March 19 2013: Altsplanation 2

[boneguard]

This is a pretty funny update. Love the 214 Alternate reality. Very Cthulhuesque.

[SamWiser]

That's awesome. I like how Minmax strangled himself. He couldn't even complete one battle.

[willpell]

I really liked how 214's tentacle gods were like "See! We told you this would be awesome!".

Never noticed the bartender attacking Fumbles before. Thunt has put more thought into these details than I've realized.

[Hippo]

What's the betting Thunt has been reading the "things you never noticed" threads, knowing about the bartender and wondering if any of us would pick up on it?

[Greyman]

So is this page in lieu of a normal update? Haven't seen Thunt mention so on twitter, so excited we might get a page as well.

[spiderwrangler]

What's the betting Thunt has been reading the "things you never noticed" threads, knowing about the bartender and wondering if any of us would pick up on it?

Haha!

I don't even care if these take the place of updates, if these are easier to put out for Thunt, I'd rather a couple months of Altsplanations if it gives him a chance to catch a breather and regain some sanity.

[Zwums]

Not to toot my own horn, I always assumed the bartender thing was common knowledge...

But aside from being a jerk, I would agree with spiderwrangler. Bring on the atslplanations!

[RocketScientist]

Not to toot my own horn, I always assumed the bartender thing was common knowledge...

I did, too. Not the thing about the potion and gods, but the thing where he hit Fumbles.

[SccrD25]

Yeah he was definitely on Birds list. Hey did anyone grab a copy of that?

[BeanDip]

I think we should move Lenard to the official list of Goblins villains. He is one rotten human.

I would seriously love to get like two of these a week and just one update. Might be easier on Thunt and there's got to be several realities that can be explained without spoilers

[willpell]

Also: with all the stuff about "Shooshoo" and their belief in "non-sameness", did anyone but me expect that he was going to end up recruiting Minmax for his "ultimate diss"?

[Joe Falco]

Blue Minmax reminds me of a cenobite with the what looks to me like wires roped across his body.

[RedwoodElf]

This is a pretty funny update. Love the 214 Alternate reality. Very Cthulhuesque.

Everybody sing along!

[zennyrpg]

Yeah he was definitely on Birds list. Hey did anyone grab a copy of that?

I do (although I think Bird has a local copy on his computer as well). I can't wait for Bird to re-post, that was my favorite thread! And it would get like 100% more awesome now that we can chronicle multiple views of a high number of alts.

[SeeAMoose]

What's the betting Thunt has been reading the "things you never noticed" threads, knowing about the bartender and wondering if any of us would pick up on it?

No bet, Thunt loves seeing if we catch the little bits of minutia so I would not be the least bit surprised. I'd also be shocked if there weren't things in the comic that we've all just missed. When you read the PDF books the amount of detail he alludes to is incredible, same for the live stream, he pays attention to details better than any other comic I'm aware of.

[ActsStupidly]

Agreed on Thunt's attention to detail, though I'm guessing that comes from years of DMing. The best DMs can turn an almost unnoticed event that happened in the 1st session in long standing games into the driving force of the plot like 30 sessions later.

[predator]

if you have the entire plot mapped before you, it is very easy to place little set-ups and pay-offs. A setup might vary from using flat characters to show up again towards the building of the tension towards a joke. If he where to backtrack his own story enough he might find anything to be a setup. Especially in a comic. For example if the heroes were to go back to brassmoon in the future then he might use cameo's of the same townspeople that we have seen before without the readers even noticing it. Oh and talking about brassmoon. The monsters that escaped will propably enter the plot or make cameo's in the future.

[askstoomuch]

I freaking love these extra's

[Aegis J Hyena]

I want to hear about the pink Kin with the Oblivious blade, or the the team up of Klik and Minmax.

[Dovearrow]

I'm still waiting to learn about the fat Minmax that's covered in goo. What's his story?

[SccrD25]

I'm still waiting to learn about the fat Minmax that's covered in goo. What's his story?

Here ya go:

Minmax is a large, round blob-like humaniod. He is immune to all non-magical damage other than slashing or piercing which does x8 damage to him. So he won't let anyone near him use sharp objects (other than himself). Forgath has been forced to modify the spike on his helmet so it isn't sharp. Kin is completely repulsed by Minmax, who can defensively ooze slime like a slug.

from http://duke.a-comics.ru/fmk/

[boneguard]

I want to hear about the pink Kin with the Oblivious blade, or the the team up of Klik and Minmax.

already done in this page:

Reality #171 [20110211 panel 2: row 5 col 4, 20130302][twitter 10 Mar 2011 @3740 followers]
Dies & Klik joined the goblins adventure party (GAP), Klik was seperated from Dies & the GAP during the battle in Brassmoon. The drider from the Brassmoon dungeon survived by hiding in the city. After FMK killed Goblinslayer, they encountered the drider, then defeated him in battle, but Minmax lost his arm in the fight. Klik saw this and replaced his arm, thus bonding with Minmax.

Dukes wonderful page of FMK realities is awesome and it's pretty much up to date (altsplanations 2 as not been added yet, but will shortly). A must read for those who want to know what's happening and who the FMK are.

[Rorrik]

What I find interesting is that lonely alts, like AceMax, and BlueMax, are thrown into the maze together with all the MFKs, there's even one with a One-Eye instead of a Forgath. If "alts" can be defined that broadly, it seems very odd that so many of the alts have the full MFK compliment. My only theory is that Kin is in general a major liability and so 2 million tries in, the groups mostly have Kins. I'm just suprised we don't see more groups with major handicaps or with less members.

[askstoomuch]

the teams with major handicap probably wouldn't go out adventuring

my favorite so far is NinjaMax who hangs from one of the pillar thingies

[Dusk9]

I think it's more likely that most alt groups without a Kin would have no reason to go to the Maze in the first place. She's the entire driving force behind the excursion to the Maze, so in most universes where she isn't a member of the group, they would have no reason to go near it.
There are exceptions, obviously, but that's only a small number of cases.