Murphy's Law 5: To Comic 100...And Beyond!

[super dark33]

Are you being sarcastic?

not at all

[Mina Kobold]

not at all

You are aware that you then condemned an entire species to death just for being members of that species. Which Loyd tell us is wrong.

Do you deny the will of Loyd Zephyr?!

Please note that I do indeed know of many other reasons and actual anti-discrimination front figures, they are acknowledged but omitted for the sake of humour.

[Lix Lorn]

You are aware that you then condemned an entire species to death just for being members of that species. Which Loyd tell us is wrong.

Do you deny the will of Loyd Zephyr?!

No, superdark is just like that. If he's anything like he used to be in SMBG.

That said, I totally want a church of Zephyr now. XD

[Dark Faun]

Janine would be the high priestess, of course.

"Desecrate my temple!"

[Lix Lorn]

Heh, yes. Then he'd arrange an immaculate conception. That'd teach her. XD

[Dark Faun]

No. As a deity, he bestows her a divine, unremoveable curse of frigidity.

Serves her right.

[Lix Lorn]

Heh. I think he'd be tempted but unlikely to do that. XD

[Asta Kask]

Àstrid's a male?

That will be hard to swallow for any Swedes...

[Mina Kobold]

No, superdark is just like that. If he's anything like he used to be in SMBG.

That said, I totally want a church of Zephyr now. XD

Still true. Even if the species in question is fictional. Especially if the species is fictional

*Has no idea what SMBG means and instead pretends to be a turkey*

"gobble gobble...Cluck!"

Church of Zephyr? I'll get the columns, you get the uniforms, who'll bring the cheese?

[Marnath]

Àstrid's a male?

That will be hard to swallow for any Swedes...

I think they're talking about a Warhammer Fantasy God now, actually.

[Dark Faun]

Church of Zephyr. Lloyd Zephyr. Rings any bell?

[Marnath]

Church of Zephyr. Lloyd Zephyr. Rings any bell?

Oh, yeah. I thought those posts were an extension of the discussion about the emperor of mankind from last page.

[Asta Kask]

Right. Brain fart on my part.

[Dark Faun]

Speaking of Janine, I'm looking forward to her getting through her thick skull that Lloyd doesn't want to do her. She's basically been sexually harassing him ever since they met.

It doesn't help that it's treated like a joke. I can't help but wonder if people would laugh as much were the genders reversed.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Speaking of Janine, I'm looking forward to her getting through her thick skull that Lloyd doesn't want to do her. She's basically been sexually harassing him ever since they met.

It doesn't help that it's treated like a joke. I can't help but wonder if people would laugh as much were the genders reversed.

Probably we would all be clamouring for Lloyd's head, for being a sexual attacker...

[Dark Faun]

Precisely.

[Dusk Eclipse]

But that is just a cultural... (not really sure if that is the appropriate word, but I don't have any other) thing. :shrugs;

[CWater]

Sketched a little today, and something that can actually be shown to people. It's supposed to be young Lloyd and his old friends. What do you think? Any major (or minor) changes I should make for the actual pic?

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[Asta Kask]

Looks great, but they seem a little... stiff? People are more bendy, aren't they?

[Lix Lorn]

The top right girl is byootiful. Oh, for a fraction of your skill...

[CWater]

Looks great, but they seem a little... stiff? People are more bendy, aren't they?

Very much possible I drew it kinda quickly. I'll pay more attention in the main pic...I hope.

The top right girl is byootiful. Oh, for a fraction of your skill...

Thank you

[CoffeeIncluded]

Speaking of Janine, I'm looking forward to her getting through her thick skull that Lloyd doesn't want to do her. She's basically been sexually harassing him ever since they met.

It doesn't help that it's treated like a joke. I can't help but wonder if people would laugh as much were the genders reversed.

Look: I know that sexual harassment is not a joke. Believe me, I know.

But a) Janine doesn't exactly know this, and b) She doesn't think that she's sexually harassing him.

Sketched a little today, and something that can actually be shown to people. It's supposed to be young Lloyd and his old friends. What do you think? Any major (or minor) changes I should make for the actual pic?

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Eee! I love it! (And is that Miles Post-magical accident? Either way, his hair should be a bit messier--Think a five-year-old Jackson Pollock fingerpainting with India Ink). And Lloyd's ear should be a bit lower, and Miles' pinky is a bit off. But I really like it.

[CWater]

Look: I know that sexual harassment is not a joke. Believe me, I know.

But a) Janine doesn't exactly know this, and b) She doesn't think that she's sexually harassing him.

And she hasn't actually done anyth-...ah, well there was that Aphrosidiatic(?) incindent...but she got scolded by Radic! And will unlikely do it again...I think.

Eee! I love it! (And is that Miles Post-magical accident? Either way, his hair should be a bit messier--Think a five-year-old Jackson Pollock fingerpainting with India Ink). And Lloyd's ear should be a bit lower, and Miles' pinky is a bit off. But I really like it.

Thanks. Yes, he is. Hmh, it doesn't show very well in the scan...oh well. And thank you for the nitpicks, really. I often become sorta 'blind' to my pics and can't see myself if something's anatomically wrong or not. (Looking at the pic a week later sometimes reveals the mistakes though.)

[Marnath]

If you want the scar to show better, it might help to have him facing the other way? More of his scar would be visible, at least.

[Raging Gene Ray]

I did see those, still raises the question why a supposedly good godess does not make it clear to her followers that she does not want them to hold the plavaan responsible for the actions of their deities.

Unless ofcourse she approves, but then is she really good ? or are the plavaan really as innocent we are being told ?

If the Plavaan didn't condone the actions of their deities, then they wouldn't worship them.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything wrong with Lloyd and Kago's actions in the latest comic. They were ordered not to attack unless attacked first...and they were.

[Marnath]

If the Plavaan didn't condone the actions of their deities, then they wouldn't worship them.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything wrong with Lloyd and Kago's actions in the latest comic. They were ordered not to attack unless attacked first...and they were.

You're missing the part where they're unarmed people on their own land, and the government sent stormtroopers to annex it. And they didn't attack first, a child throwing a rock does not count as iniating a fight.

[Raging Gene Ray]

You're missing the part where they're unarmed people on their own land, and the government sent stormtroopers to annex it. And they didn't attack first, a child throwing a rock does not count as iniating a fight.

I figured from context that it was their land, not Kago's. But Lloyd had no way of knowing that. As far as he knew, they were trying to annex Kago's land. That places the wrongdoing on the shoulders of the government, not the soldiers who have the misfortune of being (mis)led by it.

And yes it does count as an attack. He drew blood from the halfling (or gnome) who didn't say a word to him. If he struck a vital nerve or artery, as unlikely as that sounds, she could have died. The archer did her duty and defended her ally. A'Kent brought that arrow on himself.

[Marnath]

I figured from context that it was their land, not Kago's. But Lloyd had no way of knowing that. As far as he knew, they were trying to annex Kago's land. That places the wrongdoing on the shoulders of the government, not the soldiers who have the misfortune of being (mis)led by it.

And yes it does count as an attack. He drew blood from the halfling (or gnome) who didn't say a word to him. If he struck a vital nerve or artery, as unlikely as that sounds, she could have died. The archer did her duty and defended her ally. A'Kent brought that arrow on himself.

If you really believe that, then I don't really think I want to argue with you about it. Those people are defenseless, and A'kent is a KID. What these soldiers are about to do is NOT OK. PERIOD.

[Raging Gene Ray]

If you really believe that, then I don't really think I want to argue with you about it. Those people are defenseless, and A'kent is a KID. What these soldiers are about to do is NOT OK. PERIOD.

Being a kid doesn't make the lethal damage you do any less lethal. Should they have just stood idly by and watched the halfling get beaten?

The only thing I question is the decision to kill the rest of the drow. I agree that it's not okay to attack unarmed civilians...but after that incident that A'kent provoked, it was almost certain that they'd eventually take up arms.

Granted, they WOULD have been justified since it was really their land in the first place, but as far as the soldiers knew, this was a necessary preventative measure to keep hostile attackers away from Kago's borders.

And I don't really think that's okay either. Just understandable. I just don't see the Kagoan military as some monolithic demon empire, nor do I see the Plavaan as a bunch of tragically misunderstood saints...then again, it's probably not supposed to be as black and white as that.

[Marnath]

The guy in the last panel of 93 sure looks like he's enjoying himself. Come to think of it, looking at that I wonder if he really is about to kill that drow or if he has something worse planned.

*edit: about A'kent... shooting him dead is not a justifiable reaction, even though the rock did damage. Arresting him for assault, or even beating him senseless might possibly be ok, but I really don't think lethal force was called for there.