The Order of the Stick: T-Rex, Troll Sex and Will Checks

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Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

So, V's killed the dragon and found the rest of the party - what's the over/under on how much longer s/he tries to hold on to the soul splice?

# ¿ Apr 16, 2009 23:52

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:07

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Room Temperature posted:

They are also wonderful, marvelous, fantastic, glamorous, enchanting and terrific.

<- Sup.

Also, wow, quite the clip Rich is on these days. I might have to actually start checking this thread again.

I can't imagine Redcloak and Tsukiko taking too long to come to blows the next time Xykon's distracted either, I'm just struggling to think of when that would be. Random shiny evil plots aside.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2010 06:47

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

PFlats posted:

I don't get it.

Probably a Start of Darkness spoiler.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2010 21:46

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Umbra Dubium posted:

Does the fact that Durkon used the Mass- version of the spell mean Malack can't turn him now either? (Or Mister Scruffy?)

I'm pretty sure that's why he used Mass Death Ward (besides, of course, the siren call dramatic irony).

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 17:27

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Effingham posted:

You magnificent, horrible, bastard.

Okay, I give up, can someone please explain this reference to me and why everyone loves it so much?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 17:55

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

New strip! :siren:

Well, thank gently caress for that realisation.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 04:42

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

I think it's mostly the realisation that "hey, now is not actually the time to go catatonic with guilt".

Anything that makes it look like this scene will some day end earns high praise from me.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 05:12

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

More importantly, V doesn't have Sending memorized today, as was mentioned in the previous strip.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2013 20:16

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Ursine Asylum posted:

It depends on if he's sticking with his intentions from earlier this book or not.

I'm pretty sure "obliterate the army that's threatening the party" would also fall under self defence IF the fiends send him back in time.

The question is how many spell-slots worth of Evocations New V traded for support, I guess.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2013 01:01

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

PFlats posted:

The opposite of infernal.

Literally, it's basically 4E's "language of the Gods/the Planes". I don't remember if there was an equivalent in 3E.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2013 19:13

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Kajeesus posted:

Celebrity photo leak reference at the end there. I'm sure that will stay relevant.

Don't worry, it will.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2014 18:12

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Shugojin posted:

He could probably have managed to get a Neutral something-or-other though, I guess.

I mean basically he went with the first powerful arcane spellcaster he found and later learned that guy was a total dick.

Along those lines, I'm kinda curious now about whether/how Redcloak would have worked with Vaarsuvius in Xykon's place if things had fallen out that way. I suppose the mutual racial prejudice would have made it unworkable even though V is almost certainly amoral enough to do something like this in pursuit of power and the knowledge of some esoteric new ritual.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2015 21:01

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Colonial Air Force posted:

Russian fatalist warg owns

Wait, there are non-fatalist Russians?

# ¿ May 20, 2016 18:44

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:07

Dallan Invictus: Oct 11, 2007; The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Poil posted:

Also I read someone who did the maths and it has millions in size penalty but billions in distance penalty so you can't ever see it.

see, you can fail Spot checks against inanimate objects not trying to hide

(though posts, like celestial bodies, presumably aren't characters or creatures anyway so maybe those rules are irrelevant?)

Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 27, 2024

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 17:27

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