D&D Aangvanced (Avatar: The Last Airbender Screencap Comic)

[eschmenk]

Skipping the spoiler tags because it's not a huge spoiler.

You may be right about Rube meaning Damien, but I thought Rube meant Rick when he said "Mr. Speech Impediment."

Damien’s speech impediment is in pages 56 164 468 and 507

So it was Damien, but he meant Damien's tendency to become completely garbled when he's too upset. He forgets how to say words and gets the sounds out of order. (The page numbers may be off by two pages sometimes.)

We’re down to 2 a day until further notice, but it shouldn’t last past The Desert, which I’m so excited about I might crank that up to 5x.

Colonel Mongke and the Rough Rhinos are legendary – each one is a different kind of weapon specialist. They are also a very capable singing group.

How worried should we be about that?

[Nerd-o-rama]

Oh yeah, I forgot Damien has Sheriff of Rottingham Syndrome.

And the answer is always "worried" with this comic.

[aurilee]

How worried should we be about that?

So worried.

Yet so excited.

[Cedar]

Oh yeah, I forgot Damien has Sheriff of Rottingham Syndrome.

What's that?

[eschmenk]

#570: I assume "Knowlede" is a spelling error? I don't think Manny would pun in that situation.

What's that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoaZA9EiFQ

Also see the quotes at the top here.

Actually Damien's problem is a bit different. He says the words in the correct order, but mispronounces them.

[Comissar]

Shelby rolling perception to spot the library amused me a great deal, helped by the fact I forgot that happened in the show

[aurilee]

Shelby rolling perception to spot the library amused me a great deal, helped by the fact I forgot that happened in the show

I didn't even notice at first. It took me a good 15 seconds to think "hey...wait a second...".

[Nerd-o-rama]

The joke that never gets old, unless probably you're Toph.

[eschmenk]

The joke that never gets old, unless probably you're Toph.

She's the one who did it in the show and she didn't even get the benefit of seeing everyone fall for it. (No one said anything.)

[Comissar]

So I was expecting the abduction of Appa to be handled as a separate sub-session, as Manny is wont to do. This way of doing it is pretty clever, though. We also see Toph/Shelby lose their first proper fight here, assuming it's not a rail-road 'you lose' type thing coming up. On top of that, Rick's rule 1 gets messed with. Should be fun times all round in the upcoming strips

[Nerd-o-rama]

Oh so THAT'S where Lion-Turtles got foreshadowed. I never could figure that out.

[Comissar]

To be fair, it is a brief moment in an episode dedicated to something else entirely. Missing it is understandable

[aurilee]

So I was expecting the abduction of Appa to be handled as a separate sub-session, as Manny is wont to do. This way of doing it is pretty clever, though. We also see Toph/Shelby lose their first proper fight here, assuming it's not a rail-road 'you lose' type thing coming up. On top of that, Rick's rule 1 gets messed with. Should be fun times all round in the upcoming strips

Rick is going to totally snap. Looking forward to it.

Also, beatboxing doors. One of the best inventions of this comic.

[Nerd-o-rama]

...Did Manny just slip Lex drugs in real life?

[Comissar]

...Did Manny just slip Lex drugs in real life?

If he didn't, it's heavily implied. There are far too many things alarmingly wrong with that to list.

[moossabi]

...Did Manny just slip Lex drugs in real life?

LSD, it was confirmed in the most recent strip.

[eschmenk]

LSD, it was confirmed in the most recent strip.

Manny responded, "Close," so apparently it was something else. It's probably some sort of prescription medication, based on how he responded to Shelby, but I doubt we will find out exactly what.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Manny is a full-on criminal at this point.

I mean it's that kind of comic, but still.

EDIT: eh actually, since it's an "upper", it's possible Lex asked for it to keep awake for the double header, which makes Manny irresponsible rather than committing a form of assault.

[eschmenk]

I'm pretty sure that what Manny did wasn't legal. Sometimes we are told that conversations happen that we didn't see, but it looked like Lex merely asked for a Dr. Pepper and didn't even say anything about being tired this time. Also, that's not an effect you would normally get from an upper. Finally, if it was a descent upper, it would be a controlled substance in the USA at least. So yep, Manny might get hauled off to the slammer some day.

Was the campaign worth it Manny? Was it?

BTW, I think I was supposed to recognize the frame with the stars in it. What was it? It looked like the stars may have formed an eye?

[Comissar]

BTW, I think I was supposed to recognize the frame with the stars in it. What was it? It looked like the stars may have formed an eye?

I think it's just the starscape of the Avatar world. I doubt it's intended to reference anything.

[Agi Hammerthief]

The comic lost me in the time loop thing with the wather scroll.
Does it get better again after that?

[Nerd-o-rama]

The comic lost me in the time loop thing with the wather scroll.
Does it get better again after that?

That was kind of a one-off bit of weirdness, although the next storyline, Jet, is just as bizarre in a different way. Really, though, that middle part of season 1 is thus far peak weirdness. The Great Divide is actually a nice breather, as long as you don't mind underage drinking or try to follow the rules too badly.

I've been enjoying it so far with the caveat that it's far from a realistic gaming group and everyone (especially the GM) takes things waaaaaay too seriously. Rule of comedy/drama-based roleplaying, essentially.

EDIT: Nope, I lied. That seems to be a bonus strip though.

[aurilee]

This is some high drama going on now.

And as for Manny slipping Alex drugs...well that further confirms that he's the most sadistic, psychotic DM ever.

Quite entertaining.

EDIT:
The bonus strip (which was hilarious BTW) was apparently written by eschmenk, so kudos to you!

[Comissar]

EDIT: Nope, I lied. That seems to be a bonus strip though.

A bonus strip attributed to eschemenk, no less..

[eschmenk]

Wow, I'm famous! Or infamous?

My entire contribution was the bottom half of this post. I deny any other responsibility for what happened.

ADDED: Now that I thought about it more, I suspect the entire post was an inspiration. Damien has trouble talking, but he can express himself through song.

[Comissar]

An interesting solution to how to display 'Appa's Lost Days'. Given the general lack of main characters during that episode, I was wondering how it'd work. I'm gonna go ahead and predict that we'll get dream sequences at irregular intervals for Rick until he's reunited with Appa, along with real time, brief cameo's at the appropriate moments. For example, when Iroh/Zuko are making their way to Ba Sing Se (is that Serpents Pass as well? Or a later episode? I forget), we'll see Appa in the background of one of the shots.

The dream sequences in particular will feed in nicely to the Guru later on.

[Disc Lorde]

I started reading this recently after seeing it linked in another thread. I've made it to about page #326 so far. The characters are...characters, all right. They definitely went the railroading GM route, even more so than DM of the Rings. The Praxis arc was weird, but funny. Overall I find it funny but not really recognizable.

[aurilee]

An interesting solution to how to display 'Appa's Lost Days'. Given the general lack of main characters during that episode, I was wondering how it'd work. I'm gonna go ahead and predict that we'll get dream sequences at irregular intervals for Rick until he's reunited with Appa, along with real time, brief cameo's at the appropriate moments. For example, when Iroh/Zuko are making their way to Ba Sing Se (is that Serpents Pass as well? Or a later episode? I forget), we'll see Appa in the background of one of the shots.

The dream sequences in particular will feed in nicely to the Guru later on.

Looks like you were right! Although it also seems that Rick is taking on the role of Appa.

[Comissar]

So looking ahead, Ember Island Players. Think it's going to be the Gaang explaining the adventure so far to Suki's player?

[eschmenk]

So looking ahead, Ember Island Players. Think it's going to be the Gaang explaining the adventure so far to Suki's player?

I think it would probably be Manny playing all the actors in any case, but I don't know if anyone will come in to play Suki. Darths & Droids already did the player romance = character romance thing*, so I'm not expecting that and I don't think there would be a another reason for a new player to join. I think it could be as simple as Manny criticizing the role-playing so far and saying, "Let me show you how bad it's been."

*But with the genders swapped