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    Quote Originally Posted by Myrdhale View Post
    I just noticed little noodle there that globs on to nimmel has only 1 eyeball. Maybe Noodle mitosised or something, and his main body is under evil control but his good mind is in the little germ?
    Except the "main body" is too small to be seen while the "little germ" is clearly visible. I would say that it's a psychoplane thing, except Noodel always appears human-sized or larger in a psychoplane.

    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    New theory! The tiny archmage wasnt trying to kill them, he was trying to WARN them! The problem is, he is an alien trying to figure out human biology, so he keeps picking the wrong spots to try and interface with them in order to be able to communicate. By using nimmels bad eye he is able to connect to him without destroying a body part that was working just fine earlier today, and he will hopefully be able to deliver his warning.
    Alternate theory: Noodel is trying to warn them, but, with his alien mindset, he considers the physical bodies of the werewolves to be nothing more than containers for the microorganisms within. He has, in fact, been dropping nuclear bombs on various minor infections to appease the overzealous antibodies that he mistakenly thinks are in charge.

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    If we had to get a sudden mood change i think i would have preferred something more subdued. For instance, instead of this high and mighty aggressive tone, I think i would have preferred is Snert was much more apologetic; he apologizes to nimmel but explains that if he is going to stand against his master then he will have to die, but he really does not want to kill him... That would have atleast had the effect of less of a mood whip-lash... though i would have preferred Snert simply keeping nimmel uninvolved so that he would not be killed, and trying best to stick to convincing Nimmel to join them as opposed to jumping to the "join us or die" mentality
    I don't see a problem with the 180. Snert's just taking a cold, businesslike approach to Nimmel. "The Phoenix" can be either an asset or a threat, so he offers Nimmel power to judge his potential as an ally. Once it's clear that Nimmel won't switch sides, Snert decides to eliminate him. The only annoying thing here is the taunting and the fact that the sucker punch wasn't fatal.

    Alternatively: Snert was making up all that crap about Nimmel being a potential archmage. His mission is to capture Nimmel so King Callan can violently rip out his memories and look for information on Dominic. Snert started out trying to lure Nimmel away with trickery; when it looked like that wouldn't work, he switched to the old "blast 'em with a stun grenade and mutilate 'em so they can't escape" tactic.

    As for why Snert showed up right now, when Nimmel's friends are in danger, rather than asking him to follow him to the island of stupid jocks on a day when he's not doing anything better... Er, because magic and stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    New theory! The tiny archmage wasnt trying to kill them, he was trying to WARN them! The problem is, he is an alien trying to figure out human biology, so he keeps picking the wrong spots to try and interface with them in order to be able to communicate. By using nimmels bad eye he is able to connect to him without destroying a body part that was working just fine earlier today, and he will hopefully be able to deliver his warning.
    I like to imagine the little guy going through a dozen bodies a week.

    "Aaargh, another one! Why do these meatbags pop so easily?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    New theory! The tiny archmage wasnt trying to kill them, he was trying to WARN them! The problem is, he is an alien trying to figure out human biology, so he keeps picking the wrong spots to try and interface with them in order to be able to communicate. By using nimmels bad eye he is able to connect to him without destroying a body part that was working just fine earlier today, and he will hopefully be able to deliver his warning.
    I like to imagine the little guy going through a dozen bodies a week.

    "Aaargh, another one! Why do these meatbags pop so easily?"

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    Wow. I was coming up with a theory to explain all of this, and it got kind of long, so I spoilered it. I guess that just shows how much stuff needs explaining in this strip.

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    Okay, so I'm thinking the most logical explanation for all of this is that Snert was being mind-controlled by someone and Alduraithel realized this and couldn't stop the mind control so he killed him. This would explain why his eyes are reversecolored and why he possesses human intelligence and powerful magic when before the only concept he could understand was cookies. However, he did call Alduraithel "Master" which would indicate that he himself is the one talking, but that just doesn't jibe with everything mentioned above. Maybe he's still in control of his body, but he's been brainwashed and given power. Another bizarre thing was how Alduraithel was just killing Nimmel's friends. Maybe it was really Snert who was tearing apart their bodies with his newfound powers and saying that Alduraithel was doing it because he knew Alduraithel was on the Deegan side and he didn't want Nimmel to trust him. Of course, he also wanted Nimmel to join him, but tearing apart his friends in front of his eyes doesn't seem like a good way to win him over, but it's the best theory I can come up with right now, so, whatever.


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    Future link.
    Huh. So I was wrong.

    This is a somewhat interesting twist, although I'm going to be very irritated if Nimmel defeats Alduraithel all by himself with minimal aid from Miniraithel. I'm assuming that the King or Beast is controlling the rest of his body. Also, this still doesn't explain how Snert seemingly acquired human intelligence and powerful magic.
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    I'm thinking, given the wounds on Big Squid, that he is on team Deegan too, and just finished dealing with whatever was actually attacking the werewolves.
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    Okay, that's an interesting twist, and the whole germ/bacteria based species theory wasn't too far off. However, the problem where AlDurararara can easily kill the wolves by making their brains or hearts explode but chooses not to for whatever reason still stands. And why is he huge now? Finish them off properly in microscopic form! ARG.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. McGician View Post
    Sneaky gate.
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    Huh. So I was wrong.

    This is a somewhat interesting twist, although I'm going to be very irritated if Nimmel defeats Alduraithel all by himself with minimal aid from Miniraithel. I'm assuming that the King or Beast is controlling the rest of his body. Also, this still doesn't explain how Snert seemingly acquired human intelligence and powerful magic.
    By itself the twist is pretty good, but now the story has to give some sort of excuse of how come the wolves are still alive, why Jayden wasn't attacked, and why Nimmel was taken in the first place.

    I'm still willing to give it a chance, but I suspect it is going to be similar to the end of the scry-sword arc - plenty of weird action stuffed into several days, without ever explaining what it was, and with ridicules outcomes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbug View Post
    Okay, that's an interesting twist, and the whole germ/bacteria based species theory wasn't too far off. However, the problem where AlDurararara can easily kill the wolves by making their brains or hearts explode but chooses not to for whatever reason still stands. And why is he huge now? Finish them off properly in microscopic form! ARG.
    It makes sense if he's under control of the Beast. Dude is always just fronting. Killing something on screen would make him an actual threat, and he knows he can't risk doing that in case it makes Mookie worry about Dominic.

    (the beast is a meta-plannar entity, and so is aware of thing outside the comic)
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    I've got no idea what's going on. First Wormmage is small and evil, now he's two worms, one nice and an eyeball and one all huge.

    C'mon Mookie at least kill off Milov.

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    It seems clear that the arcmage has been corrupted somehow, and i guess the last normal piece of him is that eyeball who broke off and sough refuge in Nimmel.
    You can also see that the big thingy is missing 1 eyeball.
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    He's going to kill off Jayden so she can be revived and that'll be the real completion of her pilgrimage. She will be the new prophet.

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    Ugh, so nimmel will become an archmage by fiat because he will be carrying around the remaining chunk of a microscopic archmage inside him. Im guessing something happened like, snuggly or the king or whoever started to take control of the archmage somehow, and being what he is, it was like a sponge slowly soaking up the evil and he was able to detach the last part of his body to be unaffected just in time.
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    Okay. Credit where credit's due.

    That was a pretty cool twist!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    Ugh, so nimmel will become an archmage by fiat because he will be carrying around the remaining chunk of a microscopic archmage inside him. Im guessing something happened like, snuggly or the king or whoever started to take control of the archmage somehow, and being what he is, it was like a sponge slowly soaking up the evil and he was able to detach the last part of his body to be unaffected just in time.
    That's what I thought as well, yes, and isn't it a little less trite than usual? There's an evil guy acting stupid because mind controlled (at least I hope that's the reason), a not totally cliché alien creature and the faint hope that someone will actually die this time around. I know that everything will be ruined before wednesday, but look, if you read Dominic Deegan you've got to work with what you get.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dandria View Post
    That's what I thought as well, yes, and isn't it a little less trite than usual? There's an evil guy acting stupid because mind controlled (at least I hope that's the reason), a not totally cliché alien creature and the faint hope that someone will actually die this time around. I know that everything will be ruined before wednesday, but look, if you read Dominic Deegan you've got to work with what you get.
    I have no hope for any death, in fact I bet that this injury to katya will somehow jump start her werewolfish tendencies, and she will no longer be a runt. Im also picturing nimmel dealing with the fact that at random bad times, the floating eyeball spaghetti string will poke out of his face with an "amusing" comment to make, and ruin all sorts of situations where nimmel needs to be taken seriously. Either that, or he will completely merge with nimmel, being at most a voice in his head, while nimmel gets to have an archmage upgrade for free.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

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    "If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."

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    Nimmel has one empty eye socket. Alduraithel is now just one eyeball.

    THE HORROR!

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    I want to know why Noodel needed a translator if he can speak English. What, has he taken a leaf from Donovan's book? Makes no sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T-O-E View Post
    I want to know why Noodel needed a translator if he can speak English. What, has he taken a leaf from Donovan's book? Makes no sense.
    Presumably it helps to be able to communicate with people without having to infect them first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barefoot Monkey View Post
    Presumably it helps to be able to communicate with people without having to infect them first.
    let us HOPE that is the explanation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mookie
    You may have noticed that Alduraithel was spying on Milov, Jayden, Katya and Nimmel with only four of his five eyes last week. Now we know why.
    I might be in a sarcastic mode today, but my first reaction to that newspost was "Well done Mookie, this time you can claim a valid excuse for your artwork missing limbs..."

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    let us HOPE that is the explanation.
    I'd be surprised if there was any explanation at all...
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    Well, this is still weirdly paced and makes little sense, but I'm actually kind of interested now.

    Also if Nimmel gets superpowers for putting the Eye of Alduraithiel in his empty socket, someone else needs to try to do that with the Head of Alduraithiel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    Im also picturing nimmel dealing with the fact that at random bad times, the floating eyeball spaghetti string will poke out of his face with an "amusing" comment to make, and ruin all sorts of situations where nimmel needs to be taken seriously.
    GENIUS! Come on, man, how can you be so jaded?! That sounds (to quote the SA thread) KICKING RAD!


    Quote Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama View Post
    Also if Nimmel gets superpowers for putting the Eye of Alduraithiel in his empty socket, someone else needs to try to do that with the Head of Alduraithiel.
    Are there druids in DD? Or someone able to summon scimitar wielding apes, for that matter?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama View Post
    Also if Nimmel gets superpowers for putting the Eye of Alduraithiel in his empty socket, someone else needs to try to do that with the Head of Alduraithiel.
    Obscure DnD references for the win!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MReav View Post
    Obscure DnD references for the win!
    ... that reference was obscure???

    Guess I play too much dnd if it wasn't...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barefoot Monkey View Post
    Presumably it helps to be able to communicate with people without having to infect them first.
    When Noodel was first introduced, he was supposed to be a benevolent Lovecraftian monster. I thought he needed a human translator because he thinks and behaves in a way that is completely different from a human. He was also tiny, which is the thing that sets him apart.

    In this comic, Noodel is visible and can speak/understand human language. It's Snuggly's trollface jock speech all over again, just another boring villain made lame(r) by being humanised.

    Mookie cannot write humans and he cannot write incomprehensible non-humans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by planswalker View Post
    ... that reference was obscure???

    Guess I play too much dnd if it wasn't...
    It's obscure if you don't play DND.

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    Nimmel has one empty eye socket. Alduraithel is now just one eyeball.
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    Is it possible for both of them to be Bad Cop?
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    Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop.

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    Nimmel's got to be the Good Cop, since he's the best at everything ever. So, Good Cop, Bacillus Cop?
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