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Guilded Age
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That was a superb inner monologue! And the lava armor is awesome!
Penktonicus?
The Penkinator.
Harky gave Troll Gem to Penk.
What? Penk is evolving!
Congratulations! Your Penk evolved into Penktonicus!
How very Captain America. I hope that’s actually a drum and not a shield in his hand. That other thing could very easily be either drumstick or beatstick.
Do you even vikings?
(Or whavever, probably more than one, civilization who used to bang on their shields for various effects)
It’s a symbol. And a cymbal.
Badum-tish.
Will Penk make you scream? I scream?
I scream. You scream. We all scream for Penk’s team.
I didn’t even notice that’s a drum set! That makes it cooler.
Hooray! We have a cleric!
Wasn’t that the dwarf?
It was the dwarf. -nods-
Which makes Penk the paladin, and the anti-Frig. Nothing can stop him.
…except maybe a paladin/crusader Frigg. Penk vs Frigg, place your bets!
In anycase, that puts two party members that draw heavily from the power of Tectonicus, two that work with physical prowess and one for mental prowess.
Not a bad mix.
Penk and Magda: Power of Tectonicus
Rana and HAMMERHEAD: Physical prowess
Goblaurence: Mental prowess
Auraugu: ?? :(
Auraugu: Fuzziness
and Machismo. He’s the chatty Scipio, maybe?
Naw, he’s Anti-Bandit. We got the most evidence for this, he’s the fast guy who steals things, is the one that retreats first (when the job’s done and it makes sense to do so), and most importantly he keeps ending up against her when groups meet.
Here’s my breakdown as I see it, though there’s obviously some room for interpretation with most of them.
Auraugu: Anti-Bandit
HAMMERHEAD: Anti-Frigg
Magda: Anti-Gravedust
Goblaurence: Anti-Syr
Penk: Anti-Best
Rana: Anti-Byron (this is the weakest one as we have so little, mostly I figure he’s A. the only guy left, B. they referenced madness, and C. To contrast Byron and Syr, it seems Goblawrence has it out for the avian race)
Frigg’s the more experienced fighter, but her relationship with her patron deity is strained. She didn’t enter into the relationship voluntarily, and it demands more than she’s willing to give. Just recently she’s had Gravedust intercede on her behalf so that she can defy her deity’s wishes, and it wouldn’t surprise me for that to have consequences next time she really needs to squeeze as much as power as she can out of the wolf.
Penk lacks the fighting experience, but he’s willingly forsaken all personal desires in order to serve his deity. Penk and his deity are very closely aligned, with both being driven by the needs of his people.
Possibly most noteworthy though is that Tectonicus seems to outrank the wolf. Tectonicus is a well known deity with many followers. It can be assumed that Tectonicus is a powerful deity with great influence over mortal affairs. The wolf is unknown. If the Sisterhood of the Perpetually Bloodshot Eyeball are even his followers they don’t seem to know it, and if they aren’t then Frigg’s literally the only known follower. The wolf’s left so little mark on the world that it doesn’t even have a name. It’s quite possible that Tectonicus just has more juice to give when push comes to shove.
Overall I think the odds are stacked against Frigg.
Frigg don’t even give a care.
He’s the Courage Wolf. Penk’s got nothin’ on him.
Impossible is a word weak people use to justify giving up.
everyones the anti-Frig
Frig is the anti-Frig.
A: “Everyone. Everyone. Calm down. Can we just stop talking about anti-this and anti-that, and respect these new characters on their own merits?”
B: “…You know what? I think Goblaurence’s Cigar is the anti-Scipio.”
A: “I GIVE UP >:(”
(Though that is a really good point I hadn’t thought of before: cigar vs cigar! When they fight, who will be defeated!? Their lungs, clearly.)
Except the White Queen. She’s the fucked by Frigg (in the butt)
But if Penk is the anti-Frigg, who’s HAMMERHEAD the Anti of? No, Penk is the Anti-Best.
He’s a musician who thought he was a complete nobody and dreamed of more. Visions had by others identified him as something more, which he’s risen to the challenge of. However, while there’s doubt if best is indeed the subject of the prophecy, there is no doubt Tenk has favor, and it is a role he took reluctantly but for the good of others.
Hmmm, if that masked knight with Crusader like powers ends up being a resurrected Best acting as a avatar for the ‘gods’ then I can see fight in the near future.
HAMMERHEAD is the Anti-Byron.
Byron lives in constant fear of his “berserk” self. He’s made progress true, but not in accepting, just in controlling. HAMMERHEAD however, well, he has internalized the berserk. He has made it part of him. The hunger, the need to feed an dkill, those are parts of him he owns.
Not without a price though, his intellect (which is VERY high) and his self knowledge have separated him from his family and his kin (maybe because he ate some of them, on purpose), whereas Byron has finally made the connections that HAMMERHEAD, in his isolation and brilliance, would give all his fins for.
That being said, I don’t think this ANTI stuff is gonna go anywhere. I think they’ll (mostly, barring a few introductory fatalities) wind up working together.
It looks like Penk is on fire for Tectonicus
So is Penk a WarBard now?
That’s my hope.
Ugh, prestige classes.
Cry Tectonicus, and let slip the drums of war.
He’ll finally get laid now if nothing else.
I dunno about that. He might be too hot to handle.
Maybe not.
You will forget who you once were.
As an avatar of Tectonicus… You will not know life as once you did.
You will be a new being, and not a person.
You will exist as a symbol… A fiery example which all others must follow, or perish.
You will never be what you want.
You will always be what we need.
He may not even care about getting laid anymore as much as serving Tectonicus, the trolls and the Savage Races.
Honestly, that’s what I’m hoping. c:
Not sure if I’m comfortable with Tectonicus overwriting/modifying Penk’s personality. Let’s hope that’s not the case, and it’s just a matter of gaining new perspective.
You will always be what we need.
what if some troll ladys need to get laid XD
The troll race will always need to reproduce, I’m pretty sure Penk will get some at some point.
It’s a good job that only Penk and Harkey have been changed. The troll race would be in trouble if none of them wanted to get laid :-)
Well if they were also all immortal it might not be too bad!
Lookin’ for some hot stuff baby this evenin’
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin’
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight
I need hot stuff
I want some hot stuff
I need some hot stuff
He-Troll
“By the power of orange rock…”
Sing along at home kids..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeA7a0uS3A
Tek-Penk and the World’s Champions.
I am Penk, drummer of the Trolls and guardian to the secret of the fireseye.
This is drum, my.. err.. drum.
Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I leapt into a volcano and said “am I dead?”
Tek Penk!
“ALL ENEMIES BURN!”
My drum became an awesome shield and I became.. TEK-PENK! The most powerful troll in Arkerra.
Only 3 others share this secret. My god Tectonicus, Harkey and Strulk
Together we protect the worlds rebellion from the evil forces of Gastonia.
*Iwatani laughs evilly*
Tek-Penk.
FLAME ON!!
. . . ladies.
Not a huge fan of the helmet, but Penk looks ready to kick ass and take names now.
Good-looking gear sometimes skips a tier. That’s what we have transmogs for.
He just changed classes, give him a a few runs before he upgrades man.
Penk must be like Donnel from awakening, completely useless in his starting class, and practically unstoppable once he gets leveled and reclassed.
indeed. Useless, but adorably earnest. Then one day you realize he could probably kick Chrom’s ass.
Ding!
Puberty’s done.
Damnit! Why am I rooting for the trolls now! Damn you and your ambiguous “villains”!
Don’t worry, there’s still the unmitigated and irredeemable evil of the cultists.
Yeah, bet the cultists can be hard to not root for to.They just enjoy what they do so much! Cheerful abandon does a lot for charisma.
Penkavity, Penkavity,There’s no-one like Penkavity
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
heh, even has the ginger hair;D with that image, he just became a favourite of mine :D
That he knows that poem, coldelectrons has just become a favorite of mine.
Interesting to have confirmation that Harky doesn’t even need the Fireseye and can continue kicking all kinds of ass without it.
Yeah, I was really wondering about that, nicely tied off loose end there.
Turn off helm graphics you dork
Nothing ruins a characters image quite like an ugly helmet over epic hair.
Well, I’m not worried about the hair anymore.
i like the helmet. nice overlordish style.
Domineering with a hint of tyranny?
The spikes are required, the face cover is optional
i dont know what it is but the last pannel gives me a kid dressed up in dads armour kind of feel rather than a badass troll champion
Yeah, no offense to the artists, but I’m not feeling it here. (On the other hand, I think if you go back to earlier comments you’ll see I wasn’t too sure about the Champion of the Fuzzy People when I first saw him, and now he’s one of my favorites.)
It could be intentional, he may have been accepted, but he still needs to grow into his armor…
That’s what I thought and what I really liked – he still looks like Penk! Props to the Waltrip Brothers once more.
It’s because he’s holding the shield by its rim instead of at the center. Makes it look too big for him.
I don’t think it’s a mace and shield. I think it’s a drum and beater. I guess we’ll see.
Coockies are the best and indeed worth fighting for. Now I know that Harkin’s crusade is rightful !
Harky: “Hey! How come I didn’t get cool armour and weapons?”
I almost think he did, I think he’s lost pieces of armor progressively through battles, and because of his regeneration, hasn’t bothered replacing them. Like the armor is there to help the avatar get used to fighting with their new powers while their skill and regeneration grows, and eventually they become strong enough that the armor merely slows them down.
Also Harky’s a different class. “Avatar” is obviously a prestige that multiple Troll classes can get and it manifests differently as a result.
WHEN CAPTAIN TECTONICUS THROWS HIS MIGHTY
SHIEEELDDRUUUUUUM…Yaaaay I love makeovers!
I can’t believe NOBODY has commented on the fact that he’s a troll with spiky hair and a gem in his belly button. I collected his kind in my youth.
Probably because all these comments were used up with Harky some chapters ago…
Awwwwww. That’s what I get for not reading all the comments!!!!
I could make a comment about how he’s now a “Penkerton” but I don’t know how well it would fit
Well… he looks slightly angrier…
HE. HAS. THE POWEERRRRRRRRRR!!
Penk the Bardbarian!
Looks like someone Took A Level In Badass. :-)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TookALevelInBadass
SHAZAM! or when young Penk the Troll utters the magic word “TECTONICUS” he turns into Captain Fireseye!
Not to be confused with his cousin: Corporal Pinkeye
Eye see what you did there.