I love how the remaining thugs getting mad because the prey has the nerve to successfully defend himself. It's all tea and skittles 'til Charles knocks one down.
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They were already mad. Remember, from HIS point of view he's defending his auntie, who has always been kind to him. From THEIR point of view he's a simp for one of the evil monsters who tried to destroy the world, who killed off most of the gods, and who cost the world the magic that was nigh essential for so many.
A question about who's who for the three thugs. I'm guessing that the thug that Charles knocked out is big Tom. For the other two, which one is Cullard and which one is Hallek?
The first guy to hit the dirt -the hunch-backy guy who started all this- is Cullard. Big Tom is the bald guy with the beard, and Hallek -who as I stated last strip isn't a conscious references to "Dune", just a coincidence, though I may have fished the name from my old, old memories of reading the book when I was about 19- is the guy with the full beard and big hat.
The orcs did a fair bit in their day, but they didn't descend to the levels of the Rannites. You really can't blame them for carrying a grudge, even if they ARE going too far by attacking a boy. A boy who has only seen his "auntie" at her best, and never saw her torturing men to death.
Yes, he saw while the war
And his best friend tell a lot about it. And he was very nearlo to those dark mistress.
Don't forget that dark mistress fought and die versus Ranna and her army.
You are. The longest-running DM characters crossed over from a video game world in a plotline that ran back before Lewie's undead crusade. When Ranna made her move, some of these old-school DMs converted to her cause; others (such as Arachne's lover Jais) stayed loyal to the Black Mountain. Then the Rannite DMs began rapidly converting prisoners into more DMs (to use as cannon fodder) and gorgons (to use as officers, priestesses, and thinkers.)
It very much seemed that the converted prisoners underwent massive brainwashing via magic, alchemy, and goddess-mojo. They had no way to resist conversion, and should probably be held blameless (especially if there's a way to deprogram them now that Ranna is gone.)
Stablemistresses Naroasa and Fasi, though, are old-school DMs who arrived with that first wave, then converted voluntarily (?) to Ranna's side…and abandoned Ranna just as voluntarily because shit, werewolves. They earned some trust by staying loyal to Flannet on covert missions when they could have betrayed her, and probably more trust in the years since the war, but the thugs here have an actual point: Fasi and Naroasa have never fully answered for war crimes they committed of their own free will.
"who arrived with that first wave, then converted voluntarily (?) to Ranna's side"
Well, with their old master gone, they might just went to look for an other, or just found one per chance. Thing is, part of the old DMs followed Jais, who followed Arachne, the others followed someone else, who followed Ranna. None of them knew that time, what is going to come, they likely just found a way to live out their sadistic nature, and then just rolled with it. While I think most of them would have sticked with Ranna anyway, I do not think they had any other choice, even if they wanted to. At least not at the time they would have wanted to have one.
So, I believe, what speaks more for Fasi and Naroasa is that they "abandoned Ranna just as voluntarily because"… they realised they picked the "wrong" side. They didn't follow Ranna for who she was, but for what she enabled them to do. Under Flannet's care they showed that they can be different as well, as long as they still can do "their things", even if only on/with each other.
To sum it up, I don't think that all (perhaps any) of the original DMs were ever real Rannites. They just kind of tagged along. Of course for those they tortured that makes no difference…
Apart from these, I don't think such things as war crimes exist in most fantasy worlds. Most cases if you do evil things and you actually being judged for it, you either get killed or imprisoned for it, or you show signs of possible redemption, and you might just get away with it. As it seems, our 2 DMs here went with the "redemption arc".
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Nice jab
The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the mind that wields the sword is mightier than the pen.
Because it might also be used to wield a pen. Among other things.
Fasi, from off-panel: "Yeah, like a whip! Hey, don't give me that look. I'm a stablemistress now; it's my JOB!"
Yup. Speed and dexterity advantage.
I love how the remaining thugs getting mad because the prey has the nerve to successfully defend himself. It's all tea and skittles 'til Charles knocks one down.
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They were already mad. Remember, from HIS point of view he's defending his auntie, who has always been kind to him. From THEIR point of view he's a simp for one of the evil monsters who tried to destroy the world, who killed off most of the gods, and who cost the world the magic that was nigh essential for so many.
To quote Little Giants: DON'T TALK ABOUT MY MAMA!!!
Well done, Charles!
A question about who's who for the three thugs. I'm guessing that the thug that Charles knocked out is big Tom. For the other two, which one is Cullard and which one is Hallek?
Bald guy looks more like a Hallek to me than a Cullard. So by the pigeonhole principle, beard-and-hat guy must be Cullard.
Well the one looks more like Patrick Stewart who portrayed Gurney Hallek in the first Dune movie.
The first guy to hit the dirt -the hunch-backy guy who started all this- is Cullard. Big Tom is the bald guy with the beard, and Hallek -who as I stated last strip isn't a conscious references to "Dune", just a coincidence, though I may have fished the name from my old, old memories of reading the book when I was about 19- is the guy with the full beard and big hat.
Thanks, Rich!
He who fights and runs away
Lives to fight another day
Now *there's* a nod to the game this comic is based on you might not expect! 😉
To whit: running away and escaping combat is a perfectly valid strategy in many instances–and often most sensible.
I suspect lack of adherence to that concept is as much a part of TPKs as bad dice rolling.
Did you use your freetime and contract deadline as a reference for the punch to the face panel?
Hahah, nope. This break isn't a bunch in the face, it's a welcome gap in my scheduled contracts.
It has been WAY too long since we had a good ol' swordfight in these pages.
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Feeling a bit rusty with them too. Got a couple of panels in and had to stop and consider for a long time how to proceed with the coreography!
Well, they don't like dark mistress. What does they think about orcs? Because the will meet more than is believe
The orcs did a fair bit in their day, but they didn't descend to the levels of the Rannites. You really can't blame them for carrying a grudge, even if they ARE going too far by attacking a boy. A boy who has only seen his "auntie" at her best, and never saw her torturing men to death.
Yes, he saw while the war
And his best friend tell a lot about it. And he was very nearlo to those dark mistress.
Don't forget that dark mistress fought and die versus Ranna and her army.
Am I right in recalling that not all DMs were Rannites?
You are. The longest-running DM characters crossed over from a video game world in a plotline that ran back before Lewie's undead crusade. When Ranna made her move, some of these old-school DMs converted to her cause; others (such as Arachne's lover Jais) stayed loyal to the Black Mountain. Then the Rannite DMs began rapidly converting prisoners into more DMs (to use as cannon fodder) and gorgons (to use as officers, priestesses, and thinkers.)
It very much seemed that the converted prisoners underwent massive brainwashing via magic, alchemy, and goddess-mojo. They had no way to resist conversion, and should probably be held blameless (especially if there's a way to deprogram them now that Ranna is gone.)
Stablemistresses Naroasa and Fasi, though, are old-school DMs who arrived with that first wave, then converted voluntarily (?) to Ranna's side…and abandoned Ranna just as voluntarily because shit, werewolves. They earned some trust by staying loyal to Flannet on covert missions when they could have betrayed her, and probably more trust in the years since the war, but the thugs here have an actual point: Fasi and Naroasa have never fully answered for war crimes they committed of their own free will.
That we know of.
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That we know of.
And now, as of 3555, it appears that we know!
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"who arrived with that first wave, then converted voluntarily (?) to Ranna's side"
Well, with their old master gone, they might just went to look for an other, or just found one per chance. Thing is, part of the old DMs followed Jais, who followed Arachne, the others followed someone else, who followed Ranna. None of them knew that time, what is going to come, they likely just found a way to live out their sadistic nature, and then just rolled with it. While I think most of them would have sticked with Ranna anyway, I do not think they had any other choice, even if they wanted to. At least not at the time they would have wanted to have one.
So, I believe, what speaks more for Fasi and Naroasa is that they "abandoned Ranna just as voluntarily because"… they realised they picked the "wrong" side. They didn't follow Ranna for who she was, but for what she enabled them to do. Under Flannet's care they showed that they can be different as well, as long as they still can do "their things", even if only on/with each other.
To sum it up, I don't think that all (perhaps any) of the original DMs were ever real Rannites. They just kind of tagged along. Of course for those they tortured that makes no difference…
Apart from these, I don't think such things as war crimes exist in most fantasy worlds. Most cases if you do evil things and you actually being judged for it, you either get killed or imprisoned for it, or you show signs of possible redemption, and you might just get away with it. As it seems, our 2 DMs here went with the "redemption arc".