So what I’m wondering is why there even is a hotel here. Hotels are usually built near other tourist attractions, or at least in cities: you know, places that people like to visit. This one seems to be in a cave out in the middle of nowhere.
The revelation that the hotel specializes in catering to adventurers (probably a good business model in a D&D world) explains this somewhat, but it does imply that there are a lot of treasure-filled dungeons, rampaging orc tribal encampments, secret evil mastermind lairs, etc. nearby to attract so much adventurer interest.
Alternately, it’s very far from all of those as a relief from them. You don’t take a vacation from your job by pitching a tent in the break room, right?
If they’re “off the job”, then they go back to having mostly the same considerations as normal tourists. It’s unlikely that a hotel itself, however luxurious, would be a sufficient tourist attraction to interest someone who’s looking for a vacation, absent other forms of entertainment in the area.
They’re also built in the middle of the road as a place for the weary traveler to stop for the night, I guess? This doesn’t look like that kind of place, though.
In middle or on crossroads, yes … and that was what I was expecting until this page. It’s true that this page looks like they are trying something different …
It might just be that this is an resort hotel, sure most hotels are in the city, but there are also plenty of hotels out in the wilderness, that cater to people wanting to experience the outdoor life during the day, but want comforts for the nights.
It might even be a ski resort during the winter, it’s in a mountainous area for sure, and the ant monsters have probably cleared out any other nearby monsters, so it’s safe enough even for low level NPCs.
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
That 1st-Panel look in her eye is most telling!
“It would be poor security indeed to ADMIT to having an artifact…
…in the same way that it would be poor security to admit to anyone ELSE that YOUR artifact(s) are being securely stored here.”
Panel-5’s green eyes had me baffled, until I realized that those 2 guests were having cucumber-facials…
…then I was amused to see that the 2 most barbaric-looking guests went for the most decadent of luxuries.
“They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast”.
Thinking that while steely knives might not work, Maddie wielding a random gardening tool is a whole other story!
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Such a lovely place.
Plenty of room and how!
Such a lovely place.
It’s just like Tahiti…
Nah, that’s a magical place.
Such a lovely place.
Such a lovely place.
Such a lovely place.
Such a lovely clue. And so soon.
Such a lovely face…
Good thing they seem to be living it up.
Which is a nice surprise. Hope they brought their alibis.
Say, everyone’s gathering in the master’s chambers. Care to help us with our beast problem?
Sure am! Brought my steely knives and everything!
“Eat knives.”
such a lovely face.
plenty a room at the hotel California
I love that song
Hmmm. The services make it worthy of The Continental of John Wick fame.
~And she said, ‘we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’~
And yet, in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast
…because it ate them.
Adam Savage voice: “Well, there’s your problem! Lycanthropes are only damaged by silver.”
Rust monsters, though, can eat silver just fine.
Awww… look at Maddy in the last panel; a little scared, but such a lovely face!
She must’ve caught sight of the pink champagne. Iced, of course.
Oh, Dirk or Kris would have been a bad choice here, haha…
So what I’m wondering is why there even is a hotel here. Hotels are usually built near other tourist attractions, or at least in cities: you know, places that people like to visit. This one seems to be in a cave out in the middle of nowhere.
The revelation that the hotel specializes in catering to adventurers (probably a good business model in a D&D world) explains this somewhat, but it does imply that there are a lot of treasure-filled dungeons, rampaging orc tribal encampments, secret evil mastermind lairs, etc. nearby to attract so much adventurer interest.
Alternately, it’s very far from all of those as a relief from them. You don’t take a vacation from your job by pitching a tent in the break room, right?
If they’re “off the job”, then they go back to having mostly the same considerations as normal tourists. It’s unlikely that a hotel itself, however luxurious, would be a sufficient tourist attraction to interest someone who’s looking for a vacation, absent other forms of entertainment in the area.
Not if it’s resort level.
Or at any rate, you’re certain that it’s resort level. . . .
They’re also built in the middle of the road as a place for the weary traveler to stop for the night, I guess? This doesn’t look like that kind of place, though.
In middle or on crossroads, yes … and that was what I was expecting until this page. It’s true that this page looks like they are trying something different …
They arrived on a boat that runs on train tracks.
You might be asking a bit much of logic here.
It might just be that this is an resort hotel, sure most hotels are in the city, but there are also plenty of hotels out in the wilderness, that cater to people wanting to experience the outdoor life during the day, but want comforts for the nights.
It might even be a ski resort during the winter, it’s in a mountainous area for sure, and the ant monsters have probably cleared out any other nearby monsters, so it’s safe enough even for low level NPCs.
Don’t forget also that her mind is Tiffany-twisted…
But does she got the Mercedes bends?
You mean Yuan-Tiffany twisted. (Or if skirting away from certain theurgies hailed from the shore, Joanne-Tiffany)
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
also: „Good Vibrations“ by the look of all the lamps.
That 1st-Panel look in her eye is most telling!
“It would be poor security indeed to ADMIT to having an artifact…
…in the same way that it would be poor security to admit to anyone ELSE that YOUR artifact(s) are being securely stored here.”
Panel-5’s green eyes had me baffled, until I realized that those 2 guests were having cucumber-facials…
…then I was amused to see that the 2 most barbaric-looking guests went for the most decadent of luxuries.
Now I wish we’d brought Robespierre for a facial and manicure…
It’s funny that the formian have such big, cute eyes, considering that ants actually have terrible eyesight
Most things in this comic have big, cute eyes. Humans included. I’m not complaining.
Me neither, they’re adorable. I just find it amusing.
The ghosts on the staff are making it seem even more like the Last Resort.
Calling it, you enter the hotel but never leave due to how good the service is/possible brainwashing.
I just noticed, on the Cast Page Y.T. is still categorized among the “Enemies” (and so is Slobber, for that matter).
It’d say she has already moved a bit, to the “reluctant allies”/”sometimes friends” category by now.
Probably classified by initial appearance, to avoid spoilers
“They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast”.
Thinking that while steely knives might not work, Maddie wielding a random gardening tool is a whole other story!
O-kay! Cueue up “Hotel California”, please.
How do you get to the alt-text?
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ok thanks
Welcome, to the hotel California!