Story Arcs
- Comic
- 01. Imaginate!
- 02. The Game
- 03. Cat Tail
- 04. The Raccoons
- 05. The Adventures of Spot
- 06. Fido's Return
- 07. Mouse Mouse Revolution
- 08. Thematic Arc of Questionable Quality
- 09. The Zoo
- 10. The Grove
- 11. Housepets Christmas
- 12. The Yarn Ball
- 13. The Further Adventures of Spot
- 14. The Vet
- 15. A Mouse Named Spo
- 16. Zap!
- 17. Fall of the Pridelands
- 18. The Continuing Adventures of Spot
- 19. A Sinister Shadow
- 20. Roadtrip Woo
- 21. Down At The Farm
- 22. Money Sharks
- 23. n-ple Date
- 24. The Uncanny Adventures of Spot
- 25. The Visitor
- 26. Oops I Arced
- 27. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life
- 27.5 All the King's Men (prose)
- 28. Ocean's Two
- 29. Imaginate, Too!
- 30. The Present
- 31. Spot McCloud Presents Comics
- 32. Dog Days of Summer
- 33. Theme Park World
- 34. The Adventures of Stripe
- 35. Movie Night
- 36. Scaredy Cats
- 37. Noob Tube
- 38. Hope of the Pridelands
- 39. We're Snowed In!
- 40. The Preeminent Adventures of Spot
- 41. The Arc Specifically About Being Naked
- 42. Not All Dogs
- 43. The Great Water Balloon War
- 44. Let's Imaginate Macbeth!
- 45. The Interview
- 46. The Case of the Aztec Gold
- 47. A Respite In The Country
- 48. Spots and Stripes
- 49. A Holiday at the Zoo
- 50. Housepets Babies!
- 51. Show Business
- 52. What Money Buys
- 53. The Mall
- 54. The Critical Review of Spot
- 55. The Trial in Heaven
- 56. Let's Imaginate Guys and Dolls!
- 57. Testing Grounds
- 58. Taking Cover
- 59. PsyCon
- 60. Getting Physical
- 61. PsyCon2: PsyConner
- 62. The Retroactively Continuous Adventures of Spot
- 63. Temple Crashers
- 64. All Hallow's Ween
- 65. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Dog
- 66. One Cat's Treasure
- 67. Love And War
- 68. Jack Of One Trade
- 69. The King and I
- Guest Week!
- News
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Hope Sabrina can conjure some really powerful destructive magic! :3
Invocation/evocation?? This is clearly the place for a divination spell! Either that or… Does conjuration work when the targeted creature is already on the same plane of existance?
Malevolent DM in 3..2..1..
KA-BOOOOOOM!!!!
Your entire party is dead.
I wonder if we will see the kitsune smiling evilly XD
also poor Zach.. he cant get a break
He did the same thing in the haunted house.
except he fainted afterwards
I played D&D with Dave Hargrave as the DM once. My character was a goblin cleric, and we were down to two when the fighter in Plate stepped into an electrical trap, so I started running for the surface. I got lost, and stumbled into a cavern with a party of goblins sitting around a cookpot. I boldly walked up and waved… I was a goblin, too, right… and that’s when Dave said “you should have checked to see what they were cooking”.
…it was cleric, wasn’t it?
It was another goblin, they were cannibals, and I was a different tribe and therefore food.
You could tell by the way they were goblin’ them up.
oh dear for both the goblin cannibalism and the unavoidable pun
I guess they CAN fly.
I was gonna say.
Pete said it you silly bunny!
Must be Tarot (or Rick). It would be white text on black if it were Pete.
The tags indicate the grue itself is speaking.
Well the line comes from the game Zork (where the grue comes from as well) and that is just the computer giving you a warning (or maybe even the players thoughts) not the grue itself.
i was wondering if that reference was going to be made
Not necessarily, Dissension…the tag might just indicate the presence of the grue. Rick includes nonspeaking beings in the tags when important, such as last comic’s ‘gargoyles’.
The tags would also include all speaking characters, would they not?
Indeed so….that’s my point. Just because its listed in the tags doesn’t automaticly mean it’s the being speaking as you assumed in your original post. Your original statement would seem to indicate your reasoning is ‘only speaking characters get tags – therefore it MUST be the grue speaking’. Q.E.D.
My reasoning is that all characters appearing in a strip are tagged. The tagged characters for this strip are Daryl, grue, Karishad, Keene, Sabrina, and Zach. Which non-grue character, aside from Zach, do you believe to be speaking in the last panel?
Speaking of which, this should be tagged gargoyles too.
Ok…I’ll grant you that point. Although (and admittedly this is an assumption on my part) the fact that the words are in a box instead of a balloon seem to indicate someone communicating with Zach through thoughts rather than being there in the room with him. Its still not absolutly certain its the grue being a Third Person Person, it could be another character Rick forgot to list, or left off intentionally to keep us guessing. Or Zach’s own mind getting to him.
I find that all of this hub-bub is vary vary intresting!!
Now here is my highpothosis,it could be either the grue or Tarot thought speaking to him.
1. I see that Rick added the “gargoyles” tag.
2. I assumed it was the grue.
Dissension the Grue in the game Zork never gave the warning and thus left you to decide what you would do, but the Grue if it would say that would be giving away its position by telling the person that it was there, so its probably an outside being interacting with Zach warning him about the Grue.
Actually I’m sure it was like the temple itself saying it, if you don’t want to get all meta, and have it be Rick.
Well it’s Pete’s temple and we already know he likes video games (Gaspar!) so even if he’s not directly saying it, he’s the one who programmed it that way. Hee.
I think Rick just wanted to make a funny reference to the Zork games.
I’m thinking that too.
I know! It’s the crazy old man who only speaks in limricks!
It is pitch black. You
are likely to be eaten
by a grue… (yeah, you)
Or his cousin, the Creepy Curmudgeon Who Speaks Only in Haiku.
Yeah just close your eyes
I can’t look!
KEEP CALM AND …. [ insert rest of the phrase here ]
You left that prity open,ex. …AND -O’ FRGET IT RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!
XO
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/you-are-likely-to-be-eaten-by-a-grue/
And be a snake
…Try to smell unappetizing.
… run back the way you came directly into the monster you were trying to avoid!!!
Uh oh Zach is in serious trouble. And I really do see Keene getting really really angry if/when he finds out whats really going on here.
If I only knew what Keene knows, I’d be pretty mad too. Sabrina being all Obi Dumb(le)dore Kenobi mysteeerious *wiggles fingers* is just annoying and potentially lethal.
Stop moving Zach! Stop moving!
Quick! Cast a light spell! He should have those right? Right?
Well … he IS the “Opener of Ways” so maybe he could … open some … ways ?
What ways to run?Or ways to hide? The only other thing could be to save himself from an alternet dimention, Which would be AUSOME!!
O_O
The woodland creatures only think he’s supposed to be the Opener, and have cool powers like in the Books of Magic…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hunter
But he’s the wrong species, so he’s really just a rabbit.
Also even if he was, Pete did say that he created false myths about the temple specifically to encourage a cat or dog to open it when the time was right. So all the “animals in harmony” stuff might be complete bunk Pete made up.
I guess “your mother was a hamster” could actually be true in a universe with anthropomorphic animals…
It may even be a compliment in Hamtaro!
“French Poodles? What are you doing in my back yard?”
“Mind your own bizness!”
Speaking of which, aren’t rock-based creatures supposed to be nearly impervious to arrows?
Notice he hit the weak part on the wings.
But these are magic(k)al arrows.
+2 Arrows Of Masonry
wouldn’t an arrow of masonry be /beneficial/ to masonry? arrow of de-masonry?
D&D Item naming conventions are weird :/
Arrows of masonry strengthen and harden stone, so that it doesn’t shift. And let me tell you, when you’re a flying, animated statue, the last thing you need is your joints hardened up. Especially when you’re flying over a pit.
~The More You Know~
Now if only Daryl had exploding tip arrows!
I must ask Marco is that a Houndour that i see there?
Why yes it is xryuan!
they are also flying over a pit so if he hits the wings like hunter said they would fall into the pit and either keep falling if it was a bottomless pit or smash into a million pieces when they do hit the bottom.
Daryl is also left-handed. Who knew?
Zach is Wil Ferrell in “Stranger Than Fiction”?
omg.. the grue!! i had to chuckle as soon as i read that! and i think that Karishad really shines in this story arc
Why oh why did it had to be the Darkness! And I presume they will be separated from all this crazy madness lol!
Wait… won’t she get in trouble of saying that she will be in trouble if she DOES explain everything or at least? I know the whole army shtick: send in a bunch of people to get/kill something without really been notify what it or even properly prepare them; but by saying something like that is Chekhov’s Gun waiting for happen, like “it can’t get worse” or telling a kid to “don’t tap the glass” you know what will happen, and a physic I find that- man I am really too into this….
Zach…meet Zork.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elder barriers!
Your mother was a hamster and your father a squeaky voiced groundsquirrel!
Alan: HEY $#@% YOU!!!!
Fetchez la vache!
Here you go.
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/06/playing-with-your-food/
NEVER SPLIT !!! N-E-V-E-R !!! ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCHHHHH !!!!!!!!! NEVEEEEEE……
It was inevitable!
That …is so sad …but SO TRUE!! (sob,snifile)
Never split Zach? I think the grue has other plans…
Wise men say – when a rabbit tangles with a grue, the result is often a case of split hares.
okay Garrison that is (rough guess) your 1,258 pun or possably more i lost track.
Two reasons the healer should never leave the team; leaves the party without support and leaves the healer pretty much defenseless.
“Your mothers were made of clay and your fathers were made out of cheese!” Hahaha! One of my favorite thing in RPGs is taunting the monsters. Bad news when your healer/cleric runs from the party though, especially when he’s about to get eaten by a grue. (I guess the sorceress/wizard/mage/you get it by now could double as a healer? No?)
……something they should have expected when they brought Zack in.
And I wikied what is a Grue. I still have no idea.
A grue is basicly a monster created for the Zork games, used to give players a reason for not just walking around blindly in dark areas out of sequence.
From many moons ago, when games required imagination… Not because they were indie, but because graphics did not exist.
Then why bother making them digital?
because it was fun i still play it occasionally
You do what you can because you must.
or because your forced to
Here you can play it online.
http://thcnet.net/zork/
Ha! I see what you did there with the grue comment.
No. Not the grue! D:
Alt-text for those who can’t access it: “and he’s a priest, so no magic missile”
These adventurers are so poorly equipped. Then again, grue repellent hasn’t been widely accessible since the fall of the Great Underground Empire.
Come on, Zach. You’re not living up to your full CoDzilla potential here.
The cowardly wolf is pretty bold once he has a pit and a ranged weapon on his side, plus he’s wasting arrows.
He’s a pretty good shot with that bow.
For a scaredy pooch he sure does!
But he does have Holy Aura and sphere of light.
Wouldn’t it depend what kind of priest he his? If he’s Anglican, his spells include “high tea” and “detect aspidistra”.
But he can’t use magic missile to attack the darkness!
Pitch black?
You’re more likely to get eaten by a bioraptor.
//reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_%28monster%29
So, I missed the original reference when making a reference of my own.
I don’t read enough.
Heya, glad to see you red!!
It the Dungeon Master.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s your conscience! It’s the grim reaper! It’s his split personality! No, it’s Superman!!!!!
has anyone just noticed that Daryl is left pawed?
Good eye!
Is Karishad doing a Gandolf impression back there?
“You shall not pass! …. unless you get at least a 90 on your finals!”
It looks to me like he’s doing a little dance to mock the gargoyles. He should be careful next to that pit.
its no fun unless there is some sort of danger!
Well worth to watch! :3
I especially liked what you did with Zach’s eyes
Quickly, Zach, attack the darkness!
Soon there gonna have to be fightin the final boss
All of this reminds me of a game called “Fire Emblem”, it is one of my favorite game and I hope the rabbit will be fine.
Kinda looks like Pete….
Every time I see Daryl’s name, I momentarily misread it as “Daryil,” and Daryil’s not even a wolf! (He certainly looks like one, though.) Curse you, Project Future!
You should have read the letter in the mailbox by the little white house.
Just for fun read the last box in Jim Backus’s voice and follow it up with “Heh heh heh, Oh, McGrue…you’ve done it again!”
“and he’s a priest, so no magic missile.”
Tell that to a White Mage in FInal Fantasy Tactics.
/casts Holy
woop woop Zork references.
Aaaaaand mandatory Zork reference.
Better not forget to pack the Phoenix Down.
Quick Sabrina, cast Enchanted Bunny and Carrot of Power!
YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES!
I finally stopped getting the annoying messages in stead of Housepets. Did anything happen while I was gone?
“If I close my eyes they can’t see me”, eh Fireball20XL? XD
Daryl is left-handed in this, because the bow is in the wornd hand, and he’s nocking arrows with his left hand ( You shouldn’t do that if you’re right handed.)
Zach is such a noob when it comes to Thriller film Theory:
1.- Never Split
2.- Never search for safety in a dark place
3.- Closing your eyes it’s not the way to make an invisiblility spell. It never was
Zach’s right about one thing: Once the grue eats him nothing will find him forever.
Grues only attack if you move.
yeah but after he heard that he’s probably running again!
Zach, be glad there are no weeping angels in there. >XD
Daryl is actually using the bow wrong. In archery no matter what you hold the bow with your left hand and fit arrows in the string with your right. This is independent of whether you are left or right-handed. Hate to be a jerk but this is archery basics and it drives me nuts >.o
That’s actually incorrect. There are definitely left handed bows around. In fact, I have one. You can tell because the gap where you put the arrow (I forget the name, it’s been a while
) is on the opposite side of the bow from a regular right handed bow. If you tried to use it right handed (bow in left hand, arrow in right), the arrow would fall out since it would be on the wrong side of the bow.
Unlike a modern recurve bow, an old fashioned bow like Daryl’s doesn’t have a specific handedness, since there’s no arrow slot. It could be used either way.
Well… 2 turns left for Zach before he is eaten.
First :
> light staff
If that fail :
> e (or w,n,s or wherever he come from)
If that fail too… er…
> undo
:3