- Location
- Hampden Park
Pretty sure that mummymaking starts with a corpse.
Overlady: Attack of the Minions (Thread II)
- Thread starter EarthScorpion
- Start date
- Fantasy
A fresh and/or properly preserved one.
Ol' Wales should be over a year ripe by this time in story. And we're only barely getting hints about the upcoming Albion excursion.
Major Session
The Traitor
- Location
- Inside his own Head
To be fair, it might be possible to dodge many of the problems there by getting your hands on the persons actual soul. Since the abyss clearly has the souls of the damned Henrietta and Louise may be able to either beg a favor from Jessica to steal the Princes soul from hell. Alternatively, if he went to Heaven Louise might just have to ask one of the fallen angels how an Overlady might go about do a little plundering of the divine realms.
On a different tact, I wonder what's going on in the wider political scene? I mean, the whole reason Henrietta was getting married off to the Germanic Emperor was to gain Germania's protection from the Albion Reconquista and prevent the spreading of anti-monarchy rebellion.
How have the council staved off the Reconquista? And what is likely to happen to them if the Overlady invades and/or comes to the aid of the Dark Queen of the Dark Elves in taking over Albion. I mean, Lousie already knows them somewhat and has an in with Jessica, who IIRC is friends with said Dark Queen.
Hmm. I suppose Henrietta could persuade Lousie to go attack them to help protect her should she come to power, to avenge a fallen monarch, and gather more power and allies to oppose the council. All to hide the ulterior motive of retrieving Wales corpse.
On a different topic, to appeaser the shipper in me... How would Louise actually go about sharing a kiss with Emperor Lee? I mean, both normally were full plate armor everywhere and Lousie refuses to show her face to anyone. What would be the first step necessary to get those two to begin trusting each other enough to begin dropping at least some of their protections around each other? I want my Unholy Matrimony damn it!
Last time we checked Albion had a bit of a demonic infestation problem. Considering Tiffania got nominated for best newcomer, I'd say this is not the sort of problem Shafela can ignore and go on a world conquering spree.
I bet other countries are just content to wait until the dust settles and pounce on the survivors. And settle their own messes in the mean time, like this sudden upsurge of "other" Evil infestations.
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- Location
- Can't read map
Was expecting if Louise will by accident confess her feelings to Henrietta, but courage run out and no chance occurred... Though saying openly she dedicates her mission of killing council and conquest to her friend, princess Henrietta... wait... ups...
Great to not have to big standards since:
Vampires get insane and greatly preserved body unless recently resurrected and have yet to feed. Though, original Drakula could walk at day, but weaker or no power, like no shape shifting at day?
Mummy... wasn't purpose to protect body for some later resurrection?
Lichdom... skeleton fashion... um nope...
It seems that for proper resurrection, fully healthy body and mind, a holly power is needed, usually.
Hmm was it some Batman film or other place, but no. Vax or something better on mouth to isolate skin from poison, maybe also antidote. For same reason don't remove gloves to protect from contact poisons.
Also Lee must not run away at sight of Louise's face, like when Scaron saw her face and got a bit scared, mistaking Louise for her mother under illusion.
Still, what could be a source of it? It can't all be Magda, even if she is... enthusiastic about calling demons? There was that time when Guiche and Dani hunted Gallian mage who stitched own head onto bear?
Maybe something like DLC for Overlord, Rising abyss, imprisoned dark god trying to get out?
BadRoad
a thousand miles
Because Wardes, the most influential member of the Council, is a Reconquista spy. They don't need to conquer Tristain because they're already in charge. Since they're also in cahoots with Mad King Joseph, they don't need to conquer Gallia either. So the Council can point to the fact that Reconquista isn't going around conquering anyone else as proof that it was just an internal conflict in Albion and nobody needs to worry about it any more.
Dragontrapper
Homeless Draconis
- Location
- A Tower in the middle of nowhere
Which was what I was going to ask - If she ever let Lee see her face, would he run screaming from the mini-Karrin, or begin plotting what he can do with an Evil Valliere? After all, the Valliere's are kinda like the Heterodynes - currently known as a force for Good, but they have a long history of Evil (see The Bloody Duke).
It's objectively suboptimal to wonder if the girl you've been dating is a mini-karrin or merely her spawn that you could possibly manipulate when you could better spend that time running away.
- Location
- Can't read map
Also while running away, Lee remembering all those jokes about mothers-in-law from
Remembered additional detail on Liches.
In some stories they don't die, kill themselves, during ritual to become lich, but remove one or more of vital organs like heart or lungs, somehow staying alive after it, then hiding those organs somewhere. Those organs have to be destroyed to kill them. Sometimes they even look normal until pierced with several spears that only annoy them, no skeleton fashion.
- Location
- The Old Dominion
Sorecers even if they don't turn themselves into undead can sometimes be impossible to kill without certain methods. Koschei the deathless for instance hid his soul inside a needle, which was inside a egg inside a duck who was inside a hare inside a iron chest buried under a green oak tree in a island in the ocean that disappeared and reappeared with the tides.
In the event the chest was opened the hare would run away and if the hare was killed then the duck would fly away and even then while he would be in the power of whoever had the egg he still could be only killed if the needle inside the egg was broken.
In the event the chest was opened the hare would run away and if the hare was killed then the duck would fly away and even then while he would be in the power of whoever had the egg he still could be only killed if the needle inside the egg was broken.
That sounds like a lot of effort went into annoying anyone who'd try controlling Koschei.
It's also a lot of wasted effort if some Hero just drops in and nukes the chest. Which is tottaly something Blitzheart would do. Or Tabitha.
- Location
- Germany
Even the Heavy Wind herself.
- Location
- The Old Dominion
You'd have to know that's why he can't be killed in the first place, vaguely where to look for a island in the ocean that appears and disappears and find the oak tree its buried under. Beyond that the nature of the magic is it can't be dealt with in one fell swoop, you have to deal with the chest, then the hare, then the duck before you can get the egg with the needle in it that you could kill or destroy Koschei.
- Location
- Germany
Would you try to tell that Karina?
- Location
- The Old Dominion
Well I would pity the one version of Koschei who had it set up that the needle had to be broken at his feet to kill him after she got gone dealing with the fetch quest from heck just to kill him...
More notably, it also wouldn't work in Overlady because, as it turns out, ducks and hares die if shut in airtight boxes. Also, ducks don't fit in hares, seriously, what the fuck was he smoking?
- Location
- Can't read map
With her answer on only already evil peoples would convince them selves it is ok to sacrifice one to kill that Dark god, instead just go and kill it as it is not that hard?
She will probably continuously attack Koschey until he gives up and breaks needle himself?
Magic in fairy tales = dream logic = premise made on drugs
Fairy magic =/= common logic
LoserThree
Finds writing poorly easy
- Location
- Greater Seattle Area
- Pronouns
- he/him
I keep telling myself this isn't worth pointing out but it's been days and it lingers at the forefront of my mind for what I'm sure are stupid reasons.
So 'bustle' has (at least) two meanings. One is to move busily which is clearly the meaning meant in the first use.
Another meaning of 'bustle' is padding worn at the hips to expand their width and thereby make the waist appear smaller. In this way it accentuates that anatomic contrast that already draws the eye of those inclined to admire the feminine figure. Readers passingly familiar with the term may be more likely to think specifically of the whalebone or steel spring contraptions that were worn behind the hips in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, giving the appearance of a backside that not only goes further to the sides, but also further to the back.
The text rarely, if ever, directly draws attention to Cattleya's backside (or hips) when describing her voluptuousness, instead focusing on her breasts, as it does in other portions of this installment. And a reader might think that's what's happening here. And maybe they're right. Perhaps the author means the second instance of 'bustle' to refer to the act of busily moving about and the 'bust' portion of the word is the pun. But ass-ogling is plenty common. Many have surely heard the cliché, "I hate to see you leave but I love to watch you go." So the reader could conclude that what's meant is that people are staring at her ass-padding, despite the fact that Cattleya's breasts and not her butt are not only more commonly but also more immediately represented in the text.
So the joke is unclear. And that's exceptional because the author's writing is usually so tight and technically refined. That is, this is an unusually sloppy pun.
(I didn't catch it myself, but the Chrome spell-checker threw a red line into the quoted text and suggests that there is only one 's' in 'focused.' So there's that for whatever it's worth.)
So 'bustle' has (at least) two meanings. One is to move busily which is clearly the meaning meant in the first use.
Another meaning of 'bustle' is padding worn at the hips to expand their width and thereby make the waist appear smaller. In this way it accentuates that anatomic contrast that already draws the eye of those inclined to admire the feminine figure. Readers passingly familiar with the term may be more likely to think specifically of the whalebone or steel spring contraptions that were worn behind the hips in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, giving the appearance of a backside that not only goes further to the sides, but also further to the back.
The text rarely, if ever, directly draws attention to Cattleya's backside (or hips) when describing her voluptuousness, instead focusing on her breasts, as it does in other portions of this installment. And a reader might think that's what's happening here. And maybe they're right. Perhaps the author means the second instance of 'bustle' to refer to the act of busily moving about and the 'bust' portion of the word is the pun. But ass-ogling is plenty common. Many have surely heard the cliché, "I hate to see you leave but I love to watch you go." So the reader could conclude that what's meant is that people are staring at her ass-padding, despite the fact that Cattleya's breasts and not her butt are not only more commonly but also more immediately represented in the text.
So the joke is unclear. And that's exceptional because the author's writing is usually so tight and technically refined. That is, this is an unusually sloppy pun.
(I didn't catch it myself, but the Chrome spell-checker threw a red line into the quoted text and suggests that there is only one 's' in 'focused.' So there's that for whatever it's worth.)
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Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
British spelling, I think.
Nitpick: he hid his death inside the needle, not soul.
While many versions involving Koschey have him killed or made mortal when you break the needle (sometimes under specific circumstances), there is one where the hero had to attach the needle to an arrow and strike Koschey (who was an eagle at the time) down with it. That actually neatly deals with all those "magic nukes" solutions since you actually need the damn needle.
That sort of magical BS just sounds like the sort of thing hero family types raise their kids on how to ID and exploit.
That's also the kind of BS that makes some sense, unlike the other versions of the legend. Those just sound like some half-baked new would be dark lord is trying to be "cute".
"Some" sense. It's still a lot of effort that sounds like it would, at most, annoy a dedicated opponent. I suppose Emperor Lee would have some comments on the effiacy of the needle's hiding place.
Shaithan
Re-class is happiest class
- Location
- The worst part of Germany
Ah, Kolschey the Deathless. I remember him as a rather zany antagonist in one or two Soviet fairy tale movies I watched as a kid. Though don't ask me which ones that were, been ages since I saw them.
"The needle's in an egg, the egg's in a duck, the duck's in an hare, the hare's in shock."