Erfworld/Awesome

• Uncroaking a volcano. "Rocks fall, everybody dies."
• For my Lord...Hamstaaaaahrr!
• I won't be a gamepiece. You hear me? I'm a player! Fuck...you!! Made more awesome since Parson manages to break one of Erfworld's rules with that Precision F-Strike.
• Undead units led by a master-class Croakamancer... can dance fight FUNKENSTEIN!!!
• Maggie, finally fed up with Stanley's General Failure proclivities and ignorance of Parson's genius, makes a suggestion- brainwashing him into making Parson Chief Warlord again and then leaving the room.
• Caesar is probably one of the strongest fighters in Erfworld, can dance fight and a stack of Doombats led by him are apprently close to heavy infantry. Even with all that, Stanley defeated the entire unit in a single blow. "VAN de Graaff!"
• The latest (of this post) page, with Parson making himself a field unit.
  • Come to think of it, why didn't he try that with the picnic?
  • He wasn't Chief Warlord anymore--and even if he was (I can't remember quite when Ansom was promoted), the point of the exercise was to prove whether or not he was a garrison unit, not to actually leave.
• This has a lovely buildup. (And AGGRO is a consequence.)
  • Boom. Headshot.
    • And in the next comic, Vinny killing a dwagon without even trying.
• Parson goading Ansom
• AGGRO.
  • With that context, panel 7 of this strip.
• Both Wanda and Charlie get another one each, her on account of her intimidating manner, and he on account of being a truely Magnificent Bastard.
• Ruthlessness.
• Stanley the Tool looks like he might be about to have one.
  • Delivered as promised... and LOUD!!
    • And then in the next strip where he takes on a chief warlord reinforced by about three dozen of what were effectively heavy infantry units. "VAN DE GRAAF!"
• Jack the Foolamancer seems to get one when, after the dwagon Stanley is riding is croaked, he grabs hold of Stanley, tells him to fly away with the Arkenhammer, amd veils himself and Stanley so that Jillian and the Transylvito forces can't find them. His real crowning moment comes in the next strip where we find that he successfully veiled Stanley's dwagon without anyone (even Stanley) noticing, making everyone think it was croaked, before veiling the rest of the dwagons until they are safely beyond the enemy's movement range.
  • The singular power of a Foolamancer can be expressed simply: To get the enemy to look in the wrong place, at the right time.
• If you didn't think Sizemore was awesome before, wait until you behold the power of "NSFW" and "4CHAN"
• Wanda. Dance fighting. Ansom's response. That is all.
• In a Heroic Sacrifice, Bogroll solos Ansom: "For my Lord... Hamstaaaaaaahrr!"
  • And then....Parson obliterates 9/10ths of Ansom's army, by collapsing Gobwin Knob.
    • And now he's planning to Uncroak the extinct volcano that Gobwin Knob is/was on top of to get that last 1/10th. Not resurrect, no, he plans on making the volcano into one of the undead. Even if that doesn't succeed... damn.
    • Fortunately, it did.

"TPK. Rocks Fall Everybody Dies."

• • • And on top of that, the look of determined, defiant fury on Sizemore's face when Parson explicitly orders them to retreat. Beware the Nice Ones, indeed.
• "Sweetheart, if you break your alliance now, we will drink your blood over a peppy campfire tune." Any idea that Caesar and the other vampires of Transylvito weren't absolutely, 100% scary has been crushed.
• In the summer updates, Parson gets one when he tricks Charlie into revealing his Mathamancy bracelet can predict the future.
• A couple updates later, Bea, Queen of Unaroyal, upon realizing she cannot defeat the Decrypted armies under Gobwin Knob's control, and knowing that this would result in her entire side's armies being taken over by Gobwin Knob after being defeated, chooses to take her own life - and thus, eliminating her entire side - instead of letting herself be controlled by Stanley.
• "Dispel the veil."
• Ossomer's speech, where he essentially tells Ansom that he doesn't care, one way or the other, if the Arkentools choice of attunement represents a new divine mandate for who is to rule; he'll stand for the nobility of Royalty regardless, and make Gobwin Knob and the Titans prove that the new mandate is worthy.
• Charles, upon being caught spying on a side he's officially neutral with, reveals how much intel he has on said side by showing their capital city and listing its forces in minute detail, and manages to force said side to do exactly what they say, or "that picture of the sun rising over your pretty city will happen exactly one more time."
• Parson exploiting an Erfworld mechanics loophole that allows him to kill off all of his dwagons instantly by harvesting them for rations, drop them inside Jetstone's garrison, and then having Wanda decrypt them, bypassing Jetstone's walls and air defenses in one fell swoop.
• Jack Snipe's reponse to Ansom questioning one of their tactics.

Ansom: Says the Caster. How would you know?
Jack: I was at hand when someone smarter than you invented it"

• This strip. All the more awesome because exactly why Wanda freaks out isn't readily apparent, but Ossomer's heraldry changed back to Jetstone. That's right: Ossomer apparently broke Wanda's Decryption!
• Cubbins, Jetstone's Hat Magician, gets one in the very last page of Book 2. Using the last of Jenga Tower's juice, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice to deal a crushing blow to the remaining Decrypted Archons.
  • The Hat Magician's Heroic Sacrifice, Ossomer's breaking of his decryption, and King Slateley Taking a Level In Badass with help from the Hat Magician and the Dollamancer insures Jetsone's survival and will net them Charlies reward for taking out the decrypted archons despite the almost inevitable loss they were about to receive. They may even get enough money to promote Tramennis to heir.
• It turns out, Parson's not the first being on Erfworld to beat impossible odds by studying really hard. In this corner, Overlord Firebaugh, his Chief Warlord Fritz, Clay the Luckamancer, Delphie the Predictamancer, and Wanda the Croakamancer and main contributor to the battle plan. In the other corner, two armies. Thanks to the political expertise of Lord Firebaugh, the boosts of Clay, the Leadership of Fritz, and the... unique combat applications of Predictamancy from Delphie, the battle was won with zero casualties. Well, zero allied casualties. Wanda was saving her Juice for a reason...

Narration: The five of them, forgetting all ranks, decorum and history, laughed and embraced. For a moment, they were not Overlord, Chiefs and casters. They were a five-unit stack which had just beaten two armies.