Thief won't stab BM.....he's rather afraid of him by now, considering that BM can kill him without really trying, Fighter is the only one immune to stabbity death and RM can heal himself if he reacts in time (and if BM attacks from the front, and if he decides to sacrifice a spell slot and risk being less versatile)

I would think if Thief decided to backstab Black Mage right now, he'd regret it. All that magical energy has to go somewhere, and it could not be good for Thief if he stabbed, or otherwise incapacitated the focus for that energy. Big backlash.

Whiny "that was my idea" and "I said that better" posts deleted. Now grow up. The world doesn't revolve around you folks who posted an idea first, nor does anyone give a rat's ass about who posted it better except you.

Keep that bullshit in PM cause we ain't having it in the main forum.

Lastly, nobody cares who posted first or how close the second person posted. For god's sake, that is so old that my grandma bitches about gokuxx5672 who got the first post on Ye Towne Centre Bulletin for comic #16. Get over it, because it's retarded.

theorizing here, conclude what you will....but, perhaps it's just me...BM's violence has become progressively pointless and more extreme? I mean, instead of just stabbing RM and Fighter, he's going to use his massive Hadoken, distroy the volcano, vaporize them and then have Thief burn up in the atmosphere...isnt that just...overdoing it...just a little bit?

Perhaps this exessiveness means something?

Well, he is planning to blow up the world, y'know. He might as well take this entire chunk out of it now, while he's at it anyway.

Plus, have you ever taken your anger out on something? Say a pillow, or a brick wall (don't try the latter)? The harder you swing, the more anger you can get out of your system. Well, BM probably has quite a bit built up by now, since most of his previous attempts at blowing off steam have failed. It may just be enough to wipe out that chunk of the planet. I mean, getting stuck back in a material body is still probably fresh in his mind too.

Well, imagine you're BM. You have been trying for literally DAYS (go back and count how many night have passed. If I'm not mistaken, roughly a week has passed in the strip's world) to kill these guys, and now you're on the verge of succeeding, and it seems nothing can possibly stop you. Wouldn't you want to take a few minutes to savor it?

My first inclination is that Thief will stab BM, because its the obvious place to go.
My second inclination is that Thief will not stab BM, because it is the ovious place to go. Instead, he will be about to stab him, and something completely different will occur, probably the introduction of another long forgotton running gag that will stop BM from accomplishing his plan.

ok the thing I dont get is why hit the mountain at all. One could say he wants to reach the correct volcano but fact is BM couldn't care less about the fire orb.

To increase the devastation his hadoken will cause.

There's even a graph!