Parable - 159 - HD
Added 2020-09-19 03:00:59 +0000 UTCRobe up.
Commentary
If it sounds like I'm making this up as I got along, it's because I am.
Well, was.
Some of that's past tense.
Probably not all of it.
I know at least some of what I'm doing.
Comments
Hang on, I just realized something. Maybe the reason Susan is so much less restrained in this world isn't that it's a fantasy with convenient mechanics to get her past her usual hangups. Maybe the reason is that it isn't actually Susan, but a Susan that is being imagined by Grace.
Daryl Sawyer
2020-09-21 06:05:45 +0000 UTC"Hippo" actually made a lot of sense when Tara said it. Hippos are one of the most dangerous animals on earth, especially if we remove animals that are dangerous for non-combat reasons such as disease-spreading mosquitoes, venomous frogs, and tool-building humans. Hippos easily beat creatures that we think of as deadly combatants such as lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!), so Tara was making a point as valid as "she could easily defeat a lion in combat", but it sounds funnier because we normally don't think of hippos that way.
Dan Merget
2020-09-20 21:42:51 +0000 UTCPlus, her most magical (female) friends and Nanase and Ellen, with Sarah and Susan being less magical. Obviously, magic does equal boobs. In fact, isn't "magic=boobs" (or abs, for guys) one of Tedd's theories?
James C
2020-09-20 11:04:27 +0000 UTCThat, or she's a trapped princess/goddess whom they need to rescue from the villain.
James C
2020-09-20 11:00:53 +0000 UTCWait. Grace is going to be the villain isn't she. Hear me out, she is supposed to be the "most important character"
Chicken Witch
2020-09-20 04:35:31 +0000 UTCo(0o0)o We can only hope
ZekeStaright
2020-09-20 03:33:32 +0000 UTCYeah, those dreams get really trippy. All the meta of a lucid dream, combined with all the insanity of a regular one.
Some Ed
2020-09-19 22:01:26 +0000 UTCIt is a real weird way to phrase such a thing, but Dan's not the only person I've heard/read who has used the term. It's also not the strangest term. I mean, for example, and just to be clear, this is also not the strangest term, but just hear me out on this: Yeet.
Some Ed
2020-09-19 21:56:16 +0000 UTCYeah, I remember playing a game, maybe Ultima Underworld, and the game just getting more and more bizarre. Eventually, I realized I was having a dream. But apart from the absolutely bizarre and impossible dream logic, it seemed like a decent game, so I kept playing it and running with it to see where my subconscious took it. Then I won the game. And discovered I wasn't actually dreaming after all. It's just that bizarre of a game towards the end.
Some Ed
2020-09-19 21:53:05 +0000 UTCDan has used "hippo" as a kind of superlative before. Dame Tara (the griffin) stated that her partner, Andrea, could defeat a hippo in combat, despite not being a fighter.
David Olie
2020-09-19 18:17:58 +0000 UTCMaybe... maybe the game has clothing damage, and the robes can get ripped.
M.
2020-09-19 17:28:40 +0000 UTCOr "susan" is actually grace pretending she is susan all along?
David Howe
2020-09-19 14:08:26 +0000 UTCAw man, no more rip shirt...
ZekeStaright
2020-09-19 12:11:30 +0000 UTCHer subconscious. She was lucid dreaming. Now she's dreaming that she's lucid dreaming.
Daryl Sawyer
2020-09-19 08:14:53 +0000 UTCSomeone has lost control of her dreamscape. I wonder who's really pulling the strings now...
David Fenger
2020-09-19 05:08:11 +0000 UTCShe just might end up being in another castle.
Raphaël
2020-09-19 05:06:33 +0000 UTCSo... fifty bucks Grace is either the Big Bad, or the princess in need of rescuing.
Paul Rendell
2020-09-19 04:32:52 +0000 UTCAgreed. But if that's a reflection of Jay's thought processes, she may be weird enough to join our heroes!
Foradain
2020-09-19 04:29:49 +0000 UTCThat's a real weird way to phrase such a thing, but OK.
coredumperror
2020-09-19 04:27:33 +0000 UTCPokegrace had better character designs, but this is much better story and commentary on system mechanics.
Warren (Stephen) Rose
2020-09-19 04:20:18 +0000 UTCHippo's weight is a lot. Therefor "thinks a hippo's weight" is "thinks a lot".
Foradain
2020-09-19 04:15:02 +0000 UTCWell, it's been confirmed that this is a videogame dream. They get like that.
Ardent Slacker
2020-09-19 04:03:33 +0000 UTC"Grace thinks a hippos's weight of Susan." Say what now? I don't understand this sentence at all.
coredumperror
2020-09-19 03:42:55 +0000 UTCI have no issues with the story line, but it is nice to get some kind of handle on what's going on here
Michael Brewer
2020-09-19 03:39:42 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying the loose story line.
Michael C.
2020-09-19 03:16:53 +0000 UTCThis arc does feel sloppier than most, but I can't complain about that. I usually fly by the seat of my pants too.
Stephen Gilberg
2020-09-19 03:04:01 +0000 UTCTo be fair, lots of us are a fan of... other things. :p
M.
2020-09-19 03:03:18 +0000 UTC
