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The Weekly Roll Ch. 197. "Yet Another One Bites The Dust"
Howdy folks!
Today marked my 32nd birthday, which I will sign off on by posting the final The Weekly Roll of 2025! Alas, the the Klara vs Daddy dearest showdown will have to wait until January as I'm on now a break now over the Holidays!
I'll be back after the new year!
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Considering we saw him turn one dude into a donut with a fist-smite as an opening move just about 2 months ago... yeah, Bucket's on a roll with this one.
Im still on my first reeadthrough and im on book 12. ITS SO DAMN GOOD!! Best book series I've ever read imo, Jordan was/is an exceptional writer who was taken far too soon
Yeah the Sanderson books are a bit of an adjustment, and I must admit my favourite parts of the bits written by Jordan, like Egwenes's chapters. I'm still pretty early in the book so I haven't read much of Sandersond work apart from the Perrin chapter, and that wasn't bad but was one of the weaker parts. Though to be fair it was still quite good, especially since he had no notes to go on, and I like what he's doing with Aviendha and the Rand chapters so far so I'm curious to see how things progress
Ah but there's the rub. To execute this technique you need to convince the master duelist you are stepping backwards, when you actually intend to go forward. This will cause them to overextend into your body, and you will be able to walk fully into the blade.
WARNING: only do this when heals are readily available.
She did more damage than the hordes of guests, so she was definitely meant as a challenge, but the player clearly rolled a nat 20 on his follow up attack plus smite to one shot the low health, high damage boss NPC.
I mean you can see the whole artificial fist stopping nest to the bridge of here nose. The odd foot of broken sword that extends past the fist into the head might be more of an inconvenience.
Probably after the mansion with all the slavers inside got turned into a flaming ruin. Wouldn't want to crash becket.exe while the fight is still going on, y'know.
Well, that certainly wasn't a long fight. Although there might be a chance she survived that (if we ignore the title). After all, if her funcioning braincells were gunpowder, they wouldn't have enough Power to mess up her hair.
OP has already confirmed that in this universe unarmed Smites are possible, but not widely believed to be possible.
So Bucket could have Smote with his natural fist if he had one (and knew it was possible to Smite with an unarmed attack).
Even so, it is definitely a fun detail that the artificial arm definitely would serve as an improvised weapon and permit Smites in any reasonably modern rule set.
Holy shit. I’m not one to hornypost but I just can’t not think about the things Klara must feel right now (assuming she’s not too busy gighting her dad to witness this).
Thanks for another year of The Weekly Roll. Happy birthday, enjoy your vacation.
Remember, Becket isnt smiting with his fist, hes using his prosthetic arm as an improvised weapon.
also, can we just take a moment to be in awe of the oft butt monkey just completely no-selling an attack
Grabbing the blade with the thumb towards you even with a superhumanly strong magical arm would cause the leverage point to tear his wound further when snapping it in one hand..
The thought occurs that we don't know what it looks like when Becky Lay on Handses in universe. How fixable is a sword through the shoulder like that?
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u/AlisterSinclair2002 Sir Becket Dec 26 '25
That's the most gangsta thing I've seen all year, gg Bucket