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If Oots ever got an tv animated adaption he could voice anyone!
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goblin week posted:Vaarsuvius Well we can't have Bowie do it anymore
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THE BAR posted:Maybe it's because I'm binging through the entire thing again, but doesn't Xykon look a bit different? Like he's got a brow thing going? Oh wow, he's been looking like that since 2016. https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1039.html
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THE BAR posted:Oh wow, he's been looking like that since 2016. because I cannot resist reading some whenever a link is posted, I noticed this a few strips later: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1041.html When then MITD paints the X on the doors, it does not leave footprints. Well, any prints at all,rather.
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It's also holding the umbrella, bucket and paintbrush in a way that requires at least three prehensile limbs or some other way to hold them up. Since it's also standing on the non-snowed section in every panel we see it, and can reach doors that are much higher than the umbrella's shadow, my guess is that it's psionic and didn't need to step on the snow to paint any doors.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's also holding the umbrella, bucket and paintbrush in a way that requires at least three prehensile limbs or some other way to hold them up. Since it's also standing on the non-snowed section in every panel we see it, and can reach doors that are much higher than the umbrella's shadow, my guess is that it's psionic and didn't need to step on the snow to paint any doors. MITD is also able to place Go tokens from inside a box, though I imagine O'Chul could have just been placing them for him.
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https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1099.html This page is dated a year too early! I have you now, Rich! E: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1105.html And again? Huh. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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 #1216 - Run to GroundThis may look like good news, but I think it is also gonna be bad news for a certain reason.
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That's a nice reminder that for as powerful as Xykon is, it's Redcloak who's really dangerous.
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I get what you're saying. This is gonna be an unexplored door.
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Oct 5, 2020 15:45
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This is gonna totally be the door the gate is behind, isn't it?
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Oct 5, 2020 15:53
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At the very least it will be one team evil hadn't actually explored yet.
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Colander Crotch posted:At the very least it will be one team evil hadn't actually explored yet. Can Xykon take the MitD?
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VanSandman posted:Can Xykon take the MitD? Almost certainly. We've at least seen that he can't pass a will throw from Xykon's spells when the story doesn't want him to.
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Oct 5, 2020 16:05
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Colander Crotch posted:At the very least it will be one team evil hadn't actually explored yet. The monsters magically regenerate, right? So even if they go in and it's not cleared will they realize it's a fake mark?
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Oct 5, 2020 16:07
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What's the payoff of this scene if it doesn't lead to team evil realizing that they've been betrayed by their door-painter?
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ultrafilter posted:What's the payoff of this scene if it doesn't lead to team evil realizing that they've been betrayed by their door-painter? You're right, but I think there has to be some other way they find out, given the monster regeneration thing.
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How long's it take for the monsters to repopulate though? Didn't Oona imply it's months at least, because she said her tribe rotates between harvesting doors like they're fields?
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:This is gonna totally be the door the gate is behind, isn't it?
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Oct 5, 2020 16:31
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All we have is this quote:Monster Hollow important to bugbear clan. Hunt a little, tame a little. Wait, then monsters come back, start all over.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:This is gonna totally be the door the gate is behind, isn't it? I’m still of a mind that the doors are just a glorified shell game with no right answer, but there’s going to be something else important in this one.
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Oct 5, 2020 16:39
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What if the doors are a glorified switch puzzle and it's this combination of open and closed doors that makes the gate accessible
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I’m annoyed that these doors quite, but not entirely, resemble the one entrance we’ve actually seen Team Evil clear. Greenish-grey double doors on the bottom row, but with different handles and two crosses rather than one. It should either clearly be that door or clearly a different one.  Also mad props to Team Dwarf for actually getting away with it, assuming we’re not due for yet another turn.
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IMJack posted:What if the doors are a glorified switch puzzle and it's this combination of open and closed doors that makes the gate accessible Okay. What if. How does the story change?
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Even if it is the right gate, team evil would not know that from the getgo and they would not want to waste time killing monsters when the good guys are right outside the door.
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I'm increasingly coming around to the entire door network being a shell game because the shell game concept just keeps coming up in OotS. The dwarfs just shell-gamed Team Evil after all.
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Pretty sure this door will have monsters and the timeframe won't allow for the possibility that they had just respawned, putting some doubts into Team Evil's heads. The question for me is what has been going on with the Order of Stick. Their position gives a good view of the gates and they'd have been looking for the Dwarfs by now, which makes me think something more urgent came up, probably the invisible beings that captured the Paladins.
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ZearothK posted:Pretty sure this door will have monsters and the timeframe won't allow for the possibility that they had just respawned, putting some doubts into Team Evil's heads. They're going to try to meet up with the rest of the party and find that they've all just disappeared. Just in time for another 6 month long hiatus 
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This being the door the gate is behind doesn't seem to fit with the pattern Rich has of subverting expectations. It's too obvious for him to go that route, I think. This being where they find out that the MitD has been loving around to slow them down absolutely can and will happen here.
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Robviously posted:This being the door the gate is behind doesn't seem to fit with the pattern Rich has of subverting expectations. It's too obvious for him to go that route, I think. Even more interesting if this presents an opportunity to get Xykon in a pincer movement. If this is a unexplored dungeon then they might have a chance that while they get stuck fighting some big monsters they can ambush him from behind.
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It being a shell game again feels weird since already went through that with girard's gate.
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Team evil might think the dwarves quickly slapped paint on the door. What's more likely, the pair of dwarves who just pulled another misdirection trick on them or the loyal (as far as they know) but mostly incompetent monster who's been with them for years? They could just think it did it out of stupidity rather than betrayal even if they realize it was behind it.
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Poil posted:Team evil might think the dwarves quickly slapped paint on the door. What's more likely, the pair of dwarves who just pulled another misdirection trick on them or the loyal (as far as they know) but mostly incompetent monster who's been with them for years? They could just think it did it out of stupidity rather than betrayal even if they realize it was behind it. I see what you did there.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Even more interesting if this presents an opportunity to get Xykon in a pincer movement. If this is a unexplored dungeon then they might have a chance that while they get stuck fighting some big monsters they can ambush him from behind. I'd love to see the Order get an ambush on a weakened Team Evil. I imagine they manage to escape, but a defeat at this point might really kick Xykon into high gear and ensure a serious final battle.
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Half of Dracula posted:I'd love to see the Order get an ambush on a weakened Team Evil. I imagine they manage to escape, but a defeat at this point might really kick Xykon into high gear and ensure a serious final battle. Huh, Order of the Stick defeating a weakened Team Evil, but without managing to finish them off, which leads to Redcloak reconsidering Durkon's proposal and Xykon just dropping all pretenses and getting dead serious about killing that Bluepommel guy and his party, would be actually pretty neat and unexpected development.
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Brainamp posted:It being a shell game again feels weird since already went through that with girard's gate. The gatekeeper was a rogue though. Sure it was built in honor of a STR lord but it makes perfect sense for it all to be a front and the real actual tomb (Where the biggest nastiest poo poo is) is probably hidden away.
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Poil posted:Team evil might think the dwarves quickly slapped paint on the door. What's more likely, the pair of dwarves who just pulled another misdirection trick on them or the loyal (as far as they know) but mostly incompetent monster who's been with them for years? They could just think it did it out of stupidity rather than betrayal even if they realize it was behind it. Redcloak might already be suspicious of the MitD after the sand pit incident, though. He gave at least a couple of skeptical looks back then, and the same dorf cleric that was supposedly a "second stringer" showing up again now probably isn't helping his case.
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Ooh, what if the biggest nastiest poo poo is the MitD's family? That'd be a twist!
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