I’m sure that’s what you’re thinking right now. Well, as a special, limited-time-offer, you too can punch a dragon! It’s not just for the demiurges now that we’ve launched our newest product. Just dial the toll free(*) number(**) on your screen (***) and for as little as 66 easy payments (paid every cycle), you too can obtain your own battle-form and punch! A! Dragon!
While in space, direction is relevant, it does appear that Jagganutter is punching Mammon away from the planet, and thus in a sense up.
Hence, could it not be said that he his shown here performing a… rising dragon punch? And so it was that Jagganoth used Shoryuken!
I’m hopeful for the demiurge equivalent of HO THERE! However, I suspect we’re more likely to see something remarkable from either Gog-Agog or the inanimate object.
I appreciate this WoW raiding reference. For all those that avoided Blizzard Entertainment’s product that most resembles cocaine- World of Warcraft players at the level cap can participate in Raids of 10 to 25 (well, more flexible now). The most common way to hold such a large group’s focus for an extended period of monster-slaying is to bind them to a Guild of like-minded players.
By default the powerful equipment dropped by boss monsters is rolled for between everyone capable of wearing such a piece. Guilds, in the old days, commonly setup an out of game point system called DKP, accumulated from showing up to raids on time, avoiding raid-wiping area of effect zones, and supporting the downtime professions of guild members. DKP is spent for the privilege of rolling on a limited piece of gear. If you fail the roll, someone else gets the gear and you keep your DKP.
Some of the more controlling raid leaders would issue DKP penalties for screwups since… it’s a video game. How else can you control your players when inter-guild PvP isn’t an option, all of their equipment is safe, and you can’t kick them out of the guild without causing problems?
I’d love to see Gog’s fighting style. I’m picturing hordes of identical people with crude weapons running cheerfully into hails of arrows and spears, laughing at each other as they’re dismembered and rearranged. Lower halfs keep running forward as their top halfs are blown off, that sort of thing. Gum up your enemies gears with mountains of savage fools until one presses through fast enough to shove a worm in your mouth…
21 Night Flaming With Fire Rides Life To Perfect Laughter
actually our pal pog-agog will just summon enough mass to transform into a copy of jagganoth, and then we’ll be plunged into a wacky situation where both of them have to try to convince the gang who’s the REAL red god.
Or perhaps Worm *in* Jaggy action. After all, worms are small, and Jag has a lot of really big mouths right now. Considering how easy a sneaky win sounds in that light, I wonder why all the demiurges aren’t Gog-Agog, too.
Rayuba’s orbit must be really chaotic being that close to those suns and their common center. Seasons if they even exist, and tides, Dave’s intervenion notwithstanding, must be very strange.
The coastline, visible through the best punch on the page, the cloud-punch, reminds of Greece for some reason. The lack of tidal range we saw in the arena bay might also help infer what a proper map might show, that the city sits on a fairly landlocked sea a bit like the Med.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
I still don’t believe those are main-sequence stars. I think they’re light fittings, in Rayuban orbit. There are two of them so that the planet gets a day exactly twice as long as its night, at least on the equator. Solomon _could_ have brute-forced it with real stars, but chose subtlety and neatness instead.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
I see only the one city, the capital burning merrily. Maybe Rayuba is unpopulated apart from the capital and its supporting farmland? It could be a gated community on a planetary scale.
Wait, is that the first time we see the place this takes place on from above? Also it´s a planet? I thought it was like a city in the infinite heavenly void or something.
Rayuba is a planet, the capital of an entire universe within the Wheel of 777,777 realities that surround Throne. Jagganoth came from another of those 777,777 ‘verses, just like Jadis, Mammon, Nadia and Incubus did. Our Earth is in another one too, theoretically within Nadia’s 1/7 slice of the multiverse :3
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
Strictly speaking, not _our_ Earth, since it has to fit in with KSDB’s different metaphysics. But certainly an Earth sufficiently like ours that Americans can exist.
Imagine a dimension along which physics varies but metaphysics is invariant. That actually exists in KSBD: it’s the King’s Road through the void and the worlds along it can have slightly different physics (but consistent always with having people living there). Now imagine another, orthogonal dimension along which the metaphysics changes, e.g. the nature (or even existence) of souls differs. Our Earth is some way apart from Allison’s Earth along that dimension.
It was at this point that Cio remembered how she took a key from a living Demiurge and Aspected Chaos applied it to Jaggoth, whittling down his power, big by bit.
It seems clear that the small piece of rock they took off with will not stand this annihilation for more than a few moments. To be honest, doesn’t look like anything would stand it for more than a few moments. Interesting whether we’ll see the battle continue in the void of space or if they’ll find somewhere more infinite to fight.
“Oh I Would Slice with Five Hundred Arms, And I would Slice with 500 More Just to be the Destroyer of the Wheel for You !”
With Time-Stop Technique – could Solomon break all 500 of the Swords
wielded by Jagganoth Incarnate as Chakravartin ?
I suppose even that – would that not change things enough.
Jagganoth would still have 500 arms, and remains physically Invulnerable.
Does the “One Formerly Known as Yaun” ever think to himself…
“Why is it – that -No One cares about my Feelings….or my Spirit.”
[ “Baby – Don’t Hurt me !” ]
Alas – that self-reflection was driven out of him so long ago.
Now, he’s more golem than man.
Carrying out a program.
He’s like the Arrow –
fired from Arjuna’s divine bow Gandiva
Hurtling along to embrace the End.
Still feels like Jagganoth’s pulling his punches. If a slightly half-assed blow takes someone out, he’ll take it, but what he really wants is for everyone else to bring it to the level that he has. “I will have a real fight from you even if I have to kill you for it!”
Similarly, I don’t think he much cares if he wins or loses. Sure, he’s rather win, but it seems like it’s all about the fight. “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how much you destroy in the process.”
Sigh, we come to the part of the battle where you wonder why everything before it was even bothered with because all the previous attacks put together are nothing compared to one punch now. Even raising the battlefield into space seems like just an excuse to change backgrounds after a hundred pages of ruined arena.
Well, ONE character(s) has made major progress I’ve the course of this battle, and could not have survived if it started at this power level. Perhaps the only character(s) that matters.
Perhaps there is no going back from revealing your soul form like that. I could imagine shedding your mortal shell (if that is what he did here) might have some downsides. Jagganoth, who is prepared to end the world and then himself anyway might not care that much, but he also might have preferred not to. This might also be why the others are hesitant to follow his lead in this. They are still planning for a time after this fight.
This whole thing might also be a distraction. We still don’t know what his armies are doing atm. The longer he draws this out, the longer the homeworlds of the other six lie undefended.
A scattering of allies.
As in, a murder of crows or a host of angels? Because it is fitting.
A treachery of temporarily aligned schemers?
A mistake of idiots!
Apt.
An Abundance of Fools.
Idiots do not make mistakes, they are mistakes.
Rejected. I’m certainly not pulling any responsibility from these morons to their mothers.
… a morass of morons! Hah!
Definitely some kind of murder about to happen.
Possibly involving an angel, even.
You forgot an unkindness of ravens.
“Oh my god, he just ran in!”
If only we could all punch a dragon.
I’m sure that’s what you’re thinking right now. Well, as a special, limited-time-offer, you too can punch a dragon! It’s not just for the demiurges now that we’ve launched our newest product. Just dial the toll free(*) number(**) on your screen (***) and for as little as 66 easy payments (paid every cycle), you too can obtain your own battle-form and punch! A! Dragon!
Terms and conditions apply.
(Battle form supplied is just Gog-Agog)
While in space, direction is relevant, it does appear that Jagganutter is punching Mammon away from the planet, and thus in a sense up.
Hence, could it not be said that he his shown here performing a… rising dragon punch? And so it was that Jagganoth used Shoryuken!
Anyone can punch a dragon, it’s the getting away with it that’s the tricky part.
Finding a dragon to punch in the first place also tends to be a bit challenging.
And getting close enough once you’ve found it.
Stuffed animals don’t count? I thought they did. It’s how I became a hero.
Just roll a monk
Sadly for you only I’m allowed to punch dragons in real life.
Five hundred sword hands, but Mammon still gets the gut punch.
Man Jagganoth just seriously assaulted a senior citizen.
Who hasn’t?
Allison is the only being present who isn’t elderly, really
Don’t worry, ol’ Mammon’s going to feel much more comfortable now Jaggonoth has pulverised his kidney stones.
I’m hopeful for the demiurge equivalent of HO THERE! However, I suspect we’re more likely to see something remarkable from either Gog-Agog or the inanimate object.
This is what we like to see. good job jaggy
Squirm, Worm, beneath Giant heel
I had to go and check whether Gog had been squished, but no.
An amount of Gog was likely squished.
Jag is gonna get a nasty case of hookworm.
And Mammon’s Mausoleum is still okay!
But poor Mother Om has been launched.
If you get caught in his damage zones, that’s a FIFTY DKP MINUS!!!!
I appreciate this WoW raiding reference. For all those that avoided Blizzard Entertainment’s product that most resembles cocaine- World of Warcraft players at the level cap can participate in Raids of 10 to 25 (well, more flexible now). The most common way to hold such a large group’s focus for an extended period of monster-slaying is to bind them to a Guild of like-minded players.
By default the powerful equipment dropped by boss monsters is rolled for between everyone capable of wearing such a piece. Guilds, in the old days, commonly setup an out of game point system called DKP, accumulated from showing up to raids on time, avoiding raid-wiping area of effect zones, and supporting the downtime professions of guild members. DKP is spent for the privilege of rolling on a limited piece of gear. If you fail the roll, someone else gets the gear and you keep your DKP.
Some of the more controlling raid leaders would issue DKP penalties for screwups since… it’s a video game. How else can you control your players when inter-guild PvP isn’t an option, all of their equipment is safe, and you can’t kick them out of the guild without causing problems?
Thank you for the history lesson. It was very interesting.
I wonder how long it will take for this piece of knowledge to be lost to history, as are the social rules of bronze-age gambling establishments.
Silly Mammon trying to hump Jags hand.
actually on closer inspection, it does look like mammon is getting punched right in the dick
Mammon’s leg isn’t lookin too hot in that panel.
Are you kidding? Mammon’s happy as larry. That hips been out of sorts for decades. Jag just cracked and popped it back in for him.
We keep getting Gog-Agog teased. When do we get serious Worm on Jaggy action????
I’d love to see Gog’s fighting style. I’m picturing hordes of identical people with crude weapons running cheerfully into hails of arrows and spears, laughing at each other as they’re dismembered and rearranged. Lower halfs keep running forward as their top halfs are blown off, that sort of thing. Gum up your enemies gears with mountains of savage fools until one presses through fast enough to shove a worm in your mouth…
actually our pal pog-agog will just summon enough mass to transform into a copy of jagganoth, and then we’ll be plunged into a wacky situation where both of them have to try to convince the gang who’s the REAL red god.
“No, I’m the real Jagganoth! Shoot that one!”
*they shoot both*
“We hate both of you.”
Or perhaps Worm *in* Jaggy action. After all, worms are small, and Jag has a lot of really big mouths right now. Considering how easy a sneaky win sounds in that light, I wonder why all the demiurges aren’t Gog-Agog, too.
Nooo, don’t punch my best old boi!
“Gettin’ epic-er!” ~the missus
Two suns! At last! Finally we’ve seen them! =D
Also, some geography. Not enough for a proper map, but still a pleasure.
Rayuba’s orbit must be really chaotic being that close to those suns and their common center. Seasons if they even exist, and tides, Dave’s intervenion notwithstanding, must be very strange.
The coastline, visible through the best punch on the page, the cloud-punch, reminds of Greece for some reason. The lack of tidal range we saw in the arena bay might also help infer what a proper map might show, that the city sits on a fairly landlocked sea a bit like the Med.
I still don’t believe those are main-sequence stars. I think they’re light fittings, in Rayuban orbit. There are two of them so that the planet gets a day exactly twice as long as its night, at least on the equator. Solomon _could_ have brute-forced it with real stars, but chose subtlety and neatness instead.
I see only the one city, the capital burning merrily. Maybe Rayuba is unpopulated apart from the capital and its supporting farmland? It could be a gated community on a planetary scale.
Wait, is that the first time we see the place this takes place on from above? Also it´s a planet? I thought it was like a city in the infinite heavenly void or something.
Rayuba is a planet, the capital of an entire universe within the Wheel of 777,777 realities that surround Throne. Jagganoth came from another of those 777,777 ‘verses, just like Jadis, Mammon, Nadia and Incubus did. Our Earth is in another one too, theoretically within Nadia’s 1/7 slice of the multiverse :3
Strictly speaking, not _our_ Earth, since it has to fit in with KSDB’s different metaphysics. But certainly an Earth sufficiently like ours that Americans can exist.
Imagine a dimension along which physics varies but metaphysics is invariant. That actually exists in KSBD: it’s the King’s Road through the void and the worlds along it can have slightly different physics (but consistent always with having people living there). Now imagine another, orthogonal dimension along which the metaphysics changes, e.g. the nature (or even existence) of souls differs. Our Earth is some way apart from Allison’s Earth along that dimension.
It was at this point that Cio remembered how she took a key from a living Demiurge and Aspected Chaos applied it to Jaggoth, whittling down his power, big by bit.
That’s a lot of spirit pressure.
while making your swords the size of skyscrapers looks cool, it brings some secondary issues with strike speed
It seems clear that the small piece of rock they took off with will not stand this annihilation for more than a few moments. To be honest, doesn’t look like anything would stand it for more than a few moments. Interesting whether we’ll see the battle continue in the void of space or if they’ll find somewhere more infinite to fight.
“Oh I Would Slice with Five Hundred Arms, And I would Slice with 500 More Just to be the Destroyer of the Wheel for You !”
With Time-Stop Technique – could Solomon break all 500 of the Swords
wielded by Jagganoth Incarnate as Chakravartin ?
I suppose even that – would that not change things enough.
Jagganoth would still have 500 arms, and remains physically Invulnerable.
Does the “One Formerly Known as Yaun” ever think to himself…
“Why is it – that -No One cares about my Feelings….or my Spirit.”
[ “Baby – Don’t Hurt me !” ]
Alas – that self-reflection was driven out of him so long ago.
Now, he’s more golem than man.
Carrying out a program.
He’s like the Arrow –
fired from Arjuna’s divine bow Gandiva
Hurtling along to embrace the End.
Red Eyed Heir…
Can you change your own mind ?
It’s almost beautiful from a distance. But anything can be pretty if you only squint at it.
A cold steel rail
or two.
(Oh, c’mon. “Hot” is relative.)
Now I have “Wish You Were Here” running through my head. Seems appropriate somehow.
Mammon :'(
Still feels like Jagganoth’s pulling his punches. If a slightly half-assed blow takes someone out, he’ll take it, but what he really wants is for everyone else to bring it to the level that he has. “I will have a real fight from you even if I have to kill you for it!”
Similarly, I don’t think he much cares if he wins or loses. Sure, he’s rather win, but it seems like it’s all about the fight. “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how much you destroy in the process.”
I do get the feeling that he wants to see everyone else cast aside their meat shells and put their souls on the line like he is.
I guess when you’ve realized you’re trapped in an eternal cycle by a mad god, the best you can do is try and have a little fun with it
Ashes, berries, gene’s are scattered.
The crew with keyboard, getting battered.
When transporting, accents matter.
this is some classic Wax Head btw folks. One for the fans.
Woo, encore! Encore! Encore!
I’d decline, as Carter did
as he, in Fleece, did play a gig,
but I’d prefer to Wade right in.
Sigh, we come to the part of the battle where you wonder why everything before it was even bothered with because all the previous attacks put together are nothing compared to one punch now. Even raising the battlefield into space seems like just an excuse to change backgrounds after a hundred pages of ruined arena.
Well, ONE character(s) has made major progress I’ve the course of this battle, and could not have survived if it started at this power level. Perhaps the only character(s) that matters.
It’s called foreplay.
Perhaps there is no going back from revealing your soul form like that. I could imagine shedding your mortal shell (if that is what he did here) might have some downsides. Jagganoth, who is prepared to end the world and then himself anyway might not care that much, but he also might have preferred not to. This might also be why the others are hesitant to follow his lead in this. They are still planning for a time after this fight.
This whole thing might also be a distraction. We still don’t know what his armies are doing atm. The longer he draws this out, the longer the homeworlds of the other six lie undefended.