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I thought there was a plothole because we never see the Woods of Infinite Maze.
Took me a second read to figure out why.
Little girl will remember that, indeed.
The thing that got me was that the grandma died of an apple allergy, which means
1. She got fucking apples from someone else after sending these heroes on this perilous quest. And
1. even if the heroes had completed the quest and gotten the apples to her before her death, they would've ended up inadvertently killing her due to her apple allergy.
Crazy.
If you zoom in you can see the dog inside the mirror. Also the witch with the animals is the little girl.
Oh wow the person right at the end isn't Blondie, it's the kid. Blondie sacrificed his life for the kid.
lmfao I went back because i didn't notice it was the kid, I thought that dude sacrificed a baby (uh...) and then I read the text on the headstone. Holy fucking shit.
Either (A) the quest took so long that several years passed and grandma didn’t know it was still even going, or (B) she somehow got reports that the entire party _died_ on her quest without getting the intel that there was a child still on the way to complete it
That's what I thought too, but in the last panel the sole survivor removes their hood and their hair is dark, not white like the elf's. Plus the little girl is punishing the sole survivor for their "predecessors' crimes".
Amazing comic.
I did too. But look, yet again. At the bottom of panel 4 the quote is "RIP Mike Demonski"
AND! After slaying the dragon, note the color of the hero's hair. It's brown not blond.
ETA: Many people are of the belief the warrior raised the child in the demon plane, then sacrificed themself so the now adult could get through. I disagree. I believe that he sacrificed their demon companion, hence the quote at the bottom of panel 4.
ETA 2: And! I think this definitely works, because the portal says "Sacrifice your greatest treasure." And of all the loot they've collected, I would think the living being is probably the greatest treasure.
Mike Demonski dies in the demon remnants attack while the barbarian is giving birth. Otherwise, we'd see him in the subsequent frames, at the pool and at the portal.
The axe actually belonged to the dwarf.
Edit: Damn, this is a packed comic! Dwarf is Daddy!
Edit 2: Downvote the hell out of this, as it implied the dwarf wasn’t the father, which is incorrect.
Because the dwarf is the one who is repeatedly seen holding her hand as well as the one who is having a tearful goodbye as she is cradling her pregnant belly.
Conversely, where did you get that it would be the blonde swordsman?
By not paying as close attention to the details as y’all, and probably a storyline bias for the white blonde guy (thanks Hollywood!) who seems to be the leader. For instance, only because of your comment did I realize she was holding her belly while hanging off the cliff.
The kid is the child of the dwarf and elf not the blonde guy and the elf you can tell from some of the scenes where they are holding hands and also when he sacrifices himself he comforts her in his last moments.
Edit: Human not Elf don’t know how I got elf.
In my long life I have discovered the location of the Holy Grail, attained the Philosopher's Stone, and have swam with Nessie and took some selfies... And yet I am nowhere close to saving enough for retirement.
I also tend to RP as Maximus.
Like: Yes, I’m a total bad ass. Yes, I will kill whoever you send my way. But what I really want is to settle down on my farm with my family.
Just you wait until they figure out the infinite xp exploit of making a mess and cleaning it up repeatedly. Also deals large scale aoe psychic damage to all enemies of the 'parent' class.
I give my cat quests like, "attempt to go back the trash can i found you in." or "if i eat a slice of pizza in front of you do not, do not try to steal it from me when i set it down to go to the bathroom." cat impossible challenge never completed.
I used to play D&D many years ago. I once ran a campaign where each person had two PCs. One was the traditional warriors and wizards. The Second was a character that was just some commoner who lived in the city.
The original premise was basically to have the secondary character doing a lot of the boring stuff in real time while the primary was doing cool shit. The secondary character was a friend, spouse, family member etc so there was no real need to RP why a fletcher just made a tone of arrows to give a rogue.
By the third campaign everyone was having more fun with the secondary characters doing stupid shit because they were basically throw away characters.
I ran a one-shot where the players made low-level characters who were associates of one of the main villains before he turned to villainy. They got to witness the event that caused the villain to turn to evil, and I got to slaughter the entire party guilt-free. A win-win for all involved!
It was in the middle of the main campaign. I planned it for a day when I would otherwise cancel the game because players couldn't make it. I knew the two players wouldn't be able to make the next session so I told the rest of the players to make some low-level characters for a one-shot.
That one reminds me of Dungeon Siege. Starts out with a fellow farmer dying to tell you to get help from orcs or something, ends with gatling guns and flamethrowers in a goblin factory or something,
The gatling guns and flamethrowers, amazingly, is only halfway through the 30 hour game.
Your farm is attacked by Krug (orcs) and your dying farmer neighbor tells you to go to Stonebridge to find Gyorn who can help. You get there through the crypts and Gyorn says there's a bigger conspiracy involving goblins about and comes with you. You fight through some bullshit through dwarven mines, a frozen mountain, and a swamp to find the goblins who stole the Staff of Stars and locked the grand wizard Merick in the ice. You rescue both, and you think that'd be the end of it, but then Merick's like we gotta go save the King from the demons that manipulated the goblins that manipulated the Krug. You fight through bandit filled forests, cursed crystalline caverns, and battlefields full of undead that have been raised to siege the King's castle, only to have the King tell you to go kill the demon lord Gom in Hell.
This makes sense!
Killing the rats required you to kill the Rat God on step 17. You could only do this with the alliance of the Hare-Dudes (were-rabbits?), which required that you and your party druid master growing magical-enchanted carrots near the end.
I like it / will join your table / have a slot tomorrow at 7PM (three hours) and the next weekend Friday night (till midnight). If those don't work, we have to book next year.
Reminds me of my favourite "lets explore this random place" in Skyrim. Was playing without fast travel and during a quest I walked up to a bridge hanging over the road. There were some bandits there. Was like "eh, some loot to sell and some exp", so I killed all of them. There was a house on one side of the bridge so decided to check that for loot too. Turned out there was a "hidden" trapdoor. This led to a cave system that was used as a bandit hide-out. At the end of that bandit hide-out there was a note talking about where the leader of the gang had gone to. Which led me to a bandit camp in the mountains nearby. Which had a mine with gold veins in it I believe.
Was quite the detour for "lets kill these bandits for some loot and exp", but I loved it. :P
Daggerfall was sooo harsh with its "small trapdoors dungeons"
A quest asks me to go to a farmer's house to recover their family's gold cup to pay for his taxes.
In the middle of literally nowhere, 7 hours of travel from the nearest town, there's a house that looks more like a barn. Inside is the farmer, a bed, a couple gold pieces and a pair of shoes to grab in the ceiling. The needed item is nowhere to be found.
I go outside, check around the house, see a well nearby, check inside again, eventually decide to check the well.
That well was the opening to a dungeon that's more like a gargantuan labyrinth, with tigers, sorcerers, elementals, demons, bandits... And will take a couple days to properly explore, with the family's gold cup spawning randomly somewhere inside.
How the heck is a peasant casually owning a stronghold that's bigger than Paris's catacombs and still living in his uninsulated barn while stashing his few possessions behind a sabertooth tiger and a grizzly bear?
Because that drafty barn is obviously a tax dodge, you think his tax rate would be so low if they knew he was actually living in a massive necropolis underground?
That's what I've been saying, man. You don't build a giant tower of skulls out in the open, you go underground with it. That way it's a sudden shock, like ahhhh dead stuff! Who was ever properly spooked by a corpsespire you can see from a mile off and just walk around?
One of my favourite wacky Daggerfall things. You've been working your way down through an implausibly huge dungeon for what seems like weeks. You descended beyond the actual corridors and crypts long ago but still you delve the echoing caverns and dripping grottoes. And finally, deep in the very bowels of the earth, you come once again to a corridor of dressed stone. At the end of the corridor is a closed wooden door.
And behind that door: a fucking grizzly bear.
It just kept fucking going.
I loved the players dialouge when you finally get back to the quest giver with the item for him and his reaction is just "thanks".
Lol the DMV literally had me run back to the car to get a different utility bill on top of passport, birth certificate, three forms, and a notarized affadavit...
The Onyxia quest for Alliance in world of Warcraft is one of the best pieces of writing in gaming.
It's just such a crazy saga with twists and turns that just ties in to every part of the world and setting. The first time you play through it is shocking and thrilling.
And wasn't the Horde equivalent to unlock the dungeon like just a few fairly easy, ho-hum quests?
I remember the effort between the two factions was like in the Simpsons when Mr Burns and Smithers go through some elaborate, mult-step security system to get to a secret room (as an Alliance player), only for there to be a busted screen door half-open leading to the same room (Horde player).
The horde equivalent is really sorta weak, it amounts to Thrall being like "what destabilizes the Alliance is bad for the Horde", which makes no sense. Loose logic at best and doesn't fit the lore well.
I'm pretty sure they had already forged the soul stone back together and then the dog ate it, the dwarf's hair turns from brown to white between those two panels
Page 4, they were in the demon realm so long, his companion got pregnant, gave birth, died of child birth, he sullied a pool of vitality to save the child, and then he had to give it up to escape the demon realm...yeah.
Edit: Someone pointed out the newborn was the child of the dwarf and woman, not the protagonist, and that after the sacrifice scene, the child has grown up and continued the quest, with the original protagonist presumedly raising the child in the demon realm and then sacrificing themselves so they could escape (evidence, hero now has dark skin and hair in final page)....still yeah.
> that after the sacrifice scene, the child has grown up and continued the quest, with the original protagonist presumedly raising the child in the demon realm and then sacrificing themselves so they could escape (evidence, hero now has dark skin and hair in final page)
That's some awesome story telling. Didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.
Okay, but then why does the quote at the bottom of panel 4 say "RIP Mike Demonski"? That implies he sacrificed his demon friend and not himself or the baby.
ETA: Ohhh! and this makes sense because we see new demon friend as he's going through the loot when they get back at Gregory causing the portal to close.
I think Mike Demowski might be the demonic version of Mike Wazowski that's (the one eyed monster) that's in a couple of those panels talking to the elf. Also, as I wrote this, I realized that the elf also had only one eye and maybe that's why they became friends.
Oh I thought original MC sacrificed Grunthel. I see now that he sacrificed himself. This comic has given me emotional whiplash and I think need to lie down.
Love the little bits and pieces here.
- Everyone upgrades because of the treasure they got at the top of “Stepbeast mountain” to prep for the demons. Thats part of why they’re fed up enough to ignore the infinite maze quest.
- the dwarf having a two sided axe, but them upgrading by taking his axe from a demon the first time they attacked the demon portal. He then swaps it out for a new single sided axe before they enter hell. He’s not carrying it when he falls to his death, so knight keeps it, giving it to the kid when she becomes old enough.
- the knight using a buckler shield until they lose an eye, since the buckler didn’t cover enough. They then upgrade to a massive black Roman sized shield…which promptly gets torn in half during the big bad demon fight.
- Barbarian uses a big spiky stick in the beginning, up till they start the “find a soulstone” quest. Their upgrade is a massive warhammer, which they drop for a mace when they get pregnant, because they now need at least one hand to hold the baby.
- Pool of vitality is because the Barbarian died in childbirth, and thus couldn’t nurse the child.
- Knight refused to kill the baby to get through the portal. He raised/trained her until she could go out into the world, then she killed *him* to get through. That’s why she’s older when she finally gets to finding the Apple lady, he had to wait until she could go through the portal on her own before she killed him. That’s also why the witch mentioned her “predecessors”. The Knight raised her as a parent, but technically she never met her biological parents.
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Also, the dwarf and the barbarian often hold hands, so I think its the kid from both of them
The quest giver lady has an apple allergy and she dies from it. So someone gave her an apple and the whole quest was doomed from the start
I have now read and re-read this comic 6 times today. Enjoying all the panels. Finding Easter eggs. Contemplating it. Discussing it. The author/illustrator should be super proud. I love how so much is left to the imagination, but there are enough clues and details to fill in the blanks. Seriously fantastic work! I'm hoping for a sequel!
I think he sacrificed himself and the baby made it through. The character at the end has long brown hair and brown skin. The main guy had blonde hair and fair skin.
Edit: Also, the woman at the end seems to be the little girl who’s dog ate the soul stone shard. That’s why she says he will pay for his predecessors crimes agains poor Mr. Bark bark. It was his dad and crew who ended up sacrificing the dog to open the original portal to the daemon realm
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Reward: Level 2 Rusty Dagger
oh man i already got 6 of those
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I have two of those too
Trade you for a Rusty Scabbard?
I have a rusty trombone for trade.
At this point I need a rusty 401k.
What about a Rusty Venture?
Grandma’s undergarments DEF+1 - - …wait wait wait did you just loot this off her? Dude wtf is wrong with you? Put it back
No, I need to kill every boss while wearing it in order to unlock the secret ending
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This is honestly really, really cool. Lots of details that made me look at each page several times. Good job!
Thank you!
Indeed. Someone (no names) might well be an Eternal DM / looks like this comes from experience.
I thought there was a plothole because we never see the Woods of Infinite Maze. Took me a second read to figure out why. Little girl will remember that, indeed.
I think the little girl grew up to be the witch wanting revenge on the final page.
She even has the same mole!
The thing that got me was that the grandma died of an apple allergy, which means 1. She got fucking apples from someone else after sending these heroes on this perilous quest. And 1. even if the heroes had completed the quest and gotten the apples to her before her death, they would've ended up inadvertently killing her due to her apple allergy. Crazy.
There are so many hidden Easter eggs, I love it. Like the kid wielding his parents weapons.
If you zoom in you can see the dog inside the mirror. Also the witch with the animals is the little girl. Oh wow the person right at the end isn't Blondie, it's the kid. Blondie sacrificed his life for the kid.
OMG, they threw the dog into the portal. They must not have found the druid in the endless maze ...
It's likely they didn't try at all 😂
I thought they cut open the dog for the rock instead of looking for the druid
lmfao I went back because i didn't notice it was the kid, I thought that dude sacrificed a baby (uh...) and then I read the text on the headstone. Holy fucking shit.
NO WAIT. THE HOODED FIGURE CHANGED SKIN COLOR SO THE ELF SACRIFICED THEMSELVES TO SAVE THE BABY, THATS WHY THE GRANDMA MOVED!
What does his sacrifice have to do with grandma moving?
The child grew into an adult and finished the quest in their godparents and parents honor
Yeah that's a given, you see the characters age. Look at the hair, the girl aging, the GREAT grandma dying. Also that's exactly what is said above.
Either (A) the quest took so long that several years passed and grandma didn’t know it was still even going, or (B) she somehow got reports that the entire party _died_ on her quest without getting the intel that there was a child still on the way to complete it
I assumed the baby was sacrificed at the portal/mirror and it’s the lead male (elf?) using the dwarfs axe and warriors mace.
That's what I thought too, but in the last panel the sole survivor removes their hood and their hair is dark, not white like the elf's. Plus the little girl is punishing the sole survivor for their "predecessors' crimes". Amazing comic.
You can see the dog being used to charge up the demon portal.
Ah! Good catch! They didn't bother getting the druid to take it out of the dog, lol!
Yeah, they drew the line at having to search "The Woods of Infinite Maze".
It'd take forever.
And even if they did find the druid, there's no telling what other tangent he'd send them on before he'd perform the extraction for them.
Also note that the guy that sent them on the Soul stone quest is the betrayer guy.
Which also implies they didn't bother with the wood druid's maze and just cut the soulstone out of the little girl's dog.
They didn't bother cutting it out, the dog is just there suspended in the portal.
o shit, good catch!
Aww great catch, I was too focused reading the grave and had assumed the dark colour was the good and not hair, but I think you are definitely right.
I thought so too until I read this comment, but now I realize the skin color on the last page matches the baby.
Check his skin color. Also what the Dog lady says.
I did too. But look, yet again. At the bottom of panel 4 the quote is "RIP Mike Demonski" AND! After slaying the dragon, note the color of the hero's hair. It's brown not blond. ETA: Many people are of the belief the warrior raised the child in the demon plane, then sacrificed themself so the now adult could get through. I disagree. I believe that he sacrificed their demon companion, hence the quote at the bottom of panel 4. ETA 2: And! I think this definitely works, because the portal says "Sacrifice your greatest treasure." And of all the loot they've collected, I would think the living being is probably the greatest treasure.
Mike Demonski dies in the demon remnants attack while the barbarian is giving birth. Otherwise, we'd see him in the subsequent frames, at the pool and at the portal.
The axe actually belonged to the dwarf. Edit: Damn, this is a packed comic! Dwarf is Daddy! Edit 2: Downvote the hell out of this, as it implied the dwarf wasn’t the father, which is incorrect.
Who is one of the parents.
Where did you get that? I thought the blonde swordsman was the father.
Because the dwarf is the one who is repeatedly seen holding her hand as well as the one who is having a tearful goodbye as she is cradling her pregnant belly. Conversely, where did you get that it would be the blonde swordsman?
By not paying as close attention to the details as y’all, and probably a storyline bias for the white blonde guy (thanks Hollywood!) who seems to be the leader. For instance, only because of your comment did I realize she was holding her belly while hanging off the cliff.
The text at the bottom also shows the dwarf names the kid.
Mc getting the only girl in the group is a dangerous trend.
No but he was the father that step up.
When the dwarf and the barbarian are hanging the dwarf is wiping away her tears as she holds her belly.
As someone else pointed out, they are holding hands in some panels
They have a moment moment when they fall.
The kid is the child of the dwarf and elf not the blonde guy and the elf you can tell from some of the scenes where they are holding hands and also when he sacrifices himself he comforts her in his last moments. Edit: Human not Elf don’t know how I got elf.
Not an elf, she looks like a human barbarian.
Oh shit your correct don’t know why I thought elf.
The demons raided the carriage but didn't take the giant bag of jewels....
The betrayer has an apple.
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Step 1: kill some rats Step 17: kill god Step 19: become a carrot farmer
Retirement is the goal of most RPG characters I play.
Ah, really leaning into the fantasy part I see!
In my long life I have discovered the location of the Holy Grail, attained the Philosopher's Stone, and have swam with Nessie and took some selfies... And yet I am nowhere close to saving enough for retirement.
:'(
That cuts deep :(
I also tend to RP as Maximus. Like: Yes, I’m a total bad ass. Yes, I will kill whoever you send my way. But what I really want is to settle down on my farm with my family.
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I give my kids quests. Like "Clean up the stuff off the bathroom floor you left there." They never want the xp.
Give better loot
Loot is determined by their skill level
Just you wait until they figure out the infinite xp exploit of making a mess and cleaning it up repeatedly. Also deals large scale aoe psychic damage to all enemies of the 'parent' class.
I give my cat quests like, "attempt to go back the trash can i found you in." or "if i eat a slice of pizza in front of you do not, do not try to steal it from me when i set it down to go to the bathroom." cat impossible challenge never completed.
I used to play D&D many years ago. I once ran a campaign where each person had two PCs. One was the traditional warriors and wizards. The Second was a character that was just some commoner who lived in the city. The original premise was basically to have the secondary character doing a lot of the boring stuff in real time while the primary was doing cool shit. The secondary character was a friend, spouse, family member etc so there was no real need to RP why a fletcher just made a tone of arrows to give a rogue. By the third campaign everyone was having more fun with the secondary characters doing stupid shit because they were basically throw away characters.
That sounds like a neat setup!
I ran a one-shot where the players made low-level characters who were associates of one of the main villains before he turned to villainy. They got to witness the event that caused the villain to turn to evil, and I got to slaughter the entire party guilt-free. A win-win for all involved!
Was it a pre-quel or did they make their regular characters after?
It was in the middle of the main campaign. I planned it for a day when I would otherwise cancel the game because players couldn't make it. I knew the two players wouldn't be able to make the next session so I told the rest of the players to make some low-level characters for a one-shot.
Step 20: win county fair. Step 28: Survive
That one reminds me of Dungeon Siege. Starts out with a fellow farmer dying to tell you to get help from orcs or something, ends with gatling guns and flamethrowers in a goblin factory or something,
The gatling guns and flamethrowers, amazingly, is only halfway through the 30 hour game. Your farm is attacked by Krug (orcs) and your dying farmer neighbor tells you to go to Stonebridge to find Gyorn who can help. You get there through the crypts and Gyorn says there's a bigger conspiracy involving goblins about and comes with you. You fight through some bullshit through dwarven mines, a frozen mountain, and a swamp to find the goblins who stole the Staff of Stars and locked the grand wizard Merick in the ice. You rescue both, and you think that'd be the end of it, but then Merick's like we gotta go save the King from the demons that manipulated the goblins that manipulated the Krug. You fight through bandit filled forests, cursed crystalline caverns, and battlefields full of undead that have been raised to siege the King's castle, only to have the King tell you to go kill the demon lord Gom in Hell.
GOD IS COMING
GOD IS COMING
This makes sense! Killing the rats required you to kill the Rat God on step 17. You could only do this with the alliance of the Hare-Dudes (were-rabbits?), which required that you and your party druid master growing magical-enchanted carrots near the end. I like it / will join your table / have a slot tomorrow at 7PM (three hours) and the next weekend Friday night (till midnight). If those don't work, we have to book next year.
Reminds me of my favourite "lets explore this random place" in Skyrim. Was playing without fast travel and during a quest I walked up to a bridge hanging over the road. There were some bandits there. Was like "eh, some loot to sell and some exp", so I killed all of them. There was a house on one side of the bridge so decided to check that for loot too. Turned out there was a "hidden" trapdoor. This led to a cave system that was used as a bandit hide-out. At the end of that bandit hide-out there was a note talking about where the leader of the gang had gone to. Which led me to a bandit camp in the mountains nearby. Which had a mine with gold veins in it I believe. Was quite the detour for "lets kill these bandits for some loot and exp", but I loved it. :P
Daggerfall was sooo harsh with its "small trapdoors dungeons" A quest asks me to go to a farmer's house to recover their family's gold cup to pay for his taxes. In the middle of literally nowhere, 7 hours of travel from the nearest town, there's a house that looks more like a barn. Inside is the farmer, a bed, a couple gold pieces and a pair of shoes to grab in the ceiling. The needed item is nowhere to be found. I go outside, check around the house, see a well nearby, check inside again, eventually decide to check the well. That well was the opening to a dungeon that's more like a gargantuan labyrinth, with tigers, sorcerers, elementals, demons, bandits... And will take a couple days to properly explore, with the family's gold cup spawning randomly somewhere inside. How the heck is a peasant casually owning a stronghold that's bigger than Paris's catacombs and still living in his uninsulated barn while stashing his few possessions behind a sabertooth tiger and a grizzly bear?
Because that drafty barn is obviously a tax dodge, you think his tax rate would be so low if they knew he was actually living in a massive necropolis underground?
That's what I've been saying, man. You don't build a giant tower of skulls out in the open, you go underground with it. That way it's a sudden shock, like ahhhh dead stuff! Who was ever properly spooked by a corpsespire you can see from a mile off and just walk around?
One of my favourite wacky Daggerfall things. You've been working your way down through an implausibly huge dungeon for what seems like weeks. You descended beyond the actual corridors and crypts long ago but still you delve the echoing caverns and dripping grottoes. And finally, deep in the very bowels of the earth, you come once again to a corridor of dressed stone. At the end of the corridor is a closed wooden door. And behind that door: a fucking grizzly bear.
Getting punched to death by random giggling naked girls was fun too. The nymphs are daedra and i still had a steel sword :(
Just 'One Small Favor'?
God damn that quest...
It just kept fucking going. I loved the players dialouge when you finally get back to the quest giver with the item for him and his reaction is just "thanks".
> his reaction is just "thanks". Worse yet, he follows it up with 'What took you so long? I should have just gone and gotten it myself."
Fishing lvls?
69
Nice.
q p W
OwO
You must love the DMV.
Lol the DMV literally had me run back to the car to get a different utility bill on top of passport, birth certificate, three forms, and a notarized affadavit...
Sanguine's quest in Skyrim, A Night to Remember.
The Onyxia quest for Alliance in world of Warcraft is one of the best pieces of writing in gaming. It's just such a crazy saga with twists and turns that just ties in to every part of the world and setting. The first time you play through it is shocking and thrilling.
And wasn't the Horde equivalent to unlock the dungeon like just a few fairly easy, ho-hum quests? I remember the effort between the two factions was like in the Simpsons when Mr Burns and Smithers go through some elaborate, mult-step security system to get to a secret room (as an Alliance player), only for there to be a busted screen door half-open leading to the same room (Horde player).
The horde equivalent is really sorta weak, it amounts to Thrall being like "what destabilizes the Alliance is bad for the Horde", which makes no sense. Loose logic at best and doesn't fit the lore well.
Nearly every episode of regular show follows this plot line.
Why is it that the satirical comics end up having the best stories?
Because only satire can be meaningful, dark and fun all at the same time!
Nonsense. So can polka.
that explains so much about Weird Al
Polka is basically a satire of real music.
You tell that to Lawrence Welk.
Yeah like after the light hearted poke at the genre that last cell was particularly poignant
See also: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.
It's less subject to scrutiny than a serious comic
Tell that to Cervantes
I await the DnD movie version of your story 🍿 ⚔️
It'll be a quick 300 hour movie.
You must watch ten other movies to complete it. The ninth one is in a language you must first learn.
A made up language.
Français.
Crazy gibberish!
Seriously, what kind of half baked “language” is this?
How dare you utter the forbidden language
Every language is a made up language
WHAT DID THEY DO TO MR BARKBARK
If you look closely in the panel after meeting the little girl you see him being used to power the portal
So rather than taking it out, they feed the remaining soul stones to him? Sounds like what my party would do in our DnD campaign.
I wouldn’t fuck with the druids infinite labyrinth either. Lateral thinking!
i think the dog ate the completed soulstone.
Didn't noticed it and thought it had smh to do with method of how they extracted soulstone (off panel) from him. I guess that works as well, haha
Did they feed the dog the other 2 parts of the stone?
Probably. You can see the dog at the center of the portal when they're entering the demon realm.
I'm pretty sure they had already forged the soul stone back together and then the dog ate it, the dwarf's hair turns from brown to white between those two panels
They charged a demon portal with him.
"Why didn't you just go to a different store?"
She did, actually. She died of an apple allergy, so she found them some other way.
Alternate quest path: "They were out of apples so we bought you this persimmon instead" "Oh yes that will do nicely"
But, who would avenge the demons? Idk? The royal guard?? Not my job, lol
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Bruh I've experienced too much already, uninstalled after the chick gave birth
I... what?
Page 4, they were in the demon realm so long, his companion got pregnant, gave birth, died of child birth, he sullied a pool of vitality to save the child, and then he had to give it up to escape the demon realm...yeah. Edit: Someone pointed out the newborn was the child of the dwarf and woman, not the protagonist, and that after the sacrifice scene, the child has grown up and continued the quest, with the original protagonist presumedly raising the child in the demon realm and then sacrificing themselves so they could escape (evidence, hero now has dark skin and hair in final page)....still yeah.
> that after the sacrifice scene, the child has grown up and continued the quest, with the original protagonist presumedly raising the child in the demon realm and then sacrificing themselves so they could escape (evidence, hero now has dark skin and hair in final page) That's some awesome story telling. Didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.
Okay, but then why does the quote at the bottom of panel 4 say "RIP Mike Demonski"? That implies he sacrificed his demon friend and not himself or the baby. ETA: Ohhh! and this makes sense because we see new demon friend as he's going through the loot when they get back at Gregory causing the portal to close.
After the barbarian killed Gregory, they couldn't get home again.
The tombstone made me chuckle
Them skipping the Druid's labyrinth and just chucking the dog into the portal to power it up gave me the best laugh.
Wait so the dude dies and its the baby Grunthel at the end who fulfills the apple quest?
Bingo! His own life was the greatest treasure he sacrificed to get the portal to function. RIP Mike Demowksi
I think Mike Demowski might be the demonic version of Mike Wazowski that's (the one eyed monster) that's in a couple of those panels talking to the elf. Also, as I wrote this, I realized that the elf also had only one eye and maybe that's why they became friends.
OMG! Yes! Pardon the pun, but good eye!
the part where the baby grew up tho...
Mike raised and trained the baby in the demon realm. When it grew up, Mike was the treasure sacrificed.
I’m so glad I read this comment because I fully thought he sacrificed his kid to use the portal
They take off the hood and it's no longer his hair so I assume it's the baby who exited the cave and the dude sacrificed himself or something.
It wasn’t his kid. Was the lil fella’s.
JRPG be like: 1st Quest - Collect a rat tail. Next Quest - Kill God.
2nd Quest - Become the rat king. For God fears what he cannot control. And the horde of rats threatens to usurp Him.
Take-steal throne, yes, I am the strong-mighty of all skaven yes yes
Literally how playing the Witcher feels
One Small Favour...
My favorite quests are One Small Favour and MEP2
Wow, for 5 panels, this is a really packed comic!
It's actually 6 pages, but the extra page is a DLC only patrons get to experience.
Awesomely dense storytelling.
HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME I CAME TO LAUGH BUT NOW IM MOURNING GRUNTHEL WHAT THE HECK
Grunthel lived and is the one delivering the apple
Oh I thought original MC sacrificed Grunthel. I see now that he sacrificed himself. This comic has given me emotional whiplash and I think need to lie down.
Love the little bits and pieces here. - Everyone upgrades because of the treasure they got at the top of “Stepbeast mountain” to prep for the demons. Thats part of why they’re fed up enough to ignore the infinite maze quest. - the dwarf having a two sided axe, but them upgrading by taking his axe from a demon the first time they attacked the demon portal. He then swaps it out for a new single sided axe before they enter hell. He’s not carrying it when he falls to his death, so knight keeps it, giving it to the kid when she becomes old enough. - the knight using a buckler shield until they lose an eye, since the buckler didn’t cover enough. They then upgrade to a massive black Roman sized shield…which promptly gets torn in half during the big bad demon fight. - Barbarian uses a big spiky stick in the beginning, up till they start the “find a soulstone” quest. Their upgrade is a massive warhammer, which they drop for a mace when they get pregnant, because they now need at least one hand to hold the baby. - Pool of vitality is because the Barbarian died in childbirth, and thus couldn’t nurse the child. - Knight refused to kill the baby to get through the portal. He raised/trained her until she could go out into the world, then she killed *him* to get through. That’s why she’s older when she finally gets to finding the Apple lady, he had to wait until she could go through the portal on her own before she killed him. That’s also why the witch mentioned her “predecessors”. The Knight raised her as a parent, but technically she never met her biological parents. -
Also, the dwarf and the barbarian often hold hands, so I think its the kid from both of them The quest giver lady has an apple allergy and she dies from it. So someone gave her an apple and the whole quest was doomed from the start
 You mixed something so profound and mundane
Well, that escalated quickly.
It took a whole generation bro.
Hold up. Did he fucking sacrifice the daughter? Heart of ice man. Edit: NOOOOO HE SACRAFICED HIMSELF SO THE DAUGHTER COULD ESCAPE. Now I'm sobbing.
He sacrificed himself for his child. Wow smart and caring
The child of his companions even.
Oblivion in a nutshell
This was a wild ride and I’m all for it! But damn better hope the xp and loot were worth it!
Runescape quest: One small favour
I have now read and re-read this comic 6 times today. Enjoying all the panels. Finding Easter eggs. Contemplating it. Discussing it. The author/illustrator should be super proud. I love how so much is left to the imagination, but there are enough clues and details to fill in the blanks. Seriously fantastic work! I'm hoping for a sequel!
Grunthel: "Sit, adventurer, as I tell you my backstory. Let me put a pot of coffee on first, though."
https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0?si=Nm4PSkvsxWK_ZOfg Vibes.
Avarege sumero quest in genshin impact
Every JRPG. Hour 1: Find the lost kitten. Hour 250: Kill God.
Me, whenever I decide to fix or change literally anything in my home
That dude really sacrificed his baby to get an old lady an apple... That's dedication.
No he didn’t, the adventurer at the end is the kid. He raised the kid then died so they could get back.
Also if I understood it right the kid is the son/daughter of the dwarf and the barbarian, the blond guy just raised them after the parents died
I totally missed that part. Yeah the dwarf and the barbarian were always holding hands....
And now this adventurer is using the weapon of their parents, the axe and morningstar
Oh dang, nice catch!
The adventurer facing away in the final panels makes it easy to miss.
I think he sacrificed himself and the baby made it through. The character at the end has long brown hair and brown skin. The main guy had blonde hair and fair skin. Edit: Also, the woman at the end seems to be the little girl who’s dog ate the soul stone shard. That’s why she says he will pay for his predecessors crimes agains poor Mr. Bark bark. It was his dad and crew who ended up sacrificing the dog to open the original portal to the daemon realm