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Choose Your Weapon [Swords] (thelemmy.club)

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Swords The Webcomic | Bluesky

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4 Panel Comic with title banner across the middle

Title Banner: Choose Your Weapon

1: A sword that is stronger the more books you have read [A golden curved sword with a hole in the middle, a brain sits on the back of the sword, the handle is the brainstem. Lighting crackles around the brain. Loose pages are seen just off frame. Barely visible in the background is “42”, “LXIX”, “33”, “M”, “XLII”]

2: A sword that is stronger the more lies the opponent has told you [The sword resembles Pinocchio, his body stretched out like Superman. His nose spirals out from his face like a whip.]

3: A sword that is stronger the further you are from home. [A large grey beaten up single sided sword with a hole in the middle. A brown backpack hangs from the hole. There are several bumper stickers on the sword, two read “Lake Tang” and “SWRD”.]

4: A sword that is stronger the more your back hurts. [A sword so massive it doesn’t fit in frame. Energy bursts from the blade]

@SWORDSCOMIC

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4 Panel Comic

1: Choose Your Cursed Sword

2: Curse where every third word you say is an antonym [A sword with a blade that resembles a purple and slightly silver tongue curls outward. The cross guard resembles a lower jaw with teeth. The handle is pink with pink stripes wrapping it and a black pommel]

3: Curse where you can only see through the eyes of people who can currently see you. [A orange elvish-looking blade, long with a narrow base like a waist, with a white chevron across the middle and a white stripe across the cross guard. The pommel is a safety cone.]

4: Curse of smelling smells from three minutes in the future. [Sword with a blade that resembles a long nose with too many holes. The cross guard is the nostrils with teeth below it and a tongue for the handle.]

@SWORDSCOMIC

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[-] gnu@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago

Book sword seems an easy pick assuming the scaling of the power ups is remotely similar - if you're an educated adult you should already have a decent power level, its strength isn't going to vary wildly on you (lies would be particularly bad for this), you can have a strong sword without living in pain, and if you need extra power you can just smash through a bunch of childrens books in a few hours.

In terms of the curse sword smells from the future seems the pick. Changing every third word would cause a lot of communication annoyances and seeing only through other people's eyes would make you blind a significant amount of the time.

[-] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

Not to mention the obvious anti-synergy of other people's eyes and book sword. Reading from other people's eyes would be tricky to say the least.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk -2 points 3 hours ago

seems pick scaling power remotely if educated should a level, isn’t vary you be for can strong living and need you smash bunch books few terms curse from seems. Changing word a communication seeing other would blind amount time.

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