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This cool guy.
But friendship is magic. Why are you using magic and then attacking your new friend, Mr. faerie?
Because the Fairy’s friends are all dead on the ground. It’s for the sake of friendship that the child must die.
Logic.
Forget friendship. This magic gives you the money. I know who I’d be sending to the blue factory in return for that kind of power. It is offense, it is defense, and it also allows you to get gold at the end of a fight like an RPG battle.
Ya know, I’ve never heard of an arrow-to-money cantrip. But then again, a certain hero in a green cap was able to go the other way with it, so why not?
It was mentioned as part of the Yeld game ramp up.
Merchant magic.
A good merchant can turn anything to gold…
Are you not worried about inflation, guy?
They have an eggplant-based society.
Fairy Tax Collector? Awesome! Kinda glad my Scout guess was wrong.
Told you, he is the awesome one.
If Shin had left the other fairies alive and just shot all his arrows at the mage…
Fairy warriors: … *dive for the money, knocking the mage over*
Shin: *cuts them down while they’re on the ground*
And if they were back in North America, that spell would be completely useless. Even if the mage were able to get the spell off in time, a coin moving at the speed of a bullet would be just as deadly as a bullet itself.
Yes, but the aerodynamics of a speeding arrow and a handful of coins are different. The coins would very quickly slow down from air resistance.
Did you mean “a speeding bullet”? Anyway, as we have seen, the transformation takes place close to the target, so air resistance wouldn’t factor in much.
I meant a speeding arrow because that’s what we see happening right here. And a change in resistance can reduce speed quickly even over short distances, enough to reduce it to non-lethal levels. Same reason shooting at somebody underwater doesn’t work well.
Just look at what we see on this page. The arrow is going to be aimed at the only available target, the eye. After the transformation, the coins slow down enough that they don’t even hit Cloak Guy in the face, but the chest. They still hit him, and probably with significant force, but they wouldn’t even be lethal to a normal unarmored human let alone this guy.
But if it were a speeding bullet, as one is more likely to encounter in North America (as in the hypothetical scenario briefly outlined), a coin moving at the speed of a bullet would not not be slowed down much by a couple of metres of air, and would still be lethal.
There’s the money shot.
Imma just steal this spell and use it in pathfinder.
I’ve got this shilling feeling that this faerie is a rial threat with a yen to pound the shepherd into ruble. To be franc, if the faerie marks the shepherd, the magic krone will have hwan. Whether the shepherd can pick up his peso until the sheep finish their dinar will determine whether he livre dies.
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I’m so jealous of your punning skills I want to Pound you with a baht… (But I’m too tired at the moment. *yuan*)
Always beware of the guy who hangs in the back wearing the cloak!
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Wait, he missed!? How could he miss??
If I lived in a fantasy world I’d totally wear a cloak, no matter how likely it is to get stuck somewhere when you’re running and all that.
Cloak wearers are usually named characters and that increases their chance of survival immensely.
I’d aim for the cloak first. Don’t wanna take any chances! o_o
I’ve got a shilling cents that the faerie is a riel threat with a yen to pound the shepherd into ruble. To be franc, if the faerie lands a mark, then he has hwan this fight. Whether the shepherd can pick up his peso until the sheep finish their dinar will determine if he will livre die.
I’m always amazed by my reader’s capacity for puns.
A bunch of loonies, eh?
OMG
And a Canadian to deliver the final blow… awesome.
Spellcaster. I called it; cookie for me!
Tax Collector, actually. Which are cleric stand-ins themed around money because Yeld has no organized religion, just a few scattered cults.
Actually, this one isn’t a tax collector. He just knows some money magic (which is useful magic to know).
Ah, intriguing!
Oh. A mage that is also huge and tough.
If Mage: The Ascension has taught me anything, it’s that anyone can be magic. Sometimes that includes the tough looking fellas that you’d swear were just dumb muscle.
So lesson learned: always assume your opponents are sorcerers, and accord them due respect until they prove otherwise.
Due respect being, in this case, attacking with as much as you can throw at them as fast as possible.
Geez, the kids in Modests class that she is reading her ‘What I did on my Summer Vacation report’ to are going to have some messed up nightmares when they go to sleep “tonight”.
I forsee the end of this arc being Modest in the Principal’s office with Jake sitting next to her doing the Jean-Luc Picard ‘Double Facepalm’ as Modest is all “What? Teacher-lady said to just read what I wrote down.”
It may just sound to the kids like a cool fantasy novel or recount of a D&D evening. Only people actually died and their relatives would mourn them and stuff.
I get the impression that the Fairy wasn’t trying to hit.. uh.. what’s his name.. Shin.
Because Shin doesn’t seem to be moving in the last two panels. I bet they start talking next, now that the unnamed Fairy’s superiority has been established. 🙂
I want magic that turns stuff into money too! D: