As an old Ravenloft player, I can tell you that different vampires require stakes of different materials to dispatch (elvish vampires need greenwood with sap still in it, dwarvish ones need a stalagmite). So a steel paperclip is perfectly in keeping with a Tamagotchi electrical vamp.
He’s only been up and walking around in this body a short time—not enough to accumulate a supply stash. And if he had one inside his helicopter body, it’s no longer available to him.
(At my post office job, I was the only one who would regularly raid the supply cabinet for essentials. Wonder what they did after I retired?)
Nick needs carbs, and, dammit, a suit of flying armor.
I note that Dr. Lee is conspicuously absent from Nick’s fan club. Could she be working on an “unfair advantage”?
Oh! Maybe she and Tigerlily are the unfair advantage, able to gin up all sorts of deadly science toys at the drop of a hardened helm with heads-up display.
Off-the-cuff prediction that will probably be completely wrong: Aimee will steal Nick’s body, leaving him trapped in cyberspace and his friends none the wiser.
Awgie….being somewhat humanoid and embodied, I DON’T LIKE vampires. A stick, a stake, silver, flash exposure to a genius portrayal of Christ on the STAKE….many
tricks have been developed, and like humans frantic to ‘get rid’ of overweening
political arrogance, the bloodsucking bullies will be destroyed. ASAP.
“Hundreds of years of memories….” of humans gibbering and begging uselessly in fear? I don’t NEED that, or its horrible and cowardly sneaking parasitic predacious
carriers, nor can I accept allowing such to live.
Some beaten-down folks have spoken politely and sometimes even enthusiastically
in favor of such enemies of humanity. Domestic farm animals may also have nice things to say about friendly farmers, even as the ‘kill-crew’ wipe blood from their hands from another butchering.
Everybody is entitled to fantasies, especially those which prepare them for removal from the herd.
What’s with all this fuss against the undead, is it just because they can feed off of humans? Big deal, so can humanoids and a whole bunch of animals. This whole thing reeks of creature-typism.
Just because some vampires are jerk doesn’t mean we can categorize them all as “bloodsucking bullies”
I was merely comparing the “brutality” of wiping out 20 years of memories with wiping out hundreds of years. I never implied that such brutality is unjustified, or that I think that such creatures have a right to live, simply because they are only following their nature.
Did he just delete its BRAIN!? Like, did he just do the robot equivalent of taking a grown-ass adult human and revert them to a drooling newborn baby? Just take the battery out or something. That, at least, can be undone!
Also if he’s allowed to win with a paperclip, I see no reason Hitty and Mustachio can’t use Annex One, no matter how they are or aren’t integrated into its superstructure.
Actually, it isn’t just vampires that are compelled to count things.
Witches, ghosts, gnomes, and leprechauns must count little things like holes in screens or grains of salt spilled in the floor (that second one was used in “Supernatural”).
Why didn’t he just kick her out of the ring? He went from pacifist to intentionally-lethal attack really quickly against a foe he could have easily defeated otherwise.
A modern wooden stake
Or silver bullet.
Split the difference,a silver(ish) paperclip!
In French, paper clips are called “trombones,” a fact of no relevance whatsoever but has always amused me.
A vorpal blade.
That goes snicker snack!
As an old Ravenloft player, I can tell you that different vampires require stakes of different materials to dispatch (elvish vampires need greenwood with sap still in it, dwarvish ones need a stalagmite). So a steel paperclip is perfectly in keeping with a Tamagotchi electrical vamp.
And thus the cycle restarts (if Nick fails).
Wow. Sweetheart actually released a paperclip into Nick’s custody. She’s really loosening up these days.
If she released it. A hacker type such as Nick will automatically accumulate necessary supplies without too much concern for “ownership.”
He’s only been up and walking around in this body a short time—not enough to accumulate a supply stash. And if he had one inside his helicopter body, it’s no longer available to him.
(At my post office job, I was the only one who would regularly raid the supply cabinet for essentials. Wonder what they did after I retired?)
His pit crew might well have supplied him with a paperclip as well as the popcorn: they would be quite familiar with that bit of lore.
Don’t you need a *wooden* bent paperclip, for vampires?
For _mechanical_ vampires?
For organic vampires yes, but for technological ones use metal.
Vegetable vampires are particularly difficult, since it’s not easy to drive a steak into them.
The “T” from a t-bone steak.
Freeze it first.
You can use anything as a stake if you freeze it hard enough. So go ahead and stake with your steak stake!
See my comment above.
Who is Nick quoting in the last panel?
Bram Stoker, of course! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dracula.djvu/254
Nick needs carbs, and, dammit, a suit of flying armor.
I note that Dr. Lee is conspicuously absent from Nick’s fan club. Could she be working on an “unfair advantage”?
Oh! Maybe she and Tigerlily are the unfair advantage, able to gin up all sorts of deadly science toys at the drop of a hardened helm with heads-up display.
I’m thinking his “unfair advantage” is his friends.
Off-the-cuff prediction that will probably be completely wrong: Aimee will steal Nick’s body, leaving him trapped in cyberspace and his friends none the wiser.
Equally off-the-wall theory: Aimee and Baron Mistycorn have or will swap bodies, letting her into the real world and leaving him in VR.
Brutal. There were about 20 years worth of personality files erased with that
Not nearly as brutal as killing a traditional vampire. There can be hundreds of years of memories obliterated.
I wonder if the reset unstuck its feed button and freed it from the need to feed? A win-win situation, yes?
Awgie….being somewhat humanoid and embodied, I DON’T LIKE vampires. A stick, a stake, silver, flash exposure to a genius portrayal of Christ on the STAKE….many
tricks have been developed, and like humans frantic to ‘get rid’ of overweening
political arrogance, the bloodsucking bullies will be destroyed. ASAP.
“Hundreds of years of memories….” of humans gibbering and begging uselessly in fear? I don’t NEED that, or its horrible and cowardly sneaking parasitic predacious
carriers, nor can I accept allowing such to live.
Some beaten-down folks have spoken politely and sometimes even enthusiastically
in favor of such enemies of humanity. Domestic farm animals may also have nice things to say about friendly farmers, even as the ‘kill-crew’ wipe blood from their hands from another butchering.
Everybody is entitled to fantasies, especially those which prepare them for removal from the herd.
So what you’re saying is…vampires suck.
Jokes like that are a real pain in the neck.
A spear, a spike,
A point, a nail,
A drip, a drop,
The end of the tale.
What’s with all this fuss against the undead, is it just because they can feed off of humans? Big deal, so can humanoids and a whole bunch of animals. This whole thing reeks of creature-typism.
Just because some vampires are jerk doesn’t mean we can categorize them all as “bloodsucking bullies”
I was merely comparing the “brutality” of wiping out 20 years of memories with wiping out hundreds of years. I never implied that such brutality is unjustified, or that I think that such creatures have a right to live, simply because they are only following their nature.
You heard him!
GET THE MAN CARBS!
Would some of that thirty-some-year-old popcorn qualify?
That stuff barely qualifies as food when its brand new.
Wait.
Factory reset!?
Did he just delete its BRAIN!? Like, did he just do the robot equivalent of taking a grown-ass adult human and revert them to a drooling newborn baby? Just take the battery out or something. That, at least, can be undone!
Also if he’s allowed to win with a paperclip, I see no reason Hitty and Mustachio can’t use Annex One, no matter how they are or aren’t integrated into its superstructure.
…Love Nick’s heroic pose in Frame #2.
“I need carbs.” Boy, I can relate to that.
“Kernels.”
Wow. How did I miss that?!
If she’s thwarted by KERNALS, Cammy’s got an old Commodore 8-bit ROM-resident OS core.
Oddly enough, the original Commodore computer to have that system was in fact called the “PET”.
No one mentioned a kernel panic?
…maybe the Eunuchs will…
Camazotz does seem to be dumping core . . . or something . . . in that third panel.
Is it just me, or does Nick seem a little . . . nonplussed at having to reset Cammie to win the contest?
I think getting his own life force sucked out of him twice helped to steel his resolve, even though it weakened every other part of him.
Actually, it isn’t just vampires that are compelled to count things.
Witches, ghosts, gnomes, and leprechauns must count little things like holes in screens or grains of salt spilled in the floor (that second one was used in “Supernatural”).
Why didn’t he just kick her out of the ring? He went from pacifist to intentionally-lethal attack really quickly against a foe he could have easily defeated otherwise.