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SlimGoodbody posted:Unpopular, correct opinion: Layla Brimstone is alive, Layla Brimstone has always been alive, Layla Brimstone will always be alive. Every time there's a pursuer fight, Layla ends up obviously dead and then just turns up again at the next one.
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Layla Brimstone is not a person, but a title. Every time she dies, one of her guns rises up to take up her mantle.
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Mar 30, 2018 12:17
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Can someone please remind me who the hell all of these people are and why they're chasing Allison?
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Mar 30, 2018 13:08
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She has a God-Key in her forehead, and is (was to them) an otherwise a dumb, weak girl. So grabbing her and splitting her head open like a Kinder Egg gives you demigure powers. What they dont know is that she will likely Kinder Egg their skulls, and laugh as she feasts on their sorrow.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:23
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MikeJF posted:Every time there's a pursuer fight, Layla ends up obviously dead and then just turns up again at the next one. Each time Layla dies, a backup clone is sent by Friend Computer through a Ballistic Sub-Orbital Clone Replacement Missile. Polaron posted:Can someone please remind me who the hell all of these people are and why they're chasing Allison? They are the Pursuers. This should answer both questions. But basically they're the biggest non-Demiurge badasses around, and they think they've got a pretty good chance to claim Allison's key for themselves. They travel in pack, unleashing chaos as they try to get close to Allison, and when they do get close they start to fight each other because only one can claim the key of kings, unleashing even more chaos. During which Allison gets away, so they stop fighting and resume pursuit.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:27
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Polaron posted:Can someone please remind me who the hell all of these people are and why they're chasing Allison? They're guild mercenaries/the pursuers. They first showed up at the brothel in book one and started killing each other over the key, then stopped long enough to pursue her to Mottom's palace in book two. I think only Maya, Layla Brimstone, and Eris-Lo Kai were actually named in comic and have had dialogue.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:31
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A lot of them are fan-designed characters, aren't they? Like I'm pretty sure Layla and INGSVLD are.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:04
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wasn't it a goon who made ingsvld? also some of these guys prob don't care about the key and just want the bounties like 2000x the weight of her head in black glass
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Mar 30, 2018 14:10
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Yea, I am pretty sure Ingsvald's creator posts here, and also I think the creator of the dude with one arm and a hammer? IIRC those two characters have some sort of pre-existing beef.
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Wonder how many of the Devils that joined the heist will end up being part of the eternal punch-up.
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Cat Mattress posted:But basically they're the biggest non-Demiurge badasses around Except for Auntie Maya, who is essentially an ex-demiurge and might have been leader of the Middle Army* before Incubus? I'm not entirely clear on this point beyond the fact that she used to rule a handful of universes. *or whatever they're called, the dudes with 中 on the back of their coats
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Kai Tave posted:I like the jaunty sprig of holly on the stock of Layla's gun, it's very festive. Real talk: if she's on the hunt for immortals, that should be a sprig of mistletoe.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:20
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I loving love the pursuers as a narrative construct because whenever the story or arc gets even a little too comfortable there's an easy out with THAN A GIANT GOLDEN BABY BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL. I mean in any other story we'd have to make peace with 0000000001 and grandpa dragon but nah gently caress that, we got the info we need and now the second we have it a city falls through the roof, a city filled with BAD GUYS and ENEMIES
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Mar 30, 2018 16:29
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"Someone kicks in the door" is a tried-and-true narrative construct, in general. It's even part of the general advice to dungeon masters going back several editions of D&D. Not sure how far back, but it's been in there for decades.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:36
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ConfusedUs posted:"Someone kicks in the door" is a tried-and-true narrative construct, in general. It's even part of the general advice to dungeon masters going back several editions of D&D. Not sure how far back, but it's been in there for decades. Yeah but when its the golden baby you know why they're kicking in the door and how imminent the kicking in of faces is, no questions asked nor necessary.
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Pureauthor posted:00001 is gonna be so loving pissed off by the end of this arc. gotta replenish the ranks of the pursuers somehow
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SniperWoreConverse posted:wasn't it a goon who made ingsvld? That'd be me, yes. For a given value of 'made Ingsvld', but he was my fan submission (The name first came up early when the text below the comic was a fancy way of saying which reader suggestions were picked for story direction--I said that they were going to meet Preem Nand to find out more about the key (We did not, at that point, know exactly what 'Preem' meant, and Nand hadn't been mentioned at all), so "The Lord of Hats" became "INGSVLD, Master of Helms and Arms". And then the character submissions came up, so I threw that back in there--my actual description was a lot closer to one of the Eidolons, actually, but he's much better as-is). But yeah, it's all about the promise of power and riches that they're all chasing after that key. Of course, as time goes on I imagine there's going to be a certain level of operational drift, and it's going to turn into "we follow her and then have gigantic fights whenever we catch up because that's just what we do" The Lord of Hats fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 19:22
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The Pursuers are, to quote the author, "a bunch of rowdy, dirty fight boys, looking for a good punch up".
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ConfusedUs posted:"Someone kicks in the door" is a tried-and-true narrative construct, in general. It's even part of the general advice to dungeon masters going back several editions of D&D. Not sure how far back, but it's been in there for decades. Dates back at least as far as Raymond Chandler in 1950, and I wouldn't be surprised if Shakespeare had "If the plot's getting slow, send in a bear" carved into the wall above his desk.
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darthbob88 posted:Dates back at least as far as Raymond Chandler in 1950, and I wouldn't be surprised if Shakespeare had "If the plot's getting slow, send in a bear" carved into the wall above his desk. With Shakespeare it's definitely "throw in a fart joke", autographed by Chaucer.
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darthbob88 posted:Dates back at least as far as Raymond Chandler in 1950, and I wouldn't be surprised if Shakespeare had "If the plot's getting slow, send in a bear" carved into the wall above his desk. That's how I detective in roleplaying games: start asking questions until someone tries to beat me up or kill me. That means I'm on the right track.
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/979946344621232128 Dragopocalypse or Old Yeller?
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Mar 31, 2018 06:26
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'Uncouth ruffian'. Beautiful
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Oh no, Mottom's gonna go Old Yeller on him.  Edit: I just realized. Wasn't Mottom turning old in a matter of hours before? Does she still have a leftover stockpile of fruit, or is she finally holding her youth up with the power of royalty? girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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Mar 31, 2018 06:35
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I like how you could walk around behind the hole where they busted in
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Mar 31, 2018 06:37
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I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age. this too is royalty
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age. 
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Mar 31, 2018 07:01
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murders mottom w anger management classes
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D.Ork Bimboolean posted:https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/979946344621232128  So what metal song started playing in your head? Or anime soundtrack for the more DBZ-inclined.
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D.Ork Bimboolean posted:Dragopocalypse or Old Yeller? The title of this page is "Annihilation of the Tower". Mammon's word is "Tower".
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The tower doesn't necessarily literally refer to Mammon himself though: if you read the story of the tower under one of the pages near his introduction, the tower is the mental and physical wall he's built up around himself to keep the outside world at bay. As of this page, that wall has literally been annihilated.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age. She was already older looking at the end of book two than now. Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that the fruit was just an indirect step in what was basically vampirism. Mottom had a city full of people she could harvest to keep herself going until now.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age. yo Rigged Death Trap posted:Too angry to remember shes supposed to be old. Also there's hella support for it in the text, seeing as how Allison grew and ungrew horns and changed skin colors through emotion. A thing with this world is that if you act without thought, throw away all reason and limits out the window and just become a pure incarnation of that act the world will bend over itself for you. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:The tower doesn't necessarily literally refer to Mammon himself though: if you read the story of the tower under one of the pages near his introduction, the tower is the mental and physical wall he's built up around himself to keep the outside world at bay. Hedging my bets on this because the alternative is sad while Mammon becoming the Grand Dragon once again is metal
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Rigged Death Trap posted:yo I mean I'm fairly sure Allison grew horns bc of the Blue Devil liquor Do you mean Cio?
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I know that there's basically no support for it in the text but I really like the idea that Mottom is back to being young because she's finally no longer afraid and is just running on pure unbridled turbofury. Just so indescribably loving mad at this shithead barista that she's forgotten to age. Honestly, I think it's more probable that she simply has a stockpile. Note that her servants here were gathering the fruits into baskets, it's only logical she has at least some stashed away. Except now that stash is very, very finite and since she can't make more of them anymore, she can literally count the days she has left.
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MonsieurChoc posted:
The Lufia II Sinistral battle theme worked wonders for me during the War of the Teacups/Mottom, and will again.
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