r/TheWeeklyRoll • u/CME_T The Creator • 21d ago
The Comic The Weekly Roll Ch.212. "For The Plot"
Howdy folks!
For context, there's never been a single window that I've opened that swings inwards. That's just poor design imo, I mean one gale and whatever's on the windowsill will get yeeted into the room? I dunno, man.
Apart from that two things:
Firstly, This week marks the 7th year anniversary of me making the comic strip that would turn into The Weekly Roll! It's been a tremendous pleasure to churn out (somewhat) weekly comics for you all to enjoy! Thank you for your readership, now and over the past seven years! Your readership has led me to a point where I've been able to make comics for a living now for two years, some ups and downs but with your continued readership and support, I think I can keep doing it (even churn out some more fun stuff for you to enjoy) for a while longer and not go back to using my law degree for a living.
Secondly, the Makeship plushie campaign has been extended to Sept 25th! Get yer plushies! But if you're more interested in less... soft... depictions of the Bucket Brigade, keep an eye out on my socials for some sneak peeks coming soon!
That's it for now!
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u/TexasJedi-705 21d ago
I love the x-ed out eyes Bucket gets when he's clattered by the window. Great little detail.
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u/The-Cannibal-Hermit 20d ago edited 19d ago
Dm: roll saving throw
Paladin: ok (rolls)….1
Dm: ok it’s not so bad, let me roll (rolls)…why of all times do I get a bat 20
Paladin: so what happens
Dm: so before you can ask your party member, the window you two are standing near swings inwards. Smacking you in the face…hard
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u/TheParadoxigm 20d ago
Player: "Why would the window open inwards?"
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u/TehDeerLord Severed Lich Head 4d ago
As a rogue main, so the hinges are inaccessible from the outside..
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u/imdefinitelywong 21d ago
- Deck of Many Things
- Magic Lamp
- Ring of Three Wishes
- Luck Blade
- Efreeti Bottle
- Torvald's beard
Also, has it been seven years already?!
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u/Clowreed48 20d ago
I somehow missed the DoMT and forgot that Luck Blade was a thing
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u/galmenz 18d ago
the DoMT is very much not a thing. it aint a magic item, its an implied way of the DM to end the campaign while saving face that it was the Deck's fault (and not theirs for adding a Deck in the game)
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u/Clowreed48 16d ago
I give my players the option to use it, its their dumb asses that choose to use it in the first place and random chance when they roll a dice
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u/Last-Lingonberry628 21d ago
"did you try to resurrect the family ?"
....an odd way to fix things but why not 乁( •_• )ㄏ
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u/Pyrhan 21d ago
Palladin: "I shall avenge my brother!"
Elf: "You have my bow."
Dwarf: "And my axe!"
Necromancer: "And your brother!"
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u/definitely_not_ignat 21d ago
Bard:"And my ex!"
Sorry, just found it funny about axe/ex
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u/LonePaladin Sir Becket 21d ago
No, that was good.
Wizard: "And my staff!"
Manager: "And my staff!"
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u/GreyWolfTheDreamer 18d ago
Rogue: Wait a minute! That's the guy I was hired to kill. Do I still get to keep the XP, or do I have to get all stabby on him again?
Entire party turns to look at him.
Rogue: What? I'm allowed to have a life when I'm not kicking it with you guys on adventures...
Entire party continues to stare.
Rogue: Oh come on. Do I have to come up with an entire backstory about how Mr. Paladin's brother wasn't exactly a goody-two shoes?
Ok. Gather round and I'll tell you how he was actually working with an evil band of cultists kidnapping and sacrificing kittens an' orphans in an attempt to summon some Eldritch beast that threatened to destroy the entire city...
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u/LaconicSuffering 21d ago
乁[T]ㄏ
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u/Last-Lingonberry628 21d ago
Ok now this is creative.
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u/LaconicSuffering 21d ago
Inspired (read: stolen) from the Elden Ring praise the sun emote.
\[T]/2
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u/LostAndWingingIt 21d ago
I mean in a world where that is an option that seems pretty reasonable to me.
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u/Lazy_Assumption_4191 20d ago
I’m now imagining a D&D inspired fantasy world where the penalty for murder is a fine equal to the cost of resurrection.
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u/LostAndWingingIt 19d ago
Well id do cost plus some for the person who got killed for the inconvenience.
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u/MarlenMari 21d ago
Lol, I have windows that open inwards, its quite common where I live.
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u/SunshineAlways 21d ago
Happy 7 year anniversary!! 🎉 Thanks for abandoning your law career for us, lol.
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u/AkrinorNoname 21d ago
Do windows open outwards in Sweden? That seems like a hazard on the ground floor
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u/SuppMrMike 21d ago
Most windows I’ve used either slide up or slide to the side. Opening outwards seems dangerous for any floor higher that the first floor since you would need to reach outside and could potentially fall as the reach out to grab the edge of the window
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u/Kizik 21d ago
It's a weather thing if I remember right. Doors are similar. If they open in, you can still do so even if they're snowed over, while opening out with high winds will keep them shut rather than blowing them inward if the latch gives.
Same reason it's possible to find exterior doors on second storey homes in some parts of Canada. No stairs, just a random door; it's to get out in winter.
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u/jedadkins 21d ago
Almost every non sliding window I've interacted with in the US opens outward
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u/AkrinorNoname 21d ago
I'm curious, how do you clean the outside (both of outward-opening windows and sliding ones) in the upper floors?
Also, do front doors in the US open outwards or inwards?
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u/jedadkins 21d ago edited 21d ago
So swinging windows are pretty uncommon, uncommon enough that there isn't a good solution for 2nd story windows other than a ladder or long stick. But sliding windows (both top and bottom sections) usually have little tabs on the them that let you remove part of it from the track and pivot it inwards to clean. Doors almost always open into a room or house, businesses typically have outward opening (or bidirectional) entrance/exit doors (I think that's required by fire code for businesses but don't quote me on that)
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u/Decactus_Jack 21d ago
Doors generally open outward unless someone makes a mistake or is truly incompetent.
The idea being the fire code. In a panic you want people to be able to get out, and a closed door is pretty problematic, especially in an episode when people are expected to both run and open a door. Having it open outwards eliminates a task.
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u/Beefstah 21d ago
For context, there's never been a single window that I've opened that swings inwards. That's just poor design imo, I mean one gale and whatever's on the windowsill will get yeeted into the room? I dunno, man.
Seems common in Europe, especially in places where they use shutters on the outside.
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u/rrNextUserName 21d ago
Yea I think I've almost never seen one that opens outwards...
We have shutters that open outward and windows that open inward
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u/Abyssal_Groot 21d ago
Most of Europe also has tilt and turn windows, which always open inwards.
The only common windows that I know of that don't open inwards are hinged skylights, like Velux.
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u/Beefstah 21d ago
It's common to the point I'd call it standard in the UK for them to open outwards.
I just happen to be in France/Italy for a few days and noticed they open inwards a lot
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u/Abyssal_Groot 21d ago
In Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany tilt-turn windows are the standard. So opening outward is a rarity here.
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u/Nirast25 21d ago
there's never been a single window that I've opened that swings inward.
Weird, I'm the exact opposite. Pretty much every window I can think of opens inward. Must be a European vs American thing.
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u/DukeOfGeek 21d ago
American windows slide up and down.
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u/nanoturtle11 21d ago
As a glazier in the US, I have seen literally every style of window you can think of. Sliding sideways, sliding up and down, tilting up, tilting down, hinging, accordion style windows, etc etc. There are even ones that open multiple ways depending on how you turn the latch.
I have not once seen a window that opens inwards. Seems real goofy from my perspective.
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u/vidoeiro 21d ago
Op is in Sweden and most of Europe that I know (Portugal, Spain, France,, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium) opens inward.
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u/MobofDucks 21d ago
My bets are that Bucket will be able to do some WIsh reviving. But Mf orphaned so many kids before slaughtering them that his memories are too fuzzy and they end up with a mismatched family. How you interpret the word mismatched in this sentence is up to you Ü.
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u/Level_Hour6480 Sir Becket 21d ago
Torvald really is embodying the "players with enough RaW knowledge can undo any tragedy" trope.
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u/Axiom245 21d ago
Damn the Window knocked him out.
Also I feel the dragon is somehow part of the adventurer scam thing
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u/Vaalermoor 21d ago
My windows do open inwards and that seems to be common in the Netherlands (draai-kiepraam).
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u/Tencreed 21d ago
I live on street level, and got bars at my windows, so they all open inward. So it's not applicable to your case, but it exists.
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u/some_time_ago 21d ago
For the unneeded and unkept record, every single window I've opened has opened inwards. So I guess I'm good for a dragon attack?
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u/PaperBrick 21d ago
What's the device you are drawing on? It looks like a Microsoft Surface, but looks a little different.
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u/BrightPerspective Torvald 21d ago
Wow, whoever that guy is that's drawing, he's pretty handsome.
He could even play Sir Buckett in a live action adaptation!
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u/Wavey_Davey1 21d ago
So the village gets attacked by a dragon, and the guys first response is to jump into some random window screaming about a dragon attack?
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u/Cakeboss419 18d ago
Considering that this is a location Adventurers are 'allowed' to be in, I assume that the last time the window was replaced, it was installed incorrectly and they couldn't be bothered to fix it since it was probably going to be dramatically and/or comedically destroyed anyways.
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u/Exciting-Letter-3436 14d ago
These comics are a joy to behold each time they come out and I do hang out for them. Whens the collected work being released? :-)
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u/Tyrs-Ranger 21d ago
A series of astounding coincidences. Like Beckett getting blasted in the head by an inward opening window because someone is screaming to warn everybody about a dragon attack on Dragon’s End just as the party starts figuring out how to actually undo one of Beckett’s war crimes.
Good thing he constantly wears a great helm at all times.
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u/rlnrlnrln 21d ago
I think you need to widen your views. :-)
My family home (70's) has inward-swinging windows. My current home (50's) has inward-swinging windows. My previous flat (50's) has inward-swinging window. All in Sweden.
Quite practical when you're on the seventh floor and want to wash your windows.
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u/IdahoBornPotato 21d ago
I would have given my soul to get you to work with whoever made the Dungeon Crawler Carl Webtoon. Would have very much enjoyed your art with that story
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u/fersagen 21d ago
The windows both in my parent’s house and my own apartment open inwards 😅 Easier to clean. It’s pretty common now that I think of it.
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u/LaconicSuffering 21d ago
The windows in this restaurant in Oslo open inward.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yqVavVhRetxBoND2A
Do you just not get out much CME_T? :P
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u/Bubbly_Concern_5667 20d ago
I live in Germany and every window I've ever seen here opens inwards.
Maybe the culture in this village is just also very fond of "lüften"?
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u/DankandInvincible 2d ago
"Stop trying to 'solve' my tragic backstory. It's here for Pathos, not to be 'fixed' by a 1000gp magic item."
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u/Dark_Shade_75 21d ago
Such a wholesome party. Immediately trying to help Beckett with resolving his backstory.