The Sword in the Stone
Transcript:
A comic strip in four panels:
Panel 1. In darkness, against a background with vegetal notes, through a faint beam of light stands a massive silver sword, finely decorated, embedded in a pedestal that looks like stone. A small warrior mouse and a magician mouse hurry past, hand in hand, but the warrior is drawn to the massive sword.
Panel 2. The warrior mouse is already on the pedestal, straining to pull the sword out with all its might. Meanwhile the magician mouse examines the pedestal.
Panel 3. The warrior mouse has succeeded! The massive sword is now in its possession; he is happy. Meanwhile, in the background, the magician mouse has managed to pry off a piece of the pedestal with her bare hand: waves of strong smells reach her nostrils.
Panel 4. The magician mouse lights the scene with her staff: they are actually both on a cheese platter, and the βswordβ was only a knife stuck vertically into a cheese with a gray rind textured like stone. The platter has a piece of Roquefort and Emmental, grapes and a salad in the background. The magician has hearts in her eyes and the warrior is surprised by the discovery.
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Chagratt@pleroma.chagratt.site
Cheese ! π§ β
brunoscheele@mastodon.social
Still, a solid main blade for the Bronze-ranked adventurer. May they last till Iron! π
davidrevoy
@brunoscheele Yes, a colossal sword, unfortunately, strength +30 required, so he'll have to level up before using it π
3 βsocketwench@masto.hackers.town
Mouse Strife.
davidrevoy
@socketwench :amaze:
Now I have the sudden desire to parody FF7 with mice. Tifa Squeakhart and Aerith Cheddarborough π
5 βsocketwench@masto.hackers.town
Yes please. :heart_lesbian:
βexmotoh@fgc.network
Camembarrett β
socketwench@masto.hackers.town
@exmotoh Amazing how he made that gattling gun out of a sewing machine bobbin.
orsinium@fosstodon.org
reminds me Mice and Mystics, a pretty board game about brave and loyal friends of a benevolent king being turned into mice by an evil witch.
βdavidrevoy
@orsinium Thanks for sharing the reference, I'll have a look at it.
(edit: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124708/mice-and-mystics wow π the design and the figurine!)
4 βcy@fedicy.us.to
"This seems rather soft to be calling it stone, oh Great Hero."
β
davidrevoy
@cy π€£
βsvgeesus@mastodon.scot
Excellence in alt text!
β(The illustrations are quite nice, too π )
davidrevoy
@svgeesus Thank you for reading them!
2 βblackRAT@piaille.fr
very mice
βdavidrevoy
@blackRAT π Bravo!π
2 βNatureMC@mastodon.online
Very much appreciated here in France! π π§ π
davidrevoy
@NatureMC The cheese platter step on any official French dinner; my favorite part! (for real :blobaww: π§+π·)
5 βRichardoC@infosec.exchange
Thanks for this, really enjoyed it and was very glad of the alt text explaining what the wizard was doing π
βdavidrevoy
@RichardoC π Thank you!
momo@social.linux.pizza
Holy Cheezus! π€£
Also: Do you know the xkcd version of the sword in the stone? https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sword_in_the_stone.png
davidrevoy
@momo π Thank you!
Oh, first time I see this Xkcd; such a funny one! This one should be the official ad for the Wikipedia mobile app (I love it, btw).
2 βdgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
@momo As someone living in England, Iβd sayβ¦ βSavage but true!β π β
Zerochaos80@mastodon.social
this is precious!! My son and I have a bunch of stories about a mouse family we made up at bedtime from the time he was three or so. So wee both love to see the images of mice like thisπ₯°
βArneBab@rollenspiel.social
that stone looks damn tasty!
βraspbeguy@gugod.fr
right on time for the Kaamelott movie
βcasandro@f-ckendehoelle.de
That is just so wonderful.
βdavidrevoy
@casandro
Thank you!
βPeace@mstdn.ca
βCheeseβ !!!
βkasiandra@chaos.social
This is very cute. :3
βdavidrevoy
@kasiandra π Thank you!
βToonLink@fandom.ink
King of the appetizers!
davidrevoy
@ToonLink π€£ Yes!
He is ready to cheese all the bosses!
βBredroll@mas.to
beautiful artwork!
βdavidrevoy
@Bredroll π Thank you!
βNowhereman@troet.cafe
βWell, finally a good picture for saying "Cheese!"
davidrevoy
@Nowhereman π€£
βRachelA@mastodon.online
Adorable! π₯°
βPlus, i love cheese! Thanks!
β€οΈπ§π
apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises
........this is so, terribly, frustratingly close to loss
dad@mastodon.mim-libre.fr
πΆ Stone, the sword in the Stone πΆ
βdavidrevoy
@dad Ha non! Pas une chanson qui trotte en tΓͺte avant de dormir! PitiΓ©! π€£ π πͺ±
rlaimondas@venera.social
The uk uni affially allowed to use chat bots, i already spam them with a origin with the most problems.
bieberium@infosec.exchange
very nice. As someone without an ounce of talent for drawing, I see potential for the followup of The Sword in the Scone...
gunchleoc@mastodon.scot
@bieberium Part 3 will be the sword in the Stone of Scone
βbieberium@infosec.exchange
@gunchleoc An unexpected #discworld reference in the morning. Perfect match for my coffee :ablobcatnodfast:
βgunchleoc@mastodon.scot
@bieberium It's been a while since I've read Discworld novels. I'm writing from a Scottish server though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
gunchleoc@mastodon.scot
@bieberium Of course, the background music will be Γran na Cloiche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W7QM8X2EdE
bieberium@infosec.exchange
@gunchleoc I am regularly surprised as a non British / non native reader of the discworld how many things are rooted in "the real world". Thanks for the link!
gorobar@rollenspiel.social
that heavily reminds me of the #ttrpg #Mausritter
βGrummfy@mamot.fr
so cute!
βMorgunin@rollenspiel.social
Well done! This ticks all the boxes for the large group of Mouseritter aficionados on here. π§ ππ‘οΈ
β_XCM@mastodon.social
In an era flooded with synthetic noise, genuine human expression feels like an endangered heartbeat.
davidrevoy
@_XCM Thank you. True, it's hard for me to keep doing what I do but I resist. I think we don't measure yet all the negative impact of genAI on all the Internet webcomics and illustration art community. From my little bubble, I already can see many who are tired and take their distance with the Internet space, with the digital tools, and I also meet a new generation who prefer to not even try. "endangered heartbeat" feels like a very accurate description in this context.
2 β_XCM@mastodon.social
Keep at it.
As humanity capacity for expression is increasingly numbed, skills like your will be increasingly rare
ZoidbergForPresident@kolektiva.social
Adorable! :D
βRay_Of_Sunlight@mastodon.social
Haha π
βobc@mas.atmx.ca
Kingborn of the kitchen.
βraccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
βThis reminds me of small saga
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