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ACarlssin
Since: Jan, 2001
ACarlssin
Since: Jan, 2001

Several years ago — 2005? 2000? Really not sure — there was a webcomic where a guy wanted to be the best... swordsman? I'm not sure, some kind of fighter — So he went to see this woman who was to give him three tasks as part of his training. His first task was to bring her a cup of coffee, which he did. His second task was to chop down a particular giant redwood tree using a wet noodle. He leaves, then comes back and tells her he succeeded. When she asks how, he explains (this all happened offscreen) that he waited for the noodle to dry out, then he set the noodle on fire and used it to start a forest fire. In the forest fire the redwood caught fire and fell down. She agrees that he succeeded and gives him his third task: Bring her another cup of coffee.
Does any of this sound familiar to anybody? I only remember this one plotline. I think it must have been a comic I discovered one day, read for a while, then lost again. And I haven't seen it since.