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Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Mr. Prokosch posted:

I think he means Uncle Fury

She, and yeah, Fury is a strong guy with spiky black hair whose number one priority in life is fighting. He's a Goku.

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Myriad Truths
Oct 13, 2012
It's a shame that Pith has gone on indefinite hiatus due to health issues. I hope it returns eventually, I was enjoying it.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Who's the most metal character in twi and why is it fetohep

berenzen
Jan 23, 2012

Pretty sure Tulm is more metal than fehotep. In fact, I would argue most dullahan are

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
I mean Tulm's cool but he's not a six hundred year old skeleton running his own undead Latveria.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




That abomination city might qualify.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
The Titans Question interlude is so good. the fakeout where you think Niers is talking about Earthfolk but it's dragons, Niers sending Foliana to erase Wils memory because it's bullshit for him to give up his real question, all just fantastic

Edit: I would like to update my most metal character to the entirety of the bloodfields

Josh Christ fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jun 3, 2021

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Thoughts on TWI 6.58-6.59

Erin going apeshit on people rules. Bird rules. gently caress a bunch of mages. Bird rules. I'm glad there's another politics arc starting. Bird rules.

Edit I hope Zevara murders this guy over sexism.

Further edit: gently caress em up pisces get this guy's rear end

Josh Christ fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jun 3, 2021

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




That section is when you really start to realize that Wistram are not the neutral Good Guys they present as.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Gnoman posted:

That section is when you really start to realize that Wistram are not the neutral Good Guys they present as.

I mean you kinda get that vibe for a bit, with the way they're talked about and the constant "yo where IS amerys" in the K chapters, but yeah.

Also gently caress blackmage I hope that little dork gets beat up.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Double posting because I read Interlude - Talia last night, the one where you meet the goblin slayer

Holy poo poo

I hope the Redscars never reunite because I don't think I could stop myself from crying too hard and dehydrating

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
The Goblin Slayer was incredible.

OscarDiggs
Jun 1, 2011

Those sure are words on pages which are given in a sequential order!

Josh Christ posted:

The entire point of Cradle is that he got a raw deal and had to scrape by with cunning until he lucked into finding someone who could actually teach him properly. The newest book has him going back to his home village and everyone treats him like dogshit still because they refuse to believe he isn't the powerless child they remember, despite him being literally steps away from actual godhood

It helps too that he wants power to save the world and the people he loves and not just to become king poo poo magic kung fu man

Is this Will Wrights Cradle?

Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.
Yes.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

OscarDiggs posted:

Is this Will Wrights Cradle?

Yeah, it's great. He makes friends with Goku and then Goku ascends to godhood.

OscarDiggs
Jun 1, 2011

Those sure are words on pages which are given in a sequential order!
Well hell, who could say no to that.

Narmi
Feb 26, 2008
Dunno how many people follow Palus Somni, but if you haven't checked it out, I'd recommend you do - it reminds me a lot of Katalepsis, but with nuns.

Anyways, the epilogue was just posted on RR.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:

Narmi posted:

Dunno how many people follow Palus Somni, but if you haven't checked it out, I'd recommend you do - it reminds me a lot of Katalepsis, but with nuns.

Anyways, the epilogue was just posted on RR.
why on earth was I not already reading this

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Feels like I'm going to eat poo poo for this in a few pages but I genuinely do not care about or know why I'm spending a chapter with the Players. No clue. Go back to the ants.

I'm incredibly aware that I say this every time the story deviates and then go holy poo poo that was amazing, and yet,

Edit: nope, still don't care. P joins D as the worst letter.

Josh Christ fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jun 5, 2021

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



There's a brief few chapters where the players become a bigger part of the story, and the fanbase rightly hates them, so they do go back to being bit part players.

I mean, they're still worldwide celebrities, but the story cares less for them, so keep going.

Josh Christ posted:

Double posting because I read Interlude - Talia last night, the one where you meet the goblin slayer

Holy poo poo

I hope the Redscars never reunite because I don't think I could stop myself from crying too hard and dehydrating

Honestly and without hyperbole, the goblins in TWI are among the best parts of it - it's fascinating to see how far they come in such a short time.

I'm listening to the audiobook of book 3 atm, and I forgot just how wild they are at the start, and how untintelligent the story makes them out to be, right up until they develop empathy.

shirunei
Sep 7, 2018

I tried to run away. To take the easy way out. I'll live through the suffering. When I die, I want to feel like I did my best.
The gobs may be cool now, but boy did they suck hard for awhile. Just complete misery porn to the point that I ended up skipping almost all of their chapters in previous volumes.

Josh Christ
Dec 24, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Just wanna give a shout out to bird for causing a diplomatic incident because he wanted to shoot the big birds. Love that ant.

Edit: it's incredibly hosed up to go to slice of life flashbacks immediately after this. Not as hosed ip as "time for a bunch of L or D chapters when things are getting wild in the main story" but it's up there

Another edit: I really appreciate the slow progression of Klbkch from weird stoic cop with a dipshit partner who's your buddy to just sociopathic rear end in a top hat, not because his behavior changes but because you have more exposure to it

Josh Christ fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jun 6, 2021

Sailor Dave
Sep 19, 2013

Josh Christ posted:

Just wanna give a shout out to bird for causing a diplomatic incident because he wanted to shoot the big birds. Love that ant.

Edit: it's incredibly hosed up to go to slice of life flashbacks immediately after this. Not as hosed ip as "time for a bunch of L or D chapters when things are getting wild in the main story" but it's up there

Another edit: I really appreciate the slow progression of Klbkch from weird stoic cop with a dipshit partner who's your buddy to just sociopathic rear end in a top hat, not because his behavior changes but because you have more exposure to it

Klb's kind of weird now (spoilers for much further ahead, I think?) It was easy to imagine him sacrificing himself for Erin the way he was before, but I can't imagine him doing that the way he is now. He just went off the deep end and hasn't really come back from it.

M. Night Skymall
Mar 22, 2012

Josh Christ posted:

Just wanna give a shout out to bird for causing a diplomatic incident because he wanted to shoot the big birds. Love that ant.

Edit: it's incredibly hosed up to go to slice of life flashbacks immediately after this. Not as hosed ip as "time for a bunch of L or D chapters when things are getting wild in the main story" but it's up there

Another edit: I really appreciate the slow progression of Klbkch from weird stoic cop with a dipshit partner who's your buddy to just sociopathic rear end in a top hat, not because his behavior changes but because you have more exposure to it

That incident was totally caused by awful diplomatic advice from Ksmvr. Also a really great culmination of that joke. One of my favorite scenes in TWI, Bird's the best.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



TWI Patreon:

The Death of Fetohep made me sad. His immediate glorious return, made me happy.

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
TWI Patreon:

1. Drassi is so good and her character progression over the course of TWI is great. Give me Remi side story.
2. I don't buy any death that happens mid-volume anymore but Fetohep owns so whatever, this is better.
3. It's gonna be... uh, interesting to see where the story goes with an imperialist foreign power funding and sending military support to an expansionist nation in another continent.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
TWI Public: “Wait a second. The headphone port is gone. What happened to that?”

loving lol

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Argue posted:

TWI Patreon:

2. I don't buy any death that happens mid-volume anymore but Fetohep owns so whatever, this is better.


It is interesting that Fehotep quite clearly actually died for at least a second - Dead Erin was trying to talk to him. If he actually got any more than the brief bit of sentence we saw, that could be interesting.

Cinara
Jul 15, 2007

Gnoman posted:

It is interesting that Fehotep quite clearly actually died for at least a second - Dead Erin was trying to talk to him. If he actually got any more than the brief bit of sentence we saw, that could be interesting.

More TWI Patreon stuff

This had me so upset and excited at the same time. I love Fehotep as a character and really didn't want him to leave the story, but adventures with Erin would be fantastic and hilarious.

This whole chapter was wonderful and had me on the edge of my seat, I was actually sure one of the two kings was going to die. I guess one did, just not for very long. I worry for both of their retaliations though, we already know Fehotep is extremely pissed and Flos has a lot of reason to be angry. I imagine that some of the allies to Medain might back out after seeing how hopeless their "victory" was.

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




More TWI.

The Flos resolution surprised me. I thought for sure one of the assassins would wind up as a successor of one of the Seven, particularly with the emphasis on the one taking satisfaction in building things/

Affi
Dec 18, 2005

Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA
Twi spoilers: I read it as Fetohep actually getting more info then we saw. I'll have to reread the last bit but didn't he say he had something to do before resuming the war after he had respawned?

shirunei
Sep 7, 2018

I tried to run away. To take the easy way out. I'll live through the suffering. When I die, I want to feel like I did my best.

Affi posted:

Twi spoilers: I read it as Fetohep actually getting more info then we saw. I'll have to reread the last bit but didn't he say he had something to do before resuming the war after he had respawned?

Almost certainly based on that last bit of his.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



Argue posted:

TWI Patreon:

1. Drassi is so good and her character progression over the course of TWI is great. Give me Remi side story.
2. I don't buy any death that happens mid-volume anymore but Fetohep owns so whatever, this is better.
3. It's gonna be... uh, interesting to see where the story goes with an imperialist foreign power funding and sending military support to an expansionist nation in another continent.


Especially when you consider that

the imperialist nation in question is controlled by a Dragon who pushed extremely hard to send a lot of his nation on this crusade.

Chandrar, which famously loves dragons

Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.
Really enjoyed Beware of Chicken today

Cynic Jester
Apr 11, 2009

Let's put a simile on that face
A dazzling simile
Twinkling like the night sky
Having three fun reads in the xianxia vein pop up at roughly the same time is a new experience but I'm all for it. Beware of Chicken is great, The Last Ship in Suzhou is also great and Elder Cultivator is bog standard cultivation in pretty much all ways but one.

LLSix
Jan 20, 2010

The real power behind countless overlords

Cicero posted:

Really enjoyed Beware of Chicken today

It really was! So long it's hard to pick out a favorite quote.

Beware of Chicken posted:

“Hey! Who wants a Dragon Ride!” Master Jin shouted, a wild grin on his face.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

PracGuide: As expected, Hakram is also going off in a different direction and becoming Warlord. It's kind of interesting how, at this point, the only member of the Woe who isn't really independent is Archer, who was originally the most independent member of the Woe. And I have a feeling Archer will see a lot of development in the upcoming inevitable conflict between Archer (and the other Refuge people) and Ranger. Hope they gently caress Ranger up, Ranger sucks.

Going to be curious to see Catherine's reaction to Hakram. I think this might actually hit her really hard; even though whatever Hakram does is unlikely to directly be at odds with what Catherine wants, he's leaving his role as her Adjutant. Catherine was expecting Akua's betrayal and wasn't particularly surprised to hear that Black might be at odds with her (though it still upset her), but this is going to completely blindside her.


edit: Speaking of the Refuge people/Ranger, the most recent Patreon chapter (PracGuide author recently started releasing monthly Patreon chapters) centers on the Refuge kids. It's funny that Hunter's back-story is basically "read stories about hunters and thought it'd be rad to be a hunter." The previous two chapters were about the origins of Saint of Swords.

Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jun 10, 2021

LibrarianCroaker
Mar 30, 2010
Are those like, early interludes or patreon-exclusive forever bonus chapters?

Lone Goat
Apr 16, 2003

When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.




Where's the setting to put Royal Road into dark mode? Do I need to be logged in to access it now? Used to be fine a couple days ago and now everything is a searing white screen.

Whoops never mind I found it!

Lone Goat fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jun 12, 2021

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A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010
Katalepsis getting freaky as poo poo :stonk:

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