NP Comic for Saturday, Nov 19, 2022

[mlooney 3,417]

Here is.

DM teleportation is a real thing.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Another game master recovery opportunity!

The Mayor's official residence is a hillside challet overlooking the village.

The road leads to the formal enterance on the top level while the garden & servant's door is at the bottom.

 

[mlooney 3,417]

That would work.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

Elevator, dumb waiter, fly, laundry chute, carry, rope ladder, phase door ...

[ijuin 572]

Feather Fall spell, perhaps?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Side effect of growing up in a hilly town.

Front & back doors on different levels are common.

Although enterances on the first & third stories would imply a big house on a very steep hill.

[mlooney 3,417]

I've seen a Bavarian hotel that was 10-12 stories tall and had a walk in entrance on every floor.   Ski country.

[ijuin 572]

2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Side effect of growing up in a hilly town.

Front & back doors on different levels are common.

Although enterances on the first & third stories would imply a big house on a very steep hill.

Simply having a third floor, excluding attic or basement/cellar levels, implies a large house if it’s outside of a crowded city environment where buildings build upward instead of outward.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

... and the size of the chicken's bedroom might tip you off that the building is big ...

[ijuin 572]

Yeah, it’s the kind of feudal society in which people of lesser means tend not to become Mayor.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

As opposed to a society where people of great means place their puppets in political office . . .

[ijuin 572]

As opposed to a society in which poor peasants are even permitted to vote for their own Mayor.

[mlooney 3,417]

Even in societies that allow one man one vote systems, political offices tend to be held by people of means.  That or the house is like the White House, and comes with the job.

[Amiable Dorsai 70]

You pretty much have to have some wealth to be able to take off a year or so in order to run for office. Losing the election would leave a person of modest means bankrupt.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

1 hour ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

Losing the election would leave a person of modest means bankrupt.

Winning or losing leaves many morally bankrupt.

 

[Amiable Dorsai 70]

Huh, I only just realized why Nanase's game persona was resonating so strongly for me: For a few day's after I had a hip replaced, I was completely unable to use stairs. It putan incredible crimp in my life. I couldn't even go home until I could climb enough stairs just to get in.

[mlooney 3,417]

When I had a temporary case of arthritis a few years ago I was unable to climb stairs. Made going to the clinic a literal pain. 

[ChronosCat 155]

I didn't bring this up at the time of the first strip mentioning Nanase's character's backstory because I thought it would be too depressing, but my Grandmother died after falling down her basement stairs. I've been a lot more careful around stairs myself ever since. I also can no longer laugh at jokes about stairs, which makes the lighthearted way this story is handling the matter a bit annoying for me (on the other hand, I do find myself with a lot of sympathy for Nanase's character).