TRANSCRIPT:
ERLIK: Okay, fuck this -
SFX: TOSS!
SFX: CHNK
ERLIK: AAH!!
MORCAI: Ohhh dear-dear! Somebody took an arrow to the knee! Time for a career change,
yeh?
ERLIK: BASTARD! I’ll GUT YOU -
SFX: SWIPE
ERLIK: Wha - ?
MORCAI: Now is that nice? Looks like Teacher’s gonna have to take another one of your
toys away, yeh?
25 thoughts on “Arrow To The Knee – Page 1091”
Gary Bivin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTRmAhu08pA
jedraft
Hehe! Love it.
Warm regards,
JED
Freelance
So I guess Erlik’s adventuring days are over then.
Also, dangit, you beat me to the joke.
Wolf
Well played, Gary; well played 🙂
Jed, I came dangerously close to spraying my coffee when I read that; I was not expecting a Skyrim reference!
Thank’ee, sire! 🙂
hwyla
They sure dance rather well to have had career-ending knee injuries
hwyla
Throwing the bolt arrow back at him? That’s very impressive. A bolt just doesn’t have the same balance as a throwing knife. Obviously he’s practiced that before! Or it really is magic. And then to steal the knife right out of his hand? I was already incredibly impressed with Morcai’s talents – now I’m even more so. Yes, you certainly don’t want to be on Morcai’s bad side.
jedraft
It’s practice.
He is, as Count Tethik would observe, a supremely practical man to have as an employee or an ally.
Warm regards,
JED
Hornet
Morcia’s a magic man, oh, he’s got the magic hands
jedraft
No magick that I am conscious of. Just mad skills.
Warm regards,
JED
Prairie Son
Bad JED, not recognizing that Hornet is quoting Heart’s Magic Man. Bad JED!
Hornet
Sorry it was just what came to mind seeing how easily he returned that arrow and stole that knife.
Gene
Nice Hart Reference, Liked the Band
jd.
Waaaay out of your league, Erlik. And I can’t even say it was nice to meet you. Ah well, rest in peace.
(Does anyone else feels Morcai looks downright eerie in the second panel? His stance is very curious: totally straight, his left side (the one he just threw with) behind instead of in front… That isn’t necessarily unrealistic (well, you get my meaning) since he may well have just thrown with a downwards motion of his forearm and possibly a flick of the wrist, in which case he doesn’t have to put his weight behind the throw. Still, I find him unsettling to say the least, and reckon that’s probably the point.)
jedraft
Morcai is an unsettling individual.
Tom is a pussycat, of course.
Warm regards,
JED
Lora
Pfft! Mwahahaha! Now he’s just messing with him. Don’t touch his girls. Or his girls’ girls.
Calisto01
The Pitt! Toss him in the PITT!!
The MacNut
An entirely appropriate death. And you know the girls would take their time as well – just to hear his screams.
Lebbrin
Agreed. The girls deserve some payback as well. 😀
SFCGator
Toss him into the pit for the girls to paly with.
T'Renn
I’m glad that, while definitely not the sharpest tools in the shed, these two poachers are not total imbeciles. In panel one, this guy shows exactly the correct reaction to seeing a Joker grin on the face of a guy holding several knives. Who just CAUGHT a crossbow bolt. He tries to run away.
Admittedly if he was SMART he would never have gotten in this situation, but at least his instincts are not the worst.
Archone
I have to say that I’m rather tired of that meme, mainly because the people using it don’t understand that it’s actually a euphemism. Taking an actual arrow in the actual knee doesn’t mean much in a world where healing potions, spells, and enchantments can be found around every corner (that’s not just “story and game segregation,” this stuff is canonical. The reason vampires and werewolves are generally attacked on sight is because both vampirism and lycanthrope can be cured in the early stages by simply praying at an altar, a cure disease potion, or the like – so if you’ve let it linger long enough to reach the mature stages, you CHOSE it. And there’s a book in Oblivion and Morrowind discussing the value of Mysticism spells by describing how they were used in a key battle, by causing the enemy healing spells to bounce onto the battlemages’ own comrades, while the fireballs got reflected onto the enemy troops).
“Taking an arrow to the knee” is an archaic expression, much like… “getting hitched to the old ball and chain.” So what the guards are actually saying is, “I used to be an adventurer like you, until I got married. Then I decided to settle down and get a job working within the city where I live, so I can go home every night to my wife and kids.”
(That being said, well done of Morcai. The girls will be very appreciative, I expect)
Salisria
So what is stealing a sweetroll a euphemism for?
RicardtheDragoon
Depends. Did the guard’s wife make the stolen sweetroll? If so, the euphemism seems clear.
Salisria
Now that he’s given him an arrow to the knee, I wonder if Teacher will next give him a boot to the head.
Archone
Being a child who loves sweets and can’t defend themselves. Sometimes the guards are just jerks. :p
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