I love the cutscene-interrupting action from our heroes. Forget your foreboding introduction HR, there’s butt ripe for kicking with your name all over it!
Though I have a feeling this isn’t going to be as simple as it seems, but we’ll see what else is going on Sepia-side.
Good work! That probably didn’t work but the very first thing any good adventurer should learn is to NOT let the scary monster finish its transformation before attacking, so at least their experience is showing.
I see that the Guilded Age crew has more than passing experience with that olde and earnest RPG strategy of “He is trying to say something! Quickly! Kill him!” and proceed to bashing to villain over the head with nuclear bombs strapped to lightsabers…
I swear every group I ever DMed for has done that so predictably that if I use a decoy for the villain they will always end up spending their best one-shot tricks and resources right off the bat. Case in point Byron has 200% less axes now.
A group I DM set to burning the furniture of the room where the Arc boss was giving his monologue. Definitely got him off of that. The following exchange was priceless.
Antagonist: “I’d prefer if we did this outside.”
Gnome Protagonist: “Well, I’d like a pony.” -settles curtains on fire-
“Okay Byron, okay.
One) just coz ya don’t like ‘is facial don’t mean ya can shave ‘im without ‘is permission, see?
Two) that was NOT a close shave!
Okay, and Three?) just coz ya missed don’t mean ya should get all pissy an’ boot ‘is ‘ead like yer in the final bloody goal in the World Cup!!”
I love the cutscene-interrupting action from our heroes. Forget your foreboding introduction HR, there’s butt ripe for kicking with your name all over it!
Though I have a feeling this isn’t going to be as simple as it seems, but we’ll see what else is going on Sepia-side.
Well, why wait for the enemy to be prepared? Just nuke him before he becomes a nuisance.
More like get an EDGE in edgewise, amirite?
Shaaaaarrrrp!
I find it immensely amusing that at the bottom of this comic there was an advertisement for skullkickers. You can’t get any more apropos than that.
too bad skullkickers ended ages ago though
The Glowy Fuck You and the Double Thrown Axe Head Punt.
What next? The Tectonic Ass Hammer of Dread?
The Divine Elevator Fart of Death: known to cause targets to suicide just to escape the agony.
If I could just cut in for a second, I’ve got a statement that’ll really make your head spin…
Nobody axe’d you for sharp commentary, you know. S’not slice.
Well? Come on. Chop-chop!
Trying to get an edge on us? Cut us some slack!
As ever, I be-cleave the best puns are already taken by the time I arrive. Well blade, everyone.
Get a handle here, Dan. Out of the chop-box thinking will always let you find ono more or another.
The trick is to steel someone else’s pun and slay it louder.
Good work! That probably didn’t work but the very first thing any good adventurer should learn is to NOT let the scary monster finish its transformation before attacking, so at least their experience is showing.
He’s just trying to say “Hello!” Jeeze folks, show some respect.
Hhhhheelllll….o, my baby, hello, my honey, hello my ragtime gaaal.
Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart’s on fire!
If you refuse me, honey ya lose me –
And you’ll be left alone, oh baby
Never gunna give you up! Never gunna let you down! Never gunna run around and desert you!
Offsides! Flag on the reference, twenty yard penalty. First down!
Score is fifteen-love and Gretzky has the ball.
I could use some cake about now.
Lies, Deception!
Ribbit.
I’m not sure, Baron, but I don’t think that’s how you help people.
….o, Darkness my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.
Hello, my name is H. R. Dedalus. You killed my eldritch abomination. Prepare to die.
Ooooh-kay, let’s NOT talk about where the softly creeping visions are leaving their seed…
HELLO WORLD
I see that the Guilded Age crew has more than passing experience with that olde and earnest RPG strategy of “He is trying to say something! Quickly! Kill him!” and proceed to bashing to villain over the head with nuclear bombs strapped to lightsabers…
I swear every group I ever DMed for has done that so predictably that if I use a decoy for the villain they will always end up spending their best one-shot tricks and resources right off the bat. Case in point Byron has 200% less axes now.
They won’t go far and he’s right there to pick them back up again. As long as he doesn’t stop to gloat it should be fine.
In fact, it should probably pick the axes up and immediately set about reducing the critter to purple mush, even if it appears to be dead…
A group I DM set to burning the furniture of the room where the Arc boss was giving his monologue. Definitely got him off of that. The following exchange was priceless.
Antagonist: “I’d prefer if we did this outside.”
Gnome Protagonist: “Well, I’d like a pony.” -settles curtains on fire-
Bah! In my day, talking was a free action!
The Peacekeepers obviously don’t watch anime. Time is supposed to freeze during a transformation so no one can interfere.
Uhhhhooohhhhh!!!!! *intensity intensifies*
Flash-bang tag team: Syr’Nj provides the light and Best provides the sound.
I did like that!
Nice natural 20 there, Byron. HR will likely sprout heads until Carol unplugs him.
“Do you have any idea how much that STINGS?!”
“I want you on the first transport out of the gravity well — or next time I’ll shoot you where it doesn’t grow back.”
Get him before he starts monologing!
I think he was actually about to say “HELP ME”
I thought so too.
I love that it looks like he even had the veins form his mustache.
I love the look of surprise on the H.R.’s spinning head in the last panel. Nice touch.
Yeah, I don’t think he expected that.
Yeah, this should work, thanks everyone!
… then again, probably not..
I had no idea the five all had so much speedrunning experience before now.
Lesson learned: don’t bring a fighting anime-style monologue to a MMORPG battle.
At least make sure you aren’t flagged as an attackable object yet.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that the monster was trying to say, “Help me.”
…LOOOOOO, NURSE!
Gonna be real disappointed if that head in the last panel isn’t an avatar at some point in the future.
…Though I guess since the comic is ending soon there wouldn’t be anywhere to use it. Kind of depressing, really.
That’s one way to get ahead of the situation
Gawd these raid bosses get easier every expac.
Well that’s the end folks! Final comic on Friday! Got it all in before 2018, good job!
Looks like Byron was trying to give HR a “Heads Up”
“Okay Byron, okay.
One) just coz ya don’t like ‘is facial don’t mean ya can shave ‘im without ‘is permission, see?
Two) that was NOT a close shave!
Okay, and Three?) just coz ya missed don’t mean ya should get all pissy an’ boot ‘is ‘ead like yer in the final bloody goal in the World Cup!!”
“Sorry.”
“S’alright, we’ve all been there.”
Either tomorrow’s the last update or time has made a liar of Phil & T. I’m praying for the latter.
Very rude, cutting HR short like that.
This is what happens when you reform your mustache before you do your brain.