Book 2 – Text Updates 041

[effataigus]

Hmm it'll be weird if they do leave without a fight. Assuming they retreat to the old capital and live to fight another day they'll still have to contend with the archons eventually. The archons are still as helpless now as they will ever be, and the tower defenses aren't going to be any good to them after they flee. It seems like it might be wise to at least toss everything they have at the archons before they leave if they do go for the retreat. Mebbe not leave by air, but at least cut down a few of them, get paid for doing it, and deny GK the use of the unspent tower defenses.

Yes, I also prefer to interpret this update as "can't kill Ossomer because we know and love him."

[Raza]

We already know that Hat Magicians are a workable (if less flexible) substitute for communication via Thinkamancer. Plus, those hats are apparently permanent, allowing point-to-point communication without the expenditure of juice. That alone is a pretty powerful ability.[/url]

Well, kinda, but that permanency also suggests there should be more to the actual caster. Any side can own and use hats (and many do) without requiring a hat magician around. Classic game balancing demands (for good reason) that no class's abilities be fully transferable by item; there's gotta be something the caster can do that a stabber who bought every available magic hat could not.

[Flaye]

I am so excited for the next few comics. There are so many things that I want to find out and so many different characters that I am interested in. Congratulations on an excellent webcomic.

[Dr Pepper]

Yeah so far we haven't seen much from hat magic have we?

Just see what happens when you remove Cubbins's cap.

[CelebrenIthil]

Classic game balancing demands (for good reason) that no class's abilities be fully transferable by item; there's gotta be something the caster can do that a stabber who bought every available magic hat could not.

Create more hats?

[drachefly]

I feel better interpreting this as a decision being avoided (dusting Ossomer) rather than anything else. Certainly not a reliable tactical assessment.

Same here, but I read it that way from the start, so it didn't cause me any discomfort.

[the_tick_rules]

Yeah so far we haven't seen much from hat magic have we?

Just see what happens when you remove Cubbins's cap.

Oh he'll go all hulk? That would be cool.

[effataigus]

Oh he'll go all hulk? That would be cool.

Nice

Lets see, life, motion, matter, on the erf axis... that could be just about anything!

I wonder if it will be something playing off of how wearing hats can be metaphor for filling specific roles... i.e. when the siege starts he whips out a hardhat and starts ordering units around fortifying the walls... when the walls are breached he pulls out a viking helmet and starts dusting GK units... when the situation turns hopeless he puts on a ninja mask and is next seen in TMK, and Scarlet is found as a pile of dust with a katana sticking out of the ground and a severed black rose nearby.

[Dr Pepper]

Actually i was referencing the story he was based on, in which removing his hat just kept revealing another one.

[fjolnir]

Hat magic



Trying to find an image of one of the random dc or marvel magic heroes reaching in one hat and out the other someplace else. I'm thinking that hat magic is your teleportation school, at least on the small scale...

[Beeskee]

Yeah so far we haven't seen much from hat magic have we?

Just see what happens when you remove Cubbins's cap.

Oh he'll go all hulk? That would be cool.

You wouldn't like him when he's angry...


CUBBINS SMASH!


Edit: Ohhey, I'm a tool now. ^.^

[drachefly]

Actually i was referencing the story he was based on, in which removing his hat just kept revealing another one.

Too bad he only gets 500 hats, ever. And most of them are nearly identical.