2015/08/17 - How Does He Do That

Post by **Obbl** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:02 am

[ How Does He Do That ]

Title Text: A time anomaly prevents Hitler from being time-killed, but it WAS possible with Dread Overlord Henry Harrison

SuperStar · Post by **SuperStar** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:03 am

For Tarot, the struggle is real.

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:05 am

You can always count on Karishad to fix anything.

WishIWasHearEarlier · Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:07 am

No! Please don't actually send Satau back!

Also, why is Karishad at Tarot's place with mana at this exact time?

Mistacheeeez · Post by **Mistacheeeez** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:07 am

I'm pretty sure Karishad has a sixth sense that allows him to know everything that's going on in the entire universe! Either that or Rick Griffin is leaking him information about upcoming strips!

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:08 am

WishIWasHearEarlier wrote:Also, why is Karishad at Tarot's place with mana at this exact time

Because he's Karishad!

Post by **D-Rock** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:09 am

...

Some things you just don't question, like anything Karishad.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:14 am

Just got through watching "Muppet Treasure Island". That made the title extra funny.

I guess Karishad was the only person Keene would trust with a celestial object of great power . . . Wait!

ChekeBello · Post by **ChekeBello** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:14 am

Is that Keene's mana piece? xD

Also, that means Satau will go back now? I will miss him if that's the case ><

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:17 am

Provided Keene won't a) skin Karishad for this particular antic and b) skin Tarot and Sabrina for even considering using the last divine mana available to realize his equality dreams, the irony is that they'll owe Satau's goback to Pete of all creatures.
Karma is such a nice son of a charming young lady, eh?

Neon Icy Wings · Post by **Neon Icy Wings** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:26 am

A wild plot convenient Karishad has appeared. And it is delicious.

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:27 am

WishIWasHearEarlier wrote:Also, why is Karishad at Tarot's place with mana at this exact time?

He lives there, at least sometimes.

Also, he's everywhere so knows when to arrive.

Mortal Magic isn't worth the name
as the power pair ponder their move.
Without Dragon, they're out of their groove
and can't get to the start of the game.
Tarots' fancy upgrade has downgraded
and Sabrina's stuck doing nothing
other than asking if lunch needs stuffing
and if their abilities are jaded.
They forgot the rules of the cosmic planners
often include a slightly mad Fox;
he's great for thinking out of the astral box
and, for once, Kari's got some Manas...

Gbr23 · Post by **Gbr23** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:31 am

"Because Karishad." That´s the answer to many questions

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:10 am

It's nice that we're revisiting all the previous magical artifacts in this arc.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:33 am

Is Karishad Kitsune's little helper? Because that is a little bit of a coincidence.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:57 am

Did anyone else get the Doctor Who reference? Series 6. Episode title "let's kill hitter". With River Song and the android? Anyone. Oh well.

Anyway Karishad is amazing and I agree with Kyuunado, Kitsune must have something to do with Kitsune.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:58 am

Kyuunado wrote:Is Karishad Kitsune's little helper? Because that is a little bit of a coincidence.

yeeeaaaah , I don't think anything that fox does is coincidence either , and this is coming from a fox mind you

Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:04 am

Number9Dysonsphere wrote:Did anyone else get the Doctor Who reference? Series 6. Episode title "let's kill hitter". With River Song and the android? Anyone. Oh well.

killing hitler is a common trope in time travel stories. that was just one of many.

CHAOKOCartoons · Post by **CHAOKOCartoons** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:16 am

How does he do that? Maybe he's born with it. Maybe it's Karishad and we really shouldn't be questioning these things.

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:56 am

"Suh, we've just received reports that the, er, mana is missing"
"What? Was nobody guarding it?!"
"We didn't see a need, suh, it was in a double reinforced steel safe behind a false wall in a led vault held with a carbon nanotube lock and secured with a 20-digit code"
"....Karishad"

Indagare · Post by **Indagare** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:11 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Number9Dysonsphere wrote:Did anyone else get the Doctor Who reference? Series 6. Episode title "let's kill hitter". With River Song and the android? Anyone. Oh well.
killing hitler is a common trope in time travel stories. that was just one of many.

The funny thing is, you don't need to kill Hitler. What you need to do is to alter the Treaty of Versailles so that Germany isn't basically bankrupted. No bankruptcy, no discontent, no discontent, no rise of the Nazi party.

Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:18 am

that doesn't solve the other possible consequences of preventing WWII as we know it.

Macsen · Post by **Macsen** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:48 am

How did Karishad end up with Keene's mana chip?

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:53 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:that doesn't solve the other possible consequences of preventing WWII as we know it.

And then there is the temporal paradox, what if by preventing an event from happening (Stopping WWII) would cause two people to never meet, so they never had a child, who would grow up to have a child of there own (you).

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It's good to know that Tarots CrystalTab9000 is working well and that the space internet is populated by the same people as ours.
It's great that the mana has finally come back ino the story, I always wondered what happened to it, well now we know.
Kitch the answer is "because Karishad". And that is all we will ever know.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:58 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:that doesn't solve the other possible consequences of preventing WWII as we know it.

Not the least of which being the possibility that without WWII to diminish Russia's military in the east, and accelerate the development of nuclear technology in the west, Stalin could easily have started his own world war.

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:18 am

Well I'm going back on topic. If Karot is going to happen, this is how it starts.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:00 am

Indagare wrote:The funny thing is, you don't need to kill Hitler. What you need to do is to alter the Treaty of Versailles so that Germany isn't basically bankrupted. No bankruptcy, no discontent, no discontent, no rise of the Nazi party.

And besides, if you do kill Hitler than the Civil Rights era doesn't happen because nobody has Hitler to compare people to, and then President Muffley starts World War III in 1968, and you end up having to go back and un-kill him.

GameCobra · Post by **GameCobra** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:56 am

The plot thickens...

I wonder how they would send Satau back at this point ...

ShrimpGumbo · Post by **ShrimpGumbo** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:58 am

Time paradox's are the worlds most complicated form of speech, as it is almost always infinite.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:08 am

Speaking of which...

How are they going to send him back without causing a time paradox? Dragon didn't learn how the game ended in the original timeline, because if she had she would probably have done things differently - subjective time or not. Therefore if they send him back they will change the past. All of Dragon's and Pete's actions in Babylon Gardens would be different. There probably wouldn't be a mana egg to use to send him back...

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:30 am

Well, this could be the alternate timeline, and Dragon still lost despite all the inside information.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:35 am

Anyway, I think the bottom line here is that this is how Rick is going to tie off the "mana egg" loose end, just leaving the "mysterious temple", the "escaped gargoyles", "cast light", "angel dogs", and probably other ones I've forgotten.

[it's loose ends all the way down]

KingFan202 · Post by **KingFan202** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:12 am

THE PLOT THICKENS!

Iceheart · Post by **Iceheart** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:13 am

Kyuunado wrote:Is Karishad Kitsune's little helper? Because that is a little bit of a coincidence.

Karishad lives in the plain coincidence. He arrives precisely when he means to and always at the most appropriate (and sometimes inappropriate) times.

Perfesser_Bear · Post by **Perfesser_Bear** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:36 am

Kyuunado wrote:Is Karishad Kitsune's little helper? Because that is a little bit of a coincidence.

That would violate Gibbs' Rules:

Leroy Jethro Gibbs wrote:Rule 39: There is no such thing as coincidence.

Karishad is the personification -- or vulpinification -- of Chaos. He is the Deus ex Machina necessary to move the story along and bring it to a successful (and satisfying!) conclusion. In short, he is Karishad, and his true nature is unknown and unknowable.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:45 am

From the Time Traveler's Forum on the Astral Web: Wikihistory!

TheBlasterizer · Post by **TheBlasterizer** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:07 pm

Maybe Karishad just has some psychic powers of his own, because that is definitely something that I would expect Tarot to do

DigitalBrave3 · Post by **DigitalBrave3** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:47 pm

Yay! Karishad's back!

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:20 pm

Have a good work finding a solution for a oneway time travel for Satau, you two psychic pets.

Oh wow, this astral web isn't that different than how normal web acts and works.

Mortal-side magic is made by the sleight of hand, right?

So, the mana is the key for a better solution... Did you say mana? Karishad is the reply!

Yeah, that should be Keene's one given by Pete time ago.... Did he steal it?

I hope he's going to be an useful fox.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:07 pm

I wonder what would happen if the egg ends up falling and splattering on Karishad's face?