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Published: 2010-10-14 05:26:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 892; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 3
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Oh dear. It seems that I've hopped on the Ask That Walfas OC bandwagon. Whatever shall I do next? Guest comics? Wacky crossovers? A long, detailed and epic storyline with complex character interaction, funny jokes and awesome fight scenes?Don't hold your breath for that last one.
Like Merritt said, feel free to ask him any question. Just remember that he'll only answer ones that interest him and any that he really doesn't like will result in someone being charbroiled.
I suppose you could ask Spot questions too. If you do however, don't expect a coherent answer. Talking isn't really one of his strong points.
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Heh heh. That's just the adventurer trying to escape after Spot swallowed him. Although the concept of Spot dancing is actually pretty funny.
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I didn't even see Spot moving (absent-minded to the end), I came upon that idea myself.
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Also that guy was just stupid, the dragon he was robbing was RIGHT THERE in line of sight, awake. I fear spot may catch his stupid. I also didn't know Merrit had yellow eyes, the slits I was expecting, cause, ya know, dragons are suped-up cats. Also also also, of course stupid questions should be ignored, unless you have an AWESOME retort.
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Most adventurers are pretty stupid. Sometimes you'll get the really genre-savvy ones that act like experienced DnD players, but they're pretty rare. If you look carefully, you'll see hints in Merritt's speech that he's fully aware of the guy's presence. He just lets Spot deal with it.
Merritt's eyes are gold, actually. I based them on a combination of lizard and cat eyes.
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Main way to tell is how they search a room/check for traps. The newbies or idiots will check the floor, the walls, mimic check the doors and chests, and search the furniture. The competent ones? Check the CEILING.
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And the veterans check it all and carry a ten foot pole everywhere they go. Mimics, trappers, lurkers, piercers, ropers, stunjellies and gelatinous cubes. Combine them all for a Doomy Room of Doom.
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Actually, I think DM's retaliated with 11-foot distance objects and traps, which was met with 12-footers, and so on in an escalating war.
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I always say that if it's more than ten feet away from you and still manages to kill you more or less instantly, then it doesn't really matter if you add a few more feet of distance.
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Well if it's longer than ten feet you have enough time to dodge, or block.
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True, but anything with that much reach is liable to turn you into paste anyway. Chunky Salsa rule and all. By the way, a new Ask That Dragon with the Monocle is up.
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Well trolls have a ten-foot reach and my party killed some.
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While they were within arms reach? And during a time when your levels was low enough to make trolls a threat?
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We were level one, I think one guy got knocked out but it happened. Note it was a disgraced druid transformed into a slightly weaker troll but we were level one and no one but the troll died. Also, in Dungeons and Dragons Tactics I sent the highest Dexterity (or health) guy first and we flanked like no tomorrow to kill a few in separate combat instances (at level three).
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Damn. That belongs in TVTropes Troper Tales under Crowning Moment of Awesome. One of my friends once managed to get four natural twenties in a row. That lead to him climbing up the side of a mech a la Shadow of the Colossus, dropkicking the pilot out of the cockpit, taking control of the mech and wasting the entire enemy stronghold. We were all speechless.
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It wasn't THAT impressive, it was my first session ever and we barely survived. There was that druid at the end though, stuck us to the ground with roots and chanted a spell while twig blights attacked. My brother managed to recite a pebble-flinging spell off a scroll to smack him in the head to disrupt him while we hacked the twig blights, allowing us some free time to hack the roots off and fight him to the death (he died, we didn't).
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Heh. That sounds pretty cool for a first session. In my first session we had to rescue a baby from a bunch of cultists who wanted to use it as a vessel for their dark god. Their Dark RAT God. That was pretty surreal. After we killed the dark priest I took his sweet hat. It wasn't long before I developed a reputation for claiming the coolest article of the Big Bad's clothing as spoils.
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Awesome reputation. Of course, we don't play anymore. I have bad luck with DnD sessions. My brother plays with all his friends and the one at the local library just plain sucked.
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I see. I don't play anymore either because my friends moved to North Carolina. It's a shame because it was so much fun. I played a mad sorcerer who was more fanatical about magical studies than most wizards. He treated everything (and everyone) like an experiment. Essentially a magical version of a mad scientist.
We didn't have a rogue in our party and our collective ability to detect traps was subpar. However there was a dwarven barbarian in our party with an absurd number of hit points and constitution score. What's more is that nine times out of ten, he ended up setting off all the traps by accident. I started calling him our "trap specialist" and the title sort of stuck. Fun times.
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Is the mad scientist mage the same character who took the cool stuff off bosses? (The spell checker tried to 'correct' mage, you kidding me?)
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Yes. Yes he is. On several occasions the rest of the party had to stop him from attempting to dissect and study the air elemental in the party. No, I'm not sure how he intended to do it either. Possibly more proof of how mad he was.
Also, the cleric in our party was, believe it or not, a serious man-whore. It reached the point where I started calling him Miroku. That nickname also managed to stick. On one memorable occasion the DM introduced what the cleric thought was a hot elven woman. It wasn't until after he rented a room and shacked up with said elf that he discovered it was really a gay elven man in drag. My Mad Mage bought him a beer afterwards to make him stop crying. It didn't help.
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Oh that is AWESOME! Was he a cleric of the god of love? Also, did the gay elven drag queen force him or was he just traumatized at the surprise sight of the man's...man?
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He was just heavily traumatized. The guy RPing him thought it was as hilarious as the rest of us, though. You know, maybe I should bring my Mad Mage into the comics. Gensokyo could use a batshit insane sorcerer. Maybe I'll even have him open a magic shop. Marisa could use a little competition.
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Oh that'll be awesome! And I'll have contributed to someone else's ideas, just like you and Watcher do with Sagashi! *Squees*
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Sorry, I was out doing errands. Better late than never, I guess (I got Brutal Legend!)
Hey Merrit, I know you like lemon pies like nobody's business, but what about lemon cake? Or lemon tarts?
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Kogasa: What would you do if I told you I baked you a lemon meringue pie, but Sanae stole it?
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Hoo-boy. I can think of a few ideas for this question. Not many of which involve the Moriya Shrine remaining intact.
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Whatever he does, Kurisu would ask he spares Kanako so she can made a shikigami.
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Then Kurisu will probably have to put up with her being a little crispy.
Really, I already have my responses to the questions I have made up. Now I'm just waiting for at least one more. Hopefully Beta-Maxis or someone will post another one.
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I suggest poking Beta. He didn't even know I was doing this and up until recently noe of us have had reason to put you on our watchlists.
As for Kanako, lightly singed is healable. In the even Kurisu can't find a loyal friend to make the contract with and a mate he loves, he'll go the golddigger route and fetch a kami, who always makes a good servant or trophy lover.
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Yep, I am as absent-minded as Mind Fracture is nuts.
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In that case Spot needs to be fed a Mr Spell or something, haha.
Now, from me, the user: What are your thoughts on Gensokyo in general?
And... well, the OC wants a turn.
Kurisu: Who would you entrust your possessions to in the unlikely event you got... incapacitated... for a while?
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Spot can speak. Just... not in the conventional sense. It never saw the point in learning to speak any bipedal language. Thankfully, Merritt's gift of tongues lets him understand Spot.
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Interestingly enough, there are a hadful of Mimics in Dragon Quest series who HAVE learned Common.
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I know. Even in DnD most mimics spoke Common. Spot is something of an oddity, though. First off, he's not a normal mimic to begin with.
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You mentioned him as a test tube baby of the magical sort.
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He was created by an absent-minded, and subsequently very accident-prone wizard. Spot was supposed to serve the dual role of storage for his tools and spell components and guardian of the same. Trouble is, Spot had a habit of eating them instead. And becoming more powerful because of it.
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So the little monster's a Swiss army knife.
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A magical Swiss Army knife. He can take the form and powers of any inanimate object he eats. And he's eaten a lot. Cannons, magical swords, magic staffs, mithril chains, giant golems, the list is frighteningly long.
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