October 14th, 2016
14 Oct 2016 · page 642 of 1306
Good start, guys!
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Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Interesting that some are affected and some not. We have Mr. Magic and Mr. Calmness-Elemental resisting the effects of Wrath without even trying, while Madam Pride and Senor Inferiority-Complex are swept right up. Either it's the magic, or the personality, or both. Either way, I suppose that's telling.
Good thing Harry has the rifle, eh?
They say, music soothes the...
I'd place more money on knockout gas. Still I'm curious who will deal with greed especially if the former king of thieves returns in this arc.
I was wondering if these guys were immune or not.
It's going to be interesting to see which characters are immune to which sin.
Quick ! To the violoin !
Agreed. We are totally down with settling this plot by the soothing power of Wolfe's music.
And if the violin isn't enough, a few magic tricks should do the trick.
"Violoin?" That conjures some strange images.
Not so strange to a certain subset of Wolfe's fans, I'm sure :D
They say to make love to your instrument?
I suppose the police could try playing music to the crowd, but that would be just another example of the violins inherent in the system.
Python pun pummels poor passerby.
Originally Karl Marx, but the two are very similar.
Actually, as far as I can tell it isn't a real Karl Marx quote.
Fascinating. I always thought it was Marx originally. Long ago I can remember a cartoon about Marx finding a Stradivarius in a cistern, so I'm not the only one. An example of the parody being more famous than the original.
Well, I could be wrong. I just searched Google and a few quote sites. But I think the jokes and cartoons came after Python - Movie in 1975, five years after I was born. :P
Maybe it's also just reinforcing sentiments that are already there?
The sins can inspire the sentiments perhaps, but they do not have to be there from the start. Any little crack they will push against and widen. Ben and his cousin are both easily irritated, and their annoyance at the task before them provides an avenue for Wrath to work with. Neither necessarily need to take the Nicola Barber approach to rehabilitation for Wrath to make such proposals seem reasonable; any spark of anger or annoyance, no matter how passing, it will fan into an inferno and feed upon.
Gluttony did not need anyone to actually desire the food of the feast to work on them, as long as the food was appealing sensually. Once someone started thinking that a cake looked and smelled good, it could inspire them to indulge, consume them, and feed off of them. This is what makes the sins so ...well, deadly.
A propos, Mal could be immune not only against Lust, but against Gluttony too: thanks to his color-blindess all food seems to him grey and uninviting. As I understand, he eats only to stop his hunger, never to have pleasure of food-consuming.
Wouldn't mal be immune against all seven of them?
Let's see :)
He's not greedy, he isn't glutton, he has no hubris, no envy, no lust.
But I am not so sure he's not at all apt to some anger or indolency...
His lack of an aura may mean that there isn't anything the sins can work on. It may explain for instance, why Envy and Wrath didn't try to possess him, but rather resorted to trying to weaken or kill him.
His lack of an aura may mean as well him having lived most of his life far from the anchor just has depleted very much his spiritual force... And now, when he is near the abundant soure of the magic - HIS source of the magic - I won't be too suprised if he retrieve his aura...
At least I hope so :)
During their first storyline, Mal struggled with Sloth and, even after overcoming it, he's still usually the reluctant character that gets dragged off into this stuff, snarking and complaining along the way.
He's probably the only one. Well maybe Ben too.
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I winder if Wrath is going to recognize Wolfe.
Genetics? Vee and Ben are cousins, after all.
And, they're agreeing. When cousins start sounding like they're channelling a specific grandparent without a single bicker in sight, things be as weird as a sincerely apologetic Trump. :P
What's Ben doing rubbing his head in panel 3, does he feel the onset of wrath-takeover like an itch or pain?
Either that, or Verity elbowed him in the head in panel 2.
The Scooby Doo thing is harder to execute than it looks.
Oh yeah, the sharp elbow. At least he didn't get wrathful at her (yet).
Originally I thought it was just because she elbowed him in the face, but I really like the idea of it also being the onset since it makes sense considering the reaction he and the other magic users had to the deadlies all being released.
It just occurred to me that either being the instigator or the target of violence, however mild, could make you more susceptible to Wrath's effects.
Worse than useless, she'll make it twice as strong with her presence alone.
And that's where you both are wrong. They have already been met, and Pride had no chance against Verity's magnificent talent of insulting.
"Sit back and watch a master at work!"
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Oh yeah, I forgot that. Maybe it will make her stronger.
Nah, Wolfe's fallen to Wrath. Can't you tell? He's gone from chummy serenity to just regular concerned friendly serenity.
Pretty sure that was because they're Harry and Mal.
I love the color change as they fall under sway! I'm imagining their voices suddenly being overlaid with Wrath's voice (not that I know what Wrath is meant to sound like. Standard is a deep, grouchy sort of voice.) and everything coming out in a sinister hybrid sound!
Erm... You're going to need a lot of Mozart, Herr Wolfe. :/
Yes Verity, make your cousin mad by coat-hangering his face.
You know, I'm now kind of curious as to what practical magic you could use the Deadlies for. I mean, they're super dangerous, and yet some wizard somewhere went to the trouble of figuring out to summon them.
Greed can make more stuff from thin air, make things nigh impossible to remove/get rid of, and make everyone want something.
Sloth can make people tired or go to sleep and teleport people.
I'd assume that Pride can probably make you stronger and/or more awesome (we didn't really see Pride do anything that we don't know other emotions can't do).
Gluttony can bend time (though this might be more a function of the spirit realm having wonky physics).
Envy can steal attributes from other people.
Lust can change shape and give you exactly what you want.
Wrath ...I'd tend to imagine that Wrath infused weapons would be rather more dangerous than usual.
Sid says imbuing the guns does practically nothing, but perhaps a wrath-infused bullet would never miss it's target? Or maybe animate inanimate objects to kill people.
Maybe imbuing the guns wouldn't do much use for a normal wielder, but if you are attacking someone you are angry at, maybe it would.
Ms Ira's rifle was imbued, take that as you will!
Maxim 12 - " A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head."
That seems oddly appropriate here, honestly.
I guess Willpower was their dump stat.
Whaaaattt???
I ---
I caught up-!?!
I followed a link from some Guest Art Ms. Kate contributed to ... uhh... Poppy, maybe? Gunnerkrigg Court? I forget... I found this comic, IMMEDIATELY went to the Archives page and began reading from Book One, Page One. I read and read, laughed, nearly cried, laughed some more, held my breath....
The good news is, now i can get some sleep. Bad news is, this story is so... (entire page or two of superlatives)...compelling [I suppose is a good word], that I won't be able to sleep 'till I find out how this ends.
Hmmm.
If you please, ducks, could you Plot, Draw, Ink and Colour faster??
Oh, yes, and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Congrats with the catching up :)
== I read and read, laughed, nearly cried, laughed some more, held my breath....
The good news is, now i can get some sleep. ==
Just the same story did happen to me, some 10 days ago :) Binged it in one go.
But finishing this BD will take a year at last, probably much more. You should learn to sleep from time to time between updatings :)
Haha, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I haven't done guest art for Poppy or Gunnerkrigg, but i do love both of them :) Really hope you enjoy the rest!
I have gone Back In Time and read every last bit of Darken. As DM with more than twenty years of experience, I was astonished to see an evilly-aligned party that didn't self-destruct within a day or so. I humbly throw myself at the feet of your group's DM, your fellow players, and mostly YOU, the artist/author that brought us all this sometimes tragic, often hilarious, and always riveting tale. Oh... and after such a extraordinary feast for the eyes, the epilogues were the perfect dessert.
Time to stop mainlining coffee and get some sleep, though...
[also known as Voice Of Reason]
Ah, so glad you enjoyed it! Though in fairness, I should make the confession that a lot of the comic didn't follow the game- we all died and killed each other many more times than that! We did just about hold it together til the end though.
Oh No, I can imagine it now. Instead of profusely apologizing to all his "victims" for their stolen nick-knacks; Sid will have to start begging Harry to give him a coin for the local paper.
I am not sure being perpetually penniless would be better......
I was rereading the archives for this and I noticed that Greed was right next to Wrath on the map. And all the text coming out of the prison is all greed colored.
Hmmm.....
Uh oooooh.....
I like the effect of Ben and Verity's speech text changing! Subtle!
Verity, didn't you steal a bunch of gunpowder and knock out security guards and various other criminal activities?