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blizzardvizard posted:Nale isn't coming back to life, maybe, but I think he's going to return to the story at some point. Rich showing Sabine exploding and Lawful Evil souls being dumped into Lee's 'inbox' after Nale got disintegrated suggests Rich is not done with him yet. He's probably going to be the Fiends' pawn or something. I doubt Nale is coming back. Maybe he gets a brief cameo if there's a scene in the afterlife for...whatever flavor of Evil he was, I forget. But I think Sabine is the only one from that bunch that's ever going to have another part to play. ...then again, I never would have predicted Crystal showing up again, so who knows.
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Nale was Lawful Evil, the opposite of Elan's Chaotic Good, of course. Which would put him in Director Lee's inbox.
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Jan 31, 2015 17:33
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Since Rich couldn't let Crystal go after she'd served her story purpose I'm sure Nale could come back to kill story momentum as well.
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Jan 31, 2015 17:51
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Crystal was always going to come back, either directly or as a plot point. You don't have a character sneak in and murder their rival in cold blood and then just have it never brought up again.
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Jan 31, 2015 18:11
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Speaking of which, I'd lay good odds on Sabine showing up soon. If she'd appeared any earlier, it would raise the question "Why did Haley, a crafty dirty fighter with access to significant resources, not have something planned to deal with Sabine immediately?" Now that we've seen that she did take precautions, but that they've been spent, the door is open for Sabine to appear and still (be a legitimate threat)/(have breathing room to negotiate a temporary truce with the OotS).
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Jan 31, 2015 20:04
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She only exited the strip like a week ago, for the OOtS members. And only seventy comics or so ago for book readers. It might have been a year ago for us but I don't think the time is right.
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Jan 31, 2015 20:45
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That said, if she appears again later in the arc, there's a good excuse. You know, in 2017 or something.
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Jan 31, 2015 22:29
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The protagonists don't get to actually kill anybody. Only villain on villain, or more generally, NPC on NPC kills get to stick.
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First panel here has some nice foreshadowing I hadn't noticed before. Not that I can remember anything from before the desert anyway.
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So, if optimistically there are 200 more strips left in this arc, and one more arc left to go after this, at current release schedule...
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DoctorTristan posted:So, if optimistically there are 200 more strips left in this arc, and one more arc left to go after this, at current release schedule... It's a race to the finish between OotS and A Song of Ice and Fire
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's a race to the finish between OotS and A Song of Ice and Fire At least at this point I still have hope of being satisfied with Order of the Stick rather than just "I've read this far, I may as well see it to the end."
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's a race to the finish between OotS and A Song of Ice and Fire Wheel of time beat them all to that line.
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A.o.D. posted:The protagonists don't get to actually kill anybody. Only villain on villain, or more generally, NPC on NPC kills get to stick. Belkar->recurring chimera boss monster Belkar->Yik Yik Durkon->Zztri Vaarsuvius->Therkla's boss
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Random Stranger posted:At least at this point I still have hope of being satisfied with Order of the Stick rather than just "I've read this far, I may as well see it to the end." You could give up on the books and accept the tv series as the Canon story. It'll work out better in the end.
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ikanreed posted:Belkar->recurring chimera boss monster Vaarsuvius-> 25% of all black dragons (and a bunch of humans descended from black dragons)
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ikanreed posted:Belkar->recurring chimera boss monster Zztrid (or however the gently caress that's spelled) doesn't count because it wasn't actually Durkon who killed him.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Wheel of time beat them all to that line. Only by hiring a guy that writes novellas on trans-oceanic flights after Jordan died.
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Thog is dead, and the only reason we didn't see a body is so Tarquin could do a fake out as Thog later. Roy killed Thog  And V killed the Draketooths, that counts.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Only by hiring a guy that writes novellas on trans-oceanic flights after Jordan died. This isn't really the place for it, but is Brandon Sanderson seen as a poo poo writer? His name keeps popping up in places, and I've been wondering if he's at all decent at it. (He also does a lovely podcast with the writer of Schlock Mercenary and some other authors, it's fifteen minutes long and has just enough time to give a tip or two about the writing process before they give up.)
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Mistborn Trilogy was pretty good. The first half of the book read like a really long tutorial mission in an action rgp the way it described the magic system and increasingly unlocked powers. The next two books expanded on things in a really cool way and had an interesting take on the whole legend and destiny thing. The wheel of time books he did were some of the best ones since he actually got to the loving point and told a story instead of having characters wander through the woods or talk about dresses while they got captured for the 14th time.
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Mistborn Trilogy was pretty good. As was "Emperor's Soul".
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Kajeesus posted:Thog is dead, and the only reason we didn't see a body is so Tarquin could do a fake out as Thog later. You're nuts if you think we've seen the last of Thog.
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rotinaj posted:This isn't really the place for it, but is Brandon Sanderson seen as a poo poo writer? His name keeps popping up in places, and I've been wondering if he's at all decent at it. He's pretty good actually. Pop into his thread in Book Barn if you want to get into his stuff.
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Dolash posted:You're nuts if you think we've seen the last of Thog. I know you're correct, and wish you weren't.
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Kajeesus posted:Thog is dead, and the only reason we didn't see a body is so Tarquin could do a fake out as Thog later. How many speaking lines did all of the Draketooths get?
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I see we've been paid a visit by the exposition fairy.
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drat, Haley, that's just inconsiderate.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I see we've been paid a visit by the exposition fairy. Yeah, that was the feeling I got reading through the strip. Like 80% of it was Bozzok recapping stuff to someone who already knows what the gently caress is going on. What was the point?
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Bringing it back into the readers mind. Might be a bit redundant for webcomic, but it still serves to set the mood.
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Brannock posted:Yeah, that was the feeling I got reading through the strip. Like 80% of it was Bozzok recapping stuff to someone who already knows what the gently caress is going on. What was the point? Well some of that stuff was only in the printed version of the book, though none of it was that important.
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Feb 2, 2015 15:32
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Getting a recap is important; with the mean time between updates I had forgotten who Haley was.
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Feb 2, 2015 15:46
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Also, we're near the start of a new book, so some recap is expected.
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It's a bit too little show, way too much tell.
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Brannock posted:Yeah, that was the feeling I got reading through the strip. Like 80% of it was Bozzok recapping stuff to someone who already knows what the gently caress is going on. What was the point? Some of this stuff is new to those of us who only read the webcomic.
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It also tells us exactly what a lot of people have spent a lot of words in this thread speculating about. What Crystal is, how she was revived, why she can talk, why she hates Haley, etc. It wasn't a GOOD comic, but it's kinda a necessary evil. Too bad this'll be the only comic this week. Maybe next week, too.
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Yeah, it's another cross bearer for the update schedule. I imagine in print, it'll barely be a speed bump, but here, where things are already slow, it feels like a grinding halt to talk to the audience about the migration habits of whales.
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