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The developing contrast between Laius' untempered trust of everyone and Kabru's harsh preternatural judgement is ace.
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Snooze Cruise posted:The "Living dungeons" concept been a thing for a while, you can find it in some tabletop rpg stuff and its actually part of the basic setting of 13th Age. 
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May 15, 2019 23:13
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Wow, that’s ...blatant. Who rips off covers to that extent?
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May 15, 2019 23:19
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I love the elves, them becoming as goofy as everyone else when fleshed out is fantastic all the characters have way more depth than you'd expect them too, and it's only aided the worldbuilding rather than splitting focus it's incredibly impressive
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May 15, 2019 23:23
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Mousepractice posted:The developing contrast between Laius' untempered trust of everyone and Kabru's harsh preternatural judgement is ace. Kabru really is just Laius but obsessed with people instead of monsters, it even gave him super vision!
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May 15, 2019 23:51
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Brought To You By posted:Dungeon ecology isn't a new idea, but without knowing anything about this series I can tell you what inspired the writer to pursue that theme in this story. that art is really amateurish. it's even more exaggerated because they chose to rip off an excellent artist.
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May 15, 2019 23:52
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i think kabru and the captain should date and then go on a double date with marcille and falin who are also dating
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May 16, 2019 00:03
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Mousepractice posted:The developing contrast between Laius' untempered trust of everyone and Kabru's harsh preternatural judgement is ace. Laius and Kabru desperately need to get in a situation where they work together for a prolonged period of time and Kabru is somehow prevented from leaving or killing Laius. Especially some sort of social situation. I bet Kabru watching Laius interact with people would be agonizing for him.
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Snooze Cruise posted:i think kabru and the captain should date and then go on a double date with marcille and falin who are also dating 
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May 16, 2019 06:13
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May 16, 2019 06:14
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Her getting scronched into a staff was great.
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May 16, 2019 07:34
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Big nosed elf is best elf and come at me if you think otherwise.
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May 16, 2019 14:08
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she's the parties ugo elf
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May 16, 2019 14:09
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i don't think any of them can beat the captain solving every problem with random teleportation.
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May 16, 2019 14:38
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https://twitter.com/DerWaffleMous/status/1128972414862405633
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May 16, 2019 15:01
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We do not deserve Ryoko Kui.
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The Lord of Hats posted:We do not deserve Ryoko Kui. But I’m pretty sure we need her.
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May 16, 2019 19:34
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The Captain is so badass...I love this arc.
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May 16, 2019 19:41
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I enjoyed this chapter but something about it seems too...soon? Like we just had a chapter of ominous foreshadowing and build up and now the dungeon's already warping. Not gonna claim I know how it should've gone but this is the first time a development has felt rushed to me. Maybe it'll be a plot point, I dunno.
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Bad Seafood posted:I enjoyed this chapter but something about it seems too...soon? Like we just had a chapter of ominous foreshadowing and build up and now the dungeon's already warping. I mean, this doesn't seem to be a naturally occurring one, this is the Mad Sorcerer controlling the monsters rather than the dungeon producing too many monsters and having them spill out. So this is more like a preview of what could happen if the dungeon was left as it was for too long.
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No, no, I get that. It's mechanically sound. We understand the dungeon, how it operates, and we understand that the Mad Sorcerer coming to this level has accelerated the rate of change. The math works out. It's not the math, it's the timing. The last plot point had pretty much no time to breathe before becoming immediately relevant. I remember reading this book as a kid where the hero finds a box with a finger in it. He then (almost immediately) stumbles upon an evil wizard, who reveals he cannot be killed because he sealed his life force in his (severed) finger and hid it. The hero puts two and two together, produces the finger, and the evil wizard is destroyed. The problem isn't the hero finding the box (not even by accident), nor the box containing the wizard's weakness, but the fact that these things happened so close together. Even as a child, it felt a bit quick - and that's without registering any of the other contrived parts of the story. The lack of downtime feels too sudden, is all. The elves wanted to create a disturbance in the dungeon and got one immediately, because the Mad Sorcerer decided to pick this exact time to cause some trouble, right as they were regrouping. There's no reason the Mad Sorcerer can't be here, causing trouble, but it feels like a bit of narrative convenience. And yes, there might be a reason for it, like getting tipped off by the king's son, but it still feels sudden in a way that subconsciously bugged me. Again, not a huge deal (though apparently huge enough I felt the need to write about it). Just trying to air out my thought process?
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To be fair, the Mad Sorcerer is On The Move because Farlyn and Friends stirred things up by killing/being revived with the red dragon, which definitely got the MS's attention in a way we don't know of anything else really doing in the past thousand years. Enough for the MS to show up in the Undervillage of the Immortals just after Our Heroes had left, clearly agitated and demanding to know what the village's leader was up to. This all happened in the past day or two, at the same time as the two combined other parties teleported back to the surface and they saw the elf ship sailing into port, then immediately ran over to the town's mayor's mansion, found the elves there, and embarked on the last couple of chapters of activities. If anything, it makes perfect sense that the MS would be doing something this audacious and active right now, given all this timing of things happening.
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I think honestly it will be some kind of plot point that gets fleshed out in the next chapter, but yeah I definitely see what you mean about it feeling a bit rushed/convenient. I think even if does end up being a bit convenient, I’m still really interested in where it’s going. There’s been the occasional moment before this one that felt a bit too convenient to me, but how it was used/contextualized later in the plot ended up more than making up for the nitpick at the time.
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Bad Seafood posted:There's no reason the Mad Sorcerer can't be here, causing trouble, but it feels like a bit of narrative convenience. And yes, there might be a reason for it, like getting tipped off by the king's son, but it still feels sudden in a way that subconsciously bugged me. Exactly how powerful is the Mad Sorcerer? (Compare and contrast him and this just-demonstrated crack team of elves.) Related: What happens when Elf Team 6 meets Laius & Co.? (Depends on how this conflict goes.) Also related: Why Laius & Co. need the help of the Winged Lion beyond 'they've been kind of bumbling through this whole thing and 'There is a Prophecy!'' There's also what happens when the Mad Sorcerer finds out that Derghal left the Dungeon to get out of the Curse of Immortality(tm)? (Which is a continuation on the plot thread that was left hanging when he was all 'hey Yado, who were you talking to?') The suddenness is also an indication of an increase in tension, like how time bomb clocks always seem to tick faster when you're defusing them 
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For those who enjoy Dungeon Meshi, I highly, highly recommend you also check out Heterogenous Linguistics. It is absurdly good with only 14 chapters so far(new one just dropped), like if it keeps this pace up I would put it on par with Dungeon Meshi, absolutely. quoting my post about it quote:
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Captain Invictus posted:For those who enjoy Dungeon Meshi, I highly, highly recommend you also check out Heterogenous Linguistics. It is absurdly good with only 14 chapters so far(new one just dropped), like if it keeps this pace up I would put it on par with Dungeon Meshi, absolutely. seconded thanks for the update on there being an update
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Heterogenous Linguistics is good but I often lose the thread of the plot because it's built around, well, language barriers. That said, I am a freaking moron, so maybe that won't be a problem for others.
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Showdown time! (new chapter) Return of the changelings    Edit:  Never make that face again, Chilchack. Can Of Worms fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Jun 15, 2019 05:52
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I really like the small touch of Kabru's leg getting skewered through a walking mushroom when they teleport down.
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Kabru is just straight up my second favorite character below Marcille after this chapter now.
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I'm okay with running this joke into the ground. This chapter positively flew by, though.Can Of Worms posted:Edit: 
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If this elf spec ops team is all conscripted convicts (other than the captain?) I wonder what leverage their government has to stop them deserting, now they're out of the country?
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Jun 15, 2019 09:22
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Man the elves kinda made that sorcerer look like a chump there. That's pretty impressive
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Dzhay posted:If this elf spec ops team is all conscripted convicts (other than the captain?) I wonder what leverage their government has to stop them deserting, now they're out of the country?
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Snooze Cruise posted:Kabru is just straight up my second favorite character below Marcille after this chapter now. I'm surprised just how much Kabru really grew on me. At first I thought he's someone looking down on others while plotting to become the new ruler of the dungeon.    But the past few chapters really turned that impression around. He just doesn't want the incident that happened to wipe his home to happen ever again. And he doesn't really want power over the dungeon, he just wants the person to do so to be a good person and not corrupted by greed. He's a swell guy, and I hope he and Elf Boss are alright. Also, this is the first time poor Namari saw what happened to Farlyn, right? That's gotta be really rough. 
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