3382 Power Struggle
on September 7, 2020
Chapter: Ranna's Fulcrum
Characters: Fatinah, Kurassa Elemental Wizard from the City of Haran, Prince Kassim Ibn Tambid Al Umbril
Location: Elegrost Fields
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Not good action left unpunished (an Spanish expression, don’t know if is the right translation)
Close! "No good deed goes unpunished" would be the english version of that saying.
Oh dear…
Yikes, second-hand mana-burn. I hope that she can recover from that.
Once again, Rich comes out of left-field, and completely blindsides me.
Of course, this is a war. No one is safe.
I hope Fatinah’s all right.
With Ranna occupied at the moment, I wonder what exactly would happen to the dead right now?
Now I hear "Don’t you fret, M’sieur [Kasim]
I don’t feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You’re here, that’s all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow."
playing in my mind and have tears in my eyes :'(
Oh, please. Did you really think that comment was moving? Just so you know, this isn´t making me cry AT ALL, that´s just the rain… I`m putting on this song now because I want to, not because you made me…
Oh no.
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
Again, ‘A’ for effort, this time though, ‘D’ for ‘dumb move’
Using magic when the cur is literally *eating* it? She should have gone for a Johnny Cage move, magic users are nearly always vulnerable to physical attacks
Indeed! A punch to the balls would have likely messed him up quite badly at that point.
I know you’re taking levels in cleric now, but you’ve still got rogue levels. Sneak attack all day.
But also yeah, I can’t really blame ya, you’ve been trying to change your entire world view.
He’s literally sheathed in a magical field, would you want to shove any part of you into it to try and physically touch him, not knowing what effects that field would have on you?
So, *adding* to the magic he is draining is better?
In panel four, he is not launching an attack back at Fatinah, he is sucking out her magic (and live) energies
Fang has got to have a golf club around somewhere…
That is the real problem with magic-users. Their first thought about problem solving is "use magic". If this won´t work "use more magic". They completly miss the physical options in solving problems.
Ouch! But again, kudos for making us feel the loss, that should victory come, it will not be without sacrifice!
I know its random to say but I miss Meegs…
Some of us miss her as well 🙁
Most would rather find her cave, and redecorate, by making a gravel path
Its just seeing all these characters come back to do stuff in this final battle has made me miss her a lot…
Same, except, we know her fate already 🙁
And that requires her to remain as a lawn ornament for ever
Maybe we will see that far future in the story sometime…
We did
Oh, you mean the comic will run long enough we entered that Age? Hope so
I miss how Meegs solution to danger is to run around naked. 😀
And Lewie isn’t carrying on her tradition adequately?
Every time I think we are at the end of this battle, Rich does the unexpected.
Good show!
I am (was?) a big fan of Fatinah. This one hurts almost as much as Arachne.
She doesn’t seem healty.
There is something that I really love in this comic and only a few content I have seen got it. There are TONS of lovable characters, but none are subject to plot armor.
The characters only die when they have reached a conclusion of their story (Fatinah finally getting the courage to rebel against Kurasa, if she dies here) or their end is marked by the lack of conclusion or fullfillment (Sybil the explorer, sacrificed herself without achieving nothing).
In my opinion removing the grief of the cast, makes a story artificial and forgettable; removing all the happiness makes all ilógical and edgy (unless used for black humour). This comic reaches good balance between tears of joy and sadness.
Forgott to add. For me is important that characters end (by death or leaving) with some kind of conclusion, unless the intend is not to have one. Not having a conclusion makes the end to seem abrupt and arbitrary, which makes the reader unfeeling of the cast if abussed.
And by conclusion I don’t mean necesary a good one, some characters reach a sad conclusion but a fullfilling one.
Except, in real life, people do that often: just… leave, with no conclusion or explanation or anything, just, one day, they are gone
Gawd, you’ve always been great at horror art. This reminds me of the headless vampire thingie. Blech.
Also, I really *really* hope Fatinah can’t actually feel anything at the moment, certainly not as bad as she looks.
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The penanggalan. (Or balan-balan in Sabah, leyak in Bali, kuyang in Kalimantan, palasik in West Sumatra, kra-sue in Thailand, kasu in Laos, ahp in Cambodia, and manananggal in the Philippines).
Technically, she was *body*less, not headless
The former innkeeper of that harbour town
I agree, but in fiction realism is not always the best bet. For example, in most cases painting a landscape and adding a turd that some animal left there may not improve the paint (unless you want to specifically point that).
The usual is to embellise the reality so it is pleasant but not to much so it remains relatable, and finding the balance is hard.
I fumbled the post check 🙁