Seeker of Thrones 8-89
Chapter: 8
“Uphold the Dragon!
Recite the Count!
Excise the Weakness from flesh!”
-Tenets of the Priests of the Count
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
“Uphold the Dragon!
Recite the Count!
Excise the Weakness from flesh!”
-Tenets of the Priests of the Count
You’ve solved my invisible hallway riddle!
Thank you, Magic Brian.
I’m rereading K6BD after a couple of years. I wouldn’t have understood this reference the first time around.
Now to solve the invisible murder box riddle.
Throw more demons at it.
FOR FUCKS SAKE OSCAR
THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF FIGURING THIS SHIT OUT THEN MURDERING THE ONE PERSON ON THE TEAM WHO KNOWS HOW TO DISARM TRAPS
Right, he could’ve shoved Little Miss No More Useful Memories as well, and gotten twice as much killing done. The fool of a devil shouldn’t go halfway when culling the headcount to increase his share of the prize.
The general rule is to reduce the shares on the way OUT, not before you see the opposition. Remember the thing about outrunning a bear? You don’t; you outrun the other guy next to you.
No, the general rule is “Do as thou will.”
The corollary is that this rule only works because those who will stupid things only do so a few times, one way or another. They should have tossed him first before he could further remove important skills from the party.
Also, Oscar is a freaking idiot because offing your co-conspirators while the mission is ongoing is not just shortsighted, it’s self-defeating. Remember, Oscar, you have to carry all the loot out of the mission area before you can spend it. Carry it with nothing but your own strength of back.
Sure, killing your allies means you divide the loot into fewer shares, but you also REDUCE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF LOOT YOU CAN CARRY. YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING BUT DEPLETED YOUR STORE OF USEFUL ALLIES!
Given how Allison humbled the Heretic’s Court for Cio’s sake, that would be dumb. Getting rid of the other white would have been strategically smarter, but it was a sound tactical decision to bet rid of the trap expert: the guy was the most helpless of the lot.
Oscar is a live for the moment kind of dude.
Truly, the art of Devils is corrupted by flagrant waste.
Poke around with a ten foot pole for example. Or idk use the large sword Allison has.
What the murder knight said!!!!
Obviously the person who claimed to be an expert with traps wasn’t as good as they claimed.
Remember the whole motto of his gang is “Money and power through homicide.” One would imagine that murder would be would be a first solution to every problem.
If not the best solution, it is frequently the most satisfying…
Foolishness. When you excise the weakness from flesh, you are left with something remarkably boring to interact with, let alone to be.
It’s a shame, their first two tenets are quite admirable.
I thought 1-11 had three arms.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not mister Hat!
Three casualties. ALL of them teamkills. Two of them killed by Oscar in particular.
This dungeon is so easy for them that they need to fight each other so it’s an appropriate CR.
Oh joy! An invisible dungeon! That’s just being mean an sadistic.
And your point is?
I wonder how many of the party were brought along just to act as cannon fodder…
According to the thinking of demons, all of them.
>I wonder how many of the party were brought along just to act as cannon fodder
This is a thought that may be in the minds of the remaining members of the party.
I bet.
I’m gonna bet that we end up with just Alison, Cio, and Oscar in the vault proper. Then we kill off Oscar and see how sturdy the plot armor on the other two really is…
Now all they need is a mechanic to disarm the traps! Oh wait…
and yet again paint will come in handy
We have plenty of green.
The penitent man shall pass.
I was wondering when someone would say that.
Conjurations are generally the best solution to solving invisible, three-dimensional mazes. If you have the time, that is.
Either way, it seems this band of ruffians has no conjurers.
Sometimes you just need a good ol’ fashioned invisible trap hall
Peak dungeon gimmickry, via “In the Walls of Eryx”
I admire Oscar’s experimental approach. Simple, direct, and informative.
He also found out for us in the peanut gallery that losing the acrobat probably wasn’t that big of a loss.
This is why adventures poke every god damn thing in the Tomb of Horrors with a ten foot pole before touching. Even the very air. I’m getting far too many good dungeoneering ideas from this comic. My players are going to hate my guts.
I’m wondering, if the penitent man kneeling before the breath of God would have worked for this trap.
If they grovelled very low; notice that one of the cuts was at waist height on a not particularly tall demon. Fortunately there’s another trap configured to exactly deal with that, at least in my dungeon. After all, who wants a route that can be used by any snivelling penitent? Go, go get chopped into little pieces by invisible blades with great pride!
Even the original on that one had a blade coming up from the floor. He needed to go low and LOOK DOWN to see that one coming, and roll over it.
Perhaps this maze is to test the challenger’s sense of walkway etiquette. I’m guessing that if 1-11 had kept to the right he might have avoided the blades.
There might be a matching set of blades on the other side, of course, but it’s unlikely they would have remained invisible despite the liberal lime-green splatterjob
You would think,
That the devils would be more aware of their own treachery.
Its in ones nature, is it not? Should they not in fact, be quite paranoid of thyselves?
Ah, I see. They all need to log out and back in so that the chunk will render properly.
Underrated as hell
*Gasp!*
Imposter! There is only one Jake in this thread! Who are you?!
Demons are childish in nature. They may slaughter you just to please themselves on learning how many ribs you had. Its a task few endeavor successfully, that of employing demons while standing to that childish maliciousness. For you young one. I would suggest to just skip the task altogether.
awww, I really wanted 1-11 to do more. Ocar should’ve pushed Xand and Nxor, they’ve already done their part. Oh, well, one less share I suppose.
I get the impression that Xor is more of a thrower than a throwee. Xand likely stays well perched on Xor’s head for this reason.
Knock Knock
Find the Lock
Take The Blood
And wind the Clock
For there’s gold and glory to be found
where the deepest, darkest evils abound.
I like how even Yabalchoath and Sociopath Allison are mildly shocked by Oscar’s nastiness.
If this were a morality play (IF!) I’d say that the big guy was himself being set up for a fall. A big fall at that.
I hope so, to be honest. It would honestly be unsatisfying for Oscar to continually dick around and just be a big fucking meme and then not get any sort of come uppance.
This doesn’t strike me as a “Comeuppance” kind of story. Oscar is evil, and he’s good at it, and he’s been doing it for a very, very long time. And Cio was *worse*.
It would probably be a lot easier to rob Mammon if you brought along a couple dozen slaves to trial and error all the traps.
Oscar is the greatest