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Network Pesci posted:Blackwing has the most enormous balls to be napping on a loving tiger like that. I don't care if it's an intelligent talking tiger that's Lawful Good, I wouldn't nap on a fuckin' tiger. There must be a Calvin and Hobbes strip directly on point here.
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Jul 9, 2015 21:43
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Look what happened to Tommy Chesnutt.
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Network Pesci posted:Blackwing has the most enormous balls to be napping on a loving tiger like that. I don't care if it's an intelligent talking tiger that's Lawful Good, I wouldn't nap on a fuckin' tiger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znpnf9D2VIk
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Rich status - ok http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0994.html I liked the nice detail of Durkon lying once he's actually out of the zone of truth mmkay fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 10:09
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Jul 20, 2015 10:56
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Resurrecting Durkon would probably be against the rules for any of the priests here, come to think of it, given his status as an official attendee as High Priest of Hel. Not that it's ever going to get that far. My Lovely Horse posted:I enjoy that Roy keeps making his Knowledge (Architecture) checks. Hah, I was thinking the same thing. Who says a fighter can't have hobbies.
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Jul 20, 2015 11:04
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I wonder if this is belkar's 'last breath ever' moment.
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Jul 20, 2015 13:07
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If he becomes a vampire, would that even change his alignment?
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Alchenar posted:I wonder if this is belkar's 'last breath ever' moment. Doubtful. I don't think we're even halfway through the current book yet, and that seems like something you'd save until around the climax.
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Alchenar posted:I wonder if this is belkar's 'last breath ever' moment. I don't think it is, although my reasons are stupid. Belkar hasn't gotten his face on a book cover. Each of the other main characters have had their face on a book, and they've featured heavily, had a story arc inside that book. Even though Belkar's been fated to die for a while, the previous book had Scruffy and Blackwing on the cover. We've seen a bit of Belkar's growth, but we're still really early on in this book, and I can't just see Belkar dying 50 strips into "his" book.
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Unless the current book ends up having his zombified mug on the cover. (There's no title or cover yet, is there?)
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I don't think it is, although my reasons are stupid. He's not fated to die, just to stop breathing. None of the prophecies have been straight.
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Of course, a neutral third party wouldn't care that he was a Cleric of Hel.
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Alchenar posted:He's not fated to die, just to stop breathing. None of the prophecies have been straight.
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Jul 20, 2015 15:51
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I'm pretty sure Rich is just milking the fact that Belkar's prophecy is in play to add extra tension to a scene.
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Alchenar posted:He's not fated to die, just to stop breathing. None of the prophecies have been straight. That's not quite true. Belkar's question to the oracle was honestly and straightly answered, despite the Oracle attempting to get a weasel answer. He did in fact kill one of the people on his list, directly. It's also implied that the Black Dragon got a straight answer to "Who killed my child?"
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Alchenar posted:He's not fated to die, just to stop breathing. None of the prophecies have been straight. I think that they already used up the best "Belkar becomes undead twist " chance with Durkon, and pulling it again a second time wouldn't be as impactful as hoped. Also, if none of the prophecies have been straight before, then wouldn't it be a twist if this time it was played straight?
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Taciturn Tactician posted:That's not quite true. Belkar's question to the oracle was honestly and straightly answered, despite the Oracle attempting to get a weasel answer. He did in fact kill one of the people on his list, directly. It's also implied that the Black Dragon got a straight answer to "Who killed my child?" Yeah, the prophecies have been surprisingly straightforward. I don't get why everyone tries to say otherwise.
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Loki_XLII posted:Yeah, the prophecies have been surprisingly straightforward. I don't get why everyone tries to say otherwise. Mostly because the Oracle is a jerk who says things like "in his throne room" or gives answers that are entirely true but pretty much meaningless except in retrospect like Haley's answer or V's answer. When every other answer is basically wasting your time it's hard not to be suspicious of one that directly answers an important question in a straightforward manner with conspicuously exact wording.
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I'm honestly expecting it to go badly for Belkar in strip #1000. That strip has got to do something big.
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The only issue with this that I see is that the rest of the party don't seem to care about Belkar's knowledge of Durkula anyway. Belkar has relatively hard evidence (can you remember being Dominated?) that he's not the same old Durkon, but even if Durkula straight up admit's he worships Hel and that he plans on annihilating the Dwarven Kingdom, what's to say Roy and the others believe him?
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Loki_XLII posted:Yeah, the prophecies have been surprisingly straightforward. I don't get why everyone tries to say otherwise. People like making complicated things out of what is supposed to be pretty simple. See everything in D&D.
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mcswizzle posted:The only issue with this that I see is that the rest of the party don't seem to care about Belkar's knowledge of Durkula anyway. Belkar has relatively hard evidence (can you remember being Dominated?) that he's not the same old Durkon, but even if Durkula straight up admit's he worships Hel and that he plans on annihilating the Dwarven Kingdom, what's to say Roy and the others believe him? Well I don't think they think he's the straight old Durkon. One of the first things he did was admit he's evil now. Roy just thinks that if they're keeping Belkar around then keeping magically evilized Durkon can't be any worse.
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ImpAtom posted:I'm pretty sure Rich is just milking the fact that Belkar's prophecy is in play to add extra tension to Seriously, we can't go a single page of Belkar doing anything even vaguely risky without going 'oooh, maybe now he's gonna die!'
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Taciturn Tactician posted:That's not quite true. Belkar's question to the oracle was honestly and straightly answered, despite the Oracle attempting to get a weasel answer. He did in fact kill one of the people on his list, directly. It's also implied that the Black Dragon got a straight answer to "Who killed my child?" Well yeah, but the Oracle gets his mojo directly from Tiamat. His whole purpose is to act as a guide to evil dragons. He can't mess with them or else he'd risk losing his power. It's everyone else he bilks for cash and screws around with for his own amusement.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Mostly because the Oracle is a jerk who says things like "in his throne room" or gives answers that are entirely true but pretty much meaningless except in retrospect like Haley's answer or V's answer. When every other answer is basically wasting your time it's hard not to be suspicious of one that directly answers an important question in a straightforward manner with conspicuously exact wording. The answer to Haley's question is, if anything, more proof that he means "Belkar will die." There wasn't a literal "gift horse" to look in the mouth, so it's extremely unlikely that the oracle doesn't mean Belkar will assume some other state of being where he can't breathe, enjoy cake or put money in a 40k.
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Carrasco posted:or put money in a 40k. Wrong nerd hobby with brokenly absurd rules.
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Baron von der Loon posted:I'm honestly expecting it to go badly for Belkar in strip #1000. That strip has got to do something big. Not necessarily; there's been more than one occasion where Rich hasn't done anything special for an X00 strip (and two of those times he actually made the same joke about "I bet people were expecting something more exciting for strip X00"). mcswizzle posted:(can you remember being Dominated?) Being Dominated has no effect on your memory of events that occurred around you while you were under the Dominator's control.
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W.T. Fits posted:there's been more than one occasion where Rich hasn't done anything special for an X00 strip
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Olanphonia posted:If he becomes a vampire, would that even change his alignment? Yeah, I was wondering on the "official" ruling on this. If he's already Chaotic Evil would he even change personality at all?
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I'm still calling time travel. Belkar will take a lot of breaths in the years to come, but his very last one will happen when he travels back to save his younger self from Durkula. 
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I figure that giving the obvious out for Belkar is a double-switch and he's just going to out and out die. It's also likely that this is going to be it just because there's no way that this segment of the story ends without the status quo being bludgeoned to death and then shoved into a wood chipper.
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The Godsmoot is going to be playing Pictionary, Belkar will have to draw the concept of breathing. After that moment Belkar will never have to do such a thing again, so he drew his last breath.
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nimby posted:The Godsmoot is going to be playing Pictionary, Belkar will have to draw the concept of breathing. Guess this is my head canon.
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Kajeesus posted:I'm still calling time travel. Belkar will take a lot of breaths in the years to come, but his very last one will happen when he travels back to save his younger self from Durkula. Belkar is accidentally going to take over the vampire's place and get Durkon as his body for hilarious misadventures.
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nimby posted:The Godsmoot is going to be playing Pictionary, Belkar will have to draw the concept of breathing. And he decided that he hates cake so he never gets another birthday cake. It all works out perfectly!
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Random Stranger posted:And he decided that he hates cake so he never gets another birthday cake. It all works out perfectly! How many people do you think like Belkar enough to give him cake anyway? You can't bake a birthday cake for yourself, it doesn't work that way.
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FriggenJ posted:Yeah, I was wondering on the "official" ruling on this. If he's already Chaotic Evil would he even change personality at all? Is the spirit inside of Durkon's body a special case vampire, or do all vampires get another spirit embedded?
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