Any1 else notice that the pirates were stealing something from kruch? Im not sure if they were doing petty theiving like money, or did kruch have something of real value? I think it was the 2 swords he took from cale and the fact that they showed some map, but it could of been something else. any other opinions?

I believe Cale has those swords (the panel where you first see Krunch holding the swords has him moving away from Cale. I took it to mean Krunch pulled them from Cale at that moment). I was thinking they might be taking the scroll that lead them all to the broken down castle, though he never pulled that out.

Maybe he has the group's gold? *shrug*

They need tauren hair for their potion of rage....

He was tied down, so he couldn't fight back.

Heh. I bet that's exactly what the guys who stayed below said to the ones who tried it.

Methinks that Krunch awaken before Richard did his thing, Krunch would have managed something. Possibly showing us that Benny's requests to eat people are not nonsensical.

Perhaps...they were stealing...


HIS SOUL!

for...some reason...

Naa, Krunch only took the swords from Cale temporarily. And the pirates said of whatever they wanted to steal that Krunch had "it" "wrapped around his belt". Two swords are not an "it". And how do you wrap to blades around anything? No, they probably wanted to steal Krunch's money pouch. Which he maybe keeps pushed down the inside of his pants? There used to be, in real history, money-belts that had the pockets on the inside, to prevent purse-cutters from cutting the purse strings off the belt and running away.

Since the plot moved along to the Legion ship attacking, I guess whatever the pirates wanted to steal wasn't hugely plot-important after all.

Like I said, they were stealing for the sake of taking stuff of value, and it was from Krunch because he was already tied down.

It seems to me that Krunch is the scholar, and we never really knew what he was doing before he tackled the dragon. Perhaps he's been toting something of value all this time. Perhaps he has a treasure map or some artifact tied to his belt. (Maybe he's got the long lost knife and spoon of truth)

Oh! That makes so much sense now! I was confused when the troll leader asked him if he was the warrior (?) or the scholar.

Didn't Richard stop the pirates from stealing in the end? He set them on fire and the one pirate agreed that he "fell down the stairs."

maybe he has a magical belt of gender changing? or power etc.

while still being sort of on topic, in the third panel of the most recent comic anyone else notice a miget? is he like an allusion to the midget on jacks ship in pirates of the caribbean.

the falling down stairs was an allusion* to Dr McNinja. i just started reading it.

_*probably

Hard to say. Maybe, maybe not. He doesn't particularly look like a humorous sort, like the guy in PoC, and this is a world with gnomes, if not halflings. What might be interesting is if he pulls from the David Weber series (name escapes me right now, but the main characters are Hradani, kinda the opposite of halflings, though I wouldn't particularly say "oneandahalflings"...well except for those groans ). There was a particular clan/tribe/island of them that were sailors and famous for their recklessness, in contrast to most other kinds of halflings.



I'd say very doubtful. It could always be possible, but that is a classic gimic from as far back as the silver screen and has come up in many a work of fiction, both in and out of fantasy. Most notable in pulp and mob type movies- Cop "And what happened to that guy?" Mobster "Oh him? He fell down some stairs." Victim Mobster who wants to keep the licks at that and not be killed "I fell down some stairs". Also usable by police who escorted a suspect who comes to the station with more injuries than had before and gave a voluntary confession on the way (remember, this started pre-Miranda rights- that was the LATE 60s). On a darker note, it can pop up in real life, particularly DV situations. Purely speculation on my part, but more likely to come up than "smacked her face against a door knob". As for before, probably was used quite a bit when "door knob" was in popular use.

maybe Krunch stole the Fork of Truth from Richard and they were stealing that...

I don't think Krunch would be able to do that.

where does Richard keep it on him, anyway???

But the fork can summon sooba like when he was fighting the shamans.

is it me, or did the midget kinda look like the urchin from LICD? that coulda just been a cameo because I didnt see him on the crew in the earlier comic. but year, it coulda just been a set up to show that the group was on a ship that did shady buisness, and was just a setup for the leigon attack.