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Now it's Dude's turn to be unhappy.

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If the Dude of all people wants to annihilate someone then he must feel like he’s really out of options because he usually runs away screaming (which I imagine to be really high-pitched and girly), or maybe he’s just falling out of character due to the shock he received recently.

Also Bandit must be really really confident in his ability to survive the current situation, unless he’s instead planning to accept that he’ll likely sacrifice his in-game character in exchange for important political information. I guess it all depends on what’s actually at stake here besides losing video game characters and giving Sandra an opportunity to put more of her own in.

I think it’s less that Bandit is willing to sacrifice, and more the super confidence. He’s being protected by the world’s most aggressive pacifist so long as Kat just happens to be nearby…

Weeeeeeell something tells me that Kat would be pretty much the last person on earth willing to protect him, regardless of whether the A.I. is playing or if she comes back.

Something to do with literally all of their previous interactions so far. 😉

She loses her pacifist playstyle (forgot what it was called) if others die nearby, as long as he is in that radius, she has to protect him or give up the attempt at doing that playstyle… or at least get a setback.

I mean. That’s a valid question ^.^

(and also yay update and also hoping your new married life is treating you well and stuff)

Isn’t The Dude always unhappy about something?

Danni, it’s all up to you! Take all the esones and protect The Dude!

So much of this scenario feels like it’s a work for ratings set up by their handlers for The Game.

Such a twisted web…. :O

I would also like to know what Jane is up to

If Esone’s have alignments and if it’s a problem that the Esones are all Kesti-based, then does that mean that each cave has a secret room? And which Esones does Jane have then? She was behind everyone and they were in the red Mani cave, so this implies Mani-based Esones. I’m rooting for her to gain spooky abilities akin to the actual creepypasta Bloody Mary then. 🙂

This seems very likely to me. If they want to journey down each of the tunnels, they can probably each end up fully equipped with esones.

And I expect Jane’s been collecting esones from everyone she’s killed, including the party they encountered on the first island.

I’d say it’s an even bet that Jane takes out (or has already taken out) Snowman’s team, both because they failed in their task, and because she’s Jane.

I don’t think Jane wants to kill Kat, since she thinks Kat will help her, even if not for the reasons Jane would like. And so she won’t kill Danni either, since that will make Kat not want to help. And she probably won’t kill Bandit or The Dude, since those deaths will not make Erbana Kat happy. Jane would have preferred those two to be killed by Snowman et. al. because that way her hands are clean.

Really looking forward to seeing how this all plays out!

Oh, that’s right, she had an encounter with Aza’s team. Too bad we didn’t see the result, but given that she’s alive it’s unlikely they survived (but they might’ve respawned at a safe distance or something).

But can you really take Esones from other players?

I suspect it’s more that Esones taken from other players either have their inherit.

They either show up as the other alignment, and you take the alignment penalty to get them yourself, or they take on the alignment that you did to acquire them.

That, or you get to effectively “taint” them with your own alignment by doing your new alignment stuff. Hence why Kleya went to these to give to Danni who indicated she wanted to be Kesti – she gets them, effectively takes on Kesti alignment, and then gets to choose if she *stays* Kesti or Morto by her following actions.

Btw. I just accidentally came across page 299 because I looked up alignment colors. I never understood why the Dude was playing chess all of a sudden. Looks like getting a “pathetic” 57% was enough to trigger him at least a little bit. I always assumed that he knew the Game enough to get a higher score easily but failed on purpose because being a goofball is his entire personality.

https://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-299/

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I feel like it’s less that he “Failed on purpose” as more that he failed to get higher because he was rustier with the game.

He always played the game using the money methods (Surviving the game without money is not how he remembers playing the game), which sort of implies that he had played the game, but hasn’t done it much since it became a sort of exclusive game for only popular teams.

Hence why he has the one Special that is popular in his Trials, but “Requires excessive violence”.

“Dude’s turn”? Hasn’t he, like… been unhappy this whole conversation?

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 828