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[Ardent Debater]

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[Comrade P.]

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((Piecewise is busy with his studies now. He said that he'll get a break tomorrow. Just you wait.))

[Ardent Debater]

((OOC: Bump))

((Piecewise is busy with his studies now. He said that he'll get a break tomorrow. Just you wait.))

((Oh, OK.))

[piecewise]

((From now on, call me Lieutenant Dan John ))

That's it. I'm not going anywhere now. I'm done for. I CAN'T KEEP GOING ON THE ROAD WITHOUT MY LEGS!

Thoughts of this sort are the only ones in his head for a couple of moments, those few seconds after the impact he had before the initial shock stepped down to give room for all the agonising pain. After a series of incoherent screams, the first word to be said more or less distinctively is followed immediately by an action.

- AAAARGHMOTHERFUCKER! - John screams, incapacitated. I'm assuming everything from the knees down is a oil-bloody burnt mess now, right? While still on the ground, he rolls over to his back and keeps firing up at snakes. With his free hand he does his best to gesture  something like "stand down" to others.

((Hey Comrade, might I please bug you for fanart of Tarmac ' s last stand? I think it'd be neat to have, but I don't want you to do it if you don't feel like it.))

Spoiler: Hey Beirus, I got you that pic you asked about! (click to show/hide)

Can't scan it any better than that.

Is that rage? Is that desperation? Is that a fearful countenance on the face of a man who just blew up a demigod? Hmm.

I hate to hold off, but I have to ask, the rest of you traveling with John, assuming you saw this, what would you think of his last attempts to fight back before the snakes come down on him?

Do you have faith?

[Harry Baldman]

Do you have faith?

Mr. Bird has faith.

[Xantalos]

Xankarvo has many things toward John. Anger, the unending constant always with him. Envy. Distant approval for the competent actions he's done. Gratitude and yet unreasoning rage for possibly stealing HIS grudge.
But faith?
In anyone but himself?
No. Not with such a paltry display like this, for a man that has been serving him (from his perspective) for less than a week.
Not in anyone but himself.
He wishes John luck, obviously, because his success directly impacts Xankarvo's own survival, but faith implies subservience, and Xankarvo will never bow to anyone no matter how many limbs he is missing.

[piecewise]

Xankarvo has many things toward John. Anger, the unending constant always with him. Envy. Distant approval for the competent actions he's done. Gratitude and yet unreasoning rage for possibly stealing HIS grudge.
But faith?
In anyone but himself?
No. Not with such a paltry display like this, for a man that has been serving him (from his perspective) for less than a week.
Not in anyone but himself.
He wishes John luck, obviously, because his success directly impacts Xankarvo's own survival, but faith implies subservience, and Xankarvo will never bow to anyone no matter how many limbs he is missing.

Faith doesn't really imply subservience, just belief in something regardless of what reality might seem to be.

[Comrade P.]

((Lemme rephrase that: does Xankarvo think John might actually pull this one off? Yes would be what PW is asking about, I believe, and everything other than Yes is as good as No in our case.))

[DoctorMcTaalik]

Do you have faith?

Hyenakles certainly doesn't (or, wouldn't). John's down two legs; the best he can do is take a few Salthe out with him.

[Xantalos]

Oh. In that case yeah, the gun John wields (must steal when he dies) blew up a big rock pillar, and the Salthe are reeling from the loss of their God. Xankarvo certainly believes that John's capable of killing them all.

[Egan_BW]

Floating glowing glass orb cannot have faith in John, as it has not met him.

[Comrade P.]

Floating glowing glass orb cannot have faith in John, as it has not met him.

((You are not witnessing John. Your opinion is disqualified. Wait just a little longer, chances are you're going to be in the next bunch of yahoos party stumbles upon.))

[Harry Baldman]

((You are not witnessing John. Your opinion is disqualified. Wait just a little longer, chances are you're going to be in the next bunch of yahoos party stumbles upon.))

((All 0-4 of them that remain by the end, naturally.))

[piecewise]

Floating glowing glass orb cannot have faith in John, as it has not met him.

((You are not witnessing John. Your opinion is disqualified. Wait just a little longer, chances are you're going to be in the next bunch of yahoos party stumbles upon.))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAWpKFtbjo

[Comrade P.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAWpKFtbjo

((Eh. Unfortunately I'm not going to be near this epic now. I shot myself in the leg, that's turning the badass degree down significantly. Mediocre.

Now, all the opinions are counted. Let's do this. Super Sayian or super dead!))