The Table is Set
Jun23
Two DMs walk into a lair…
In other news, I finally had a chance to update the Vote Incentives Gallery for anyone who wants to see some of the older Vote Incentive Art.
Two DMs walk into a lair…
In other news, I finally had a chance to update the Vote Incentives Gallery for anyone who wants to see some of the older Vote Incentive Art.
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Sephni still needing rescuing! Rescue that booty!
I guess shooting the silly fuck with that pistol he’s got won’t do any good … but let’s find out, shall we?
Chap with too many chicken wings in the gut, five rounds rapid
I hope he will put a hollow point in his crotch, and then another between the eyes.
You guys….Answer to anything…Shoot it. Maybe a bit unsubtle? Too many Westerns and “Dirty Harry” movies.
My dear friend, sometimes one MUST try the obvious first – just in case.
And the satisfying solutions – just to avoid later “shoulda” regrets.
But the obious AND satusfying solutions? Not trying those is a DEADLY SIN – and if you’re familiar with the Quest for Glory series and the name Erana, and STILL I say he should pop a cap on his ass, you’ll know how IMPERATIVE is from a narrative standpoint for Brian to pop a cap on his ass.
Allow me to elaborate on that “it is imperative from a narrative standpoint for Brian to pop a cap on his ass” thing. Spoiler alert, IRL published author here.
– We have a LITERAL Checkov’s gun here, it must be fired.
– This IS a comic where guns are used against monsters, with variable results.
-If he fires and it doesnt work, it works in-universe because it stablishes that, well, guns wont work here. Duh!
– If, however, the gun is fired and the bad guy is unceremoniously killed, we have an Indiana Jones joke turned to 11, which can be justified in-universe because, well, he IS a VERY pissed-off DM that has run out of shits to give. “I pop a cap on his dome” is the IRL equivalent of ·rock falls, everyone dies”. SO it ALSO works.
So we have a very good reason for Brian to pull that trigger, and no narrative pitfalls if he does. Plus, we have a very good author at the helm of the narrative, that is surely aware of the above.
Alas, I’m not into the gamer worlds, as I think we’ve discussed. I like to make up and control my own fiction and alternative universes. However, agree your Chekhov comment, although some authors might include it as a deliberate red herring, just to throw the reader.
The story version of the Indiana Jones thing I read was Harrison Ford had a touch of diarrhea and wanted to finish the scene, and asked, “Can’t I just shoot him?” instead of another sword fight. I hope that was true, because it makes an amusing story.
Otherwise, I can see your argument – will a gun from the ‘Graysiders World’ work in what, I suppose, is a pocket universe, or not? But my feeling is, having chased him this far, Brian can’t just simply shoot him, without we, the readers, know more about who in Hades he is, how and why? Although Bree has had a few exceptions (Toesnip didn’t last long), generally the Bad Guys have to give explanatory speeches before they meet their demise.
But I completely agree we have a very good author narrating our saga, and the one thing you can guarantee is to expect the unexpected!
Actually, that story about Jones was almost that, except it wasn’t diarrhea (believe it was the flu or something)
Personally hate it when the bad guys get to continue living (even if it’s just to explain their actions) when the good guys should simply kill them at their first chance
Specially hate it when the bad guy is continued to be allowed to escape or survive just because the crappy writer(s) can’t come up with a new villain (or the audience simply likes them)
in case you haven’t seen it, in police training there is a fellow who at 15 feet, can cut every major artery on your body before your pistol will clear its holster. Hence if someone pulls a knife, shoot first. Just yesterday in Memphis, fellow with a screw driver stabbed an officer, it hit his vest, then the officer shot him. if he had aimed higher with the screwdriver , he would have gotten him in the throat.
“Brian, I am your father!”
Is he?
Ha, ha….but could be! Brian has said the old house was connected with painful memories, hinting at a bad childhood or youthful time in his life. So, maybe an interesting thought, no?
“Draxorel, I’m not Luke. I’m more into ASOIAF myself” (Tyrions his ass off)
So is Drax some real life maniac? Thats explain a lot
But with only three fingers and thumb…The fat smelly boy in class everyone hated.
If Brian didn’t recognize Sephni, despite she was Jen’s Bree heroine’s best friend she was supposed to rescue in the D&D game, the Dracomage ought to know who she is. So no ‘lived happy ever after’ for Seph. Who’s going to rescue her? Brian or Bree?
Sephni’s mind? We’ve had a number of different pages with Sephni that suggested she was controlled by Draxxorel or still being tortured by him and sure enough, with her petrified on the throne, we now see her directly on a dinner table before Draxxorel. Even Paige said she wasn’t Sephni anymore.
“Two DMs walk into a lair” Obviously talking about Brian and Dracomage but it suddenly occurs to me that the original player group characters didn’t include a DM or Dream Wizard… What if Draxxorel is another DM?
Thought Brian was the DM of the group, or at least, he seemed to be running the little group (remember when Jen told him to stop it?)
Yes, a point I’m still not certain about….We met the Dracomage early in the narrative, even that he obviously fancied Bree, but then we discover Bree is Jen’s D&D character or avatar, and the game playing group’s DM is Brian, who wore similar headgear…. So is the Dracomage another manifestation of Brian’s id, like Mandy and Paul and co? But, equally likely, is the so-called Draxxorel also something, or someone, from Brian’s psyche? Or is he just the fat smelly kid Brian didn’t like at school?
Was gonna say “why does the girl look familiar…?” butt then read the tag
Didn’t you mean, that bottom looked familiar….? Was that a Freudian slip in the second half of your sentence?
Nope, deliberate 🙂
Found you~
https://www.delvecomic.com/comic/streetwise/
Oooh!
Decades ago, there was a Western in which the protagonist was called out onto the dusty street by the bad guy, a notorious gunslinger, for a shootout. Protagonist went out to his horse, got his rifle from the saddle scabbard and shot the gunslinger from a safe distance.
Perhaps illustrating using available resources to survive by stepping outside the expected narrative.
(Any body remember what the name of the movie was?)
Hey, guys! A big Delve follower over on another website has just noticed something significant we all missed (especially all you “Dirty Harry”/shoot first fanboys), the sign on the door is the same as that of the High Elf throne. Dah-Dah!
Isn’t that the Zodiac sign for Taurus?
The door is probably a backdoor to Delve
Speaking of the invotives… what happened to 518? Paige was 517 but the Puddle Watcher was 519 and the ticklish maiden is 520
518 I posted in the main comic timeline, as I ran out of time to finish the episode, so I just put it where the main comic usually went.