Yes I’m remembering that episode of the Simpsons where a young Mr. Burns uses a musket pistol to intimidate someone and has to take a minute to reload before shooting at the man’s feet again. Hope Rendar and Sundar didn’t run too far away from the bomb blast so they can save Bandit, but I think Taro is ultimately going to be the instrument of his own demise.
well, it looks like the bullet hit the spleen or one of her kidneys and since the bullet has gone through, they wont have to fish-it out… but she will loose a lot of blood and get a few bruised organs from the hydro-static shock!
it is going to be a really rough one, but it is not impossible survive.
the spleen is a worst case btw.
Not only is Bandit not an NPC, as she’s the in-game avatar of a player, but Arkerra is also it’s own real universe that exists and continues moving, player avatars included, even when everybody is logged out.
Bandit, and everybody else, are definitely people.
Bandit is played by Chrissie, so she’s a regular PC rather than a bubble-PC. She can just run back to the instance to rez or use the Spirit Healer. The Five are just hardwired into the game, so as far as they know, the OOC means of coming back to life, such as running back to your corpse, don’t exist. The Sepia folks emphasize their adherence to IC only in the 2014 Axemas Special.
No, that’s a fucking pain in the ass.
It’s bad enough that you have to repack your cartridges everyday to make sure they don’t go bad from taking on moisture etcetera — forget poisoning every one of the stupid things.
I think it would be more typical for a rogue to steal something using their hands. However, they can do well in the profession by following their gut instincts…In SOME cases, anyway.
she might not die, bullets are not instant death, unless they hit somewhere super vital usually your down but have okish odds of not dying if you get medical aid.
To be honest… I am surprised Taro actually hit her. Seeing how skilled he is (in most things) I his aim to be completely off, especially since he is firing from the hip!
I was going to say something along the lines of functional societies don’t let crazed monkeys have guns, but then it occurred to me this is Iwatania we are talking about, a nation basicly founded on a coup of an admittedly corrupt but functional leadership, which is now run by a megalomaniacal child of privilege who believes that weapons exist to be used as much as possible and anyone who doesn’t agree with them is an enemy who needs to be destroyed even if they need to annihilate dozens of their own followers to do so.
Lower right side, above the kidney hopefully, clean through and through, painful but not fatal right away I hope… Bandit on the ground in pain, Sundar and Rendar sneaking up while Taro monologues over a bleeding Bandit and reloading his pistol.
That’s IF he knows how to reload it. For all we know he took it from his dad’s collection without knowing how the thing works other than point and pull the trigger.
A guy who likes killing people THAT much? Oh, I’m sure he knows how to reload.
Honestly, it’s more that I expect Bandit to be able to take care of him before she goes down. A pistol is a LOT less dangerous than a melee weapon at that range. Barring a hit to the hip joint, knee joint, or central nervous system, even if you later die of the wound, you generally have enough time to make a real mess of the guy with the pistol. (Of course, that’s out here in the real world – no telling how it will work here. Also, sometimes people go into shock and don’t do anything, so that’s also a possibility.)
That type of pistol takes too long to reload mid-fight.
That’s why smart pirates carried a brace of pistols! Multiple shots prepared in advance, like a RAID storage for violence.
If it has automatic priming (which from the shape of the hammer and lock, it very well might) and they’ve invented nitrated paper cartridges, it’ll take about 5 seconds if he’s well-practiced. About 15 if he’s a klutz.
Thing I’m worried about. He is a ‘child’ and its all sorts of bad to do horrible things to children, even when those children are goddamned psychopaths.
So… will the writers be willing to cross that line?
I think Swordfish already went into the whole “what price is worth killing a child for” bit.
But for the sake of argument, Taro is a mass murderer. He happily killed his own family and used their deaths as propaganda to fuel a war which is killing thousands and he happily got into the cockpit of a doom engine to personally kill as many people as possibly, more than happy to bomb civilians.
Taro is a child by a biological standard. By an ethical one, he’s a ever increasing death toll the longer people consider.
But hey, if the Fire Lord treatment is feasible and something that people here can do, by all means, let him rot in a cell for the rest of his hopefully long life in that situation. Make sure he has a good view of how much better off the world is without him.
Plot point:
Taro kills off Bandit. (Let’s just assume, before it all plays out)
Effect:
Everyone now hates Taro forever. (Source: comments)
Discussion:
As Tsapki above noted, Taro is a monster who killed off his family, triggered total war, and did as much damage as possible, for his own purposes.
However, as explained by Schneidend in reply to biggmac farther up, Bandit (and everyone else in Arkerra) is a real person.
The clincher: Are the authors, who deliberately set up Taro (a real monster) to kill Bandit (a real person) for the sole purpose of slanting their readers’ emotions, really any better than Taro himself for it?
Isn’t that exactly what he did (killing people for personal gain), if only on a smaller scale, after all?
Re: Your questions
Yes, the authors are better. They are telling a story, not killing real (relative to you) people.
No, that is not exactly what Taro did. See above.
Bandit, that was a dumb thing to do. Worry about the ‘small fry’ later, don’t take your eye off the door to the guy who gets off on killing tons of people at once.
I’m not worried about Bandit. This won’t be the end of her, I’m sure. But there are several ways this could progress, and I’m curious to see which it’ll be.
This is a gnomish supertank that can fire magic explosive projectiles(?) over vast distances…and THIS is a muzzle-loader?
The Gastonian army seems to have a problem with conflicting priorities.
Plot armor-piercing rounds. I approve.
It’s only a flesh wound. And now he’s used his one shot AND stepped out of the heavily fortified death machine.
Yes I’m remembering that episode of the Simpsons where a young Mr. Burns uses a musket pistol to intimidate someone and has to take a minute to reload before shooting at the man’s feet again. Hope Rendar and Sundar didn’t run too far away from the bomb blast so they can save Bandit, but I think Taro is ultimately going to be the instrument of his own demise.
Maybe one of the profs can work up the courage to hit back while Taro is reloading.
Honestly Bandit might just wing a knife at the little shit.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO–
*gasp for breath*
–OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
—OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—
—OOOOOooOOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOOoooOO—
-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, noooooo-
GASSSP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—
N ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙ ⊙﹏⊙
This cannot be!
*Rolls a Saving Throw to disbelieve*
Don’t shoot her. You’ll only make her mad…
Listen to Walter, he lives with his wife, he should know!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000oooooooooooo*gasp*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The old man cleared his throat. The campfire flickered.
“But of course that was not what REALLY happened…”
Why bother? She already died once, trisected with axe blades, so she will respawn.
Pistol Shot barely does any damage, she’ll be fine.
Also, Cheat Death is available for all specs, even Outlaw. Hope she picked it.
I used my level 100 boost for an outlaw rogue and I gotta say
I’m having a ball
Well, of course YOU are, but what about the rest of us???
Damn Friday cliff-hangers. The guy must think he’s writing a Raiders sequel or something…
:-)
Just an NPC at the moment anyway, player is AFK. Problem is gravedust doesn’t have another brez.
well, it looks like the bullet hit the spleen or one of her kidneys and since the bullet has gone through, they wont have to fish-it out… but she will loose a lot of blood and get a few bruised organs from the hydro-static shock!
it is going to be a really rough one, but it is not impossible survive.
the spleen is a worst case btw.
Is it time to see how Shanna is doin?
Bandit already got murdered once (by Byron) and now this? If she doesn’t get some FrN’j healing, I’m gonna be ticked!
“Ugh, Bandit, you died again? It’s getting old, you know…”
It’s an NPC, Bandit isn’t a person.
Did you skip the winter elf arc?
Not only is Bandit not an NPC, as she’s the in-game avatar of a player, but Arkerra is also it’s own real universe that exists and continues moving, player avatars included, even when everybody is logged out.
Bandit, and everybody else, are definitely people.
Bandit is played by Chrissie, so she’s a regular PC rather than a bubble-PC. She can just run back to the instance to rez or use the Spirit Healer. The Five are just hardwired into the game, so as far as they know, the OOC means of coming back to life, such as running back to your corpse, don’t exist. The Sepia folks emphasize their adherence to IC only in the 2014 Axemas Special.
Wasn’t Gravedust talking about how he was going to turn death into a revolving door?
Knowing the guy, that´s a poisoned bullet…
No, that’s a fucking pain in the ass.
It’s bad enough that you have to repack your cartridges everyday to make sure they don’t go bad from taking on moisture etcetera — forget poisoning every one of the stupid things.
I’m sad, but I notice that it’s not as much as when Rachel died.
Eugh. What an avatar.
Oh, shoot.
Wow, good job stealing that bullet Bandit. That’s what you’re doing, right?
I think it would be more typical for a rogue to steal something using their hands. However, they can do well in the profession by following their gut instincts…In SOME cases, anyway.
Argh, not another main character Game of Guilded Age!
Next time you want to stab someone; don’t talk, stab them!
Is that an intentional Tuco Benedicto Ramirez reference from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?
I think that would be “When it’s time to stab, stab, don’t talk!”
Stupid new D&D rules that Talking isn’t a free action anymore.
Appropriate avatar is appropriate.
This might be interesting….it was unclear to me how she came back the last time she died…maybe this time we will find out.
she might not die, bullets are not instant death, unless they hit somewhere super vital usually your down but have okish odds of not dying if you get medical aid.
Chrissie hit the Respawn button after the five minute timer.
well, she said troll blood from byron’s axe heal her . . .
Damn, I predicted all this, I just didn’t post it. I guess you could say I missed my shot.
To be honest… I am surprised Taro actually hit her. Seeing how skilled he is (in most things) I his aim to be completely off, especially since he is firing from the hip!
Bandit. I’m still mad at you for killing Byron and then being a jerk about it to his wife… But please be okay!
That was rather careless for a thief.
Gotta agree. Wondering why she didn’t expect the crazed monkey to have a gun.
I was going to say something along the lines of functional societies don’t let crazed monkeys have guns, but then it occurred to me this is Iwatania we are talking about, a nation basicly founded on a coup of an admittedly corrupt but functional leadership, which is now run by a megalomaniacal child of privilege who believes that weapons exist to be used as much as possible and anyone who doesn’t agree with them is an enemy who needs to be destroyed even if they need to annihilate dozens of their own followers to do so.
“It’s only a flesh wound.”
when you get greedy for kills and run around the corner in rainbow six siege
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU’RE TO BLAME
Looks more like she was shot in the gut…
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU’RE TO BLAME
YOU GIVE PERITONITIS
A BAD NAME!
Nah, doesn’t roll off the tongue that way.
*SHOT THROUGH THE BOWELS
I mean. one of those days…
Lower right side, above the kidney hopefully, clean through and through, painful but not fatal right away I hope… Bandit on the ground in pain, Sundar and Rendar sneaking up while Taro monologues over a bleeding Bandit and reloading his pistol.
That’s IF he knows how to reload it. For all we know he took it from his dad’s collection without knowing how the thing works other than point and pull the trigger.
A guy who likes killing people THAT much? Oh, I’m sure he knows how to reload.
Honestly, it’s more that I expect Bandit to be able to take care of him before she goes down. A pistol is a LOT less dangerous than a melee weapon at that range. Barring a hit to the hip joint, knee joint, or central nervous system, even if you later die of the wound, you generally have enough time to make a real mess of the guy with the pistol. (Of course, that’s out here in the real world – no telling how it will work here. Also, sometimes people go into shock and don’t do anything, so that’s also a possibility.)
If there is one things Taro is good at, it’s murdering people effectively.
-fumes at grammar error that was noticed a mere second too late-
Pull through, Bandit. Get him. You’re still my favorite.
I immediately let out a loud “NO!” when I read this. Kinda makes me glad I live alone to avoid questions.
That type of pistol takes too long to reload mid-fight.
That’s why smart pirates carried a brace of pistols! Multiple shots prepared in advance, like a RAID storage for violence.
If it has automatic priming (which from the shape of the hammer and lock, it very well might) and they’ve invented nitrated paper cartridges, it’ll take about 5 seconds if he’s well-practiced. About 15 if he’s a klutz.
And here I was thinking I couldn’t really hate Taro any more. Thanks for proving me wrong!
NOW can we see his horrible, painful, and extremely protracted demise?
Thing I’m worried about. He is a ‘child’ and its all sorts of bad to do horrible things to children, even when those children are goddamned psychopaths.
So… will the writers be willing to cross that line?
I think Swordfish already went into the whole “what price is worth killing a child for” bit.
But for the sake of argument, Taro is a mass murderer. He happily killed his own family and used their deaths as propaganda to fuel a war which is killing thousands and he happily got into the cockpit of a doom engine to personally kill as many people as possibly, more than happy to bomb civilians.
Taro is a child by a biological standard. By an ethical one, he’s a ever increasing death toll the longer people consider.
But hey, if the Fire Lord treatment is feasible and something that people here can do, by all means, let him rot in a cell for the rest of his hopefully long life in that situation. Make sure he has a good view of how much better off the world is without him.
Plot point:
Taro kills off Bandit. (Let’s just assume, before it all plays out)
Effect:
Everyone now hates Taro forever. (Source: comments)
Discussion:
As Tsapki above noted, Taro is a monster who killed off his family, triggered total war, and did as much damage as possible, for his own purposes.
However, as explained by Schneidend in reply to biggmac farther up, Bandit (and everyone else in Arkerra) is a real person.
The clincher: Are the authors, who deliberately set up Taro (a real monster) to kill Bandit (a real person) for the sole purpose of slanting their readers’ emotions, really any better than Taro himself for it?
Isn’t that exactly what he did (killing people for personal gain), if only on a smaller scale, after all?
Re: Your questions
Yes, the authors are better. They are telling a story, not killing real (relative to you) people.
No, that is not exactly what Taro did. See above.
Bandit, that was a dumb thing to do. Worry about the ‘small fry’ later, don’t take your eye off the door to the guy who gets off on killing tons of people at once.
Probably not a fatal wound, but it will suck.
I’m not worried about Bandit. This won’t be the end of her, I’m sure. But there are several ways this could progress, and I’m curious to see which it’ll be.
Also: Ban’Di-Ichk, the gibberous eldritch terror of DOOMED Arkherram.
Apparently her knives are rather massive (and their orientation is due to inertia), or there’s some sort of swivel point on the belt?
I know it might be artistic choice, but I got to wonder how much of a wallop that pistol has if it sent Bandit flying back like that.
We have a few gun experts in the comment sections, yes? Any help on that?
At this point, the war is absolutely over.
Writers: I hope you’re not doing this because I got pissy about Bandit possibly dying waaaay back in the day.
I like Bandit, true, but I’ve had time to accept potential fates.
Me: I hope you’re not conceited enough to think that anything here has anything to do with you.
Beheading is too quick. The little jackass needs to suffer.
If they are squeamish about executing a child, they could always jail him until he turns 18 and then execute. :P
“Wait, how many bullets does that gun hold?”
“One…”
“And how long does it take to relaod?”
“Well, it’s a muzzle-loader so…”
“See ya!” *runs away*
This is a gnomish supertank that can fire magic explosive projectiles(?) over vast distances…and THIS is a muzzle-loader?
The Gastonian army seems to have a problem with conflicting priorities.
Hey! That HURT! Someone ban that noob!