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Isn't that what happened here: http://goblinscomic.com/comic/04132016-2DoesNotRiskTraining wrote:The Staff of Notangle sounds as if it would break the Axe of Prissian, if the Axe was really was the prison-Prissian that Big Ears believed it to be.
Oh, thank you! Yeah, I've looked through it, I'm just pretty forgetful. I just wanted to do one update, at some time.DoesNotRiskTraining wrote:The title is supposed to have the date in it, there's an "on new updates" section in the forum-rules sticky thread.
Or, well, maybe they're not magical bindings? They don't actually hold someone in place, they just get absorbed into them?Corrupt User wrote:Crap, the soul imprints aren't magical! .
He's had it for a while, just nobody knew what it did yet.ForgetsOldName wrote:I've been confused about this strip since Thunt put the preview on Patreon.
We haven't seen the staff of untangle before. It's also unclear to me how one untangles a bunch of souls attacking you. Binding is not the word I would think of to describe this ceremony. More like possession or absorption.
Did Fumbles untangle Thac0 and free the spirits to flow into Fumbles? That's how it looks. If the staff doesn't do anything, then the story isn't moved forward by this update and its weird item at all. So something must have happened, I'm just not sure what.
I don't think you need to worry that Thunt is improvising here and might not pull it off. This is clearly a major plot point. Whatever happens now, he has been heading toward it since Day One of Goblins. You'll be able to see, in retrospect, a bunch of foreshadowing clues going way back -- because that's what Thunt does.ForgetsKeys wrote:For a moment, I thought Fumbles had found a clever way to deal with each imprint one at a time by untangling them. I'm kind of disappointed that it didn't work because I think it will be hard for Thunt to present a more believable reason of how Fumbles survives this.
Finally this makes sense! Well spotted!WhispersToSquirrels wrote:Isn't that what happened here: http://goblinscomic.com/comic/04132016-2DoesNotRiskTraining wrote:The Staff of Notangle sounds as if it would break the Axe of Prissian, if the Axe was really was the prison-Prissian that Big Ears believed it to be.
Fumbles gets the staff here, and the next page shows it undoing bindings. But you're right, apparently binding is not what happens in this ceremony, so the staff didn't work. Fumbles's hope that it would work is what made him jump into the imprints right before they got Thaco.ForgetsOldName wrote: We haven't seen the staff of untangle before. It's also unclear to me how one untangles a bunch of souls attacking you. Binding is not the word I would think of to describe this ceremony. More like possession or absorption.
Did Fumbles untangle Thac0 and free the spirits to flow into Fumbles? That's how it looks. If the staff doesn't do anything, then the story isn't moved forward by this update and its weird item at all. So something must have happened, I'm just not sure what.
I don't see that as a problem. It is if you view it in terms of game balance and letting all players in a party feel they have an equal chance to contribute to a successful evening's play... but that's not quite what's going on here. The goblins may or may not even have players... I know I have suggested in the past that they might, but there is clearly a layer above and beyond that: the story.LarsenSan wrote:This however poses a problem: if Fumbles survives he will be extremely powerful compared to his companions.
I also view this as very similar to how an epic level campaign I once played in ended. Basically, are DM had an end game. There was a "Final Boss" so to speak with no way out. The characters were going to die no matter what and we were either going to save all the other planes and just blow up our own, or else every other one was going down with us. But before that battle happened we got stock piled with power galore.Sessine wrote:I don't see that as a problem. It is if you view it in terms of game balance and letting all players in a party feel they have an equal chance to contribute to a successful evening's play... but that's not quite what's going on here. The goblins may or may not even have players... I know I have suggested in the past that they might, but there is clearly a layer above and beyond that: the story.LarsenSan wrote:This however poses a problem: if Fumbles survives he will be extremely powerful compared to his companions.
On the Story level, the goblins are a team. Fumbles cares deeply about his friends. Powers for him are powers that will be used to help them all. They've been thrust into a nigh-impossible mission. They need some huge advantages on their side!
And Story complications would almost write themselves... I predict, for instance, that if Fumbles survives this, it won't be easy for him to learn how to manage all that extra power.
Do *you* want to have a character 10 levels higher than you, with a history of catastrophically screwing up everything he does, in your party?LarsenSan wrote:This however poses a problem: if Fumbles survives he will be extremely powerful compared to his companions.