Whoa snap they did listen. No more Bandit. Too bad he had to go and wreck what appeared to be a fully functioning Axe-Mech to do so. Still, more than just a dumb bruiser. Now Hammerhead: watch out for ambushes, the enemy is never dead till you see the red of their insides!
Makes more sense than running around until he finds a war machine to slam against. That must have lodged those daggers in just as deep as the ground would have.
Aw, come on, it was time for her to get bashed. She’s never faced death with the team before. Except for her trifurcation by Byron. And her nearly buying the farm from an unfairly amped up Auraugu. Waitaminit. Yes, as a Keynes lover, consider my sphincter slammed shut!
Except that there’s no body, and she’s the slipperiest guildie around.
But did she leave her daggers in his back? It could be good or bad for her depending on whether he just slammed them pommel-deep into his lungs, and whether she finds herself in a combat scenario before she has access to some new cutlery
Nah, that axe maching thing loos way too clean for Bandit to not have escaped somehow. Either that or even the way she die is cute and clean. So no, not worried about her. her cuteness will conquer all ! *o*
All of you think Bandit escaped some way. Personally I think it looks just like what you see. She quite literally vanished. You think the Main Characters/Non NPCS are the only ones with a few special tricks. They all “died” and came back yet Bandit gave a quick “reason” for her survival. Her disappearing act is properly linked to how she survived her “Death” back at the ring.
> All of you think Bandit escaped some way. Personally I think it looks just like what you see.
These aren’t mutually exclusive…
Last time Bandit died there was a body. (It may not have been in one piece, but it was there.) How she got back is still a mystery, admittedly. (Even if I’m still wondering about the five graves here: chapter 9, page 24 – Gravedust (1), Byron (2), Frigg (3), Syr’Nj (4)…)
So he ran across an entire battlefield to smash her against that thing when he could have just did a forward roll? Clearly these baddie heroes are suffering from the typical Hollywood bad guy sense of the dramatic. ;D
Note that he also wrecked one of his own team’s hackers.
If we give HAMMERHEAD the benefit of the doubt, we could figure that dumping her in the middle of his army even if she gets off is not a great spot for her. Battlefields are pretty bad places for rogues – even if they survive, they’re usually surrounded by low-importance targets.
I figure he might have failed an int check. He’s smarter than the other landsharks, but that says very little, and they might have to do some extra rolls regardless of their score, which leaves room for fumbling them.
…wouldn’t an impact that severe have driven those daggers into his internal organs like tentpegs? They’d be jagged, twisted corkscrews in his upper thoracic.
He’s also a giant shark. Jaws didn’t give a shit about multiple harpoons in his back. HAMMERHEAD isn’t going to give a shit about blades barely six inches long in his back.
Those harpoons weren’t fired into Jaws with enough force to crumple and burst flush-riveted iron plate. They wouldn’t be “in his back” they’d be ricocheting around his organ village in jagged fragments.
Yeah, I was actually surprised there wasn’t more of, like, HIS blood on the tank. I assume it was left clean so that there’s no ambiguity about whether she was actually smushed.
There is also the possibility that she’s glitchy; that her death respawns her elsewhere.
I expect Bandit to pop up where least expected and do the time honored Gnomish Crotch Poke (there was this one Rogue, back in the name, named Pungo or something, who would kill every damn one of us every damn time just by hiding in the worst places, then BOING! stunstabstunstunstabstabstabstun /ded…, he was kinda legendary.)
Never underestimate a gnome. They’re no small matter.
He isn’t smart. He’s lucky. If she hadn’t pulled the daggers out and lept free, he’d have driven them right into his own upper chest. At the angle, if the shoulder blades didn’t stop the daggers, chances are major organs would have been destroyed.
I understand why he didn’t stop drop and roll with so many enemies around him to pounce him while prone. But driving his full weight onto dagger tips is crazy. Scraping from side to side would have torn muscle but at least the vitals would have been safer.
I just looked up shark anatomy, it looks like the organ he’s most at risk of rupturing is the liver or stomach (assuming land sharks have shark anatomy and aren’t just really freaky humans). Both would likely kill him eventually, but it would take several hours and a healer could probably fix him easily since it’s a fantasy world.
Also, from that grimace in the fourth panel… It looks like Bandit might not have taken her daggers with her…
Personally, I really hope that “this” doesn’t work. Or at least, that it doesn’t do more than some token damage to an airship.
The narrative expectancy is so high that it should, but I just don’t want the genocidal invading army that laid waste to the wood elves to win this battle. Good (or, at any rate, “less bad”) guys need a win.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be much of a plotline war if the attackers got stopped at the first blockade… That said, it would be a shame (albeit an impressive achievement) to see such lovely airships get blown up by birds with makeshift rockets on their backs…
Not sure why Byron thinks of HAMMERHEAD as a berserker, nor why he thinks that fighting HAMMER is like fighting himself “at his worst”. No Byron. At your worst you’re a team-killing psychopath with no regard for your own life. HAMMERHEAD may fight wildly and fiercely, but he’s notable level-headed and calculated the actions he takes.
Well, he did run away from his fellow champions, and smashed the only axe-tank that we’ve seen, so far. He could’ve thrown himself against the fortress wall, possibly damaging it, instead.
By getting rid of the axe-tank, himself, he removed one of the dirigibles’ biggest targets, freeing them to bomb a bunch more rebel troops.
Of course, as someone said, he now has some giant axes to fight with, so hopefully that means a one-on-one axe battle with Byron.
Next page, HAMMERHEAD lets out a blood curdling scream. His eyes roll back in his head. His knees tremble. And, just before he collapses, Bandit pops out from under his kilt, holding a bloody dagger in one hand, and a whopper of a trophy in the other. Dx
Heh.
Jaws belt.
Where do these artists think of stuff like that?
Well? Go ask them!
HEY, ARTISTE! WHERE *DO* YOU THINK OF STUFF LIKE THAT!
Oh hey, he did what people were saying he should do. I guess it was just a matter of finding something sufficiently hard to smash her against?
Also, is Bandit trying to verbally control him in that first panel? I can’t remember if she tried that in the other page or not.
Whoa snap they did listen. No more Bandit. Too bad he had to go and wreck what appeared to be a fully functioning Axe-Mech to do so. Still, more than just a dumb bruiser. Now Hammerhead: watch out for ambushes, the enemy is never dead till you see the red of their insides!
NOW I HAVE A PAIR OF AXES.
HO. HO. HO.
— HAMMERHEAD
Meh, the axe mechs don’t look like they would do much against warriors on foot anyway…
It looks like a formation-breaker, meant to pierce battle lines rather than kill soldiers (ie: not very useful where it’s sitting)
What, the ground didn’t seem hard enough for him? Or was rolling around like some sort of… land… canine too undignified for the berserker?
So, fall down on his back, likely lodging those daggers deeper Into him and exposing himsel to attack from anyone nearby?
Makes more sense than running around until he finds a war machine to slam against. That must have lodged those daggers in just as deep as the ground would have.
I get an itching suspicion that maybe he just wanted her to get off his back?
He sure has a finny way of showing it.
He didn’t have any advisors nearby to flotsam better options by him.
Oh dear, I sense a leviathan pun thread forming…
Oh don’t be so shallow about it all.
Yeah, coral your negativity and kelp a upbeat attitude
Bandit disappearing like that…Hammerhead senses something fishy going on here.
I felt the Bandit fans’ respective bums clench like a disturbance in the Force.
Aw, come on, it was time for her to get bashed. She’s never faced death with the team before. Except for her trifurcation by Byron. And her nearly buying the farm from an unfairly amped up Auraugu. Waitaminit. Yes, as a Keynes lover, consider my sphincter slammed shut!
Except that there’s no body, and she’s the slipperiest guildie around.
Yep. Bandit is quick and agile.
I figure she pulled the red lever about the time he started turning.
But did she leave her daggers in his back? It could be good or bad for her depending on whether he just slammed them pommel-deep into his lungs, and whether she finds herself in a combat scenario before she has access to some new cutlery
Nah, that axe maching thing loos way too clean for Bandit to not have escaped somehow. Either that or even the way she die is cute and clean. So no, not worried about her. her cuteness will conquer all ! *o*
All of you think Bandit escaped some way. Personally I think it looks just like what you see. She quite literally vanished. You think the Main Characters/Non NPCS are the only ones with a few special tricks. They all “died” and came back yet Bandit gave a quick “reason” for her survival. Her disappearing act is properly linked to how she survived her “Death” back at the ring.
> All of you think Bandit escaped some way. Personally I think it looks just like what you see.
These aren’t mutually exclusive…
Last time Bandit died there was a body. (It may not have been in one piece, but it was there.) How she got back is still a mystery, admittedly. (Even if I’m still wondering about the five graves here: chapter 9, page 24 – Gravedust (1), Byron (2), Frigg (3), Syr’Nj (4)…)
So he ran across an entire battlefield to smash her against that thing when he could have just did a forward roll? Clearly these baddie heroes are suffering from the typical Hollywood bad guy sense of the dramatic. ;D
Note that he also wrecked one of his own team’s hackers.
If we give HAMMERHEAD the benefit of the doubt, we could figure that dumping her in the middle of his army even if she gets off is not a great spot for her. Battlefields are pretty bad places for rogues – even if they survive, they’re usually surrounded by low-importance targets.
I figure he might have failed an int check. He’s smarter than the other landsharks, but that says very little, and they might have to do some extra rolls regardless of their score, which leaves room for fumbling them.
The absence of squished Bandit makes me cheer, the absence of non-squished Bandit makes me fear.
She has earned bragging rights for destroying a tank with nothing but a landshark.
…wouldn’t an impact that severe have driven those daggers into his internal organs like tentpegs? They’d be jagged, twisted corkscrews in his upper thoracic.
You’d think so, assuming she didn’t take them with her. Also, how’s his dorsal fin now?
He’s also a giant shark. Jaws didn’t give a shit about multiple harpoons in his back. HAMMERHEAD isn’t going to give a shit about blades barely six inches long in his back.
Those harpoons weren’t fired into Jaws with enough force to crumple and burst flush-riveted iron plate. They wouldn’t be “in his back” they’d be ricocheting around his organ village in jagged fragments.
…yeah, she undoubtably took them with her.
[Bandit left the channel.]
Eject, eject!
She obviously did.
God, oh god….I have a horrible flash of him turning around and us getting a view of a smashed bandit on his back. Please let that not happen.
Nah. If Bandit had been squashed, there would be more blood and bits on the indention he had left on the tank.
Yeah, I was actually surprised there wasn’t more of, like, HIS blood on the tank. I assume it was left clean so that there’s no ambiguity about whether she was actually smushed.
There is also the possibility that she’s glitchy; that her death respawns her elsewhere.
Tank, meet Tank.
Tanks a lot.
Hammerhead is so cool. Just sayin’…
Bandit was really quick to press that respawn button wasn’t she?
No Guts, No Glory…
I expect Bandit to pop up where least expected and do the time honored Gnomish Crotch Poke (there was this one Rogue, back in the name, named Pungo or something, who would kill every damn one of us every damn time just by hiding in the worst places, then BOING! stunstabstunstunstabstabstabstun /ded…, he was kinda legendary.)
Never underestimate a gnome. They’re no small matter.
“Player Bandit_Keynes has logged out”
“You cannot enter another battleground or arena instance for fifteen minutes”
what, I put in “”, why did it not show Deserter
THIS MAKES ME ANGRY
IF WE LET THEM TAKE OUR DEBUFFS HOW LONG BEFORE WE LOSE EVERYTHING GASTONIA STANDS FOR
He isn’t smart. He’s lucky. If she hadn’t pulled the daggers out and lept free, he’d have driven them right into his own upper chest. At the angle, if the shoulder blades didn’t stop the daggers, chances are major organs would have been destroyed.
I understand why he didn’t stop drop and roll with so many enemies around him to pounce him while prone. But driving his full weight onto dagger tips is crazy. Scraping from side to side would have torn muscle but at least the vitals would have been safer.
Knife in the back, pushed all the way in?
It’s HAMMERHEAD. He can take it.
I just looked up shark anatomy, it looks like the organ he’s most at risk of rupturing is the liver or stomach (assuming land sharks have shark anatomy and aren’t just really freaky humans). Both would likely kill him eventually, but it would take several hours and a healer could probably fix him easily since it’s a fantasy world.
Also, from that grimace in the fourth panel… It looks like Bandit might not have taken her daggers with her…
Personally, I really hope that “this” doesn’t work. Or at least, that it doesn’t do more than some token damage to an airship.
The narrative expectancy is so high that it should, but I just don’t want the genocidal invading army that laid waste to the wood elves to win this battle. Good (or, at any rate, “less bad”) guys need a win.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be much of a plotline war if the attackers got stopped at the first blockade… That said, it would be a shame (albeit an impressive achievement) to see such lovely airships get blown up by birds with makeshift rockets on their backs…
Not sure why Byron thinks of HAMMERHEAD as a berserker, nor why he thinks that fighting HAMMER is like fighting himself “at his worst”. No Byron. At your worst you’re a team-killing psychopath with no regard for your own life. HAMMERHEAD may fight wildly and fiercely, but he’s notable level-headed and calculated the actions he takes.
Well, he did run away from his fellow champions, and smashed the only axe-tank that we’ve seen, so far. He could’ve thrown himself against the fortress wall, possibly damaging it, instead.
By getting rid of the axe-tank, himself, he removed one of the dirigibles’ biggest targets, freeing them to bomb a bunch more rebel troops.
Of course, as someone said, he now has some giant axes to fight with, so hopefully that means a one-on-one axe battle with Byron.
Next page, HAMMERHEAD lets out a blood curdling scream. His eyes roll back in his head. His knees tremble. And, just before he collapses, Bandit pops out from under his kilt, holding a bloody dagger in one hand, and a whopper of a trophy in the other. Dx