LCD Night Ranger

Discussion in 'Latest Chapter Discussion' started by jacobpaige, Nov 15, 2017.

  1. Vincent1873

    Vincent1873 Well-Known Member

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    You might be right about him being a girl. Author is doing a lot of foreshadowing.
     
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    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    *rams a flag(pole) between the peaks* :blobwhistle:
     
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    EricBannen √[To Read or Not to Read]

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    Why is the author so undecided when it comes to Gwen... One day he is a man and one day he "stomps his foot" in frustration???
    The same happened with that Succubus lady... He initially had a good rapport with her and then later it's "off with your head mortal"
     
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    EricBannen √[To Read or Not to Read]

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    Well I would actually like to see the cut-scene of Glynos God realm being torn apart... It would be real satisfying...
    Do you think Marvin will gain experience for destroying the realm???
     
  5. NeurogamiPrime

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    wait, so there was a world wide showing of the missile slowly leaving the earth, but it didn't show the scene of Marvin Nuking Heaven?
     
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    It was not a world wide showing, but it could be seen from most places, if not everywhere, since the missile was so large that people could see it without magical aid.
     
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    no. here is a quote from ch 351.

    "Only Legend Wizards could still divine some clues. But they still didn't have time to share the divination with the masses. A sky illusion appeared once again over Feinan!.
    They all saw in surprise that the earth seemed to keep sinking down!

    In the center of the ground was a conical object, slowly extending out!

    "What's going on?"

    The entire South was alarmed."

    A sky illusion popped up to show the entirety of Feinan the missile coming out of the ground.
     
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    Damn I want Hathaway to be safe... That Tsun cutie did so much for Marvin
     
  9. NeurogamiPrime

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    lol i see. the magic sky illusion turned off while the missile was flying cause that part wasn't interesting and just showed what happened after the bomb hit.
     
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    Is there romance tag? Or nah?
     
  11. jacobpaige

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    C251: Why did he never collect the water? Did he already tell them to give it to the girl and the author just didn't bother to mention it or what?

    C262: The author has clearly never had any exposure whatsoever to babies...

    That aside, I wonder if he'll actually leave the kid with two last names in Hope, or try to recruit him.

    If it can hold a living boar, then why can't it hold a living person?

    C265: He's already getting the meteor if he helps. Why should they bother to offer him anything else? Whatever this Golden Blood is, it can't possibly be worth more than the meteor.

    That aside, I wonder if he'll force Raven to help him in assassinating her benefactor.

    C266: Hmm, I think maybe her Wisdom gift hasn't fully kicked in yet... ;)

    C269: I can't remember if Marvin has an evil alignment, but if he doesn't he should. Making someone kill their own subordinates and benefactor is far more evil than anything any of the antagonists have done so far that I can remember.

    C271: I wonder if Xiu will try to say that his pledge to serve only applied if Marvin killed the dragon the same night.

    C275: Why didn't he put the brooch on? Also, why is he getting the brooch's effects when he didn't put it on?

    C289: Given the way that the multiverse is normally defined, how could it not be unique? Wouldn't any other multiverse simply be an extension of the original rather than a separate entity? It's not really possible for there to be more than one since it encompasses every possible reality at once. To perceive two different multiverses would simply mean that you were failing to detect the connection between the two, or your definition of what a multiverse is was non-standard.

    C293: He really should consider the possibility that Mark's memory was stolen for a good reason. I fully expect a catastrophe once its memory is fully restored.

    Couldn't Lorant also just pump a bunch of power into the tablet over the course of a month or something? He's a creature of nearly pure Order isn't he?

    C296: If time moves twenty times faster in Arborea, then why wouldn't Glynos be getting far more faith from it than Feinan? Even if it only gives 5% per person of equivalent faith, he'd still wind up getting the same amount per person per Feinan time period. Add on the fact that he doesn't have to share any of the populace with any other gods and can freely perform miracles/inquisitions to ensure a maximum number of followers, and there's no reason that he wouldn't be getting more faith from it than he ever could from Feinan.

    C307: I really don't understand how this plane has survived so many invasions from Hell if that many elites can't handle a single Hellhound.

    C314: Couldn't Hathaway just send a summoned creature with a message or something? There's really no need for her to go herself. Even sending help seems a bit unnecessary really.

    C316: Why fight him in the city? Wouldn't it be much more advantageous to fight him in the woods?

    C321: I truly hate that the one that's going to pay the price for his stupidity is someone else yet again. Even worse, they're taking the strongest female on his side and damseling her. Words can't describe how much I hate that particular plot line, and not just because it's lazy, cliched, and hackish writing.

    C324: I figured Dark Phoenix was a god, not a pirate. I wonder if she's both?

    C325: I'm surprised that he didn't wait for the last three ships to catch up so that he could wipe them out too. His territory could use a few more ships, and the goods they were carrying could have been put to good use as well.

    C326: Ivan is gay, she's a would-be rapist as far as I can remember, and she's responsible for giving Ivan at least one phobia. What kind of person would try to pair them up and still think that he was Ivan's friend? He's just a person who uses people like chess pieces without ever really thinking of them as people.

    They didn't seize the other four ships? Does Marvin not realize just how valuable 4 ships are to a growing territory with a harbor and only one functioning ship? That was a horrendous waste of resources. At bare minimum, he should have gotten Madeline to teleport some sailors onto them to sail them back to Sword Harbor.

    C330: Why is he okay with wasting a week and a half ruins diving when he's supposed to be on a rescue mission?

    C332: Moron. A real assassin would know to kill first and monologue second if ever.

    I wonder why a vampire is following Marvin. Also curious as to why he won't just contact the succubus and have her open a teleportation gate. If he did, he could send those two through. She'd contact the Bright Side vamps. They'd be super grateful. Job done.

    C333: So, he took them to a mansion with a teleportation array and didn't bother to send them through it. Either he's an idiot, or he's actually trying to put them in danger so that he can rescue them again.

    If he knows that they'll need a cleric, then why doesn't he speak up? And honestly, what kind of group would be so stupid as to not bring a cleric along for healing and buffing purposes if nothing else?

    C336: Isn't he already wearing bracelets?

    Why would he want wizard craftsmen? Won't they go insane when the pool breaks?

    C340: If they weren't trying to preserve their troops, then why not let him kill them all before waking up the theater spirit? No reason to not wear him down first after all.

    C347: If he wasn't going to escort him out, then I wonder why he didn't just lead him to the sewer first. Even if Gwyn doesn't know what the K metals are, the Duke might, and Gwyn will almost certainly tell him about everything that he saw or heard in Saruha.

    C350: Is he not going to try to get the chip from Slaughterer?

    Also, if he knew about the ventilation shaft in the control room, then why didn't he just go in that way?

    C353: Why didn't he just stick the titan in a paper crane like he did the dragons and worry about cracking its systems later? It's not like he couldn't get the succubus to open a portal for him after all. At least, the assassin had no trouble escaping through the Shadow Realm, so I assume that teleportation wouldn't be blocked.

    C355: Wouldn't making the outer shell of an explosive indestructible prevent the explosive from ever exploding? Breaking it kinda its job isn't it?

    C373: The book sounds like a way for the God of Deception to resurrect himself. Completing it is likely a very stupid idea.

    I thought sub-classes weren't included for determining Legend status?

    C387: So, does the contract require the signer's soul? I assume it would require some form of payment.

    C391: Why wouldn't they loot the legends' corpses?

    C398: Has he decided that he doesn't care if the dragons all team up and attack his territory? Because people not knowing that he's Robin was the primary thing keeping that from happening. Now, the only thing stopping it is excessive plot armor.

    C410: Honestly, if he was going to plot against one of the brothers, I'd expect it to be Wayne.

    C411: If it produces 3 drops a month, and only 1 drop is needed to raise from Half-Legend to Legend, then why did they only have 10 drops after centuries of accumulation? Even if every person in the city was using the drops at every bottleneck, they should still have had more than that, and odds are that the number of people actually using the drops wasn't even a hundred. That being the case, they should have had literal vats of the stuff. Even if it was a problem of containers, they have enough pots that can hold at least thirty drops that they can simply gift them away. Every single one of those pots should be filled to the brim.

    All that aside, I wonder if he'll use that drop himself or give it to his brother. Also wondering if it's only helpful for the 20-21 bottleneck, or if it can be of benefit for lower bottlenecks and/or bloodline awakening as well.

    C416: I wonder what those amulets will actually do. Absorb their souls? Offer them a soul binding contract to worship her in exchange for salvation?

    Also curious why she only gave them to 3rd rank and above.

    C420: They really should have made at least some attempt to warn people about the amulets. Even if almost no one would have believed them, the few that did might have been able to save themselves.

    C421: Why didn't he light it earlier? Like, right after the announcement? Also, if it can block out Chaos, then why did he need to put the wizards to sleep? And, if he had a way to keep the wizards from going insane, why not recruit a ton of them? Having an army of wizards in a time when wizards are very uncommon would be extremely useful. Now, his small number of wizards are going to need to contend with Dark Phoenix's magical army.

    All that aside, I really hope the players show up. It'll be a much more interesting series if he has to deal with them as an NPC.
     
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    I wonder if any of those other eleven were from the extra two that he had. It was never made clear if he gave them away or stored them to replace the first one whenever it finally died out. Of course, if he did give them away, then I have to wonder why he didn't give one to Leymann to protect the three towers. Assuming that the SoFO can protect wizards from going insane, it would have been extremely helpful to have such a powerful group of casters between him and DP. Not to mention the moral obligations involved considering how much Leymann and Hathaway had helped him.
     
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    I figured she would have already advanced. I guess she was waiting for the planar guardians to be distracted. I wonder if he can get to her fast enough to kill her. I'm pretty sure the succubus could teleport him there, or close enough that he could use the shadow plane to finish the trip in a timely fashion. But that assumes that she hasn't taken sufficient precautions against him, which seems unlikely.

    That aside, anyone else think that maybe Owl sided with DP based on a promise from her to heal the MC's grandmother if Owl helped her to ascend?
     
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    I'm not clear on why one of the planar guardians couldn't toss a few abilities DP's way to kill her while she's still vulnerable. It's not like any of them lack the power to do so. At worst, one of them could go personally and kill her. After all, she's probably worth any three of the weaker gods they're facing at the moment if viewed in terms of potential.

    Also not clear on why it would take all the legends to deal with the second rank wizard monsters. Any legend with legend quality AoE skills should be able to wipe them out by themselves. It's not like they're coherent or organized enough to really leverage their numbers after all. If the succubus has researched any such spells, then she alone should be enough to handle it. Alternatively, she could mass charm them if DP isn't anymore, or dispel the mass charm if she is, which should result in them killing each other. Failing that, the leader of the MC's organization could step out and squash them like ants with his magic immunity while the succubus used a barrier spell and/or various other control spells, to keep them all from spreading out. Either way, the MC et al. could go kill DP without worry. The only way this would be a challenge for them as a group would be if they were trying to incapacitate the wizards so that they could recruit them all later.
     
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    So basically, nothing happened.

    If the major wish is worth 29 legendary wishes, then could he establish the sanctuary and use the left over wish power to kill DP? If not, then he really should have gotten at least some of the legends to go and kill her. There's no way his territory will be safe in the long run if she's allowed to live and ascend. Though, it's pretty clear at this point that the author is bending over backwards to make sure that she does ascend so that he'll have a Moriarty style enemy. I loathe Moriarty style enemies. The only thing worse than a protagonist with tank-like plot armor is an antagonist with even thicker plot armor.
     
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    Yeah, I figured they'd wind up fighting. I wonder if he'll send his devil army through while Marvin is fighting DP? Or if he even can now that the territory he was planning to invade first has become a holy sanctuary. Also wondering if the grandfather was corrupted and enslaved by the archdevil, or if he merged with it. It also occurs to me that those bracers of his were given to him by that same grandfather, and may have been booby trapped in some way.

    Also curious how Marvin plans to handle refugees. They definitely come flocking, but they won't be able to find a way in without help. And if they can't find a way in fast enough, they almost certainly die.
     
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    Fingers crossed that they don't wind up having to fight the sword girl and/or Hathaway too.

    I wonder if the sword girl hates all gods, or just gods not associated with her holy swords.
     
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    So is Marvin ignoring his previous plan? Earlier on he mentioned that if he had problems with Dark Phoenix he would go back to the Dark Monastery and tell the swordsaint dude about her having fate tablets. If you don't remember he is the old monster swords man who stabbed his lich brother while he was becoming a god to stop him but still protected his brother's body afterward. . . If still not ringing bell he did it because he didn't want his brother to become a destruction god. In Marvin's original back-up plan he would run to the swordsaint and tell him so that he would attack Phoenix to get his brother a different, less evil, godly domain.
     
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    If this is going to be the pace of things, it's probably better to just stockpile chapters. Way too little is happening in each chapter.

    That aside, why would he appear anywhere other than right next to her? And why would he appear before the pillars were put in place? Is his planar travel considered to be magic or something? Also, couldn't he have just used the remainder of the wish power to kill her several chapters ago? I sincerely doubt that it wouldn't have been enough. Though, even if it weren't, it should have been enough to kill all of her divine servants and/or screw with her connection to her followers so that they'd drift in and out of sanity and quickly lose faith in her.

    And yes, I do realize that the answer to all of this is, "It'd make the battle too short and then the author couldn't bring in Hathaway, sword girl, the sword saint guy from the monastery, possibly unleash a devil army via that contract, have Marvin cheat death a few dozen times, and whatever else the author's got planned to drag this out."
    It's possible that the guy is just being slow for some reason and the author is saving his appearance for a climatic moment. Though, even if he does show up, there's no real chance that he'd stop her. Marvin has to be the one to do it personally after all. It's just how this series works.
     
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    C433: He should have added clauses to the contract that would require the dragon to not go on a rampage, join the forces of evil, etc. No point in saving the multi-verse from Dark Phoenix just to release an even greater disaster.

    "Only with Marvin's Night Tracking would they be able to pursue that woman to death." Marvin isn't the only night walker. There were at least two other legend night walkers there. They would both have the same ability, and would likely be more proficient in it.

    C438: I can tell that the author is trying to imply that Marvin's about to win, but when he wastes the entire chapter on build up, it's blindingly obvious that Marvin will fail. Plus, Hathaway hasn't shown up yet, so it's practically impossible for Marvin to win. These two facts made this chapter frustrating and boring.

    C439: Seriously? Eve should just kill that f'er. A pig teammate is far more dangerous than the worst of enemies. His moment of stupidity, greed and selfishness nearly doomed the whole world.

    C440: It's too bad no one other than DP died. That might have actually allowed the battle to have some form of meaning. As it was, it was just really, really drawn out presentation of a foregone conclusion. Well that, and it (re)introduced some side characters and re-anointed Marvin as the Chosen One.

    Of course, if Eve or someone had actually gotten the kill, that would also have spiced things up a bit, but the author has made it abundantly clear that something like that is impossible.

    I wonder if he'll be able to have a proper conversation with Hathaway, or if one of them will be whisked off by someone.

    Also curious how much xp he got from that and how he'll spend it.