physics of a leaping lamia. Whatever, it’s awesome.
Also, this needs a “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”-esque soundtrack to go with the Texan accent and whip-cracking sound.
Lamia jump physics: Imagine her starting out near-horizontal, like a real snake. Then she pushes against the ground to “stand up” into the standard lamia stance (or better yet, into her “stilt” stance of five pages ago). Do it fast enough, and inertia will continue carrying her body upwards after she stops pushing.
Gnome for whoever can match this to the “Tigger Song” from the old Winnie the Pooh cartoons?
The wonderful things about lamias
is lamias a wonderful thing
their tops are made out of humans
their bottoms are made out of snakes
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
I like that!
Expanding on the theme…
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss get all the best breaksss!
Their topsss are made out of people
Their bottomsss are made out of sssnakesss!
They’re tricky, sssticky, ssslithery, ssscaley,
Hisss! Hisss! Hisss!
But the luckiest thing about lamiasss
Isss I’m ssstill alive to sssing thisss!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss have all the best fun!
You may find one sssipping on mulled wine,
Or basssking on rocksss in the sssun
They’re languid, lecherousss, treacherousss, twisssty,
Sssneak! Cheat! Con!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss
You’ll never find out till we’re gone!
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss make all their own luck!
They’re ssspringy and full of sssurprissess
If you’ve got legsss then sssorry; you’re f*cked.
Conssstricty, ssslippery, clever, coily,
Grab! Sssqueeze! Hug!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss is
I jussst trounced your thugsss!
Ah yeah, and on the third-to-last line, Tiff is not actually singing the words. She’s letting her onomatopoeia do the rhymes for her. 🙂
Another verse for ya:
The luckiessst thing about lamiasss
Is lamiasss know how to sssurvive!
When zombies start crashing their party,
They don’t hesitate to take five.
Sssolid, sssturdy, ssstalwart, sssteely,
Resssilient! Hardy! Hale!
But the luckiessst thing about lamiasss isss
I’m the only one in this tale!
Bravo!! both of you take one Internet apiece.
Look up “flying snake” on Wikipedia, they’re a real genus of snakes which can launch themselves into the air from tree branches and sort of “glide” or “slither” through the air much further than if they were simply following a ballistic trajectory.
Can you even fire ants? A hive is a family. It’s less like firing a worker and more like disowning a child. Where else would they [i]go[/i]?
I especially don’t can fire ants.
I se what you did there…fire ants are the worst kind…unless they’re in the army 😉
You can fire them from cannon.
I see she has her priorities straight: first thing, assign blame.
Ah, IRL, you cannot fire ants, true.
Ants unwanted by the colonies tend to be… retired. In two or three packages.
It just shows how much they are corrupted.
On that note, she asks “did we not say”. Is she so full of herself that she’s using the “royal we” (even though she’s not even the queen), or is this hinting that she was mentally influenced by another entity?
Son, I am disappoint
And she didn’t even rattle a warning…
Then again, I doubt she’s Lawful Good enough to bother 😉
Texas snake, rattles on the tail, wonder if ants are immune to venom ?
She does lend a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘like a coiled spring’ though…
I love that she first used the ants holding her as a leverage point to knock the artifact out of the way and then shed her skin to get out of their grip.
“She just did the math.”
– Kaylee Frye, on River Tam’s deadly eyes-closed shooting.
“You need MATH for that? Oh nooo!”
– the real source of Madeline’s chapter-long crisis of confidence.
The power of MATH and ATHLETICS!
Mathletics!
Yes. Just yes.
She is a mathlete
She is one calculating viper.
I wonder if she has any adder in her ancestry.
If so, she would need logs in order to multiply…
The Chekov’s Gun goes, “BANG!”
Wait, sorry, wrong childhood toy.
I have to say, “SHED!” as an onomatipoeia was unexpected.
when we’ve already had DEUS EX MACHINA?
Would this count as her mind being ‘Tiffany twisted”?
Oh, well played.
Slippery as a…
An eel?
Slug? Um… maybe a… frog?
The Queen look a bit, ya know, bug-eyed.
Geez. One little disastrous mistake and they fire you? Tough work environment.
Let’s be fair – it wasn’t just the one mistake. These guys couldn’t hold Maddie either.
Tiff leaves them rattled as she high-tails it out of there!
Given that she has what appears to be a free body diagram, various physics formulas, and I think something on circular motion, I think she was calculating where the artifact would land.
Does… does anyone else hear the Sonic the Hedgehog spring noise in that second to last panel? Or is that just me?
Shedding was previously established, back when Maddie tried to grab her ear.
Tiff really needs to be added to the main party, she fits the whole ‘Monster adventurer’ criteria and the cast page’s listing of her as an enemy seems hilariously outdated by now..
Yeah, but do YOU want to explain to Y-T that she’s one of the good guys now?
“Them’sss fightin’ wordsss, varmint!”
Pick one of ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Molting’.
This made me say WTF out loud. Bravo. ????
BTW, major kudos on the math symbols on the virtual chalkboard in the first panel.
That’s quite the failure to garter well.