Actually, I think this might be a humbling moment for Penk. The Peacemakers just rolled deep on this thing, even though they could well have let it decimate the camp. The Champions only knew sound worked on it because WAV told them, and as far as Penk knows, the Peacemakers brought him along. Even then, Frigg was key in killing it.
The whole first half of the fight was one-sided shit-talking, and then one of the Champions goes apeshit and tries to kill Frigg even in the face of literal oblivion. Penk and Magda would have been on board with stopping this thing if it was attacking a Gastonian village, I suspect, but it’s pretty damn unlikely any of the other Champions would have gone for it. My money says Penk realizes that his side might not have the moral high ground, and any minute now Gravedust is gonna drop a truth bomb on Magda (who already had her life saved once by Fr’nj).
If word of this gets back to Gastonia, the Peacemakers could end up in serious shit for helping the Rebellion; Frigg and crew have risked a LOT being here, and I think Penk’s about to get hit by that.
It’s hard for the peacemakers to have the moral high ground as long as they fight for Gastonia. Both sides practice many evils like slavery, and both sides have engaged in empire building (gnolls and Gastonia), both have shown corruption
Gastonia, though, has shown an aggressiveness that no one can match. They wear a veneer of civility while intimidating and lieing to their allies, and killing their dissidents. It’s not surprising that the champions wouldn’t want to help humans. Remember the dwarves and the humans were allies for a while. Funny how that worked out.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
Well … she DID just almost get eaten by a savage race shark from Penk’s team.
Which caused her to be open to attack by the Derezzer.
Which necessitated Rachel’s rescue.
Which resulted in ol’ Shoggoth busting them through a building.
Which produced Rachel’s death (I think Frigg knows she’s gone).
I’d be P.O.’d too.
But what is the measurement of that threshold in terms of time? Exactly how much time are we allowing for the all important social convention of cuddling? Surely there are scientific studies that gives us this information.
WEll your problem is the wrong unit of measurement. Time is not appropriate. Rather you measure it in cuddles/Time. A baseline unit of measurement is a full 10 minutes with snuggles the downy bear. This is a Snuggle. 1.5 snuggles is the bell curve.
Penk may have respect for you, Frigg. He certainly has the weirdest boner right now–and also painful, because the armor of Tectonicus wasn’t designed with that in mind.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children
shout,
But there is no joy in Guilded Age—beloved Rachel has been struck out.
“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
So the real question is who the Abyss is in this case: the eye that Frigg looks into or the eyes of Frigg that H.R. was looking into from across the cyber/necromantic void?
Because right now Frigg looks like The Destroyer of Worlds.
Penk, your shark buddy DID just try to eat her, you know. Which more or less caused Rachel to put herself in danger. But I don’t know if Penk was there to see Hammerhead attack Frigg?
I’m shipping Penk and Frigg now… like for serious. Stepping back from it and thinking from a story and personality-as-portrayed so far poitn of view. These two have both been lonely seeking love for awhile, they don’t have good matches on their own teams, and they just kicked ass together to save butt… were I writing this? There would be smooching shortly from here. ;)
Nah, this isn’t “I need something to do with all this energy, take off your pants.” rage. This is “Frigg! He’s dead! He’s been dead for at least the last eight minutes! Stop hitting him already! The hole’s getting too deep to get you out!” rage.
So… you’re saying the sex won’t be gentle? I mean, we’ve all gotta die sometime. Getting Frigg-pounded into the ground sounds like a pretty heroic way to end up 6 feet under. (As long as they’re both consenting adults?)
I mean, imagine your epitaph… the tavern songs in your honor… the legends of how you rose to the challenge, went down, and never came back up. The history books would record your noble sacrifice. You would set the bar for every young couple to try to surpass.
It dropped a Gastonia/World’s Rebellion Nonagression Pact. You need to carry it back and forth to collect signatures from major NPCs on both sides, then you can start the “take down the cultists” quest chain.
I can’t tell if that anger is grief over Rachel (assuming Frigg was even conscious enough to know what happened), genuine disdain for Penk (she rarely if ever passes judgment on other people’s morals), frustration over a god-fucking-awful battle, or all of the above.
I hope this ends with reconciliation between the Peacemakers and the Champions, but I doubt that will happen. In any case, I can’t wait to see tomorrow’s page! (and the one after that, and after that…)
T, Phil, Waltrips… y’all do realize that you’re doing free advertising, again, right? I mean, after this, everyone is gonna wanna go out and buy a friggin’ can of Mace®.
I would suggest selling Guilded Age customized cans of Mace®, but the liability insurance you’d have to get would ruin you.
Now, Frigg stickers sized to fit cans of Mace®, on the other hand… ;)
And I think Frigg just single hammeredly smashed a chance at peace.
It mace seem that way…
Or she just opened the way to a new hate-@#$%!
Hopeful gravatar?
now shipping penk and frigg
Nah, it’s all right, Frigg only does love hate relationships.
Speaking of hammering, where´s that stupid sharkman ?
Actually, I think this might be a humbling moment for Penk. The Peacemakers just rolled deep on this thing, even though they could well have let it decimate the camp. The Champions only knew sound worked on it because WAV told them, and as far as Penk knows, the Peacemakers brought him along. Even then, Frigg was key in killing it.
The whole first half of the fight was one-sided shit-talking, and then one of the Champions goes apeshit and tries to kill Frigg even in the face of literal oblivion. Penk and Magda would have been on board with stopping this thing if it was attacking a Gastonian village, I suspect, but it’s pretty damn unlikely any of the other Champions would have gone for it. My money says Penk realizes that his side might not have the moral high ground, and any minute now Gravedust is gonna drop a truth bomb on Magda (who already had her life saved once by Fr’nj).
If word of this gets back to Gastonia, the Peacemakers could end up in serious shit for helping the Rebellion; Frigg and crew have risked a LOT being here, and I think Penk’s about to get hit by that.
I hope so.
I hope that’s the only thing he gets hit by.
It’s hard for the peacemakers to have the moral high ground as long as they fight for Gastonia. Both sides practice many evils like slavery, and both sides have engaged in empire building (gnolls and Gastonia), both have shown corruption
Gastonia, though, has shown an aggressiveness that no one can match. They wear a veneer of civility while intimidating and lieing to their allies, and killing their dissidents. It’s not surprising that the champions wouldn’t want to help humans. Remember the dwarves and the humans were allies for a while. Funny how that worked out.
Yeah… Someone should tell Penk that the only stage of grieving Frig knows is Anger.
Anger
Hatef*ck
Smash
drinking to oblivion
Anger. Because you can never be too angry.
Fear leads to Anger.
Anger leads to Hate.
Hate leads to Suffering.
I forget if Suffering leads to the Dark Side.
Suffering leads to cookies.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
That Gravitar is just right for your comment.
As is yours.
Suffering leads to a free ride in an ambulance ?
Free? You must have one hell of health care plan!
Charlie Spencer!!! Haven’t seen you since the Great White-Out over at TR.
You forgot sex. Lots of sex.
Well … she DID just almost get eaten by a savage race shark from Penk’s team.
Which caused her to be open to attack by the Derezzer.
Which necessitated Rachel’s rescue.
Which resulted in ol’ Shoggoth busting them through a building.
Which produced Rachel’s death (I think Frigg knows she’s gone).
I’d be P.O.’d too.
Man, if I were Penk, the whole bottom half of my armor would have turned yellow and brown.
Oh wait! He’s wearing a loincloth!
SMART!
Common enemy usually unites foes… but for how long?
Post coital
But what is the measurement of that threshold in terms of time? Exactly how much time are we allowing for the all important social convention of cuddling? Surely there are scientific studies that gives us this information.
WEll your problem is the wrong unit of measurement. Time is not appropriate. Rather you measure it in cuddles/Time. A baseline unit of measurement is a full 10 minutes with snuggles the downy bear. This is a Snuggle. 1.5 snuggles is the bell curve.
What’s the standard deviation?
That depends wholly on what you’re into :D
If they were standard then they wouldn’t be deviations.
Stop.
Hammertime!
Penk may have respect for you, Frigg. He certainly has the weirdest boner right now–and also painful, because the armor of Tectonicus wasn’t designed with that in mind.
Looking at his helmet, I’m pretty sure that Tectonicus meant the armor as a form of birth control.
Good good! Late the hate flow through you! Use it! Strike him down! Take his power! become stronger then you were before!
Oh, an I am NOT your father, by the way.
So be it … Jed-Eye.
… and then Penk said: “Ah- Moooooooody!”
No but srsly, FINALY!
What ?
Just “Blip, game over ?”
I expected at last two strips full of fancy special effects.
…
Oh well. Frigg going berserk will have to do.
Victory isn’t always as satisfying as they make it out to be on television.
Sometimes you win and all you get is time to think about what it cost you.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children
shout,
But there is no joy in Guilded Age—beloved Rachel has been struck out.
Oh no.
AND ONCE AGAIN THE DAY WAS not SAVED BY AURAUGU, THE CHAMPION OF FUZZY PEOPLE.
Aw come on ~uguu, you didn’t said you could wrassle ANYTHING?
“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
So the real question is who the Abyss is in this case: the eye that Frigg looks into or the eyes of Frigg that H.R. was looking into from across the cyber/necromantic void?
Because right now Frigg looks like The Destroyer of Worlds.
That’s an EYEbys.
Ayup…….
Frigg : “you lookin’ at me ? You lookin’ at ME ?!” And then, glowing hammershit to the face.
“Human… you… have a little pixelated tentacle leftover in your hair, see?”
That’s just how I like it.
I think it’s time for a menage a everyone.
Or…? Gee!
Ew, no. I get all my softcore partner-swapping porn needs met by T’s other strips, thank you very much.
Don’t take it personally, Penk. She lost her best friend.
And didn’t realize she was such until too late.
We know not if the creature experiences emotions, but Frig taught it fear.
Penk, your shark buddy DID just try to eat her, you know. Which more or less caused Rachel to put herself in danger. But I don’t know if Penk was there to see Hammerhead attack Frigg?
Man – Frigg’s holy armor aura sooo reminds me of the personal shields from the old Dune movie. This is a good thing :)
So slow blades will penetrate her shield? That could be… awkward.
No worries here, don’t Trolls like it rough? Regeneration and all that…
I’m shipping Penk and Frigg now… like for serious. Stepping back from it and thinking from a story and personality-as-portrayed so far poitn of view. These two have both been lonely seeking love for awhile, they don’t have good matches on their own teams, and they just kicked ass together to save butt… were I writing this? There would be smooching shortly from here. ;)
Nah, this isn’t “I need something to do with all this energy, take off your pants.” rage. This is “Frigg! He’s dead! He’s been dead for at least the last eight minutes! Stop hitting him already! The hole’s getting too deep to get you out!” rage.
So… you’re saying the sex won’t be gentle? I mean, we’ve all gotta die sometime. Getting Frigg-pounded into the ground sounds like a pretty heroic way to end up 6 feet under. (As long as they’re both consenting adults?)
I mean, imagine your epitaph… the tavern songs in your honor… the legends of how you rose to the challenge, went down, and never came back up. The history books would record your noble sacrifice. You would set the bar for every young couple to try to surpass.
[standard don’t try this at home disclaimer]
This is what I imagine the epic rock sounds like – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgVK1EfNVU
Dreamtheater FTW (Although I’m a Portnoy girl)
Who cares about all this political crap, WHAT DID IT DROP!?
Where’s the raid loot!?
I don’t know about the boss, but I think Penk just dropped something. In his pants.
It dropped a Gastonia/World’s Rebellion Nonagression Pact. You need to carry it back and forth to collect signatures from major NPCs on both sides, then you can start the “take down the cultists” quest chain.
Nah, I think that would be too considerably rare of a drop to ever get on the first try.
“To the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.”
Sometimes it’s OK to just not talk, Penk.
I can’t tell if that anger is grief over Rachel (assuming Frigg was even conscious enough to know what happened), genuine disdain for Penk (she rarely if ever passes judgment on other people’s morals), frustration over a god-fucking-awful battle, or all of the above.
I don’t see how Frigg would know about Rachel. She’s just reacting to Penk’s unspoken accusation of kill-stealing. “YOU WANT SOMMA THIS?! HUH?!”
Shows what I know.
Frigg is to diplomacy what sand is to clockwork.
But sand is to clockwork what anally penetrating the white queen is to chess.
I hope this ends with reconciliation between the Peacemakers and the Champions, but I doubt that will happen. In any case, I can’t wait to see tomorrow’s page! (and the one after that, and after that…)
T, Phil, Waltrips… y’all do realize that you’re doing free advertising, again, right? I mean, after this, everyone is gonna wanna go out and buy a friggin’ can of Mace®.
I would suggest selling Guilded Age customized cans of Mace®, but the liability insurance you’d have to get would ruin you.
Now, Frigg stickers sized to fit cans of Mace®, on the other hand… ;)