On page nine, when the group realizes the fight is going badly, Richard transforms all of their opponents into skeletons. Richard quips, "If you weren't sure, the skeleton's are on OUR side."

I think the joke if marvelous, but what happenned to Aelloon.

There is one frame where we see the guardsmen begin their trasformation, Aelloon is prominent in the frame. Though he is not shown with any ill effects, we do not see Aelloon again after the transformation frame. My assumption must be that Aelloon is now be a skeleton, and dead! Aelloon should not be of futher consequence to Benny or the group.

BUT,

After this fight Benny is clearly concerned that Aelloon will still be coming after her, for whatever money he was owed. She acts as if Aelloon is still alive and dangerous to her. Did Aelloon escape the effects of Richard's spell? and if so, how?

Aelloon is a boss level character. You can't do instant kill stuff on boss level characters. Not to mention boss level characters with story importance.

You killed the arguement, Liz... now it's gonna get derailed because you had to go and MAKE SENSE! Grr.

*walks in, throws a pie at Liz for making sense, leaves*

Let the derailing commence!

He can't be dead, or there wouldn't be much point to fleeing from him.

Besides, he seems like a tough dude.

In the comic it showed AROUND him his men transforming. Not him he had no green glowy.

Well, if Richard had turned all of them into skeletons, why would he have bothered saying that the skeletons were on their team? And also, why would Richard, Cale and Benny appear tired in the next frame as if they had just run away from something if there was nothing to run away from?
Sorry if I'm making sense too.

You think Richard is going to kill 5 enemies with an instant cast and not say something about it?


I can buy a lot of different explanations, Boss Char. can't kill: fine!
but in that case we should have seen him resist the spell, or somehow get healed later. (Hey, Cale did it after he was flamed)

I can buy that he escaped
I can buy that he wasn't hit by the cast
I have read enough Fantasy and SF to buy just about any explanation, assuming the author can provide that explanation.

My only point is the continuity, at this point we don't KNOW what happened to Aelloon.

Sorry to be so picky, I am sure I get a pie in the face for it!


"You can do anything in a cartoon"

well heres an idea:

Aelloon had more guards outside and he himself is a powerfull man(atleast as strong as the group,otherwise benny would have dealt with him some time ago).
thereby,while he and his platoon was busy with the skeletons the group escaped!
he then send some dragons after them because he was humiliated/mad.

theres your explenation

My thought was this

Richard is a sadist right?
so he wouldn't instant kill everyone with a skeletal summon he's want something for the skeletons to kill when they got there. so he didn't bother targeting Aelloon at all. Figuring since he's the hieghst ranking one there he'd have wards protecting him. instead he just killed the grunts to turn them against him.

In the moment the skeletons apeared Aelloon took the moment to bolt

TOO.
MUCH.
INTELLIGENT.
DISCUSSION.

My head hurts...
I actually didn't like that whole frame, it showed Richards sadistic side, but I really don't think it did much to move the story along...
I dunno, but I'm sure we will be seeing more of Aelloon later on

I wish I had something to say, but everyone's already pointed out all logical and possible solutions.
But yeah, Aelloon is very alive wherever he is. Otherwise they would have no reason searching for the sword.

I got the impression that after Richard mede his skellies that the band of intrepid adventurers ran away while Alleoon was otherwise occupied.

Actually, they did kill aeloon, but when they did a voice from heaven came down and said "by killing this character you have severed the web of fate. You can choose to continue in the doomed world you have created, or restart from last save gave."

They chose to reload.

Edit: They couldnt have been done in the first place. In strip 9, when they discover theyre surrounded, we get an overhead view of ALL of aelloon's reinforcements. There's 4 of them. Then, as the skeletons arise from the corpses, there are 4 skeletons, ready too attack aelloon. I guess he just fled; he's probably french.



Note: admittedly it does only show 3 going under the spell, but thats probably just because the other one was so far behind them that he couldnt have been caught even i the warped view. The bigger question is where they got their swords o.O

Simple Reason how Aelloon Survived:
He made his saving throw.

Real reason:
He was never targetted. No green glowing light on him as an above poster pointed out.

Besides, if he had been killed, wouldn't the story hare been over? That is usually what killing the plot hook does to a story.

Where could the story have gone? There would've been a million possibilities, like them trying to figure out why the Orphanage attacked Richard...

Nah i think the orphanage story would be a spinoff.. like Joey form Friends.

Damn those orphanages anyhow.

Far too many, not near enough orphans in each one to make a decent meal. I much prefer Middle Schools - lots of nice, fat under-exercised children in one place. And if I'm lucky, some of them have iPods I can sell on eBay...

>~~~(;

Mnem
"Chaos, panic and disorder - my work here is done."

Nah kindergartens are better.. toddlers are more tender, can't run as fast, are less likely to band together and attack you with pointed sticks and nowadays all those toddlers have the Wiggles and Hi-5 on their iPod Nanos anyway.

If your men just started to glow and then physically remove their skin and organs, wouldn't you move away? No one wants possessed skeletal waste on their boots. He moved out of frame and then had to fight them while Gid and the rest of the group fled.

True. Too much Possesed Skeletal Waste can lead to -10 Seduction when you go partying. Smell is the strongest scent tied to memory...

Maybe one of those dragons showed up and took pity on Aelloon. Anything is possible you know.

That is SO true. I hear it's even the strongest sense.

I was thinking ahead too much.

Apparently you don't think enough when commenting on the groggy posts of a narcoleptic with a screwdriver.

*shank*

When I saw that live bodies into skeleton thing, I was sure we were going to be treated to Richard leading the skeletons a-la-Diablo's-Necromancer. So basically he can turn a living enemy (at least a human) into an skeleton ally without having to kill him and raise him from the dead.

No, I don't think Aelloon was killed. He probably ran away to get more troops.

Hmm.... the whole "boss level guy" theory was good...
I'd say he has magic resistant armour... After all, he may have been targeted, but perhaps only his underlings
were unprotected from magic... After all, he is a prominent character, so he's also probably well funded.

I think that it was just that if Aelloon were dead, the storyline would kind of be over. Therefore, whoever writes the story decided to keep him alive. Easy enough.

OK, so maybe it is just the kind of thing we find out about later?



Maybe Aelloon is really the hero and we find out how he will save the day?
and it can be a Cliff Hanger

It's pretty clear that he made his Will save and fled.

Ok, the way I see it: Benny commented that they were hopelessly outnumbered. Cale wanted to hold them off and let Benny escape. Richard decided that it would be more logical to even the odds. Even he probably isn't powerful enough to kill Aelloon AND all of his men. It was more practical to use his magic to create fighters. That way Aelloon and any surviving soldiers could be held off, and our heroes could escape. Phew!

(Not that I approved of the whole hideous-transformation thing *blech* )