Dominic Deegan, Mk. XLVII: A Flat World From Recycled Scrap

[Mr. McGician]

So he's defeating the blight with giant weeds?

[AgentofOdd]

Speaking of incoherency:

Sneaky

Future

Yep, those were some right pretty words. Pity I've no idea how it applies to the character. Jacob is reiterating that he's going to use his past experiences to do this task, and then balance? Am I missing anything?

[random11]

I can throw any pair of opposites here and it will make just as much sense:
I need to find the balance between love and hate, between war and peace.

Speaking of balance between opposites, Dominic was the balance between chaos and order years ago (didn't make much sense back then either).
So after all his development, the best thing Jacob can be is his brother.

[T-O-E]

I don't think I'll be able to take it if Jacob 'fixes' all Blight for ever.

EDIT:

This weekend I met with King David Johann himself, and His Majesty was very pleased with his current successes around here.

I visited my best friend in the world, upon whom King David Johann is loosely based, and met his baby daughter for the first time. It was really sweet to watch the guy I've been friends with since middle school be a dad. Watching him sing his version of "The Wheels on the Bus..." with added Star Wars references was an added bonus.

Dave's villain cred cannot possibly get worse. This is probably why you shouldn't write your friends in as (supposed to be) serious villains, although of course there are exceptions. You'd think being a best friend would give him some pseudo-Deegan protection though.

[Traab]

I can throw any pair of opposites here and it will make just as much sense:
I need to find the balance between love and hate, between war and peace.

Speaking of balance between opposites, Dominic was the balance between chaos and order years ago (didn't make much sense back then either).
So after all his development, the best thing Jacob can be is his brother.

Oh no no no, Dominic was the balance between EVERYTHING. Not just order and chaos, those were the last things he got truly exposed to. He got exposed to everything on his travels, both good and bad and it was only after absorbing acibek and a chunk of celestos chaos attack that he was able to evolve into his final form. Mecha Dom. He had armor, a fancy cloak, and apparently a 4th eye to make celesto SEE THE TRUTH as he never has before. So let jacob have his moment of blight/life balance, it still places him about 50 rungs below the guy currently having his brain snuggled out of his skull as he gives the king everything he wants.

[AgentofOdd]

I don't think I'll be able to take it if Jacob 'fixes' all Blight for ever.

It looks like Jacob will only fix the Blight energy he absorbed from the bomb. Of course there is an excellent chance he'll dedicate the rest of his life to seeking out pockets of necromancy and making them ugh... SEE THE TRUTH.

[T-O-E]

It looks like Jacob will only fix the Blight energy he absorbed from the bomb. Of course there is an excellent chance he'll dedicate the rest of his life to seeking out pockets of necromancy and making them ugh... SEE THE TRUTH.

This is what I thought originally but you've got to admit that him permanently reversing the polarity of all Blight for ever in the next comic isn't exactly ridiculous by this comic's standards.

[Wraith]

In compliment to Mookie, if nothing else happens today then the comic that he linked to in today's newspost is what I consider one of the best moments from his genuinely best storyline to date.

So much so, that I spent 10 seconds staring vacantly at today's strip and then thoroughly enjoyed rereading all of Visions of Doom for half an hour.

Ah, better days in simpler times.

[Johnny Blade]

That's a lot of (probably?) meaningful esoteric stuff said about what comes down to Jacob depowering, at the cost of most of his body, one of the snugglear warheads, another one of which Luna got rid of by throwing a big zombie at it.

[Traab]

To be fair, there are very few problems that CANT be solved by hurling a giant zombie at it.

[Acanous]

I remember when we were playing a Survival/.Horror campaign in 3.5, I was playing a L/N cleric who could Rebuke undead. I threw zombies at a lot of things. The DM was pretty mad :/

[random11]

Jacob is done with his part

Time for dragon Luna!

[Trazoi]

Oh no, Luna has moved to just in front of a country-destroying monster bomb and is pelting it with fire, there's no way she can survive thi-bwahahahahaha yeah right.

I wonder if Mookie knows even a little how unbelievably ridiculous all of this is.

[Mr. McGician]

That thing must be moving pretty slowly if, based on panel 5, she was right in front of it when she turned around, and still had three panels of time to waste. Or Mookie has no idea how to portray time accurately in comics. Either way, the tension would have been completely ruined if it were there to begin with.

[AgentofOdd]

Jacob is done with his part

Time for dragon Luna!

Regardless of whether or not Luna is saving Maltak (from being pierced by tentacles to boot) you'd think raining pieces of Snuggly on a location will not be good for the environment... Or is it ok so long as the Orcs are saved?

This is what I thought originally but you've got to admit that him permanently reversing the polarity of all Blight for ever in the next comic isn't exactly ridiculous by this comic's standards.

That would be glorious. The purified energy will heal Rilian who'll acknowledge Jacob as the Necromancer Supreme and he'll spend the remainder of his days bumming around with Dominic.

[random11]

What is this bomb anyway?

The other ICBM things were a combination of the power of the beast and necromancy (at least I think they were).

This bomb is supposed to be special because it has super powered Rillian necromancy. Only this part was stripped away by Jacob, so why is it supposed to be a bigger threat than the bomb that just exploded on Luna?

Oh, I forgot, tentacles and pointy teeth.

[Bobikus]

Oh look, another tension killing pun.

[Johnny Blade]

World's cutest WMD 2013.

[Khosan]

Or is it ok so long as the Orcs are saved?

Everyone gets a tentacle to save themselves with, so it's fine.

World's cutest WMD 2013.

You owe me a soda, dammit. I can't resist a pair of googly eyes like that.

[T-O-E]

This comic is an abomination.

[Traab]

What is this bomb anyway?

The other ICBM things were a combination of the power of the beast and necromancy (at least I think they were).

This bomb is supposed to be special because it has super powered Rillian necromancy. Only this part was stripped away by Jacob, so why is it supposed to be a bigger threat than the bomb that just exploded on Luna?

Oh, I forgot, tentacles and pointy teeth.

No, the original shots were blight bombs. TIM added Snuggly juice to this one. If there was a combination it would be something like the inherent weaponry of the sanctum, infused with blight siphoned off by saving rillian dry. Im honestly unsure exactly what the snuggly juice is for, though we could just assume it was done to cause a different type of blight effect. Instead of rot, it is tentacles and such.


Hey, on this subject, can someone tell me why TIM did that in the first place? Its like, "Here I am, fighting these guys. I think I will take a break and super charge a random explosive that has nothing to do with any of us here." Unless rillian breaks free and starts attacking the deegan squad with blighted tentacles, it just seems like a wasted effort.

[Oracle_Hunter]

Regardless of whether or not Luna is saving Maltak (from being pierced by tentacles to boot) you'd think raining pieces of Snuggly on a location will not be good for the environment... Or is it ok so long as the Orcs are saved?

It's always OK so long as Orcs are saved

[random11]

No, the original shots were blight bombs. TIM added Snuggly juice to this one. If there was a combination it would be something like the inherent weaponry of the sanctum, infused with blight siphoned off by saving rillian dry. Im honestly unsure exactly what the snuggly juice is for, though we could just assume it was done to cause a different type of blight effect. Instead of rot, it is tentacles and such.

So what is blight?
Is it based on the beast, necromancy or some other power?

[Traab]

So what is blight?
Is it based on the beast, necromancy or some other power?

Necromancy. Apparently it can be used in necromancy as jacob tore the blight he infected his baby brother with (through his good leg) and used that on his skeletal arm. Im not sure if it is generally considered like toxic waste, or an intentional thing necromancy does though.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Based on Jacob's babbling last Friday, I think Blight is supposed to be the equal and opposite reaction to White Magic. They cancel each other out but are at the same time two halves of the same whole, equivalent to Nakta and Akta.

I think.

And anyway, what's going on here is that Jacob neutralized the Blight component of the superbomb and now Luna's burninating the Snuggly part. I am at least mostly confident in that assessment.

[random11]

Sneaky

Future

Not much to say.
It's not like I'm supposed to fear for Luna, right?

I just wonder, is this a random mountain near her home, or is it Maltak's special mountain and Luna is going to get even MORE powers?

[Trazoi]

I just wonder, is this a random mountain near her home, or is it Maltak's special mountain and Luna is going to get even MORE powers?

There is only one mountain in Maltak. We're going there.

[Mr. McGician]

So the next C-list character to be roped into this finale will be... whoever lives in the mountain now. Hansi?

[Trazoi]

Hansi, his orc girlfriend, maybe the other crone and Hukthak. I'd be willing to bet Stonewater has to be involved too, and somehow all the other orcs like Melna and Outrage Chief will be along for the ride.

[SaintRidley]

If you look at the mountain, she's going to land precisely within the crone-cave. Not even going to hit her head on some mountain side and slide down there.