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Gwyneth Palpate posted:And hey, the swapovers delayed Team Evil for how many days? And it's taking a level 9 spell for their rogueless team to even get close to figuring it out. I'd say they did their job splendidly. (SoD) The ironic thing is that Right-Eye was a rogue, right? He could have figured it out instantly. Correct.
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I suspect this is why Sereni the meeting with Serini included the explanation that the Gate isn't in the backstage area. Plotwise, there's little reason to keep Team Evil stalled any longer, and it was already kind of straining. This way they can make progress without extra tension.
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Gnoman posted:I suspect this is why Sereni the meeting with Serini included the explanation that the Gate isn't in the backstage area. Plotwise, there's little reason to keep Team Evil stalled any longer, and it was already kind of straining. This way they can make progress without extra tension. A good strategy might have been to use magic to seal off the way to the gate with a lot of stone and have no nonmagical way to access it It's not foolproof given that high level magic users exist but if you don't want anyone to reach the gate it's another obstacle at least
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Aug 20, 2022 14:35
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The true gate is the friends you made along the way and xykon can never find it cause he never made any friends
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The true gate is the friends you made along the way and xykon can never find it cause he never made any friends The true rift really was between Girard's buttcheeks.
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Aug 21, 2022 07:29
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nimby posted:The true rift really was between Girard's buttcheeks. Given that he was at the top of the pyramid and the chamber was presumably in the center, all the way down, it was most likely directly below it, plausibly more or less between his cheeks
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Aug 21, 2022 07:40
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Come to think, they never actually said it was between *Girard's* butt cheeks, and there is a statue of Kraagor nearby...
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Come to think, they never actually said it was between *Girard's* butt cheeks, and there is a statue of Kraagor nearby... Not anymore there isn't.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Given that he was at the top of the pyramid and the chamber was presumably in the center, all the way down, it was most likely directly below it, plausibly more or less between his cheeks That frankly sounds like something Girard would do. "Hey, bury me so my rear end is directly over the rift. It'll be funny."
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Come to think, they never actually said it was between *Girard's* butt cheeks, and there is a statue of Kraagor nearby... Yes they did.
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Aug 22, 2022 00:50
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Well crap, there goes my otherwise flawless theory.
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Aug 22, 2022 06:04
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Huh. I just noticed the callback to 831 there. Nice touch.
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Aug 22, 2022 14:00
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i wanted a frame for a post and called out to my daughter 'where did Elan say DUN DUN DUNHH'? and she hotfooted it to the bookshelf and turned up the exact strip, i'm either an excellent or terrible parent, idk
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Aug 22, 2022 14:39
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sebmojo posted:i wanted a frame for a post and called out to my daughter 'where did Elan say DUN DUN DUNHH'? and she hotfooted it to the bookshelf and turned up the exact strip, i'm either an excellent or terrible parent, idk She didn't know it by heart?
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THE BAR posted:She didn't know it by heart? TERRIBLE IT IS
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sebmojo posted:i wanted a frame for a post and called out to my daughter 'where did Elan say DUN DUN DUNHH'? and she hotfooted it to the bookshelf and turned up the exact strip, i'm either an excellent or terrible parent, idk Without specifying which time?
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ultrafilter posted:Huh. I just noticed the callback to 831 there. Nice touch. I went back to 830 (another wall of text page) and saw that Redcloak's spell doesn't control the gate, it allows The Dark One to move it to a different plane to threaten the other gods. That makes me think Team Evil is going to get to the gate, but Durkon will be able to convince Redcloak/The Dark One to close the gates and contain the snarl.
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ultrafilter posted:Huh. I just noticed the callback to 831 there. Nice touch. What is the callback?
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Gun Jam posted:Without specifying which time? She asked me that lol. The first time is after the chimera but the one I was thinking of was when elan had just been captured by evil azure guy.
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The X-man cometh posted:That makes me think Team Evil is going to get to the gate, but Durkon will be able to convince Redcloak/The Dark One to close the gates and contain the snarl. I dunno. There's been too much foreshadowing about what's in the rifts for the story to just put a bow on it like that, I think. OotS feels like it has at least one or two more big story arcs in it to me, and I'm eager to see where it goes when it finally ends in 2056, assuming Rich's hand doesn't fall off first.
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SKULL.GIF posted:What is the callback? "diminishes us all"
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ultrafilter posted:"diminishes us all" I don't really think it's a callback, there is nothing in common between the two strips other than "someone died".
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I think it's just a stock eulogy phrase being parodied.
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New page - https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1266.html
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What a great strip. We're finally getting to watch the Team Evil dynamic break down, what a nice pay off this is going to be. I particularly enjoyed the fact that Xykon was effortlessly complying for the entire strip, right up until he deliberately altered the deal for the sake of altering the deal.
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modrons rule E: and liches drool Zulily Zoetrope fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 15:26
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Small tip for everyone: you can treat it as polarity and every odd number of letters changes the polarity while every even number keeps it the same. Saves you from totalling everything up. This post will deliberately seem insane to everyone until they read the strip.
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oobey posted:What a great strip. We're finally getting to watch the Team Evil dynamic break down, what a nice pay off this is going to be. That's the funniest part for sure. Making things harder for himself just so he can say he's in charge. Random Stranger posted:Small tip for everyone: you can treat it as polarity and every odd number of letters changes the polarity while every even number keeps it the same. Saves you from totalling everything up. Capfalcon fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 15:34
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oobey posted:I particularly enjoyed the fact that Xykon was effortlessly complying for the entire strip, right up until he deliberately altered the deal for the sake of altering the deal. He was not. Both sentences in the word balloon in panel eight are odd in total count and in the final word.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:37
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He had way more expletives he could end his sentences with, had he gone with even.
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So now their dynamic is really starting to get friction. Redcloak used to be into having fun on the journey, but now he's much more antsy about finally finishing the plan. And Xykon is getting more upset about having to stay put and work. It's a fair point that counting all the letters in a sentence is hard to do and what he chose instead is easier, but he wasn't smart about it. Probably he's going to scupper the whole deal by saying gently caress.
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Random Stranger posted:He was not. Both sentences in the word balloon in panel eight are odd in total count and in the final word. Oh, I forgot to track sentences individually. I was parsing the entire balloon itself, whoops.
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I'm pretty sure that "speak only in sentences ending in words containing an even number", means that the sentence's total letter count doesn't matter, it's just the final word.
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It might be that he's now forced to abide by the deal via geas. Hence his struggle in the last couple of panels. I'm going to be very amused if or when they fight the order with that deal still happening and Roy is very confused but varsuuvius probably gets it right away.
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This has got to culminate in him blowing the deal at the most inopportune moment, right? Possibly at a time that saves the Order's bacon.
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I wonder if it will influence what spells he can cast, considering they just shout the name in OOTS?
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Just add bitch to the end of every spell cast.
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Meteor Swarm, Energy Drain: cool beans Disjunction: whuh oh
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THE BAR posted:I'm pretty sure that "speak only in sentences ending in words containing an even number", means that the sentence's total letter count doesn't matter, it's just the final word. The initial stipulation was that he count all the letters in his sentences.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The initial stipulation was that he count all the letters in his sentences. Are you sure.
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