Sometimes, it is better to not ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description of the scene, and other times it is better to not ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description of the scene…
It is never good to ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description.
I was thinking mentor as soon as I saw how much more control she has than the Dranglaex with the ‘caster.
Last edited 1 year ago by Zair
GUNnibal
1 year ago
Say what you will about Miss Yoink&Run but one does need a certain level of badassery to just casually ignore a person who is currently pointing a gun at your head.
I feel it is less about badassery and more about overconfidence in her powers. Tim has said that a headshot would kill her. She went in without any tactical thought to just put the starcasterbout of the fight. She would probably have blasted the head off and flown away if it was Dranglaex, but now that it wasn’t she just let herself be put in a tactically bad situation. She couldn’t have known Nyrah wouldn’t pull the trigger instantly. However you spin this, it doesn’t matter that she has the starcaster neutralised for now if a simple trigger pull can… Read more »
Someone pointing a gun at you and speaking words is a person who will not shoot you *yet*. The most important thing is to neutralize the other Starcaster. And both Nyrah and Lance here know that the longer things wait, the weaker the position Nyrah is in. She can wait.
Sounds like a big gamble. From Lance-MajorYoink&Run her perspective there is no reason why Nyrah wouldn’t follow through. She doesn’t know the situation or the relationships involved. True, the longer Nyrah waits the less she’s likely to do it. But we start at second zero. And if both parties know her power wains the longer they wait, she should absolutely pull the trigger. If she really wanted to subdue the starcaster, she should’ve blown his head off. Both Lance-MajorYoink&Run and Nyrah opted for diplomacy first and sparing lives. This is noble and should be the first instinct, but both their… Read more »
Yep. The Lance Major knows she’ll be recognized as a member of the Federation, and she knows that this person with a gun isn’t firing and isn’t Dranglaex. She likely also knew in advance that there was another spare Starcaster at play in the galaxy. Second zero has passed, and she’s put enough pieces together to be confident that no one here actually wants to kill anyone else here. (It helps that the Dranglaex openly want to genocide all other races, so there’s already a near-zero chance that any but the most desperate or greedy people are actually associated with… Read more »
The most important skill soldiers ever learn, is to remain rational and controlled in extreme and/or dangerous situations.
EMMachine
1 year ago
Okay, Lance Major was really the full title. Had to search for the same and found it in 09.24. Her Name was La’Ni. (maybe we should really check if we can fill the cad wiki).
Yeah, this get’s really more interesting by the moment. Can Quel deescalate the situation? And will the Dranglex blow up the world we saw in the beginning since La’Ni sensed the wrong Starcaster.
Quel basically has a neat situation fall into his lap where he can diplomat Cort into the good graces of the federation, maybe even as an apprentice of sorts.
Gonfrask
1 year ago
Scene jump: the Dranglaex destroying the world of poor settlers that cultivate organic crystalline.
John Swift
1 year ago
Oh im glad she admitted to Cort she can sense starcasters. Now he knows he wasn’t betrayed and Quel doesn’t need to divulge intel THAT sensitive.
I wonder what Corts reaction will be to that info. He already didnt want to keep running.
Ooh, good point! And Nyrah was right there to hear her admit it, that’ll make her less suspicious of Quel too!
anonymouse
1 year ago
im kind of worried about speck coming out of the ship with no one noticing within the next few pages, seeing the situation, and deciding that the best way to dissolve, er i mean resolve, the tension, is a nice friendly HUG on the lance major’s legs.
Verdiekus
1 year ago
The poor thing, they definitely didn’t pick her for her brains. That was painfully slow.
…you do realize it’s only been days on our side of the pages? In-comic it’s only been a few seconds to shift from ‘(Dranglaex) Starcaster detected, combat mode go’ to realizing how she’s accidentally stumbled into the galaxy’s most wanted man. That’s pretty good.
ocramot
1 year ago
Wait, are you telling me that they’re going to talk FIRST and shoot LATER?
What is this nonsense!
I mean, Cort is drawn with a nose. So are many of the very human-like species. It appears that many humanoid races however don’t have noses. And honestly, that doesn’t surprise me, given different planets and evolutionary paths all these many many races would have. A nose is a very specific evolution that some Earth organisms have come up with, but even on our planet we have animals that really don’t have noses like ours, but have breathing apparati elsewhere, such as cetaceans, fish, mollusks, insects, etc. Gills, blowholes (kind of noses, but not at all visually or placement-wise like… Read more »
Dagroth
1 year ago
“You’re not Dranglaex…”
“What gave me away? Must be the spiky forehead.” (or insert some other feature Nyrah has, but Dranglaex don’t)
Last edited 1 year ago by Dagroth
Ben
1 year ago
This Federation Starcaster seems to be pretty reasonable, or at least coolheaded. They clearly recognize that they don’t have all the information, and even with a gun to their head they are exercising restraint and trying to get more information before resorting to violence.
What remains to be seen is whether that’s because they are a good person who wants to avoid violence, or simply a cautious one trying to gather what tactical data they can before fully engaging.
Gravshire
1 year ago
Take moment to reread this page. Lance is just realizing, slowly, that every reason he has for being there is incorrect. They sent a second Cort to take Cort from a group of people used to dealing with one Cort. This could easily cut-to both Starcasters playing with primarly-coloured blocks with the explanation “I told them it was a Starcaster training method.”
Larathiel
1 year ago
That moment when you realize you just went all-in and now your forces are in the wrong position…
I wonder what Cort’s reaction will be if one or more worlds get destroyed because of unintentionally luring so many forces away from the true threat. :U
24
Sometimes, it is better to not ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description of the scene, and other times it is better to not ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description of the scene…
It is never good to ask for initiative before the GM finishes the description.
I almost murdered an entire village that way. Fortunately I rolled a nat 20 for perception and the DM took pity on me.
their hands are not glowing anymore. this is moving in an interesting direction. maybe she does end ip mentoring cort.
Since I would guess that she would fight the Dranglaex, I could see Major Danton from Page 08.08 as a mentor.
I was thinking mentor as soon as I saw how much more control she has than the Dranglaex with the ‘caster.
Say what you will about Miss Yoink&Run but one does need a certain level of badassery to just casually ignore a person who is currently pointing a gun at your head.
I feel it is less about badassery and more about overconfidence in her powers. Tim has said that a headshot would kill her. She went in without any tactical thought to just put the starcasterbout of the fight. She would probably have blasted the head off and flown away if it was Dranglaex, but now that it wasn’t she just let herself be put in a tactically bad situation. She couldn’t have known Nyrah wouldn’t pull the trigger instantly. However you spin this, it doesn’t matter that she has the starcaster neutralised for now if a simple trigger pull can… Read more »
Someone pointing a gun at you and speaking words is a person who will not shoot you *yet*. The most important thing is to neutralize the other Starcaster. And both Nyrah and Lance here know that the longer things wait, the weaker the position Nyrah is in. She can wait.
Sounds like a big gamble. From Lance-MajorYoink&Run her perspective there is no reason why Nyrah wouldn’t follow through. She doesn’t know the situation or the relationships involved. True, the longer Nyrah waits the less she’s likely to do it. But we start at second zero. And if both parties know her power wains the longer they wait, she should absolutely pull the trigger. If she really wanted to subdue the starcaster, she should’ve blown his head off. Both Lance-MajorYoink&Run and Nyrah opted for diplomacy first and sparing lives. This is noble and should be the first instinct, but both their… Read more »
bruh, second zero was on the previous page. We’re already well past it.
Yep. The Lance Major knows she’ll be recognized as a member of the Federation, and she knows that this person with a gun isn’t firing and isn’t Dranglaex. She likely also knew in advance that there was another spare Starcaster at play in the galaxy. Second zero has passed, and she’s put enough pieces together to be confident that no one here actually wants to kill anyone else here. (It helps that the Dranglaex openly want to genocide all other races, so there’s already a near-zero chance that any but the most desperate or greedy people are actually associated with… Read more »
Thats Lance-MajorYoink&Run to you…..
Fantastic naming. She will forever be Lance -Major Yoink&Run
The most important skill soldiers ever learn, is to remain rational and controlled in extreme and/or dangerous situations.
Okay, Lance Major was really the full title. Had to search for the same and found it in 09.24. Her Name was La’Ni. (maybe we should really check if we can fill the cad wiki).
Yeah, this get’s really more interesting by the moment. Can Quel deescalate the situation? And will the Dranglex blow up the world we saw in the beginning since La’Ni sensed the wrong Starcaster.
find out on the next episode of…STAR CASTER Z
Nyrah: Times up *BANG*
… and then Quel gets the starcaster, and joins up, and this fearsome foursome becomes the most powerful army in the galaxy.
Okay, that explains her immediate aggression, she thought it was the Dranglaex. So now we see if cooler heads prevail, or if it escalates anyway.
Quel basically has a neat situation fall into his lap where he can diplomat Cort into the good graces of the federation, maybe even as an apprentice of sorts.
Scene jump: the Dranglaex destroying the world of poor settlers that cultivate organic crystalline.
Oh im glad she admitted to Cort she can sense starcasters. Now he knows he wasn’t betrayed and Quel doesn’t need to divulge intel THAT sensitive.
I wonder what Corts reaction will be to that info. He already didnt want to keep running.
Ooh, good point! And Nyrah was right there to hear her admit it, that’ll make her less suspicious of Quel too!
im kind of worried about speck coming out of the ship with no one noticing within the next few pages, seeing the situation, and deciding that the best way to dissolve, er i mean resolve, the tension, is a nice friendly HUG on the lance major’s legs.
The poor thing, they definitely didn’t pick her for her brains. That was painfully slow.
…you do realize it’s only been days on our side of the pages? In-comic it’s only been a few seconds to shift from ‘(Dranglaex) Starcaster detected, combat mode go’ to realizing how she’s accidentally stumbled into the galaxy’s most wanted man. That’s pretty good.
Wait, are you telling me that they’re going to talk FIRST and shoot LATER?
What is this nonsense!
Shoot first, shoot some more, really put the boot in. Then maybe, just maybe, think about asking a question.
The motto of just about every RPG team I’ve ever been in.
Asking a question? Too boring *skip dialogue**skip dialogue**skip dialogue**skip dialogue**skip dialogue**skip dialogue*
Talk first, shoot LASER…
Could save the time and ask questions while shooting.
You had to say it, you HAD TO SAY IT
“The Dranglaex Fleet Was Never Here”
NOW THEY WILL BE, ASSHOLE
Uh oh. Nice that they seem to be resolving this situation, but then where are the Dranglaex?
Probably about to blow up the farming world we’ve seen some time ago, as some people have suggested already.
Tim, why do you hate drawing noses?
He dislikes nosey people…
I mean, Cort is drawn with a nose. So are many of the very human-like species. It appears that many humanoid races however don’t have noses. And honestly, that doesn’t surprise me, given different planets and evolutionary paths all these many many races would have. A nose is a very specific evolution that some Earth organisms have come up with, but even on our planet we have animals that really don’t have noses like ours, but have breathing apparati elsewhere, such as cetaceans, fish, mollusks, insects, etc. Gills, blowholes (kind of noses, but not at all visually or placement-wise like… Read more »
“You’re not Dranglaex…”
“What gave me away? Must be the spiky forehead.” (or insert some other feature Nyrah has, but Dranglaex don’t)
This Federation Starcaster seems to be pretty reasonable, or at least coolheaded. They clearly recognize that they don’t have all the information, and even with a gun to their head they are exercising restraint and trying to get more information before resorting to violence.
What remains to be seen is whether that’s because they are a good person who wants to avoid violence, or simply a cautious one trying to gather what tactical data they can before fully engaging.
Take moment to reread this page. Lance is just realizing, slowly, that every reason he has for being there is incorrect. They sent a second Cort to take Cort from a group of people used to dealing with one Cort. This could easily cut-to both Starcasters playing with primarly-coloured blocks with the explanation “I told them it was a Starcaster training method.”
That moment when you realize you just went all-in and now your forces are in the wrong position…
I wonder what Cort’s reaction will be if one or more worlds get destroyed because of unintentionally luring so many forces away from the true threat. :U