High stakes
Is Kai getting overconfident?
No Jesse’s Adventure page today, since I haven’t been able to work on the script as well as I wanted lately. For those who don’t know yet, I was diagnosed with stomach ulcers. Don’t worry, I have the right meds now and I’m getting better. But because of the passed couple weeks being really bad, I have to resort to a filler again this week. It’s a good one, though. I’m sure you will like it. Enjoy ^^
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Famous last words from Kai?
Well, it’s a dream, so he has chance. Let’s hope it won’t turn in a sibling vs. sibling marathon like in NGNL.
I hope your stomach will get better soon.
Not only it’s dream … he also don’t have anything to return to. In normal situation, people will compare the risky adventure option with staying home option, but inside the dream, Kai has no home to stay in. And his chances to score with Cleo would be minimal if he returns to the village with her – oh wait, we already established this is not THAT kind of dream, no matter how far it stretches the suspension of disbelief.
I loved NGNL, but no, I didn’t take that scene as inspiration xD
Careful, Kai. You’re basically saying, “What could possibly go wrong?” And that’s NEVER a good idea!
And Jesse’s Adventure is very cute!
Exactly! That phrase is the Red/Death flag of plenty of Heroes.
He’s in dream. What is the worst which can happen to him?
He could “never wake up.” (Very unlikely, considering what type of comic this is.)
Not sure if this is really a thing that could happen from a fever dream, but I’ve had nightmares from my sleep apnea. I’ll be dreaming along just fine, and then suddenly things will start turning into horror movie style. I’ve always woken up, but I’ve sometimes wondered if it was possible that I could asphyxiate if I didn’t wake up.
But he’s dreaming, so he’s confident ^^
A goddess who’s a plush,
Kai agrees in a rush
I hope he won’t lose,
his ego he’ll bruise.
Don’t distract him now, shush!
Ego comes before a fall, good Kai,
and you’re duelling for them all.
Her skill may be more than she seems;
it’s only from her angle you’re tall.
The leader can lose all his troops
and still term a win ‘victory’.
Their hubris carries over all,
even if contradictory.
She’s on her way, strutting the path
across to her final game room.
Can Dragon Kai bring the rain back
or will his chances go ‘ka-boom’?
Are some sort of professional poet, I’ve been wanting to ask for a while.
Nah, just a lunatic amateur.
Lunatic? I thought you were just half-witted! 😉 Rather, the Idiot Savant of webcomic poetry. 🙂
For them that know not, on several other talkboards, the ‘handle’ is ‘Welsh Halfwit’
(Comes from the days when I could never get the name I wanted as someone else ALWAYS had it. Never had that trouble with Welsh Halfwit)
Is ‘idiot savant’ a fallout reference?
It’s not exclusive to fallout.
Here’s the definition:
a person who has a mental or learning disability but is extremely gifted in a particular way, such as the performing of feats of memory or calculation.
Some of my family actually think I’m one (specifically autistic) due to me being socially akward and having a bear perfect memory.
(In all honesty I think I just used the memory space for others use for people and use it as normal storage)
I wonder if it’s every video game he ever lost to Kaya since their Sibling Rivalry began.
My first thought when she said “game room” was a room full of classic arcade machines, like SkeeBall a Air Hockey. (Which incidentally is my idea of heaven.)
Guess we’ll find out next week!
Oh, that could take a while then xD
Kinda makes me wonder if Kaya is whispering into his ear and influencing the dream…
If he wakes up and buys Kaya a chocolate bar, then we’ll know. 😁
Now there’s an idea…
What if this became some weird, “Did it or did it not happen?” kind of thing? Goddess gives Kai a mysterious box to be opened -only- by his beloved sister…AFTER he wakes up.
When Kai does wake up he actually has the box. Kaya opens it to find the absolute best chocolate bar she’s ever eaten in her whole life!
Kaya’s still supposed to be at school, though xD
She will have to come home eventually! 🙂
Kaya is a trickster, though. She could have put a walkie-talkie next to Kai’s ear before she left. Some of those things have a 20+ mile range.
Kai sure seems confident.
He is, since it’s a dream :p
Scarabath lonely, just wants some company to stick around! Careful about being overconfident though Kai, it makes you overlook little things which might trip you up!
Dream-Kai is overconfident :p
Game room eh? Wonder if Robin will take this chance to do his own dream version of something recent like Fall Guys or other popular multiplayers.
I got Gamer Dragons for that, though :p
Aw , stomach ulcers ; that’s why you haven’t responded to the two last pages . When my stomach burns , i drink coca without gas ; but i have no idea if it works against an ulcer ? I so hope it will heal very soon *hugs*
Wait ! What ? All stay here forever : this means Kaya won’t have more guardians for the stairs ………. Don’t be so confident , Kai : you don’t know yet what is the game
Yeah, indeed. The ulcers were making my live pretty bad. Luckily I managed to keep up with the weekly page schedule. I’m better now, thanks to the meds, but it takes two months to fully recover so I’m still taking it easy.
And Kaya will just place the guards at the door xD
Also if this takes place in ancient times why do Benji & Rex have such modern clothes??
Dream logic.
Because Kai dreamed them that way ^^
because you have to risk staying somewhere forever jest to make it rain
Risk Of Rain?
High risk, high reward xD
They didn’t agree to just one game though. Both outcomes can be achieved with multiple games played.
That’s true, but she did ask for ‘a’ game, so it’s kinda implied :p
You know when a god/goddess has a game room, he/she is surely cool 😁
Were there any doubts when it’s Kaya? xD
I shall doom thee all!! Unless you win in a children’s card game! *pulls out a yu-gi-oh deck and summons 3 blue eyes white dragons in one turn*
Master rule 4, right?
I have two yellow eyes green dragons to counter your dragons xD
The Dragon of the prophecy. And he has red hair, and his opponent messes with the weather.
I hope this mountain isn’t called Shayol Ghul.
Haha, no, it’s not called that xD
they BETTER play Timesplitters!
I’m not sure if they have electricity up there xD
Pretty sure from Gamer Dragons that both of the twins are about evenly matched. Let’s hope that Kai’s confidence doesn’t become his undoing. Sure it’s a dream and there’s no real-world consequences, but we all know we want to see how the rest of this chapter plays out. I do wonder if Robin has some kind or surprise or twist planned at the end that ends up being what startles Kai awake, but in that regard only time will tell. The story is flowing just as smoothly as ever, and I eagerly await next week’s page. You always manage to pack so much story into so few panels. Keep up the great work Robin. I hope your recovery has been going well. As always, stay awesome!
Thanks for the kind words once again, Alpha ^^
Yeah, the twins are pretty close in gaming skill, but this is a different situation of course ^^
Recently been replaying Pokémon Generation IV, and #DamnYouMuscleMemory is in full effect. I keep assuming that certain Pokémon are Fairy-types and trying to use Dark- and Ghost-type moves on Steel-type Pokémon. And that’s not even getting into the fact that anything involving Rental Pokémon is a massive #DifficultySpike. If Scarabath wants to make her challenge unwinnable for Kai, she doesn’t need to get up to any deific trickery; fire up a copy of Pokémon Battle Revolution and make him use Natalie’s Rental Pass against a Custom Pass full of Hoennian Pokémon.
But the challenge should be winnable to show of her gaming prowess :p
…Then she’ll just use another Rental Pass, but she hasn’t been to Kalos so she’s more familiar with the old type matchups than Kai is.
Everyone seems to be forgetting the real world in all this, and quasi-friends recently met. While Kai seems to be in better health in the dream, it’s possible his climbing the stairs shows a fever in the real world, especially since it wore him out. Fevers are probably not a good sign in a dragon, so it would not surprise me if he’s back in the hospital.
Neither of the challenges have much relation to things the Twins are interested in to my knowledge beyond Kai knowing the pattern for the Cube. Scarabath “seems” like his sister, but only kind of acts like her, and the temple looks heavily Japanese-inspired. Plus, the dream is made up of things from memory. I suspect someone – in particular – is probing his thoughts and testing Kai.
Don’t worry, Kai won’t end up in the hospital again with just his dragon-flu ^^
Suddenly Kaya gets the Jigsaw voice…
“Hello. I want to play a game.”
How come you didn’t reply to any of the last comic’s comments?
They had stomach ulcers, read up a bit and there’s a comment about it. Hope this clears things up!