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NP Comic for Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 A good smack upside the head fixes many a technical difficulty. Unless it breaks the thing.
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NP Comic for Thursday, May 25, 2023 Sense this makes not. Rogue or whatever, you should be benefiting the party, or perhaps if you are evil, benefiting yourself. This just seems chaotic stupid. Hence the "WHAT." from three other players. . . . Maybe she has a plan? I don't see it.
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Comic for Wednesday, May 24, 2023 This is a long exposition comic. I guess it's setting something up? It's so drawn out that Grace and Ellen turn into mere shadows of themselves in the last panel. That's some intense exposition!.
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Comic for Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Marik the Cleric is officially out of his gourd. He has painfully overthought this, and missed the key point, his target cannot read his hieroglyph.
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NP Comic for Saturday, May 20, 2023 This overly convoluted cultist plan does not seem suitable for an introductory module. Even if the cultists had successfully kidnapped Nanase's character, she would have been unable to translate the hieroglyphic message. 'Sick' dates this comic as being framed in a previous generation of slang. Not as bad as 'tubular', 'rad', or 'bad' though. It's really hep, isn't it, daddy-o. I'm hoping this wraps up soon. The eye opening of Rich has been accomplished, now we're just beating a dead horse, er, uhm, chicken. Hopefully not actually dead yet. So far I think no one has died, including cultists.
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NP Comic for Thursday, May 18, 2023 The plot chickens! The cultists, who intend to sacrifice Mirabel, threaten to harm Mirabel, ... OK, how does translating a message free her? Was this a sacrifice to obtain a translation? If they kill her without sacrificing her, does this put them back at square one regarding available adored chicken sacrifices? I'm not seeing the logic to this. Maybe they could spruce up the decoy, make it 'fancy'. There is a connection to Nanase's world in the scenario, that's going to be part of solving this.
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NP Comic for Saturday, May 13, 2023 There are indeed fancy chickens, breeds developed for showy plumage or other features. There are chickens that lay fancy eggs, colored eggs (specific to breed), no Easter bunny involved. But that is not what Ellen means. Rich causes a mental hiccup when he asks her what she means, which is a basic chicken, but a tidy one, because she had not thought it through. Are the seven cultists confident they can beat the adventurers? They outnumber them, and the party is level 1s, but they do have combat skills. Is Mirabel at this point a hostage? Surely a de facto one, even if not intended. I half expect an anticlimactic ending that recasts the whole quest. Something like the cultists were actually rescuing or recovering Mirabel.
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Comic for Thursday, May 11, 2023 Ruse works. " (Don't think too hard about the logic of me saying she definitely would have rolled a three, for there is none there) " - The die has '3' on all sides.
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NP Comic for Tuesday, May 2, 2023 Well, that kind of breaks the player/character separation boundary, doesn't it? "I want to make sure Maribel is OK." "Roll to perceive the chicken." - Seems a bit over board, really, so I expect there should be a real surprise here. There ought to be anyway, unguarded sacrificial chicken and what not. "Hey, Maribel, what's cooking?" "Bwawk!" <thud> "Maribel faints when you ask her about what is cooking."
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NP Comic for Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 The chicken is in an empty room. I'm tempted to say check for traps, take the chicken, and leave. Come back to deal with the cultists if necessary.
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https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-122 Something is about to snap in George's brain
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NP Comic for Tuesday, Apr 18, 2023 How did those people happen to know to drop down just then? Why weren't they focused on their cult's ceremony? Weren't the large holes in the ceiling obvious? Did the party get a spot check? It's a D20, Ellen.
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NP Comic for Saturday, Apr 15, 2023 If you ever want to add tension to a TTRPG game you are running, just roll some dice and then flip pages. It could mean something. Pointed questions are useful, too.
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NP Comic for Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 Ellen puts the train back on the rails, Rich briefly objects. Then she misremembers the chicken's name, which derails her monologue. The chicken should have been named Marble, because they have currently lost it. George is on top of this, and tests Ellen, who is glad that she does not require a reboot. "Hi. I'm Eileen Dinkel. I'm bad with names. My future kids will be Cheese Curd and Copious Flatus. They will hate me, but when they are adults they will change their names, not tell me, and we will loose contact. I consider this to be a win on all sides."
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NP Comic for Thursday, Mar 23, 2023 Seems that Larry would already know subdual vs lethal damage. Odd question. In spite of this, Ellen explains, then realizes she jumped to conclusions. George saves the day, sort of. This seems to me to be too much detail, bogging down progress. If you know this material, this explanation is unnecessary. If you don't it's not enough to really explain it. It's kind of a weird mechanic anyway. The gist is that beating something up inspires loyalty. There may be some truth in that in the short term, but in the long run, you are only making enemies and setting up future challenges to authority. In terms of simply not killing things, though, it works.
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NP Comic for Tuesday, Mar 7, 2023 No real surprises, they beat the small group. Mission focus might mean sparing the cultist is a foolish risk.
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NP Comic for Thursday, Mar 2, 2023 Lemme see those dice. That 20 was awfully convenient. "Rich smash." "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." "We barely tolerate you when you're not angry!" "See, I'm right!"
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NP Comic for Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 Smells a little like a plan, even if that wasn't what they were cooking at the beginning. The legend of Nanase may survive the first encounter!
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NP Comic for Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 Nanase's rogue goes full lawful stupid. Oops, indeed. "What did she just do?" Reactions: Larry's face is consternation, along the lines of "We're screwed" - probably not true, but the situation got more difficult. George's is confusion, "Why would you do that?" Riches is inscrutable, ellipses - He's either pissed, or "I knew she couldn't role play", or "I knew girls can't role play", or "Hey, that's my role!" Difficult to say which. He's clearly not thrilled though. Ellen's response is priceless. "You f***ed up, Honey, I'm explaining how ..." Pretty gentle, really, and hopefully preemptively defuses anyone else's presumably hostile response. Nanase's "Oops" response says she learned something, but it may be overwhelmed by "I knew I hated this." So, for today's comic, she's actually playing a rouge, applying the red to her cheeks as clown style makeup. Which may be appropriate if they have a TPK before they even reach the climax of the module.
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NP Comic for Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023 Nanase is determined to role play. I am curious if this works for her.
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NP Comic for Saturday, Feb 18, 2023 At least three people down the side path. They are on break, so this is not the main show. Dealing with them now means they cannot reinforce later - a good reason to be doing the side path first. What could possibly be better than an adequate beloved prize chicken? I think he only needs to break the first guy.
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NP Comic for Thursday, Feb 16, 2023 In the first panel, Ellen is simply beside herself. Her imaginary fairy self outfit is more risque than is typical for EGS (in fact, seems to defy physics, at least slightly). I'm sure this says something about Ellen's positive body image and being comfortable in her own skin, in regard to how Dan views Ellen seeing herself. Larry's too cute elf seems to say that Larry would enjoy being transformed, if he knew it was an option. I am guessing that this is foreshadowing, and it is going to happen; it may be a messing with Rich moment as well, as he deals with his best friend being transformed. Oh, and she seems to be flirting with him. Oh, dear, what a tangled web! Meta: This NP must be fun for Dan; he has taken several breaks from the main comic, but has not slowed down much on this NP arc. Nothing we've seen so far appears to remove this from canon. It's a fair amount of stage time. Does this elevate the minor character participants' status yet? George still seems like a prop, kind of just there, but Rich and Larry are at least hitting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern levels. Looting on the way out would make more sense logistically. Lugging that weight would hinder them in battle. But, in Riches defense, if they don't loot now, they are likely to get a cut scene when they meet their quest objective, and be unable to loot afterward.
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NP Comic for Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023 No, Nanase, you're supposed to roll the dice, not tumble yourself! Good thing she saw the wire. That could have been a quick session.
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NP Comic for Saturday, Feb 11, 2023 No one questioned the tracks changing. Would it not make sense to leave the treasure, and pick it up on the way out? Perhaps stash the bag and return for it? Could be hors d'oeuvres before the ceremony ...
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NP Comic for Thursday, Feb 9, 2023 Ellen with weird cat ears and flying pony tails thinks about checking the module, for some reason, this is 'sneaky'. I don't get the art; maybe 'cats are sneaky'? Maybe they are fox ears? Her lips are weird, too. Ellen finds that goblins are used because they are level appropriate, no back story given. She looks normal (one panel is a silhouette). Ellen wants a back story. The art is weird again, but it's hard to tell exactly what is going on. Flattened cat/fox ears? Her pony tails have weird spikes now. She is sticking out her tongue in a way that does not seem natural. I am aware of having stuck out my tongue, but I cannot recall me nor anyone else doing it specifically to show disapproval of an idea the way she is. Crazy explanation: Ellen shape shifts as she's thinking, but is not aware of it. More likely: Ellen is imagining herself as a character-like figure while she thinks about the game. Her look reflects her mood of the moment. Hopefully not: These are out of context 'clues' to Ellen's attitude just imposed from outside as commentary. Meta: yet another comic that provides micro-progress for the story.
