Rob And Jack, An Interactive Webcomic

[BRC]

Sniper Greg does look quite dashing there in his hunting vest. I like. But I urge you to keep the bowler! It's what made Greg Greg.

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[BRC]

Let's get this exposition out of the way here, so you get a comic today as well!

Conflict Exposition Part II

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At this point I feel I must make a statement about Death and Necromacy in Etov which might explain some things.

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When somebody dies, their soul gradually goes towrds the spirit of death who takes them to an afterlife, or just eats them, nobody really knows. Either way, what necromancers (And powerful clerics trying ressurection) do is bring the body, then heal it up before the soul realizes that said body can't hold it anymore. Or, in the case of Necromancers, just twist the soul into a tattered shadow of what it once was, then sticking it in the corpse after making it too stupid and obediant to the necromancer to realize that said corpse can't hold it. Or at least thats what some of the clerics say, necromancers have their own theories.
The only thing they both agree on is that the longer the body has been dead, the harder it is to raise or animate it. Eventually the soul gets to the spirit of death (The Reaper, The Ferryman, The Watcher at the Threshold, once again, many names) at which point the body is just a rotting lump of flesh that can't be animated or ressurected. Proper burial rights, mourning, a funeral service, a decent coffin and tombstone (Or whatever's appropriate for the culture of the deceased), stuff like that, speeds the process up a good deal. The fastest way to ensure a Corpse stays a Corpse is to have a Mortalker (Cleric of the death spirit) Preside over the funeral, or perform a second ceremony.

Chuckles was only able to Mass-animate the way he did because he had lots of fresh corpses that had mainly been put in the ground for hygene reasons. To paraphrase Belkar, it was like his birthday, only with dead bodies (Well, more dead bodies anyway)

[Lyinginbedmon]

Undead make such handy soldiers

[memnarch]

Uhoh.


That can't be good.

[Uncle Festy]

Dun dun duh!!!

[Drakefall]

Yeah... military inclined nobles + ideas =

And, on a different note: Sniper Greg + Bowler = Awesomeness

[gamerboy6000]

Nice comic BRC. That general looks evil.

[BRC]

The show is over, it was fun, and now you gets a comic!
Conflict Exposition III, Son Of Conflict Exposition

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[memnarch]

Ooo... wonder what they ran into.

[Drakefall]

Sadly, that actually does look like a rather decent plan if you're lacking in the mage department... it's close enough to killing it with fire.

[ThePhantom]

Sadly, that actually does look like a rather decent plan if you're lacking in the mage department... it's close enough to killing it with fire.

Except for the part of going after Chuckles solo. That part is stupid.

[BRC]

Hey Hey Hey, New Comic. It would have been up about 45 minutes earlier, but Inkscape kept dying. Fortunately, I had Chuckles nearbye to bring it back.
Conflict Exposition IV: Charlie Foxtrot

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[memnarch]

Yeah..... losing the cannons would be a big problem.

[darkblade]

One must admire such dedication to his guild. Stoping in the middle of a battle to do paper work.

[BRC]

One must admire such dedication to his guild. Stoping in the middle of a battle to do paper work.

Hey, if he's going to be in a life-threatening situation, he might as well get paid for it, plus get the health and legal benefits that come with working under Guild contract.

[BRC]

Traveling this week for thanksgiving, seeing family and all that. So no comic, sorry. I may have a mini-somthing up for you tonight, but don't count on it.

[BRC]

And, here it is, a little tidbit of Info for you
A Brief Guide to Undead

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[Zenos]

What's not to love?

[gamerboy6000]

Brains!

[Uncle Festy]

Yaaay, zombies!

[Ghill]

Necromancers are good for the environment! They let you kill things twice!

Out of curiousity, are all of Chuckles undead (with the exception of the Grinner) actually DnD monsters?

[Uncle Festy]

I don't recognize them myself, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of D&D.
The skitterers appear to be based off of L4D's Hunters, though.

[BRC]

Necromancers are good for the environment! They let you kill things twice!

Out of curiousity, are all of Chuckles undead (with the exception of the Grinner) actually DnD monsters?

Nope, Rob and Jack, while it is a fantasy setting, it is not a D&D setting, I find those rules too limiting to storytelling and visual experimentation. With the exception of the zombies I didn't intentionally make any copies. I suppose the closest would be the Ghouls, but the ones Chuckles uses are mindless, while DnD Ghouls are not.

Edit: Well, mostly just hte visuals. I like being able to mess around with various spell effects and monsters rather than find DnD parallels.
Edit the second: There are multiple Grinners, not many, but more than one.

[BRC]

I Bring Gifts!

First of all, I got Vulion to do some art, he responded with epic amounts of awsome.

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Secondly let's play a game

I Spy with my Little Eye...

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What should Rob and Capt Brimsalt do?
1) Rush to help Greg and the wounded Warmage.
2) Rush to help Oscar and the cannon crew.
3 Split their forces and try to help both.
You all know the drill...

[Drakefall]

Option No. 1 for me please.

Reasonings: Greg certainly has a lot of those little buggers on his hands and with Warmage No. 11 wounded escapering won't be much of an option. Oscar on the other hand only has to deal with one baddie, ok yes it's a big baddie but still... one, and his cannon crew buddies look perfectly able to flee for their lives whilst Oscar distracts the grinner and then proceeds to scamper off himself if he can't beat it... Which he should be able to. He is a sun god cleric type guy after all and against the undead those types tend to do rather well.

[Blayze]

Option 3.5: Rob goes to help Greg while Brimsalt, Derkins and co give Oscar a hand. Greg and the caster need the help of a veritable tank more than anything else, and Rob's perfect for the job.

[ThePhantom]

1 for the reasons stated earlier

[darkblade]

I'm gonna have to say 1 for the reasons everyone else has.

[JackofAllBlades]

Option 3.6: I would say.Rob goes to help Oscar while the rest goes to help Greg.

I think ordinary soldiers would have much trouble hitting and defending against a major baddie .Also it seems that escaping wouldn't be much of an option for Oscar and the cannon crew since they look like to be stuck in a dead end.(Like the ones in the attack plan.)And if it is a narrow street as i guess, "numbers" wouldn't do much to help them...

[memnarch]

3.6 for me.

Sending random mooks at a BBEG is just like tossing them out the window.