I am also disapointed in the bunny. If it is good enough to serve as a mount for Richard, it is good enough to conquer the fortress.

Not the bunny too!

*Redneck* How dem Duke Boys gunna git oudda dis one?

On a good note: Shirtless Cale for the ladies! XD

True, I was disappointed in the lack of disfiguring facial scars on Cale, you win again fan girls, but the rest of us will have our day!

Has anyone notced that Benny is unscathed?

Normally I'd be happy to see half-naked Cale, but he's in such terrible shape I just feel sad for him instead.

Benny doesn't look like she's in too much pain. There's definately some marks on Krunch though. It makes me mad to think about Krunch getting tortured! I wish he'd just gore all the baddies and be done with it.

And Sooba is muzzled and in a cage! And the bunny! Bunny has a headcone! That's both pitiful and adorable at the same time. Frankly, I'm always impressed that the bunny is still around. I guess Richard... likes him?

Richard is so mean and yet so hilarious the way he messes with Cale even in a situation like this.

This update was perfect.

Oh, that is it! Fangirls unite! We're mounting a rescue effort, now.

Poor baby. He looks a lot worse than the others. Benny's bruised and Krunch is scratched, but Cale looks downright sick. *cuddles*

You get the band-aids and ointment, I'll start brewing the chicken soup.

We'll make him feel better one way... or another.

*in the tones of a certain Abridged!Mai*Faaaanservice!
XD Rabies will be happy.
Kinda funny to see Richie mess around with Cale's mind
in tha sort of way,though..
I think it'll probably be the first time the group didn't do
the pwning(It'll be the fangirls,considering their urge
to take revenge for their Cale)

For all of those who think rogues are OP
this is the comic for you

Hmm... she's better off than any of the others, but she does look a little injured. There's some bruising around her eyes and mouth and on her right side and shoulder. It's easy to miss though. She does seem to be the "lucky one" as far as torture goes.

I'm on it, girlfriend! Think we should find a thermometer too, just in case?

*slips into a nurse's outfit* Teehee ^^

Absolutely! And we should warm up the water for the sponge bath as well.

He'll be well before he knows it!

(I wish I could make THAT into fanart...)


Oh, and the bunny gets a good brushing. Can't forget the bunny.

You guys scare the hell out of me sometimes. >.>

Well I'm sorry, but there's just no fighting my maternal instincts.

I don't know how i feel about breaking the fourth wall. Its dangerous. It could just end up being Barrens chat with Chuck Norris quotes.

CrystalSuicune - you watch YGO-Abridged too!!
all - i love the way theyve done this one..go richard and your aweome lines!

Barrens chat is awesome, it and trade chat are awesome...i'm the next nois! Wait, in order to get that you have to not only be an uber WoW fan, but ALSO be lucky enough to have met nois(yes, i said lucky).

If you play WoW, but don't now who nois is, go to the server: Terenas, and in trade chat ask "who is nois?" You'll get an answer, i promise.

ON another note, Pella is missing, maybe they killed her? I hope not, i love playing the part of "offend other forumgoers by liking pella", but if she dies i'll have to DISLIKE someone in the story...if i REALLY want to offend someone i'd say something bad about richard...but that would be strange, he's PERFECT.

Lol though, loved it all.

Pfft, fangirls, you wouldn't stand a chance in there, think about it! Cale himself got beaten by these people, so did richard and krunch! Like youwould make it.

Do not underestimate our powerz!...Besides, I would probably roll a druid first.

It's not the first time the fourth wall's been broken! It's all in good fun, though I do see your point.

Perhaps they had other plans for her?

I believe it would actually be the definition of irony that this exact circumstance happened in our D&D game tonight...only Cale didn't bash his head against the wall until he died and THEN come back as a rogue...but still, kinda close.

"Kill yourself and roll up a rogue."

Hark! What was that titanic noise I heard? Verily, it was Richard's comment shattering the Fourth Wall.


You says some fangirls don't want to see some fetching, badass scars on Cale?

That very well could be. Krunch will smash them to bits if they did anything inappropriate!



Depends on where they're located!

Grizzled veteran: "...and let me tell you about the time I got this scar." *turns around and drops trousers*


So you're a compulsive disliker?

Is it bad that I didn't even miss Pella or realize she was missing until barysnikov pointed it out. Ouch.

I just noticed now that Cale and Benny both look so... bony. Guess they're being starved as well as tortured.

Good thing Sooba's got a muzzle, or he'd probably eat the bunny!



Now, if it were Cale, it would be a story I could listen to again and again....

I rarely read LFG without laughing in my head at Richard's fantastic banter. Merging a good, involved storyline, interesting character, and that level of funny is rare and impressive. But I don't laugh outloud often, at anything.

"Kill yourself and roll a rogue. We'll wait." nearly made me wet myself laughing.

Nah. Cale's always been on the skinny side. And if Benny were to lose weight, it would probably be in cup sizes.

*looks back at the page*

Nope. She's not being starved.

I think just laughed milk through my nose.

Benny's breasts defy all logic!

Maybe she has 'troll' regeneration, considering the 'almost WoWish' ending note. ;P

Perhaps Pella and Sooba are taking turns in the cage. You know, like a time-share home.

It's hilarious that the bunny was tied to a massive ring almost the size of itself. And the headcone. The bunny looks really pissed off about it.

At least Cale still has all his teeth. Still... few outwards signs of torture only means the legion has a torturer who knows his craft. You can do a lot of bad things to people without leaving bloody stumps. The point torture is breaking the victim's will, not their legs. Not that that stopped the Inquisition, of course. But even those guys started with the showing of the instruments. Horrible, monstrous execution methods, now that's another topic.

Truth to tell, hanging from his wrists like Cale does can kill someone faster than any torture and starvation. Hanging with arms up and to the side with the chest sagging forward means slow suffocation. At least from what I read, many victims of crucifiction in Roman times didn't necessarily die from bleeding to death or thirst, but because the posture they were in would mean they had trouble breathing. Hanging from spread arms for a long time, pectoral muscles become paralyzed and the intercostal muscles are unable to act. Air can be drawn into the lungs, but cannot be exhaled. The pericardium around the heart slowly fills with serum and begins to compress the heart. Or at least that's what the medical account of the crucifiction of Christ by Daniel de Sailles claims. I'm not a physician.

Even standing up with your arms chained over your head for hours on end is torture in itself. Worse if you fall unconscious or asleep.

But then, fictional action heroes can take a lot of abuse, run for days without enough sleep, water or food (Aragorn, I'm looking at you), get slammed against things in ways that should normally break their bones without so much as a fracture or torn nail. They all have some off-screen regeneration power, most likely.


Isn't the idea of trolls with regeneration and most importantly the idea of "rolling up a rogue" pure D&D?

Hah, Richard is right, Cale is indeed useless. I mean, he is the noob hunter all leet WoW players love to hate: BE Hunter that fights melee. He should have just rolled a rog.

Trolls in WoW have a unnoticable regen, and rolling a rog is purely WoW-speak. Actually, its called reroll. Sohmer, you need to research WoW more instead of working.

Regeneration is a racial ability for Trolls in WoW, but was likely taken from DnD. I don't think a WoW rogue would be much help in this case. So yeah, I'd imagine Richard's referring to a DnD rogue.

More WoW Research? I hope not. This comic has various sources of information, and if it's reduced to pure WoW humor, I'd stop reading the comic altogether.

Lockpicking. >.>

Edit: Then again, I'm a DnD newbie... could a DnD rogue pick locks, too?

Everyone in D&D can pick locks. Wizards are the best, for obvious reasons.

The obvious thing is that Richard suggests rolling up a rogue, which is simply not done in WoW.

I have to agre "rolling up" a character is usually assosciated with D&D (though you you roll up characters in Warhammer Quest as well)

Edit:Wizards are better lock pickers then rogue now? What has happened in D&D since my beloved 2nd edition?

But is it really breaking the fourth wall, if Richard refers to them as being RPG characters?

After all, they aren't. They're comic-strip characters. Comic-strip characters who are apparently bound by some of the rules of RPG characters.

So if Richard referred to them as comic characters, that would be breaking the fourth wall. But referring to them as RPG characters is more like breaking the, uh, "back wall," into a framing fiction wherein a group of RPG players exist.

I think I read "Godel, Escher, Bach" too many times as a kid.

I'm disappointed in Sooba and the Felbunny too. Didn't you see how easily Sooba murdered those troll shammies?

Are you serious? You do realize that there is no actual rolling in WoW, right? Whereas in tabletops such as DnD, players actually roll dice to determine their character's stats at character creation. Because of the involvement of die rolls, character creation is often referred to as rolling a character, and subsequently making a new character is often referred to as re-rolling. When online RPGs such as WoW came out, terms such as these carried over from the tabletops, even though no rolling is involved.

Just because something also exists in WoW doesn't mean it came from WoW. There were tons of RPGs out before WoW (in fact DnD predates the internet itself) and many of the things in WoW were (*gasp*) taken from other RPGs. So maybe you need to do some more research on RPGs (since this is an RPG comic, not a WoW comic) instead of playing so much WoW.

Ok... Richard breaks the forth wall... again. (I can't name when, but I'm pretty shure that he has done it before)
But the way he did it, bravo! Only Deadpool can break the forth wall like that.
As for the disscussion if it's breaking the forth wall or not. Straight from Wiki:"The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play" "The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience." and "The fourth wall is sometimes included as part of the narrative, when a character discovers that they are part of a fiction and 'breaks the fourth wall' to make contact with their audience" "This technique is also used in comic strips; for example"
Yeah, you probably get it now. the forth wall originally comes from theater, and is used to directly or indirectly speak the to audience, or refer themselves as fictional characters (Which I say Richard did here). So I say, the forth wall is broken, let's move on.

And finally they found Sooba, who was tied outside by a tree. I would have liked to see one of the battlemages (Magi?) in side the cage, just so that we can have proof that Sooba was in the battle, and not tied to a tree outside.

Also, WindRider is right. Nuff said.

The felbunny in the head cone is the type of detail that keeps me constantly entertained.

I think RIchard had to really, REALLY hold bavck here to refrain from using the pink fluffy speech.

SHEER GENIUS, I love this update.

Richard is such a dick, but that is why we love him. I loved the little head cone on the bunny keeping him from chewing his way free. That is just freakin hilarious.

No sign of Pella. Maybe she died.

she probably off screen or having her time.


is it me or does the bunny have that angry look in its eyes..

hilarious, really
''kill yourself and roll a rogue! we'll w8!''
lmao

I cackled at that line. That was purely awesome.

WORD.
Sometimes I wonder what they teach kids in school these days. Gamer geeks should know their history. Especially now that Gary Gygax has gone on to roll dice in the afterlife.


What the frell is a "rog"? A rogue with a dropped-off suffix? Is he suffering from syllabic lepra?
At least you didn't spell it "rogue". Small blessing.


Yes, under 3rd edtion rules, anyone can technically buy the skill to pick locks, but it's not on every class's skill list, so most characters (wizards included) would have to pay twice as many points to buy ranks in Open Lock, and the damn skill has one of highest DCs in the game, comparable only to Use Magic Device skill, even for simple locks; which is a bit ridiculous, considering the game designers still like to pretend D&D is "medieval". What, every door or town prison now has a complicated 5,000 gold piece locking mechanism? (Back in the olden days, picking locks was a class ability limited to rogues, pardon me, thieves, only.) And skill points available to wizards suck. Scholars, my ass. The only thing arcane casters like Wizards and sorcerers have going for them, vis-a-vis locked doors or shackles, is the Knock spell. Which can be cast even when tied up, which is rather the point; unless they gag the spellcaster and he doesn't have the ability to cast silently.

Anyway...

Wizards have to have high intelligence, so they have oodles of bonus skill points (generally second highest in a party, after the rogue, who's almost as smart and has tons more base skill points). But they can have only half as many ranks in lockpicking as a rogue of equal level, so yes, I don't get how they could be better at picking locks than the rogue.

I hope Pella isn't dead. I hope the absence of injury on Benny doesn't mean they used the oldest trick in the book on her (or on Krunch, through her). And since we're into D&D references, maybe the bard could pick some locks?