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Thread: Erfworld, The Thread.
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2011-06-06, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Then don't give him the choice. Parson's twice Jojo's size and armed. Sure, assaulting a Caster is prepostrously dangerous, but so's every other option he has.
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2011-06-06, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm wondering if there's an outside chance at a Za Warudo joke.
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2011-06-06, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 07:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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As I remember it, Rob found another artist excited to do the spinoff. Then, nothing more; I expect negotiations fell through.
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2011-06-09, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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K, the problem seems to be a combination of a) my memory and b) interpretation over time. Rob's comment was a bit over four years ago, so it's had time to mush about in my head and "if everything goes as we hope" became a reference to negotiations.
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2011-06-15, 02:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Text update.
Spoilercall it Fate, call it Titans' Will, but clearly Destiny is favoring GK's side...Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2011-06-15, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-15, 09:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I wonder if that is related to the Arkenhammer. it has been speculated that the hammer is connected to stageamancy, and we now know that one of its branches, carneymancy, is the magic of rigging the game. It could explain why Stanley found so many dwagons on his way to Faq, and why there is always happening something unusual or unexpected to help him, from getting named heir as a commoner to the Gobwin insurrection to getting the spell to summon Parson.
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2011-06-17, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm...set up strip. Parson gets the mysterious spell, and the help of the two other casters is shown to be true. Also, great use of hippiemancy. Looking forward to the next several strips with anticipation!
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2011-06-18, 01:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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You think the spell is a McGuffin that may be important later? I wonder personally if it'll get used on someone *other* than Parson, so an Erfworld denizen ends up in the real world...
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2011-06-18, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-19, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2011-06-19, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-19, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2011-06-19, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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I saw it as a reminder of how different Erfworld's reality is from Earth's. It takes great effort to produce a "bubble side" that isn't dependent on warfare for its very existence, and both(?) of the examples we've seen (Old Faq and Charlescomm) resort to conflict out of economic necessity anyway. If it's that hard to exist without fighting, it'd make sense for "peace" in Erfworld to equate to something rather more violent than peace as we understand it.
EDIT: Hippy Ninja'd.Last edited by Trekkin; 2011-06-19 at 09:20 AM.
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2011-06-19, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Even if all the Sides stopped fighting, they'd still need to produce units that can fight to fend off the randomly spawning Barbarian units, like wild dwagons (and presumably other units).
Or randomly spawning Natural Allies.
Or... randomly spawning Sides. Do we know if that can happen?
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2011-06-19, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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or random Stanleys. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Do I contradict myself?
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2011-06-19, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-23, 05:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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We have a text update.
SpoilerNice fight, even if there were a little too much deflected arrows for my tastes.
Goodbye Artemis, hope the Titans will answer you.Do I contradict myself?
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2011-06-23, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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I guess that was the point. So much luck can't be coincidence. Something (or someone) is tilting the battle in GK's favour. And only midway through the story that is a bad sign for the protagonist. Also, in the second text update Janis said that there will a disarray at the battle, so we can expect something big happening. So far we haven't seen something really big happening that could be a turning point. Trem said that even without the Pliers GK could win the battle, and we know from one of the Stanley text updates that he does think Parson is a good commander. Even if Stanley choose another chief warlord and lost the whole forces and Wanda, Parson would have been made chief warlord sooner or later and brought GK back on the winning street. They they would expand slower, but expand nonetheless. So something is coming.
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2011-06-23, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Question is, *who* is tilting the battle in GK's favour? The Titans themselves? Some coalition of Luckamancers? The answer to that could be quite significant!
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2011-06-23, 07:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-23, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, yes, that's definitely a possibility, with still unknown consequences.
That said, my favourite part of this update, is the one describing the mental processes of Artemis during the charge, evaluating the various options.
It's also nice the dwagons' entry... "Roar! We're here. Whatcha gonna do about it?"Do I contradict myself?
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2011-06-23, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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From a storytelling point of view, this would not make a lot of sense, in my opinion. The author actually went out of his way to put across a distinct feeling that the dice are loaded in this particular engagement. Actually, the way I read it that was pretty much the entire message of the last two text updates; why would so much emphasis be put on the "Titan's design" and such if this had no actual significance to the story, if these strokes of luck were in fact merely that: strokes of luck?
Last edited by Gamall; 2011-06-23 at 10:56 AM.