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Amara posted:I'm really curious if anyone remembers what the pledge counter was at before the cancer announcement. I'll admit that's when I also started pledging, but since then it's been pretty cool to watch it steadily tick up. What was it at before? Around 1,800ish, I think. Maybe 1,600.
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Interesting fact: after the portal collar is broken, Jed starts dropping G’s. EDIT: Okay, looking back, he does do that sometimes, so it's not a speech pattern change. Meanwhile, Stanley is honestly way more chill about losing the entire treasury than I would have expected. Thanks, Jed! Rand Brittain fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Apr 14, 2018 21:59
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With the portal collars all broken, does that mean everyone can go to magic kingdom?
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Apr 14, 2018 22:57
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I don’t think Big Think is breaking all of them, only the one for Jetstone, in accordance with the promise they made to Wanda.
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Apr 14, 2018 23:04
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Rand Brittain posted:I'll q Well, the last time he lost his entire treasury, the turn ended with him being richer than ever before. So I can see him cutting Parson a little bit of slack there, as long as Parson fixes it again.
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Apr 15, 2018 19:43
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Stanley's seen so much weird poo poo he just kinda rolls with it now.
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Apr 16, 2018 01:34
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I generally got the feeling from all the way back in book 1 that Stanley, because of his background, is actually more comfortable being in waaaaaaaaay over his head than just being in it over his head.
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Apr 16, 2018 02:46
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The thing is that Stanley hates it if he feels like he can't cope with ordinary problems, because ordinary problems are his problem. If it's a magical problem or a ridiculous, impossible, completely insoluble problem, well, he's got people specifically to deal with that. In other news, I was reading back to when Janis stuck the Arkenpliers in her Stash and snuck past the Dirtamansion's heightened security, including "master-class Lookamancy," which was good enough to make Janis sweat her deception. But ha, ha, they sent Roger, who only pretends to have master-class Lookamancy and is actually a novice. Of course he didn't spot anything.
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Apr 18, 2018 22:47
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Rand Brittain posted:But ha, ha, they sent Roger, who only pretends to have master-class Lookamancy and is actually a novice. Of course he didn't spot anything. lmao that's a great detail
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Apr 19, 2018 00:00
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Are the Great Minds a jab at MENSA? Or just Dunning-Kruger'd out the rear end?
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Apr 19, 2018 10:56
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are the Great Minds a jab at MENSA? Or just Dunning-Kruger'd out the rear end? It's hard to say. They obviously DO have a lot of power that the other casters don't know about given the Collide-A-Scope and some of the other things we've seen, but we haven't had an in-depth look at the ruling councils for the other schools, either. I'd bet just about every type of magic has some sort of super secret hidden powers like the Great Minds. Except Hat Magicians.
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Apr 19, 2018 13:32
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Phenotype posted:Except Hat Magicians. Hat magicians can summon Bun Bun, that's pretty drat scary. 
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Apr 19, 2018 14:03
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Phenotype posted:Except Hat Magicians. The minute Balder thinks of a good Hat Magic pun that he can build towards, we'll learn that Hat magic depends upon one of the previously unknown primal forces of Erf and that only Master Hatters know how things really work.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:17
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Hat magicians will be able to pull out new cosmic powers out of their hat if and when the plot requires it.
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Apr 19, 2018 17:01
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I'm not lying when I say I really want a Cubbins monologue where he talks about how Hat Magic is the sole basis of reality and also about how much he wants to kiss Ace Hardware.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:05
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not lying when I say I really want a Cubbins monologue where he talks about how Hat Magic is the sole basis of reality and also about how much he wants to kiss Ace Hardware. I mean, precisely the kind of parody this comic does need is some gentle self-parody. It would help balance the high drama wrapped in puns.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:08
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nimby posted:The minute Balder thinks of a good Hat Magic pun that he can build towards, we'll learn that Hat magic depends upon one of the previously unknown primal forces of Erf and that only Master Hatters know how things really work. Ahem. *Mad* Hatters.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:15
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Taerkar posted:Ahem. MAD Hatters. The ultimate in deterrence.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:23
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Geocities Homepage King posted:MAD Hatters. The ultimate in deterrence. Mutually Assured Delivery. They'll mailbomb you.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:44
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Meanwhile, in the Magic Kingdom... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kMdNkAcQx8
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Apr 22, 2018 14:30
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I had no idea wtf happened this update. Well except for the "bookit!" Part.
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Apr 28, 2018 17:25
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Big Think is thinking some crazy thoughts about how they would really like to be rid of Wanda forever, but under the circumstances they probably need her because it's pretty much "the Arkenpliers" or nothing.
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Apr 28, 2018 17:38
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Donkringel posted:I had no idea wtf happened this update. Big Think has gone through GK's portal (via the shards created when he busted the collar) while veiled. In GK's portal room, there's a barred door blocking the portal, so Big Think made it invisible and then created an illusory door in its place (using Foolamancy) so that he could open the door and walk through without anyone noticing. Meanwhile, it's thinking in rhymes about how dumb and inferior the Issac doll is, and how it doesn't really want to be Decrypted but is more scared of dying than of potentially being Wanda's slave. While Big Think is musing to itself and sneaking up on Parson and gang, the Dirtamancers have dug down to the bedrock level using scrolls provided by Charlie and dropped in right next to Ivan, who's hurriedly erecting defenses. Ivan is also standing right on top of the portal shards created when the Dirtamancers accidentally broke the collar on the portal they were digging next to. Also, that portal is Faq's portal, and the reason they dug there was because a Predictamancer told them that Wanda would attempt to go through Faq's portal and that Buck would stop her.
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Apr 28, 2018 22:16
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I'm not the only one who's long lost track of the rules-lawyering magical warfare side of things, though enjoying the drama.
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Apr 29, 2018 03:37
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Someone in the comments pointed out that over like a third of erfworld has been this one long turn. Looking forward to new a new turn, juice, and combat.
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Apr 29, 2018 16:52
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I need to catch up on this comic again at some point. Has Parson won any more battles by thinking strategically and exploiting the clearly laid out rules of the setting yet?
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Apr 29, 2018 16:54
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Zoe posted:I need to catch up on this comic again at some point. Has Parson won any more battles by thinking strategically and exploiting the clearly laid out rules of the setting yet? hahahahahahahahahaha
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Apr 29, 2018 17:51
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I think people underestimate just how boring Erfworld: the hyper-rational board game would be.
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Apr 29, 2018 17:54
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Rand Brittain posted:I think people underestimate just how boring Erfworld: the hyper-rational board game would be. Sure but nobody's actually asking for that. The first book had plenty of emotional and character-driven mistakes and crises, as did the fall of Spacerock or wherever the Jetstone capital was. Both of them had one big weird spell thing that reshaped the narrative. Neither involved page after page of casters elaborately explaining then breaking new rules until I feel like Parson hasn't mattered for years. I just want enough of a known tactical space that new crises feel like they follow more from Parson's decisions than elaborate magical hacks except for the occasional out of context problem or miracle for drama.
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Apr 29, 2018 19:45
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Parson's bat hack was pretty good and I'm sure he's very sad that it ruined everything for reasons beyond his control. Parson prompting Jack to solve the problem of his turning to Charlescomm also probably counts, although it maybe isn't exactly "strategic." I have to admit I would like to get back to the regular passage of time again.
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Zoe posted:I need to catch up on this comic again at some point. Has Parson won any more battles by thinking strategically and exploiting the clearly laid out rules of the setting yet? He keeps trying to, and then everyone else rewrites the rules over and over to the point where he basically loses all agency and is just tossed around helplessly as a pawn of greater powers whose plans he's not even aware of. Right now, he's unable to do anything, and everyone who's participated in all of his previous tricks is out of juice or otherwise incapacitated, so all he can do tell other people to hurry up and use a bunch of tricks that were set up without his involvement or even his knowledge. Parson's hardly done anything in a hundred pages or more, except successfully convince Caesar not to murder him.
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Main Paineframe posted:He keeps trying to, and then everyone else rewrites the rules over and over to the point where he basically loses all agency and is just tossed around helplessly as a pawn of greater powers whose plans he's not even aware of. Right now, he's unable to do anything, and everyone who's participated in all of his previous tricks is out of juice or otherwise incapacitated, so all he can do tell other people to hurry up and use a bunch of tricks that were set up without his involvement or even his knowledge. Parson's hardly done anything in a hundred pages or more, except successfully convince Caesar not to murder him. I mean, that was honestly a pretty decent accomplishment as it went, albeit Maggie helped a lot. (Note that a lot of that was due to Bunny, which was due to her trusting Maggie, which was because Bunny found out that Parson had come up with a completely functional trick for escaping and killing everybody in Transylvito and then decided not to use it and was straight with them instead.)
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Apr 29, 2018 20:31
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Rand Brittain posted:I mean, that was honestly a pretty decent accomplishment as it went, albeit Maggie helped a lot. You're right, that was the last time I was fully engaged in the plot of Erfworld rather than sort of curious. That and the Transylvito betrayal of the new FAQ heir, that was a nice bit of character drama. Where is that kid, anyways? Does he matter anymore? It's distressing how long ago that was.
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Apr 30, 2018 00:24
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Joe Slowboat posted:Where is that kid, anyways? Does he matter anymore? As far as I know, he's still standing right outside Faq's old capital, moveless, while Vinnie and the rest of the Transylvito forces conquer literally the entire kingdom in one turn.
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There are a lot of meaty plot threads that I want to see what happens next. And thanks for the explanation of the DeIsaac.
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Apr 30, 2018 01:22
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Yeah we knew this was coming, the question becomes what happens regarding the pliers.
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May 3, 2018 07:04
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I think I could use some kind of Cliff's notes on the magic kingdom magic war weirdness.
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May 3, 2018 09:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think I could use some kind of Cliff's notes on the magic kingdom magic war weirdness. As in the battle from Book 3 or?
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Onmi posted:As in the battle from Book 3 or? Dial it back a bit further assuming I skimmed a lot of Book 2 and I'm also basically Stanley after a few rums.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dial it back a bit further assuming I skimmed a lot of Book 2 and I'm also basically Stanley after a few rums. The nerdy brain dudes want to kill Snoopy's buddy, The clowns are against them and are tricking the rockers into their side. At the end of The Spacerock Opera Lilith got kidnapped by Charlie Brown. Lilith woke up due to Wanda playing some strings, and killed her way through the Trump Tower, but it turns out they had a treaty with the Gobbo's which cost Stanley all his moolah. So. In trade to not lose everything, Parson gives himself to Charlie. Jack Magic's Parson as he's going to Charlescomm to be in Gobwin Knob Regalia. Charlie's Archon's shoot Parson with Real Guns. This gives Gobwin Knob their treasury back and then some. Charlie doesn't want to let Parson getaway, turns out he hosed his portal so normal units can go through it. Archon's come through invisible with guns. They do the can can dance while fighting invisible Archons. Carnie's convince Casters "This means Gobwin Knob is attacking us!" Gobwin Knob gets magically anal reamed. Results: Parson, Maggie and Jack wind up with the Greasers. Charlie's tower is broken. Wanda is prisoner in MK, Lotta dead folks. Now Wanda's Bedrock standing in front of a Portal to the City of Gobwin Knob, which Jillian now owns.
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