Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I am getting this hot off the press, so I have not even read it yet . . . . .
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1010.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1010.html
OotS 1010!!!
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Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
now i have read it, and well, . . . . . now that was weird.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Well, the green flame is over, so maybe that means he fight is over too.
Scorpio616
First Post
Wow, what an ass pull. Dispel magic on hit, rage mode and a full heal out of nowhere.
delericho
Legend
Yep. Still, he needed Roy to win somehow, and given that Durkon is basically CoDzilla it was always likely to be this way.
How exactly was it an ass-pull?
We had strips that showed Roy getting the special spell disruption feat (although not the details of said feat) and a strip talking about the sword's special effects vs undead (again, without details).
That's foreshadowing (Chekov's Skill and Chekov's Gun), not an ass-pull.
The twist was that everyone presumed they'd be for battling Xykon, not vampire Durkon.
Scorpio616
First Post
It is an ass pull for Durkula being knocked out of Hel's Might before it's duration is up, Roy's technique disrupts spellcasting, it doesn't end ongoing spells. it is an ass pull for deadly green energy, that's particularly harmful to undead, to suddenly send a sword's bearer into a ragestate. And it is an even larger asspull for that ragestate to grant a full heal.
I think that Roy's rage is what triggers the green energy. Being "particularly harmful to undead", it's likely to be positive energy, so it's no great leap for it to heal Roy in the process, or counteract spell effects that feed of negative energy.
