26 Jun-05 Jul 2015: "Not-Walter" screams like a little girl

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

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Bonus stories are go!
This one is from the Book 1. There was also a title page in the book, but it just had the art from the story with a title over it, so no big deal in skipping it.

[SpellsBedly]

Hello Grinnorarcen, I want to play a game.




Sucks if you can't dismiss your own summoning...

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

Not sure if there is a need to create a topic for each daily page or maybe just turn this one into full story, seeing that the bonuses are released daily and the first page didn't have much conversation initiated.

[Zathyr]

Yeah one topic for each story should be more than sufficient. I was going to be fine with one topic for all of them, collectively.

[Reads_Books]

It never occurred to me for the book version, but from where did our demon slayer get angel blood? Is there a Heavenly Red Cross? Or did someone go as far as to kill an angel to be able to kill a demon? Doesn't seem like a good idea over the long term.

[Changes_everything]

Side note, "aw Geez" is hardly an expression suitable for a) a demon in general, and b) for anyone in a universe where there is no such thing as Jesus.
/2cents

Apart from that, I totally love it. Old Thunt style rules.

[stevedj]

I'm sad. Page 3 didn't appear yesterday.

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

yeah, i don't understand, what's up.

[Zathyr]

It never occurred to me for the book version, but from where did our demon slayer get angel blood? Is there a Heavenly Red Cross? Or did someone go as far as to kill an angel to be able to kill a demon? Doesn't seem like a good idea over the long term.

Anyone who can call up a pit fiend from hell can probably call any number of angelic creatures as well (outside of prayers to Herbert). A brief planar binding, ask the angel "Hey, would you mind terribly if I could get some of your blood? It's to help kill devils and demons. I can even heal you up right after, although I know you could heal yourself as well. Just a small donation for the cause - what do you say?"

[Krulle]

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Heh, Grin-not-Walter-rarcen is afraid of dolls?
Pretty sure it's a good thing he did nothing to the doll.
My first thought was that the doll is a kind of voodoo doll, and if he damages the doll, he'd get the same damage proportionally.

Why doesn't he simply wipe out the anti-teleportation runes?

[Dagazzard]

About the angel blood: did you guys see the bags hanging from the ceiling? That looks like chopped up pieces of angels to me.

Also, I didn't really dig Greena's design. It says very little about her character and it seems a bit gratuitous. Granted, she doesn't appear to intend to fight in that outfit, but still.

Anyway, I liked that one of the dolls has that symbol from Chief's crown.

[Zathyr]

About the angel blood: did you guys see the bags hanging from the ceiling? That looks like chopped up pieces of angels to me.

They look like little pouches. What makes you think there's chopped up angel bits in them? Could just be blood in there, dripping out from the seams.

Anyway, I liked that one of the dolls has that symbol from Chief's crown.

It's been ages since I read this, but I'm not sure if I ever noticed that before. Nice catch!

[Dagazzard]

They look like little pouches. What makes you think there's chopped up angel bits in them? Could just be blood in there, dripping out from the seams.

Dunno, it sounds weird to store liquids in pouches. I think most of it would leak fast unless it was impermeable. That middle one seems to be leaking from the whole bottom, so it seems like they aren't impermeable.

It's been ages since I read this, but I'm not sure if I ever noticed that before. Nice catch!

Thanks! =]

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

I actually noticed this myself independently just right now and rushed here to post, heh. It actually looks like a crown fitted into a doll. Didn't notice that in the books...

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Also, I didn't really dig Greena's design. It says very little about her character and it seems a bit gratuitous. Granted, she doesn't appear to intend to fight in that outfit, but still.

Yeah, same

[Glemp]

Hey, DnD question. One of the runes seems to be drawn on a door as well as a wall. Does that work? What if the door's open? What if you wrote a rune on a piece of cloth and folded it up? If not, could you carry around a bunch of folded runes and straighten them out to quickly turn them on?

[Zathyr]

Depends on the specific nature of the rune/spell. Sometimes a magic mark like that is portable, and some spells create stationary runes that will remain in place even if you move something through them. And of course there can be GM variation. Magic "anti-teleportation" runes like this don't normally exist, that I know of. Thunt does like to use house rules at times. There are some spells like dimensional anchor and forbiddence that can stop teleportation, but this seems a little different.

[Krulle]

The runes seem very painted.
Can't you just wash them off and leave?

[Guus]

You cannot just ruin a rune that wards you as a creature
Most often they go kaboom or have a different nasty effect when dispelled, or made of a material you cannot touch, in this case probably angel blood.

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

Yeah, they are definitely in angel blood.

Hm, no page again. I guess, he didn't fix his autopublishing...

[Krulle]

page 6 is online.
But page 7 is still missing.

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

Yeah, it wasn't when i posted, though. Sigh [i'm sighing because i won't be able to post russian translation until i'm back from work in 8 hours].
P.S. it looks like Thunt always uses his local date and posts late in the day, so in most of the world (seeing that he's living just few timezones east from the date-changing meridian) it's the next day. So, the dates have always been pretty much "-1" from local for us in europe. "01.07.2015" is "today's" page.

[Krulle]

Yeah, lately it has come to that. Previously he often updated late at night and gave it the new day's date, which would correspond to my date.

Anyway, it' still for free, so I am complaining about stuff which
a) is irrelevant.
b) is not my right, as I did nothing to gain such a right.
c) is in itself ridiculous.
d) sounds different than I feel like, as I am happy to read the pages.

(btw, transcriptions unto page 6 is online in the transcriptions thread, and weirdly I've found a new page I didn't know before, as the image-name is unusual, as it includes the text "filler" in it: http://www.goblinscomic.org/comics/20111104_Filler.jpg (about Thuntonian Demons))

[ForgetsOldName]

He tweeted that the auto-updater was failing and that he was updating manually. It's annoying, but not worth stressing about IMHO. I just consider it a surprise when it happens. Maybe he'll work through the tech fail and that will that.

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

8/9, almost done now.

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Greena didn't do anything to actually kill "Not-Walter", only to terrify him to get his name out. So, pretty much psychological torture.

[Krulle]

I like this Greena character.

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It must've been a helljob to get enough information to know sufficient about a demon to summon it specifically, and confront it with it's greatest fear.

Likely she does have one demon already, and she's collecting them, and also getting them to tell her sufficiently about another demon down there to set a trap for that one.

She's much about preparation, let's get the last page to know whether she has foreseen something for the worst-case, a demon winning against its own fear.