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A challenger appears!
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Countering a dragon with a bigger dragon. Classic strategy!
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I don't think that was the plan, honestly, but I can't wait to see what "Franz" does to this young upstart.
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I bet it'll include much 'rejoicing'. lol
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will the next line be - 'Hoy, you still owe me a drink from that mountain raid Hy pulled you out hof' ?
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So....first round is banter and thence pretty much straight to 'Punch in face'....
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"Sprung from the fevered blasphemies of some half-wit student of outdated alchemy!"
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Now the question: Did it hurt or did it just make him angry?
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It seems the braggadocio is done... This could get interesting...
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Or this so far was just polite conversation for dragons and the real conversation starts soon.
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Game ON! :D

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Look that the little dials and compare them to previous pages. Before they were yellow and sitting at maybe 1/4 or 1/3. Now they are glowing blue and look to be at/near maximum! I'll bet he feels great!
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So his batteries were a tad low... Figures...
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Oh yeah, he's All Fired Up now. No more sleep-walking. Now let's see who's the better dragon
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Darmalus wrote:Look that the little dials and compare them to previous pages. Before they were yellow and sitting at maybe 1/4 or 1/3. Now they are glowing blue and look to be at/near maximum! I'll bet he feels great!
I've seen a couple at max few pages before this and this was when he was about to face the red dragon.
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So that's how they're going to revive Castle Heterodyne.
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I thought the waterwheel was already working again?
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Well, yeah, but even the River Dyne can only provide so much power, and The Castle's been without a power supply for a long time, and I'd imagine the heavy-duty defenses take a lot of power. Usually, the Castle probably has a fair surplus of power for daily operations, assisting in violating Nature's laws, things like that. The surplus is likely stored for times when the Castle has to go through a lot of power in a short time, and the Castle has been running of that stored charge for all this time - not to mention that a lot of its energy banks were likely damaged in the attack that broke it in the first place.
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overdraft protection for the energy bank?
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Ahhhh....The British Invasion. :)
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They look like chess pieces (King, Queen, Bishop, Rook)
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Indeed, but whose Knights are they?
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Dass.Kapital wrote:Indeed, but whose Knights are they?
Knights of Jove?
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From the Fleur-de-Lys emblems on their chests, they might belong to the Master of Paris.
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... yeah. I'm surprised that nobody caught that sooner. I mean, seriously? Fleur-de-Lys and the first thought is that it's the British?
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