May 14, 2013 - Ganging Up

[Kennerly]

OTOH: If our Kin joins, what will they nickname her?

Stumpy!

[BeanDip]

Seriously? Probably Jade or Emerald.

But I like Stumpy.

[DrinksTooMuchCoffee]

"Legs".

[mnementh]

I hope I'm not the only one to observe this; but while it IS true all of the AltKins have collars around their necks, none of them appear to be the metal torc type like our Kin is wearing, but rather simple, leather bands. Also, I have yet to see a leash on any of them.

This may be evidence of the reason this group is so successful (at least so far); they may still have their native psionic abilities.

That COULD be a game-changer; and could also be why they don't appear to be hesitating to confront him. Maybe Ruby REALLY MEANS to splishk something of his.


mnem
Also; Druidkin is hotter than ever... *THUDD*

[willpell]

EDIT: Uh, what's that yellow stuff on Onyx's tail, in the first panel? Don't tell me she got bitten by a zombie and only hasn't discovered it yet?

Nice catch!

And no clue.

she didnt have that when she... fought he zombies...
Any one else thinking shes gonna turn.

I think that's tissue necrosis caused by Forgath's Inflict Light Wounds...it looks rather similar to the way Young and Beautiful's face melted when he Inflicted death upon her.

And I'm ninja'ed by the very post I was about to quote! Oh well....

It's getting redundant to keep calling Kin cute, but I wanted to say that I particularly love this profile view of her.

Our Kin should be called Stumpy. Or if we're going by scale color, I guess she could be Amber, since hers were yellow.

Topaz? Citrine? Chrysoberyl?

[Kore]

http://www.goblinscomic.com/05312010/

"My species mate by forming a large ball of 10 to 50 males with 1 female in the centre..."

Monsters that are very interested in mating are more likely to have offspring and thus as result of natural selection, most monsters are very interested in mating. But there were no males in the maze.

http://www.goblinscomic.com/01132012/

"trueseeing... only happens between Yaun-Ti"

Minmax trueseeing sensed Kin's pain so therefore by monster logic Minmax is now a Yaun-Ti. That puts Minmax in great danger. The female gang may attempt to simulate their perverse mating ritual as best they can, they may form a ball of females around him and do horrible things to him.

[mnementh]

And he would die happy.


mnem
*Blain breach*

[Krulle]

Uh, what's that yellow stuff on Onyx's tail, in the first panel? Don't tell me she got bitten by a zombie and only hasn't discovered it yet?

That is what I was thinking.

And it has been answered before: Forgath: Inflict Light Wounds! (Pindesucre was the first to point out the answer.)

[vernes]

Only came by to say that this episode is one of those EPIC episodes.
And I can wait for the feels when they find out our kin has found 'love'.

[langerhans]

But what i want to know is WHAT is that stuff on onyx's tail? WUZ SHE BITTUN BUY A ZOMBEE!?!? (that was a joke)

i'm still holding out for one-eye making a late appearance, after all this update confirms that alts can escape into our reality.

okay so it might not be one-eye.. but does anyone else feeling like this page could possibly foreshadow alts escaping into our realm, ...PsiMax anyone?

[Verz]

They mentioned xp and treasure, have the other Kins started taking adventurer levels then?

[Morrack]

Cool update, love seeing the Kins back!
I dislike some of the dialogue though. First picture, especially, seems a bit unnecessary to mention it's 'the healing river potion'.
Just say 'we thought/smelled/saw there was healing potion in it, so here you go', maybe not even mention the potion at all, it's pretty clear she wants the cup so that's why they give it to her anyway.

Also, this thread should totally be named 'he stole my Forgath' .

[Krulle]

Well, I found this particular information good, since now we know that the three Kins also passed the Healing Potion river.
Before, we could not be sure if any other team passed the river at all, with the large fall and all.

[langerhans]

Well, I found this particular information good, since now we know that the three Kins also passed the Healing Potion river.
Before, we could not be sure if any other team passed the river at all, with the large fall and all.

it seems likely, they came from the same direction as our group in the corridor.

Is that a brassmoon city elites breastplate that ruby's wearing? white markings... possibly just stolen but maybe it hints that she's EEEEVIIILLL!

[BeanDip]

I hope I'm not the only one to observe this; but while it IS true all of the AltKins have collars around their necks, none of them appear to be the metal torc type like our Kin is wearing, but rather simple, leather bands. Also, I have yet to see a leash on any of them.

They all do have leashes, the blue cord wrapped over their arms like our Kin, but Onyx's leash is the most interesting. She seems to have both a collar and a belt of the same material but unlike the other Kins her leash doesn't attach to either one.

[Morrack]

Well, I found this particular information good, since now we know that the three Kins also passed the Healing Potion river.
Before, we could not be sure if any other team passed the river at all, with the large fall and all.

True, but I think the dialogue itself could have been better. It doesn't really sound realistic to me (also, in this way they suggest that it couldn't have been 'regular' healing potion in the mug, it has to be from the river, but how would they know that).
In fact, it wouldn't hurt the conversation to leave out this information altogether. It doesn't add much to the story, other than the fact that others pass the river of healing potion too, which doesn't really seem surprising to me.
Could have been a simple 'Here's your healing potion. Better drink it fast.' or something.

I'm a (starting) writer myself, so that's why I'm a bit picky here .

[Reads_Forums]

Cool update, love seeing the Kins back!
I dislike some of the dialogue though. First picture, especially, seems a bit unnecessary to mention it's 'the healing river potion'.
Just say 'we thought/smelled/saw there was he aling potion in it, so here you go', maybe not even mention the potion at all, it's pretty clear she wants the cup so that's why they give it to her anyway.

Also, this thread should totally be named 'he stole my Forgath' .

They suffer the same excessive verbalisation that seems to be a trait amongst all kins. Even in a webcomic, which is a medium which tends towards rather terse dialogue, going beyond the most efficient way to convey the information isn't bad. Dialogue is still only the real way to convey character, how something is said is as important as what is said.

[axe11154]

why is our kin the only one with no weapon. I mean really she only fights with her tail. id like to see her use a bow or crossbow.

[pindesucre]

I actually like the fact that the dual sword wielding KIn (is that the one we dub "Jade"? I am confused...) is wearing the renmants of Brassmoon city guards. IMO, it does not make her evil per se, but rather shows that she actually was much more active than Ken in her escape from the city, and looted those from the GS personal guard (included a couple choice scimitars): the breastplate and armbands especially seem summarily put together (held by the leash and laces would not be the proper way for the original guard).

I do wonder what is the right arm protection? A belt? And where she might have gotten the saords, as none of the city guards had them. May be from Dellyn's home? I'll have to check if there were blades on the walls...

[langerhans]

I actually like the fact that the dual sword wielding KIn (is that the one we dub "Jade"? I am confused...) is wearing the renmants of Brassmoon city guards. IMO, it does not make her evil per se, but rather shows that she actually was much more active than Ken in her escape from the city, and looted those from the GS personal guard (included a couple choice scimitars): the breastplate and armbands especially seem summarily put together (held by the leash and laces would not be the proper way for the original guard).

I do wonder what is the right arm protection? A belt? And where she might have gotten the saords, as none of the city guards had them. May be from Dellyn's home? I'll have to check if there were blades on the walls...

they're called Ruby (red scales) Sapphire (blue scales) and onyx (black scales)

that looks to me like a belt on her right arm, as for the rest of the equipment i'm not sure, for any of them... all our kin stole was that purple coat, but these guys are pretty well decked out

[Krulle]

Sapphire: http://www.goblinscomic.com/01252013/
The rest has not been called in the comics yet, so I do not know where the names came from.

[pindesucre]

Oh, okay, thanks. That actually makes sense.

[RedwoodElf]

why is our kin the only one with no weapon. I mean really she only fights with her tail. id like to see her use a bow or crossbow.

Since our Kin has no adventure levels, she has no proficiency. She's tried using weapons before, but not very effectively (See the tower battle back at town)

As for the Kins finding out how to control the resets, all they have to do is search the starting areas til they find Psimax's starting area...it's the only one with a broken counter, so it would be obvious what they need to do before they toss the unconscious Psimax into the winner's circle to reset.

[Changes_everything]

I hope I'm not the only one to observe this; but while it IS true all of the AltKins have collars around their necks, none of them appear to be the metal torc type like our Kin is wearing, but rather simple, leather bands. Also, I have yet to see a leash on any of them.

Erm, maybe you want to polish your monocle?

[friedkitty]

As for the Kins finding out how to control the resets, all they have to do is search the starting areas til they find Psimax's starting area...it's the only one with a broken counter, so it would be obvious what they need to do before they toss the unconscious Psimax into the winner's circle to reset.

The problem with that is the time. There are hundreds of groups trying to reach the finish, and if they take the time to backtrack to the beginning, someone else is bound to win first. Unless they can get EVERYONE to agree to it, and that seems very unlikely. The best case is to somehow get Psimax to monologue before knocking him out, but you still run into the issue of how to get back and destroy the counter before someone else gets up to the treasure room. Of course we stil don't know how they will even get in unless our FMK still has that key somehow.

(Maybe one of the 3K has it...they could have just pocketed it "just in case".)