The runic circle reads “CYCLE CHARGE OVERLOAD” repeated over and over. Not sure about the order of the words, because it’s a circle and, while normally the spellcasting commands follow the order of “VERB POTENTIAL_QUALIFIERS NOUN(S)”, unfortunately, all the words here can fit in any category, so I went with the one that makes the most sense to me.
The runic circle reads “CYCLE CHARGE OVERLOAD” repeated over and over. Not sure about the order of the words, because it’s a circle and, while normally the spellcasting commands follow the order of “VERB POTENTIAL_QUALIFIERS NOUN(S)”, unfortunately, all the words here can fit in any category, so I went with the one that makes the most sense to me.
Essentially, it’s still the same command looping over and over. Saturate and overload the circle with Lightning energy and cycle the charge to run the circuit in perpetuity… give or take it’s been a while since I’ve dealt with circuits.
She’s not like the rest of the floof squad who can spontaneously fight the dragon (probably), but it seems he’ll learn that with a bit of warning, just about anyone can fight him.
. “Erin just laid himself out with a massive overchannel. He needs to rest.”
. “Oh, he’s resting quite comfortably, I assure you,” the Void Dragon purrs. “He might not even feel it when he shatters the world.”
. “He sure won’t, because you’re going to put him down,” Tess says. “Now.”
. “He must not have warned you. How thoughtless,” The Dragon says with a slight smile. “I’ll extend you the kindness he evidently didn’t, and advise you to step aside.” Void appears, swirling in streams around the Dragon’s body. “I understand it’s quite a painful way to go. His eyes narrow in glee. And how do you think Erin would feel if you died for nothing?”
. “You know, you’ve really put things into perspective,” Tess says.
. Her lightning scar crackles with energy. The circle of runes around her lights up, glowing golden. A connected circle surrounds Erin’s body, which explodes with lightning, sending tendrils of electricity up through the Dragon.
. “That would probably sting a whole lot worse.”
1. I am now imagining V.D. as a chaos gremlin cat
2. YAAAAAH TESS!!
3. …Okay this might just be me but who else thinks Erin panel 3 looks MMH
“Haha, she’s adorable. She thinks she can stop me because she’s made of metal. What can she possibly–ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME?! ANOTHER ONE??”
Also it’s interesting to note that Walter doesn’t have access to Erin’s memories, or he’d know at least something about Tess. He doesn’t even seem to realize he’s dealing with an adoptive and *extremely protective* sister, here.
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You know, it occurs to me that Void Boy here might not be at full strength to begin with. He spent a whole lot of time talking with a ‘mere mortal’ there, and supposedly he wouldn’t care what Erin thought.
So why, from his point of view, would he bother doing anything beyond supposedly swatting the gnat out of his way?
Sit boy, sit. Stay. That’s a not-entirely-bad void boy. (I can’t make myself call him a good void boy..)
From a logical view point that makes sense but from a story point of view its an excuse for the writer demonstrate the villain’s expectations of all encounters given the power they wield and show the protagonists deepening understanding of said villain’s limits to satisficing story beats. I am very happy to see Tess being so Metal!
This is true. When presented opportunities in the past, he immediately dispatched his guard (usually Alinua) and made for the nearest cave. Perhaps it’s the geography of the scene; he HAS to go through Tess to leave, so he might as well make a show of it. But I’m always a big fan of “superpowerful bad guy resorting to threats because he actually can’t back them up like he usually can”. The whole point of a threat is to make someone do something that you can’t do yourself. He can MAKE Tess move, in theory, so why the speech?
because tess is not alinua, alinua can shrug off being hit by void because life so he has to dispatch her quickly and run before she can get up and hit him back because unlike alinua erin doesnt have a healing factor
if tess gets hit with void she is done and wont get back up and he knows tess doesnt want to kill her brother so he doesnt see her as a threat so he does what every arrogant villain worth their salt does:monologue
Walter has an established habit of convincing himself he’s the most dangerous thing in the room, smugly giving away key information to stroke his ego, and getting sidestepped because he can’t keep himself from gloating. He did the same in the Caves with Erin, on his first attempt at trying to kill Dainix, and if you squint, throughout his appearance in the Tynan fight. Kendal actually remarks on it, which is fun.
And on a purely practical level, refraining from channeling avoids taxing Erin or having to use more Void, which Word of Red says he’s avoiding. (Just look how his attacks changed with Tam, once he’s convinced he doesn’t need to stretch his wings for once in his plans. He uses only the Void already summoned to disable a key asset and bounces.)
V.D.: Come now, you don’t have to paralyse your brother to ensure he gets his rest.
Tess: You say that, but if you were babysitting him post overchannel years ago, you’d be tempted do. Dude’s a terrible patient.
I was prepared for angry Tess, shouting at V.D. and feeling the pressure of fighting her brother. But seeing her deceptively calm and neutral, responding to V.D.’s long, polite threats with short, to-the-point counters, hits so much harder. Tess has always worn her heart on her non-existent sleeves, gaining this personality is one of, if not the, most important parts of her backstory; when she puts her emotions aside when getting serious, you know it’s bad.
Similarly, we’ve gotten so used to seeing Tess as a rough and ready punch-mage, I never considered her using runes until last page. It does make sense though; I’m thinking either Erin taught her or she picked up that skill on her travels. She doesn’t have a Void resistance like the others, so knows she needs to fight smarter rather than harder.
Tess is right, Erin knowing his sister died at V.D.’s hands would hurt more than Void disintegration to him; I can’t blame him trying to keep Tess and his other friends and family out of this mess. When he wakes up, potentially sooner rather than later after this lightning show, I hope he realises that he needed Tess along and this runic circle show is proof she can handle the risks.
Yeah, there is a bit of “Spider-man just got quiet, oh SHIT” here.
The sitting vs fury also reminds me of Mrs. Ikari talking down Shonen Bat. “Sit down. I’ll make you understand that humans are not as weak or corrupt as you seem to think…”
Erid in control for a sec, coughing up smoke: “Thanks Tess, love ya sis” Collapses
Tess “Love ya too, bro. …Dang it, I don’t have any healing lacrima.”
Tess, it’s poor table etiquette to take the same actions on each turn (intended purely as a joke).
Sure is effective, though. I do hope VD doesn’t think up a countermeasure to this highly exploitable weakness.
Also, I wonder – did Erin share this tactic of paralysis (an entirely logical deduction), or did Tess organically reach the same conclusion on how to neutralize VD? Because that would be incredible.
Reminds me of Noah Antwiler’s rant in his Counter Monkey video called “The trouble with superheroes” where he talks about superhero tabletop rpgs. It is fun to read about X-men, it is not fun to play as one of them.
“Okay, you’re Wolverine. What are you doing this turn? I’m gonna stab a bad guy.” and “Okay, you’re Cyclops, what are you doing this turn? I’m gonna shoot the enemy with my eye beam. Okay,roll to hit.
Next turn.
Alright Cyclops, what are you doing this turn? I’m gonna shoot the bad guy with my eye beam. Oh, I’m not in range. Okay, I’m going to move in range and shoot the enemy with my Eye Beam.” Boooring!
Tess has exactly two moves, “Steel punch” and “Electrocute!” and that’s enough.
That Cyclops player lacks imagination. Here’s some ideas:
Optic blast the ground in a wide arc to make either a trench to slow down melee opponents or uproot a bank of earth for your team to take cover behind.
Optic blast in the direction opposite to where you want to go, using the force to propel yourself to your destination in an instant.
A fine, piercing optic blast to make precision holes in a target to damage essential components or make openings for other teammates to take advantage of.
There’s a great Reddit post that goes into these applications and many more in depth, and includes my favourite Cyclops beam moment where he sends a blast through a traffic light to hit multiple opponents. It’s a good read. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyclopswasright/comments/1360r69/breakdown_cyclops_optic_blast_and_all_the_ways_he/)
As for Wolverine, off the top of my head there’s enhanced senses for tracking/gauging opponents before a fight, relying on healing factor to be the team’s tank/meat shield at the front, and cutting up parts of the environment that could benefit the team. More limited than Cyclops, but the potential is there.
Yeah, but that’s comics and “bar tales”. This was specificaly about tabletop RPGs where all actions have descriptions. You might not use eye beam to fly or cut through floor if its not in the description.
probably tess came to the conclusion on her own, erin himself said that paralyzing himself with lightning is a rookie mistake so self paralyzing is probably something common among lightning mages who are still learning, its less that “lightning is the weakness of the void dragon” and that “the void dragon frequently forgets that he is in the body of the only person who doesnt have any superhuman resistances in this group”
I think it’s less that V.D.’s main weakness is being zapped, more that being zapped is the most certain and non-harmful way to subdue him. The other elements are either not as effective at holding him back, or they risk unnecessarily harming Erin.
Plus, let’s be honest, Tess’s other potential moves either risk harming Erin or put her at risk of a Void blast; she only has lightning magic at her disposal, so she needs to apply it smartly.
Well DAMN. Way to go Tess!! I’d thought maybe she was sitting in a runic circle, but I’d completely missed any sign of one around Erin. That’s smart. She’s smart. Well played.
Lil bit nervous about how long she’ll have to hd that watch (surely she needs sleep at some point), but for the moment, I’n cheering.
“Huh, I *was* considering feeling bad about electrocuting you both, but know that you’re openly admitting that you plan to do much worse to him if I lose…get wrecked, clown dragon.”
Cool!!!! I figured she’d zap him. But I’m still worried she’ll tire eventually…and I’m sure the VD is betting on it. For now, his impatience is his weakness
It seems Erin shared the story of how he disabled himself to stop the Dragon last time, and Tess did listen and improvised her own version of it. Very clever. Let’s hope it suffices to keep the dragon stunned long enough – Tess has made it sound like Erin is likely to be out of commission for a while.
It appears that Tess was indeed hesitant to electrocute Erin, but VD talked her into it. Also, the Void Dragon has to be careful not to harm Erin’s body by channeling too much power through him, as that would deprive VD of a really powerful body.
I kind of want the Void Dragon to use their power on People. Most of the time we’ve seen it, it’s been on people who are immune to it or Tynan. I kind of want them to use their power on innocent people (preferably not the party) to really kind of sell Erin’s terror of the dragon.
I like to see Tess, who is usually more of a throw caution to the wind type not only sit still long enough to carve the runic circle, but also use it in the first place. she’s not free-handing her casting, she’s using magical theory for a very specific purpose: prevent the void dragon from interfering.
if left to his own devices, voidy might actually begin casting again. sure, he’s theoretically paralyzed, but even if he got the jump on Tess and foresaw her plans to trap him, the runic circle protects against outside interference. she’s made sure that the only one capable of using lightning magic in this arrangement is her, and made sure it would put a stop to this instantly. she a terrifying mage, with both incredible insight and intuition into lightning and also the wrote precision of training.
it was a runic circle!!!!!!!!
With his body language and hair, that was definitely Yeowch. Good call, those who noticed the runes Friday.
The runic circle reads “CYCLE CHARGE OVERLOAD” repeated over and over. Not sure about the order of the words, because it’s a circle and, while normally the spellcasting commands follow the order of “VERB POTENTIAL_QUALIFIERS NOUN(S)”, unfortunately, all the words here can fit in any category, so I went with the one that makes the most sense to me.
The runic circle reads “CYCLE CHARGE OVERLOAD” repeated over and over. Not sure about the order of the words, because it’s a circle and, while normally the spellcasting commands follow the order of “VERB POTENTIAL_QUALIFIERS NOUN(S)”, unfortunately, all the words here can fit in any category, so I went with the one that makes the most sense to me.
the discord server thinks its overload cycle charge due to the spacing between the beginning of overload and end of charge
Essentially, it’s still the same command looping over and over. Saturate and overload the circle with Lightning energy and cycle the charge to run the circuit in perpetuity… give or take it’s been a while since I’ve dealt with circuits.
Oh that’s clever. Tess can heavily overcharge lightning considering she’s immune to the stuff.
Smug as always, the Dragon says to yield
But is caught in a paralysing lightning field
Two things:
1) What do the runes say?
2) I’m going to be late to the next three updates due to matriculation exams, so wish me good luck?
Good luck!
The runes say CHARGE OVERLOAD CYCLE
Also good luck on your exams!
Curse you, real life for making me late! XD
I feel your pain.
Also, best of luck @OngoingConversationCouplet
Good luck! Matriculate away!
Good luck!
I don’t know the runes
But I wish you much good luck
And hope you do well!
The runes say:
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!
Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!
Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!
Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!
Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow!
Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow!
Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!
Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!
Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!
A-hee-ahee ha-hee!
A-hee-ahee ha-hee!
A-hee-ahee ha-hee!
A-oo-oo-oo-ooo! Woo-oo-oo-ooo!
Wa-wa-way-do Wub-wid-bid-dum-way-do Wa-wa-way-do
Bay-budabud-dum-bam
Mama-dum-day-do
Abay-ba-da bum-bum bay-do la
You’re definitely referencing something, but please explain what.
They’re referencing the song “what does the fox say”
Pretty sure the reference is “What Does the Fox Say?”
Jeez, haven’t thought about that in… Ten years? Yikes, where does the time go…
Wish you the best of luck!
Good luck, ongoing!
Good luck!
Good luck with the exams
GO TESS!!
She’s not like the rest of the floof squad who can spontaneously fight the dragon (probably), but it seems he’ll learn that with a bit of warning, just about anyone can fight him.
Listen, the first time we met her she was spontaneously fighting *a* dragon…
The people pointing this out on Friday made me grin. Because Walter doesn’t know about that.
if lightning doesn’t solve your problem, you’re not using enough of it
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: flips the “days since Erin has been electrocuted” sign back to 0
Image source: sting
Tumblr: this will surely turn out well
Bluesky: morning everybody
(That’s last page’s Bluesky text)
Bluesky Text: siblings are just like that sometimes
(it’s also last page’s tumblr text)
tumblr text: the cain instinct comes in clutch
. “Erin just laid himself out with a massive overchannel. He needs to rest.”
. “Oh, he’s resting quite comfortably, I assure you,” the Void Dragon purrs. “He might not even feel it when he shatters the world.”
. “He sure won’t, because you’re going to put him down,” Tess says. “Now.”
. “He must not have warned you. How thoughtless,” The Dragon says with a slight smile. “I’ll extend you the kindness he evidently didn’t, and advise you to step aside.” Void appears, swirling in streams around the Dragon’s body. “I understand it’s quite a painful way to go. His eyes narrow in glee. And how do you think Erin would feel if you died for nothing?”
. “You know, you’ve really put things into perspective,” Tess says.
. Her lightning scar crackles with energy. The circle of runes around her lights up, glowing golden. A connected circle surrounds Erin’s body, which explodes with lightning, sending tendrils of electricity up through the Dragon.
. “That would probably sting a whole lot worse.”
1. I am now imagining V.D. as a chaos gremlin cat
2. YAAAAAH TESS!!
3. …Okay this might just be me but who else thinks Erin panel 3 looks MMH
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!?
lets gooo age old tactic of electrocuting voidy ftw
“Haha, she’s adorable. She thinks she can stop me because she’s made of metal. What can she possibly–ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME?! ANOTHER ONE??”
Also it’s interesting to note that Walter doesn’t have access to Erin’s memories, or he’d know at least something about Tess. He doesn’t even seem to realize he’s dealing with an adoptive and *extremely protective* sister, here.
And it confirms that Erin’s dream back in the Zuurith arc was just his own psyche pretending to be the Void Dragon.
Ha! I love Rorschach.
That runic circle has come in handy, yes. Will it knock him out, or will VD decide pain just isn’t for him?
“Ooh, lightning is Super Effective on Void Dragon, is it?” -Tess, offscreen after Erin talked about his experiences with possession.
who would win?
ANCIENT ELDRITCH DRAGON GOD
or
zap
my money is on the zap
Something is certainly going all according to plan, and I’m all here for it.
Good luck puppetting Erin’s body when his nervous system is set to 907FM: Thrash Metal Power
I really like how the two circles are linked at two points, so there’s a complete circuit. It’s a very nice touch.
“I am the VOID DRAGON” “oh, ‘dragon’ you say?”
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TEEEEESSSSS <3
I love her so much <3
Also: Bzzzztzap.
I know I’m a die-hard Dainix fan but… I have to admit, I am coming around on the whole “Tess Is The Best” thing.
I’d hard to resist her allure, and not just because of an inherent attraction to shiny things.
Void’s going to absolutely despise electricity at this rate haha- also- Erin’s going to have a few fried braincells at this rate
You know, it occurs to me that Void Boy here might not be at full strength to begin with. He spent a whole lot of time talking with a ‘mere mortal’ there, and supposedly he wouldn’t care what Erin thought.
So why, from his point of view, would he bother doing anything beyond supposedly swatting the gnat out of his way?
Sit boy, sit. Stay. That’s a not-entirely-bad void boy. (I can’t make myself call him a good void boy..)
From a logical view point that makes sense but from a story point of view its an excuse for the writer demonstrate the villain’s expectations of all encounters given the power they wield and show the protagonists deepening understanding of said villain’s limits to satisficing story beats. I am very happy to see Tess being so Metal!
This is true. When presented opportunities in the past, he immediately dispatched his guard (usually Alinua) and made for the nearest cave. Perhaps it’s the geography of the scene; he HAS to go through Tess to leave, so he might as well make a show of it. But I’m always a big fan of “superpowerful bad guy resorting to threats because he actually can’t back them up like he usually can”. The whole point of a threat is to make someone do something that you can’t do yourself. He can MAKE Tess move, in theory, so why the speech?
because tess is not alinua, alinua can shrug off being hit by void because life so he has to dispatch her quickly and run before she can get up and hit him back because unlike alinua erin doesnt have a healing factor
if tess gets hit with void she is done and wont get back up and he knows tess doesnt want to kill her brother so he doesnt see her as a threat so he does what every arrogant villain worth their salt does:monologue
Walter has an established habit of convincing himself he’s the most dangerous thing in the room, smugly giving away key information to stroke his ego, and getting sidestepped because he can’t keep himself from gloating. He did the same in the Caves with Erin, on his first attempt at trying to kill Dainix, and if you squint, throughout his appearance in the Tynan fight. Kendal actually remarks on it, which is fun.
And on a purely practical level, refraining from channeling avoids taxing Erin or having to use more Void, which Word of Red says he’s avoiding. (Just look how his attacks changed with Tam, once he’s convinced he doesn’t need to stretch his wings for once in his plans. He uses only the Void already summoned to disable a key asset and bounces.)
Ooohh I just went back to look, you can sorta see the runes in the last page! I know Red’s attentive to detail but I LOVE that little touch!
“agh my hubris!”
V.D.: Come now, you don’t have to paralyse your brother to ensure he gets his rest.
Tess: You say that, but if you were babysitting him post overchannel years ago, you’d be tempted do. Dude’s a terrible patient.
I was prepared for angry Tess, shouting at V.D. and feeling the pressure of fighting her brother. But seeing her deceptively calm and neutral, responding to V.D.’s long, polite threats with short, to-the-point counters, hits so much harder. Tess has always worn her heart on her non-existent sleeves, gaining this personality is one of, if not the, most important parts of her backstory; when she puts her emotions aside when getting serious, you know it’s bad.
Similarly, we’ve gotten so used to seeing Tess as a rough and ready punch-mage, I never considered her using runes until last page. It does make sense though; I’m thinking either Erin taught her or she picked up that skill on her travels. She doesn’t have a Void resistance like the others, so knows she needs to fight smarter rather than harder.
Tess is right, Erin knowing his sister died at V.D.’s hands would hurt more than Void disintegration to him; I can’t blame him trying to keep Tess and his other friends and family out of this mess. When he wakes up, potentially sooner rather than later after this lightning show, I hope he realises that he needed Tess along and this runic circle show is proof she can handle the risks.
Yeah, there is a bit of “Spider-man just got quiet, oh SHIT” here.
The sitting vs fury also reminds me of Mrs. Ikari talking down Shonen Bat. “Sit down. I’ll make you understand that humans are not as weak or corrupt as you seem to think…”
Erid in control for a sec, coughing up smoke: “Thanks Tess, love ya sis” Collapses
Tess “Love ya too, bro. …Dang it, I don’t have any healing lacrima.”
O Tess you sassy lass! That puts the dragon-dawg in it’s proper place! Chef’s kiss!
Tess, it’s poor table etiquette to take the same actions on each turn (intended purely as a joke).
Sure is effective, though. I do hope VD doesn’t think up a countermeasure to this highly exploitable weakness.
Also, I wonder – did Erin share this tactic of paralysis (an entirely logical deduction), or did Tess organically reach the same conclusion on how to neutralize VD? Because that would be incredible.
Reminds me of Noah Antwiler’s rant in his Counter Monkey video called “The trouble with superheroes” where he talks about superhero tabletop rpgs. It is fun to read about X-men, it is not fun to play as one of them.
“Okay, you’re Wolverine. What are you doing this turn? I’m gonna stab a bad guy.” and “Okay, you’re Cyclops, what are you doing this turn? I’m gonna shoot the enemy with my eye beam. Okay,roll to hit.
Next turn.
Alright Cyclops, what are you doing this turn? I’m gonna shoot the bad guy with my eye beam. Oh, I’m not in range. Okay, I’m going to move in range and shoot the enemy with my Eye Beam.” Boooring!
Tess has exactly two moves, “Steel punch” and “Electrocute!” and that’s enough.
That Cyclops player lacks imagination. Here’s some ideas:
Optic blast the ground in a wide arc to make either a trench to slow down melee opponents or uproot a bank of earth for your team to take cover behind.
Optic blast in the direction opposite to where you want to go, using the force to propel yourself to your destination in an instant.
A fine, piercing optic blast to make precision holes in a target to damage essential components or make openings for other teammates to take advantage of.
There’s a great Reddit post that goes into these applications and many more in depth, and includes my favourite Cyclops beam moment where he sends a blast through a traffic light to hit multiple opponents. It’s a good read. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyclopswasright/comments/1360r69/breakdown_cyclops_optic_blast_and_all_the_ways_he/)
As for Wolverine, off the top of my head there’s enhanced senses for tracking/gauging opponents before a fight, relying on healing factor to be the team’s tank/meat shield at the front, and cutting up parts of the environment that could benefit the team. More limited than Cyclops, but the potential is there.
Yeah, but that’s comics and “bar tales”. This was specificaly about tabletop RPGs where all actions have descriptions. You might not use eye beam to fly or cut through floor if its not in the description.
Wait, is Tess a pikachu?
probably tess came to the conclusion on her own, erin himself said that paralyzing himself with lightning is a rookie mistake so self paralyzing is probably something common among lightning mages who are still learning, its less that “lightning is the weakness of the void dragon” and that “the void dragon frequently forgets that he is in the body of the only person who doesnt have any superhuman resistances in this group”
Ok, Voidy’s main weakness seems to be being zapped. Like, In the caves, Erin did it to keep him at bay, and here, Tess is doing It.
I think it’s less that V.D.’s main weakness is being zapped, more that being zapped is the most certain and non-harmful way to subdue him. The other elements are either not as effective at holding him back, or they risk unnecessarily harming Erin.
Plus, let’s be honest, Tess’s other potential moves either risk harming Erin or put her at risk of a Void blast; she only has lightning magic at her disposal, so she needs to apply it smartly.
“It seems no one warned you about me. …Wait, no one warned me about you!”
Well DAMN. Way to go Tess!! I’d thought maybe she was sitting in a runic circle, but I’d completely missed any sign of one around Erin. That’s smart. She’s smart. Well played.
Lil bit nervous about how long she’ll have to hd that watch (surely she needs sleep at some point), but for the moment, I’n cheering.
This is why Tess is my favorite character she’s so cool
TESS THE FUCKING GOAT
“Huh, I *was* considering feeling bad about electrocuting you both, but know that you’re openly admitting that you plan to do much worse to him if I lose…get wrecked, clown dragon.”
Cool!!!! I figured she’d zap him. But I’m still worried she’ll tire eventually…and I’m sure the VD is betting on it. For now, his impatience is his weakness
He really misunderstood how much she is not in the mood for his bullshit.
Tess is giving tired older sister and I’m here for it.
My SAT is tomorrow rahhhh Tess get his ass
“Finally, the chance to unload on my brother and be morally in the right”
It seems Erin shared the story of how he disabled himself to stop the Dragon last time, and Tess did listen and improvised her own version of it. Very clever. Let’s hope it suffices to keep the dragon stunned long enough – Tess has made it sound like Erin is likely to be out of commission for a while.
Was not expecting that but alright!
It appears that Tess was indeed hesitant to electrocute Erin, but VD talked her into it. Also, the Void Dragon has to be careful not to harm Erin’s body by channeling too much power through him, as that would deprive VD of a really powerful body.
Walter may have the untamed power of the void, but unfortunately for him Tess has a tazer.
MY GIRL TESSS <3
I kind of want the Void Dragon to use their power on People. Most of the time we’ve seen it, it’s been on people who are immune to it or Tynan. I kind of want them to use their power on innocent people (preferably not the party) to really kind of sell Erin’s terror of the dragon.
TL;DR: That’s enough evil monologuing for one day.
I don’t care what level you are, you’re still at one hitpoint
I like to see Tess, who is usually more of a throw caution to the wind type not only sit still long enough to carve the runic circle, but also use it in the first place. she’s not free-handing her casting, she’s using magical theory for a very specific purpose: prevent the void dragon from interfering.
if left to his own devices, voidy might actually begin casting again. sure, he’s theoretically paralyzed, but even if he got the jump on Tess and foresaw her plans to trap him, the runic circle protects against outside interference. she’s made sure that the only one capable of using lightning magic in this arrangement is her, and made sure it would put a stop to this instantly. she a terrifying mage, with both incredible insight and intuition into lightning and also the wrote precision of training.
Sadly for VD, Tess has probably heard quite a few Erin Monologues™ and knows exactly when to interrupt them for anti-hubristic irony.
Hah! Get rekt
Y’know, i kinda felt like Tess would hold back. I was wrong.
So Tess basically just has a taser to zap Voidy out of her brother
You can really tell they’re siblings
Erin: *makes sassy one liner, then electrocutes self*
Tess: *sarcastic comment then electrocutes Erin*
*drinks deeply* Ah! That’s some good hubris!
Ah dang it, I’ve been reading too much BSD, I keep starting to read from the right
BSD MENTIONED OMG
There once was a villainous mind
Who didn’t notice he was in a bind
Tess’ face is set
And her anger whet–
Not an ounce of mercy will he find.
Tess: 4
Dragons: 1