Level 9: #40
Chapter: Comic, Level 9 — Hotel Califormian
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answer: yes
Could hardly be clearer, eh?
[Has Tiffany herself lost track of which one was real? Otherwise the fakes wouldn’t help much, no?]
Maybe RealMadeline shuffled them without looking, so that Tiffany doesn’t know which is real.
Also, wow, they hid a lot of fakes within 15 minutes.
Considering the myrmarch has a lot of minions who could search all hiding spots at once, I expect them to be all fakes. Maddie probably has it.
“I know what you’re thinkin’: ‘Did ssshe ssshuffle thossse parcccelsss sssix timesss or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excccitement, I’ve kinda lossst track myssself. But being that Madeline Goodlaw, the mossst annoying paladin in the world, isss runnin’ loossse in your hotel, you’ve got to asssk yourssself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you, bug?”
+1 Internets – well done.
*applauds* I was just about to make that callback myself. Well done!
Is there a spell that allows a (willing) victim to have false memories implanted? Perhaps YT herself just had the MEMORY of planting a bajillion fakes around (thanks to the artifact), but didn’t actually place any… bonus points if her “memory” just happened to all be in places where Rusty is not, thus sending most of the guards/staff on a wild goose chase…
That spell exists, yes. It works even on unwilling targets, subject to a Will save, but willing targets can just voluntarily fail their save. I’m not sure about using it on yourself, though – the spell doesn’t say that you can’t, but how would you modify your own memories if you made yourself forget what you’re trying to modify halfway through the process? Though the wording suggests that the spell only takes effect once you’re done making all the modifications, so maybe it’ll work.
I don’t think Y.T. is likely to have been that Crazy Prepared, though.
She wouldn’t be casting it on herself – the artifact would be casting it on her.
*Yesss.
Not so much trying as apparently succeeding…good snake, pretty snake, don’t bite me snake
A slab of ham in the vents? Oh, that’s going to be nasty in a few days…
though at least the zombies will get a treat.
As a longtime Garfield reader, I’m sad that the projectile didn’t go “SPLUT!”
There is a certain wariness of using an onomatopoeia that may be copyrighted.
“Snickt” and “Bamf” come to mind in this regard.
Ok, now I want to see other monsters get a pie in the face!
The xenomorph from Alien – sput
Pennywise from It – sput
Any vampire from any movie – sput
The Vampire might enjoy a nice haggis…
…(BTW, is “nice haggis” an oxymoron?)…
…as I understand it, haggis is basically a blood-based pastry.
Nice of the vampire to eat it up then.
But I think the vampire really wants the blood sausage.
Is this turning into one of those stories where they occupy the enemy by getting them to calculate the exact value of pie?
Sometimes you don’t need words to get your point across.
I had an RPG character who ran with a more aggressive version of this strategy… with bombs. Kind of an “infiltrating the Death Star” kind of thing, in which she deliberately got captured so she could deliver a challenge to the super-genius villain… if he was as smart as he claimed, he should have no trouble figuring out where half a dozen demolition charges had been ‘misplaced’ within his base.
To his credit, the villain got the message loud and clear after the first explosion took out the fire-suppression system.
Ooh, looks like someone got steamed over that ham…
Hah! I was right! It’s not ham, it’s SPAM!
Ow!
… or, I should say:
Oy!
I like how the pie was clearly visible in panels 2 and 3 of the last comic.
The alt text almost had me coughing up my lunch, well done.
*Sadly lunch was not pie
Calling it: her last memory will be “running for the door”
Trying to find a way back to the place she was before.
Unfortunately, while you can theoretically check out, there is a powerful mind-control spell in effect that prevents you from ever actually leaving.
I was extremely impressed by the attention to detail on the last page, with the dab of blood on her right mandible. I am rather saddened and disappointed that it was not carried over to this page.
Fixed. Thank you.
Impressive. I approve.
All that’s left now is for Y.T. to go “Nyuk nyuk nyuk!’
Pie-faced is *much* funnier than po-faced! I’m busting a gut over here…
Now that alt-text pun, that’s actually good. XD
So …. a whiposte?