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World Famous W posted:Either the simplest childrens tune or a masterpiece every time. No inbetween The music being a masterpiece to go along with the most basic lyrics seems really on brand for Elan's characterization lately.
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There's a folksong that starts out "Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair..." I always hear Elan's song to that tune, except with a fourth 'black' added, and then the rest of the words all sung really quickly and awkwardly to make all their syllables fill out the rest of the line even though there are far too many of them. So pretty much exactly the same as the "Row, row, row, row... nowsticktoomanysyllablesintothisline" approach, but with a different folksong as the base.
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Jun 18, 2020 02:28
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Lychnis posted:There's a folksong that starts out "Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair..." I always hear Elan's song to that tune, except with a fourth 'black' added, and then the rest of the words all sung really quickly and awkwardly to make all their syllables fill out the rest of the line even though there are far too many of them. I'm now imagining a reedy bard singing "Black no. 1" by type O negative. This has improved my day slightly.
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Jun 18, 2020 03:40
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Only somewhat relevant, but something I found amusing. Animate Objects, man, it's a hell of a spell.
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Jun 18, 2020 03:52
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Lychnis posted:There's a folksong that starts out "Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair..." I always hear Elan's song to that tune, except with a fourth 'black' added, and then the rest of the words all sung really quickly and awkwardly to make all their syllables fill out the rest of the line even though there are far too many of them. but you dont have to do that, you can just have another row sung the same as the first two and then do the rest of the song as normal
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Jun 19, 2020 03:02
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World Famous W posted:Either the simplest childrens tune or a masterpiece every time. No inbetween  Even non-country fans are like "drat"
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Jun 19, 2020 14:15
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new one I think there's a lot redcloak doesn't know about how gods operate.
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Jun 22, 2020 14:25
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ikanreed posted:new one It isn't that he doesn't, if he actually sat down an' thought about it which he did right here, it makes sense. He's just been so busy and caught up in his plans and dealing with plots and plots within plots that he gets easily caught up in the moment.
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Jun 22, 2020 14:37
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Raenir Salazar posted:It isn't that he doesn't, if he actually sat down an' thought about it which he did right here, it makes sense. He's just been so busy and caught up in his plans and dealing with plots and plots within plots that he gets easily caught up in the moment. Not that. I mean the fact that the gods can't send an archon or a Deva or whatever
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Jun 22, 2020 14:53
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Anyone else wondering what that scroll Redcloak took from a Bugbear behind a building away from Xykon might be?
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Jun 22, 2020 14:58
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I like how Durkon is just not scared at all. He clearly has an exit plan.
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Jun 22, 2020 14:59
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The only divine spells he can't cast would be written on stone tablets, so I'm guessing a mundane message of some kind
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Jun 22, 2020 15:00
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ikanreed posted:Not that. I mean the fact that the gods can't send an archon or a Deva or whatever Again, he probably does know, but is too caught up with things that his expectations and what he knows may not be aligned. LiterallyATomato posted:Anyone else wondering what that scroll Redcloak took from a Bugbear behind a building away from Xykon might be? Probably just an intelligence report/scouts.
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Jun 22, 2020 15:00
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Okay, so who's going to ruin things now, the Order or Xykon?
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Jun 22, 2020 15:00
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:I like how Durkon is just not scared at all. He clearly has an exit plan. Yeah, exits this mortal coil straight to Valhalla
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ZearothK posted:Okay, so who's going to ruin things now, the Order or Xykon? Redcloak's paranoid distrust of everything outside The Plan
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Redcloak grew up in a world where he knows the gods specificly created him and his entire race to be fodder for their followers and then murdered the one goblin that pulled himself up by the bootstraps. The idea that these guys now want to negotiate is legitimately surprising to him.Gwyneth Palpate posted:I like how Durkon is just not scared at all. He clearly has an exit plan. He doesn't want to FAIL, to be sure, but worst case scenario, he's gonna end up in Valhalla again.
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ZearothK posted:Okay, so who's going to ruin things now, the Order or Xykon? Yes.
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Capfalcon posted:Redcloak grew up in a world where he knows the gods specificly created him and his entire race to be fodder for their followers and then murdered the one goblin that pulled himself up by the bootstraps. The idea that these guys now want to negotiate is legitimately surprising to him. Yeah, I expect Redcloak and TDO to initially distrust this but it's actually a whole new card they didn't know they had e: What i think will come in the short term is that Durkon and Redcloak will talk and Durkon will leave and Redcloak will not tell Xykon about this while he thinks about what to do Shugojin fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jun 22, 2020 15:37
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ikanreed posted:Yeah, exits this mortal coil straight to Valhalla Capfalcon posted:He doesn't want to FAIL, to be sure, but worst case scenario, he's gonna end up in Valhalla again. Yeah, but it's still risky as gently caress because Durkon's more or less the best shot at getting the purple energy the gods need to preserve the world. If he bites it here and now, I sincerely doubt Minrah can raise him, and the Order doesn't have the time or ability to backtrack to a cleric who can.
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Jun 22, 2020 16:44
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I figure if things go south, Durkon will just cast Word of Recall to go back to the airship, which ought to still be idling nearby.
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Jun 22, 2020 16:47
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I'm pretty sure Durkon has contingencies in place for if Redcloak turns hostile. He definitely has Minrah waiting in the wings in case she needs to swoop in, and I'd wager he has Word of Recall prepared as his first line of defense.
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Jun 22, 2020 16:49
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Durkon actually preparing appropriate spells would really signify his character growth.
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I mean, we've seen Haley, V and Belkar grow into team players, Elan making actual contributions in both combat and non-banter conversation, and Roy actually leading his band of misfits by trusting them and playing to their strengths instead of bowling over them. It's Durkon's time to shine.
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Jun 22, 2020 17:37
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Durkon had an entire book dedicated to his character arc, he's shined a lot.
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This strip does an excellent job of reminding us how dangerous Redcloak is. He faces Durkon head on, absolutely confident in his ability. He's often placed next to shorter characters, but here, he gets to loom. He crowds our hero, Durkon, nearly out of the frame. This is Good Stuff. It also reminded me that Redcloak very, very high level. He's got 9th level spells, so he's at least level 17. He may have leveled up while clearing the dungeons, too: even Xykon got some XP. Makes me wonder if Redcloak is, perhaps, the highest-level cleric on the planet.
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Who What Now posted:Durkon had an entire book dedicated to his character arc, he's shined a lot. I still love that the main Crux of his "arc" was that it happened in the past and he'd already come to terms with it
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They're in the realm of the Northern Gods. If poo poo goes sideways Thor can step in without too much trouble. If it gets the attention of The Dark One, then they can maybe have a face to face chat about the whole 'stopping the Snarl' thing.
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nimby posted:They're in the realm of the Northern Gods. If poo poo goes sideways Thor can step in without too much trouble. If it gets the attention of The Dark One, then they can maybe have a face to face chat about the whole 'stopping the Snarl' thing. Thor and The Dark One can't hug it out. If they meet, they'll create a two-color Snarl. I doubt Thor is going to engage in divine intervention to save Durkon, either.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah, I expect Redcloak and TDO to initially distrust this but it's actually a whole new card they didn't know they had What I like about this is that looking at it logically from a different perspective. This is basically exactly the result TDO/Redcloak wanted, except a lot sooner! This was in essence always the plan.
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There's also the possibility that Durkon is unhesitating and not afraid not because of confidence in contingencies, but because he's on a mission from god and his own safely is simply irrelevant to him right now.
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MikeJF posted:There's also the possibility that Durkon is unhesitating and not afraid not because of confidence in contingencies, but because he's on a mission from god and his own safely is simply irrelevant to him right now.
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MikeJF posted:There's also the possibility that Durkon is unhesitating and not afraid not because of confidence in contingencies, but because he's on a mission from god and his own safely is simply irrelevant to him right now. I think it’s partly that and partly that he’s still so completely clueless about other people’s motivations that he really doesn’t perceive how much danger he’s in.
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Hell, even if Roy explicitly told him not to do exactly this, I’d figure that he’d consider a directive of “it’d be a really good idea to covertly approach Redcloak” from Thor to take the highest precedence.
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Yep. Durkon is a member of the Church of Thor before he's a member of the Order of the Stick. Of course Durkon's going to survive this. The big question is how Roy's going to take finding out that Durkon gave away their presence.
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It’s super neat to see how intimidating Redcloak is in this scene, you don’t get to see that side of him very much and especially in such a physical way.
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I think the last time we got to see Redcloak this menacing was when he murdered Tsukiko after she found out about the truth behind The Plan.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Thor and The Dark One can't hug it out. If they meet, they'll create a two-color Snarl. I doubt Thor is going to engage in divine intervention to save Durkon, either. Durkon might be able to cast Summon Proxy. Thor won't be able to listen to Redcloak, but Redcloak can listen to him and that might at least convince him to prepare the same spell on the next day. He would definitely demand that Durkon stay as a hostage, though.
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ikanreed posted:new one "You... know my name?" I feel like him just calling you "Redcloak" isn't enough of an indication of that, since it's top three nicknames someone would come up for you if they didn't know your real name.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:"You... know my name?" I feel like him just calling you "Redcloak" isn't enough of an indication of that, since it's top three nicknames someone would come up for you if they didn't know your real name. Also it's explicitly not his name, now that I think about it
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