Drawn to her charisma
on April 28, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: Wasting Away
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room, La Porte High School
“I, of course, was drawn to her charisma. And just her charisma, not her boobs. No. That would be immoral of me and an improper mental detour to even entertain, especially out loud in conversation.”
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I’m imagining that Sal is telling Joe that his head is shaped like a beer can with ears.
Kind of like how Howard’s is shaped, for that matter.
Well, in my Gravatar at least I’d say his head more resembles a crock pot.
Yeah, Danny, of course you were attracted solely to her charisma. Of course you were.
Of course, if you go the D&D route…
Damn you, I thought this the second I read the comic.
For those not in the know unless house-rules are used (such as a Comeliness attribute) both attractiveness AND strength of personality are determined by Charisma. And ability to use magic devices, for some reason. Maybe they speak the word of the wand?
Yaaaaay, I’ve been damned.
Maybe they seduce the wand?
Yes. “The wand.” [Shifty eyes]
So that is what you kids are calling it these days?
A large part of the Use Magic Device skill (or at least the description) involves pretending you have some ability or trait you don’t actually have. In some cases, it makes sense for charisma to be the relevant skill (such as pretending to be a different alignment than you are). Of course, sometimes you’re doing something completely different with the skill.
But how does that convince the wand? That always puzzled me. I understand it in the sense of bluffing to other players. (A beguiler in my party had us convinced he had multiclassed into cleric using bluff, UMD and slight of hand) but wands are like computers. As much as we hate to believe it, they are not sentient and will not respond to sweet talk.
Don’t they? Have you never hit your computer in frustration and shouted “WORK!”. Or do you and you’re electronics have a healthy relationship?
You seem to be forgetting that wands are magic, they aren’t bound by physics.
Whatever happened to Howard…
Last we saw him, he was at a convention in line behind Leslie to see Katee Sackhoff. Which took a while for everyone to really catch onto.
I mean, people noticed it when the strip first went up, but I don’t think any of them are commenting on this site and it took Wack’d a while to realize it.
I think that last bit is the most surprising to me.
I noticed it!
I’ve always assumed that he sexually assaulted Katee Sackhoff shortly after Leslie left the scene.
Listening to some guy whining about his lack of girlfriend counts as “doing something”? Jeeze laweez, Howard.
The way Sal’s described here still annoys me. Her bad sides are handled well later on, though.
Nooooooooo. The point is to make fun of old!Willis, not congratulate his later writing talent. If this is how you’re reading, I’m not sure you UNDERSTAND these…………….also I invoke Poe’s Law.
Can I congratulate old!Willis’ past writing abilities for being bad enough in a specific way that it’s able to be salvaged later? YOU CAN’T STOP ME AHAHAH
Is Poe’s Law the one that dictates ravens are total dicks?
It’s Howard. If it’s not “getting hung by his underwear from a coathook”, he’ll take it.
“You mean I get to sit here and you don’t punch me?! Oh boy!”
This is also her boyfriend of two years talking. He’s not going to give an objective description.
She must have also invested a number of skill points to her Climb ability.
“Physically she was entirely lacking in attractive qualities whatsoever. But man, that CHARISMA.”
Congratulations Howard, you are too sad for words.
I’m just giggling at the different versions of Sal. ;;;;
Originally posted:
October 29, 1998