Tank Quest

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Episode 69: Hero to Zero

Torrie

on Aug. 27, 2010

The dice Bard uses, by the way, is a prime number dice. I invented this because if you think about it you can get any number in the world if you have all the prime numbers. So it seems like the only logical inclusion of numbers for any dice. I added zero, one and infinity because, whilst they're not prime numbers, they are useful place markers for counting and people seem to set store by them. Anyway, the absolutes of infinity (meaning totally passed) and zero (meaning totally failed) appeal to me for the humour that on a dice with an infinite amount of numbers, Bard rolls a zero on a fairly important check. More on that later. Yes, that's a spoiler, but if you can't discern between the significant and insignificant in a comic then you're missing something anyway, and need all the help you can get. :P
And now I've insulted my readers I'm going to go somewhere else…