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So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense.
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RolandTower posted:So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense. It's a long way from priest village
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I mean the best way would be that after you feed someone to the door it chews that person out and spits out a message that goes 'did you seriously think that would work?' and then it screams even louder.
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RolandTower posted:So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense. I doubt the Grand Dragon worries too much about being killed by the murder priests. I assume if he ever actually needed to get through the door that he'd have his pick of sacrifices. But correct me if I'm wrong, but Mammon is at the heart of this treasure vault, and he never leaves it? Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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This is something of a wild guess, but I don't think the vault is as lethal as it is because it's hard to break in.
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RolandTower posted:So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense. This isn't actually an anti-theft door, it's just a pest control system. See, inevitably you get mimics in a form that lets them get up the ledge - or there are just so many of them they pile up - and they start filling in the hall. As soon as they get in here, the alarm sounds and it lets the priests know that they need to send someone out to cull the numbers, or at least to shove them all back down into the mimicpits. Sure, occasionally you find that it was actually a lost accountant or maybe a wayward thief, in which case you can just shove them into the mimicpit as well. But the thing is, the mimics might turn into giant heads, but they're not going to stuff each other into the mouth, that isn't how they work. So when someone opens the door and triggers the alarm on the other side, now you know you have an intruder. Because it might be possible that someone stumbled into the fractal fortress; maybe they were cleaning the sewers and came up in the wrong place, but no one shoves their compatriots into a giant screaming mouth by accident.
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RolandTower posted:So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense. Any security system can be defeated, eliminating all the weak points you know about just means someone'll eventually figure out how to exploit one you don't. Give 'em a big obvious easy out that totally fucks them up later but solves all their problems right now, and you're designing for the kind of psychology that leads to burglarizing mafia gods. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Any security system can be defeated, eliminating all the weak points you know about just means someone'll eventually figure out how to exploit one you don't. Give 'em a big obvious easy out that totally fucks them up later but solves all their problems right now, and you're designing for the kind of psychology that leads to burglarizing mafia gods. God, do I love the Demiurges.
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I bring good news: https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/902674649506471936 Also, double updates this week.
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i hope after the door gets fed it starts to sing a happy tune
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the old ceremony posted:i hope after the door gets fed it starts to sing a happy tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7SkrYF8lCU
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RolandTower posted:So while this door situation is certainly better from a plot and a sadism standpoint, i can't help but note that from a pure protect-your-gold standpoint, a door that DOESN'T have a way to open it before you're killed by the murderpriests would kinda be a better defense. I wonder if the idea is that even regular entries require a sacrifice. The priests kill everyone who doesn't feed it a murder. Valid entries bring a sacrifice, feed it, and get to unlocking. Invalid ones don't know, and it shatters their group. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if the idea is that even regular entries require a sacrifice. The priests kill everyone who doesn't feed it a murder. Valid entries bring a sacrifice, feed it, and get to unlocking. Invalid ones don't know, and it shatters their group. No need to complicate things beyond what Cio described. Idiots try to unlock it the regular way and get butchered by the priests. Proper thieves unlock it by feeding the door, and then the psychological damage of sacrificing one of their own to get chewed up by a not-entirely-decorative screaming head rattles them enough so that the labyrinth makes quick work of them afterward.
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what i want to know is who did cc sacrifice the first time around
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the old ceremony posted:what i want to know is who did cc sacrifice the first time around the first time she went alone, but had brought a pack of oreos for snacks this time, she came prepared. never again will she share her oreos.
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/902737274965655552 so is allison going with it because she knows it's necessary while hating it or is incubus overruling her
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Pink eyes tell me it's not a metaphor.
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Yeah he took her over. But i'm not sure if he's ready for some fuckin Royalty.  Good poo poo!
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Dead Reckoning posted:Although if Incubus gets back in the driver's seat, I can see the potential for all sorts of hilarious shenanigans.
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I'm really curious to find out why he took control. He might have reasons to stop them feeding the door a stray cat even if they're going to be very different from Allison's.
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a kitten posted:I'm really curious to find out why he took control. He might have reasons to stop them feeding the door a stray cat even if they're going to be very different from Allison's. Or he is stopping Alison from loving up the feeding. At least that's my read of it.
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so that's what happens when you shoot a devil
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i feel like it's probably not devil-standard to take getting a couple holes punched through you and no-selling it
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Here's my thought. Allison specifically bought into this thing so she could get over herself to be stronger, more capable. Reliably present immediately in crisis. She's not there yet. Incubus is interpreting that wording of the contract so he can take over here, jump in, and be that capable presence here and now. Moving her straight past the thinking stage, where her brain is all hung up, into doing. In effect, streamlining the previously successful strategy of furious dumbassery.
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Motherfucker posted:The art on this one is seriously good...
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Yes I like the lady earring Oscar has
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Tollymain posted:i feel like it's probably not devil-standard to take getting a couple holes punched through you and no-selling it Actually I think that's one of the out of the box features of a Crimson devil.
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It looks like Ally's manifesting the same facial scars Incubus has in his physical form in that last panel.
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Bilirubin posted:Or he is stopping Alison from loving up the feeding. At least that's my read of it. Sure looks like My guess is he really took control back when Allison made that bargain with him and this is the first time he's done something she couldn't rationalize as her decision
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I must say that from a narrative standpoint it seems to be very very quick for the Incubus deal to have gone south.
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He just wants to take a test drive
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Pureauthor posted:I must say that from a narrative standpoint it seems to be very very quick for the Incubus deal to have gone south. This story is actually rapidly paced rapid as gently caress, it just takes a long time to make comic pages. It's good that it moves along, cause we have an immense amount of ground to cover in 5 books.  This door is clearly designed to just hurt, not to keep people out. The fortress murders those on the way in. Those who make it through will run into Mammon and get murdered. The one person who got out (Yabalchoath) had her dick lopped off by a gang of pissed angels after Mammon bought off her servants and "friends." Stealing from Yre isn't impossible, but you cannot win.
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I just checked, and that's not the eye that's missing in the future that she's trapped in. So I don't think she's going to force an escape from this.
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IUG posted:I just checked, and that's not the eye that's missing in the future that she's trapped in. So I don't think she's going to force an escape from this. Operant: "uhhhhhh"  <SPRITE FLIP>
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