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Dmitri can't die, he has a number of kittens and one zombie cat to take care of! Who will feed them their dremora heart?
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drscience posted:So... um... Absolutely nothing. He's going to die right now. This whole interlude has been to inject some more misery and tragedy into Katia's circumstances (this time making use of dramatic irony, since Katia wouldn't even know it was happening) by robbing Katia of the opportunity to make a friend or at least receive a gift. I could believe that's the case since we haven't seen Katia get miserably crushed in a little and her current circumstances offer few chances for said misery.
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Aug 24, 2011 17:45
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Don't be so cynical. He might just be horribly maimed and lose the letter and ring and all that other magic stuff he has. But he'll still have his cats.
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Aug 24, 2011 20:43
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And keep in mind that he's a necromancer. He's farting around with death and relife as a career, so that probably gives him a few more options.
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Aug 24, 2011 22:55
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Dmitri's just going to be robbed of everything by gro-upp so he and Katia have something in common. Edit: Kazerad, what illustration program(s) do you use? Herpus Derpus fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Aug 25, 2011 |
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Aug 25, 2011 00:59
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Herpus Derpus posted:Dmitri's just going to be robbed of everything by gro-upp so he and Katia have something in common.
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Aug 25, 2011 02:23
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Herpus Derpus posted:Edit: Kazerad, what illustration program(s) do you use? Haledjian posted:I'm guessing Flash, almost certainly. For the Flash animations I just export all the necessary sprites to Flash. Gif timing and compression are done in Animation Shop 3; it's an old program, but still one of the best I've found for moving frames around. For a few animations in the dream sequence I had to use Microsoft Gif Animator to solve some transparency problems.
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Aug 25, 2011 04:00
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That's an awesome program, thanks. By the way you made me a furry you piece of poo poo.
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Aug 25, 2011 05:14
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Boom! Skadoosh! Update! Dmitri's spell list is... interesting.
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Aug 26, 2011 16:31
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That went about as well as expected. Seems like Dmitri will live though so I can't complain.
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Aug 26, 2011 16:47
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Is that a tattoo of his own face?
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Aug 26, 2011 16:50
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Factory Factory posted:Boom! Skadoosh! Update! The ability to hug ALL cats is pretty terrifying, Dmitri must be truly powerful
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Aug 26, 2011 16:53
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RickoniX posted:The ability to hug ALL cats is pretty terrifying, Dmitri must be truly powerful If you've seen that OKCupid video, yes, it is terrifying.
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Aug 26, 2011 16:59
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aegof posted:Is that a tattoo of his own face? Oh my God, I didn't even see that. It does look like Gro-Upp has a tramp stamp of his own face.
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Aug 26, 2011 17:26
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Calling it now. He's going to take the ring and wear it. Then later Katia is going to encounter him again and try to throw a fireball at him, which will fail because of his newfound fire-resistance ring. She will then cry about whatever Grow-Up does next. Edit: Actually, looking back all three things he considered as gifts were things Grow-Up could use to get around Katia's new magic powers - a wand of silence, an amulet of spell reflection, and a ring of fire resistance. This whole scene has been an unavoidable conveyance for the manner in which Grow-Up will next best Katia. Well, it's also been a way to introduce us to a new character and show us cute kittens, but choice-wise this is the thing we've been influencing. I suppose the ring is the least damaging choice since Katia could get around it by learning a non-fire combat spell, but I'm willing to bet we specifically won't be able to convince her to do so (or she won't be able to at all) between now and when we next see Grow-Up. Dolash fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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Aug 26, 2011 18:17
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He reeeeeeally should've opened with Blindness there.
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Aug 26, 2011 21:50
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Dolash posted:Calling it now. He's going to take the ring and wear it. Then later Katia is going to encounter him again and try to throw a fireball at him, which will fail because of his newfound fire-resistance ring. How do we know it's a fire-resistance ring? It just says Ring of Firewalking. It could very well only cover Gro-Upp's feet.
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Aug 26, 2011 22:44
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Technically it could also have been a potion gift basket, but I'm going to guess one of the potions would have been magicka resist or fire resist or something. It will be interesting to see if Dmitri can be convinced to send one of the other things afterward. Assuming he survives.
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Aug 26, 2011 23:19
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A good poster posted:He reeeeeeally should've opened with Blindness there. Depends on how Kazerad represents it. In Morrowind "blind" dimmed your vision to a percentage (e.g. 100% is a totally black screen, but 20% is like wearing a pair of sunglasses) and lowered your chance to hit by the same factor. Unless Dmitri has a very high magnitude blind spell it probably would have been about as helpful as summoning the skeleton. Toxic Cloud is probably his only spell that could have accomplished anything, in that it does enough damage over time that gro-Upp might have run away, although judging from his previous appearance he probably has an antidote potion in his pecs. Also as a interesting side note, Dmitri has spells from Morrowind that didn't appear in Oblivion--blind and the generic "poison" aren't even spell effects anymore. Blind is just gone, and poison was replaced by actual alchemical poisons that cause other spell effects, like "drain health." I think it was implied in a previous update (when he talked about his wand of silence) that he studied outside Cyrodiil before coming to the Kvatch guild. Or maybe it was even directly stated and I just forgot.
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Aug 26, 2011 23:43
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Young Freud posted:How do we know it's a fire-resistance ring? It just says Ring of Firewalking. It could very well only cover Gro-Upp's feet. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Ring_of_Firewalking#Ring_of_Firewalking It's a generic magic item you can find around the world. 30% resistance to fire.
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Aug 27, 2011 03:28
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In which case Katia will have to try 30% harder to burn him. I'm not totally solid on the math there, but it's worth a shot.
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Aug 27, 2011 10:35
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Gnome de plume posted:In which case Katia will have to try 30% harder to burn him.  ?(Barring mod weirdness with quest rewards and such.) (Also your math is off and it'd be about 42% harder.)
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Aug 27, 2011 10:58
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I just started reading this comic a week ago. Most of my reactions to this comic have been laughter or "Oh no! Sad kitty!" For a while, I thought things were turning around for Catgirl when Dmitri decided to give her a ring of fire resistance. I should have known better by then. Well, maybe Catgirl's next meeting with the fire resistant Gharug won't be hostile. 
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Aug 30, 2011 06:20
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Good luck with your power situation, Kaz.
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Aug 30, 2011 12:40
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The current / next tropical storm / future hurricane is Katia hey guess what I thought of first
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Aug 30, 2011 14:16
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The implications would be pretty amusing if it took out Kazerad's power and internet like Irene did. I just realized that both of the characters (alive) in this room have slept with Katia. I wonder how they'd react to figuring out this common link?
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Aug 30, 2011 18:08
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Dolash posted:The implications would be pretty amusing if it took out Kazerad's power and internet like Irene did. I was thinking about that earlier. The Gro-Upp probably wouldn't care but Dmitri would be upset.
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Aug 30, 2011 19:30
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Wait, why should Gro-Upp even bother going after Katia again? She was a target of opportunity, he's way out of those leagues at the rate he's going.
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Aug 30, 2011 19:33
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V. Illych L. posted:Wait, why should Gro-Upp even bother going after Katia again? She was a target of opportunity, he's way out of those leagues at the rate he's going. He'd be performing a follow up to make sure his service was satisfactory. He is a professional after all.
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Aug 30, 2011 19:53
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They'll almost certainly cross paths again just because it's good to reuse characters, and Gro-Upp appears to be becoming a sort of representation of misery to those we sympathize with in the comic. His incredible luck contrasts well with the terrible luck of Katia (and now Dmitri, I guess), underlying the basic premise of the comic - bad things happening to good people. I've been trying to work out if the name "Grow Up" is meant to hold some clever meaning, like he's a representation of the challenges of maturity or something. Or it could just be a clever name.
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Aug 30, 2011 21:08
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Dolash posted:They'll almost certainly cross paths again just because it's good to reuse characters, and Gro-Upp appears to be becoming a sort of representation of misery to those we sympathize with in the comic. His incredible luck contrasts well with the terrible luck of Katia (and now Dmitri, I guess), underlying the basic premise of the comic - bad things happening to good people. I think the name was suggested in one of the early commands. I'll check. Yeah, it was suggested that he be named "Up" here: http://prequeladventure.com/2011/03/katia/ Since the narration said Katia "hosed up."
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Aug 30, 2011 21:18
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Dolash posted:I've been trying to work out if the name "Grow Up" is meant to hold some clever meaning, like he's a representation of the challenges of maturity or something. Or it could just be a clever name. Gro is a fragment that appears in all male orc last names. (Gra is the equivalent female version.) So his name is really Gharug Upp, Male Orc. You will notice that the very first thing that Katia says after she wakens from their night together is "You hosed up." See, she hosed Upp. ... Yeah.
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Aug 30, 2011 21:20
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That's worth minor pun points, but I'll hold out to see if - now given this silly name - Kazerad can find a later, more clever use for it.
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Aug 30, 2011 21:43
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Dolash posted:That's worth minor pun points, but I'll hold out to see if - now given this silly name - Kazerad can find a later, more clever use for it. I think the name Upp could be read as being generally indicative of his upbeat, positive attitude, too. Also I just now noticed this thread was here, so hello Kazerad! I am a fan of your stuff.  Your furry thread on MSPAF was a thing of beauty, until furries showed up and ruined it.
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TheCIASentMe posted:He'd be performing a follow up to make sure his service was satisfactory. He is a professional after all. Plus, how could to story ever be complete without a flex-off between him and Asotil?
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Aug 30, 2011 22:10
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Zenzirouj posted:Plus, how could to story ever be complete without a flex-off between [Gro-Upp] and Asotil? I expect as flash as ASOTIL busts out his finest "Stop right there, criminal scum!"
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Aug 30, 2011 22:37
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I wonder if Katia is an Ohmes-raht. It would make sense based on how she walks, her face, and her magical abilities.
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Herpus Derpus posted:I wonder if Katia is an Ohmes-raht. It would make sense based on how she walks, her face, and her magical abilities. What the piss is with all the variations of these guys? I can't pick a single one out that Katia looks like, although Oblivion's lovely rear end models don't help.
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Pollyanna posted:What the piss is with all the variations of these guys? I can't pick a single one out that Katia looks like, although Oblivion's lovely rear end models don't help. Mainly because Bethesda can't be arsed to keep the beast races looking the same between games so they (or maybe it's just the fans?) use different sub-races to explain why they look different from game-to-game. Presumably, every single Khajiit in Hammerfell is an "Ohmes-raht," every single Khajiit in Cyrodiil is a "Suthay-raht," etc.
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I think the main culprit is, like most things, furries.
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