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Lotus Aura
Aug 16, 2009

KNEEL BEFORE THE WICKED KING!

BiggerJ posted:

This leaves the big question:

Is Lyndon Painatorium going to gently caress up?

Only if it's a day ending in "y".

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Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Hellsau posted:

yes but Audrey will pull his rear end out of the fire like always

Or throw his rear end into the fire. Really, whichever method of death is most convenient at the time.

Heliotrope
Aug 17, 2007

You're fucking subhuman
http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/402

Oops

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Lyndon you dumbass

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
how did they manage to set that trap up in the first place

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Hemingway To Go! posted:

how did they manage to set that trap up in the first place

The lunatics.

Weird Sandwich
Dec 28, 2011

FIRE FIRE FIRE hehehehe!
I thought he might get away with the loophole of knowing he's in a simulation and rationalizing the impossible one as a glitch or something. Guess there's no room for arguments with the pacifism magic!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Its simulated pacifism magic.

Weird Sandwich
Dec 28, 2011

FIRE FIRE FIRE hehehehe!
True, but I meant more that the impossible one might not have died at all, given that Audrey and Lyndon both know they're in a simulation and could reasonably doubt the reality of what they're seeing, similarly to when they were drugged.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Synthbuttrange posted:

The lunatics.

*shakes head* Thorsby...

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

Otherkinsey Scale posted:

These two were hired to bring an Impossible One to the castle and take care of it (edit: hence, "catch and feed!").

It's in the next room, kept in pitch darkness. Lyndon goes in, casts his light spell, and sees the Impossible One, killing it.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Looks like you called it!

*curtsies*

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/403

SWORDS

HebrewMagic
Jul 19, 2012

Police Assault In Progress
THE FATES DEMANDED A DUEL AND NOW WE SHALL FINALLY HAVE ONE

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

HebrewMagic posted:

THE FATES DEMANDED A DUEL AND NOW WE SHALL FINALLY HAVE ONE

CHURROOOO
DAYOOO
RECLAMAAAATE
CHURROOOO

theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

Well, the witch isn't looking back, so countdown til Trixie just grabs a convenient poisonous snake starts now.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

theironjef posted:

Well, the witch isn't looking back, so countdown til Trixie just grabs a convenient poisonous snake starts now.

Now that's a plot twist.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Audrey's still got two swords in her bundle.

HebrewMagic
Jul 19, 2012

Police Assault In Progress
I'm waiting for her to run out only to reveal a bootknife. Can't pull it from my hand if it's on my foot.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

HebrewMagic posted:

I'm waiting for her to run out only to reveal a bootknife. Can't pull it from my hand if it's on my foot.

She can actually. Lyndon's description of that spell is that it teleports the closest weapon into her hand. Maybe Audrey was especially sneaky and poisoned the hilt of her last final blade.


theironjef posted:

Well, the witch isn't looking back, so countdown til Trixie just grabs a convenient poisonous snake starts now.

i like that idea, but that would be more like something her late sister would come up with.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




So she's a pacifist mage too, right? All her spells have been defensive and I don't remember her actually hurting anybody

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Oh, I have an idea how you'd defeat a person like this! Make your last sword a fake, a foam replica or something. So when she steals it, it's completely useless to her. Then just beat her to death with your fists.

Or, yeah, if she's a pacifist mage, she can't use any of the sword she's stealing, and she better hope she doesn't accidentally drop one of these swords on someone.

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib

RandomFerret posted:

So she's a pacifist mage too, right? All her spells have been defensive and I don't remember her actually hurting anybody

Yeah after this last strip I think it's definitely confirmed she's a pacifist... though didn't she send a jouster after the crew earlier?

Then again, in the simulation, maybe she's become a pacifist?

http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/405

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

pathetic little tramp posted:

Yeah after this last strip I think it's definitely confirmed she's a pacifist... though didn't she send a jouster after the crew earlier?

Then again, in the simulation, maybe she's become a pacifist?

http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/405

Pacifist magic doesn't mean you have to be a pacifist yourself, it just means you can't directly harm anyone or anything with your magic. Presumably you can still harm people in other ways as long as you aren't using magic for it.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

vyelkin posted:

Pacifist magic doesn't mean you have to be a pacifist yourself, it just means you can't directly harm anyone or anything with your magic. Presumably you can still harm people in other ways as long as you aren't using magic for it.

Lyndon is just to big of a wimp to do that.

Grogquock
May 2, 2009
She might just know she'd lose in a straight up fight with Audrey. Throwing the sword which she stole with pacifism magic through a bunch of snakes seems pretty reckless, though it has generally been hard to know where the pacifism "causation" harm effect ends.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




I bet it works the same as plausible deniability magic, only the person you need to convince is yourself. So a really good magician could summon a meteor over a building and then rationalize that it was the falling rubble that killed the occupants and not the spell itself, but a Lyndon could lose all his spells because a cigarette he lit at a party while showing off twenty years ago may have hastened somebody's death by a few hours

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

RandomFerret posted:

I bet it works the same as plausible deniability magic, only the person you need to convince is yourself. So a really good magician could summon a meteor over a building and then rationalize that it was the falling rubble that killed the occupants and not the spell itself, but a Lyndon could lose all his spells because a cigarette he lit at a party while showing off twenty years ago may have hastened somebody's death by a few hours

Yeah, it seems to be very indirect for him. Remember how his illusion caused a priest to think the princess was a ghost? This caused him to bonk her head, which was enough to lose the spell.
Lyndon is probably constantly stressing out over how his spells alter wind fluctuation and might redirect a hurricane a few months down the line.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

RandomFerret posted:

I bet it works the same as plausible deniability magic, only the person you need to convince is yourself. So a really good magician could summon a meteor over a building and then rationalize that it was the falling rubble that killed the occupants and not the spell itself, but a Lyndon could lose all his spells because a cigarette he lit at a party while showing off twenty years ago may have hastened somebody's death by a few hours

I still think he's probably a specialist in pacifism magic exactly because he's too dumb and self-absorbed to process those kind of second-order effects unless they're staring him right in the face

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

SNAKE WHIP SNAKE WHIP

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!
This doesn't seem very pacifistic.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

She's not a pacifist mage though?

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!
Well yeah.

I was just poking fun at everyone on this page saying she was.

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

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Nap Ghost
She clearly isn't a pacifist but there's nothing to stop a non-pacifist from using pacifist magic and just carefully making sure only to kill someone when they know they won't need any more spells.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Alright, I was totally wrong. It's not just weapons you have in your hand, its a lot more flexible.

...it would be a little ironic if she somehow dies of snakebite when that was their original plan to deal with her. Like, if Audrey makes the conscious decision to treat a snake as a weapon, so it gets stolen instead of a sword, and then it bites her.

HBar
Sep 13, 2007

When she's flying in the hallway like that a snake could bite her anyway, with or without a yoink.

But the snakes may have been trained to be docile for exactly this kind of situation, they haven't been reacting at all to anything going on around them. And we don't have confirmation that they're actually cheap divorce snakes, or even venemous at all.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

The snakes might all be sedated. That way they'd screw with pacifism magic but wouldn't try to bite people/escape.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Good ol cheap divorce snake

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

I'd have gone with a yellow snirl.

BiggerJ
May 21, 2007

What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.
Looks like we might have our big Doctor Who Extremis moment coming up.

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/407

It's been a while since the last page was posted.

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