This comic page reminds me of a moment in Mossflower( this is a rough approximation):
"I think it’s time I told you guys how my fried Timberlisto got his name."
…..well I think Cad may be down a mother if his brother is running around without her. It’s too much to expect that good aligned people in the cities would have a high survival rate….
Can beholders un-stone creatures? I seem to recall Bob’s mother making reference to de-petrifying something for dinner way back in the earliest days of YAFGC. A curious experiment if that could be done to reverse a gorgon’s work.
Not sure how a bow fits into that … other than, I sure as hell would want a ranged weapon to take out gorgons & beholders etc. a the greatest distance possible.
It’s also quite possible that a Beholder’s ability to de-Petrify works *only*on a subject of Beholder’s Petrification. If so, then Bob couldn’t de-Petrify anyone who was petrified by any other creature except another Beholder.
Indeed. Exactly why I used the word "experiment." Just as possible, a beholder (or gorgon, basilisk, etc.) might only be able to de-petrify a creature they themselves have petrified. Depending upon the creature/magic user/spell type, it could be highly personalized or very generalized.
Some variants might kill the subject at the moment of petrification, while others may place them into stasis for a time period so it could be undone. At some point (instantaneously or decades/centuries later), the subject would have to pass into the afterlife.
Given the current story arc, it’s especially relevant if Ranna is what’s waiting for you in he afterlife.
I was a player in a game once where we de-petrified a "statue" into the original human she was. Turned out she’d been in stasis for over 400 years, the victim of a wizard’s spell. A very valuable NPC for us for quite a while, with intimate knowledge of history and lost points of interest. Our gaming group had a number of interesting discussions along this entire line of thought, but we never did get to explore them before we disbanded. I always wanted to do this with the world I hosted, and sadly never had the time.
So, yeah, I’m very curious how Rich handles it for the YAFGC universe.
1. I think that Midnight is right here and Beholder can depetrify their own prey, cause they cant eat stone. Also they stone them with a beam. Gorgons use their gaze or the victim petrifys itself by looking.
2. If Charles kills the gorgon and said gorgon is "linked" to Ranna (as the gorgonised priestess all seem 2 be) wouldn’t Ranna know about it?
1. That’s how it works in DnD but the comic doesn’t necesserally follow those rules, despite the similarities. Its still a good baseline assumption till proven otherwise though.
2. I think it depends if it’s a ‘natural’ gorgon who willingly follows Ranna, or a ‘convert’ who us at least partially under Ranna’s control, if not actively puppeted by the goddess (she’s a deity, she can do that and polymorph effects don’t typically alter the subject’s alignment or outlook).
I get how you feel kid, but you aren't accomplishing *anything* right now. And unless I'm mistaken, nobody else even knows you're here, so nobody is going to come looking for you. If you went back to Eddy, he could probably wipe out this tiny outpost and rescue Lucas and Cadugan in under a minute, and probably turn them back to normal too.
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He was going nuts…
Does the idea involves attacking them with the bow?
I hope not. Based on what we’ve seen so far, the chances of them surviving against the Rannites are slim to none, let alone succeeding.
I think he just about to reinvent garotte…
Me-thinks the alchemist is going to get a message a la Holy Grail.
Building up… tension?
Kill them…kill them all and may the gods choose their people
Thank you for the in-strip time context! I had been wondering.
Especially as we haven’t seen these two characters since May 2016. (Egad!)
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"Not leaving here, without my brother"
I hate to be the bearer of bad news kiddo, your brother isn’t going anywhere except as part of a touring art exhibition.
This comic page reminds me of a moment in Mossflower( this is a rough approximation):
"I think it’s time I told you guys how my fried Timberlisto got his name."
…..well I think Cad may be down a mother if his brother is running around without her. It’s too much to expect that good aligned people in the cities would have a high survival rate….
Can beholders un-stone creatures? I seem to recall Bob’s mother making reference to de-petrifying something for dinner way back in the earliest days of YAFGC. A curious experiment if that could be done to reverse a gorgon’s work.
Not sure how a bow fits into that … other than, I sure as hell would want a ranged weapon to take out gorgons & beholders etc. a the greatest distance possible.
Yup. http://yafgc.net/comic/0005-name-dropper/
It could be offered to a Griffin as dental floss…
It’s also quite possible that a Beholder’s ability to de-Petrify works *only*on a subject of Beholder’s Petrification. If so, then Bob couldn’t de-Petrify anyone who was petrified by any other creature except another Beholder.
Indeed. Exactly why I used the word "experiment." Just as possible, a beholder (or gorgon, basilisk, etc.) might only be able to de-petrify a creature they themselves have petrified. Depending upon the creature/magic user/spell type, it could be highly personalized or very generalized.
Some variants might kill the subject at the moment of petrification, while others may place them into stasis for a time period so it could be undone. At some point (instantaneously or decades/centuries later), the subject would have to pass into the afterlife.
Given the current story arc, it’s especially relevant if Ranna is what’s waiting for you in he afterlife.
I was a player in a game once where we de-petrified a "statue" into the original human she was. Turned out she’d been in stasis for over 400 years, the victim of a wizard’s spell. A very valuable NPC for us for quite a while, with intimate knowledge of history and lost points of interest. Our gaming group had a number of interesting discussions along this entire line of thought, but we never did get to explore them before we disbanded. I always wanted to do this with the world I hosted, and sadly never had the time.
So, yeah, I’m very curious how Rich handles it for the YAFGC universe.
1. I think that Midnight is right here and Beholder can depetrify their own prey, cause they cant eat stone. Also they stone them with a beam. Gorgons use their gaze or the victim petrifys itself by looking.
2. If Charles kills the gorgon and said gorgon is "linked" to Ranna (as the gorgonised priestess all seem 2 be) wouldn’t Ranna know about it?
1. That’s how it works in DnD but the comic doesn’t necesserally follow those rules, despite the similarities. Its still a good baseline assumption till proven otherwise though.
2. I think it depends if it’s a ‘natural’ gorgon who willingly follows Ranna, or a ‘convert’ who us at least partially under Ranna’s control, if not actively puppeted by the goddess (she’s a deity, she can do that and polymorph effects don’t typically alter the subject’s alignment or outlook).
Use of the word ‘makeshift’ for casually insulting purposes, as in ‘Your makeshift trousers/car/kitchen/life-partner/nose’ etc.
I also have an interesting idea, but mine would involve much pain and tears…
The idea is chopping onions, and I have no idea how effective it would be.
I get how you feel kid, but you aren't accomplishing *anything* right now. And unless I'm mistaken, nobody else even knows you're here, so nobody is going to come looking for you. If you went back to Eddy, he could probably wipe out this tiny outpost and rescue Lucas and Cadugan in under a minute, and probably turn them back to normal too.