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2014-10-04, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
So Stanley missed, just like that? Without even any effort on Jillian's part to defend herself?
How unsatisfying.
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2014-10-06, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Is Stanley tactically shrewd enough to fake Jillian out with a non-damaging attack, or one intentionally aimed to miss, just to keep her focus on him long enough to get Ansom into attack position? Ansom is a GK unit, so Stanley would have known he was approaching even if he couldn't see him visually.
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2014-10-06, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Is Ansom going over the side with Jillian? I think it would be interesting if he dusted on the giving end of a similar tactic that killed him...
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2014-10-06, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
It's not very good writing for us to lose 2 such plot critical characters without resolving their arcs, so they're probably going to be fine.
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2014-10-06, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
They'll land in a lake. The rest of Book 3 will be a buddy comedy with Ansom and Jillian walking to the nearest city. Oh, and they'll simultaneously take each other prisoner while falling, so they'll be handcuffed together.
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2014-10-06, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
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2014-10-06, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Stanley does not seem to be that surprised at that he missed. Just kinda dissapointed. I noticed that Ansom's chains are vanishing as well as he jumped at Jillian. Wasn't it a little while ago that the rules for taking a Ruler prisoner were being talked about?
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2014-10-06, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Speaking of grafic art... well, finally, that is a look of surprise.
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2014-10-06, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
I'm not sure I agree. The Arkenhammer seems to be incredibly powerful in a straight-up fight -- prior to the Hobgobwin thing, it was the difference between the battle being winnable and unwinnable for Jillian's side. The Arkenpliers help you in a fight, sure, but only if you can kill people fast enough for the resurrection to benefit you; the Arkenhammer seems to basically just be a win button that annihilates people with lightning bolts.
It's just that Gobwin Knob hasn't been able to use it much because it's attuned wielder is also their leader and therefore has to be kept out of fights. Imagine if, say, Stanley was on the frontlines all the time and someone else was king.
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2014-10-06, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Somehow, i feel sorry for Jillian here. She risked so much by making Ansom her Prisoner and trying to get him to turn, for all the times he saved her - and she did not want to see that the man she loved was gone. Now she will.
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2014-10-06, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2014-10-06, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Maybe, maybe not. We've all been dreading it, but it's still not too late for Ansom to turn. I doubt Stanley is aware that he is / was in love with Jillian.
He'd know it if he was paying attention -- Wanda revealed it waaaay back in book 1 -- but even with his increased efforts to remember people's names, I doubt he remembers that much.
Also, why did Jillian expect him to answer that question about Wanda?
(However, this gives her a reason to capture and not croak him, if she wins.)Last edited by Aquillion; 2014-10-06 at 05:32 PM.
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2014-10-06, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
I gotta say, I do like this artist's rendition of megalogwiffs. The one gnawing on the dwagon's tale is very cheerfully disgruntled.
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2014-10-06, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
In that case, it's like having a big bonus one battle at a time, which is a big deal tactically, but doesn't compare to the overwhelming strategic implications of massive intelligence on enemies, or of a massive upkeep-free army that grows all the time--not to mention second chances to use croaked casters, etc.
Dwagon taming is a nice perk of the hammer, since dwagons seem to be a fantastic unit. But I have to agree that the hammer doesn't quite measure up to the other tools.
To ryu's point--I tend to think that despite being attuned, Stanley hasn't fully realized the hammer's potential. The first thing we saw Stanley do with it was experiment with turning nuts into pigeons, implying that he hasn't figured out all of its secrets.
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2014-10-06, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 10:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
For all we know he could turn each megalogwiff into a walnut by giving them love taps (he did something similiar against a bat in book 1).
BTW, when did they reveal arken slippers?
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2014-10-06, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-06, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dwagon taming is a nice perk of the hammer, since dwagons seem to be a fantastic unit. But I have to agree that the hammer doesn't quite measure up to the other tools.
Also, the Arkenhammer has multiple functions, the Arkenpliers and Arkenshoes only one each, as far as we know/can tell.
Though, the more we look at the Arkentools, the more I feel they're meant to fulfill different roles - work in concert, n' all that. The Arkenhammer is clearly a warlord's weapon, meant to be brought into the thick of the fray. The Arkenpliers raise entire armies at a time, and are meant for more of a rear command role (well, more rear than the hammer at least). The Arkenshoes basically teleport the user, so they're meant more for single-unit operations - the fulcrum point of an action, assuming I'm using that term correctly.Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2014-10-07, 12:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
Well we only ever saw one use of the Slippers/Shoes..whichever, not enough screentime to really get a hold of all of its functions, the Pliers have 2 different uses, kill uncroaked and create hyper uncroaked(no Upkeep), The Dish allows for Caster Links and to spy on the G-string, the Hammer Tames Dwagons(but not reduce their upkeep?) and unleash shocks, the hammer is the only one of the Tools that so far has an ability that actively drains Resources, there has got to be some other upside to it.
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2014-10-07, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
The Hammer is a Carnamacy Tool. Other than it's being really flashy we really haven't seen much of that aspect of it yet.
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2014-10-07, 03:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-07, 04:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-07, 05:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
in the erfwiky it is said that Carnamacy is an Associated Discipline for the Arkenhammer.
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2014-10-07, 07:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-07, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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I like how, on the following page, the cracked walnut makes a "coo!!" sound as it is swept from the table.
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2014-10-07, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld thread IV: In memory of King Saline
It's a fairly grasping attempt to fit all of the Arkentools into an aspect of Fate magic. Another issue with that theory is the
Arkenshoes just don't gel with that theory. Unlimited move seems like a Weirdomancy effect, or the teleportation possibly being Hat magic. The wiki gives a speculated connection to Dollamancy, but the reasoning is so vague it could be applied to any Tool.