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Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Khizan posted:

Soon tells Miko that Windstriker will visit her in the afterlife

Soon tells Miko that Windstriker will visit her "as much as he is able", which feels very carefully worded.

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Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Gynovore posted:

...then how do you explain the dinosaurs???? Checkmate!!!!

Just because the world is only a thousand years old, doesn't mean it can't have billions of years of past.

It feels so creepy to sincerely invoke the omphalos hypothesis.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Realistically, you can read the entire OotS archives within a three-day interval. And there's three solid gags.

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Oct 10, 2004

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GlyphGryph posted:

The team she hasn't figure out is Team Evil, which is really the crux of the problem.

... Serini will probably recognize the Monster in the Dark, won't she.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Staltran posted:

What kind of monster he is, or literally recognize MitD?

Either? Both?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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GlyphGryph posted:

Roy: Boring Cop
Durkon: Sorry Cop
Elan: Superstar Cop, possibly also Fancy Cop
Varsuvius: Art Cop
Belkar: Hobocop
Haley: Not a cop, but definitely a Hustler

Belkar is Axe Cop.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried as everyone.

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Oct 10, 2004

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FMguru posted:

I assume the floor monster that Belkar wounded was a Trapper ( https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/trapper/ )

I wonder if their treatment of the floor monster will make a difference to how Serini behaves.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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If you were to recommend OotS to someone, at what point would you say it begins getting really good?

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Oct 10, 2004

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SlothfulCobra posted:

Hey, it's Franklin.

Franklin the piercer.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Zulily Zoetrope posted:

The Sapphire Guard had a rotten "nits make lice" core that Shojo had allowed to fester, and it was always going to be his undoing. We only really see Miko representing this because Rich prefers writing characters to writing groups, but she was not the only bad person in it. Hinjo, O-Chul and Lien are the exceptions. Those three individuals wouldn't kill Shojo, no, but The Sapphire Guard would have done it as soon as they caught whiff of any effort to stifle them.

[...]

Rich is not subtle about his views on institutional bigotry and those who propagate it.

It's always been clear that the Sapphire Guard are cops (hey, their color is blue), but what Rich intended that to mean has perhaps somewhat changed over the years.

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Oct 10, 2004

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Sky Shadowing posted:

But does your house have stairs?

I am protected against the terrible secret of three-dimensional space.

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Oct 10, 2004

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Random Stranger posted:

It occurs to me that there's a problem with the ritual. So the gods wove the world as a prison for the snarl, right? And the rifts are tears in the fabric of the world letting the snarl out of the box. The gods don't live in the world, they're off on other planes. If the rift can be moved, it's shifting where the weak material is, but it's inherently part of the prime material plane. How do you move a lack of something to a place that by definition lacks it? It's like moving a hole in the ground to outer space; conceptually it just doesn't work.

Which doesn't mean a lot, really. It could be a plot hole that doesn't really matter or it might be a big twist. It's just weird.

.... the Snarl is a Plot Hole.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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edit: Sorry, misremembered

Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 7, 2022

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

Nah, it's been said repeatedly that he has an insatiable appetite

Said by whom?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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TheAceOfLungs posted:

Darn you all, now I want this comic!

isn't this Batman?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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SlothfulCobra posted:

Also presumably most political states in the world of Order of the Stick aren't so directly connected with their religious obligations, but it's just a coincidence that we've seen so many that are. The dwarves are an exception because their souls are more on the line, the Azure Empire was explicitly an exception that everyone said was weird being run by paladins. Of the other states we've seen, Hobgoblins weren't actually directly serving The Dark One until Redcloak forcibly took over by assassinating who he thought was the leader. Greysky City seemingly was run by the thieves' guild. Tarquin's Empire, the puppet kingdoms he ran his shell game with, and the subject kingdoms of the desert didn't seem particularly motivated by religion (and part of Tarquin's mercenary advisor deal was providing a high priest).

I assume that a lot of parts of the world are a lot more secular.

Can you even have 'secular' in a D&D world?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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killerwhat posted:

Anyone got a go-to example page to send to people? I want to recommend OOTS to friends but it doesn't sell itself well just looking at the first couple of strips. Might have to flick through my printed books (good thing I have no other plans this evening) to find something that looks epic and exciting but without spoilers.

Roy falling to his death?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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It feels like the bit with Serini dodging questions about mimic adhesive will be relevant.

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Oct 10, 2004

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studio mujahideen posted:

splitting off one character and having him specifically mention how he didn't have any of the soup everyone else is eating seems like it could be important

... remind me what happened to Serini's cauldron of amnesia potion?

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Oct 10, 2004

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Android Blues posted:

Yeah, it's totally Eugene. Good eye, those who spotted it earlier!

the question is, will Roy spot it? Or will it have to be revealed to him?

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Oct 10, 2004

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The X-man cometh posted:

Rich underscores the "up here" so that's got to be important. But why is Eugene bothering to disguise himself as Julia?

because there's no way Roy would listen to Eugene.

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Oct 10, 2004

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SKULL.GIF posted:

Spells is 6 letters, panel 6.

In any case I don't think the modron particularly cares if Xykon isn't 100% perfect as long as he's making the effort.

so is that Rich's mistake, or Xykon's?

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Oct 10, 2004

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Can Xykon even get the magical pinpoint-sized tattoos in the first place, since he's a fleshless skeleton with a nonexistent rear end?

edit: why am I not surprised that I'm not the first one to think of this

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Oct 10, 2004

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Raenir Salazar posted:

I know at one point Thor was trying to let Roy know via the Thunderstorm that Nokrun wasn't Durkon?

I don't recall this? When was this?

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Oct 10, 2004

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SlothfulCobra posted:

There's supposed to be some mallow in there too, altho it often gets neglected.

Like with jujubes, the candied version became super successful that the original plant component was replaced with synthetics.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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Disintegrate. Gust of wind.

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Oct 10, 2004

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Capfalcon posted:

Who among us hasn't cringed at younger us?

I mean, hell, go look at your own posts from way back at the beginning of this thread.

edit: not specifically aimed at Capfalcon

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Oct 10, 2004

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SuperKlaus posted:

The most awful monster, the White Comedian

Ozymandias threw him out a window.

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Oct 10, 2004

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enigma105 posted:

Howard is still writing stuff, just not comics. He's still on the Writing Excuses podcast, and apparently working on some Schlock universe books. He's also doing non-Schlock stuff now that it isn't consuming his life.

Plus he's got Long Covid.

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