2983 Gertrude’s Saga 01
on January 16, 2017
Scale, Hank, Handler and Gertrude are all visiting us from “Cowboys and Crossovers”
http://cowboysandcrossovers.thecomicseries.com/comics/
Drawn by Ron Bender (Well, when they aren’t being drawn by me, that is…)
Is that Schlock’s favorite gun??
Ommminous hummmmm. . . .
Well, it *was*.
That may not have worked out as well as she hoped.
Tech vs. Matic – Round One
Magic wins! XD
Quote from a fanfic:
"I told you, didn’t I? Ours is the lightning. Or, as you heathen technomancers would say, ours is the electricity. And right now, your little toy has none."
Nice plasma cannon. Like Howard Taylor’s Schlock (from Schlock Mercenary fame), you can’t use the M-series (for Mormon) around alcohol. She needs to upgrade to the I-series (or Irish) if you’re going to risk spilling any alcohol on it. I’m guessing that’s what happened here.
I don’t think they’re rated against wizards.
Well, they’re rated against anything that doesn’t like being bathed in white-hot plasma. But they’re not very robust… the sergeant goes them pretty quickly…
Is that a Strohl Munitions BH-209 Plasma Cannon she was holding? Neat.
Guh, for Sharess sake
Draw and SQUEEZE THE TRIGGER………….
Talk AFTERWARDS
What spell was that? Metal to Raspberry Jam? 😀
Possibly a more refined version of Rock to Mud.
Big hat. No cattle.
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Very lucky that all it did was melt. I am assuming there is a significant power supply in a plasma cannon that is unlikely to react well to suddenly being reduced to goo.
Magic tends to bitchslap physics, so despite the weapon having a significant power supply, it still turned to goo without the resulting explosion.
Well,it really depends. If you go along the "magic is a superset of physics" route, then magic is just poorly understood technology. The other sort of magic is that which Neil Gaiman best described in the graphic novel The Books of Magic
"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible."
There is a subset of thinking that magic and science and not only not compatible, but actively hostile. Usually to the detriment of science… and anything nearby.
Or you could just say that the spell uses the excess energy to fuel its own existence. Magic is power intensive, transmutation doubly so.
Actually, it doesn’t explode often in Schlock Mercenary either… the sergeant regularly finds his gun disabled by stray bullets, and the usual result is that it simply stops working. Explosions are surprisingly rare.
I think he did get it to explode once, although I don’t recall how now. Firing underwater maybe?
Once early on when he left it in his mouth while drinking, it exploded and splattered him all over the bar. A while later Kevyn sabotaged his current one to make a bomb, and later still he tried firing it underwater, slagging it but without collateral damage. Those are the three explosions I can think of off the top of my head.
I feel safer with her not having it.
Don’t worry, Ron, she has plenty of dangerous things in that helmet 😉
Was that a room-temperature melting or is this comic followed by her screaming and looking for a bucket of ice water?
The spell could of been on that only effects metal or just stops it from existing like Disintegration Ray which only leaves behind dust and ignores regular physical law. Magic is finicky like that.
Hey Rich, did you start this comic based off of a campaign you were in/ran? I was just wondering.
Do you mean the entire YAFGC or this plot specifically?
If you mean this plot specifically, no, it’s a crossover story with a crossover story involving…..other crossover stories…. yeah, it’s a bit of a spaghetti thing.
If you mean YAFGC in general, also no. It is however a parody and comedic version of a mixture of my experiences as GM and player of a whole lot different RPGs, mostly D&D but also MERP, Fantasy Heroes, Warhammer, Pendragon and others. I have also incorporated ideas from my experiences in books, comics, TV shows and cartoons, as well as invented things wholesale for the comic and world itself.
The basic geography is mostly stolen from a campaign world that I ran years before and one that I played in. It’s a great mix of all sorts of things.
I approach it like I’m running the ultimate fantasy world RPG for myself with me playing all my old PCs blended and jumbled with characters I’ve always wanted to play and some friends’ characters thrown in as NPCs.
Oh. That’s awesome.
"it’s a bit of a spaghetti thing."
Sounds like a bunch of Noodle Incidents that we’re probably NEVER going to hear about, are we?
😛
Admit it, you did this just to get rid of a pesky deus ex machina device. After all, what fun is it if she can just blast everything into ash and slag?
The answer is "all the fun in the world".
Just ask everyone’s favourite sociopathic carbosilicate amorph.
Actually I did it so I could destroy something from Schlock Mercenary. A little poke and snigger at Howard.