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'And now... to shoot all of you. Then Byron. Then myself. Then all of you again. Then me and Byron together. Then just Snowpeak. Then everyone besides me again.'

Chapter 41 – Page 23

on April 20, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 41
└ Tags: Byron, Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Gravedust, Snowpeak Icegrip, Stonecutter Moonchild
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  1. Fo Ren G
    Fo Ren G
    April 20, 2016, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    And then the ghost gendarmes came and took Gravedust to ghost Bastille.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 20, 2016, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Who died and made you boss?

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      April 20, 2016, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Snowpeak Icegrip, and Stonecutter Moonchild.

      • Kobold
        Kobold
        April 20, 2016, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        Well I didn’t vote for you.

        • Tsapki
          Tsapki
          April 21, 2016, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

          You don’t vote for Mystics…

    • john
      john
      April 20, 2016, 4:00 am | # | Reply

      Literally all the other mystics. The will of the cosmos is manifest in the form of natural selection

  3. random whatever
    random whatever
    April 20, 2016, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Um you do know, Gravy, This is a video game and as such ya kin always earn an xtra life. Ain’t no big deal.

    • CeilingChair
      CeilingChair
      April 20, 2016, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      Usually in MMOs there’s just a handy little “Resurrect” button that shows up when you die.

    • Varorson
      Varorson
      April 20, 2016, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      If the whole ‘you cannot come back to life’ holds true in game mechanics though this could be a rogue-like MMO.

      Would be interesting to see such.

      Wonder if that’s the case or it’s just a lore-only thing, has it been clarified?

      • EveryZig
        EveryZig
        April 21, 2016, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        There are permadeath massively multiplayer onlone games, like Day Z. From what I understand, the players spend most of their time wandering around looking for other players to kill and loot.

        • Tsapki
          Tsapki
          April 21, 2016, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

          I heard there was also a game in the works where you literally cannot play anymore after you die. Not sure how the business model on that would work though…

          • Steve
            Steve
            April 22, 2016, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

            A game where you’d have to buy a new copy with each “game over”?

            It’d draw the hardcore like nothing else. But only the hardcore. Repeat sales would be dazzling. Twitch players would brag about their purchases.

  4. biggmac
    biggmac
    April 20, 2016, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    To continue Gravedust’s threat from the alt-text: “Then, when all of you are shot, my associate Grave shall swallow you up. Grave is the bigmouthed monster hiding behind you guys. What, you doubt he’s there? Just check the tags, fools!”

  5. Lingo
    Lingo
    April 20, 2016, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    So, it sounds like he is giving up the mystic arts, and I don’t understand why. He’s saying something about how their rules violate free will, but I don’t follow.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      April 20, 2016, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      They are robing people of the free will to come back whenever they want, obviously. :P

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        April 20, 2016, 1:29 am | # | Reply

        As mystics, their job has been. basically, to enforce the ‘nope, you’re done’ rule. If someone’s will is strong enough to linger on, its probably because it has unfinished business.

        It’s not really someone else’s job to tell you that you can’t. Ultimately, mystics are people, and if it can be done, then by god, take a crack at it. In this particular case, Byron is the key to an interdimensional puzzle; the laws of the universe were done broke when the berserker curse came into existence, and now a dimension-jumping super-wizard is literally breaking the world.

        The age of rules is over, yo.

        “Our laughter will shred the dark days! That’s the only sensible way to face oblivion, Jack. If the world dusts out, my gapped-tooth grin is the last thing they’ll see. It’s the Fool’s prerogative. It’s why we taint our honor with irreverence. In the mad days, respect is going to get the world dead. Doing the impossible is a rudeness to reality. So I practice the sacred obscenities.”

        • Varorson
          Varorson
          April 20, 2016, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

          It was also the mystics’ job to help ghosts with unfinished business gain a sense of fulfillment in order to move on – often, when possible, by helping them finish that unfinished business. Like putting souls into the arrows that harm/kill those that killed the soul.

    • Insufferable Nerd
      Insufferable Nerd
      April 20, 2016, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Some people are just never content sticking with one class.

    • Armagrodden
      Armagrodden
      April 20, 2016, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

      He might also be about to “let the time of the mystics pass” by sucking them all into an arrow and shooting them past the Point of No Return. Then they’ll all be fired.

  6. Dagda
    Dagda
    April 20, 2016, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Oh ho. Is Gravedust about to invent (or fight to enable) resurrection spells?

  7. Armagrodden
    Armagrodden
    April 20, 2016, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, apropos of nothing, “Cliffhanger” would be a great dwarven name.

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      April 20, 2016, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

      … hanging from a cliff!
      and that’s why he’s called Cliff Hanger!

    • Varorson
      Varorson
      April 20, 2016, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

      It’s Cliffhanger’s job to ensure that every job is left only 90% of the way done so that people keep going on hoping to get that last 10%.

      • Armagrodden
        Armagrodden
        April 20, 2016, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

        Cliffhanger is the one who makes sure that the most vital part of every task is done…after lunch. Or the weekend. Maybe after a vacation, if he’s feeling ambitious.

  8. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    April 20, 2016, 3:03 am | # | Reply

    “In this instance, Byron need not follow our ‘red shirt’ rules.”

  9. Zalocin
    Zalocin
    April 20, 2016, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust just taught them all a Frig-ing lesson!

  10. WebJay
    WebJay
    April 20, 2016, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    In the words of me “I’m going to frigg the shit out of you”

  11. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    April 20, 2016, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust is evolving. No one press B!

  12. Toecutter
    Toecutter
    April 20, 2016, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    So the mystics are the ones that are responsible for putting your spawn point at a 10 minute run from your body, perhaps with a mountain range in the way.

  13. recentlyafish
    recentlyafish
    April 20, 2016, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    ahahaha, that was some alt-text worthy of the convoluted click-hover-wait maneuver I have to do on my sh*$%y mac

  14. Chris
    Chris
    April 20, 2016, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

    And thus PVP was born.

  15. Just_IDD
    Just_IDD
    April 20, 2016, 6:37 pm | # | Reply


    └ Tags: Byron, Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Grave, Gravedust, Snowpeak Icegrip, Stonecutter Moonchild

    I see 7 names and 6 people – are we mysting a Mystic?

    • Varorson
      Varorson
      April 20, 2016, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

      Well, we got Grave and Gravedust. I think that’s just a typo if trying to put Gravedust in twice, unless Grave is the name of the mountain thingies in the distance.

      • recentlyafish
        recentlyafish
        April 22, 2016, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

        they’re all in the grave

  16. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    April 21, 2016, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

    Also, since no one has mentioned it, poor Kif.

  17. minando
    minando
    April 22, 2016, 2:54 am | # | Reply

    Hrmpf. It’s not that we made up these rules. And as the last mystic, your job is not to be fatalistic but to train successors.
    ….
    Hmmm….maybe there IS a way…

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