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3335 The Royal Sphere Awakens

on May 4, 2020
Chapter: Ranna's Fulcrum
Characters: Barb the Beholder, Ben the Beholder, Bob the Beholder, Bob2, Grell, Gren Razortooth, Orb the Beholder Regent, The Beholder King
Location: The Black Mountain

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Discussion (49) ¬

  1. Jonathan in Mississippi
    May 5, 2020, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    This just keeps getting better and better.

    • Piccodura
      May 5, 2020, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      I know, right???

      Pass the popcorn, would you?

    • Fang FanGirl
      May 5, 2020, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve got the drinks & chocolate.

  2. Freezer
    May 5, 2020, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    The Beholder King: When you absolutely positively need to fuck up a goddess right now!

  3. Aaron Lowe
    May 5, 2020, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Next up – bowling with beholders.

  4. AlyxVixen
    May 5, 2020, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    *squees* Gren!!!!

    …

    Oh, and an army of beholders and their Godking.

  5. Nikary Flare
    May 5, 2020, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    This guy gets tricked all too easily.

    • mucat
      May 5, 2020, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      In all those years of cogitation, even that slow-rolling Sphere MUST have gotten wise to Bob’s tricks, and decided to tolerate this lèse-majesté in exchange for a steady supply of deities to trounce.

      • AlyxVixen
        May 5, 2020, 11:33 am | # | Reply

        Remember Bob is foretold to be the one to kill the Beholder King, but nothing says anything about him bringing about his death directly.

        • THAT bard
          May 5, 2020, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

          Was it said, that Bob kills him? Wasn’t that only an assumption of the Beholder King? I remembered him to be the next king, but not how he gets there.
          I still wouldn’t be surprised, if actually it would be Bob2, who becames the next king. He is clearly the more powerful one, and technically he is called Bob too.

          • NotRichard
            May 5, 2020, 10:27 pm | #

            As you said, fairly sure it was just that the next King was going to be called Bob

          • AlyxVixen
            May 6, 2020, 12:21 pm | #

            Just going how beholders tend to remove leaders

    • JasonAW3
      May 11, 2020, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

      Well, TECHNICALLY, he’s not being fooled time… She really IS the reason he’s being disturbed…

  6. Hyuuint
    May 5, 2020, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    good lord…. We haven’t seen him for 8 years!

    • Piccodura
      May 5, 2020, 11:48 am | # | Reply

      Well, he’s been sleeping! You can’t expect someone that old to give up on a nap that quickly

  7. wabbitking
    May 5, 2020, 3:39 am | # | Reply

    Like a fiddle.

  8. Marquis
    May 5, 2020, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    I was wondering where the beholders were…

  9. NotRichard
    May 5, 2020, 4:50 am | # | Reply

    Is he any worse, knowing who is going to replace the Beholder King?

  10. Aaron Lowe
    May 5, 2020, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    I tried disagreeing with a beholder once. It was a circular argument. 😛

    • mucat
      May 5, 2020, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      Circular definition: see ‘Definition, circular’.
      …
      Definition, circular: see ‘Circular definition’.

      — Don Knuth, in the index to The Art of Computer Programming, vol. I.

      • David Nuttall
        May 5, 2020, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        Goes with these definitions:
        Recursion, Two-Layer: See Two-Layer Recursion.

        Two-Layer Recursion: See Recursion, Two-Layer.

        • Aaron Lowe
          May 5, 2020, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

          Definition of moral: Right behaviour.
          Definition of right: What is moral.
          Google it. 😉

  11. Fuzzball
    May 5, 2020, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Oh shit! Here comes Mongo!

  12. Gonfrask
    May 5, 2020, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    Not enough years healing (he said he would need decades)

  13. Dave
    May 5, 2020, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    He still looks wounded

  14. Knicholas
    May 5, 2020, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    It’s useful, being smarter than your god.

  15. Hee Fone
    May 5, 2020, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    They just even the odds.

  16. NotRichard
    May 5, 2020, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    Turns out, Beholder King is Ranna’s old pet (he just… forgot)

    • mucat
      May 5, 2020, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Ranna: "Heel!"

      BK: "Hmmph. Yes, you are."

      • NotRichard
        May 5, 2020, 10:57 am | # | Reply

        She ain’t no Babyface, that’s for sure

  17. Prairie Son
    May 5, 2020, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    Okay Rich, just how many "#### just got real!" buttons did you set up for this arc?

  18. T-Chall
    May 5, 2020, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    All those Beholders,and I start thinking, "Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, keep those Beholders rollin’…."

    Sung to the theme from Rawhide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKC8pSFg1Vw

    • David Nuttall
      May 5, 2020, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      But the crack of the whip is actually the sonic boom, not from a few ounces of leather, but of a few ounces of DC electrons, in the form of the thunder from multiple simultaneous lightning bolts. Hmm, 20,000,000 volts at <b>Yikes!</b> amps due to the massively parallel discharge yields one fried goddess with multiple alternate impacts, referred to as collateral damage.

      • Fang FanGirl
        May 5, 2020, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

        Nerd Logic!! YES!

  19. RUBJack
    May 5, 2020, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    Well, isn´t that like using a tactical nuke to get rid of an annoying mosquito? Seems a little bit of an overkill.

    • Another Rich
      May 5, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      Only if the annoying mosquito is twice Godzilla’s size. IMO this won’t be the lopsided fight you seem to think it will be.

      OTOH, I’m pretty sure he’s enough of a threat to engage Ranna’s undivided attention…..

  20. Thracecius
    May 5, 2020, 1:25 pm | # | Reply

    Just how powerful can a Beholder get? I means, he’s huge and all, but against a diety? Isn’t there a limit on the effectiveness of disintegration, or outright immunity? I’m not an old school D&Der, just played the original two Baldur’s Gate games on PC (and didn’t even manage to finish either).

    • Fang FanGirl
      May 5, 2020, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      Think of it this way: Bulletproof isn’t necessarily fireproof. Projectiles may just scuff the surface, but enough heat, continuously applied, will eventually breakdown the glass structure and it will melt.

      Dieties are not infallible. They have their weaknesses. It’s just a matter of finding one and taking advantage of it.

    • NotRichard
      May 5, 2020, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

      You should play the ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Trilogy (have most of the Forgotten Realms PC games, the only two I’ve reached the end to is "Pool of Radiance" and the first ‘EotB’, didn’t have full party survive so don’t really count those)

      The King managed to kicked Lloth out of the Plane

    • Delgarde
      May 6, 2020, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      He fought Lolth to a standstill, so… pretty powerful. For all practical purposes, this is the god of the Beholders.

  21. t!
    May 5, 2020, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Bob, you unscrupulous prick.

    Don’t ever change.

    t!

  22. mucat
    May 5, 2020, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    Not sure why, but I really love the faraway expression on the Grell’s beak in panel two. "Just thinking…"

  23. THAT bard
    May 5, 2020, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

    As I said before: It’s just really not Ranna’s day…
    And somewhat I have that feeling, there is still more to come…

  24. HKMaly
    May 5, 2020, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

    Now they just need to get to the battle before Ranna will be defeated.

    • mucat
      May 5, 2020, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

      Their arrival might be one of the conditions the Magical Cavalry require before they can make their planned move.

      "Wizards are never late, nor are they early. They arrive precisely when Bob manages to drag that grouchy overgrown beach ball out of his bedrock."

  25. Saladin
    May 5, 2020, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    Seeing all of these legacy characters come back for the big fight and I’m just over in my corner still crying over Arachne…

    • NotRichard
      May 5, 2020, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      Do you have room for one more?

  26. Miss Diketon
    May 5, 2020, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

    There is only one thing to say:

    Oh, Dang.

  27. WJS
    November 18, 2023, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    On the plus side, he's kicked goddess booty before. The downsides are that he still looks like he hasn't recovered from that fight, Ranna is more powerful than Llolth is, and if he *wins* then they have to put up with him being awake again. 😛

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