Erfworld

Sizemore is going to be so happy to hear about this. I don't think he'll be able to stop crying. From happiness, yes.

edited 23rd Dec '16 7:08:07 AM by Arha

You'd think they'd have her under better guard than that.

They had a pretty good defense. A master-class Lookamancer scanned her, with another caster standing nearby to presumably make sure she didn't try to cast on the guy scanning her. There are guards all over the place. The only problem is that they couldn't anticipate a secret epic-level trick, and they didn't have any guards in the room. The first is inevitable, and the second probably a question of prisoner rights.

Anyway, I'm guessing that Wanda will decrypt Janis, hand her the 'pliers for a second, and then mass-decrypt everyone in the hex. That will definitely get Marie, but it might get some others too. Even if she can't or won't do that for some reason (like maybe she's worried about her decrypted getting dusted before they can stack up for safety), she still has the basic move of sending decrypted Janis out, croaking the guards while they're distracted, and decrypting them. Then repeat as necessary.

Oh, and let's not forget that Wanda is Janis' prisoner. Parson mentioned earlier that croaking the Ruler of the Side that holds you frees you, but it's very rare. As Janis is a barbarian, she's a Side of one, and now Wanda is free to cast and everything normally.

I agree with Michael's interpretation that Wanda has already fulfilled her promise to return the pliers to Janis. Admittedly, not before attempting to decrypt Marie (unless she could do that in a split second), but then her phrasing wasn't all that binding regarding the order of events, either.

edited 23rd Dec '16 1:39:01 PM by ashnazg

By the flower...

Ouf. I can't tell if Rob's been sitting on that one for years, or if his punning abilities just got a major upgrade.

edited 27th Dec '16 5:27:04 PM by Gilphon

Yes, I guess Wanda would know that. But hey, still got a way out, it seems. Dirtamancer and Dollamancer, was it? Each with fun little toys?

edited 27th Dec '16 5:30:59 PM by Arha

Don't get excited for Claud and Ivan. They still have to fight Charlie's ACTION FIGURE GOLEM before they can do anything! Their chances of escaping the bunker look pretty grim to me.

The one that killed them the first time? I don't think that's Charlie's.

Kind of funny that they resist Ace's offer and then simply get assassinated and decrypted anyway for their trouble. I guess that's Fate for you.

The action figure didn't kill them, the Great Minds remotely cut their strings.

edited 27th Dec '16 8:05:24 PM by Silasw

Huh, surprisingly tanky.

Also yessss called it for Claude and Ivan.

It didn't kill them the first time, but it'll take a miracle for it not to kill them this time. Just look at it! It's got the eyes of a killer!

All casters got under contract to not offer their services to charlie, and these two heared of it a bit too late...

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Wow. That was clever.

It took me a moment to go over the full implications of that but when I did I just had to laugh.

Oh wow Vinny. You're awesome.

The puns have kicked into high gear.

Spite.

Well, good for Albert, I suppose.

Pfft. He has no chance. Now, I'm not saying that Vinny and company are exactly being honorable here, but FAQ was doomed the instant Jillian got it into her skull to capture Gobwin Knob. I'm not sure how it works if a side's capital is taken while its Ruler is in a different city.

Transylvito breaking alliance was not something she could have really predicted though. No one else should have been in a position to launch a meaningful attack. At least not without her knowing beforehand.

I suspect GK becomes Faq's new capital site. The treasury may take a hit when that happens, which would be bad given that she's about to lose it.

Edit: Wait, no, Faq has lost its capital before without much issue. They probably took their treasury with them that time though.

edited 3rd Jan '17 10:39:37 PM by Arha

In the early comics Stanley mentioned he wouldn't be able to escape with the treasury if Ansom took Gobwin Knob. Maybe it takes a turn to loot a city, and that's a turn you can't waste if you're fleeing for your life.

As for Prince versus Vinnie, I think it was an attempt at a distraction. Vinnie is by far the strongest TV unit in the airspace, and his mere presence boosts the bats by a fair bit. If the Prince can get him to leave the hex, then the city's chances are improved. Plus, Vinnie is pretty heavily injured and has a soft spot for Albert. Albert was far from a guaranteed win, but it wasn't a guaranteed loss, either.

Vinnie made it moot by deciding to take the city first instead.

When Faq lost its capital, it was defeated as a side, and Jillian became a Barbarian. When she reclaimed Faq, she reconstituted her side with it as the capital. But that's different from a side losing its capital while it still holds other cities. My guess is that it can't perform any of the functions that require a capital until it gets the funds to designate a new one.

edited 4th Jan '17 8:03:58 AM by Fighteer

Yeah, with Vinny there those bats perform like heavies, I think they said? They get a ton of boosts from being with a Transylvitan warlord, especially the chief.

I'm wondering how Jill will survive her treasury being taken at the very least if something doesn't go wrong here very quickly. GK will presumably become her new capital, but will she have to torch the other cities she's taken to raise the Schmuckers to pay for her troops? Or will Charlie bail her out? He's kind of in panic mode at the moment.

^ That's not what I meant. Faq was taken over by Olive Branch with King Banhammer outside the city since he knew the attack was coming. It's difficult to use that as precedent though given the circumstances.

edited 4th Jan '17 8:09:33 AM by Arha