Intermission 8 Page 28
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“All of you have figured out by now that I used to be with the Guard.”
“I think you, at least, know that I didn’t retire on good terms.”
“A lot of the Guard we’ve met have recognized me. They haven’t reacted well, you’ll recall.”
“Yeah. I thought it was weird how mad they all were. I thought maybe you were an officer or something that they all knew.”
“I WAS an officer at one time, yes.”
“But by the time I… left…”
“I had been an Imperial Champion for almost three years.”
“Imperial CHAMPION?”
“THAT’S what “Fallen Champion” means on your character sheet?!”
“…You can see my character sheet?”
“There are only five Champions in the whole world!”
“They’re second in authority to the EMPEROR!”
“Only on military and law enforcement matters. And there’s only four now, obviously.”
“And they had you in JAIL? Waiting for EXECUTION??”
“And nobody had HEARD ABOUT IT?!!”
“Maybe I’m not doing this right.”
“I should start at the beginning.”
I can’t help but see the light blue visor markings as a HUGE GRIN, instead.
Also, did you see the look on Ricki’s face? She’s absolutely flabberghasted (possibly horrified, too, not sure on that, though) and even more adorable!
I can’t wait for the moment when Lara hears that.
Just imagine, all the time she’s fooling around with the missing 5th imperial champion.
I can’t even guess, will she be furious he was one (and i.e. exterminated the arachnomancers and all), or will she be thrilled he’s fallen (and she has a boss-level character on, kinda, her side).
It was very strongly hinted at back in the “more than 2 rings” conversation, though IDR if Lara was around at the time.
I’m expecting that the conversation about the rings will be revisited in the comic at some point, and then we’ll see Kamau adding “Yes, I could wear three… on each hand”.
“…You can see my character sheet?”
Makes me wonder if Kamau can see his own character sheet
I think he can, just like we can read ours. I think he in that instant thought that Ricky with her eyes could see the whole “character sheet”, background, etc included. But a moment later he realized that of course she can’t see it whole, otherwise she wouldn’t need to ask anything.
What is this mysticism you speak
As much as some fanfic writers think otherwise, background story isn’t part of your character sheet. If it doesn’t come up in game, it didn’t happen.
Well, all the guards heard about it.
Interesting that he was held in such a small jail, as evidenced by how easily he broke us out. They were relying quite a bit on Kamau staying willingly. Maybe part of the security was relying on Dungeon magic to keep locks unbreakable.
Kamau with 2 Arms!? It HAS to be serious now!
Oh balls, I knew Kamui was infamous but NOT that infamous. Thank god Lara doesn’t know that.. lovely bit. <.<
It doesn’t bother me that character sheets exist in-universe…what bothers me is that they’re called CHARACTER SHEET, what could inspire to call them that? Ohh well, for clarity’s sake.
“In the beginning there was Gygax.”
“You don’t have to start THAT early.”