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Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri May 20, 2005 5:39 pm

squirrelly61104 wrote:Ahem.
Considering what else has just come out, I offer two pithy coments regarding todays strip.
Panel one:
The force, Quentyn. Use the force!
The last panel:
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Addendum to last panel to wit:

"I have a baaad feeling about this"

Shaaruuk

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Fri May 20, 2005 7:46 pm

[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.

I just wonder why it didn't occur to Quentyn to call any guardsmen during his chase.

Still, if Wildcard is unwrapped, won't he immediately sense it as it starts to recharge?

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:27 pm

The JAM wrote:Still, if Wildcard is unwrapped, won't he immediately sense it as it starts to recharge?

I sure hope so.

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:58 pm

That depends on how smart the thieves are. If they know they have a powerful lux-charged artifact (clue with the mage proof silk) they won't let it out until they know they can analyse it better in secret.

Bonded items have been known to exist in the past. If they know it is bonded they might either try to break that bond, or destroy the object before Quentyn can get a good "fix" on it.

If they are foolish, and don't take the purple (black) blade as a clue. They will leave it unwrapped too long, it will recharge and the real fun will begin.

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:00 pm

im hoping for foolish

... that theif really deserves to have a hole blown in the side of his hideout.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Sat May 21, 2005 3:36 am

squirrelly61104 wrote: The whole decoy thing blows my 'snatch and grab by a young thief' out of the water. This is way too profesional and thought out.

You all keep forgetting the pervasiveness of 'magic' in the Seven Villages. It's used in everything from industrial machinery to children's toys.

On the plus side, don't forget that the best diviner in the seven villages is seriously in Quentyns camp. Whatever they are using to block Quentyn might not be so impenetrable to Nessie.

Nessie is having her own troubles. Kenning the dynamics of a living, breathing swamp is a smidge different than kenning a teeming city, namely one full of magic users and magic devices--- especially as many of those magic users will have set up all variety of magical "privacy screens" that would inadvertently block her view.

As for local toughs, don't forget: small as he is Quentyn, with or without magic weapons, is a pretty tough customer himself. He also now has the experience to lend him some needed self confidence.

Quentyn is a little tougher now, yeah, because he was trained.

Those city kids are tough because they have to SURVIVE.

Take nothing for granted.

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:14 am

So ... does this mean that we revert to the armored-limo-of-blam plan? 8) 8)

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:16 am

Sharuuk wrote:
SolidusRaccoon wrote:Just level it, plain and simple. Put in a nice Wal-Mart.
Hey Sol...I got my Cat D-5 bulldozer APC with quad .50's on a 360 gimble mount, side mounted Mk19 40mm belt fed grenade launchers and fore & aft flamethrowers.....got anything you'd like to add, and would you like to join me in a little "urban clean-up & renewal"?

Shaaruuk

That doesn't sound like you. Maybe if it was an air/fuel bomb instead? All the fun of atomics without the neutrons.

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:33 am

Tbolt wrote:That depends on how smart the thieves are. If they know they have a powerful lux-charged artifact (clue with the mage proof silk) they won't let it out until they know they can analyse it better in secret.

Bonded items have been known to exist in the past. If they know it is bonded they might either try to break that bond, or destroy the object before Quentyn can get a good "fix" on it.

If they are foolish, and don't take the purple (black) blade as a clue. They will leave it unwrapped too long, it will recharge and the real fun will begin.

We're still trying to figure out who they are. A lowly cutpurse looking for opportunities? Some of Rahan's seedy acquantences? Some of the followers of Rosad Beither looking for revenge? Two wights trying to make a wrong?

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:03 pm

Squeaky Bunny wrote:
Sharuuk wrote:
SolidusRaccoon wrote:Just level it, plain and simple. Put in a nice Wal-Mart.
Hey Sol...I got my Cat D-5 bulldozer APC with quad .50's on a 360 gimble mount, side mounted Mk19 40mm belt fed grenade launchers and fore & aft flamethrowers.....got anything you'd like to add, and would you like to join me in a little "urban clean-up & renewal"?

Shaaruuk
That doesn't sound like you. Maybe if it was an air/fuel bomb instead? All the fun of atomics without the neutrons.

An FAB would be very effective, got several on hand, but the concussion wave could damage some of the older structures in the main part of the city. This way is a bit more "surgical"......like with a chainsaw rather than a "daisy cutter". And trust me, the 40mmHE's from the Mk19's can raise all manners of hell with these flimsy structures. 8)

Shaaruuk

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:06 pm

Squeaky Bunny wrote:
We're still trying to figure out who they are. A lowly cutpurse looking for opportunities? Some of Rahan's seedy acquantences? Some of the followers of Rosad Beither looking for revenge? Two wights trying to make a wrong?

You know what? For about two seconds I actually thought you had made your first "serious " post

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:36 pm

It is a serious post. I just say it funny.

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:40 pm

Sharuuk wrote:
Squeaky Bunny wrote:
Sharuuk wrote: Hey Sol...I got my Cat D-5 bulldozer APC with quad .50's on a 360 gimble mount, side mounted Mk19 40mm belt fed grenade launchers and fore & aft flamethrowers.....got anything you'd like to add, and would you like to join me in a little "urban clean-up & renewal"?

Shaaruuk
That doesn't sound like you. Maybe if it was an air/fuel bomb instead? All the fun of atomics without the neutrons.
An FAB would be very effective, got several on hand, but the concussion wave could damage some of the older structures in the main part of the city. This way is a bit more "surgical"......like with a chainsaw rather than a "daisy cutter". And trust me, the 40mmHE's from the Mk19's can raise all manners of hell with these flimsy structures. 8)

Shaaruuk

But where's the fun in that? In the words of Wakko Warner, Faboo(m)

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:42 pm

Point...

I guess what I meant to say was you made your first post I can remember without making a pun....

Actually......

Looking at your last post =^^=

EDIT: Nuts! beat me to the punch! this is in reference to the post before your last...

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:50 pm

These guys are pros, and sealing Wildcard off from Quentyn's kenning indicates some serious preparation, since he could sense it through magesilk. I'm leaning toward cultists for now, but Ralph will probably surprise us again. Quentyn ought to back off and get the Guard involved at this point, but I don't think he will.

Where's the next strip? I wanted another strip today! I'm going to go into withdrawal!!

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Sat May 21, 2005 3:00 pm

well Quentyn already said he could only faintly sense wildcard. Maybe the theif just got enough distance between them for him to lose it, or figured out that that was how he was being tracked and ducked into privacy-warded area.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:31 pm

Quentyn said that it "winked out" leading one to believe that somewhere or something suddenly blocked out it's trail. This rather than fading to nothing as the distance increased.

And again, my concern is for Quentyn and how he's going to physiologically react to being totally cut off from Wildcard.....especially as the isolation period grows.

Shaaruuk

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:18 pm

Sharuuk wrote:Quentyn said that it "winked out" leading one to believe that somewhere or something suddenly blocked out it's trail. This rather than fading to nothing as the distance increased.

And again, my concern is for Quentyn and how he's going to physiologically react to being totally cut off from Wildcard.....especially as the isolation period grows.

Shaaruuk

Hopefully he can get some good payback.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:19 pm

Ralph (or someone who genuinely doesn't care about quenton) is the only
one who has reason not to worry about the questor.

the tension's killing me!

the one thing my bunker can't protect me from.

Anthony Lion · Post by **Anthony Lion** » Sat May 21, 2005 9:22 pm

Sharuuk wrote: And trust me, the 40mmHE's from the Mk19's can raise all manners of hell with these flimsy structures. 8)

HE?

*Sigh*

Try a couple of MP rounds instead...
The Incendiary effect tends to add that extra 'touch' to any structure still standing...

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