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Zillatain
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 11:52 pm |
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Wednesday can't think today. ---------- Vote for Sluggy Freelance at Top Web Comics.Please remember to vote every day until the world ends (someday).
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GUIGUI
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:46 am |
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Zoë has always been of the persuasive kind...
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tube_rat
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:34 am |
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I wonder what the purpose of the focal point of the spell is. In this case it's a knowledgeable demon that tombsy wanted to extract secrets from. But in the spell to break the bug free it was going to be some vampire and ended up being riff's dad. Does it matter who is the focus?
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Silverwalker
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:41 am |
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Come on, if you wouldn't cooperate with demons in the information business there wouldn't be any journalists
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GUIGUI
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:14 am |
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tube_rat wrote: (...)But in the spell to break the bug free it was going to be some vampire and ended up being riff's dad. Does it matter who is the focus? A man, actually, not a vampire. An envoy from the Strakoi.
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CheeseWhisper
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:19 am |
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Yeah, I still wonder why they wanted the envoy dead. Maybe he knew too much...?
I can't believe Gwynn would be gullible enough to let Lacey trick her like this -- but then again, she may be blinded by her guilt about Riff. Too bad Sharon isn't nearby.
Zoe... carry on.
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Lord Golbez
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:40 am |
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They just wanted a sacrifice. Idk if they wanted the envoy dead. Maybe the Strakoi did. They certainly deemed him an acceptable sacrifice at least, but he wasn't one of them (yet at least) so it doesn't seem like it'd be a huge deal.
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CheeseWhisper
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:57 am |
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That was who I meant. The Strakoi council, when reassuring one of their number that they would benefit regardless, listed the envoy will be dead either way as one of those benefits.
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Lord Golbez
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:32 pm |
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That's one interpretation of what they were saying. Another is that the cult owes them either way, because they paid them with their envoys life.
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GUIGUI
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Post Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:08 pm |
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At least we get an answer to one of our questions:
What is a demon? A miserable little pile of secrets, that's what!
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randomlanguage
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Post Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:23 am |
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I know progress seems slow, Zoe, but listening to a demon is not the way... Zillatain wrote: Wednesday can't think today. I get that.
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Biscuit
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Post Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:43 am |
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I would think reading scrolls of a demon's deepest secrets, obtained by pressing their being through a magical shredder and ending their immortal existence, would be akin to reading a forbidden Lovecraftian book like the Necronomicon.
If you manage to do it it the mere act of gazing on its pages drives the reader insane.
This, however, assumes Gwynn is still 'human' in any sense of the word, which is looking more doubtful to me with each passing strip.
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