To take the sword to oneself is to take the sword to The Universe. The sword will kill.
Will it kill Jagganoth? Will it kill Incubus?
Will it kill Gog-Agog? Will it kill Jadis or Solomon or Maya?
Will it kill Zoss? or Michael? or Metatron?
Will it kill Me? or Myself? or I?
Will it kill Cio? Will it kill White Chain?
Will it kill Allison? Will it kill Al-Yisun?
Spare a thought for Maya. She has been swinging that sword any number of times left and right for who knows how long, and every time, the maybe was yes.
That was more magical damage than physical. Jagganoth is immune to physical damage. What he’s not immune to is the pain of those physical attacks. He’s just a tough and thoughtless enough bastard to keep fighting through the pain of being pelted with attacks which can kill armies.
People talking about different things.
His skin can be pierced, even now – we have seen it.
He can feel pain.
Is he harmed by the things that cause pain? No.
Unharmed by attacks and “literally cannot be pierced” are not the same.
Pain too is an inconvenience, as is a scratch.
But an inconvenience is not harm.
It’s the opposite of plot armor, really.
If the way to beat him requires him to be affected by a cut, then maybe it will work.
At the right time, under the exact narratively right circumstances.
oh what a fool, to believe in a division as clean as magic and mundane in a world where doing the Kenshiro “You’re already dead” thing is probably valid
A very appropriate allegory! Because while the damage roll is always a 20, whether or not it hits or whether or not that crit is sufficient to fell your enemies is entirely outside of it’s scope.
Not to be pedantic, but I think you mean attack roll, not damage roll. Damage rolls determine how much damage is done, and usually range from using four sided dice (d4’s) to twelve sided dice (d12’s).
An *attack* roll determines whether you hit an enemy or not, and it’s always done with a twenty-sided die (d20). If an attack roll lands on a 20, it always hits, and does double damage, regardless of how tough the enemy’s defenses are.
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I called it.
It ain’t the sword; Maya is a 15th level hexblade warlock who dumps eldritch smites on her scamming, abusive f-buddy.
My problem with the punchline joke is that the stakes of the probably chance to stop the world-destroying apocalyptic powers of Jagganoth are somewhat heavy to wager on a “maybe”.
Was this the punchline a pull from another fantasy storyline? It seems misplaced given the stakes.
My guess about the sword is that it’s kind of schrodinger’s sword. It truly is “maybe there, maybe not” and is entirely dependant on its user’s will. Basically if you have a greater will to cut your opponent than your opponent has to not get cut, then you will cut them.
So that’s why it can maybe kill Jaggy, maybe not, because we have yet to see if Alison can exceed Jagganoth’s will.
This is what I’ve been thinking myself, the Maybe Sword isn’t some physical object, but rather the Act of Cutting itself… and it’s based entirely on how bad you want it VS how bad they don’t want it.
What do you mean by “misplaced” and “punchline” the whole religion and philosophy of this world is about contradiction and uncertainty, the whole point of “god” in this world is about being alive and dead at the same time, the way to become a genius fighter is dedication to ignorance and the way to reach heaven is violence
I think this is very thematically appropriate
I think it makes sense. Maya is definitely one to speak in practical terms and call things what they are. She was looking for a God-Killing Sword; if she’d found exactly that, she’d have called it something like Godslayer Blade. But instead she got one that can maybe do it, so it’s the Maybe Sword.
Nah; you are confusing the language and inserting an argument that Angeline never made. Angeline never mentioned “a lack of consent” anywhere – you did.
Would you tell your mother, aunts, or daughters that they look pretty good after being railed for 6 years?
No, you wouldn’t bc you know your language is crude and vulgar.
Stop making up an argument Angeline never made.
Your crap is rude and obnoxious, and your gas lighting is childish.
her consent was based around a previously agreed upon exchange which was a complete lie from mana. he happily used her for sex for 6 years while she believed she would get a sword out of it and he never intended to make her a sword. some would consider that rape by deception.
her consent was based around a previously agreed upon exchange which was a complete lie from mana. he happily used her for sex for 6 years while she believed she would get a sword out of it and he never intended to make her a sword. some would consider that rape by deception.
How often do you tell your own wife she looks good after being railed? Or your mother or your aunts or your own daughters?
You comment is rude and trashy.
The Life Cut is the Final Cut. Amused to Death, Mana suffers a Momentary Lapse of Breathing as Maya cuts down The Wall, and Waters the forge floor with his blood. Now, Allison and Maya discuss the Holy Art of Division, as they face the Division Bell. >;=)>
Maybe. I mean there’s probably still physical limitations and you might not be able to do something just because you think it might be possible.
Probably?
I’m about to criticize your amazing work lol sry ahead of time. I feel like this page doesn’t transition very well from the previous one. The previous page, where Maya lashed out in anger and the close up of her astonished expression, was much more interesting left alone. It really doesn’t need to be expanded upon and leaving the aftermath of the cut we’ve already seen demonstrated left unseen makes it all the more impactful imo. It really showed that preems death was insignificant in comparison to the discovery of the maybe sword. Now this page just feels like a retcon flashback like “oh wait he was actually facing me and laughing” and is just unnecessary.
While I agree with you that there’s not as much impact as there was last page, there’s no retcon, as far as I can tell. Maya breaks the sword with the first swing, and then he turns around to gloat. The page also shows the larger impact of the Maybe Sword, with the background being bisected. In my opinion, this page is also just kinda baddass, and I’m fine enough with losing a bit of impact for that moment of awesome on this page.
Cutting Intent works better than any metal, or tool, or material thing. Reliance on any of the latter only lets you cut as well as they are built – discard them. (Though a sword is a useful piece of metal nonetheless)
If Maya could have done it on her own, she would have. She needed to hit absolute rock bottom to reinvent herself and her desire to be an eternal cutting motion.
You may hate the teacher but he got the job done. By design or by chance it hit the right spot for some royalty action. A kind or just strict person wouldn’t have cut it. *bada-bom* *tisch*.
I dunno. When a piece of metal is thrust into the forge and comes out stronger, it seems kind of pointless to love or hate the fire. The fire did not teach the metal anything, it was merely the means. But in this case, Mana did provide the perfect testing ground for Maya’s new toy!
She made the Maybe sword, Preem was nothing more than an anvil, a container of water to quench the blade. His apprentice has more claim, in forging the handle.
In the fight against Jagganoth when Incubus loses his sword and has to search desperately for one he can use, he’s mirroring Maya’s feelings when she came to Mana for a sword.
They both ignored Meti’s teaching and clung to their weapons. Tunnel vision to the point they wouldn’t consider any other option.
Hear me out, as the maybe sword evolves from master to apprentice the next step is obviously for Allison to develop a cutting remark. Foregoing the use of a sword at all.
To borrow from some wiser entities, the sword is a nearly useless tool. All that truly matters in this world is the terrible power of Want. The sword that cleaves the horizon must be swung from the center of one’s chest.
12 Shadows On The Wall Dance in the Light of a Dying Star
You walked right into that one Alison
To take the sword to oneself is to take the sword to The Universe. The sword will kill.
Will it kill Jagganoth? Will it kill Incubus?
Will it kill Gog-Agog? Will it kill Jadis or Solomon or Maya?
Will it kill Zoss? or Michael? or Metatron?
Will it kill Me? or Myself? or I?
Will it kill Cio? Will it kill White Chain?
Will it kill Allison? Will it kill Al-Yisun?
Maybe.
Spare a thought for Maya. She has been swinging that sword any number of times left and right for who knows how long, and every time, the maybe was yes.
Jagganoth is immune to physical damage. All those others were not.
Not immune … he just overcomes it and isn’t fazed by it. We “first” met him pockmarked with arrous, stabs, and slashes … none fatal, that’s all.
Nowadays he’s totally immune, he didn’t have the angel feather nails hammered into him then.
It’s not “immune to”, it’s “absurdly resistant to”.
Incubus did manage to get his sword in and insert the binding.
That was more magical damage than physical. Jagganoth is immune to physical damage. What he’s not immune to is the pain of those physical attacks. He’s just a tough and thoughtless enough bastard to keep fighting through the pain of being pelted with attacks which can kill armies.
People talking about different things.
His skin can be pierced, even now – we have seen it.
He can feel pain.
Is he harmed by the things that cause pain? No.
Unharmed by attacks and “literally cannot be pierced” are not the same.
Pain too is an inconvenience, as is a scratch.
But an inconvenience is not harm.
It’s the opposite of plot armor, really.
If the way to beat him requires him to be affected by a cut, then maybe it will work.
At the right time, under the exact narratively right circumstances.
What?
So, let us think outside the box and work to propel Jagganoth into infinite space along a line directed away from everything …
We’ve probably passed the point this thing is merely doing physical damage.
oh what a fool, to believe in a division as clean as magic and mundane in a world where doing the Kenshiro “You’re already dead” thing is probably valid
Ahhh
Sword of “the dice always lands in 20” damage
A very appropriate allegory! Because while the damage roll is always a 20, whether or not it hits or whether or not that crit is sufficient to fell your enemies is entirely outside of it’s scope.
Not to be pedantic, but I think you mean attack roll, not damage roll. Damage rolls determine how much damage is done, and usually range from using four sided dice (d4’s) to twelve sided dice (d12’s).
An *attack* roll determines whether you hit an enemy or not, and it’s always done with a twenty-sided die (d20). If an attack roll lands on a 20, it always hits, and does double damage, regardless of how tough the enemy’s defenses are.
Depending on what system (of d20) you are basing your assumptions on.
But apart from details, from a ttrpg perspective you are right. But this might be better explained from a mythological perspective.
Everyone knows royalty is just good rng.
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Alison might have walked into that one.
Maybe.
This is a response which will keep on giving.
Maybe.
Maybe she did, Maybe she didn’t ?
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Maybe
I wish Maya’s mission was to cut spammers.
earnest
Just the biggest piece of shit word you will ever see,but thats all that is needed
the sord lives on.
oh god i mean yisun ksbd started on the mspa forums… a tale of unspeakably shitty swords, eternally retold
s u c k e r s
t1CK t0ck 8r8k H34DS honk HONK
scary angel heads
IT KEEPS HAPENING [sic]
To be accurate, this is Broken Caledfwlch
its the conksuckiest piece of fucking shit that ever still somehow qualified as a sword
rip random apprentice in the background who was slightly too tall to live
I don’t think it’s looking too great the other one about to be crushed by a falling girder, either.
Or worse, doused in molten metal.
The apprentice that got his head taken off was lucky, all things considered.
A crown of molten gold for thee, oh unlucky king
Short kings keep winning
Well, they all participated in her degradation, apparently, so…
how long has this joke been brewing? I feel like the comic has all been leading up to this.
Abaddon, despoiler of worlds, pristine poet, painter of the great wheel, masternind of stupid dad jokes.
LPOS etc.
Anyway, get wrecked, idiot.
AE CHIM CE ALTADOON
AE GHARTOK PADHOME AE ALTADOON
RIP those dudes in the background. Hope they deserved it too.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Observing people, you lot.
Good men seek to forge plows and waterwheels, not apprenticeship under the likes of Lord Mana.
Not to be Pedantic, but that was a forge.
Ignore this comment, for my eyesight failed me. You are correct.
I called it.
It ain’t the sword; Maya is a 15th level hexblade warlock who dumps eldritch smites on her scamming, abusive f-buddy.
My problem with the punchline joke is that the stakes of the probably chance to stop the world-destroying apocalyptic powers of Jagganoth are somewhat heavy to wager on a “maybe”.
Was this the punchline a pull from another fantasy storyline? It seems misplaced given the stakes.
It’s not really a punchline. If Maya was certain, she would have likely done it herself. They’re up against a semi-divine apocalypse.
My guess about the sword is that it’s kind of schrodinger’s sword. It truly is “maybe there, maybe not” and is entirely dependant on its user’s will. Basically if you have a greater will to cut your opponent than your opponent has to not get cut, then you will cut them.
So that’s why it can maybe kill Jaggy, maybe not, because we have yet to see if Alison can exceed Jagganoth’s will.
It is the will to cut that cuts! It is the hand that kills! Ïa! No sword would do what this failed edge would. What a dreadful paradox!
This is what I’ve been thinking myself, the Maybe Sword isn’t some physical object, but rather the Act of Cutting itself… and it’s based entirely on how bad you want it VS how bad they don’t want it.
Well, it’s arguably better than the “definitely not” every other weapon in existence answers to the question.
12 Malignant is observant!
What do you mean by “misplaced” and “punchline” the whole religion and philosophy of this world is about contradiction and uncertainty, the whole point of “god” in this world is about being alive and dead at the same time, the way to become a genius fighter is dedication to ignorance and the way to reach heaven is violence
I think this is very thematically appropriate
Jagganoth is flat immune to being hurt or killed. Therefore “Maybe” is infinitely better than anything else available.
I think it makes sense. Maya is definitely one to speak in practical terms and call things what they are. She was looking for a God-Killing Sword; if she’d found exactly that, she’d have called it something like Godslayer Blade. But instead she got one that can maybe do it, so it’s the Maybe Sword.
Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.
You forget how stories work. If the solution is guaranteed to work, it will always fail, but a million-to-one chance will work 9 times out of 10.
Certainly is the antithesis of intrigue!
It appears my guess of beheading on reddit was only *half* correct!
Nice!
Should we consider that you were right or that you were wrong in this case?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Maya decided not to give him the chance of surviving being beheaded like certain other people in her life did.
If you combine that with the half-decapitation of the one apprentice who was slightly too tall that makes one full beheading.
HALFCAPITATIOOOONNN 🎸
Well that’s…answer-adjacent.
It is AN ANSWER, yes.
So it’s the Coin Toss sword.
…maybe
Nani?
Damn, Maya looks fantastic.
And then the upper half of the forge came back down and everyone died.
The End
“The real sword was the hatred we gained along the way”
-final words of a sarcastic fool, seconds before being slaughtered in anger
This darned meme is so close to the core of this world’s creed it is not even funny I swear to god
Hatred and will are laws of physics in this world.
Oh yes, I guess this is it.
The maybe sword is fueled by immense hatred against overwhelmingly intimidating foes.
Which will be the reason for Allison to have another philosophic debate with Jagganoth right before she slays him.
You heard it here first folks, unless others have been as oberservant but quicker than me. I’m very probably two years late here.
the feel of accidentally getting a paper cut
How it feels to chew 5 gum
despite being railed for 6 years straight she still looks good
I’ll be entirely upfront with you, this comment comes off as quite gross.
That would require a lack of consent. She consented to getting railed, as the other user put it.
Nah; you are confusing the language and inserting an argument that Angeline never made. Angeline never mentioned “a lack of consent” anywhere – you did.
Would you tell your mother, aunts, or daughters that they look pretty good after being railed for 6 years?
No, you wouldn’t bc you know your language is crude and vulgar.
Stop making up an argument Angeline never made.
Your crap is rude and obnoxious, and your gas lighting is childish.
Wahhhhh
her consent was based around a previously agreed upon exchange which was a complete lie from mana. he happily used her for sex for 6 years while she believed she would get a sword out of it and he never intended to make her a sword. some would consider that rape by deception.
It was essentially r*pe and sexual sl*very, not something to just call “railed”. Gross comment
That would require a lack of consent. She consented to getting railed, as the other user put it.
her consent was based around a previously agreed upon exchange which was a complete lie from mana. he happily used her for sex for 6 years while she believed she would get a sword out of it and he never intended to make her a sword. some would consider that rape by deception.
Tasteless comment, change and grow as a person
How often do you tell your own wife she looks good after being railed? Or your mother or your aunts or your own daughters?
You comment is rude and trashy.
Die are powerfull tools, for it is clear god is a gambler if you look at reality and most of all evolution.
The Life Cut is the Final Cut. Amused to Death, Mana suffers a Momentary Lapse of Breathing as Maya cuts down The Wall, and Waters the forge floor with his blood. Now, Allison and Maya discuss the Holy Art of Division, as they face the Division Bell. >;=)>
It is quite impressive what can be achieved when one replaces in their mind the concept of ‘impossible’ with ‘maybe’.
Maybe. I mean there’s probably still physical limitations and you might not be able to do something just because you think it might be possible.
Probably?
That it is. The only question is,was it worth it, when the impossible comes to pass.
I’m about to criticize your amazing work lol sry ahead of time. I feel like this page doesn’t transition very well from the previous one. The previous page, where Maya lashed out in anger and the close up of her astonished expression, was much more interesting left alone. It really doesn’t need to be expanded upon and leaving the aftermath of the cut we’ve already seen demonstrated left unseen makes it all the more impactful imo. It really showed that preems death was insignificant in comparison to the discovery of the maybe sword. Now this page just feels like a retcon flashback like “oh wait he was actually facing me and laughing” and is just unnecessary.
While I agree with you that there’s not as much impact as there was last page, there’s no retcon, as far as I can tell. Maya breaks the sword with the first swing, and then he turns around to gloat. The page also shows the larger impact of the Maybe Sword, with the background being bisected. In my opinion, this page is also just kinda baddass, and I’m fine enough with losing a bit of impact for that moment of awesome on this page.
It may be a sword.
Phantom sword. Phantom limbs. It fits.
Why bother with the hero at all? Perhaps the mere idea of one is enough.
The idea of a hero can inspire many to do far more together than the lone hero ever could have done alone; why bother, indeed
Wait, wait, wait. So she “was the sword all along” or what am I not learning here?
Cutting Intent works better than any metal, or tool, or material thing. Reliance on any of the latter only lets you cut as well as they are built – discard them. (Though a sword is a useful piece of metal nonetheless)
Nice to hear Preem kept his word then. He forged her as a sword that *maybe* can kill a god.
Forehead sword man didn’t forge shit, Maya didn’t need no one to do it for her is what you’re not learning here
If Maya could have done it on her own, she would have. She needed to hit absolute rock bottom to reinvent herself and her desire to be an eternal cutting motion.
You may hate the teacher but he got the job done. By design or by chance it hit the right spot for some royalty action. A kind or just strict person wouldn’t have cut it. *bada-bom* *tisch*.
I dunno. When a piece of metal is thrust into the forge and comes out stronger, it seems kind of pointless to love or hate the fire. The fire did not teach the metal anything, it was merely the means. But in this case, Mana did provide the perfect testing ground for Maya’s new toy!
She made the Maybe sword, Preem was nothing more than an anvil, a container of water to quench the blade. His apprentice has more claim, in forging the handle.
This is why Incubus is considered an supremely poor swordsman. He relies on the sword to cut, not himself.
In the fight against Jagganoth when Incubus loses his sword and has to search desperately for one he can use, he’s mirroring Maya’s feelings when she came to Mana for a sword.
They both ignored Meti’s teaching and clung to their weapons. Tunnel vision to the point they wouldn’t consider any other option.
But now Maya’s figured it out. Maybe.
Hear me out, as the maybe sword evolves from master to apprentice the next step is obviously for Allison to develop a cutting remark. Foregoing the use of a sword at all.
Prediction: in the final battle, Allison will destroy Jagganoth with her infinitely-sharp barista skill – the Maybe Macchiato!
This is possible, but not guaranteed.
So that’s a “Maybe”, then?
Maybe.
Finally, it’s my time to shine!
To borrow from some wiser entities, the sword is a nearly useless tool. All that truly matters in this world is the terrible power of Want. The sword that cleaves the horizon must be swung from the center of one’s chest.
She who cuts with her sword has forgotten the face of her father. Maya does not cut with her sword; she cuts with her heart.
So…. does this mean Allison has to sleep with Maya now?
Maybe.
For six years, yes.
*Hyena Laugh*
I didn’t notice this until like the fifth time looking at it: she cuts through the entire goddamn building and everything in it
Violently enough to launch it into the air.
If you should meet god on the road, god will be cut.