A Lack of Focus
Chapter: Season Ten
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… I mean yeah… If creatures I created for fun we’re kicking my friends was I would need a moment too.
It’s not quite on the level of realizing you just manufactured a Stay-Puft kaiju that’s wrecking a city, but it’s in the same territory.
I can see why he needed a mentor to ease him into this, but… Larry? We may see more blood and broken bones before the tide turns.
(Also, panel 2 is an amazing continuation to Sam’s shock and opening eyes in the previous comic!)
Turns out having a real-time galaxy-brain moment is a lot harder on the ol’ nervous system than we’ve been giving it credit for.
Yeah, I think we can all agree that Larry did an absolutely terrible job at getting him ready.
FATALITY
Samuel Tigh Of sector 2814 you have shown the ability to dream deeply welcome to the silver lantern corps (don’t google it not part of DC cannon just a dumb idea i had for a corps that could inspire the others makign their constructs stronger)
Isn’t that what the blue lanterns do for green?
It’s time to D-D-D-D-D-DISSOCIATE
the doctor was right, books ARE weapons.
Man. Jake from State Farm is going to have a field day with this insurance claim.
Really? Sounds more like Farmer’s Insurances wheelhouse.
“Store attacked by ravaging Ogre-kin that feed off of magic? Got you covered. At least it wasn’t rampaging twenty-some…”
Really, Talbot!? He was told, way back when, that he *didn’t* have it anymore. That he wouldn’t be trained in using it after all. How, exactly, do you expect him to just “focus” upon learning what he just did?
(If I’ve forgotten some crucial event that makes my comment wrong/unfair/flawed: 1) Please tell me. 2) Ooops. )
You didn’t miss anything. Talbot is just… uninformed.
I just want to say that at the d20Monkey panel at GenCon 2014 I asked if we would see the Narrative again, and you said no, it was basically phased out of the storyline. And I’m just really happy that you tricked me/changed your mind/were playing the extremely long con the whole time.
I rolled a Nat 20 on that check (and many since).
Ok, here’s what *I think* we know about the Narrative. Forgive me, lots of links here but I think I have the major plot points of the Narrative, Larry, Sam, and Clive’s patron.
Lee first shows up here https://d20monkey.com/comic/a-burning-need/ going with Sam to the mall to watch over Brett. at this point, it seems the two are close. Lee is there for the first fight between Brett and Klaus.
First appearance of Larry is here… https://d20monkey.com/comic/riddle-me-this/ and it leads right into his first trial. Get Pops to hand over the Dragon’s Den. It’s during this that we see that Lee worked at the Dragon’s Den and messed up badly. https://d20monkey.com/comic/son-employment/ Sam talks with Dallas Noble, gets her to come do a signing and finishes his quest, leveling up. https://d20monkey.com/comic/destitude/
The next page describes the Narrative for the first time https://d20monkey.com/comic/the-narrative/
That’s where it was described as “box text without limits” and um, Sam uses it… um… uniquely. He’s told will level up twice more as he completes the remaining two trials.
He had his second trial with Mel and Grey here https://d20monkey.com/comic/the-signing-conclusion/ Larry said he passed but there’s no glow this time.
Then we get to Christmas and the fight with Klaus (the 2nd one). Here he tries to use the Narrative and fails. https://d20monkey.com/comic/word-play/
Here’s the confrontation with Grey. https://d20monkey.com/comic/date-night-part-five/ And like box text, he’s describing the action rather than trying to be the action. And he glowed. Go forward a couple pages and he’s describing what it’s like to wield the Narrative. Third trial maybe? Or was the second one just Larry trying to make Sam feel better?
Stepping forward to this https://d20monkey.com/comic/the-talk/ the next set of pages are about the IGS game until the end where you get what Larry was telling Sam… https://d20monkey.com/comic/until-death-part-nine/ And then the rest of the conversation is here https://d20monkey.com/comic/parting-words/ where Larry tells Sam that they’ve failed and Larry has to go. He finishes with “You can have the Narrative, Sam. Or you can be the Narrative. I’m Out.”
Later that year during Brett’s Christmas arc, Jeanie comes to Sam asking him to wield the Narrative and he says he doesn’t have it any more. https://d20monkey.com/comic/a-request/
At the end of season five, Dove got recruited. https://d20monkey.com/comic/dungeon-run-doot-doot/
In season six Sam stepped away from GM’ing. https://d20monkey.com/comic/dropping-a-bomb/ He handed Karthun off to Jeanie and just a couple pages later Clive met his new patron. He goes on to kill the Easter Bunny and then Clive says he’ll break them, all of them. https://d20monkey.com/comic/christmas-2015-epilogue-finale/
Lee shows up again in season eight with the revamped Game Haus, working with Dove. https://d20monkey.com/comic/the-destroyer-revealed/ In the comments, Brian confirmed that it was Lee in the limo with Dove in season five. Brian also said he’d show how Lee got piles of money in time.
Larry finally showed back up at the beginning of season 10. https://d20monkey.com/comic/season-ten-begins/
And now we’re here.
This person is ON IT.
There’s also a tag just for The Narrative… Though I don’t think I have everything on it yet: https://d20monkey.com/tag/the-narrative/
I’ve got some ideas about how some of this might come together, but I didn’t want to inject much opinion into that post, just connect the main story points that lead to where we are.
Wow Adam! You’ve done your homework…Can you write my thesis? You had your redbull this morning!
I would love to hear Tim Curry monologue this right before the Feds show up and Mr. Green goes home to sleep with his wife.
Bravo, Adam. This put a big smile on my face.
Thank you! I think I’ve reread the comic from beginning to end twice during this plotline. I’m sure I’ll love what you do with IGS but I’m going to miss this.
Yaaaassss!!!
Thank you!
So…if I’m reading these all correctly…then,this whole time, because of the way Larry left…it was just an assumption on Sam’s part, then. The Narrative was never gone.
Given recent revelations, that “You can have the Narrative or you can be the Narrative” line that read like just a normal pep talk, you can tell the story or you can live your life, might of been more literal, you can wield a piece of the narrative, or you can be the embodiment of the narrative.
good collecting of plot points by the way Adam 😀
We just met this guy and he’s already dead? If he’s not, wizards must have necks of steel.
Hopefully the Narrative can alter reality to the point where it can bring people back to life.
Well… his apprentice just happened to be given a book of spells. Who knows what spells are in there? The guy with the Narrative might. Time Rewind, anyone?
Not necessarily. The shelves might have been filled with ‘light novels’…
*watches tumbleweed blow past in the silence…*
I’ll see myself out… 🙂
*rim shot*
he’s only mostly dead
Jeebus! At first glance I thought Talbot just got decapitated!
I thought that too when I first looked at the panel! Like, OMG! that thing used a bookshelf to decap him!” Then I took a second look and nah, he just got undercut with the bookshelf. Hope Talbot still lives!
SO that’s how you get rid of bad/failed version of RPG materials
you through the Whole lot at a mage.
(kidding)
I will treasure my Dangerous Journey’s books until I can pass them on. I haven’t found the right niece/nephew to pass them on too but I will, they need to grow and see which one is worthy.
Bookshelves give a +20 to pain