Comic for Monday, March 6th
I swear there is a reason I am zig-zagging between the two points of view. Note I didn’t say a GOOD reason, just a reason. 😉
Anyway…
The Exiled Families is something I don’t think I’ve explained. When the Aristocracy in Malsa abdicated their power to the new government, there was minority group of the families that did not agree with the decision; this group is now known as the Exiled Families. They are not literally exiled – they are still in Malsa, but they are viewed as something of a quasi-rebel group as they hold to the agreement between the Aristocracy and the current government in appearance only. It is generally assumed they plotting to take back power someday, but most people don’t view it as a particularly immediate threat, as they do not have a majority in the Aristocracy or wide spread public support.
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If Tyler keeps taking the high road, he’s going to end up on a roller coaster. I know that Tyler wants to be the all-loving protagonist to contrast Peter’s cynical anti-heroing, but when everyone has a reason to betray you… you are going to get betrayed at some point.
He is either very confident or very desperate.
Sometimes there are two positions, and only one answer. Sometimes you have to ask the important questions. … Monk… or Barbarian?
In the end, there is only one way to settle the question. Vote below!
…so I found a way to kill three birds with one stone here. A poll that Naomi has to lose, a test for picture based polls, and solving a long standing important question (…standing since… erm… last week… important to… well, no one, but well, if there is one thing that appears to be in higher demand than I can supply it’s pictures of Naomi dressed up as various things…)
Even going beyond my personal bias toward monk (Favourite class, also my current character) I feel like Naomi just fits the monk so well, given everything we’ve seen her do matching pretty well with the class.
Anyway, monks are awesome. So is Naomi. Also sexy.
The buttons show up a little strangely located for picture polls, at least on my screen (Chromium/Ubuntu). Might be worth looking at and/or fiddling with.
Bloodrager. All the smashing and bashing of a barbarian, with the unpredictable magic of a sorcerer.
Nice to see Kally sitting there completely unfazed by Peter going into info-dump mode. Given that she used to date him she’s probably used to this. Also Peter proves playing info games with him is like stepping into a land mine. WITH MOVING MINES.
Oooh, BURN! It probably won’t make Marc like Peter any better, but it just might shut him up. ^^
I’d call that a win. 🙂
Typo: The second bubble in the first panel should start with, “There appears…” with an “s”.
Actually, @PastUtopia: got it right. one appears, many appear. Peter is talking about “several factors”.
Compare that with the same panel, fourth speech bubble “it appears” for a single factor.
And, yeah, I had to Google it. 🙂
Note to Peter: If you want people to trust you, maybe you should strike the words “inevitable betrayal” from your vocabulary. Just saying.
To be fair, all he and Tyler are doing with that is to establish this has all been done with eyes wide open, motivated by a tacit understanding that something big has been in play all along.
After all, it’s been made plain to us, as readers, from the start, that Peter’s rogue status is part of a “long game” important enough to cross not only the IDS but Uncle Arron AND Kally; but even the finger pointing at Avon in this scene seems like an iceberg tip, and the way Peter’s been written so far (chessmaster-level guile hero, if I had to call trope), I can’t help suspecting not only that this isn’t the BIG reveal, but that he’s still sussing out that pattern, and this is only short-term damage control to retain a much-needed footing.
So, even if this leads up to pegging a Big Bad, my best guess is it won’t be the One True Big Bad. (Though the existence of Kors World seems an obvious foreshadowing, there have been hints dropped of Even Worse Out There.) This could get QUITE byzantine, if our author so desires.
Besides, Peter kinda *has* to acknowledge the trope, at this point—even if it doesn’t involve toy dinosaurs and a torrent of cursing in Mandarin—not to wreck the suspension of disbelief.
Now, “Ignore that man behind the curtain!”
Peter admitted early on he wasn’t expecting much to happen for months near the start. I think this is only tangentially related to his plans, he mostly seems annoyed by all of this more than anything.
The main point I’ve been curious on was what advantage Peter got by betraying the IDS. It is pretty hard to guess what his long game is, considering there are so many plots skittering around, but the core question with all of them are why is operating on his own?
Like of all the potential things he can be working toward, I’m not just how many of them would be improved by not being an IDS agent, as all evidence suggests that CI was pretty low on oversight and very useful (Kally, Arron, etc).
“From the I.D.S.” doesn’t exactly describe Peter, but he’ll let it slide since it’s also I guess not exactly incorrect. (He’s sort’ve on the side of one of their departments, at least. I suppose a better phrasing isn’t that it doesn’t describe him, it’s just not the “full context”.)
Meanwhile, Peter continues to make it hard to believe that he doesn’t actually know everything, as a way of giving his credentials to someone. (By metaphorically punching them in the face. (While not even looking at them?? Hard to tell but I don’t think he is…) (And Tyler doesn’t even care about that detail. Interesting protection/deflection/faked ignorance on his part, and amusing at the same time, for reasons I don’t know. Possibly something to do with that “cross one bridge at a time” line….since any chat with Peter is more analogous to running across a bridge that’s on fire, praying it’s not going to blow up. (Metaphorically or literally.)))
Quite the parenthetical structure you got there.
It’s very emphatic. 🙂
I love Lisp
Frankly if I think my comment just going lisp-y then I try to find another way to rewrite it which is more ordered. If I’m having out comments on my out comments, then I should probably look for better way to write it.
To clarify for those less computer inclined as there have been a few helpful but confused people… Lisp in this context refers to a Computer Programming language that is infamous for its use of () around basically everything, and has nothing to do with speaking mannerisms in this context (the capital L helps denote that!).
Continue on my good commentators.