Don’t confuse the superclass ‘NPC’ with the subclasses ‘Mook’, ‘Boss’, ‘Plot-point Death’ and ‘Bystander in a GTA-style game’ (whether this last is simply a subclass of Mook is controversial).
Subclass ‘Quest-giver’ is usually indestructible, and subclass ‘World-filler’ (the most numerous class) is, even if not indestructible, a non-tempting target for PCs who aren’t playing psychopaths, and rarely a viable target for the Boss and Mook subclasses, who generally go for PCs and Plot-point Deaths.
I believe you mistake Auraugu’s role in combat. To my mind the champion of the fuzzy peoples is a skirmisher, thus his primary role is to engage the enemy until big guns arrive and avoid dying. He has been performing both tasks formidably and there is a reason why he was included in the champions’ team. Hyes.
He also seems like a commando: a lightly-armored mobile threat that works best behind enemy lines; destroying supplies and key personnel. Considering some of his previous deployments (the beach attack, the retrieval of the Graia’s Bough) his timing here is a case of best positioning for him, wiping out key enemy leaders behind enemy lines while others (Penk, Hammerhead) occupy enemy attention.
Depending on what the gods of plot require, the Champion of the Fuzzy peoples could be in to cause massively tactical casualties. Or a swift Ardaric-owning.
You know bringing up a point a couple of comics ago about who’s good and evil but even as entertaining as the fuzzy Champion and all , they definitely lean more towards badguys then good. They may have reasons but culture is much worse. Comparison
Humans – Gastonaisn mainly. Expansionistic, somewhat racist, close minded, but generally not too horrid. They did/do have slave rings and all, but don’t seem to WANT to fight people. Pulled inot war by World Rebellion
Gnomes – Serving the humans, somewhat second class citizens, but still own place, and seemingly happy where they at. Don’t seem much racist towards them and funding for their projects,even if war.
Sky Elves – Isolationist Race. Kept to themselves. Haughty, but diddn’t seem to bother people. Forgot why they joinned the New Alliance. Jerks,but don’t think attacked others. Pulled into war by World Rebellion
Wood Elves – Also Isolationist.Kept to themselves, but generally decent people. Least from what is seen. Attacked by the World Rebellion and joinned en mass with Gastonia.
So pretty much on Alliance side Gastonians/ Humans the baddest guys. Save our heroes and their organization etc.
Now to look at the World Rebellion
Gnolls – Forgot if correct term, but whatever the Fuzzy people are. They are probabbly the worst . Unlike the others, They cause GENOCIDE on the cat people. They killed em straight up for their land and wiped them down to a man. Also from the story, apprently they did this to MULTIPLE races. That’s REALLY evil.Yes survival…but Genocide..hunting down people horrible.
Avians – Not much known, so they seem fine.
Trolls – The Main Bulwark of Rebellion. Don’t know too much, cept they worship god of death and destruction and fire. Also seem jerk tendencies (taking in fact when Penk was flirting with Troll girl, mentioned Troll women being jerks or some such?Or did they value blood/warfare?Forgot) So no idea but ah well.
Goblins – Materialistic, kind of like Gastonians mixed with Gnomes.With less morales it seems.
Land Sharks – Cannibals in mass, who are barely controled tendencies to not eat allies and foes alike. While amoral, from a humanoid standpoint, no one would be okay watching their loves ones/friends/allies being eaten by anyone. So can be considered also evil, but more genetics?
Dwarves – The most sympathetic of the Rebellion Races.Lost their land to humans, and the reason they fight the most well understood . Leader is a scumbag, but the rank and file probabbly want their land back and such.So they would probabbly be the good ugys on Rebellion.
Now taking into account both sides..just..anything that has people who commit Genocide seems really horrid.Genocide and cannibals. So while the heroes on both sides okay, they do represent overall factions. If Alliance wins..probabbly more land loss, defanging the Rebellion…stuff like that.
But hwat happens if Rebellion winss? From Penk’s discussion and the general Land sharks and fuzzy People…it’s doubtful anyone would be left, no?
The Sky Elves joined up to keep from becoming irrelevant in the rapidly-advancing world stage. Their magic would only take them so far when emergent technology was becoming increasingly capable of replicating even their most grand spells. There was also, apparently, a food shortage that they had to deal with, given that their only alternative was conjuration, which was basically thievery.
The Land Sharks I can’t really call evil. They’re terrible, of course, but with the exception of HAMMERHEAD I struggle to even call them sapient. It’s like if you took Dug from Up and made him really, really violent, then cloned him a couple thousand times over.
While the Gnolls are unmistakably villainous in their culture, it’s difficult to describe them as particularly menacing. Though they wiped out the other Fuzzy Peoples, it’s been made clear both in their words and in their narrative presence that theirs is a path of survival at any cost. Said narrative presence is virtually nonexistent, in fact, aside from Auraugu and Arfa – the latter of whom was seemingly introduced primarily to remind us that Gnolls were in fact a thing. Judging by this and the usual racial composition of Savage Race background characters (vast majority Troll, smattering of other races), the Gnolls may in fact be even more endangered than the Savasi.
Which of course is the theme tying the Savage Races together. They have piss and table scraps for land and resources, and have been pushed to the point where they will do anything to secure themselves a home and a land worth living in.
Thereby tying in nicely with the existing abundance of Alliance/Horde parallels.
They _say_ they have “piss and table scraps” for land and resources, but I don’t think we’ve seen any maps or other evidence to support that. Could just as well be propaganda.
Don’t forget:
-The Trolls – and now, the WR – practice racial slavery (Orcs)
-The WR (Harky) led our guildies into a death pit when they came in as diplomats
-Now dogface is attacking a M*A*S*H unit.
Yes, both sides are ugly, and both deserve some sympathies. I know where mine lie right now.
The gnolls committed genocide because the badlands in which the Fuzzy Peoples lived only had enough resources to support one civilization. It was either kill the other fuzzy races or suffer and die with them.
The point is that it’s a vicious cycle. Any chance of the Savage Races improving culturally is negated by the wanton imperialism of Gastonia. A culture in a defensive crouch trends heavily towards conservatism/traditionalism and wholesale rejection of any and all cultural precepts of the invader.
One thing to watch out for in analyzing a conflict is that the dominant power can easily portray its domination as legitimate, and define peace as the uninterrupted continuation of its domination. So, using violence to suppress rebellion is “maintaining the peace”, making it relatively easy for a dominant power to portray rebels as villainous, and to blame for all violence that occurs.
On top of that, of course, the dominant power enjoys the material fruits of domination. So, just look at us! We’re civilized, and they’re barbarians! Which is to say, we’re rich, and they’re poor, which is why we’ve got the nice buildings and roads and so forth.
The upshot is that I think these two factions are balanced, in moral terms, but the Gastonians have been in the dominant position for some time, and so look better at a casual glance.
Not funny. Justification. He is all but professing his true, if unrequited, love for her. We are about to have a bit of a love triangle coming in the future. As well as heartbreak.
Dont be so quick to see romance. Ardaic is a servant of Gastonia first and foremost, and the alliance with the wood elves is crucial to gastonia’s survival in the face of the warhost bearing down. Syr’nj is literally the one holding that alliance together. she dies, and gastonia’s chances at survival are far, far darker.
at least, i think that’s Ardaic’s perception. the truth is, frankly, irrelevant in comparison right now. so do i see romance here? no. i see a similar need for her well-being, but its not enshrined in personal feeling.
I dunno. The ellipse was written meaning there was a dramatic pause intentionally, leaving personal feeling up for debate. As well, take into account what syr’nj said before the battle, the ‘nj girls tend to fall for men like their father. And the most emotionally closed male in this comic is Ardaic. I’m not sure if this was intentional, but the love triangle potential is there.
He might also just really like her. Like, “friend-like”. You don’t need to be in love with someone to feel deeply for them… and Ardaic is the kind of guy that would never admit that he has something so silly as “friends”. All professional that guy, friendship would just distract him!
Er, the detour into Syr’Nj/Ardaic shipping is nice and all, but I was really referring to the black humor of a hospital where you have to declare whether the patient is expendable or not when they’re brought in.
And yeah, triage is definitely a thing, I just find this particular instance somewhat darkly humorous.
Never underestimate the abilities of a squirrel…who else do you know that’s capable of running at full speed up or down a tree with his nuts in his mouth?
:o
Squirrels are clever & have problem-solving levels of intelligence, even if it’s just learning through the trial & error method. You can see some good examples in the two-video documentary series from the BBC called: Daylight Robbery & Daylight Robbery 2.
Auraugu, meet Fr”Nj, tree whisperer and girlfriend of Scipio. Who’s Scipio? Why, the huge red headed tank who is bent on obliterating any threat to his gal. He’s right behind you.
I’m feeling the opposite fear. With all the talk of how they just need to kill one Peacemaker, with the likelihood of a narrative desire to establish the Champions of the Savage Races as a real threat…
Yeah, Fr’Nj has an unsettling role so far, she as almost no character development and seems to exist only to be Syr’Nj’s sister and Scipio’s girlfriend…
I’m not saying it’s guaranteed, but if the god of plot demands a blood sacrifice, I bet she’d be the first to the altar…
Agreed, sadly. I really hope not though because that would be Fridging the Girlfriend 101 and that’s never not creepy and quasi-patriarchal. The writers have seemed better than that so far.
It strikes me that, thinking of this as an MMO, Ardaic has functioned as an archetypal quest-giver NPC — exactly the sort of NPC of whom fans will eventually complain, “Hey, you in the fancy armor, why don’t you ever go out and fight instead of asking us to do it all the time?”
Except it sounds like Ardaic is, in fact, about to go out and fight.
This is the sort of effect the five in tubes have, making the world come alive around them.
so does Ardaic have to smack a bitch? because considering the champion of the fuzzy people’s track record today, this does not look good for him. hyes.
He shall pin Auraugu’s fuzzy shoulders to the mat for the count of three, remove his mask and send him scurrying back to his Peoples with his tail ‘twixt his legs! WOOO YEAH!
The part of Miss Elizabeth shall be played by Sr’nj. Having already waylaid his Sweet Lady, the face shall have no choice but to upend the rampaging heel. This is how ‘rasslin works!
I was just waiting for this to happen again to point it out:
Auraugu has some issues.
For someone allegedly “the champion of fuzzy peoples” (people isn’t plural enough?), a bona fide wrassler and supposedly the courage of the team… Aura is a little too fond of picking on women and weak nameless mooks.
Sure, in fuzzy’s defense, that shouldn’t sound that sexist by both he not being even human to start with, and with magic, hammershit and science being abundant, this shouldn’t be an issue.
But no. Everytime he’s wrasslin’, he’s either picking Unnamed Soldier #765, old farmer Anderson (okay, I’m making this one up, probably) or the heroines.
Well, let’s see how wasted he’ll get by facing a NAMED moustache bearer and a flora druid in a wooden cabin (druid locked in a cabin? Might as well lock MacGyver in a tool shed)
Peoples and people (as a plural) mean different things.
People is the plural of person.
Peoples is the plural of people, which is a singular noun – roughly synonymous with ‘nation’.
Who the other Fuzzy Peoples are is an open question, or maybe he’s only the champion of the Gnolls, but they’re not a united people, and the other peoples are other Gnoll tribes.
As to your point – some of the best fighters in Arkherra are female – Frigg, Rachel (and the other Sisters), Magda, Brunhilde, etc (and, let’s face it, Madam Arfa probably kicked serious amounts of ass in her youth) – and even the major women who aren’t serious asskickers – the Nj sisters, Bandit – can hold their own in a fight, even if it isn’t through sheer strength, so Auraugu fighting women is hardly picking on the weak. And unnamed mooks also make up the bulk of the characters Byron, Scip, Frigg, and pretty much every other character have fought. Every fighter goes through piles of mooks before they get to the boss fights. Ones who’ve only been shown fighting named characters included – we’ve just only been seeing them during the boss fights.
It’s my impression from Madam Arfa’s story that the gnolls committed genocide against all the other fuzzy peoples.
So the reason he’s the champion of the fuzzy peoples, rather than merely of the gnolls, is that all the other fuzzy peoples, and their champions (save Karmakat, maybe) are dead.
About the women and old people thing- he may in fact simply believe that they’re the toughest and strongest of his enemies. Remember, the head of his Matriarchal race is Lady Ardra, hyes? In Gnoll society, if you’ve lived long enough to get old, you’re a badass. If you’re a female, you’re automatically more dangerous than the males. He probably thinks that picking on the rank’n’file would be poor sport.
Dude… do you KNOW anything about Hyenas?! Gnolls, being hyenafolk, says a LOT about why he’d target the female members. Female hyenas are bigger, stronger, and possess more testosterone then the males!!
The female hyena’s clitoris is in fact bigger then the male’s genitalia. Females are, for this reason, the pack leaders of hyena, and therefore the gnolls… which makes the gnoll matriarch’s threats terrifying in retrospect…
He’s going for the one’s he thinks are strongest, the Women, because with his biology, gnoll women are almost CERTAINLY the stronger physically of the gender.
Plus, as a guy who plays unarmed fighters whenever possible, he probably went after Rachel because she’s another unarmed fighter… it’s always a test to see who’s the stronger of the unarmed.
So any other Lucha fans out there who read this comic??
Any bets on whether Auraugu is a Rudo or a Technico?? I would guess he’s a Technico overall, both for his focus on high-flying maneuvers and his general heroic charisma.
Arugula(as he is known in my house) Is really starting to grow on me. He has been since the last guest comic he was in. I’m thinking about making his mask. Is it wood, cloth, or leather?
HEEERES AURAUGU!!!
Oh YEAH!
NOBODY expects the Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples!
His chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fuzz, his TWO chief weapons…
Yeeeeeaaah the Champion is Back. Auraugu for the ultimate win.
Auraugu comes from out of F**king nowhere.
Hyes!
Ardaic obviously hates dressert his troops now but Auraugu is really dedicated to splintering this new alliance.
Whatta royal pane
DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!!!
If you’re not doing it in style, you might as well be an NPC- demotivational poster
I dunno, I think the perk of being an NPC is not having to do it in style.
There are perks for being an NPC? Like dying early?
You often get a free red tunic.
Don’t confuse the superclass ‘NPC’ with the subclasses ‘Mook’, ‘Boss’, ‘Plot-point Death’ and ‘Bystander in a GTA-style game’ (whether this last is simply a subclass of Mook is controversial).
Subclass ‘Quest-giver’ is usually indestructible, and subclass ‘World-filler’ (the most numerous class) is, even if not indestructible, a non-tempting target for PCs who aren’t playing psychopaths, and rarely a viable target for the Boss and Mook subclasses, who generally go for PCs and Plot-point Deaths.
he hasn’t been kicked in the ass enough yet so he goes for “less powerful ones”?
nature help hehe
I believe you mistake Auraugu’s role in combat. To my mind the champion of the fuzzy peoples is a skirmisher, thus his primary role is to engage the enemy until big guns arrive and avoid dying. He has been performing both tasks formidably and there is a reason why he was included in the champions’ team. Hyes.
He also seems like a commando: a lightly-armored mobile threat that works best behind enemy lines; destroying supplies and key personnel. Considering some of his previous deployments (the beach attack, the retrieval of the Graia’s Bough) his timing here is a case of best positioning for him, wiping out key enemy leaders behind enemy lines while others (Penk, Hammerhead) occupy enemy attention.
Depending on what the gods of plot require, the Champion of the Fuzzy peoples could be in to cause massively tactical casualties. Or a swift Ardaric-owning.
Or swift Fr’Nj pwning. She is a druid after all! … ok so maybe not so much pwnage.
But she’s defending her sister!
Ardaic is a Hunter, and… “a crazed A Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples” just appeared!
kind of true.i think they down play the Awesomeness that is Auraugu in this comic to much. i think he could make for an formidable fighter.
If it wasn’t for the fact he is a giant fuzzy-dick
I thought Auragu, CHAMPION OF THE FUZZY PEOPLES was the Balls of the group, hyes?
Close enough, and both in need of a waxing
Careful Ardaic, your sentiment is showing.
Awwwww, he *likes* her.
No no, she’s just… she’s just important, is all. There’s no emotional attachment here. Really.
Well now.
You know bringing up a point a couple of comics ago about who’s good and evil but even as entertaining as the fuzzy Champion and all , they definitely lean more towards badguys then good. They may have reasons but culture is much worse. Comparison
Humans – Gastonaisn mainly. Expansionistic, somewhat racist, close minded, but generally not too horrid. They did/do have slave rings and all, but don’t seem to WANT to fight people. Pulled inot war by World Rebellion
Gnomes – Serving the humans, somewhat second class citizens, but still own place, and seemingly happy where they at. Don’t seem much racist towards them and funding for their projects,even if war.
Sky Elves – Isolationist Race. Kept to themselves. Haughty, but diddn’t seem to bother people. Forgot why they joinned the New Alliance. Jerks,but don’t think attacked others. Pulled into war by World Rebellion
Wood Elves – Also Isolationist.Kept to themselves, but generally decent people. Least from what is seen. Attacked by the World Rebellion and joinned en mass with Gastonia.
So pretty much on Alliance side Gastonians/ Humans the baddest guys. Save our heroes and their organization etc.
Now to look at the World Rebellion
Gnolls – Forgot if correct term, but whatever the Fuzzy people are. They are probabbly the worst . Unlike the others, They cause GENOCIDE on the cat people. They killed em straight up for their land and wiped them down to a man. Also from the story, apprently they did this to MULTIPLE races. That’s REALLY evil.Yes survival…but Genocide..hunting down people horrible.
Avians – Not much known, so they seem fine.
Trolls – The Main Bulwark of Rebellion. Don’t know too much, cept they worship god of death and destruction and fire. Also seem jerk tendencies (taking in fact when Penk was flirting with Troll girl, mentioned Troll women being jerks or some such?Or did they value blood/warfare?Forgot) So no idea but ah well.
Goblins – Materialistic, kind of like Gastonians mixed with Gnomes.With less morales it seems.
Land Sharks – Cannibals in mass, who are barely controled tendencies to not eat allies and foes alike. While amoral, from a humanoid standpoint, no one would be okay watching their loves ones/friends/allies being eaten by anyone. So can be considered also evil, but more genetics?
Dwarves – The most sympathetic of the Rebellion Races.Lost their land to humans, and the reason they fight the most well understood . Leader is a scumbag, but the rank and file probabbly want their land back and such.So they would probabbly be the good ugys on Rebellion.
Now taking into account both sides..just..anything that has people who commit Genocide seems really horrid.Genocide and cannibals. So while the heroes on both sides okay, they do represent overall factions. If Alliance wins..probabbly more land loss, defanging the Rebellion…stuff like that.
But hwat happens if Rebellion winss? From Penk’s discussion and the general Land sharks and fuzzy People…it’s doubtful anyone would be left, no?
The Sky Elves joined up to keep from becoming irrelevant in the rapidly-advancing world stage. Their magic would only take them so far when emergent technology was becoming increasingly capable of replicating even their most grand spells. There was also, apparently, a food shortage that they had to deal with, given that their only alternative was conjuration, which was basically thievery.
The Land Sharks I can’t really call evil. They’re terrible, of course, but with the exception of HAMMERHEAD I struggle to even call them sapient. It’s like if you took Dug from Up and made him really, really violent, then cloned him a couple thousand times over.
While the Gnolls are unmistakably villainous in their culture, it’s difficult to describe them as particularly menacing. Though they wiped out the other Fuzzy Peoples, it’s been made clear both in their words and in their narrative presence that theirs is a path of survival at any cost. Said narrative presence is virtually nonexistent, in fact, aside from Auraugu and Arfa – the latter of whom was seemingly introduced primarily to remind us that Gnolls were in fact a thing. Judging by this and the usual racial composition of Savage Race background characters (vast majority Troll, smattering of other races), the Gnolls may in fact be even more endangered than the Savasi.
Which of course is the theme tying the Savage Races together. They have piss and table scraps for land and resources, and have been pushed to the point where they will do anything to secure themselves a home and a land worth living in.
Thereby tying in nicely with the existing abundance of Alliance/Horde parallels.
They _say_ they have “piss and table scraps” for land and resources, but I don’t think we’ve seen any maps or other evidence to support that. Could just as well be propaganda.
Don’t forget:
-The Trolls – and now, the WR – practice racial slavery (Orcs)
-The WR (Harky) led our guildies into a death pit when they came in as diplomats
-Now dogface is attacking a M*A*S*H unit.
Yes, both sides are ugly, and both deserve some sympathies. I know where mine lie right now.
The gnolls committed genocide because the badlands in which the Fuzzy Peoples lived only had enough resources to support one civilization. It was either kill the other fuzzy races or suffer and die with them.
Nowhere in the story was that stated. Your bias is showing.
The point is that it’s a vicious cycle. Any chance of the Savage Races improving culturally is negated by the wanton imperialism of Gastonia. A culture in a defensive crouch trends heavily towards conservatism/traditionalism and wholesale rejection of any and all cultural precepts of the invader.
One thing to watch out for in analyzing a conflict is that the dominant power can easily portray its domination as legitimate, and define peace as the uninterrupted continuation of its domination. So, using violence to suppress rebellion is “maintaining the peace”, making it relatively easy for a dominant power to portray rebels as villainous, and to blame for all violence that occurs.
On top of that, of course, the dominant power enjoys the material fruits of domination. So, just look at us! We’re civilized, and they’re barbarians! Which is to say, we’re rich, and they’re poor, which is why we’ve got the nice buildings and roads and so forth.
The upshot is that I think these two factions are balanced, in moral terms, but the Gastonians have been in the dominant position for some time, and so look better at a casual glance.
+1
This. So much.
#recentpoliticsIRL
Okay, this is a throwdown that I’m really looking forward to.
Also, I love how Ardaic had to specify that Syr’Nj wasn’t expendable. I know, I know, triage and all that, but it still strikes me as funny.
Not funny. Justification. He is all but professing his true, if unrequited, love for her. We are about to have a bit of a love triangle coming in the future. As well as heartbreak.
Dont be so quick to see romance. Ardaic is a servant of Gastonia first and foremost, and the alliance with the wood elves is crucial to gastonia’s survival in the face of the warhost bearing down. Syr’nj is literally the one holding that alliance together. she dies, and gastonia’s chances at survival are far, far darker.
at least, i think that’s Ardaic’s perception. the truth is, frankly, irrelevant in comparison right now. so do i see romance here? no. i see a similar need for her well-being, but its not enshrined in personal feeling.
I dunno. The ellipse was written meaning there was a dramatic pause intentionally, leaving personal feeling up for debate. As well, take into account what syr’nj said before the battle, the ‘nj girls tend to fall for men like their father. And the most emotionally closed male in this comic is Ardaic. I’m not sure if this was intentional, but the love triangle potential is there.
He might also just really like her. Like, “friend-like”. You don’t need to be in love with someone to feel deeply for them… and Ardaic is the kind of guy that would never admit that he has something so silly as “friends”. All professional that guy, friendship would just distract him!
This.
Gods save Gastonia.
Er, the detour into Syr’Nj/Ardaic shipping is nice and all, but I was really referring to the black humor of a hospital where you have to declare whether the patient is expendable or not when they’re brought in.
And yeah, triage is definitely a thing, I just find this particular instance somewhat darkly humorous.
Fuzzy AWHOOhoohoo, you’re awesome and all, but that was a serious tactical error you just made.
again.
Error? When the worst he has to wrestle is Fr’Nj’s squirrel pet? :-)
Do not. Underestimate. A rampaging Squirrel.
Go for the eyes, Boo!
(ok that’s a space hamster but you get the idea)
Both Doctor Doom and Thanos learned this the hard way.
One of the few people to ever defeat deadpool as well.
Never underestimate the abilities of a squirrel…who else do you know that’s capable of running at full speed up or down a tree with his nuts in his mouth?
:o
Squirrels are clever & have problem-solving levels of intelligence, even if it’s just learning through the trial & error method. You can see some good examples in the two-video documentary series from the BBC called: Daylight Robbery & Daylight Robbery 2.
Sure. After he deals with the minor problem that he’s entered combat with his back turned to Ardaic.
Auraugu, meet Fr”Nj, tree whisperer and girlfriend of Scipio. Who’s Scipio? Why, the huge red headed tank who is bent on obliterating any threat to his gal. He’s right behind you.
Actually, I think Skippy is still bouncing along the ground from that hit he took from Hammerhead.
Where do you think he is gonna land?
Anyone else get a sense of doom creeping up and pointing at Ardaic?
I hope i’m wrong and he’s not about to die.
Not for him. But doom comes.
Doom comes.
I’m feeling the opposite fear. With all the talk of how they just need to kill one Peacemaker, with the likelihood of a narrative desire to establish the Champions of the Savage Races as a real threat…
I think Fr’Nj is about to bite it.
Fr’Nj or Syr’Nj. i cant quite tell who yet, but one of them’s about to have a bad day.
source: Auraugu, Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples, is my avatar.
I dunno, I’m thinking Fr’NJ is going to get totalled, but not die and Scipio is the one that will ultimately bite it due to her being incapacitated.
Yeah, Fr’Nj has an unsettling role so far, she as almost no character development and seems to exist only to be Syr’Nj’s sister and Scipio’s girlfriend…
I’m not saying it’s guaranteed, but if the god of plot demands a blood sacrifice, I bet she’d be the first to the altar…
Agreed, sadly. I really hope not though because that would be Fridging the Girlfriend 101 and that’s never not creepy and quasi-patriarchal. The writers have seemed better than that so far.
It strikes me that, thinking of this as an MMO, Ardaic has functioned as an archetypal quest-giver NPC — exactly the sort of NPC of whom fans will eventually complain, “Hey, you in the fancy armor, why don’t you ever go out and fight instead of asking us to do it all the time?”
Except it sounds like Ardaic is, in fact, about to go out and fight.
This is the sort of effect the five in tubes have, making the world come alive around them.
so does Ardaic have to smack a bitch? because considering the champion of the fuzzy people’s track record today, this does not look good for him. hyes.
Hyes.
Hyes
I belive the alternate dialogue for Auraugu in this strip was “OH, YEAAHH!”
Need a redshirt elf named Sl’m J’m for him to snap into.
Awesome. Indeed, we need to see a version of this. If only April 1st was tomorrow instead of over two weeks ago.
wood elven names are one word with an apostrophe separating the given name from the surname.
so it would be spelled “Slym’Jm”
Kool Aid Man reference. (Hilarious Kool Aid Man reference, by the way.) Not Randy Savage.
Although, admittedly, Auraugu always sounds like he’s giving a wrestling promo.
“Momentarily” because he knows how long he’d last?
I think Ardaic is going to rip his shirt off Hulk Hogan style. He certainly has the mustache to pull it off.
He shall pin Auraugu’s fuzzy shoulders to the mat for the count of three, remove his mask and send him scurrying back to his Peoples with his tail ‘twixt his legs! WOOO YEAH!
The part of Miss Elizabeth shall be played by Sr’nj. Having already waylaid his Sweet Lady, the face shall have no choice but to upend the rampaging heel. This is how ‘rasslin works!
I love me some Auraugu. He’s just so dammed happy. I’d buy him a drink.
Phil or T, does Auraugu have an official entrance song?
1:33-1:50 is the closest i can find to what i hear in my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUHDOd4PQWE#t=93
also, discovery: including http in the address autoembeds the video, just having www autolinks the address.
I was just waiting for this to happen again to point it out:
Auraugu has some issues.
For someone allegedly “the champion of fuzzy peoples” (people isn’t plural enough?), a bona fide wrassler and supposedly the courage of the team… Aura is a little too fond of picking on women and weak nameless mooks.
Sure, in fuzzy’s defense, that shouldn’t sound that sexist by both he not being even human to start with, and with magic, hammershit and science being abundant, this shouldn’t be an issue.
But no. Everytime he’s wrasslin’, he’s either picking Unnamed Soldier #765, old farmer Anderson (okay, I’m making this one up, probably) or the heroines.
Well, let’s see how wasted he’ll get by facing a NAMED moustache bearer and a flora druid in a wooden cabin (druid locked in a cabin? Might as well lock MacGyver in a tool shed)
Peoples and people (as a plural) mean different things.
People is the plural of person.
Peoples is the plural of people, which is a singular noun – roughly synonymous with ‘nation’.
Who the other Fuzzy Peoples are is an open question, or maybe he’s only the champion of the Gnolls, but they’re not a united people, and the other peoples are other Gnoll tribes.
As to your point – some of the best fighters in Arkherra are female – Frigg, Rachel (and the other Sisters), Magda, Brunhilde, etc (and, let’s face it, Madam Arfa probably kicked serious amounts of ass in her youth) – and even the major women who aren’t serious asskickers – the Nj sisters, Bandit – can hold their own in a fight, even if it isn’t through sheer strength, so Auraugu fighting women is hardly picking on the weak. And unnamed mooks also make up the bulk of the characters Byron, Scip, Frigg, and pretty much every other character have fought. Every fighter goes through piles of mooks before they get to the boss fights. Ones who’ve only been shown fighting named characters included – we’ve just only been seeing them during the boss fights.
It’s my impression from Madam Arfa’s story that the gnolls committed genocide against all the other fuzzy peoples.
So the reason he’s the champion of the fuzzy peoples, rather than merely of the gnolls, is that all the other fuzzy peoples, and their champions (save Karmakat, maybe) are dead.
About the women and old people thing- he may in fact simply believe that they’re the toughest and strongest of his enemies. Remember, the head of his Matriarchal race is Lady Ardra, hyes? In Gnoll society, if you’ve lived long enough to get old, you’re a badass. If you’re a female, you’re automatically more dangerous than the males. He probably thinks that picking on the rank’n’file would be poor sport.
Dude… do you KNOW anything about Hyenas?! Gnolls, being hyenafolk, says a LOT about why he’d target the female members. Female hyenas are bigger, stronger, and possess more testosterone then the males!!
The female hyena’s clitoris is in fact bigger then the male’s genitalia. Females are, for this reason, the pack leaders of hyena, and therefore the gnolls… which makes the gnoll matriarch’s threats terrifying in retrospect…
He’s going for the one’s he thinks are strongest, the Women, because with his biology, gnoll women are almost CERTAINLY the stronger physically of the gender.
Plus, as a guy who plays unarmed fighters whenever possible, he probably went after Rachel because she’s another unarmed fighter… it’s always a test to see who’s the stronger of the unarmed.
I know Arkerra doesn’t have a Geneva, but they could sure use a few of their Conventions right now.
Also, I love how the alt text can be taken equally well as referring to both Ardaic and Auraugu.
Yeah, both the first panel & the last panel entrances are certainly dramatic.
So any other Lucha fans out there who read this comic??
Any bets on whether Auraugu is a Rudo or a Technico?? I would guess he’s a Technico overall, both for his focus on high-flying maneuvers and his general heroic charisma.
He’s climbing in yo windows…
Arugula(as he is known in my house) Is really starting to grow on me. He has been since the last guest comic he was in. I’m thinking about making his mask. Is it wood, cloth, or leather?
bronze?