Oots 628!!

[Oni]

If the big black bad there was really smart it would have already done the deed, then any effort V might take would be in vain, a rigged game so to speak. Saving the lives of the ones you love might not be all the wrong reasons, but revenge would be. But maybe that's too dark for OotS.

 

[frankthedm]

Plot-screwing PCs because the did their job and killed a monster. Whoop-de-doo.

 

[Nifft]

I can't find the funny!

There is only alarm!

Eeek, -- N

 

[Cadfan]

I wouldn't be so quick to assume that V has children. I wouldn't put it past Rick to be speaking metaphorically.

 

[garyh]

Plot-screwing PCs because the did their job and killed a monster. Whoop-de-doo.

Maybe, or it could be a world with verisimilitude, since the PC's actions have consequences. If the PC's have a reasonable chance to overcome the new challenge and have it further the plot, then I say verisimilitude. If it's a total DM-upset-his-monster-lost smackdown, then I say screw-job. We'll have to see how it plays out...

 

[Dirigible]

Plot-screwing PCs because the did their job and killed a monster.

I eagerly await your review of Beowulf.

In fact, where was the criticism that the strip didn't end when they defeated Xykon? Lichs are monsters too, you know.

 

[FireLance]

Another vote for "speaking metaphorically" from me.

Specifically, all the spells that V has pain-stakingly researched.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Ah, eating the spellbook. Yeah, that would hurt V, but as much as the dragon was hurt?

 

[Nymrohd]

And V identified the exact metaphor the dragon was making so she/he could be shocked? Nah it's hir actual, flesh and blood kids.

Also I don't see why people expect the prophecy about V to happen soon. Total arcane power is not going to happen until the comic is nearly done and an imp is hardly such an amazing tutor.

 

[Merkuri]

Plot-screwing PCs because the did their job and killed a monster. Whoop-de-doo.

Maybe, or it could be a world with verisimilitude, since the PC's actions have consequences.

... or it's a comic strip and not a bunch of people playing a game.

Also I don't see why people expect the prophecy about V to happen soon. Total arcane power is not going to happen until the comic is nearly done and an imp is hardly such an amazing tutor.

Unless V becomes a villain. When the prophecy was given the "for the wrong reasons" line immediately made me think that V's destiny in the strip was to leave the party and become another nemesis. It's been done before.