Parable - 60 - HD
Added 2020-01-24 23:26:34 +0000 UTC"It's just a little renounced! It's still good! It's still good!"
Commentary
This will, of course, take at least twelve comics.
I wasn't going to bother having Rhoda realize her own cutscene blunder, but then I realized I could get to paraphrase the movie Chinatown.
For the sake of this comic, I prefer the "we're going to need another monk" approach. If this were an actual video game, I would have the ritual not being performed in time be a consequence of doing this quest while in this state of only "technically" being evil. It wouldn't be a direct choice you make, but rather the effect your past choices had on another person's decisions, which I think is fair. If a story's going to emphasize morality, there should be room for unforeseen consequences.
In my "you're technically good and have done good things" ending to the quest, Rhoda would still grab the hammer, but renounce nothing, and perform the ritual afterword. Instead of Rhoda rejecting life in the temple, it would be others in the temple rejecting her, claiming her violent actions were not justified regardless of the circumstances.
Whatever higher power was at play, however, would seem to disagree, as the ritual would still succeed.
The tragedy of my hypothetical "technically evil" ending would be that the ritual definitely would have worked in spite of Rhoda's renouncement. She would choose not to do the ritual, thinking herself unworthy, even though it actually would have worked just fine.
AIN'T THAT A DOWNER? There's a reason I'm not doing that in the comic itself.
Comments
Rhoda's too cute to stay mad at though....
John Trauger
2020-01-25 18:04:53 +0000 UTCIt's gone...
ZekeStaright
2020-01-25 11:07:53 +0000 UTCSorry, I misread.
Dan Shive
2020-01-25 03:38:09 +0000 UTCWhat? I said it's not often YOU parody a pre-1980 movie.
Stephen Gilberg
2020-01-25 03:17:53 +0000 UTCYou clearly need to watch more early seasons of The Simpsons.
Dan Shive
2020-01-25 03:07:39 +0000 UTCIt's not often you parody a pre-1980 movie. Kudos.
Stephen Gilberg
2020-01-25 02:43:04 +0000 UTCApparently, Rhoda was Not That Kind of Monk. She was more like the Monks that Brother Cadfael hung out with, not the kind like Friar Tuck or Kwai Chang Caine. ^_^
Foradain
2020-01-25 01:16:48 +0000 UTCi'm not sure why she had to stop being a monk in order to fight, especially with a hammer--most games i've played that include Monk as a class have them as quite good fighters, whether with empty hands or with maces/hammers or staves, and they don't have to stop being monks.
Otter Annason
2020-01-25 00:53:08 +0000 UTClol oops
coredumperror
2020-01-25 00:50:43 +0000 UTCThat's a whole lot of abs for one comic. :)
M.
2020-01-24 23:35:45 +0000 UTCOh boy
Matt R
2020-01-24 23:30:41 +0000 UTCSo after escorting the good Monk Justoutsidethecamera...
McZed
2020-01-24 23:28:42 +0000 UTC
