DM: Go on. Guess their method of attack.
GG: Uh, this isn't good. If you're using the stats I gave you, they'd beat us in a chase. Oh well.
DW: You sound like you're giving up.
GG: I wanted to make a good challenge for you… but that was supposed to be somewhere with terrain to use. In the open, we're just no match. I guess we don't survive this one.
DW: Yes we do.
SFX: (KERZOWW!!)
DW: Bigwings are made of clouds, they can't touch me with this. Come on, I'll be your umbrella. Dude, I'm not carrying you! No hugs! No hugs!
GG: You should've said, 'come with me if you want to-
DW: NOT. NOW.
GG: Jump through here!
(beat)
GG: Hey! HEY! What happened to no hugging?!
SFX: (SPLASH!)
DM: Gin can't maintain altitude with Doc, but no fall damage on the crash.
DW: YEAHHH!!
SFX: (THUD!)
DW: YEAHHH!!
DM: And so, you both watch as the cloud is taken apart and residents leave for greener pastures.
DW: Not a bad start. Think you can handle the full party?
DM: …
GG: Looking forward to trying! Same time next week?
DM: Where are you two going? I'm not done narrating!
(Fin.)
Guest Author's Note: "You know that thing where you're made of clouds, you assume everyone you touch can cloudwalk (by being a pegasus or by being enchanted), until one day you accelerate your body at something that treats you like mist, and by the time your attack starts going wrong you're kinetically committed to it?
Though we did not illustrate every single one, rest assured, the title does not lie. Sometimes, knowing no fear is a bad thing."
Newbiespud's Note: That's it for guest comics! Hopefully by now I've figured out what the next main arc is going to be! Thanks to all of our guest authors for contributing some awesome mini-arcs this time around and helping to give me an all-too-short sabbatical!
They do the "close and smash" with the legs. No shooty, all smooshy.
Doc's using the MCP emitter dish thingy and a power source to derez them on impact. Or possibly shoot an MCP laser.
Close, but no power source needed. Check the author's note: they're made of clouds.
Consider what happens when a cloud descends fast on some solid object, and there isn't magic involved. (Even if the cloud is sentient enough to expect there will be magic, only to find out the hard way.)
Answer: cloud gets torn to shreds and dissipates. (If you're in a part of the world that gets foggy mornings, try passing your hand swiftly through the fog. It's literally that.) The bigwings kept on attacking and disintegrating even after seeing what happened.
Ah. I didn't pick up on them moving that fast. Cloud-based light cycles? Sure. But I remember the Rectifiers in both movies being more slow (and Flynn being able to swerve his broken Rectifier fairly well before it fell to pieces), so I just didn't get that kind of sense of motion.
...I thought it was a whole thing in the last two pages that the pillar the dish projects is also made out of clouds. I'm not sure how clouds can destroy other clouds? How would Cloudsdale even hold together if that was true?
I think panel 10 on this page is one of my favorites in the mini-arc. Doc's expression has just the right amount of "I might not have enough HP to tank this fall damage."
Technically "should have" is grammatically correct, but a number of people pronounce that "should of", and we were going for what was actually said instead of what should have been said.
We were going for what actually came out the various parties' mouths. Often enough, people actually say "should of" even if it is incorrect, so we went with that here.
I'll be honest, "I'll be your umbrella" sounds like it should be a dramatic line from an anime. Probably for a romance scene, but I could see it in a cool/funny action sequence too.
Artist: Digo Dragon
Guest Author's Note: "You know that thing where you're made of clouds, you assume everyone you touch can cloudwalk (by being a pegasus or by being enchanted), until one day you accelerate your body at something that treats you like mist, and by the time your attack starts going wrong you're kinetically committed to it?
Though we did not illustrate every single one, rest assured, the title does not lie. Sometimes, knowing no fear is a bad thing."
Newbiespud's Note: That's it for guest comics! Hopefully by now I've figured out what the next main arc is going to be! Thanks to all of our guest authors for contributing some awesome mini-arcs this time around and helping to give me an all-too-short sabbatical!