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gonna be honest: while the "paladin mounts pop out of poke balls" is a cheap gag, it will always get a good solid chuckle from me
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Dec 14, 2021 11:46
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Falling in a cauldron of temporary magic make it permanent; see Obelix.
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Dec 14, 2021 11:59
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cugel posted:Falling in a cauldron of temporary magic make it permanent; see Obelix. Obelix was a child when that happened. We know how vulnerable young brains are to drugs.
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Dec 14, 2021 12:09
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I wouldn't be surprised if serini gets amnesia'd back to scribble days, it would be both fun and funny
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SlothfulCobra posted:Miko was rejected by her gods after she rejected the principle of law and killed her sworn feudal lord against the orders of her other superior, which may be the biggest combination of rulebreaks you can get, and Paladins are the special oath-swearing class whereas Clerics might have some extra leeway with their faith. Rich is on record that this wasn't a normal Fall, and has implied that some of the paladins from Start Of Darkness Fell without the theatrics. IIRC, the metaphor used is that most of the time it's like a termination letter from HR, while Miko screwed up so bad she got a visit from the CEO.
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cugel posted:Falling in a cauldron of temporary magic make it permanent; see Obelix. Nenonen posted:Obelix was a child when that happened. We know how vulnerable young brains are to drugs. Thought you guys were talking about the D&D monster Oblex for a second  Which are oozes that devour memories and can then create copies of it's victims from those memories. (The copies are tethered to the main body by a thin strand of ooze and can't move too far away from it.)
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MonsterEnvy posted:Thought you guys were talking about the D&D monster Oblex for a second  you're just envious of Goscinny & Uderzo's character design!
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MonsterEnvy posted:Thought you guys were talking about the D&D monster Oblex for a second Heh. If the copy is based on the victim's memories, I can just imagine a scenario where the fake is discovered immediately because the victim was a narcissist and everyone else knows that s/he was never that good-looking, nice, or eloquent. Please tell me someone did this.
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Heh. If the copy is based on the victim's memories, I can just imagine a scenario where the fake is discovered immediately because the victim was a narcissist and everyone else knows that s/he was never that good-looking, nice, or eloquent. Please tell me someone did this. In the campaign I'm a player in my character rescued a doppleganger from a collapsing mirror dimension and then it tried to kill me when I was low on health. 
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MonsterEnvy posted:Thought you guys were talking about the D&D monster Oblex for a second
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Heh. If the copy is based on the victim's memories, I can just imagine a scenario where the fake is discovered immediately because the victim was a narcissist and everyone else knows that s/he was never that good-looking, nice, or eloquent. Please tell me someone did this. Who knows the Oblex is a fairly new monster. It's stated the copies are identical to the originals in all aspects appearance wise, other then slightly smelling of sulfer and having a tether that only allows them to move up to 120 feet away from the main body of the ooze.
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I'm now imagining people just politely avoiding mentioning the big ooze tentacle growing out of Darren's back because at least now he's capable of shutting his goddamn mouth for five minutes at a time.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:gonna be honest: It’s just as well that Pokémon has remained a ‘thing’ this whole time, or the gag wouldn’t work anymore.
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Pokemon will outlive civilization.
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DoctorTristan posted:It’s just as well that Pokémon has remained a ‘thing’ this whole time, or the gag wouldn’t work anymore. Itd still work as a nostalgic thing for people reading who remembered it, but i think even by the time oots started pokemon was unstoppable
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Side note: wouldn't any memory potion like that be effectively treated with heal, remove curse, or restoration? The number of actually permanent permanent effects in 3.5 were pretty few. Sure the plot can demand it not be, but I'm dubious that the adventurer bag of tricks can't fix this
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ikanreed posted:Side note: wouldn't any memory potion like that be effectively treated with heal, remove curse, or restoration? It seemed like it could erase and re-write memories. So she could send random adventurers home believing they found nothing. At which point there would be no reason to try to remove curse or restoration them. A vague memory that it was cold, miserable, and there was no treasure will be enough reason for treasure hunters to not poke into it and just move on to the next fable dungeon. Probably wouldn't work as well on people who are trying to save the world.
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ikanreed posted:Side note: wouldn't any memory potion like that be effectively treated with heal, remove curse, or restoration? It's not a canon item, so Whatever The Plot Demands.
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And we've already seen powerful, permanent enough amnesia magic in the story. If the oracle can do it, why not Serini?
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The big thing is if you realize you've been amnesia'd or not. Most of the people Serini's been memory wiping are completely unaware they've been memory wiped so they've never tried to remedy it. Ditto for the Oracle, I believe. But mainly plot device, yes.
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I'm more talking about her threat to wipe her own memory.
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ikanreed posted:I'm more talking about her threat to wipe her own memory. Frankly, I'd be shocked if she didn't have antidotes, contingencies, and orders to her monsters in order to fix the issue as soon as any meddlers are out of her hair.
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ikanreed posted:I'm more talking about her threat to wipe her own memory. There's always a way, greater restoration or a wish spell would do it. If not, a DM can make up a cure, kind of like how the way to destroy artifacts is kind of up to the DM. But that's part of why the threat isn't working, she's not going to help them regardless. Her remembering useful information is pointless if she won't share it so why bother wasting resources recovering it?
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seaborgium posted:Her remembering useful information is pointless if she won't share it so why bother wasting resources recovering it? I mean this is also pretty telling about Serini's attitude: she believes that the Order or the paladins would be willing to torture the information out of her, because she's a paranoid old coot who assumes the worst of everyone she meets.
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Based on the fact we haven't cut back to the other half of the party yet, I'm gonna assume the big reveal/turnaround for Serini is going to be seeing Elan and maybe Minrah having made friends with Sunny.
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Vizuyos posted:The Dark One has even less reason to pay attention than Thor does, given that Redcloak's been stalled at the Gate defenses for some days now already.
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Meanwhile, TDO, who no one's bothered talking to in decades:
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Heh. If the copy is based on the victim's memories, I can just imagine a scenario where the fake is discovered immediately because the victim was a narcissist and everyone else knows that s/he was never that good-looking, nice, or eloquent. Please tell me someone did this. There is a manga called Dungeon Meshi that does something similar to this. The party of an elf, a dwarf, a tallman(human) and halfling have their perceptions of their teammates stolen by doppelgangers who then create bodies based on their teammates' perceptions. Due to some party members being unobservant/mildly racist some of the dopplegangers are immediately found out because of how silly they look. The party then needs to figure out who the real members are and the fakes. The cherry on top is that the dopplegangers also think they are the party members and are helping to figure out who the fakes are, but as mentioned before they're based on the perceptions of the original members. It's a glorious clusterfuck of a chapter or two.
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Donkringel posted:There is a manga called Dungeon Meshi that does something similar to this. The party of an elf, a dwarf, a tallman(human) and halfling have their perceptions of their teammates stolen by doppelgangers who then create bodies based on their teammates' perceptions. Due to some party members being unobservant/mildly racist some of the dopplegangers are immediately found out because of how silly they look. The party then needs to figure out who the real members are and the fakes.  , but I don't remember exactly why.
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Well, at the very least, he was the one who they managed to identify the real one first, so he was the one who got to make the final decisions. Dungeon Meshi also has some excellent dealing with separate species existing alongside eachother, some looking at separate mindsets, and the artist developed a distinct yet subtle anatomy for each of the races. It's very good. Also a very unique take on trolls: They're not real, they're the result of myths that the other races told about humans, the weird people who are taller and stronger than the rest.
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girl dick energy posted:isn't that chapter resolved because the seemingly-dipshit tallman is actually very observant about the people close to him? I remember the solution being It devolves into fighting because nobody trusts Laius, and he has to resort to howling like a wolf to spook the dopplegangers. Though after the fact, they do realize that he was completely right on all of his guesses.
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Just go read Dungeon Meshi everybody, it's very good.
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Donkringel posted:There is a manga called Dungeon Meshi that does something similar to this. The party of an elf, a dwarf, a tallman(human) and halfling have their perceptions of their teammates stolen by doppelgangers who then create bodies based on their teammates' perceptions. Due to some party members being unobservant/mildly racist some of the dopplegangers are immediately found out because of how silly they look. The party then needs to figure out who the real members are and the fakes. NADDPOD did this as well, where the party members had to figure out which one had been replaced that was solved in a very hilarious way. They had another one with that monster that got caught out because someone randomly sniffed the party member that had been replaced.
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I sure hope Rich had a good Christmas!
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Phenotype posted:I sure hope Rich had a good Christmas! Here's to new comics in January!
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1299 pages ago, miko had just killed shojo.
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sebmojo posted:1299 pages ago, miko had just killed shojo. That's mere 14 years ago.
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 https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1251.htmlWake up fellow order of the stickers!
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Lotta good jokes in this one: V dunking on Belkar for being bad at his class. O-Chul reminding everyone that templates exist and can be applied to almost anything. Belkar's surprisingly consistent respect for the elderly.
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