And how this would somehow be better than hitting the ground I have never figured out. She is still coming to a very sudden stop after moving at high velocity, this would be very bad for the health.
At least with Spiderman they (once) snapped someone’s (Gwen’s) neck doing it.
Of course it was also asked; if these guys can punch through solid steel, meaning their fists are harder than steel, why would they pick up a car and hit someone with it instead of just punching them? It would be the super powered equivalent of a pillow fight!
Apparently, that little problem wasn’t missed by *everybody*
Maxima pointed that out to Sydney, along with a few other precautionary tips right over here: http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1224
No. Niko did it to him. He’s just being a dick. Hopefully he’s off to spend the rest of some quality Eternity in one of Ranna’s deeper Hells.
Of course, I hope Flannet survives somehow. But, if she doesn’t, she should have a fair chance to haunt Greyfort and hang with some really cool ghosts who like her.
That…probably won’t happen. Ranna rules the afterlife now. All those who die are essentially hers to do with as she wills. Remember, Owen had to cajole and manipulate C’thier to be allowed to haunt Lucas. I can’t see Ranna letting Flannet remain as a ghost…
After the last installment, I was musing along the lines that maybe he knew she and the Greyfort ghosts had been honestly trying to help him, that he might have had some redeeming charity or even a kind word of regret for how he treated her. It’s hard to imagine that he lacks that knowledge, so he’s chosen to believe what he wants to believe. Obviously he decided to go into the afterlife without even a shred of redemption so, hopefully, he will harvest the full wages for that.
Alas, our introduction showed us how self-centred he was in life: corrupt, greedy and selfish. Of course he will blame someone else for his fate, and not see that he brought this upon himself by driving off Flannet all those years ago.
Yeah, I thought so, too. And obviously, there’s the fact that Owen was able to annul marriages by using a pen, but I was curious if anyone else thought that maybe Elgin was trying to push her off, but unable to, and while she wasn’t pushed, she retreated in fear and stumbled, not because she was pushed.
O.O Is he even allowed to do this? In his function as a Grayfort curse ghost… I mean, it’s not in the rules to kill the Baron as well – oh, darn it, can someone send a Cuddles, please?
In a physical sense? Yes, we have precedence: Owen Greyfort moving the pen, and this world does have poltergeists. And curses are not known for mercy, so killing others is not against the rules or the mechanics of the curse.
All to be expected from the ghost of a man who, when we first met him, was wallowing in his venal evil, ginning up evidence against the local priestess, gloating about having Flannet exiled, and even bragging about how he was able to steal and sell his wife’s jewellery.
Flannet gets saved by the curse, and then that curse’s agent tries to KILL her? Absolutely!
Anybody who claims to have seen THAT one coming is indulging in wishful thinking. Nice one.
t!
One of the (several) reasons this comic has been so successful is your innate sense of what makes a story interesting, and how to tell it.
I remember the whining you had to endure from certain players, about the hardships their PCs had to endure, because they couldn’t somehow grasp that the trials would make the end result more satisfactory.
(As I write this, I have no idea whether Flannet will survive!)
It’s that same instinct which has prompted a kabillion comments on these recent longer strips – people are bloody engaged.
Damn! Well, we already know ghosts can move things… If the collected mass of ghosts of Greyfort were ever to make themselves useful, now would be the time. They did set her up for this, after all. Failing them catching her, I hope Lucas has been thinking about how to catch her without killing her. He has had a few minutes, after all, but she will be going fairly fast by the time she gets near the ground.
I hope so, I like Flannet. If it was going to be easy, he wouldn’t have been so nervous when Niko threatened to throw her from the tower. And Niko wouldn’t have been so confident it was a valid threat.
If real-world physics applies to Rich’s world (alongside magic and the whims of the gods) then that sort of last-moment "rescue" wouldn’t help Flannet much. She’d still come to a stop almost as rapidly as if she’d hit the ground.
Considering Flannet got pushed off a roof by a ghost I’m doubting real-world physics have anything to do with it.
As an aside, is there any difference between a ghost and a spirit? Maybe a ghost is a spirit without a body whereas a human is a body possessed by it’s own spirit. Hmm…
Save the QUEEN er baroness.
Wait can the curse actually do that?!
Isn’t that like breaking the rules?
Those dark mistresses are probablylike:
"Back to square one"
It probably IS against the rules. Elgin wasn’t acting as agent of the curse: following what we’ve seen of the curse’s mechanics so far, I think that role has passed to Niko. Instead, he acted as a regular vengeful ghost.
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He gone Mucced it up….
Though I hope werewolves are a good catch!
Or at least very very fluffy.
OH CRAP!! Where’s a friendly Harpy when you need one?!
Or a friendly chimera?
That would be the most inexplicable comeback of a character in YAFGC 😀
Considering Dragonhead… I can see it happening.
Or a friendly neighborhood Spiderman?
If it was superman he’d wait until she almost hit the ground before swooping her up.
Everybody gets one.
And how this would somehow be better than hitting the ground I have never figured out. She is still coming to a very sudden stop after moving at high velocity, this would be very bad for the health.
At least with Spiderman they (once) snapped someone’s (Gwen’s) neck doing it.
Of course it was also asked; if these guys can punch through solid steel, meaning their fists are harder than steel, why would they pick up a car and hit someone with it instead of just punching them? It would be the super powered equivalent of a pillow fight!
Apparently, that little problem wasn’t missed by *everybody*
Maxima pointed that out to Sydney, along with a few other precautionary tips right over here: http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1224
The car-wielders obviously lack Improved Unarmed Strike [General, Monk, Fighter] (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/feats.htm#improvedUnarmedStrike)!
…or, you know, maybe it just looks cooler.
Cursed ghosts are dicks, just saying. Plus, he did this to himself just they weren’t fast enough
No. Niko did it to him. He’s just being a dick. Hopefully he’s off to spend the rest of some quality Eternity in one of Ranna’s deeper Hells.
Of course, I hope Flannet survives somehow. But, if she doesn’t, she should have a fair chance to haunt Greyfort and hang with some really cool ghosts who like her.
That…probably won’t happen. Ranna rules the afterlife now. All those who die are essentially hers to do with as she wills. Remember, Owen had to cajole and manipulate C’thier to be allowed to haunt Lucas. I can’t see Ranna letting Flannet remain as a ghost…
Still worth a shot. Anything to keep out of the "Invasive Worm-Pit" or any special personalized punishment Ranna bothers to set up!
Now, that was unexpected! o.o
Do the Mistresses carry whips? This is their chance to earn their place on the good guys’ team…
Well, if that happens that’s the call of the century!
Did he push her over the ledge or did she stumble from fear?
He pushed her. Study the panel more carefully.
After the last installment, I was musing along the lines that maybe he knew she and the Greyfort ghosts had been honestly trying to help him, that he might have had some redeeming charity or even a kind word of regret for how he treated her. It’s hard to imagine that he lacks that knowledge, so he’s chosen to believe what he wants to believe. Obviously he decided to go into the afterlife without even a shred of redemption so, hopefully, he will harvest the full wages for that.
Alas, our introduction showed us how self-centred he was in life: corrupt, greedy and selfish. Of course he will blame someone else for his fate, and not see that he brought this upon himself by driving off Flannet all those years ago.
Yeah, I thought so, too. And obviously, there’s the fact that Owen was able to annul marriages by using a pen, but I was curious if anyone else thought that maybe Elgin was trying to push her off, but unable to, and while she wasn’t pushed, she retreated in fear and stumbled, not because she was pushed.
He was a jerkass in life and he is a jerkass in death. At least there is symmetry.
Look at his posture in panel 4, he clearly pushed her.
Now it’s time for the werewolves to play catch!
Hopefully not in the mouth.
O.O Is he even allowed to do this? In his function as a Grayfort curse ghost… I mean, it’s not in the rules to kill the Baron as well – oh, darn it, can someone send a Cuddles, please?
In a physical sense? Yes, we have precedence: Owen Greyfort moving the pen, and this world does have poltergeists. And curses are not known for mercy, so killing others is not against the rules or the mechanics of the curse.
"I’m not acting in my capacity as the Greyfort curse enforcer. I’m murdering you strictly off-the-clock."
Once a lawyer, always a lawyer…
All to be expected from the ghost of a man who, when we first met him, was wallowing in his venal evil, ginning up evidence against the local priestess, gloating about having Flannet exiled, and even bragging about how he was able to steal and sell his wife’s jewellery.
Yeah.
Not exactly the type to admit his own failings and accept responsibility.
t!
Flannet wasn’t the wife he wanted to exile.
Holy crap!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripeteia
Nice one!
t!
Sorry? Peripeteia, is that what I did?
Flannet gets saved by the curse, and then that curse’s agent tries to KILL her? Absolutely!
Anybody who claims to have seen THAT one coming is indulging in wishful thinking. Nice one.
t!
Cool! Thanks! It makes me sound all literarical!
Dude, you always were.
One of the (several) reasons this comic has been so successful is your innate sense of what makes a story interesting, and how to tell it.
I remember the whining you had to endure from certain players, about the hardships their PCs had to endure, because they couldn’t somehow grasp that the trials would make the end result more satisfactory.
(As I write this, I have no idea whether Flannet will survive!)
It’s that same instinct which has prompted a kabillion comments on these recent longer strips – people are bloody engaged.
t!
Damn! Well, we already know ghosts can move things… If the collected mass of ghosts of Greyfort were ever to make themselves useful, now would be the time. They did set her up for this, after all. Failing them catching her, I hope Lucas has been thinking about how to catch her without killing her. He has had a few minutes, after all, but she will be going fairly fast by the time she gets near the ground.
Eh, he can just leap up catch her then use his strength to land softly. Easy for a werewolf.
I hope so, I like Flannet. If it was going to be easy, he wouldn’t have been so nervous when Niko threatened to throw her from the tower. And Niko wouldn’t have been so confident it was a valid threat.
If real-world physics applies to Rich’s world (alongside magic and the whims of the gods) then that sort of last-moment "rescue" wouldn’t help Flannet much. She’d still come to a stop almost as rapidly as if she’d hit the ground.
Considering Flannet got pushed off a roof by a ghost I’m doubting real-world physics have anything to do with it.
As an aside, is there any difference between a ghost and a spirit? Maybe a ghost is a spirit without a body whereas a human is a body possessed by it’s own spirit. Hmm…
Life tip: never apologize to assholes. They’ll make you regret your kindness.
Save the QUEEN er baroness.
Wait can the curse actually do that?!
Isn’t that like breaking the rules?
Those dark mistresses are probablylike:
"Back to square one"
It probably IS against the rules. Elgin wasn’t acting as agent of the curse: following what we’ve seen of the curse’s mechanics so far, I think that role has passed to Niko. Instead, he acted as a regular vengeful ghost.
He does realize that there’s a castles worth of baron ghosts that are probably going to kick his ass for this.
That’s probably the reason for the "poof" that followed. Elgin got his revenge (he thinks), and now is skedaddling off somewhere away from here.
Gotta watch that first step- it’s a doozy!