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| Triangle and Robert #1783 | It's a complicated story. A universe made from butterscotch pudding and staffed by incompetent gods... an unending cycle of civilization after civilization, each thriving for an allotted time then swiftly falling as the next swiftly arises.... / Right now, two members of the Seventh Race, an equilateral... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1783 |
| Triangle and Robert #1784 | First you don't want to hit the fence, then you ask the Cartoonist to put it back? Make up your mind, Triangle!
/ Oh, it's made up. OH BLEEP FENCE! / THWUMF
/ Hey! / You two! This is the immigration police! Lie flat on the ground and don't move!
/ I think they're ahead of us on that one. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1784 |
| Triangle and Robert #1785 | Do these guys look familiar to you?
/ They're Triangle and Robert. You know, the comic? / Why were they trying to get marbles past us?
/ I wouldn't be surprised if they're the same marbles from those antiquities museum robberies.
/ You watch too much news. / Do you think they're dead?
/ Actually... if... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1785 |
| Triangle and Robert #1786: The Beforings | The Pudding-Watcher has cast his lot in with the Seventh Race.
/ He is ours. His choices are of no relevance. / The same could once be said of the Chosen One, yet he has changed much.
/ Trivialities. / I am in disagreement. With the Watcher, the Seventh Race threatens to spread outward.
/ What we will,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1786 |
| Triangle and Robert #1787 | Yay! Consciousne... All that trouble and we didn't even get thrown in a Mexican jail? Where is the squalor? / We could have woken up in a jail like this without leaving home! I feel ripped off! WARDEN! / On the plus side, at least we got the sort of medical attention I'd expect from an understaffed... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1787 |
| Triangle and Robert #1788 | You're awake.
/ I am. He isn't. / Before we question you officially, there were a couple things i was wondering about for myself.
/ Ah, the "real interrogation isn't starting yet" technique. / No, not about the marbles... about the Cartoonist. And the Beforings.
/ Can I get a corrupt Mexican lawyer first?
/ What?... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1788 |
| Triangle and Robert #1799 | Still no word from the Sentries.
/ Odd for you to care. / I've been craving Chinese food, and Mr. Disease's stand-in chef just isn't the same.
/ Ah, trivial self-interest. / Plots have been founded on less.
/ The Sentries are fine, Robert. If they needed help I'm sure I would know. I'll see about buying... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?1799 |
| Triangle and Robert #2019 | Explain yourself, Meat Sentry of the Seventh Race of Earth.
/ I have nothing to explain to you! / For your own safety, do not attempt to harm me.
/ Nice try! / [[The Meat Sentry dissolves]]
/ Huh? http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2019 |
| Triangle and Robert #2020 | You were instantly turned to a pile of ash and retained consciousness?
/ Apparently. / That's very mythic.
/ Or imaginary. Something happened to me, but it might not be what I remember. / You keep bringing that point up. Either you don't want to believe it happened or there's a contradiction in the story... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2020 |
| Triangle and Robert #2021 | Let's operate under the assumption that your memories of these events were accurate.
/ They're still imprecise. / I don't think time as we know it applied. A hundred years, a day, I don't know how long I spent as a pile of ash. / I think the meta-god of lightning gods was waiting for me to try to say... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2021 |
| Triangle and Robert #2022 | You have doomed your world, Sentry. Lightning gods do not exist solely to provide an anthropomorphic explanation for a natural phenomenon. / The horror started then. The lack of artwork in this flashback is sparing you. The meta-god took advantage of my semi-deadness to... to talk about the weather. / ALL... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2022 |
| Triangle and Robert #2023 | Without lightning gods to regulate it, electrical activity in the atmosphere tends to build indefinitely. / It's to do with polygon physics being less stable than the physics of previous races. Every time history restarts the rules change a little and the rules we got were convoluted and broken. / Deities... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2023 |
| Triangle and Robert #2024 | With the majority of your planet's lightning gods dead and the rest incapacitated, all that you knew and loved will be consumed. / Even if it was true there was no reason to be so smug about it.
/ I can only intervene in the affairs of gods, not of worlds. No one can save your Earth. / I overpowered... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2024 |
| Triangle and Robert #2025 | If anyone has enough power to stop the impending climatic disaster, it's me. / That wasn't very good reasoning. Your power is mostly limited to destroying things.
/ It's a magical story. What magic does, magic can undo.
/ Since when? / It's mythic, Triangle.
/ I don't even know what "mythic" is supposed... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2025 |
| Triangle and Robert #2026 | The gods must be revived. Scatter my ashes to them.
/ Finally you show some semblance of nobility, Meat Sentry of the Seventh Race. / [[ashes disperse]] / Can we go to panels of just text now?
/ You're asking?
/ Well, if you need something in particular drawn, I really should draw it for this part. This... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2026 |
| Triangle and Robert #2027 | I'm infusing the gods with all my power and it isn't enough!
/ That is not all your power. / What else is there? All my command of the world's meats. All my strength and speed. All my detective skills, not that they amount to much.
/ All that is but a fraction. / I guess it's to save the world and I... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2027 |
| Triangle and Robert #2028 | My life isn't enough to sacrifice? What do I "truly value"?
/ What you never let go of, even when you lost your identity. The fire at the heart of all your might. / My... my anger. But I LIKE my anger! / Did you go through with it?
/ Yes. I gave up my anger to resurrect the gods I had slain.
/ I guess... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2028 |
| Triangle and Robert #2029 | Miss? Wake up. Wake up!
/ This is the library.
/ Yes. / It was a dream?
/ What was a dream? You just appeared in a flash of lightning and fell over. You scorched a magazine rack. / Oh. That's... nicely unambiguous.
/ Is the animal tethered outside yours?
/ Probably. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2029 |
| Triangle and Robert #2030 | The steed was a gift signifying that I was now a Valkyrie.
/ What exactly does that mean? / It means she takes thirty percent less damage than a wizard.
/ No one is going to get that joke. / White rhombus shot the funny!
/ That helps.
/ I never use armor anyway. http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2030 |
| Triangle and Robert #2031 | The steed's the biggest perk of being a Valkyrie. It can find its way to any battlefield, no matter how small or hidden. / It can also travel through the Zone of No Pudding, but I'm not supposed to do that except on duty.
/ So what is your duty? / Whenever a sufficiently brave warrior dies in battle,... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2031 |
| Triangle and Robert #2032 | I can also command weather a little as a Valkyrie, but my magic as the Meat Sentry is stronger. / Even without your anger to drive it?
/ I think anger grows back. / I guess that's it for your side story. It made more sense than I expected. What are you going to do now?
/ Hope my Tivo didn't run out of... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2032 |
| Triangle and Robert #2033 | So where were we?
/ You wanted to get rid of your cuisine-magical powers. / So Linda's story is supposed to teach me a lesson.
/ I wouldn't assume that. It could just be counterpoint. / It could also be a story I had saved up independently and inserted as a way of buying myself time to think about the... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2033 |
| Triangle and Robert #2034 | Within the cramped quarters of a submarine somewhere deep in the Aysmptotic Ocean:
/ Oh, no. "Somewhere"? / Commander! I think the Cartoonist just confirmed that we're nowhere near Tetris! / Where's the com... I'm the Commander. I'm the Commander, and I should not have ordered halved oxygen rations.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2034 |
| Triangle and Robert #2035 | Commander, now that we know that we don't know where we are, I recommend that we surface.
/ Make it so. / All hands prepare to surface!
/ Hands?
/ Never mind that. Do you have any theories about how we got off-course? / Either our instrumentation or geography is broken. Instrumentation failure seems more... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2035 |
| Triangle and Robert #2036 | We've surfaced. At least we're on Earth.
/ Was that in question?
/ Everything is in question. / You haven't been on too many missions, have you?
/ This is my first hazardous one. I've mostly done undersea salvage. / I've been with the RDCLBA since the Pentagon days, though. You can rely on me as a sub... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2036 |
| Triangle and Robert #2037 | I've checked everything over, as much as possible outside of dry dock. I still have no idea where we are. Our navigation system has definitely been sabotaged. / It's fixable, but without a known position to calibrate from it's useless.
/ What do you see as our options? / Wait for night, get latitude... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2037 |
| Triangle and Robert #2038 | If the Cartoonist hadn't gotten involved, your boring plan would be the correct one.
/ What would happen now? / The Cartoonist writes conflicts. Sometimes they're quiet internal ones, but usually there's chasing or violence. If we don't leave room for conflict to develop naturally, the Cartoonist will... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2038 |
| Triangle and Robert #2039 | Mutiny?
/ The mission is doomed. You nearly asphyxiated us with your "half oxygen rations". / We have no idea where we are. You are blatantly unfit for command. So, yes. We're staging a mutiny.
/ Sounds good. Can I join? / I guess you could throw yourself overboard, if you really want to pitch in.
/ That... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2039 |
| Triangle and Robert #2040 | You joined a mutiny against yourself and threw yourself overboard.
/ Glub. / That's an interesting way to take the plotline by the horns. Are you really that afraid of my writing?
/ Glub! / I don't believe our prior agreement requires me to save you from the consequences of your own suicidal actions.... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2040 |
| Triangle and Robert #2041 | On the other hand, there are ways it could be argued that I AM killing you. / Triangle was once worried that a suicide by Orpuddex would count as a killing by Triangle for magical purposes, and your jumping overboard was a reaction to me in much the same way Orpuddex's space launch was a reaction to... http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?2041 |
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