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Who Is Ellen - 22 - HD
🕑 Added 2022-08-11 03:00:30 +0000 UTCChallenger Remorse.
Commentary
I considered writing "oh, they just didn't hear any part of that exchange. In which voices got raised. In a relatively empty comic shop."
Yeah, no, that was not a private conversation, BUT I felt it worked better if Nanase didn't hear it, so she there's the excuse for her missing it.
Missing
Fun fact: Given where Ellen is, there should be a computer monitor behind her. I actually did draw have it in the comic at first, but it clashed with Ellen's hair, so I decided to not include it.
Make no mistake, however. It IS still there. Justin needed it to sell the book to Ellen. We simply cannot perceive the monitor from our universe, for the conflict with Ellen's outline forced our many mind brains to filter it out.
Should we ever view the counter at a time at which it would not result in such a conflict, we may once again perceive it.
Comments
John Trauger
As Justin should be quick to point out omce he understands, GMing isn't about knowing the rules, it's about facilitating fun.
Some Ed
Would Rich want an impartial player to decide? The guys I've known who he seems most similar to wouldn't have even trusted an impartial player to decide this. It would be them deciding it and nobody else. That said, if he *doesn't* give her a week, then he demonstrates that he's the worse GM, because any competent GM knows that it takes time to prepare for a gaming session.
Dan Merget
I think Ellen and Rich BOTH have a motive for delaying this contest a week or two. Rich would want an impartial player(s) to decide who ran the better game, and Ellen's girlfriend is likely to be biased. So the best approach would be to wait until the shop hosts a pick-up game like D&D Adventurers League, and then they take turns DM'ing a table of players that neither knows. That would be a rational solution that gives Ellen time to read the rules, and gives Rich an impartial set of judges. Of course, rational thinking hasn't really dominated either of their actions today.
Some Ed
I feel like Nanase heard Rich, but completely missed the context. She's used to hearing Rich in the restroom, just like we're used to Patreon breaking new things with their interface. So she's probably thought less about it than I have on how one breaks line wrapping in this particular way. (It's just an off by one error, so that really means she's thought little of it. Um, wait, no it isn't, that's just the way it *happened* to appear in my initial text input window. But it's clearly worse than that. Oh well, they'll probably fix it before they get too ridiculed about it. Nanase still thought very little about Rich's outburst.)
Prof Sai
Nanase stepped outside to… um… look at a cool car that went by?
Thisguy
Please tell me Grace will be involved. I want Grace involved. Back during “Duel of the Discs” Tenseided invited Grace to join a new campaign, and we never saw the outcome. I need Grace to join and actually know how to play.
