## [HF] [RT] A Practical Guide to Evil Book 3 Chapter 44: Drop

* Author: u/Yes_This_Is_God *
* URL: https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/chapter-44-drop/
* Score: 44

* Created: 2017-11-15T05:04:52

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> **u/Ardvarkeating101** [+24]  *Father of Learning* (8 minutes later)
> 
> > “KILL THEM,” Nauk screamed.
> 
> >“TAKE THEIR STUFF,” the Fifteenth screamed back.
> 
> I'm so *proud* of the Fifteenth right now
> 
> edit: oh fuck, those are some choice last words

>> **u/None** [+16]  (10 hours later)
>> 
>> I know the first part of this chapter is hilarious:  
>> > Warlord,” he grinned. “We got a plan?”
>> 
>> > “Smash through everything until we’ve won,” I said honestly.    
>> 
>> > “Ah, the Foundling gambit,” he gravelled. “It’s never failed us before.”  
>> 
>> >“Don’t say that where people can hear, and that’s an order,” I hurriedly replied.

> **u/Nihilvin** [+16]  (43 minutes later)
> 
> Nauk can only be healed by fae? Looks like Killian is getting the sacrifices she needs

>> **u/Mgmtheo** [+6]  *The Dread Empire of Praes* (an hour later)
>> 
>> Killian, latest member of the Woe?

>> **u/TwoxMachina** [+2]  (a day later)
>> 
>> Burned by a Summer Fae duke, healed by a Winter Fae duchess (Cat)

> **u/CouteauBleu** [+11]  *We are the Empire.* (3 hours later)
> 
> > Archer’s arrow would have torn through his knee, if he hadn’t caught it. He raised a mocking eyebrow.
> 
> > Then it blew.
> 
> Ooh, nice reference.

>> **u/hoja_nasredin** [+1]  *Dai-Gurren Brigade* (8 hours later)
>> 
>> I didn't get it. Any help?

>>> **u/AurelianoTampa** [+6]  (8 hours later)
>>> 
>>> My guess?
>>> 
>>> >“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.”

>>>> **u/Ardvarkeating101** [+4]  *Father of Learning* (14 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> Or The Avengers, when that exact thing happened

>>>>> **u/CouteauBleu** [+3]  *We are the Empire.* (21 hours later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yeah, it was a double reference. I was mostly talking about the Avengers one.

>>> **u/Zayits** [+1]  (4 days later)
>>> 
>>> I thought about that panel from Order of the Stick:
>>> http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0858.html
>>> 
>>> For context, it happens after Tarquin (the guy in the helmet) repeatedly catches the arrows Haley shoots at him and stabs other heroes with them (like here: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0851.html).

> **u/MoralRelativity** [+5]  (18 hours later)
> 
> I think it's about time Catherine had some significant losses she really cares about.
> 
> I wonder what the cost of Cat going full Winter is going to be?

> **u/paradoxinclination** [+3]  (23 minutes later)
> 
> Cat and the Woe are working like a well-oiled death machine right now, they're going to need to piss off some real monsters to find more worthy opponents.

>> **u/Yes_This_Is_God** [+19]  (24 minutes later)
>> 
>> most of her men died and Thief suffered full-body burns

>>> **u/paradoxinclination** [+9]  (39 minutes later)
>>> 
>>> And they took down two hundred Immortals and a Baron at the same time when they thought they could only handle one. Losing Farrier and Nauk at the same time is rough though, I'll admit.

> **u/panchoadrenalina** [+3]  (31 minutes later)
> 
> Cat fae now...

> **u/DTravers** [+2]  (2 hours later)
> 
> (I'm not going to pretend the following verse is any good, but the song is what I was thinking of after reading) 
> 
> >Time has worn the soldiers down, marched for many miles...   
> In the lands of Sun so cursed,   
> Time to make a stand!  
> Baron has scorched this nation's life,  
> Nothing to be left,  
> Anger grasps the soldiers' hearts,  
> Mere six hundred strong!  
> 
> ># LISTEN, YOU EXCUSE FOR A DUCHESS!   
> > #TRUST ME, THIS FIGHT HAS NO SUCCESS!   
> 
> >(By Summer)  
> WENT TO CERTAIN DEATH AND PAIN,  
> CATHERINE'S SOLDIERS SAW THEIR BANE.  
> SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN VAIN,   
> BY SUMMER!  
> 
> https://youtu.be/rt2g5hoUzHI

> **u/TideofKhatanga** [+2]  (3 hours later)
> 
> Fuck, that chapter hurts.

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