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Time to use Lay on Hands.
So cute!
I think this is my favorite comic you’ve done. Trying everything in the toolbox is very cute.
My DM was struggling with laughing so hard. (This is actual play)
Speaking of which, I haven’t quite understood what happened to make Razira ask Konsi out
Konsi was originally flirting with her and Razira was oblivious. Now suddenly Razira has asked her out, but Konsi is the one being oblivious/ not believing it
What happened to cause this sudden change?
Konsi wasn’t really deliberately flirting, she doesn’t really think of herself as “date material”. She was just “I want to help this person” or “I like spending time with this person” - and acting in a fairly innocent good-hearted manner. The joke in our sessions was always that she was inadvertently saying things that could be misconstrued as flirting, out of pure innocence.
For Razira, the big difference was mostly time - they went on an adventure together, and then they entered a period of ~6 months of downtime. This is at the end of that downtime period - Razira just had some time to think about her feelings.
I didn’t originally design these comics to be a thorough “narrative” - My comic hasn’t has an ongoing “narrative” before these, just “gag a strip” style standalone comics, and the first Konsi comic is #771. Konsi’s comics were just more opportunities for gag comics. She was my character in a DnD campaign, and those provide a lot of material for joking around. (If you read my archive, I’ve been through ~5 other character parties throughout the course of my comic, these guys are just my current game.) So… the comics weren’t really intended to provide a full picture of the campaign story - Could you tell that these guys started out doing the Dragon Heist campaign? I specifically avoided any DH content so as to not spoil the module for anyone.
The comic where Razira asking Konsi out on a date is however, a departure from my normal form. It is intended to be the start of an actual “story arc”… so there’s more of a consistent narrative to follow from that point on. When I wrote that comic, I’d scripted out about six back-to-back story comics for how the date night went, starting with her asking Konsi out, and ending with (a future comic where Konsi sings a song) - as I’ve been making them, I’ve fleshed that arc out with a lot more comics and jokes though, both between the ends I’d planned, and significantly after the fact.
First dates are replete with opportunities for shenanigans, and I’m taking full advantage of this.
A lot of people have been enjoying the more “plot arc” based format, so when this one finishes, I’ll do some more stand alone gags, then maybe follow another arc from somewhere in our campaign (there’s a few good ones)
The joke in our sessions was always that she was inadvertently saying things that could be misconstrued as flirting, out of pure innocence.
Oh, I see! The “if you wish anything you have to but ask” with the small hair-over-mouth thing seemed direct to me, but this additional context helps ^^
Also, thanks for sharing campaign detail of how it went live! It’s always fun to know how it played you in the table =)
The comic where Razira asking Konsi out on a date is however, a departure from my normal form. It is intended to be the start of an actual “story arc”
Now that I already know the character, I have to say I’m really liking this approach and getting to follow her on a narrative ^^
So selfless. :)
Someone likes me? Imposter, an Illusion; What are you hiding!?
The polymorphed succubus: (o_O;)
I think dispel magic might get that one.
Depends. (Dunno if your DM plans to use them in your campaign, so spoilers?)
Spoiler
If the succubus was polymorphed by someone else using the polymorph spell or did so herself (not one of her default abilities), then yes. However, as far as I‘m aware, dispel magic doesn‘t affect a succubus‘ innate shapechanging trait.
Enough of boring rules-talk; Konsi‘s a smart (wise) goblin. She‘ll know that she just has to hug Maybe-Razira hard enough. If it‘s a shapechanger, they‘ll pop back into their true form under the force of the mighty squeeze.
Excited for the next part! Really looking forward to seeing your posts everyday. 😊
No true seeing leaves her vulnerable to doppelgangers.
Sadly, she’s level 9 here, so no true seeing at all.
I would probably react as Konsi if someone came onto me like that. Skepticism. Lots of it.
Next is greater restoration
She has it, but she didn’t have it prepared that day…
awh
Hahahahaha
Moonbeam to turn back non magic shape shifters?
Difficult to do without a druid on-hand. Konsi doesn’t know any druids, she’s a city girl through and through.
That’s deprarious
I like posts like this because I assume they distill whatever the community is about down to something that makes it really easy to just be like oh yeah fuck that and block the whole thing. How can anyone legitimately enjoy reading this, honestly?
I told y’all my comics get hate mail.
I love it when people like that open their mouth so I know to block them
Weird, these comics make my heart happy.
Fuck that person.
Edit: upon second thought, maybe this is a person that’s been hurt so bad that they’ve just built up all this bitterness inside… sad, when you think of it that way.
I choose to pity them. Cuz if it’s not what I said above then they’ll just get mad at the pity >:D
I’m not sure I’d classify this one as hate though. It’s just someone who desperately needs to have others know and validate their opinion, no matter how insignificant it is.
I like what you do, please keep it up 💕
I’m not really sure there’s much value in debating whether " How can anyone legitimately enjoy reading this, honestly?" counts as hate-mail - but telling a creator that their work sucks and everyone hates it is a shitty thing to do regardless. It definitely gets received as hate-mail.
Although having said that, the majority of this guy’s posts on lemmy seem to be showing up in random communities and saying he thinks they’re pointless or crap.
Fair, but if I would count every criticism as hate I’d drown in hate. It’s worth- and pointless criticism, but is it hate? Block them, ignore them, let them live their shitty lives. Are downvotes hate? No, someone just tells me they don’t share my opinion.
Edit: look, in not saying their opinion is good and valid and should be heard. They can eat a bag of rocks on a Friday. But giving them too much thought and emotional response just isn’t the best for your own mental well-being, so just let them swallow their own negativity and ignore them.
I wouldn’t count running into a community full of people having fun, and telling them they all suck and are stupid for having fun counts as… “criticism”
Is it an opinion? yes. Is it “criticism”? no. It’s just negativity for negativity’s sake.
How utterly devoid of humor or character must you be to spend your time going around the internet making posts like this? What does this kind of post contribute to anything? If you don’t like someone’s creative work, you can just ignore it.
No no you don’t understand! I need them to know I’m ignoring them! That way they feel bad and try to cater to my wants!
It’s so stupid it’s genius!
Big ol /s
