It’s a shame that no one’s going to pick up the phone, ’cause I fuCKING CALLED IT.
Ech, the high crew’ll find a way around this. I really hope that our favorite fanfic author can do complex paper magic without her book, because that’s the only way out of this conundrum that I can think of…
This is why it’s advisable to abstain from betraying your heist partners until AFTER you’ve all escaped with the loot. You never know how long you’ll need each other’s unique set of skills.
That, and because killing one of your number off mid-mission means you have fewer hands, and thus can make off with less loot. You would think the prospect of more loot would check their greed long enough to finish the mission. You really would think that.
If he wasn’t sentimental, he wouldn’t have recollected any of the pieces of silver, would he? And he certainly wouldn’t have them guarded and kept deep within a fractal maze. He’d throw them in a pit and forget about their individual existences.
But he must be very sentimental. And lonely.
I can’t wait for the next 6 years of this comic to just be these guys lost in Mammon’s Fortress going insane. Infinity is a lot larger than you think, all the open space in our galaxy could be fit into any part of the fortress and it wouldn’t be but a drop of rainwater in an ocean.
I hope the bottom is connected to the top in an endless loop. Great falling fun then! To forever fall past ones goal with such speed that reaching it would crush ones head. Endlessly deprived of the victory that is just in sight. Tantalus and skydiving: a winning combination.
It depends on whether you have any horizontal velocity or not.
If you do, you’ll eventually crash into the walls, bouncing back and forth until you’re nothing but mashed potatoes and strawberry jam. If you don’t…well, it’s practically impossible to have exactly zero horizontal velocity, if leave a door into a bottomless pit.
So, basically, eventually everything that falls eventually becomes Thanksgiving dinner, except bloodier.
Minecraft chunk generation error.
I’m guessing Mammon, being a large dragon, can either squirm up by pressing against the walls or just be long enough to reach all the way up?
Hm, this opens up a new theory: What if the fortress is constructing itself around Cio’s memories of it? She doesn’t know this part therefore there is nothing there.
In defense of the group, the group acrobat was the one that started the whole killing off the people in the group thing. Now the cat girl- that’s on them.
Well, the delay in posting led me to compose numerous repetitive comments, each more inane than the other. Wonderful. Cugel the Clever has had considerable fun at my expense, which I am finding increasingly annoying.
1-11, front and center, please. And “click, click, click…whirrr” and startled backward glances suggests a slowly advancing wall. Whenever you’re ready, 1-11.
Hmm… my first impression is that the Grand Bank of the Dragon has a big silo for storing coin, with doors on different levels for access depending on how much money is piled up. Well, looks to me like ol’ Mammon’s money isn’t stacked nearly as deep as we all thought.
Either that, or he knew they were coming. Yeah, probably that second one. But maybe, just maybe… we’ve seen a few rulers who sacrifice the lives of others to extend thier own life. Ol’ Mottom was going through slaves right fierce. Now, what if Mammon sacrifices wealth to gain longer life and powers and whatnot? I bet Mammon could burn through a mountain of wealth lickety-split!
If that were the case, wouldn’t it be a series of difficult locked doors? If I was going to enchant a room to have the specific hazards that could be bypassed by the person who died, I’d handily make it target the person you know the intruder has already killed.
If I was designing this little impediment the top would be the bottom would be the top. The fall wouldn’t kill you but the boredom would… also windburn or the possibility of streaking on the walls.
Look, guys, as some people have been saying in response to the others, the acrobat was chosen for this sort of thing, it’s not anyone’s fault but the acrobat’s that she was the first to attempt a betrayal and pay for it.
The engineer should be able to handle this just fine provided he has some rope. This is less a situation for an acrobat and more one for repelling & a tripod and winch/pulley which should be pretty easy for him.
Unfortunate that they don’t have an acrobat anymore.
It’s a shame that no one’s going to pick up the phone, ’cause I fuCKING CALLED IT.
Ech, the high crew’ll find a way around this. I really hope that our favorite fanfic author can do complex paper magic without her book, because that’s the only way out of this conundrum that I can think of…
Ha! such is the fate of the trustless.
Gosh, if only they had someone with them who was good with traverse ropes.
This is why it’s important to eat the knowledge of those you kill.
Maybe the Mechanic can make them wing-suits?
This is why it’s advisable to abstain from betraying your heist partners until AFTER you’ve all escaped with the loot. You never know how long you’ll need each other’s unique set of skills.
That, and because killing one of your number off mid-mission means you have fewer hands, and thus can make off with less loot. You would think the prospect of more loot would check their greed long enough to finish the mission. You really would think that.
Just a hunch: AL-YIS-UN already has a solution.
It involves explosions and will do nothing to help anyone.
I see it a more as a thing his followers did: they’re the ones who worship the whole “murdered my family” thing.
The followers came later, I think.
–and bought back all the silver he spent on his assassins.
And as faith is lead, followers lead:
a thumbprint over the eyebrow (I hated it).
the readers consume the leader
Indeed; I sincerely doubt that the Grand Dragon drew those murals himself.
Last one down is a rotten dumpling! WHEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *splat*
This makes me think of a Mario Maker level where you take the wrong door and just get dumped out a pit into lava.
and ally killed rope girl. great
Hey she tried to kill her first so technically its the acrobats fault in at least 34,986 worlds.
Great page <3
Sacrifice!
Now, if they had only thought to bring someone with a lot of rope, and skill at using it! …waaaaait
The Folly Of Scrooge McDuck
You can’t close the Money Bin, because the staff are all mad as loons, and if you fire them, they will, almost certainly, seek revenge.
If only they had someone who could throw a rope to the other side!
…oops.
Shouldn’t this page be 7-88 instead of 8-88?
New chapter
What a curious lock. I never expected Mammon to be so sentimental.
If he wasn’t sentimental, he wouldn’t have recollected any of the pieces of silver, would he? And he certainly wouldn’t have them guarded and kept deep within a fractal maze. He’d throw them in a pit and forget about their individual existences.
But he must be very sentimental. And lonely.
he’s the literal embodiment of greed of course he wants his silver back
The Grand Dragon cannot possibly be lonely; look at all the coins he has! So many little friends, so many tales in each eternal coin.
I can’t wait for the next 6 years of this comic to just be these guys lost in Mammon’s Fortress going insane. Infinity is a lot larger than you think, all the open space in our galaxy could be fit into any part of the fortress and it wouldn’t be but a drop of rainwater in an ocean.
Would be really nice to have that wire devil lady around right now, wouldn’t it…
Deep and Dark
Cold and Sharp
Dead and Old and Without Heart
Murdered home
Leaves this hole
Empty soul to fill with gold
I notice that the Deep is becoming quite a theme with this book
1-11, you’re up
Sadly so…
We got some Last Crusade levels of abyssal doom going on here. Is there a bottom or do you just fall until you die of thirst?
Does infinity have a vector?
I hope the bottom is connected to the top in an endless loop. Great falling fun then! To forever fall past ones goal with such speed that reaching it would crush ones head. Endlessly deprived of the victory that is just in sight. Tantalus and skydiving: a winning combination.
For all we know, that might be a reversed gravity chute and you might fall UP until you die of thirst.
maybe they’ll come up with yet another eager volunteer!
It depends on whether you have any horizontal velocity or not.
If you do, you’ll eventually crash into the walls, bouncing back and forth until you’re nothing but mashed potatoes and strawberry jam. If you don’t…well, it’s practically impossible to have exactly zero horizontal velocity, if leave a door into a bottomless pit.
So, basically, eventually everything that falls eventually becomes Thanksgiving dinner, except bloodier.
I am suddenly reminded of the tale of Enyis and the Boar King.
Hey, good thing we brought all that steel cable and an acrobat! … oh, right.
So, the most pertinent question.
Do we go up?
Or is this the long way down
down
down
down?
Descent is quite a theme in this book
Are you sure its not ascension?
If only your group had brought someone who was good at climbing, and able to string a line or something for the rest of the group to hold on to.
No? No one like that?
Mind the gap.
Whelp, this comment wins for page 8-88. I wonder who’ll take the cup for page 8-89?
Somebody’s going to try and push Cio down the hole. I just know it.
My guess to this encounter is either its an illusionary trick or renovations on Mammon’s part.
So what’s up with that bit of blue near Alison’s ear? Did she spontaneously grow an earring due to Incubus’s corruption?
I see a light down there. The doorway out?
The elevator shaft of doom. The walls look textured enough to have hand- and footholds.
Minecraft chunk generation error.
I’m guessing Mammon, being a large dragon, can either squirm up by pressing against the walls or just be long enough to reach all the way up?
the lock is…seriously a depiction of Mammon’s family’s death lol
Presumably those intended to pass through here would simply take the elevator.
The fact that nobody is intended to go through here and thus the elevator doesn’t exist is entirely coincidental, I’m sure.
Hm, this opens up a new theory: What if the fortress is constructing itself around Cio’s memories of it? She doesn’t know this part therefore there is nothing there.
In defense of the group, the group acrobat was the one that started the whole killing off the people in the group thing. Now the cat girl- that’s on them.
I see there is another open door down there.
Is that our floor?
How do they tell without the coin?
Can they take it off the door now that it’s open?
7-87 to 8-88? I can appreci8 that but I think we might’ve skipped a whole chapter
They’re going to have to… do a Die Hard!
You all asking for the acrobat seem to have forgotten the bit where said individual needs to not be a backstabber. One more criterion for the list.
Try the “Secret Stairs” button
To ascend, one must first conquer fear. To conquer fear one must simply jump.
McClane goes to the coast
His children are on the news.
It’s a good job he smokes
“Price is right” fail horn!
https://youtu.be/9Jz1TjCphXE
Ummm…. !-11, front and center, please!
Well, the delay in posting led me to compose numerous repetitive comments, each more inane than the other. Wonderful. Cugel the Clever has had considerable fun at my expense, which I am finding increasingly annoying.
1-11, front and center, please. And “click, click, click…whirrr” and startled backward glances suggests a slowly advancing wall. Whenever you’re ready, 1-11.
“Click,click,click,whirrr…” with startled backward glances suggests a slowly advancing wall — any time you’re ready, 1-11, any time at all….
I can’t help feel but the further they get into the labyrinth, the more the quality of the traps goes down.
I don’t think we see the trap part, yet.
Up or down?
‘Tis but both, at the same time
What are most of the other devils looking at back down the hall?
8-88?
The page number of the beast!
As the Elder Honored Sister once said… please watch your step.
Hmm… my first impression is that the Grand Bank of the Dragon has a big silo for storing coin, with doors on different levels for access depending on how much money is piled up. Well, looks to me like ol’ Mammon’s money isn’t stacked nearly as deep as we all thought.
Either that, or he knew they were coming. Yeah, probably that second one. But maybe, just maybe… we’ve seen a few rulers who sacrifice the lives of others to extend thier own life. Ol’ Mottom was going through slaves right fierce. Now, what if Mammon sacrifices wealth to gain longer life and powers and whatnot? I bet Mammon could burn through a mountain of wealth lickety-split!
WAX HEAD!
Begin!
I’m here, as we all appreciate:
the pages unfold at their own rate
and sometimes I come to read them late.
Maybe don’t stand so close to the edge.
DON’T PUSH ME
CAUSE I’M CLOSE TO THE
EDGE
I’M TRYING NOT TO LOSE MY HEAD
THRONE’S LIKE A JUNGLE SOMETIMES
IT MAKES ME WONDER HOW I KEEP FROM GOING UNDER
This must be the “regret over the people you slaughtered” room. Very poetic.
If that were the case, wouldn’t it be a series of difficult locked doors? If I was going to enchant a room to have the specific hazards that could be bypassed by the person who died, I’d handily make it target the person you know the intruder has already killed.
If they are lucky it is an elevator shaft or equivalent and they can elevator car surf.
Watch that first step.
If I was designing this little impediment the top would be the bottom would be the top. The fall wouldn’t kill you but the boredom would… also windburn or the possibility of streaking on the walls.
Just add cheese wire.
That other red door down there?
Definitely a mimic.
Indiana Jones style leap of faith coming up?
INVISIBLE TURTLES ALLLLL THE WAY DOWN
Look, guys, as some people have been saying in response to the others, the acrobat was chosen for this sort of thing, it’s not anyone’s fault but the acrobat’s that she was the first to attempt a betrayal and pay for it.
The engineer should be able to handle this just fine provided he has some rope. This is less a situation for an acrobat and more one for repelling & a tripod and winch/pulley which should be pretty easy for him.
They need to just push the elevator call button. Dont see problems here at all.
Honk