Uh-oh…I really hope that isn’t the “she took my bending” look on Parley’s face right now.

George getting a whole lot taken out of her.

Haven't seen unyoked Parley in years. Worried this was going to happen when those glyphs were brought up.

Wait, what happened to Parley? She got it removed/disabled, even though Noa knew she was unable to use it herself??

Ah shiiiit now Parley's been reset to level 1!

"Dull"!? Parley's been interesting since she was born, it's Smitty who makes things dull! Speaking of why isn't he here, do they not want to risk him again, have Parley's teleport powers improved so she's not as reliant on him, or do they think the distortion/Zimmy's powers would screw with his?

Wow, so did Noa steal Parley's "bip" ability for good, or just make a copy?

Bismuthy background panels 1 and 3. Also: dang... :/ also: did not realize that was Parley's skill select menu, also also: wow she has (had) a lot more glyphs than I'd assumed, more like skill select menuuuuuuuuuuuu (daaaaangg)

NOOOO Not the Muscles.

Oh my, is Eglamore alright?

oh suddenly getting all the dragonslayer glyphs removed is probably not a good time

That was probably pretty painful.

Parley's arms are thin again in the last panel, seems like Noa broke/took all her runes. Which is bad in the moment, but they can be re-applied, right?

Did she just become an ordinary woman? Well, she can become a proper housewife now, apparently.

Well, at least Noa was businesslike rather than vindictive, but let’s hope Parley’s expression in the final two panels is just surprise at the ease with which she was shrugged off rather than shock from sudden internal trauma.

WHAT THE HEC

Parley! Noo…

Here is to hoping she get's those back. With interest.

Parley got robbed of her muscles too

She stole the swole!

Dull? *eyeroll* You would think that, Golem-Noa. Argh! I just want Parley to teleport behind the Strength symbol and tear it off!!

Uh oh.

God damn it...She actually COULD steal it away.

That hug was very unsatisfying for both of them.

Skinny Parley :(

Can't say that I'm a big fan of this OP character thing as an element... Character is OP and then some time later it's super easy, barely an inconvenience to defeat them... I mean, for all we know, Jones, if not, too bored, could swipe in and simply remove the entire timeline of said OP character from existence... Um, that said, I really love this comic, just to be clear :D

Oh, dear. Poor Parley! I wish George were here. Although if she stole his powers, that would be especially dangerous!

How? That would be like the instant removal of a lung, a muscle, something you need without thinking.

guess we can't call it _gun_nerkrigg anymore since she took away the gunshow

Can Noa take natural abilities? If so I am not sure how they are going to deal with her since she can counter anything they could do to her.

So her teleportation is natural but her muscles aren't, and now they're gone. Ironic.

Depowered... But at least ok-

Got any games on yo phone?

Oh no! Did she in-buff Parley??

Bye-bye beefy Parley

Hi Tom! Would it be possible for you to upload higher resolution images of the pages? 600x850 was great in 2005, but now our monitors are much, much higher resolution than 21 years ago. Maybe add it as a paid tier on patreon? idk, but I know I'd love to see these pages in better quality!

Rude!

Look like Parsley fighting a runic thief and she just lost her dragon slayer rune.

Did she just steal Parley’s BIP? Is Parley now BIPless? So this thing can steal anyone’s abilities? So you just need to convince her to steal Zimmy’s….. right?

Kat's powers aren't etheric in nature. I bet Kat will be her counter and assimilate her powers like she did with omega and the arrow.

Ah no no no no no. Please do not have that wonderful young woman depowered. Not permanently...please. And I guess I am super slow, but has the big white gossipy dragon person always been a lady? There was a pronoun recently and I thought...all this time she's been a her...or is it "she"? Either way....how embarrassing. And I thought that it was such a gender assumption challenge to have a male character who gossips....but it were a lady dragon all this time...

Did she steal her muscles, too?!

Sister! Noa's hogging all the glyphs again!

Did Noa just steal her gains? Sidenote, does this mean Eglamore is only that beefy by way of magic?

They are still TOTALLY gonna have to neutralize her eventually.

Not her muscles!!

has she snatched all the glyphs? is parley defenseless now?

She didn't earn it!!! Noa is so cool. I hope she really kicks the team's ass for a bit.

What was the point of learning that Noa’s body isn’t the target if everyone’s going to continue to attack it and not even bother with the other form? This scene is becoming confusing to me…

wait, was Noa able to steal Parley's inherent teleportation?!?!?! does this mean that Parley can't bip anymore?! ohhhhh my days

This worries me immensely

A friend of mine has a t-shirt with 2d20 showing 40, and a caption that reads "Yeah, they're natural." She is particularly cheeky about wearing it as she is very much not a busty woman. Seemed appropriate to mention here. Sorry your beefs got took Georgie. Now the question is what type of natural strength will it take to overcome all this artificially acquired strength.

OH MY GOD HER GAINS ARE GONE

Wait did she just snatch Parley's power? Parley's not a glyph power? Can she get Annie's fire ability?

Well she might need to get some new wards

A glyph stealer seems like a terrifying thing in the court. Makes me wonder why glyph-tech is not universal to everyone in the court: what's powering parleys glyphs.

When she takes powers, does she just learn them or take them “from” the person? Can she take Annie’s powers?

gotDAMN, she straight up just goes to the settings

nooooo parleyy i was worried thus would happen :(

Tom, I am BEGGING you to please end the whole "ooooooh look how tough Noa is!" portion of the story. This is... not great. Nobody wants to see this. What we wanted was Noa and the witches being built up as badasses, and then getting absolutely no-diffed by Annie and friends.

Uh-oh. Parley got de-buff right fast. That's... terrifying.

Ooooo now I really don't like her!!!

Oh, Parley :(

Really hoping Noa winds up getting blown up by all her glyphs going off at once.

Sorry, I'm not really buyin' that Noa can take away her muscles. Not all of them, at least. Didn't Georgie say she got some of that from "opening channels" in her body? Didn't think that had anything to do with glyphs...

Oh no.

Maybe her accent will come back

And Noa's *still* going easy on them...

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Oh man, I hope Parley kept her old clothes around. Otherwise, she might need a whole new wardrobe.

OP villain is OP, plz nerf! The consequences of glyph based strength! I don't find Noa and the other witches particularly interesting or compelling, so I hope this wraps up soon because this is only 1 of 5. Noa is one hell of a threshold guardian though, I will admit.

itd be cool if she could teach kat how to read the robot code

Now I'm worried she'll get muscle wasting relating to reduced blood flow.

I don't think I wanna play with you anymore... Byyyyyeeee woooodyyyyyy....

That is... tough. Brave Parley - loosing some for the team!

Yoink!

She really said "If I can't be a Muscle Mommy no one else can." Goodbye jacked Parley o7

'Cause you don't throw the pack away just because the card you wanted wasn't in there. ;)

O-O

She took her guns!!! Her beautiful guns!

if she dont get her muscles back im rioting, tom

They can get the circle off the golem's forehead and then the golem goes back in time all the way to the beginning and becomes Jones. That's how there's that one indestructible unchanging form of a woman, I guess.

tell me it's a faerie illusion, it must be. Parley can't be so stubborn and suddenly lose all his intelligence. They must have agreed on something with Ailuu, right? Yes?!

probably an unpopular opinion but Parley looks way better like a normal person instead of someone who mainlines creatine every day of their life

Decades of work for that :( Parley!!! You can see her buffness is gone now.

All her physical development is magic? Poor Parley, she's like a mini Parley now. No more muscle mommy for Smitty.