Dr. McNinja V: The End

[Giggling Ghast]

Uh, wasn't Old basically forced into this revenge scheme?

[JavaScribe]

Uh, wasn't Old basically forced into this revenge scheme?

He genuinely hates and wants to kill the Doctor. He explicitly said as much. And while they did track him down and net him, it's not like they're keeping him prisoner or keeping a close eye. I don't know how conflicted he is, but he seems to be going along with it.

[guttering flame]

Wasn't Dr Mcninja and his universe supposed to be cursed with unluckiness and blahness? Sure, the doctor is having a tough time right now but it doesn't feel like the curses are doing much so far.

[Kantaki]

Wasn't Dr Mcninja and his universe supposed to be cursed with unluckiness and blahness? Sure, the doctor is having a tough time right now but it doesn't feel like the curses are doing much so far.

I don't think it was evere established how the curse works, but it seems mostly to counteract Doc's protagonist powers to a certain degree. Stuff still works, it's just harder and has more consequences.

I think having to leave a kid inside a cloud of poisonous gas is the worst point so far. Pre-curse Mcninja might have found a way. Just like he wouldn't have hurt himself that much already. I think.

[Anteros]

As a Doctor, Patrick knows that it's perfectly fine to inhale lots of unknown poison gas, as long as you run out of the room right before you pass out.

[JavaScribe]

I'm wondering if President Funkhouser's already dead. Or worse.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

As a Doctor, Patrick knows that it's perfectly fine to inhale lots of unknown poison gas, as long as you run out of the room right before you pass out.

It sure beats passing out in the room and staying there, and it seemed mildly preferable to just outright abandoning a patient at the first sign of trouble.

[guttering flame]

McNinja should go back to the gym. A good ninja and a doctor would carry the giant lumberjacking kid out of the room. You fail, Patrick.

[-D-]

McNinja should go back to the gym. A good ninja and a doctor would carry the giant lumberjacking kid out of the room. You fail, Patrick.

I feel you are being unfair to our good doctor. He is trying, but between poison and bleeding and the curse he has little choice.

[JavaScribe]

McNinja should go back to the gym. A good ninja and a doctor would carry the giant lumberjacking kid out of the room. You fail, Patrick.

Yeah, I get that balance might be an issue, but what happened to his superstrength?

[Kantaki]

Yeah, I get that balance might be an issue, but what happened to his superstrength?

It's not that super? The curse nerfed if? Some third option?

[Rater202]

A Bunyan is not a vending machine. They are much, much heavier.

Even if doc is strong enough to lift the Bunyan, he probably can't anyway without hurting the Bunyan.

[JavaScribe]

A Bunyan is not a vending machine. They are much, much heavier.

Even if doc is strong enough to lift the Bunyan, he probably can't anyway without hurting the Bunyan.

I dunno how heavy a Bunyan is, but shattering a metal security door generally requires more strength than lifting a vending machine, at least. Maybe the Doctor could shatter some holes to let the gas out?

Mind you, I fully expect the Bunyan to die. I imagine the next act will feature King Radical doing something to rub it in. Like showing what the Bunyan used to look like.

We've got the Bunyan, and the newly created vampires, think Radical's dragged any other innocent victims into this?

[Rater202]

Were the newly created vampires even a thing? Did we see any Vamps that weren't Dracula yet?

Because Dracula might have just been Hungry.

[JavaScribe]

Were the newly created vampires even a thing? Did we see any Vamps that weren't Dracula yet?

Because Dracula might have just been Hungry.

He wouldn't need to leave behind lots of coffins if he were just hungry.

And we learned from the Gorilla story that vampires are created in 2 different ways, black magic, and being vampirically drained of blood.

[Kantaki]

He wouldn't need to leave behind lots of coffins if he were just hungry.

And we learned from the Gorilla story that vampires are created in 2 different ways, black magic, and being vampirically drained of blood.

Weren't the coffins (and the dead people) just a reference to the original novel by Bram Stoker?
That's how I read the scene at least. But who knows, maybe Dracula will have some minions when he shows up.

[Rater202]

In the original novel, Dracula took several caskets full of his native soil with him when he went from Transylvania to London.

He also sustained himself by draining the ship's crew.

The plane was a reference to this.

[JavaScribe]

Never read the novel. Does this mean new vampires need more than a blood draining to be converted?

[Kantaki]

It has been a while since I last read Dracula, but wasn't there something with the Dracula feeding the victim some of his own blood?
Or was that just for the whole minion-thing?

[Rater202]

Draining and blood feeding are involved.

Of course, how closely the vamps go to the book is up for debate.

Really, I think it was just a shout out.

[Rodin]

Most vampire stories I've read has had it where if the vampire drains you completely, you either just die or turn into a ghoul. A ghoul is a mindless ravening undead that feasts on the living.

A vampire can decide to drain only partway, and then either feed you their blood or simply will you into becoming a vampire. If that happens, you're a vampire under their control. The controlled vampires have...varying degrees of free will. Clever forms of betrayal are not uncommon, like in Quest For Glory IV where Ad Avis tricks his vampire master into attacking him, thus breaking the loyalty spell and allowing him to fight back freely.

It's unclear how it works in McNinja-verse, but it's a fair bet that those who got drained are dead-dead.

[JavaScribe]

It's unclear how it works in McNinja-verse, but it's a fair bet that those who got drained are dead-dead.

These two comics would seem to suggest it does involve blood draining, but since it wasn't a real vampire, it doesn't completely count.

Anyways, new comic is up.

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More dead pirates and a family reunion. Also, is the pyramid really that big? Did the wizards place the Doctor in some sort of pocket dimension, or did they warp the spatial dimensions?

[Lvl 2 Expert]

So we aaarrrrrrre (no regrets) doing order or appearance.

Raptor bandido jetpack bodybuilders, here we come.

[paddyfool]

That was not radical, King R. Not radical at all.

[Vinyadan]

That's a huge basement.

[-D-]

That's a huge basement.

Wizards did it.

[Flickerdart]

That was not radical, King R. Not radical at all.

I suspect he's lying. Patrick is much more vulnerable to gas than a ginormous lumberjack man, so if the room is purged of poison as soon as Doc leaves, the lumberjack should be fine.

[JavaScribe]

I suspect he's lying. Patrick is much more vulnerable to gas than a ginormous lumberjack man, so if the room is purged of poison as soon as Doc leaves, the lumberjack should be fine.

And why would Radical go to the trouble when it would be so much easier to just make the whole thing real? He doesn't care about the loser, and sparing said loser doesn't make the gas any less lame. I'm not even sure he cares about being radical any more. He just wants the Doctor to suffer as much as possible and die.

[Rater202]

The Kid is lame, the Giant Lumberjack he turns into is Rad.

[Duck999]

So we did pirates now. Now what?
Raptor Bandits? Ninja Drugs? The hundred dead ninja AKA zombies?