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Prediction: V's family will be fine, but watching whatever he does to the dragon will convince them that she's gone off the deep end since leaving elven lands.
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...shouldn't a Succubus report to Director Cedrick (CE for chaotic) rather than Director Lee (LE for lawful) ???
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Mar 13, 2009 18:23
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She's chaotic, man, she'll cut deals with whoever and not give a gently caress. That's how we roll.
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Mar 13, 2009 18:25
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bison wings posted:...shouldn't a Succubus report to Director Cedrick (CE for chaotic) rather than Director Lee (LE for lawful) ??? I noticed that on my first read-through, too. 
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Mar 13, 2009 21:12
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Lee is also the one that introduced the chaotic sorcerer, so names are probably just misleading.
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Mar 13, 2009 21:33
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drat that was some grade-A taunting there from V. I mean, just drat
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Mar 13, 2009 22:34
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The dragon's confidence is gone. It knows it's hosed.
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Mar 13, 2009 22:36
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I liked the little nudges at what else the succubus does for Director Lee. "Working under, keeping abreast, nudge nudge wink wink."
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Mar 13, 2009 23:08
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Eh, maybe succubi are LE in this world, it certainly makes sense with the idea of them being temptresses, which is why 4e dragged them over to the other side. Or she could just be LE for the heck of it. Or maybe Lee is chaotic evil, or maybe she's CE working for LE because whatever. And here I thought one mystery was solved.
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Mar 14, 2009 00:44
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CapnAndy posted:Holy poo poo, V. Look about fifteen miles behind you -- that's the line. I'm picturing a panel of Xykon watching all this with a scrying stone and just cheering.
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Mar 14, 2009 01:01
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Nomenklatura posted:I'm picturing a panel of Xykon watching all this with a scrying stone and just cheering. The best part is that he'll have no idea that it's V.
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Mar 14, 2009 01:18
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ConfusedUs posted:The best part is that he'll have no idea that it's V. He has no idea who V is under normal circumstances. He'd probably dance around the idea of being familiar with "that being" and then ask Redcloak if he'd ever met the dragon before.
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Mar 14, 2009 02:49
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bison wings posted:He has no idea who V is under normal circumstances. He'd probably dance around the idea of being familiar with "that being" and then ask Redcloak if he'd ever met the dragon before. Yes that was the joke I was trying to make, poorly.
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Mar 14, 2009 04:06
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Aw drat, I was hoping I had just realized why Nale was so sure of the Order dyeing when he sent them after the starmetal ages ago, but I don't think he knew about the dragon at all. He's just talking about things in the forest, nothing to do with the actual cave.
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Mar 14, 2009 05:24
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Yeah he didn't even know there was actually starmetal in the cave either.
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Mar 15, 2009 01:35
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Maldraedior posted:They've also said that the forums are to blame for the server taking a poo poo any time there's an update Sounds plausible, forums are complicated to run. He should put the comic on a separate host, even a virtual account is well able to serve millions of copies of flat html and a gif. My prediction is that the soul splice is hard to control alignment wise but not that hard to maintain so V could potentially be in this state for a long time.
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Mar 15, 2009 23:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Prediction: V's family will be fine, but watching whatever he does to the dragon will convince them that she's gone off the deep end since leaving elven lands. Yeah, I just see V's family losing all faith in him/her. You don't talk about how joyfully you executed someone's child and then expect your kids to look at you the same way. Just sayin'. PS oh and the CSI Miami reference in Erf actually made me smirk.
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Mar 15, 2009 23:53
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LuchadoresDelNixon posted:Yeah, I just see V's family losing all faith in him/her. You don't talk about how joyfully you executed someone's child and then expect your kids to look at you the same way. Just sayin'. It was a dragon though, and from what we've seen so far the "good" aligned humanoid races are pretty drat cavalier about slaughtering "evil" creatures without needing a reason or specific grievance against them; we all know what the sapphire guard was doing, after all. Why should we think that the elves would be any different, especially since V herself has never shown any mercy to or appreciation of "evil" life forms. I don't think Rich will go for the quick payoff here by making V's husband and kids suddenly hate her. I think it will seem like everything worked out ok for a while before the true price of the bargain becomes apparent (hmm, these entities of unfathomable evil are offering me the ultimate power in return for dominion over my soul for a short period of time. gee, it's a good thing the quest I'm on won't take me near any artifacts, like some kind of gate for example, that could have their power harnessed by these unspeakably evil demons to take over the universe!)
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Mar 16, 2009 01:25
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Liberal_L33t posted:It was a dragon though, and from what we've seen so far the "good" aligned humanoid races are pretty drat cavalier about slaughtering "evil" creatures without needing a reason or specific grievance against them; we all know what the sapphire guard was doing, after all. Why should we think that the elves would be any different, especially since V herself has never shown any mercy to or appreciation of "evil" life forms. Yep, if we don't get the big consequence of V's family renouncing him/her, then I would put good money on an Evil Willow situation where the gang has to take V down to prevent something bad happening with the Snarl. Actually, take that first "if" out - I think we'll definitely see evil V taking on Xykon one-on-one at the very very end of the arc, while everyone except maybe Haley deals with Redcloak/Linear Guild/whatever else comes up in the meantime. And I do think V's family is going to mind the carnage in the short term, since elves tend to be more touchy-feely and in tune with life forces and whatever poo poo, right?
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Mar 16, 2009 04:29
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CK07 posted:I do think V's family is going to mind the carnage in the short term, since elves tend to be more touchy-feely and in tune with life forces and whatever poo poo, right? Right, this. I think V's mate, at the least, is going to turn off. "You're not the androgyne I life-pacted with!" And so on.
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Mar 16, 2009 05:22
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So I was going through the archives, and a question arose: do we know who, or what, "Right-Eye" is?
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Mar 16, 2009 22:50
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Yea if you have Start of Darkness you know, he's Redcloaks brother' edit; Seeing the monster-in-the-dark again i'm wondering if V won't go after Xykon only to have to fight it. Could open up a lot of cool opportunities.
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Mar 16, 2009 22:57
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Cabbit posted:So I was going through the archives, and a question arose: do we know who, or what, "Right-Eye" is? It's in Start of Darkness, Right-Eye is Redcloak's brother. He only has his right eye see.
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Mar 16, 2009 22:57
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HKR posted:It's in Start of Darkness, Right-Eye is Redcloak's brother. When they hook up with Xykon for the first time is one of the funniest moments in the comic Yes I know it probably doesn't have to be spoilered but eh..
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Mar 16, 2009 23:00
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I'm gonna have to pick up Start of Darkness tomorrow when I get my copy of PHB2; I'm missing out on too much stuff, I think.
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Mar 17, 2009 00:35
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So, Bards come out pretty soon for Fourth Edition and one of the players in my group went all suicidal this week with his thief/wizard just so he could be a bard, apparently. When I asked him why, he said he wants to be a bard like Elan, and I said, you know you'll die real quick if you're that clueless...
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Mar 17, 2009 00:37
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Cabbit posted:I'm gonna have to pick up Start of Darkness tomorrow when I get my copy of PHB2; I'm missing out on too much stuff, I think. It's really drat good. Mister Burke posted:So, Bards come out pretty soon for Fourth Edition and one of the players in my group went all suicidal this week with his thief/wizard just so he could be a bard, apparently. When I asked him why, he said he wants to be a bard like Elan, and I said, you know you'll die real quick if you're that clueless... You're a bastard if you won't let someone have that much fun. 
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Mar 17, 2009 00:58
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Mister Burke posted:So, Bards come out pretty soon for Fourth Edition and one of the players in my group went all suicidal this week with his thief/wizard just so he could be a bard, apparently. When I asked him why, he said he wants to be a bard like Elan, and I said, you know you'll die real quick if you're that clueless... The absolute best characters I've played have been insane, drunk or clueless.
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Mar 17, 2009 01:03
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Caerulius posted:The absolute best characters I've played have been insane, drunk or clueless. http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/5/
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Mar 17, 2009 01:21
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Mister Burke posted:So, Bards come out pretty soon for Fourth Edition and one of the players in my group went all suicidal this week with his thief/wizard just so he could be a bard, apparently. When I asked him why, he said he wants to be a bard like Elan, and I said, you know you'll die real quick if you're that clueless... Bard multiclassed with Trickster Rogue, Daring Acrobat Prestige Path... it might just work 
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Mar 17, 2009 03:05
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There's actually a Rakish Swashbuckler Paragon Path for the Rogue in Martial Power. Taunt your enemies and give them penalties to hit.
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Mar 17, 2009 05:11
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New strip:
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Mar 18, 2009 00:31
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Well, so much for my theory of V's family being in further danger.
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Mar 18, 2009 00:32
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Burlow sure knows how to do amazing fight scenes.
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Mar 18, 2009 00:42
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drat. V just cast eight spells in four rounds of Time Stop.
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Mar 18, 2009 00:44
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So V hadn't actually said anything since "Time Stop" for the dragon to hear. I'm guessing that means the dragon could hear the three other voices which is why she screamed "Silence!", so they aren't only in V's head. Which only makes "red light" and "green light" that much funnier.
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Mar 18, 2009 01:03
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Bell_ posted:Well, so much for my theory of V's family being in further danger. there are pieces of a gargantuan dragon carcass about to hit the ground.
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Mar 18, 2009 01:17
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Is a pink dragon a reference to what Bell posted, or an actual type of D&D dragon?
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Mar 18, 2009 01:48
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I thought it would be a cross between a lawful evil and a chaotic evil type, but apparently red and white are both chaotic. edit - then again, I had no idea what colour it was until you said so, so if it's not only pink, it might be some hideous hybrid.
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I thought it was just V-colored.
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