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Parable - 60 - HD
🕑 Added 2020-01-24 23:26:34 +0000 UTC"It's just a little renounced! It's still good! It's still good!"
Commentary
This will, of course, take at least twelve comics.
I wasn't going to bother having Rhoda realize her own cutscene blunder, but then I realized I could get to paraphrase the movie Chinatown.
For the sake of this comic, I prefer the "we're going to need another monk" approach. If this were an actual video game, I would have the ritual not being performed in time be a consequence of doing this quest while in this state of only "technically" being evil. It wouldn't be a direct choice you make, but rather the effect your past choices had on another person's decisions, which I think is fair. If a story's going to emphasize morality, there should be room for unforeseen consequences.
In my "you're technically good and have done good things" ending to the quest, Rhoda would still grab the hammer, but renounce nothing, and perform the ritual afterword. Instead of Rhoda rejecting life in the temple, it would be others in the temple rejecting her, claiming her violent actions were not justified regardless of the circumstances.
Whatever higher power was at play, however, would seem to disagree, as the ritual would still succeed.
The tragedy of my hypothetical "technically evil" ending would be that the ritual definitely would have worked in spite of Rhoda's renouncement. She would choose not to do the ritual, thinking herself unworthy, even though it actually would have worked just fine.
AIN'T THAT A DOWNER? There's a reason I'm not doing that in the comic itself.
Comments
John Trauger
Rhoda's too cute to stay mad at though....
ZekeStaright
It's gone...
Dan Shive
Sorry, I misread.
Stephen Gilberg
What? I said it's not often YOU parody a pre-1980 movie.
Dan Shive
You clearly need to watch more early seasons of The Simpsons.
Stephen Gilberg
It's not often you parody a pre-1980 movie. Kudos.
Foradain
Apparently, Rhoda was Not That Kind of Monk. She was more like the Monks that Brother Cadfael hung out with, not the kind like Friar Tuck or Kwai Chang Caine. ^_^
Otter Annason
i'm not sure why she had to stop being a monk in order to fight, especially with a hammer--most games i've played that include Monk as a class have them as quite good fighters, whether with empty hands or with maces/hammers or staves, and they don't have to stop being monks.
coredumperror
lol oops
M.
That's a whole lot of abs for one comic. :)
Matt R
Oh boy
McZed
So after escorting the good Monk Justoutsidethecamera...
