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I'd be completely fine with V either killing or baleful polymorphing elan. Anything to keep him from talking so much.
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Taber posted:New Strip! That was quite an abrupt 180 of Elan's intelligence.
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Sep 29, 2008 17:36
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shadysight posted:That was quite an abrupt 180 of Elan's intelligence. Yea I thought that too. One moment he's being pretty sharp and capably tossing around snarky illusions, and the next he's clueless as a post again. On the other hand, it was probably the best possible way to deal with that confrontation, so maybe he was actuallly being pretty canny.
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Ashcans posted:Yea I thought that too. One moment he's being pretty sharp and capably tossing around snarky illusions, and the next he's clueless as a post again. On the other hand, it was probably the best possible way to deal with that confrontation, so maybe he was actuallly being pretty canny.
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Sep 29, 2008 18:13
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You know, I really wish that more CRPG's would give you the same opportunity to handle lovely little side-antagonists in the same way that V handled Lord Kubota.
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Sylphosaurus posted:You know, I really wish that more CRPG's would give you the same opportunity to handle lovely little side-antagonists in the same way that V handled Lord Kubota.
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Sep 29, 2008 18:56
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I just like to think Burlew is using V as the avatar of most of the e-mails he gets and is sort of admitting the whole Azure City thing is the worst thing ever.
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Sep 29, 2008 19:41
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I still don't really buy V's going all nutso, the previous strips didn't really give the impression that he was THAT much of a friend to Haley, but I did enjoy him telling Elan to shut the gently caress up and mocking his "You don't know how hard it is to be faithful" thing.
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Oct 2, 2008 17:26
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Great joke forcefully eliminating a dragging storyline and then whoops jump right back in with words words words belaboring the point
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RentACop posted:I still don't really buy V's going all nutso, the previous strips didn't really give the impression that he was THAT much of a friend to Haley, but I did enjoy him telling Elan to shut the gently caress up and mocking his "You don't know how hard it is to be faithful" thing. He isnt going nutso. This is perfectly in line with his personality, only its his personality under extreme stress, with no sleep, and racked with guilt and shame over his own failures despite being an incredibly powerful magic user. also he is an elf(high elf?) Johnny Aztec fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Oct 2, 2008 |
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In addition he is obviously pissed off at everybody else being terribly distracted from the main plot. 
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RentACop posted:I still don't really buy V's going all nutso, the previous strips didn't really give the impression that he was THAT much of a friend to Haley, but I did enjoy him telling Elan to shut the gently caress up and mocking his "You don't know how hard it is to be faithful" thing. Who says he's worried about Haley he just wants his bestest buddy and sidekick Belkar back.
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New strip, featuring the most metal headstone ever.   Click here for the full 699x933 image.
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Cabbit posted:New strip, featuring the most metal headstone ever. That is a ridiculously awesome headstone. I wonder if Therkla's going to run into Roy in the afterlife.
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Oct 3, 2008 14:18
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ZorbaTHut posted:That is a ridiculously awesome headstone. Doubtful, unless it's immediately after death. There's no way they're of the same alignment.
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Roy isn't in LG heaven right now, I think. He's in, for lack of a better term, General Receiving.
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I am totally going to sign up for that funerary service.
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Well, we're likely due for either Elan to start explaining what happened, or a transition to one of the other two groups, be it Roy or Haley.
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LightWarden posted:Well, we're likely due for either Elan to start explaining what happened, or a transition to one of the other two groups, be it Roy or Haley. Well, we're on the cusp of strip #600, so something's gotta happen. My bet: V runs into that little imp that's still out there, and gets his prophecy fulfilled.
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Vanadium posted:In addition he is obviously pissed off at everybody else being terribly distracted from the main plot. The characters in OotS have often worked on multiple levels -- Miko also being a caricature of players who play jerk paladins, Belkar being a caricature of the high-body-count chaotic player, etc. In this case, V's player is something of a powergamer who really, really hates losing or being powerless. The party's already hosed up one encounter with Xykon and got spanked in another, the Elan side-plots are full of RP possibilities but not a whole lot else, and Elan's basically been about as useful as a -4 suit of ham-sandwich-maille against Xykon anyway; this is the part of the campaign where a powergamer-type would start to get really sick of the RPer's bullshit.
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Actually the only thing V is doing is roleplaying. If he really wants to break through Xykon's cloister spell he shouldn't be researching (as Haley told him in the origins book) she should be out there killing things for XP.
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You know, I found the engraving on the headstone rather touching. Maybe I'm going soft.
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Strudel Man posted:Perhaps he's been faking being dimwitted all along. I get the impression from the most recent strip that Elan couldnt bring himself to fully understand what V was saying to him. He does get the general gist of whats happening to him, he admits as much to dead Therkla. "What would Roy do about Varsuvius?" He knows something really ugly is going down.
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You know, you'd think V would keep a Fox's Cunning memorized for making Elan competent in an emergency. Even if not, it would never hurt to have on hand to pump his own spells' save DCs (unless that headband he wears is an intellect booster, which wouldn't suprise me).
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You're forgetting that V considers everything except for him and his magic to be worthless. Doing something like that would be admitting that he might need Elan's help at some point; not something he's about to do.
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Oct 6, 2008 23:30
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Hardly. He had an Owl's wisdom memorized that he used to allow belkar to cast a cure light wounds scroll way way back. Could make for a joke where he tries to explain something to Elan, gives him the buff, then Elan ceases to understand the concept when the spell wears off or something.
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Burlew dropped the ball in that last panel, it should have been 'Attack of Opportunity' joke 
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Yes Burlew, please further split up the cast and prevent us from advancing the main plot.
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At this point I think he's scrambling for stuff to do because he can't decide how he wants to reunite the party.
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Well, an "easy" route would be something along the lines of: Let Var be talked into "gaining power" by the little imp thing, commence demonic possession followed by carnage in the general vicinity. Draw separated party from various directions to fight said carnage, resurrecting Roy pre-conflict as party regroups for tactical nous. Battle with demon-Var, be ready to kill them before Elan convinces otherwise in typical clichéd hero style. Save the day, rescuing a conveniently threatened township/city, deposit people on ships in the grateful city to help with rebuild/repopulation. Then go and get on with their original quest.
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You know what would be even easier? Have Belkar's group's cleric friend use god drat sending, since he wouldn't be affected by cloister and tell him to say "Yo! This is where we are!"
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mango sentinel posted:Yes Burlew, please further split up the cast and prevent us from advancing the main plot.
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mango sentinel posted:Yes Burlew, please further split up the cast and prevent us from advancing the main plot. Are you so tired of reading OOTS that you want Burlew to sprint to the end of it, just to get it over with, or something? Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Oct 9, 2008 |
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Wolfsheim posted:You know that 'main plot' came hundreds of strips in, right? Also, who cares? Was everyone pissed off during the awesome Nale kidnapping Roy's sister plot too, back in the day? To be honest, a little bit
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Wolfsheim posted:You know that 'main plot' came hundreds of strips in, right? Also, who cares? Was everyone pissed off during the awesome Nale kidnapping Roy's sister plot too, back in the day? I think people are so tired of reading the side plot that really doesn't matter, that they want ANYTHING related to the main plot to happen. I'd like to see something involved with the gates, but I'm happy with the journey, as long as Burlew doesn't keel over before it finishes.
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Wow, first of all I should have learned by now that there is a thread for everything on SA. Now then, after skimming the first 130 odd pages I have a few questions; 1) Why is everyone referring to "V" as a guy? 2) Why do some of you want this story to end prematurely? Beyond that it's good to have fellow fans to converse with 
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Kleedrac posted:Wow, first of all I should have learned by now that there is a thread for everything on SA. Now then, after skimming the first 130 odd pages I have a few questions; 1) Some do, some don't. His/her gender is intentionally ambiguous, though some argue Burlew originally intended V to be male. 2) Not prematurely, but some feel that this sidequest is taking too much time, and want to get back to the main plot. Most like the Order better when they are together.
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