Dungeon Meshi ch 32

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Have we had this storytime already?

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Man, fuck cooldowns.

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Oh, so THAT'S what's up.

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>they've been through so much together they can see past the illusion
I love this trope.

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I pin and ready an action to silence.

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Geek the mage first!

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>evil campaign

>>52173623
No but I'm here now

>>52174036
Kabru is clearly Neutral Good.

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Yeah! Fuck those guys up, cute brown fighter.

>>52174026
Fair enough. Hey there, anon!

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>>52174057
What sort of evil would the corpse hunters be?

>>52174131

neutral good, just business not personal

>>52174156

neutral evil, sorry

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Kuro's appearance is kind of unsettling to me. It's like he belongs in another manga.

>>52174170
TN or LN

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>>52174170
Oh, ok. You had me confused for a second.
I was wondering between neutral or lawful, seeing as they're using the governor's backing and exploiting the laws.

>>52174071
>Hey there, anon!
A fine snow covered morning to you too.

>>52174071
He had some good intense crazy eyes.

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And that's it for the month, grea/tg/uys. Shorter chapter this time, but it's cool. I really Kabru and his gang now.

>>52174228
Derp, didn't follow the whole conversation. LN/TN for our side protagonist here.

>>52174131
>What sort of evil would the corpse hunters be?
In Wizardry they would be the playable Evil.

Good helps an old lady across a street without expecting a reward even if it they need to cross back to head to their destination.

Neutral helps an old lady across a street without reward if they need to cross the street.

Evil helps an old lady across a street for a reward.

NPC (Werdna) Evil helps an old lady half way across the street and then leaves her there.

>>52173623
>not charging them for the goat
Awful nice of the old chap.

>>52174071
I would shit my pants if I saw those eyes coming for me.
Stone cold.

>>52174280
>>52174305
>dump their valuables
OK, definitely LN.

>>52173875

>Roll to pin and ready an action to silence

>>52173840
Holm seems like he should have died a lot as an adventurer.

>>52174268
>>52174205
He reminds me of the wizard. Especially at the bottom of >>52174071

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>>52174407

>>52174010
>killing your friends to scam the government
This is what happens when you let the PCs do what they want in your setting.

>>52174205
Just noticed they are dumping the bodies. No ressurections for the grave guys now. They wanted to look like fishes and now they will.

>>52174131
>those crazy eyes in the last panel
This is the face of genocidal justice.

>>52174205
>his skin is dark
>his name means "dark"
Japs in charge of tolerance.

>>52174280
LN is underappreciated.

Thanks OP.

>>52174205
So they're dumping them in the water so that they can't be revived unless someone stumbles upon them soon enough? That doesn't seem very nice at all.

>>52174631
More likely their bodies will be eaten before anyone can find them and their spirits will be forever trapped inside the dungeon.

>>52174631
They're not nice people. They're people who believe that their goals justify their actions.

>>52174205
>>52174071
He makes the same expressions as the dark elf in the last panel each time. That's unsettling.

>>52174601
>black mage
>dresses all black

>>52174622
You're welcome, anon.

>>52174631
>>52174676
Well, they're killing a bunch of murderers because the law protects them and prevents a fair trial, and dumping them on the water because otherwise they'll just be revived and keep doing the same shit again.
Considering the actions and goals, I don't condemn them at all.

>>52174768
Dumping the loot was stupid and ideological though.

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>>52174264
>World has no need for monsters... or dungeons

Well *someone's* gonna get exploded.

>>52173639

Kikiki still a qt. I see.

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>tfw you try to reason but accidentally trigger the murderhobos

>>52174768
I disagree. They don't have the authority to dispense justice on the murderers. They're nothing but edgy murderhobos who try to justify their actions.

>>52174783

Guy just cold bloodedly coup de graced a guy who was begging for his life and then had the bodies all dumped both to hide the crime and to ensure they're never resurrected.

Guy went full Lawful Stupid possible goat influence?

>>52174071

Damn, boy, calm down.

>>52174817
I dunno. I can't condemn vigilantism if it's in a lawless place.
The dungeon is a lawless place. They have to make their own justice here.

>>52174923
It's not completely lawless though. It's been established that the local government has set up at least a rudimentary system for adventurers.

>>52174923
The only thing I would suggest is turning them into the authorities but that requires lugging 5+ corpses to the surface whucheck isn't practical or feasible. But dumping the bodies leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this isn't justice, just veangence.

>>52174846
>goat influence
Doubt it. That's why the whole party just kind of goes along with it.

And despite his claims, his party seems more experienced with killing people than they do hunting monsters or lifting curses.

Well holy shit, this got dark

>>52175026
it has always been dark to be honest

>>52174846
Fucking goats, man. Ruin everything.

So who are these people? Did Laius Rob them or something

>>52174057
Fairly fuckin' Lawful Neutral if you ask me.
>let's kill these guys
>because they're criminals
>I don't believe in mercy
>let's leave their stash though because stealing is wrong
>also I'm a complete fucking psycho

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>>52175026
The last chapter was the only one for a long time that felt like a dungeon meshi adventure like in the beginning of the manga. Just monsters, a strategy on how to fight them and then cooking.

>>52175040
It was much more casual when to comes to death before. This time they have been killed for good.

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>>52174817

>>52175087
The fact that they think death is so casual is all the darker

>>52175082
I'm torn between whether or not he's LG or LE desu.

I think he's a paladin either way

>>52175061
No they got killed by some treasure bugs and Laius's party was nice enough to make sure their bodies weren't possessed so that they could be revived, but they thought that they were robbed. Then they got killed again by the mermen and Laius saved their bodies from being eaten by the fish.

>tsundere asian sorcerer
>doge kobold ranger?
>womanlet halfling thief
>cute female dorf warrior
>chill gnome priest/wizard
>dark skinned xenophilic human killing machine

best party, would adventure with

>>52174943
A law that authorities can't or won't enforce is just window dressing, though. Lawful doesn't (necessarily) mean "bindly follow rules fat lazy aristocrats wrote to line their pockets".
In fact, does Lawful necessarily have to do with state laws? Wouldn't a strict, but personal code of honor, which seems to be Kabru's case, also considered lawful?

>>52174923
>I can't condemn vigilantism if it's in a lawless place.

Yeah but you also can't condone it - in a place with no fixed law, a knight acts according to their own personal code of honor.

And we see here that Kabru's "code" of "honor" can allow the slaying of captured prisoners and permakilling of citizens of the kingdom above, rather than taking them up to the surface for due lawful punishment by the local lawful authority.

>>52175026
I love it.

This kind of ambiguity is great.

>>52174351
>>52174735
>>52174888

correct we if I am wrong but the archetype of a fighter/warrior PC is the one of a seasoned or highly trained guy/gal

having a stone cold steve austin face won't be weird if they are trained to fight and kill, just like irl soldiers

>>52175000

Perhaps they were mercenaries or bounty hunters before they took up adventuring? Reformed bandits?

From what Kubru talks about he's at least seen some shit.

Sure changed my opinion on them from the comedic relief fuckup party right quik

>>52175082
He's not just killing them for being serial robber-murderers. He's mad that people would detract from efforts to actually "finish" the dungeon and break the curse by treating adventuring as a purely economical endeavor.

He wants the threat of the dungeon's monsters to be put down for good and won't tolerate letting his party sway from that goal. The guy's a true fucking believer in his purpose and it's interesting to see that character arc show up in a lowbie side-story party.

>>52175173
Yeah this chapter hints that they pretty shady. I still can't wait to see them get rekt by the dungeon again though.

>>52175111
>I think he's a paladin either way
As said in previous threads the term is "Lord."

>>52175139
>doge kobold ranger?
Samurai possibly. The armor he is wearing is one of the traditional depictions of samurai scale armor.

>>52175173
>From what Kubru talks about he's at least seen some shit.
Sounds like he is a survivor of a "dungeon break" that occurred when a previous dungeon boom town started busting.

>>52175173
>Sure changed my opinion on them from the comedic relief fuckup party right quik
They're still fuckups, though, that's the best part. I feel like this LN edgelord is heading for a deading from Dr Laius, and I can't wait t b h

>>52175234
Does the dogarai and tsundere wizard remind anyone else of the Henchmen from Dragonball?

>>52175234

>dogo samurai

it's Overgrowth all over again

>>52175139
>>cute female dorf warrior
>>chill gnome priest/wizard
Those aren't part of the party, they were passing by and revived the party.

>>52175159
>due lawful punishment by the local lawful authority.
Did you miss the part where there is no such thing in this setting?
>>52174010
>>52174131
>>52174264

>>52175262

I think I figured it out. These guys are specialized for dealing with conflicts with other humans. Which is why they keep getting fucked up. They're not able to adapt to dealing with different monsters.

I kind of hope they all get together and have to work towards a common goal like surviving another run-in with the sorcerer.

>>52175338
They definitely won't be working together since they have too much of a conflict in their beliefs. Most likely Laius's party will realize that they have to protect the dungeon in order to save his imouto while the edgy mcfuck party will be actively trying to clear it.

Just imagine:

This party will kill the Orcs.

>>52175493
Maybe they'll fucking try.

>>52175493

Shit.

>>52175367
Yeah, especially since Marcille's end goal is to find a way to use the dungeon for magical agriculture. Killing all the monsters runs counter to that.

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>>52175493

Don't say things like that

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>>52175554
But it would be a good thing. Marcille would approve.

>>52175493

The only chance they have of avoiding bloodshed is if he takes one look at the orc women and goes full James T. Kirk.

>>52175632
I mean, it's implied that he has a thing for inter-species romance.

Honestly, my biggest problem with this whole thing is that they were PROBABLY PRETTY GOOD AT CORPSE RECOVERY.
We need as many corpse recoverers as we can get to make sure adventurers die less.

>>52175745
MUH profiteering tho

I know you revived me after I got myself killed, but you earn money for that service so I need to dump your bodies into the lake.

>>52175745
>>52175813
the point is that they were casually murdering others to return their corpses over and over. A lot easier than searching for corpses when you can just follow the people you kill back and forth

>>52175745

When they start intentionally getting people killed to collect the fee, I don't know if it's worth it anymore?

Like you could definitely see these guys leaving broke people to become more ghosts if they don't think they'd get any profit from it.

Come to think of it? I think Kabru's posse is a lot closer to the average adventurer party than Laius and the ohter MCs.

>>52175844
see, the way I read it, that sounded like a small fraction of what they did.
I mean, I agree, that's totally shit tier, but from experience, the greasy fucks that toe the line tend to be some of the most effective in their jobs. Or the least.
one or the other, really.

>>52175869
I agree, but it sounds like these guys weren't actually doing their jobs and were causing more corpses than they were returning

both parties involved in this chapter are pretty morally fucked though

>>52175869

Isn't it also mentioned that excessive revivals can have nasty side effects? It's not something you want to do more than you have to, even with the option.

>>52175909
Yes. Everyone involved in this situation could have done better.
>>52175916
???

>>52175909
yeah these dudes don't seem to be too keen on critical thinking and instead run petty vengeful logic circles in their heads, they justify themselves waaay too easily. desu I'm afraid for Laius's party because they've done some pretty sketchy things to get by, but were always morally in the right not letting their emotions cloud judgement.

>>52175745
>>52175813

It's not so much that they do it more for the money than the intention, but that they're just straight up letting people die (and even setting up their own deaths like in this chapter) despite their ability to help because they want to make a quick buck. That's pretty scummy.

Cabron is reasonable in his distaste for them although I'm not saying I advocate tossing them into the lake. The dungeon is an economic place, and once actual adventurers just stop going because too many scumbags are there to prey upon them, the only people left would be the scumbags which would lead to terrible things for the townspeople around the dungeon.

>>52175950

Shit, I think it was in the chapter that focused on the dwarf chick who split with Laius? The old gnome's her new employer and I could swear he mentioned that once.

>>52175909
Good point. Kabru's party could've done the 'right' thing and just left them alone, but they had to go full murderhobo. Their overall attitude seems pretty shitty too since they wouldn't even be alive if Laius hadn't dragged their bodies out of the water.

>>52175995
I don't recall excessive reviving being stated to cause problems so much as trying to revive without enough of the original body left, but I could be not remembering things. I'm due for a reread sometime soon, I think.

>>52175988
This. Laius might be a nutjob, but there's always someone's who's the voice of reason in his party, whereas it looks like everyone was just blindly following Kabru's orders.

I never noticed how weird a word "whet" is until I saw how it is spelled in this chapter.

>>52176072

I think the same here.

Even without the that, it's pretty clear these guys don't fuck around.

But there might be a pragmatic aspect to this too? If those corpse finders get revived and spread word about the adventurers that killed them to their buddies in the same field, the might never get rezzed themselves again.

I fucking love Kabru's party. It's the rival group to the main cast, they have their analogues each, and it's moral ambiguity. They aren't malevolent, they are doing what they think is right and good.

>>52176072
Which, looking back, was pretty big fucking foreshadowing for what happened to imouto-chan.

>>52176068
I don't even understand why they're mad at the beginning of the chapter. Like how is it stealing food if it's from a corpse? And if they were dead how do they even know all these things happened that they're wildly accusing Laius's party of?

>>52176163
They definitely seem a lot more morally compromised than Laius's. The worst Laius has done is cook mermen eggs.

>>52176247
Initially angry because they didn't know the treasurebugs weren't actually treasure and they think Laius and co looted their goodies. Then they wake up from being killed by the mermen only to find out Laius and co took all their food, too.

>>52175310

There's literally a town up above that regulates and compensates adventurers - deliberately trying to murder adventurers would likely either be a capital offence or at best lead to a situation where all the other adventurers will know what they did, they'll likely be cut off from any municipal funding to go into the dungeon (if they're not barred entirely from going down), will be unable to claim compensation for resurrections they perform, and if they still go down there other adventurers are likely to gank them on sight.

Again, taking them up to the surface would be the lawful good thing to do. ganking them without some sort of public hearing is dipping towards true neutral or lawful evil.

also dumb as fuck because now they'll become ghosts or zombies - marcille, who has no sense of right or wrong, would have been against the stump & dump plan

>>52174280
Wait, isn't that there loot they are dumping? They just don't realize it because they think that Laius' group robbed them right?

>>52176260
I mean they did also resurrect his sister using dark magic, granted Marcille didn't seem to think it was too big of an issue, but miss "Using dogs to harvest Mandrakes" might not be the best judge of morality.

It may turn out to be just misunderstood, but the dark magic might also turn out to be more reprehensible than we were initially lead to believe.

>>52176260
>>52176384

I think the mangaka is toying with expectation, which is why this strange little manga about cooking food in a dungeon is so fucking good.

>>52176384
Using the dragon to resurrect Farlyn isn't as bad as going out of your way to feed corpses you murdered to the fish imo. I'm going to wait to see what other repercussions Marcille's 'dark' magic has before drawing any other conclusions.

Also the dog and mandarake thing was a generally accepted textbook way of harvesting the damn things. Another reason why wizards have no sense of right or wrong.

>>52176247
>>52176336
God, nothing annoys me more than "They're in conflict because of HIGHLARIOUS MISUNDERSTANDINGS". It's just such a stupid plot device, that only serves to aggravate the readers who know what's going on, when the characters don't. Especially when it's drawn out like this.

>>52176384

That's how they taught her at the academy, but she felt too bad to hurt the dog to try.

>>52176452
It's the exact opposite to me. The anticipation of coming events, knowing what you know as the audience, it a great part of the entertainment.

There's a word for it in theater but I can't think of it right now.

>>52176384
I'm honestly not yet convinced that the ritual itself was a problem, so much as the meat they used was.

>>52176452
Well, that's the initial spark sure, but there's some fundamental difference in philosophy between the two parties that are almost certainly going to bring them to blows.

>>52176440
Well Farlyn is now basically a half-dragon under the sway of the Dark Elf sorcerer.

>>52175745
The problem lies in the fact that they started to kill others. If they were just helping people normally this wouldn't have happened.

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>>52176495
Reminder that Marcille did nothing wrong.

>>52176440
>I'm going to wait to see what other repercussions Marcille's 'dark' magic has

Laius' sis becoming a mind-controlled dragon an evil sorcerer can polymorph at elf's convenience seems like a pretty huge fuck-up.

>>52176512
She has been in effect turned into a Dracon,

Wizardry Races:
Humans
Elves
Dwarves
Gnomes
Hobbits
Dracons (imouto's new "race")
Felpurr (The catgirl in the one-shot)
Rawulf (The Dogbolds)

These races have yet to appear:
Faeries
Lizardmen
Mook

>>52176794
It's amazing how much of an impact one game has had on the fantasy fiction landscape in Japan.

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>>52176647

>>52176787
And what does the type of magic she used have to do with anything? Right now in this chapter we have somebody resurrecting someone with goat meat, but with no dark arts.

>>52176787
Between the fact that the prepared meat itself obeyed the sorcerer and what the gnome cleric had to say about goat's blood, I'm really starting to feel like the whole dark magic thing is a red herring.

>>52177083
The goat was probably brought from outside the dungeon, which means that the sorcerer has no control over it. Marcille's resurrection magic was definitely not normal judging from everyone's reactions.

>>52176918
One series but yeah.

It is important to remember that the Wizardry series was one of the original blockbuster videogames. Both Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy were inspired by it.

>>52177272
It's not normal from her own admission. It's an ancient forbidden ritual. I'm just not convinced it being a forbidden ritual was particularly relevant to Faryln's dragon slave situation.

>>52177043
I suspect the difference between the two spells is the difference between the level 5 Di (Life/Raise Dead) and the level 7 Kadorto (Resurrection). Marcilla used Kadorto which can restore the dead from the "Ashes" (body destroyed state) that the Di spell can not.

>>52177361
I thought D&D was a bigger influence on Final Fantasy. I literally have an artbook of the first monsters of Final Fantasy 1 and it's literally the D&D Monster Manual.

>>52177452
Wasn't Wizardry directly based on D&D anyway?

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>>52176918
> one game

There are eight of them for PC and about twenty Japan-exclusive spin-offs for various consoles.

Wizardy is easily as big as Final Fantasy in Japan.

>>52177580
I meant game in the context of the series.

>>52177512
It's a bit of a chicken and egg-type case, because all games used to be pretty brutal and unforgiving. Point-and-click adventures and RPGs especially though.

>>52177272
I think marcille's dark magic was controversial because of how much of the body was recreated with the dragon meat. Farlyn was only bones. replacing some blood with goat blood you maybe keep on you in a vial seems less so.

>>52176068

I agree their overall attitude is pretty shitty, but by no means was letting dudes who are actively causing deaths in an already dangerous setting the right thing

>>52178351
They are quick to judge. Even when concerning their own strength
>This level was too much for us, can't be helped
Laius' party is more curious and open minded, on the other hand. They're more flexible and that's why they're the better team

>>52178415

Again, I think we agree on that point. Their attitude is shitty, they appear to have trouble translating what appear to be legitimate skills in other adventuresque endeavors to this particular sort of setting, and (possibly related to the last point) seem to frame almost everything in terms of conflict.

I'm just saying the one point I don't disagree with them on is their handling of this situation. The corpse collectors more or less tried to kill them. They'd be revived, of course, but the collectors had put themselves in a position of being a potential threat any group adventuring into the dungeon. They had effectively become part of the threat of the dungeon for anyone whose goal is to eliminate it.

>>52177452
D&D was introduced to Japan through Wizardry which was a D&D dungeon crawl in digital form. Final Fantasy did draw a lot of stuff from D&D, but pretty much the original pitch at the (at the time) was "Lets develop a Wizardry style fantasy game."

>>52177843
Pretty much. Farlyn was Ashes which is impossible for normal Resurrection magic to revive from.

>>52174280
>Dump their valuables
Goddamn gotta respect that level of dedication.

>Sea Serpent part 1
That means they're party's getting buttfucked by an overgrown snake next chapter. kek.

>>52174131
>>52174264
So he's the anti-laius right. Better suited to dealing with humans. Not a fan of monsters and dungeons.

>>52174812
Years of gnome bullying will do that. It's character building.

>>52175745
>>52175853
Why are you guys talking like you're from tumblr? Is this supposed to be some kind of crypto-troll?

>>52179901
Because /tg/ is Tumblr Gamers now.

>>52176359
No, the only money of theirs that the resurrecting bandits have is what the party lawfully paid for their own resurrection, meaning it's not theirs by right any more. Their money wasn't stolen, only the "treasure" (actually bugs) was missing.

>>52176495
If resurrecting people was sensitive to the type of meat used in general, you'd think that's something people would know about. Seems like it's probably a result of both factors in confluence.

>>52176452
Their ideological differences will eventually come to light if they tried to talk it out either way; there's a difference between starting off on the wrong foot and having the whole relationship be sour from the get-go.

>>52176336
There was some treasure in there as well, which Senshi had the others drop.

Also, the grain was already spilled, so it would have gone to waste otherwise.

>>52180235

yeah, the misunderstanding is just there to give them a reason to meet, rather than as the true conflict between the groups - imho that's a lot less garbage than "and now these two fight because neither of them thought to ask for that final episode of gekigenger 3 that they haven't seen.

>>52180135
>>52176495

It's probably the combination of the "dragon meat" probably being some sort of weird magical construct of the dank elf evil sorceror, and the dark magic used being connected fairly intimately to the dank elf and the dark magic at work through out the dungeon.

>>52177415
Pretty sure the dragon slave situation came from the beast meat used was still "alive" and therefore under the control of the sorcerer. When Farlyn was ressed that meat became her meat and the control spell or whatever transferred to her.

>>52175155
That's how it's supposed to be done

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>>52180683
>dragon slave

>>52180769
I just used the term the guy i'm replying to used. Did think of muh Lina doe.

>>52175155
Fundamentally no, or at least they default to a particular set of laws, perhaps from their home kingdom or from a god, etc. Otherwise once you walk into the Dark Kingdom of Generic Badliness you'd be trapped by your alignment to obey the local regulations requiring mandatory devouring of babies.

>>52180648
>dank elf
dank

>>52180648
That's the thing though. Even the dragon meat that they prepped for eating obeyed the sorceror, and it's not like Marcille performed the ritual on the roasts.

>>52180959
Well what would you call a crazed dark elf sorcerer still pinning after his or her husbando for god knows how many centuries?

>>52181118
Waifu/husbando material

>>52174465
I recognize those titties.

>>52176794
Pretty sure the dogbolds are just called kobolds.

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>>52180799
Lina a best

>>52181170
Dude, she/he/it would never accept your love. No matter how many dickings you cannot replace the husbando shaped hole in that elf's heart.

Figuratively speaking, of course. Elves don't have hearts, merely a sap bladder.

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>>52176340
>ganking them without some sort of public hearing is dipping towards true neutral or lawful evil
Unless we're playing under Gygax rules, which is a reasonable possibility given the setting.

>>52176489
Dramatic irony.

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>>52175282
I see how you could think that. >>52173639 is the party of the older Gnome priest from earlier and his Dwarf bodyguard that used to adventure with Laius and company. This party also includes the Gnome's old wife and the pair of Human bodyguards, though they're all either barely visible or, in the case of the Human male bodyguard, seemingly just off-screen.

>>52173686 is the party that >>52175139 was talking about. In the second panel, you can see the younger Gnome priest on the far right with the Dwarf fighter right next to him, along with the aforementioned Human sorceror, "Kobold" ranger, and Halfling thief.

>>52180100
Except that during the treasure bug prep Laius group threw out their money because they thought they were inedible treasure bugs.
So a party not in the know would think that their treasure had been stolen and not just carelessly mishandled.

>>52187995
>Laius group
It was rather Senshin telling them to throw them away because you can't eat treasure. Unusual behavior for a dwarf.

>>52188037
Senshi didn't tell them to throw it away, he just didn't object when the Chilchack asked if they could throw it away since it was inedible.
All Senshi did was separate into edible and inedible without telling them that "inedible" meant real treasure until he was asked to clarify.

And Senshi is generally unusual for a Dwarf with no appreciation for metal at all as evidenced by his mithril cooking knives and adamantium pot.

>>52188113
>he just didn't object
Now this is some kind of hairsplitting. He knew it was ordinary treasure, which even should have a use for, but had no problem with them wasting it. He is directly responsible for that.

Though this may have been a misudnerstanding, because Chilchack in the translation says "throw out", not "throw away".

>>52174418
Thats why he has a party, so there's someone else to give him orders

>>52184477
>Unless we're playing under Gygax rules, which is a reasonable possibility given the setting.

if we're playing by Gygax rules then Marcille, Senshi and Laius are all chaotic evil and Chilchack is neutral good.

>>52188214
Chilchack is neutral best

>>52174631
There's nothing wrong with delivering the proper comeuppance to such scumbags, they hardly deserve to be resurrected so they can commit such schemes again

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>>52174157
Hardcore lawful neutral. Dredd approve

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>>52175100
>>52174817

Why are there so many delicious browns in this comic?

>>52188310
>so many
I count two.

>>52188346
There's dark elf, brown Dredd, and the two from the gnome's party

>>52188214
Well yes, they ARE murderhobos.

>>52174264
Calling it now the person lying dead being eaten by monsters is his mother.

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>>52188999
Capped, reverse Satan.

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no marcille or chilchak? what are we going to do without our reaction faces this chapter?

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>>52189783

>dark skinned guy is a psycho
>light skinned guy is the hero
RACISM

>>52189227
>>52188999

Looks like a desert land, which is where the dogbolds are from.

So is this a prelude to him literally "kicking the puppy" later on and killing his dogbold party member for "being a monster"?

>>52174280
Damn, the halfling girl is cute.

>>52190271
>dark skinned guy is a psycho
Yeah, both of them. But newest psycho is still a hero in my book.

>>52190271
Dark skinned guy is a GODDAMN AMERICAN HERO

Light skinned guy says garbage for fun

>>52190437
Demihuman, they're a gray area

>>52190271
But he's a lawful psycho, so he can't be like actual darkskins

>>52190271
Why the fuck do you talk like you're on tumblr?

>>52175728

Cabron is xenosexual

"if it is cute and it has at least an orifice, it's AWRIGHT!"

>>52190934
That's not at all how people talk on tumblr.

>>52190692

Oh dear.

There's gonna be doggo burgers, aren't there?

>>52190271
There was nothing wrong with the situation, killing them and making sure they couldn't come back was the correct choice of action

>>52190934
>>52179901
Are you retarded? Just calling things 'tumblr' at random,

>>52191030
He's not in a party with Lauis, he's fine

>>52190271

light skinned guy wanted to eat sentient monsters

>>52191115
>a whole sentence clause in all-caps, starting with a "probably"
>ending a declarative sentence in a question mark - and then beginning the next sentence with "Like" (and even omitting the comma)
Those are pretty tumblr-typical writing patterns, mate. You could argue that it's not enough to call them out on when we're having a nice non-politicized thread, but it's definitely not random.

The other guy was just being silly I guess. Or perhaps he doesn't know much about tumblr (or 4chan) and thought that post was someone legitimately complaining of racism. Or maybe he thought he was playing along and continuing the joke, and just doing a bad job at it. Your guess is as good as mine on that one, really.

>>52190271

>dark skinned guy is BATMAN

>light skinned guy is DEADPOOL


>>52190934

he is just joking, anon..........he is joking, right?

>>52191197
how do you even go on tumblr enough to be able to recognize their writing patterns.
Also, that writing pattern appears in internet chat pretty much everywhere since the dawn of forums.

>>52189227
Look at the skin colour of the corpse.
Guess Kabru has personal experience with out of control dungeons.

>>52191248
Turns out there's a lot of good porn on tumblr.

>>52190271
PROBLEMATIC

>>52191213
Dark skinned guy is the punisher, he put those guys down for good.

>>52191248
If you're on normiebook, tumblr screencaps are 40%of the memes shared.

>>52174661
To be fair, their goal is to destroy the dungeon which would supposedly include breaking the spirit binding.

>>52174846
>hide the crime
What crime?
The other guys were trying to kill them, were happy to kill their own friends to scam the government, and were likely to betray and try to kill the party if the bribe didn't work or as soon as they let their guard down.

The begging guy claimed he wasn't a part of it but the whole deadly illusion was his doing and there was no indication he was forced into it, the others even stopped fighting when he was threatened.

Coming back from the dead is hardly a right and the corpse hunters probably would have gone back to their evil ways as soon as they did get resurrected.

>>52196111
The thing is they can't prove that it wasn't a crime to the authorities.

>>52174950
>But dumping the bodies leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this isn't justice, just veangence.
How does that make it vengeance?
If bandits attack you is it vengeance if you dump their bodies by the roadside?
Giving them a proper burial and religious rights is definitely a good merciful action but it's going the extra mile rather than required.

>>52196197
In this setting that condemns their souls to eternal torment though.

>>52196197
He could have just left the bodies and carved a message saying they were thieves into their corpses. Revival heals the body but the message would be clear to anyone who finds them. Or just report what happened to the Governor and if anyone found the corpses and had them revived the bandits could be arrested afterwards. Dumping the bodies is unneccessary and was carried out because Kabru view people who aren't trying to clean the dungeon as not needed. I don't disagree with his sentiment, but I can't condone what he did either.

>>52196190
I feel you may be applying more modern concepts of law and its enforcement to a high fantasy vaguely medieval world.
Why do they need to prove that? How could they even? If they drag up any random corpses and claim they were bandits who's to say otherwise?
If there isn't some kind of "truth magic" then how do they tell even if they take the party prisoner and bring them to the surface at great risk?

>>52196425
No more than anyone else who can't be recovered or resurrected, also see >>52195373, whereas if they let them go they may do more evil and even lead to more people being trapped.

>>52196443
>He could have just left the bodies and carved a message saying they were thieves into their corpses
And how do you tell if the message is true? Maybe they're even victims of thieves trying to remove or delay the call for justice.
They could get revived and flee before the party gets to the surface let alone bounties being put out.

>Dumping the bodies is unneccessary and was carried out because Kabru view people who aren't trying to clean the dungeon as not needed
Well that may have been a factor but not the sole reason and you're ignoring the context of the rest of what he said. It's hardly just that they're "not needed" but that people like them, thieves and murderers, will increasingly populate the dungeon and prey upon people and later spill out into the larger area if treasure is depleted before the curse gets lifted. They're just a few souls among countless others that will be trapped unless the curse is lifted and they might even contribute to more people getting trapped in their greed.

>>52197405
The point that I'm making is that the authorities might simply not believe them and it is better to be safe than sorry.

>>52198757
>not *murderhoboing intensifies*
One job anon.

>>52198525
The authorities might not believe that they were criminals?
Again, unless there's some sort of truth magic then the thieves could just lie or counter-accuse.

>>52198525
I can't fault Kabru for his actions, but I don't like them. You can argue that people wouldn't heed any messages and that's fair. But since carrying a bunch of corpses out of the dungeon isn't a possibility for this group I'd rather just leave them by the wayside and inform the constabulary of their wrongdoings. I don't like supposed good guys in a position of power just killing people in cold blood. (Referring to dumping the bodies because death doesn't stick in this dungeon).

>>52199501
The thing is that it's risky and could go either way.
>>52199540
The thing is that he justified it himself with the whole "people like these guys cause dungeons to spill into the surface." Also I believe that the souls leave after a while otherwise it would be simple to resurrect people.

>>52200132
They don't leave though. They're trapped until someone kills them as a zombie or ghost.

>>52184477
>Only evil will let you live so they can have power over you
>Good will kill you knowing it the right thing to do
Not wrong, but not in every situation.

>>52188214
What did Senshi and Laius do?

>>52200132
>he justified it himself
Which is where I tend to get fuzzy on whether or not the decision is right. His personal experience colors his reaction, but there is a governing body on the surface who could deal with this as well and once he gained control of the situation the ball was in his court. It might be naive of me to say this but I think just stopping at killing the gravekeepers was where he should have stopped. And once he went and murdered that mage I stopped rooting for him.

>>52196190
They also don't need to, because everyone who would've testified against them is dead.

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>>52200961
Their in frontier land son. A man must make his own justice

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>>52201936
And neglecting the hangman his job isn't justice to me.

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I can see it now: when Kabru and his gang finally catches up to Laius and his, they will tired, downtrodden and starving... And Senshi will be just done cooking.

>>52200902
Dunno about Senshi, but Laius expressed interest in eating intelligent species. Specifically the mermen.

>>52190672
>says
Eats*

>>52174601
Wasn't there a debate over whether or not the Japanese depiction of Drow having brown skin was them either misunderstanding what D&D meant by "black skin" or making it a stylistic choice while still being able to say "this still counts as black skin, right?" when animating Record of Lodoss War

>>52202736
Drow black skin didn't look the modern way originally anyway.

>>52178672
The first FF was so D&D that a friend of mine has been trying to convert it into an AD&D module.

>>52191248
They don't.
The assumption on /tg/ is that you're basically going to write out things in a proper and technical manner; like you would an actual correspondence.

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>>52198757
Clearly this is the half-elven son of the Dark Elf and Prince Whatshisface and the true heir to the kingdom. Good thing he can pass as a typical roundear.

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>>52175100

I'm not sure why people have problem,

>you met people who profit from your death
>they stalk you and wait till you die and profit from it.
>when that failed, they have no qualm for killing you (by proxy) and profit from it.

even if it was me, i'll kill them for my party safety, ensuring they'll not stab you in the back again later.

And destroy their body to ensure they don't revive and take revenge or try to profit in manner that disadvantage you in the future.

>>52205164
People would rather not make the possibly difficult decision and let other people suffer for it. Presumably that way they wouldn't have to do anything "bad" and all the resulting harm would solely be on the bad guys.

>>52202942
That's a fucking laurgh

>>52205164
because, in a world where revival is possible, over a conflict about revival, permanent death always seems like disproportionate retribution.

>>52205164
because people would rather subdue/imprison criminals instead of straight up murdering them

>>52205615
Maybe if you're a fucking milkdrinker that shouldn't be dungeon-diving in the first place.

This whole situation is as clear cut as killing the Joker, only harm can come from leaving them alive while only good things come from snuffing them.

>>52205615
>>52205643
Why do you not know how to type properly?

>>52205660
except, you know, the joker showed he can't be scared straight, but you never even tried on these guys.

>>52205667
why don't you go back to tumblr?

>>52205660
>only good things come from snuffing them
except leaving dead bodies in the dungeon creates new wraiths/revenants

>>52205678
And any legitimate corpse recovery they could have done now won't happen.

And like four families are mourning now.

>>52205675
Why don't you go back to gaia/reddit/other random website? That still doesn't answer the question of why you type like shit.

>>52205695
probably because you have autism, tumblr anon.

>>52205687
Any 'legitimate corpse recovery' is nullified by their tendency to murder adventurers. They are hardly the only corpse finders active in the dungeon.

They are a plague upon the system and needed to be excised.

>>52205660
The only reason you should kill the Joker is because apparently Arkham Asylum walls are made of paper. If the Asylum did its job, and actually be able to hold a lunatic behind locked doors for five fucking seconds, nobody would be on Batman's ass about not killing the Joker.

Same applies here. They could have not killed the corpse collector guys, and instead handed them over to the authorities to dole out some sort of fair punishment (which may or may not be getting executed).

Of course, you could argue that their justification of the system just getting gamed by them anyway and that they'd only get a slap on the wrist at worst, since the authorities don't really give a fuck, and they don't have hard evidence to convict them. That's also fair. If I was in their place, I may have done the same.

>>52205718
see, just make them do community service for like two years.
You'd have the same positive effect, with significantly fewer gruesome murders.

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>>52205695
>>52205707
I'm glad someone bumped the thread so you could screech about other websites.

>>52205643
Not sure on where is the nearest police(or equivalent) in the setting.

Assuming, you can't teleport out and have to walk your way up.
Unless you want the same shit happened again during your travel back. Killing them is the best choice.

>>52176647
Marcille
No sense of right or wrong

Please don't bump the thread if you don't have anything to contribute.

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>>52179516
Oh, that's an interesting way to see it.

>>52179516
Fair is fair now, Laius' principal interest in monsters is culinary.

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>>52174601
i'm not too sure about that
pic related present to nice dark-skinned characters
i'm thinking it's more a black knight thing

>>52212028
Cute!

>>52205678
Not if they prayed over the bodies. Which must be standard practice for all adventurers at that point.
Otherwise: Zombie mermaids!

>>52208657
It's a storytime. You bump the thread, it allows more anons to read it.

>>52212131
This thread was created two days ago and we have an archive for that.

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>>52212028
She always has a smile on her face (except for bottom panel). I wonder what she finds so funny.

>>52212182
You have tons of other threads, go there and use them instead of whining for no reason.

>>52212246
>You have tons of other threads
Probably one less, because this one takes up space.

>>52212336
Ok, let's organize a funeral procession for that thread. Start it, I'll follow you soon.

>>52174205
>pretty boy
>leader of a band (anthropologically, in size)
I wonder what manga he'd belong into.

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>>52212368
Good, I'll take several Marcille pics with me until we reached post limit. One Marcille after another. Nah, won't do that

Using this thread to not create another one, a certain manga had a /tg/ chapter with a homebrewed game and I was wondering what you folks thought of the rules.

>>>/a/154658280

Daily reminder that a poorly drawn Laius is wandering in the living paintings, forever alone.

>>52212336
Have you tried not being a little bitch?

>>52212506
There is nothing to think about it, those are very simple joke rules used to make character related jokes (if the characters were different rules and cards would have been different to suit them, while still being as simple as posible to not take too much pannels).
Maybe some people can tell you what they think about the general idea of a sort of " life game", though.
Anyway, don't be afraid of making a new thread, there aren't many other useless whiny bitches like this idiot >>52212336 here, thankfully.

>>52212506
Alright, quick review.
First, she really should try to debug games before having people play them.
The idea of using the cards as the spaces is good, but right now it's purely based on luck, so maybe something like pooling the die rolls together could give it some strategy. She should also take out the instant death spaces, maybe have them send the playr back to the start or something.

>>52212336
Here's your (you) anon.

Also, what would it be like to find someone like Laius in your party?
>hey guys let's try eating this month we we just killed haha

>>52212795
this fukkin guy.

also jesus i forgot how awful /a/ is at storytimes, so much noise and fucking reaction images midstream.

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>>52212795
>Ishigami posts on /tg/.
I knew it.

>>52213006
Nah, he should be a sort of (beginner) gourmet, Laius already had a notebook about monsters he wanted to eat in the first chapter, it's just that Senshi is the pro gourmet so Lauis doesn't seems so educated when compared, but the guy in your party should be relatively knowledgeable and weirdly smart. Well, still weirder than smart, though.

>>52213173
That's called having fun. It's supposed to be part of the story time.

>>52205135
who's that beating the shit out of bomb queen?

>>52216708
Astro Fighter Sun Red. Basically a foulmouthed sentai ranger.