I don't think it will be that easy, Anarch. You're up against someone who used to work as a superhero -- they've got plot armor!

Looks like we got another fight on our hands.

Brave but not a fool, huh? Yyyeah, that's a fine line, and I don't think he's on the side of it he thinks he's on. On a related note, to me this reflects a dichotomy that's emerged in a lot of stories I've seen these days: you can either be a brave idiot or a smart coward, there's no middle ground.

Also if Ssathe can "alter reality on a whim" I don't see why he doesn't just snap is fingers and instantly poof Rhen to safety. But then it's not my story, so I can't claim to know all the rules here.

Or you can be a brave coward and a smart idiot.
I have seen it happen, it's not quite so fine a line as it may seem painted.

Well, those tend to be easy extremes, more or less, because they're commonly linked assets and flaws. Courage comes easy who don't know any better, either by honest stupidity or ignorance, and intelligence is generally portrayed as breeding caution, which is only a few steps shy of cowardice. They're well known and fairly well understood character archetypes.

As for the "rules" and "alter reality on a whim", I think he means in more general terms. It's like how Akkadian tried to call out Ssathe about how something should not have worked; Ssathe can rewrite the rules of reality, but likely only to a point, and the fact that I believe Akkadian is at least fluent in chaos magic, just not as well as Ssathe, may have complicated the more direct approach. That, and I'd suspect that Akkadian had some kind of defense against magical interference. But that's just me theorizing. That, and technology tends to be based on science, which is a set of generally set rules that follows the principals of logic, and from my experience, when logic is pitted against chaos, chaos tends to have the advantage.

However, you do remind me of a good quote: "Is it better to be a fool or a coward? A fool may get things done occasionally, but cowards live longer."

Ahh, the ever classic over confident villain. Otherwise known as "superus punching bagus"

Menacing grin is menacing! X3

So it begins for them.

Jump cut to them walking away as his arm sticks out of a steaming crater.
Anarch: "Wha..whuhappened?"

Ooh he did the thing with the hood! I love when they do that!

"I'M SO ANXIOUS TO RIP YOU APART!"

If Anarch has jello limbs I'm gonna freak

Tsk. Sure have a lot of moving parts working in harmony for a chaos guy. Sure would be a shame if someone had to introduce some entropy into that body of yours.

"Who the frell are you?"
"My name is inconsequential at this time. You ma-"
"Aww, man, your parents really must've not liked you, Inconsequential."


[groan]

beware the silly ones? we shall see.

I'm sorry, I can't help but see the most derpy face in that moon-planet-thing in the first panel. A :3 but with O.o eyes. Maybe Charlie Brown-esque?

Anyways, stuff's happening! Plot! Story! Neat!