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Pope Guilty posted:I want to believe his mentioning the color was a Warhammer joke. My dad used to say that about my sled before Warhammer even existed. It's an everything joke.
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Yeah, the joke about red things going faster long predates Warhammer. But saying that, it doesn't necessarily mean Rich Burlew didn't go "Woo, this throwaway gag works on multiple levels!  "
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That entire strip was awesome. All of it. I laughed multiple times.
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MelvinTheJerk posted:That entire strip was awesome. All of it. I laughed multiple times. I love the potential that this gives to future strips. Now Elan formally is the leader of the party, while Roy and Belkar are hired henchmen.
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Oh, I'd never heard it outside of the Warhammer context.
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Pope Guilty posted:Oh, I'd never heard it outside of the Warhammer context. Red Ferraris. Think about it. Police LOVE stopping red sports cars, and people love to buy them.
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Effingham posted:Police LOVE stopping red sports cars That's a myth, actually.
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Pope Guilty posted:Oh, I'd never heard it outside of the Warhammer context.
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The car color is referred to as "cop-catcher" red for a reason.
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Well if they're the most popular color, there's gonna be more of them on the road, so of course there's gonna be more of them pulled over, but because of sheer probability instead of any bias. So it's true and an urban legend at the same time. ...and yet, this is still more interesting than an alignment discussion.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Well if they're the most popular color, Not by a long shot. White, black, silver, and grey all outnumber it by wide margins.
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At least around here red is the most popular colour at 24% of all cars. It varies from country to another, so it'd be hard to say which colour really is the most popular.
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New comic - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0818.html
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Ofcourse he knew  I want a comic folowing Tarquins awesome adventures.
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But... but... but this means no more Tarquin!
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The absence of Tarquin will make his inevitable reappearance all the more awesome.
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Cabbit posted:The absence of Tarquin will make his inevitable reappearance all the more awesome. I am picturing him being killed by Xykon.
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I kind of hope that the Tarquin plot isn't resolved within the strip. That would be a great line to leave the character with. I mean, the whole point of the Tarquin plot is that it is to be resolved after the world is saved (and thus the strip is ended).
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We need to get Tarquin and O-Chul in the same room. That is, if it can handle that much concentrated pure awesomeness.
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At least whenever he eventually is defeated, we know what his gravestone will say. "Tarquin: Not A Dumbass"
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The Werle posted:At least whenever he eventually is defeated, we know what his gravestone will say. I'd prefer "Got poo poo done"
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I was referring more to the final panel "duh" reveal, but that would also be more than fitting.
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Why isn't Tarquin the main character? I DEMAND A TARQUIN SPINOFF
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I can totally see this strip ending with the end of the Gates campaign and the start of the Tarquin campaign.
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MikeJF posted:I can totally see this strip ending with the end of the Gates campaign and the start of the Tarquin campaign. Can you say "Start of Darkness 2: Dark Harder"?
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Nystral posted:Are there any ideas / rumors for what the Monster in the Dark is? A Dungeon Master.
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Nystral posted:Are there any ideas / rumors for what the Monster in the Dark is? An idiot.
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Nystral posted:Are there any ideas / rumors for what the Monster in the Dark is? A good man.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:A good man. Said by the most awesomest paladin ever; which makes it a fact.
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Given the tremendous amount of damage resistance he has, the ridiculous strength, as well as the whole "My dad was big. REALLY big." line out of Start of Darkness, I'd been figuring Baby Tarrasque. But the Wish thing to rescue O-Chul and Vaarsuvius doesn't really fit with that. So now I'm tentatively thinking mini-Pit Fiend or mini-Balor? Or maybe it IS a Baby Tarrasque who just can cast Wish for some reason? One way or another, I'm figuring he goes all RotJ Vader on Xykon's Emperor in the final act at the Northern Gate...where our good buddy O-Chul will be meeting back up with the team, and give MitD a reason to switch sides at the last moment. I also suspect that neither Durkon nor Belkar makes it out of the fight at Girard's Gate alive, leading to O-Chul and Lien taking their places on the team.
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The MitD thing is one of those things where the interest has kind of trickled away over a stupidly long time and I can't help but think Rich should've dropped that particular bomb at the Battle of Azure City. I mean what do we really gain by still not knowing what he is? I guess he could be set up to be some massive anti-climactic joke monster, like one of those little white tentacley-whatevers.
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The usual theory I've seen bandied about is that it's a bit of the Snarl in some form or another, which also might explain why it can't see the Gates. I'm personally pulling for a Reduce Person'd titan, though.
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ZeeToo posted:I'm personally pulling for a Reduce Person'd titan, though.
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I had a theory that the monster in the dark was going to be an overpowered monster for the first dungeon, but by the time that they finally reveal him he will be an average or below encounter for the characters at their current level. But he seems to have a few powers such as the teleport and knocking Miko around that say otherwise.
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Based on how Xykon and Redcloak talk about him, I'm betting the monster is either a complete home-brew (like a Snarl-baby) or is some crazily broken monster out of a forgotten splat-book. Maybe something silly like a kobold with hundreds of templates applied. But not anything that will be guessable by readers, because any normal Monster Manual monster would be both not funny and have no dramatic meaning in the story.
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Baby-Snarl would make the best story. Sort of like a baby-god.
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Tied a Kobold to the end of a stick, shoved him in the gate and shook him around a little, pulled him back out. Bam, Kobold covered in Snarl-juice.
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