the solution obviously is for Roy to dye all his magic items lime green
Dejin
3645
I’m not sure I understand why the last dialog bubble “The potion only works on things that aren’t true” is shown in orange.
My first reading was that the implication was that her dad raised her badly and that she was being nice, but if the last dialog bubble is orange then isn’t the implication that the potion does in fact work on things that are true (and presumably things that are false as well), and then why does (1) Hailey need the orange enchantment bubble to say her father raised her well if it is indeed true and (2) why doesn’t she use it to get her dad to understand that Elan isn’t bad?
I’m so confused …
You are overthinking it. The orange bubble is just a reminder that her potion has kicked back into effect because she is outside the antimagic area. So all her speech would be orange bubble until the potion wears off.
Thanks. That threw me too.
Dean
3648
Well, it’s also a function of what skill the potion affects, which is Bluff. You can’t bluff something that’s true, that would be Diplomacy. You have to try to tell a lie to use Bluff.
So, convince someone of something that’s true = Diplomacy
Convince someone of something that’s false = Bluff
I dunno – looking back at the past couple of strips, there is only one case where Haley says something in orange text that isn’t a bluff/lie, and even that was more of an observation than a statement.
I would not be at all surprised if she was using the bluff-potion on Elan in that statement. Not that she couldn’t tell the truth, but more like she didn’t want to use the potion for that purpose, and rather than telling Elan the real reason why, she bluffed her way out of the explanation.
Maybe I am over-thinking it, but…
I still suspect you are overthinking it. All her speech was in orange bubbles between taking the potion and walking into the antimagic zone. It makes sense that it would be orange again now that she’s out of the antimagic zone. If you look at this strip you can even see the speech bubble shading orange to white as she crosses the line.
Sebmojo
3651
blah blah
I hate to tell people they’re nerds when I’m commenting in an internet gaming forum about a stick figure comic about dungeons and dragons, but
neeeeerds
I was really touched by that.
Enough with the daddy issues, though Rich. Makes me think Xykon had a point (for those who haven’t read it, in Start of Darkness he zombifies his grandmother and gets her to slaughter his parents)
Dejin
3652
That makes sense. Thanks Dean.
Rasputin
3653
Wasn’t it zombie Professor S?
Tankero
3654
I take it no one has considered the possibility that Haley was somewhat convinced by her father’s reasoning? After all, the man is a fucking evil genius, to put it mildly. Elan doesn’t have to be aware of it to be someone’s pawn (obviously), so some seeds of doubt might’ve been sown…
I think that’d be completely out of character for her. She’s been clearly setup to be the cliche rogue on the surface, but otherwise motivated underneath. There’s no way she’s using Elan.
Tankero
3656
No, not her. I think she suspects Elan is being used by his father in some way. The fact that Elan is a “good guy” has been well-established, but she couldn’t assure her father that he wasn’t, in some circuitous way, a pawn.
Jarmo
3659
It’s moderately interesting how Burlew ended the preceding strip with a half-page and now he started with one. I don’t remember if this is the first time he’s done that. I thought he might use the room for a text piece or an illustration in the next printed collection but now there won’t necessarily be a gap to fill.
Let the games begin! I wonder if we’ll see something similar to the arena scenes in Asterix the Gladiator. The situation is certainly ripe for it, but Tarquin is a lot more ruthless than Goscinny’s Julius Caesar.
