Classic

[EdBecerra]

"Do good for your enemy, for in doing so, you heap burning coals on his head."

I still think (assuming Quentyn did learn that "make the gunk all fall off" spell from the Frog Wizard way back when) he should give Rahan and his group a few moments to contemplate what it's going to be like getting all that pitch out of their fur, then casually walk up like he just got there, clean them up as he passes, and go into his office without saying a word. (It would be tempting to make some crack about messy children.)

There's a better way. Use Wildcard to remove the tar... AND their fur.

"Ooops! Sorry about that. At least you're clean."

[Capnregex]

There's a better way. Use Wildcard to remove the tar... AND their fur.

The problem with using wildcard for that would be the likelyhood of removing the hide under the fur. that and I wouldn't want to get wildcard all sticky.

However, shaving them bald would probably be the easiest way to get the tar out.. Not to mention having the temporary but lasting effect of making the pranksters the laughing stock of the community until there fur grew back out.

It's especially nice that it wasn't Quenton that caused the tar spill. They can't blame getting tared on him.

[Richter B.]

Oh man i caouldn't stop laughing.....
heh heh squidge is the ultimate home defence

[Squirrelly61104]

A point everyone is missing is that it was Squidge who caused this!
Bogeymen supposedly back down to little kids when the kids get up the gumption to chase them off.
Ever since he scared off the phantom rats while Quentyn tried to relight his flame, Squidge has been changeing.
He bonded with Quentyn when the questor was battered and bloodied by the Royals ("its always bad, when they catch you"). When he saw Quentyn fight back, I think our little bogeyman started to see a different road from the traditional bogeyman ways.
I think Squidge has the potential of being the first bogeyman hero!
Which would make for an interesting impact on the local bogeyman society, assuming there is one. Bold adventurer nothin, they'd see him as Evil Knievels crazier twin brother!
Side note: Rahan and company now get to explain how they got beat by a bogeyman!

[EdBecerra]

There's a better way. Use Wildcard to remove the tar... AND their fur.

However, shaving them bald would probably be the easiest way to get the tar out.. Not to mention having the temporary but lasting effect of making the pranksters the laughing stock of the community until there fur grew back out.

I didn't mean *shaving* them bald. I was referring to Wildcard's ability to come up with a spell that's random, yet somehow suited to the situation. They'd still have their fur removed, just not by shaving with a *blade*.

[Werekitty]

That was classic, wasn't it?

Just what those pissants deserved... And just wait until the poppers go off.

[Sharuuk]

Some of you are forgetting that WC is totally UNpredictable.....it could just as easily reduce the gooey trio to a puddle of bubbling pitch mixed with ashes as not.

And this is for Tom Mazanek....no butt chew, just an FYI....the feathers are far more than a "touch of silliness". There's historical significant to the entire act of tarring and feathering....there was also a third aspect to it as well and that was "ridden out of town on a rail."

Google it and see what you come up with......it's actually a part of American history.

S'aaruuk

[Madmoonie]

Yeah, because basically....it is extraordinally painful to get clean, not to mention incredibly hard. That tar bonds nearly impossible to get off, plus the feathers poking into you. It could rub the skin raw just to get it, literally. As in you might remove the outer layer of skin to get it off. Now imagine what would happen to a being entirely covered in fur?

[EdBecerra]

Well, I got tar on me once, almost 30 years ago at Ft. Carson, and it's painful to get off. There are damn few solvents that'll work on it.

Keep in mind these mental midgets were wearing clothing, so the tar will weld the fur and the cloth together.

In fact, it's quite the miracle they weren't burned. Perhaps the tar was softened by way of luxcrafting?

In which case, it should be possible to get it off the same way, but it'll be something for a wizard, not a simple housewife's spell. And that means they'll have to come up with some sort of bullshit story about what happened to them. And if the wizard they see is the same fellow that acompanied Quentyn on the quest to discover what Wildcard really was, he's too sharp for them to bullshit for long.

They gots problems.

[Sharuuk]

It may not be tar in the sense of pavers or roofers tar that has to be melted at several hundred degrees before you can use it. They called it a bucket of "pitch" which I know is synonomous with tar, but I have a 5 gal bucket of roofing tar that is always soft unless it's really cold, and is nearly liquid in the summer heat.

This could be what these geniuses were carrying. Liquid pitch that wasn't more than ambient tempreture. Either way, they're gonna have Hell's own time gettin' that stuff outta their fur.

And even more fun explaining how it got there to begin with.

S'aaruuk

[Madmoonie]

*click*

Rats, no new comic.

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Rats, no new comic.

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Rats, no new comic.

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Rats, no new comic.

and so on...

[SolidusRaccoon]

Google it and see what you come up with......it's actually a part of American history.

S'aaruuk

What happens to the tax man in my home state. This is from the historical Whiskey Rebellion.

The fellow's vociferous claims to association with the tax soon resulted in an assault by a band of locals. The assailants pulled Wilson from his bed, marched him five miles to a blacksmith's shop, then stripped him naked and heated a bar of iron in the forge. They next demanded that Wilson renounce his office. When he refused, proclaiming that he would not resign even if they tortured or threatened to murder him, the attackers applied the burning rod to several parts of his body. Wilson begged only for his underwear, but refused to recant his oath of office-an oath he never took for an office he never held. The men knocked him down, burned his clothes to ashes, "beat and abused him severely, and burnt him with a hot iron, both behind and before, for he was an excise man." Then they tarred and feathered him, and left him naked in the forest.

[Sharuuk]

And how many of us long for "the good old days" around April 15?

S'aaruuk

[Madmoonie]

Google it and see what you come up with......it's actually a part of American history.

S'aaruuk

What happens to the tax man in my home state. This is from the historical Whiskey Rebellion.

The fellow's vociferous claims to association with the tax soon resulted in an assault by a band of locals. The assailants pulled Wilson from his bed, marched him five miles to a blacksmith's shop, then stripped him naked and heated a bar of iron in the forge. They next demanded that Wilson renounce his office. When he refused, proclaiming that he would not resign even if they tortured or threatened to murder him, the attackers applied the burning rod to several parts of his body. Wilson begged only for his underwear, but refused to recant his oath of office-an oath he never took for an office he never held. The men knocked him down, burned his clothes to ashes, "beat and abused him severely, and burnt him with a hot iron, both behind and before, for he was an excise man." Then they tarred and feathered him, and left him naked in the forest.

Say what you like about taxmen, that was one tough dude.

[Labrusca]

I have a 5 gal bucket of roofing tar that is always soft unless it's really cold, and is nearly liquid in the summer heat.

That's probably an asphalt emulsion in water. It can be painted on with a roller and when it dries, it's just like the stuff that was applied hot. It's also used to seal basements, on the outside, before the dirt is filled in. You can wash it off while it's wet, but when it dries it's there to stay.

[MikeVanPelt]

(Cool, I can log in and post to the forum using Lynx!)

Pitch is probably boiled pine sap,
not a petroleum product. (I suspect
the racconans wouldn't have access
to petroleum anyway.)

How hard it is at room temperature
depends on how many of the volatiles
(turpentine) have been boiled away.

[Nikas_Zekeval]

With friends like Squidge, who needs alarm systems?

Some people were talking about a second layer of security behind the obvious and penetratible layer (to make you think you got it all). Well, we have met the second layer, and he is Squidge.

[Nikas_Zekeval]

Help them clean up?

"Well Lady Rose, given that they got into that mess breaking into my place, AND it is rather obvious they meant ME to get cover in that gunk, it is hard to feel sorry for them at all."

Actually I'd personally be hard pressed not to fall down laughing, then go out and sell tickets to watch the Rahan and the Two Stoogies clean up. And remember Quentin telling the story at the Millfolk's party? Wasn't Rahan the butt of that incident too? This gets tucked away for when he's the new face in town with stories eveyone else hasn't heard twenty times already.

[Madmoonie]

See what I can't stand about people like Rahan is that no matter how many times Quentyn succeds or makes a fool of Rahan, Rahan will always try to demean ans disrespect and be jerk to Quentyn. No matter how many times Quentyn succeds Rahan will always think he is better, despite mountains of evidence that he is a wo-bit bully and a punk on his daddy's purse strings.

[Werekitty]

See what I can't stand about people like Rahan is that no matter how many times Quentyn succeds or makes a fool of Rahan, Rahan will always try to demean ans disrespect and be jerk to Quentyn. No matter how many times Quentyn succeds Rahan will always think he is better, despite mountains of evidence that he is a wo-bit bully and a punk on his daddy's purse strings.

Family connections, and so-called "good breeding". That's a problem, no matter where you have rich people. It's an extension of the aristocracy disease.