Damn, Bree, don’t you know it’s rude to interrupt the monologue.
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Damn, Bree, don’t you know it’s rude to interrupt the monologue.
Also, you can watch me ink and color this week’s Incentive Art on my YouTube channel here:
And you can find the finished design in my TeePublic store!
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Good old stabby-stab works at last…
Let’s see if it can still puree š
Or does Breen no longer have that special stabby?
No, thanks (?) to that idiot Morgana.
Yeah she did free Moonblade and friends from blade form… though I will mention sometimes I feel I maybe the only Morgana fan here! XD
Knew Morgana hobbled Breen by ‘releasing’ the Trio, but didn’t remember Breen losing Stabby š
Evil genocidal monologue shall not be interrupted!
Or shall it?
Mega-powerful super-dragon vs sneaky Elf rogue not gone rogue and not backstabbing when she could. Bree: why don’t you use your rogue super-powers while you can? There’s no reason to give a second chance to any genocidal maniac ever.
Meh, now it’ll be up to the red dragonette to save the day, right? :/
“Hrk!” usually means the subject took moderate to severe Sneak Attack damage. Probably not fatal, since drama probably demands at least a transformation to his true draconic form. Feel free to have him to revert to his “true form” because he died, though. Sometimes drama is overrated.
Ah! Maybe I’m misunderstanding the last panel then? I thought he was just being bothered by the interruption, heh!
Bree: I hereby interrupt your evil monologue.
Dragon Lord: Damnit!
“Hrk!” is an abbreviated form of “Hurk!” which is Auld Draconic for “Alas! I am dying”. Since it’s an abbreviation, it is not as strong as a full-on “Hurk!”, meaning he might have survived the blow.
Reference: Khota the Samurai Webcomic
I miss Khota, too
Also, check out his eyes, they have reduced in size in the last panel
I’m guessing the dragon-slaying pointy thing just got blooded.
Seems the arrogant prick … just got pricked.
Will Bree add “Oops” after killing him, too?
Don’t rely on slow blood loss. Pith him like a frog
A metaphor for current events?
“Why do people keep on stabbing me in the back?”
“Because it’s easy and it does a lot of damage.”
That is the essence of rogues and assassins. Know the purpose and do it in the most efficient manner.
Constraints, such as minimizing collateral fatalities, considered. Don’t use a nuke if a dagger would suffice.
Bree: “I find your monologue boring. Here, let me abbreviate it for you with a little punctuation!”
Bree isn’t much for monologues. I guess you could say she…gets right to the point.
Bree, please in the future make that *stab* *stab* *stab* *stab *stab* *stab*…etc. and then tell him he doesn’t belong as he’s falling to the ground taking his final breath. You won’t get a better or easier chance to end this with minimal collateral damage, stab it till it stops moving, then utter the cool line.
Give her some credit. I think she did perfectly.
– She delivered the line POST – “HRK”. The idiot has ALREADY been stabbed at least once – quite severely so.
– Surprise factor has ALREADY been used – to great effect.
– Any possible tactical info (“hey, look, you have an enemy behind you!”) that talking could give the idiot has ALREADY been superceeded by the feeling of good old cold steel sliding betwen his ribs (or wherever he’s been actually stabbed – Bree wouldn’t be above stabbing him somewhere else).
And
– He is still conscious enough to actually HEAR the cool line. If she’d uttered the cool line before, it would have interfered with the cool stabitystabitystab, but if she’d uttered the line LATER, he’d have died without hearing the cool line.
I’d say this was the PERFECT time for “this is why you die” gloating.
Naw, this is the hero equivalent of monologuing. You can’t stab the nasty dragon enough times before it changes shape or does whatever it’s going to do next š
C’mon, let’s be fair. Bree actually DID follow point #7 of the Evil Overlord’s list ([…]I’ll say, “No.” and shoot him. No, on second thought I’ll shoot him then say “No.”) She DID stab first, say “no” later. From a narrative standpoint, that’s prime work!
Now he’s free to do whatever he wishes with a hand-breadth of dragon-slaying stabbitystabbity-er betwen his shoulder plates (unless Bree went for the kidneys) š
Again from a storytelling point of view (this is Wormius tale and not mine, but I’m also a storyteller), having the villain just drop dead after THIS display of denial of his pretended greatness – killed by the rogue main character midd-word just as he believes he’s about to carry on with his villainous plan – is actually quite a satisfying ending for him. This would be the definitive “bringing him down”. Just desserts, with a cherry of “HRK” on top. I wouldn’t feel “cheated” if instead of an epic fight, we have an epic surprise backstabbing.
Of course, if Wormius has in store an *actual epic fight* instead, I will NOT object, either.
Aw yeah, not complaining about the action here, nor making any judgements. It’s a great scene and my man W delivers a lot of them.
I’ma just saying (to Bree) that the best ‘real life’ plan here is to stab the big nasty till it stops moving as quickly and repeatedly as possible, then do whatever cool stuff you want to do/say afterwards. It’s a corollary to the ‘double tap’ rule #2 from Zombieland. “Don’t assume your first stab is fatal”. Bree should be treating this guy like Caesar during the Ides of March. š
to be fair, he deserves to be treated as Rasputin during the ’16 end-of-year celebrations
Yeah, don’t stop stabbing until you are stabbing a puddle of mush… and then stab some more š
The gaming corollary addition to this is ‘when in doubt, assume everything you stab after a certain level has troll-level regeneration. Thus, stab it till it’s mush and then start a fire and burn the little bits to ash š
Hehehe, this may have come about from early gaming trauma, involving a troll that had been polymorphed into a sheep and was rampaging a village. Nobody could do anything as it seemed to heal almost instantly, so the townsfolk locked themselves in their houses and waited for 1st level heroes to save them. It didn’t do much damage, but the damn thing just wouldn’t stay down!
(note: this is where the party eventually ended up with a neverending leg of lamb)
I just noticed something…. telling. There’s no “apostyk” tag in this comic. Does that mean Apostyk is no longer among us in this whole comic? As in, there’s a chunk of flesh with his shape, but he is no longer among us”? If so, whoah, Bree, that was a FAST-acting stab.
Maybe that’s because it’s not his real name. His real name is secret, I got shushed once for mentioning it, so I can’t say it again, but Bree knows it.
Nope, his nake *is* Apostyk
https://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/character/apostyk/
It may be his nake (sic) and what he tells people to call him, but it is not his true name. As I say, that is secret, anyone who knows the true name of a wizard has power over them. So, that’s just me, Bree and, of course, Mr Hunter it seems.
I mean there is always a chance there is some possession involved…
Nice for storytelling, but we were talking comic tags, and he IS tagged as “apostyk”, despite having other names (not all of them nice). Much like Phawkes isn’t tagged by his actual name (Sir Phawkes Carington Branwell).
(More than possession I think is a matter of tagging mistake -most of his appeareances are untagged-, but it is more funny to mention it as he no longer being alive midd-word, even if we have examples, plural, of characters, also plural, tagged by just a random body part).
Oops! That was just me forgetting that I had revealed his name way back when and it was appropriate to add his tag in now. Sorry.
Oh… well guess all those theories may have been overblown then.
…Guess I’ll go back to eyeballing the short haired brunette and imagining what wasn’t shown on the panel. š
Knowing that a theory is silly because it’s based upon taking an obvious mistake as intended and running with it is still a LOT of fun, and sometimes has sparked actual content – if funywesome enough
Wow, that certainly got the crowds in, so many responses, speculations, arguments (some rather silly) and counter-arguments…All of which is good. Mr H. works hard on these panels.
I love how these bad guys like to give rambling monologues (think the Mindripper), but Bree/Jen notoriously gets bored very quickly, generally sometime after the second sentence, as here.
Now we will see if Mala’s ‘stabby-stabby’ “million year old” arrow-head actually works, other than on the occasional zombified orc. I’m willing to hope (no, I’m not a Morgana fan), but not that optimistic.
However, Big Bad Bluish Dragon does have a problem. The Queen of the Wood-Elves is back to claim her throne, buddy!! Love that glimpse of nipple in the final panel.
The dragon-killing arrowhead: https://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/close-encounter/