SniperWoreConverse posted:

i also say do it, but in an evil palpatine kind of way

OPAONI posted:

This comic means a lot to me. I think it's probably my favorite independent thing I've ever read. It's stuck in my brain and imagination in a way I don't fully understand but, like all good fiction, it changed me in a pleasant way. I know I've approached character creation for tabletop RPGs a bit more creatively. Thanks for the comic. I'm buying the whole thing all at once as soon as I can.

skaianDestiny posted:

M. Propagandalf posted:

This is great.

I've got two cookies in mind to bake before I attempt an entire cake, but the replies got me to think back on some of the frosting decorations I had sketched in my mind that I hadn't thought about in a while.

I need to jump back into Thunderdome and get acclimated to constructively getting the poo poo kicked out of me again.

Tenebrais posted:

One must strike immediately and without hesitation. The perfect cut is the one you make now.

Cryophage posted:

"I will escape my own posting history," said the resolute Kassardis, "and flee to a forum with better moderation, where the threads are built on polite discourse and no shade is thrown unjustly. The search is long and hard, so please give me some advice, as my family has treated you well.”

"Good forum mods are a myth told to small children to comfort them,” said the Very Wise Frog, “Your wives are tech savvy and will find your new username, then roast you savagely before returning to the time honored ritual of trying to dox each other.”

The Prince was aghast. “I refuse this life of violence!” he said.

Cryophage posted:

"I will escape my own posting history," said the resolute Kassardis, "and flee to a forum with better moderation, where the threads are built on polite discourse and no shade is thrown unjustly. The search is long and hard, so please give me some advice, as my family has treated you well.”

"Good forum mods are a myth told to small children to comfort them,” said the Very Wise Frog, “Your wives are tech savvy and will find your new username, then roast you savagely before returning to the time honored ritual of trying to dox each other.”

The Prince was aghast. “I refuse this life of violence!” he said.

Cryophage posted:

"I will escape my own posting history," said the resolute Kassardis, "and flee to a forum with better moderation, where the threads are built on polite discourse and no shade is thrown unjustly. The search is long and hard, so please give me some advice, as my family has treated you well.”

"Good forum mods are a myth told to small children to comfort them,” said the Very Wise Frog, “Your wives are tech savvy and will find your new username, then roast you savagely before returning to the time honored ritual of trying to dox each other.”

The Prince was aghast. “I refuse this life of violence!” he said.

Cryophage posted:

"I will escape my own posting history," said the resolute Kassardis, "and flee to a forum with better moderation, where the threads are built on polite discourse and no shade is thrown unjustly. The search is long and hard, so please give me some advice, as my family has treated you well.”

"Good forum mods are a myth told to small children to comfort them,” said the Very Wise Frog, “Your wives are tech savvy and will find your new username, then roast you savagely before returning to the time honored ritual of trying to dox each other.”

The Prince was aghast. “I refuse this life of violence!” he said.

M_Gargantua posted:

I don't know how that gif is encoded to go from 38x24 to 260x24 pixels but I need to know if that can trick the smile upload system here.

e; turns out it cant

Its only 2.4kB, so can that get admin added and I will still pay.

M. Propagandalf posted:

I'm pondering on giving a big spiel about this webcomic that if I'm patient enough, I'll save until the story's finished. Suffice to say, I refer to it quite often in the sessions with my psychologist, to the point I did an abridged dramatic reading of Tales of the Silver Prince to arrive at a point-of-view I was wrestling with.

Only a few months ago, I was thinking that I had lived too long for existing past 2018. I counted K6BD as one of the few things that kept life worthwhile. The ending of Book 5 actually helped put to rest the functional depression that has lingered with me for the past few years.

If there's one regret I have in experiencing K6BD, it's that I had a fantasy story worked out in my mind over the past few years that doesn't feel like it's worth putting to paper anymore. K6BD hits several of the themes I would have wanted to touch, but with more competence and finesse than I could see myself arriving upon for a long time.

Operant, hope you and your family have a drat good and restful holiday.

Cryophage posted:

"I will escape my own posting history," said the resolute Kassardis, "and flee to a forum with better moderation, where the threads are built on polite discourse and no shade is thrown unjustly. The search is long and hard, so please give me some advice, as my family has treated you well.”

"Good forum mods are a myth told to small children to comfort them,” said the Very Wise Frog, “Your wives are tech savvy and will find your new username, then roast you savagely before returning to the time honored ritual of trying to dox each other.”

The Prince was aghast. “I refuse this life of violence!” he said.

A big flaming stink posted:

Pasqy this was not the lesson to take away from your chat with Melanie

wrong thread

M_Gargantua posted:

We are on the other side of the transition to more demons being killed and/or resurrected. There is gonna be a resurrection

quote:

Danmachi - a grim setting overlayed with comedy, played from the standpoint of a boy who's goal is to start a love story.

Kill Six Billion Demons - a setting that is grim from the outset and rarely touches upon love or comedy.

What do these stories possibly have in common?

That overarching goal, of course. Shared by Demiurge and Adventurer alike -

Reach Heaven Through Violence.

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This story is told from the perspective of Paunna, a Demiurge from the webcomic 'Kill Six Billion Demons,' right in the middle of the Universal War. If none of that made sense to you, then that likely means you haven't read the comic itself. I highly recommend it, but you can read the story without it - elements may confuse you, but they will be explained in story. A major part of this story will be 'culture clash' - our MC comes from a world which is vastly different in tone and pace from the setting of Danmachi, at least in the ways the stories are told.

quote:

The Dungeon of Orario is fearsome in totality. It spews forth an endless army of monsters, each seeking to do nothing but cause harm and pain to the races of men. The deeper you delve, the more powerful the monsters become, and they all share a single goal - cause suffering. Unchecked, it spews forth these beings like a fountain of misery, aiming to end all life on Gekkai, the Lower World. Countless thousands of lives have been tossed into it to plug the eternal spring of hate, blood spilled on an altar to a hateful god.

It is truly terrifying, to know that such a thing exists. That such unchecked hate and violence exists upon the wheel. A wellspring of nightmares and philosophical conundrums.

And Men have chosen to build a shopping centre on top of it.

Truly, we are called Aesma's mistake for a reason. I would weep at the stupidity of it, if it weren't so damned funny.

akulanization posted:

Ksbd is constantly about love and often comedic though?

"" posted:

The axe flashes out and splits another goblin down the middle, then I savagely lash out with the hilt, crushing the skull of another as it lunches towards me with a snarl. I step back two paces, cross my legs, and then spin as I straighten them; turning the half-turn into a graceful arc as I lift one leg, rotating on my heel, axe outstretched. It carves a ruthless swathe through the monsters, like a scythe through a field of wheat.

I couldn't be bothered to harvest them, not with monsters this low levelled. They were barely worth harvesting at this point - a literal waste of time. Time spent gathering these stones was time I could be spending getting lower into the dungeon, and finding actually worthwhile monsters to kill.

No, I was created this body pile for a different reason. Grimacing, I pick up a leg, cut cleanly off at the thigh, then turn to look around the corridor.

"" posted:

Slowly, ever so slowly, I turn my head over my shoulder. Just to check, of course. Hestia is Mortal in form, perhaps she suffers from mortal issues? Such as—narcolepsy, perhaps.
Ever so slowly, I tilt my head, until I can catch a glimpse of my Goddess.

Hestia is—

Staring.

At my exposed back.

And giggling to herself, a fiendish look upon her face, as she flexes her fingers in a remarkably terrifying way.

Glacially, I return my head back to its starting position, and sink my face into my mattress.

I was correct, it seems. Hestia does indeed suffer from mortal afflictions.

My Goddess is a pervert.

Oh, Ys-Myra, protector of the poor, please grant me protection, as you once defended yourself from the greedy clutches of Ogam.

I think I might need all the help I can get.

Finally, Hestia shifts, and I breathe a sigh of relief internally. She is not... unappealing, this Goddess. If she hungers for my body so clearly, who am I to deny her? I may even enjoy the experience.

skaianDestiny posted:

I've got a crossover rec!

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/no-stomach-for-violence-k6bd-danmachi.1063052/

It's very good. Captures the feeling of KSBD myth IMO and the character voices, interactions, and perspectives are top notch. Also looking to be a very interesting blend of lore.

Assessor of Maat posted:

you should feel a deep and personal shame at thinking this was good or worth recommending to other human beings

skaianDestiny posted:

I've got a crossover rec!

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/no-stomach-for-violence-k6bd-danmachi.1063052/

It's very good. Captures the feeling of KSBD myth IMO and the character voices, interactions, and perspectives are top notch. Also looking to be a very interesting blend of lore.

M_Gargantua posted:

Ok i'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that was real bad.

And I even went into it thinking positively, that 'this seems sus but surely it was recommended for a reason'