There’s finally some real fan service for the distaff readership (or at least for Magda), I see. I mean, we really couldn’t count JR before he stepped into the tube because he’s a wimpy corporate-type. Gravedust was a good choice to show off some real Manly-Man…er, Dwarfly-Dwarf…muscles.
This guy did just have the stones to go out and say that not one, but both potential leaders of the trolls were unfit to leave while personally insulting them. he must have assumed he at least had enough fighting skill to THINK he had a shot of surviving this, as opposed to “5th grader with some karate could beat you” tier.
Iver was out to discredit the trolls – particularly Harky – as a leader; this would lower the trolls’ position in the council, as well as that of the avian (can’t recall his name). That it’s him doing so would effectively put the Savasi on top, making him the leader of the side. The dagger was, basically, available for emergencies, should he be grabbed by (for example) an outraged troll; the guy is obviously a bottom-feeder politician.
Gravedust, on the other hand, is clearly a mystic zen-archer monk …
Nope!
Her uncle was the surprisingly tall dwarf with the bald head and sledgehammer as far as I recall…(digs through the archives) yes, Cliff Rockslide.
Gravedust is, shall we say, an honorary uncle by association with her dear, departed uncle, and also in his (now former) capacity as a mystic, being a kind of communal elder.
There’s no blood relation here.
That was fast. Gravedust is chief of the Dwarves now.
I hope he finishes Iver, otherwise there’ll just be more poison in the next cup. Iver’s political career is finished, because every dwarf now knows they can challenge him to single combat and win. However, he might not realise he’s done for, and it would be better to just off him rather than let him cause trouble around the camp.
Maybe, but regardless, his reputation has been destroyed by been humiliated in front of the rebellion. His coup is dead, and his power would be on life support even if he manages to undo Gravedusts’ win somehow.
Unfortunately he was wearing armor… Otherwise it might have been more fun to have Gravedust use the “stab them in the groin with their own knife” counter to that attack…
I am counting 19. You can see about 18 in the second panel, but you can see one large on on his back in the final panel as well. Given it’s hard to figure out a metric, but even if each scar only works out for three years, that would put him at 57.
I’m fairly certain he got most of those scars when he died, so counting them to figure out his age is probably pointless. However, if you cut off Syr’Nj’s arm and count the rings you might find her age.
Harky: Why is this happening? We gave the cool speech and everything. We spent an hour planning this shit and I make peace with the fact that I may legitimately die. It was gonna be THE thing to talk about for years to come and now this shit dwarf is stealing the spotlight not because of how cunning and badass I thought he was, but how much of a bitch he is… Tectonicus… why?
Yeah… I mean, even I didn’t know I had abs like that. No wonder I’m always muffled up — there’s only so much attention even the best-endowed Savasi can deal with, if you know what I mean.
I really hope there’s not some sort of BS rule about, “Since you didn’t actually finish me off, since this IS Ultimate Combat, I can still fight, and thus win via some cheap trick, like a hidden boot-knife.”
Seriously though, Gravedust HAS to have started out as a Monk, then took a few levels in some caster class. But in 5th edition DND, it’s your total level that determines your proficiency bonus, not your highest. He’s also choosing to be Proficient in Athletics, with a high Strength to boot. So I’m figuring that Iver rolled a critical miss with his Jump-assisted stab, Gravedust won a Grapple check, won another to shove him prone, and is currently disarming him/doing subdual damage, while Iver is talking out of initiative. Rolling your eyes is a Free Action.
Or in 3.5, assuming he’s a Soulbow variant, he’s getting plenty of BAB. Iver’s a Noble 9, Gravy’s a Monk 2/Soulknife 3/Soulbow 10, meaning his AC’s probably ~22 while Iver’s got only +6 to attack. Then Gravy Grapples with around +18 vs Iver’s +6, again easily beating him, then pinning him immediately after.
Actually most if not all MMO’s operate on a combat system that mathematically has it’s roots in DnD it just does the dice rolls and calculations a million times faster then any pen and paper game.
Indeed, the only thing a computer really does is crunch numbers. Programming to generate a range of random numbers is one of the most simple of programming tasks.
But MMOs are *not* required to use the same classes as DnD, and in fact unless they’re explicitly licensed DnD games they’d probably get into legal trouble for doing so. So Arkerra almost certainly has its own unique classes, and the above speculation about Gravedust being so many ranks in Monk, so many in Barbarian, etc, may be fun but isn’t related to anything in… uh… fictional reality, if that can be said to be a thing.
Nah, monk is a chump class. Barbarian with Improved Unarmed Strike for a few levels and then cleric with an archery focus and some kind of DM-approved souls for crafting but not evil feat.
Alignment pre-reqs. Barbarians cannot be lawful, and Monks must be.
Personally, I always thought not all monks should be required to be lawful, just non-chaotic. N-G Monks are all over the source material, Chinese kung-fu cinema.
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I gotta admit, this feels unsatisfying. I think I would have preferred some fight in Iver. A hero is only as great as the challenges he overcomes, and weak villains are poor challenges.
Maybe but the big bad is glasses the immediate bad is the human kingdom. Probably going to get blow back from free people rebels. Ivers political allues are probably bigger threat
Iver doesn’t fight via punchings, he fights via “a bunch of goons hustle you out in the dead of night and you’re never seen again ahem ahem ahem death to enemies of the state fascist salute herr Savasi Hitler”.
It’s a very popular fighting style, but not so good at one-on-one public battles involving honor and tactics.
This by way of saying, while Gravy has definitively won this battle, if he doesn’t murderize Iver right-frikkin-now, this war ain’t over.
That’s been something that always annoys me about quasi-medieval fantasy settings- just how prevalent modern moral considerations are about life, death and killing.
About the only reason someone in this sort of society would have for NOT killing Iver right now, is if they thought they could ransom him back to his family for a fortune. Otherwise, they’d straight up just take that dagger and shank him.
Even Gravedust would probably do so, even with his Mystic training and sensibilities. His thing is protecting the sanctity of Death, not the sanctity of Life.
And even *that* isn’t Gavedust’s thing anymore, seeing as he officially resigned, right in front of his former colleagues no less, a few chapters ago. For the moment, all he has left is his warrior background.
Which simply reinforces that, realistically, in this type of society, he would simply off Iver now and be done with it. We’ll see shortly whether he or someone else does so.
Observe that his back is clean, and the scars are mostly to the front. So he clearly is no coward. Observe that he is ripped, his body lean and strong. So he never lived in comfort.
Observe how he beat Iver like a little bitch. Which means that Iver is a little bitch.
There are ‘some’ on his back, but the conclusion is not wrong. Those on the back are a far cry from the number on his front, and they’re massed in the shoulder blade areas. Gravedust most certainly does not run from his fights.
Scars on the back would imply being captured and whipped while chained down more so than cowardliness. Lack of scares there mean he’s never been taken prisoner.
welp, Iver just proved himself hilariously unfit for his office. By the new standards he wrote into the office too. He also does not seem like the type to make actual friends, who would stand by him against their own best interests, so he’s probably more or less done politically.
Holy crap, that is the most awesome crash and burn ever. I didn’t even notice Gravedust rolling his eyes until I’d stopped rolling mine.
A warrior named Gravedust once stripped
For combat. The crowd sighed: “He’s ripped!”
Seconds later, his foe
moaned “Defeated? Me? No!
That mystic got lucky – I tripped.”
This… was so immensely satisfying. I was hoping for more literal curb stomping and this is why you suck speech-making but somehow just being immediately subdued and made to cry like a three year old is just somehow even better.
Well that was anticlimactic. Not all that surprising since the story is winding down, but I’m a bit disappointed. Yes, Iver is a conniving homophobic warmonger, but Gravedust is a peacnik and they never get anything done.
He’s got a few more levels, but he was a minon-summoning boss fight, and he was actually meant to be had several levels ago. Gravy rolled a one on what should have been a really easy poison check, and so that bad luck kept Iver alive. But since this is an online game, that didn’t really expect his survival, he never level scaled.
Mind you, he was always meant to be defeated, but at Gravedust’s level in what would have been the initial confrontation, before he got his new “former Mystic” class benefits, Iver would have gotten several ineffectual swings in and stayed on his feet for an entire three punches. Gravy would have then been killed by an unlimited swarm of soldiers aggro’d upon Iver’s death, and would have had the much harder bossfight at this point against the true Dwarven Warlord: Brix the Berserker.
I love that this wasn’t some long, drawn out fight, and that Iver, who’s spent his whole life scheming and living softly got his ass handed to him in short order by Gravy, who’s spent his life struggling and fighting.
…Which also tends to imply that there are a few who choose to try attacking him from behind because they know their chances are less if they attack in the front.
Pretty sure that a bow’s damage is affected by the strength stat, even if the accuracy is affected by dexterity. At least that’s how it is in Pathfinder (in Shadowrun it’s Strength and Agility. Dwarf with Strength 8 can have a bow that does 10P damage. Which, adjusting for the lack of armor penetration, puts it on the same level as a sniper rifle).
Showing action scenes on-panel indicates that what’s happening is exciting and important. Showing reaction shots and then cutting back to Iver on the ground screaming and humiliated is the best way of indicating “this is not a contest. This is curbstomp.”
I’m just waiting for the fates, ah; I mean ‘writers’ to throw a wrench in the works and have it all come about as entirely pointless. Like they always do.
I am also mildly frightened as to why I find Gravedust mildly arousing.
Also: Iver standing up and trying to stab Gravy in the back while he’s distracted in 5…4…3…
The only question is ‘who will interfere’.
…
Hmm…since my forecasts are wrong most of the time I opt for ‘unexpected plot twist’ this time.
Now both of them are scarred.
Notice Mr. Desert-hammer is:
H ugely
U ndergirded in the
N ether-regions
G osh!
His precious mystic weapon, Mr. Iver, is right here.
Now we know what “Deserthammer” is referring to
And of-course I drew “Frig as she’s saying something crude,” for an avatar.
The deserthammer is my penis.
I can’t gold star you for that. But if I could, I would.
Don’t say that, you are killing his hopes and dreams, you jerk!
There’s finally some real fan service for the distaff readership (or at least for Magda), I see. I mean, we really couldn’t count JR before he stepped into the tube because he’s a wimpy corporate-type. Gravedust was a good choice to show off some real Manly-Man…er, Dwarfly-Dwarf…muscles.
Not for Magda, the guy’s her uncle. No wincest.
Only by association. Not by blood. She calls all of the mystics her uncles.
Mega Skills in a Maxi-Muscled Package !
And all I can think of is this:
Delightful.
…like.
“Now I finally kill you, my nemesis!
…My super handsome, manly nemesis…
Scars in all the right, sweating, muscular places…
Did I surrender already?”
Hahahahahaha
Oh wait I just saw Harky’s expression.
AHAHAHAHAHA
I don’t know why he’s surprised. The real look is by Gravedust, a look which says “now this is just embarrassing everyone involved.”
SOO true. “Um … c’mon, guy, I just … uh … geez!!”
Yup. My interpretation of that look was “Dang it Iver, this is so pathetic that I’m embarrassed to be the same race as you.”
This guy did just have the stones to go out and say that not one, but both potential leaders of the trolls were unfit to leave while personally insulting them. he must have assumed he at least had enough fighting skill to THINK he had a shot of surviving this, as opposed to “5th grader with some karate could beat you” tier.
I think as between races, he thought he could work around the personal combat thing, but Gravedust called him out as a Savasi and left him no out.
Iver was out to discredit the trolls – particularly Harky – as a leader; this would lower the trolls’ position in the council, as well as that of the avian (can’t recall his name). That it’s him doing so would effectively put the Savasi on top, making him the leader of the side. The dagger was, basically, available for emergencies, should he be grabbed by (for example) an outraged troll; the guy is obviously a bottom-feeder politician.
Gravedust, on the other hand, is clearly a mystic zen-archer monk …
Yeah, no kidding.
“You call yourself a Savasi? By the gods, I at least expected this to take longer!”
I don’t think that’s surprise as much as “That’s the weakest shit I’ve ever seen”.
I can’t tell if that’s shock or arousal on Magda’s face, or both
Shockrousal.
Um ewe isn’t Gravedust her Uncle?
Arousal, then?
Nope!
Her uncle was the surprisingly tall dwarf with the bald head and sledgehammer as far as I recall…(digs through the archives) yes, Cliff Rockslide.
Gravedust is, shall we say, an honorary uncle by association with her dear, departed uncle, and also in his (now former) capacity as a mystic, being a kind of communal elder.
There’s no blood relation here.
“That was too easy, Uncle. Watch yourself.”
She’s more like “Holy shit! I now know why they call him ‘Deserthammer’! Daaaaamn! Oh, and Iver hit the ground like a bag of water without the bag.”
Both , I Think !
Beautiful. Truly and wonderfully beautiful.
Gravedust’s face in that last panel. “You have GOT to be kidding me.”
I love how it seems like he’s looking at the scream wondering “what the hell?”
“Woah, three panel long… Iver may be a wimpy git, but he sure has quite a bit of puff.”
“So sorry about this, frightfully embarrassing”
Never bring a knife to a grapple fight.
If at all possible, just avoid grapple fights.
Time to break out the grappling rules! …that wasn’t an earthquake you just felt.
That was fast. Gravedust is chief of the Dwarves now.
I hope he finishes Iver, otherwise there’ll just be more poison in the next cup. Iver’s political career is finished, because every dwarf now knows they can challenge him to single combat and win. However, he might not realise he’s done for, and it would be better to just off him rather than let him cause trouble around the camp.
This doesn’t really seem like a Gravedust thing to do which leaves me a bit worried because Iver is clearly poison.
He’s probably got some on that blade right now, which means it would be a bad idea to turn one’s back on him immediately after humiliating him.
Maybe, but regardless, his reputation has been destroyed by been humiliated in front of the rebellion. His coup is dead, and his power would be on life support even if he manages to undo Gravedusts’ win somehow.
Plus he’s now a prime target of every low-level assassin looking to score some EXP.
You know you got wrecked when even your opponent is disappointed with how easily you lost.
Describes the situation so thoroughly yet still feels like an understatement.
Iver jumped to conclusions & wound up flat on his face for it.
Anyone who opens with that sort of high overhand attack should be put out of society’s misery as quickly as possible…
i like how harky’s like, “youre the warlord of the ENTIRE SVASI NATION and youre going to just hand him that submission on a bone platter…?”
Unfortunately he was wearing armor… Otherwise it might have been more fun to have Gravedust use the “stab them in the groin with their own knife” counter to that attack…
I wonder if we can count all of Gravedust’s scars to calculate how old he is?
I am counting 19. You can see about 18 in the second panel, but you can see one large on on his back in the final panel as well. Given it’s hard to figure out a metric, but even if each scar only works out for three years, that would put him at 57.
I’m fairly certain he got most of those scars when he died, so counting them to figure out his age is probably pointless. However, if you cut off Syr’Nj’s arm and count the rings you might find her age.
Probably not; Gravedust died of poison, not in the arena.
I figure Gravy likely wasn’t a slouch damn is that dude chiseled. I man oh my god you could grind meat on his abs.
Heh. I bet there’s plenty of people who’d like to grind their meat on them, ifyouknowwhatImean.
Harky: Why is this happening? We gave the cool speech and everything. We spent an hour planning this shit and I make peace with the fact that I may legitimately die. It was gonna be THE thing to talk about for years to come and now this shit dwarf is stealing the spotlight not because of how cunning and badass I thought he was, but how much of a bitch he is… Tectonicus… why?
Heh heh.
Once again I lament the lack of an upvote button on this site.
Yeah… I mean, even I didn’t know I had abs like that. No wonder I’m always muffled up — there’s only so much attention even the best-endowed Savasi can deal with, if you know what I mean.
I really hope there’s not some sort of BS rule about, “Since you didn’t actually finish me off, since this IS Ultimate Combat, I can still fight, and thus win via some cheap trick, like a hidden boot-knife.”
Seriously though, Gravedust HAS to have started out as a Monk, then took a few levels in some caster class. But in 5th edition DND, it’s your total level that determines your proficiency bonus, not your highest. He’s also choosing to be Proficient in Athletics, with a high Strength to boot. So I’m figuring that Iver rolled a critical miss with his Jump-assisted stab, Gravedust won a Grapple check, won another to shove him prone, and is currently disarming him/doing subdual damage, while Iver is talking out of initiative. Rolling your eyes is a Free Action.
Or in 3.5, assuming he’s a Soulbow variant, he’s getting plenty of BAB. Iver’s a Noble 9, Gravy’s a Monk 2/Soulknife 3/Soulbow 10, meaning his AC’s probably ~22 while Iver’s got only +6 to attack. Then Gravy Grapples with around +18 vs Iver’s +6, again easily beating him, then pinning him immediately after.
Don’t forget that he made his start as a berserker or a very aggressive fighter, so he’s got that added to things
Guys I hate to deflate this but
Arkerra is an MMO not a tabletop pen and paper system.
Actually most if not all MMO’s operate on a combat system that mathematically has it’s roots in DnD it just does the dice rolls and calculations a million times faster then any pen and paper game.
Indeed, the only thing a computer really does is crunch numbers. Programming to generate a range of random numbers is one of the most simple of programming tasks.
But MMOs are *not* required to use the same classes as DnD, and in fact unless they’re explicitly licensed DnD games they’d probably get into legal trouble for doing so. So Arkerra almost certainly has its own unique classes, and the above speculation about Gravedust being so many ranks in Monk, so many in Barbarian, etc, may be fun but isn’t related to anything in… uh… fictional reality, if that can be said to be a thing.
Honestly, 4e is a better MMO than table top game. Too structured.
Eh, it was still a reasonably fun tactical combat game.
But yeah. Glad they learned from that debacle. 5e is pretty great.
I have yet to play it. Something about being in an area lacking gaming groups coupled with the book being ~57$ here.
Barbarian/Monk/Shaman ought to do it.
Nah, monk is a chump class. Barbarian with Improved Unarmed Strike for a few levels and then cleric with an archery focus and some kind of DM-approved souls for crafting but not evil feat.
Can’t dual-class Barb and Monk…they have opposite prereqs.
Alignment pre-reqs. Barbarians cannot be lawful, and Monks must be.
Personally, I always thought not all monks should be required to be lawful, just non-chaotic. N-G Monks are all over the source material, Chinese kung-fu cinema.
Monks don’t lose class features for exiting Monk, though, so as long as you become more chaotic…
Harky: “Well, I have clearly chosen both treacherous, and weaker, allies than you Penk. So, forfeit, you win, we follow your plan now.”
Wow, Gravy is cut. And cut up.
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That doesn’t seem like a very good offer. In fact it’s downright laosy.
Does Gravy administer the suppository? I might be down for that…
I gotta admit, this feels unsatisfying. I think I would have preferred some fight in Iver. A hero is only as great as the challenges he overcomes, and weak villains are poor challenges.
Maybe but the big bad is glasses the immediate bad is the human kingdom. Probably going to get blow back from free people rebels. Ivers political allues are probably bigger threat
To be fair, this guy killed him and he came back. Both mentally and physically that was perhaps Gravy’s real challenge.
Iver doesn’t fight via punchings, he fights via “a bunch of goons hustle you out in the dead of night and you’re never seen again ahem ahem ahem death to enemies of the state fascist salute herr Savasi Hitler”.
It’s a very popular fighting style, but not so good at one-on-one public battles involving honor and tactics.
This by way of saying, while Gravy has definitively won this battle, if he doesn’t murderize Iver right-frikkin-now, this war ain’t over.
That’s been something that always annoys me about quasi-medieval fantasy settings- just how prevalent modern moral considerations are about life, death and killing.
About the only reason someone in this sort of society would have for NOT killing Iver right now, is if they thought they could ransom him back to his family for a fortune. Otherwise, they’d straight up just take that dagger and shank him.
Even Gravedust would probably do so, even with his Mystic training and sensibilities. His thing is protecting the sanctity of Death, not the sanctity of Life.
And even *that* isn’t Gavedust’s thing anymore, seeing as he officially resigned, right in front of his former colleagues no less, a few chapters ago. For the moment, all he has left is his warrior background.
Which simply reinforces that, realistically, in this type of society, he would simply off Iver now and be done with it. We’ll see shortly whether he or someone else does so.
Prediction: Savasi perform ritual cannibalism of defeated leaders/pretenders.
If there are landsharks watching, that might cause a riot…
“Have you been stung by bees?”
Hot damn, somebody should get that scene of buff Iroh in here for comparison.
“Efffff Yeah! If he’s anything like Gravy, SHOW ME THAT SHIT!”
Quick Google image searches should get them for you. Buff Bumi, too.
“What the Eff is ‘Google’ ?”
http://orig00.deviantart.net/04e1/f/2009/176/1/a/sokka__s_master___iroh_by_cloud_s.png
Yeah, so used to him through the series being a wize advice giving tea drinker it was easy to forget he was a general.
Oh, that explains why Frigg keeps having sex dreams about Gravedust.
Your avatar is so appropriate for this post. :)
I laughed so hard at that last panel.
Observe that his back is clean, and the scars are mostly to the front. So he clearly is no coward. Observe that he is ripped, his body lean and strong. So he never lived in comfort.
Observe how he beat Iver like a little bitch. Which means that Iver is a little bitch.
There are ‘some’ on his back, but the conclusion is not wrong. Those on the back are a far cry from the number on his front, and they’re massed in the shoulder blade areas. Gravedust most certainly does not run from his fights.
Scars on the back would imply being captured and whipped while chained down more so than cowardliness. Lack of scares there mean he’s never been taken prisoner.
welp, Iver just proved himself hilariously unfit for his office. By the new standards he wrote into the office too. He also does not seem like the type to make actual friends, who would stand by him against their own best interests, so he’s probably more or less done politically.
Holy crap, that is the most awesome crash and burn ever. I didn’t even notice Gravedust rolling his eyes until I’d stopped rolling mine.
A warrior named Gravedust once stripped
For combat. The crowd sighed: “He’s ripped!”
Seconds later, his foe
moaned “Defeated? Me? No!
That mystic got lucky – I tripped.”
This is glorious. If Payet doesn’t sing this after learning of Gravy’s victory I’ll be sad.
Gravedust just went Full Roshi.
You never fight an old man who’s gone Full Roshi.
Loser bottoms, right?
This… was so immensely satisfying. I was hoping for more literal curb stomping and this is why you suck speech-making but somehow just being immediately subdued and made to cry like a three year old is just somehow even better.
Well daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang Grave….
how to look like a fool in 2 easy steps
Well, that was a delightfully short fight. (Among Dwarves, what can you expect?)
Oooph, like a punch in the gut.
Good one!
Closer to a punch in the jaw.
I think that one went over his head.
It is a sacred ritual combat, fought before the eyes of Tectonicus and for the leadership of entire nations. Can you tap out from something like that?
Iver desperately hopes so!
Iver? More like Criver…Amiright?
Iver…. you are a pussy.
Well, that was….anticlimactic.
Gravedust is one stitch short of turning me gay.
‘cuz daaaymn, boy.
Well that was anticlimactic. Not all that surprising since the story is winding down, but I’m a bit disappointed. Yes, Iver is a conniving homophobic warmonger, but Gravedust is a peacnik and they never get anything done.
he said literally last page he’s moved on from mysticism.
It was a lifetime adventurer vs a lifetime politician, who’s never given evidence of having had a standup fight in his life.
One of these lifestyles leads to knowing how to hold one’s own in a fight, one of them does not.
I think Iver is still a level 1 boss, in a level 50 area.
He’s got a few more levels, but he was a minon-summoning boss fight, and he was actually meant to be had several levels ago. Gravy rolled a one on what should have been a really easy poison check, and so that bad luck kept Iver alive. But since this is an online game, that didn’t really expect his survival, he never level scaled.
Mind you, he was always meant to be defeated, but at Gravedust’s level in what would have been the initial confrontation, before he got his new “former Mystic” class benefits, Iver would have gotten several ineffectual swings in and stayed on his feet for an entire three punches. Gravy would have then been killed by an unlimited swarm of soldiers aggro’d upon Iver’s death, and would have had the much harder bossfight at this point against the true Dwarven Warlord: Brix the Berserker.
SUUUUUUUUUUPEEER…Slam?
I love that this wasn’t some long, drawn out fight, and that Iver, who’s spent his whole life scheming and living softly got his ass handed to him in short order by Gravy, who’s spent his life struggling and fighting.
Wow. That was both embarrassing and anti-climatic.
ROFL! I thought this was going to be a dramatic fight. But Gravey shut Iver down without even trying.
Well, that happened.
A question figuratively written on literally every witnesses face.
I can just imagine Frigg’s face if Gravedust rejoins the group without putting the robe back on.
So Frig Gravedusthammer wedding announcement when
Must see Gravedust vs. Auraugu
Do it!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
I want to see their “grappling” contest!
Three count, followed by a wedding. XD
mmMmmm Gravy can run that hammer on me anytime!
I like that he’s so few wound on his back showing that hes fought most of his fights facing them head on.
…Which also tends to imply that there are a few who choose to try attacking him from behind because they know their chances are less if they attack in the front.
Never let it be said that spending feats for grappling is a bad move.
Gravedust is clearly overleveled for this content
Get rekt newb GD is 2k+
LOL!
Is anyone surprised by this turn of events? Anyone? Bueller?
Cocky politician just found out he doesn’t actually know shit about fighting.
Gravedust: “Iver, that was just embarrassing. Could you at least try not to scream like a frightened child?”
Harky: Wtf? This was supposed to be a stepdance challenge!?
I like the fact that there is no fight scene, just a reaction shot, and Gravedust with the guy pinned and begging.
“Green tea and meditation built this body”
Green tea is definitely what your avatar is drinking.
And your avatar is the reaction shot when she realizes it was green tea and not what she actually wanted…
What more could you expect from a dwarf with no beard?
GRAVEDUST IS RIPPED!!!!
And Iver went down like a bitch.
I am pleased by both developments.
If Frigg ever finds out she’s gun be pissed!
“Why in green goblin FUCK have we been keeping him in the back row!?”
when your range dps turns out to have the stats of a bruiser.
Pretty sure that a bow’s damage is affected by the strength stat, even if the accuracy is affected by dexterity. At least that’s how it is in Pathfinder (in Shadowrun it’s Strength and Agility. Dwarf with Strength 8 can have a bow that does 10P damage. Which, adjusting for the lack of armor penetration, puts it on the same level as a sniper rifle).
Let’s just hope he let’s Iver up only for Iver to notice he nicked himself with the knife… and drop dead.
“*SIGH* You just had to be a badass, didn’t you?”
OK. Am I the only one who is disappointed that Gravy ‘s BIG MUVE is off camera? Fucking mouthy homophobic fucking little fuck had it coming.
Eh, not personally, no.
Showing action scenes on-panel indicates that what’s happening is exciting and important. Showing reaction shots and then cutting back to Iver on the ground screaming and humiliated is the best way of indicating “this is not a contest. This is curbstomp.”
I’m just waiting for the fates, ah; I mean ‘writers’ to throw a wrench in the works and have it all come about as entirely pointless. Like they always do.
I am also mildly frightened as to why I find Gravedust mildly arousing.
Sigh. I always wanted a grandfather like this.
Because he has a ponytail, of course.
Also: Iver standing up and trying to stab Gravy in the back while he’s distracted in 5…4…3…
The only question is ‘who will interfere’.
…
Hmm…since my forecasts are wrong most of the time I opt for ‘unexpected plot twist’ this time.
Landshark. ver goes to backstab? Boom, landshark.
I have a slight feeling that this is a ruse and that as soon as Iver is released, out comes dagger #2.
As a rule, you want your marksdwarfs to be experienced wrestlers. Dwarf Fortress, the great dwarf teacher.
And now we know why he weighs three shit-tons.
“GIT GUD, IVER”
I propose that Frigg, Best, and Gravedust come to one of those arrangements, of the timeshare variety.
Think it over, Frigg.
Best for the favors.
Gravy for the flavors.