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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Ted The Bug
I wanted something cool for 800.
The Giant DELIVERED! Completely unexpected move on V's part!
We always get something cool on updates.
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Originally Posted by
Inkling
Gotta say- Vaarsuvius swearing? Awesome.
SMACKDOWN.
I think it is because xe's quoting a swear that makes it so hilarious, xe said damnations last strip.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
Really Z? Somehow you didn't see someone else interfering?
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Is the speak-bubble for Z in panel 3 supposed to be black like that?
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Perfection indeed :smallcool:
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If that had happened in my group, I would have stood and clapped. Yay V!
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I approve of this turn of events.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
monkeyboyinc
Is the speak-bubble for Z in panel 3 supposed to be black like that?
Hey, it IS a normal speech bubble. Not like he's raised his voice in ONLY that panel... Giant, you made a rookie mistaakkkke *sing song voice*.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
It might be a tad hypocritical of V to consider silence a virtue.
I do wonder how (s)he's holding Yuk Yuk like that. Obviously he's lighter than a human, but V's strength score can't be very high. With the recent focus on support magic would (s)he have Bull's Strength prepared?
Nale's plan seems to be going south faster than usual, but then his last one also assumed that the Order would win their outright confrontation, so who knows if this was expected? And Durkon's counterpart has yet to reveal itself.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
snikrept
No effect from Phantasmal Killer... Guess they both made their saving throw?
Of COURSE they made their saving throws. Everyone always makes their saving throws against Phantasmal Killer, it allows the target to make TWO (a fortitude and a will) before it actually kills someone.
Phantasmal Killer, a complete waste of a spell slot and a standard action since 2000!
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
I am SO very glad Z wasn't smart enough to prepare Wind Wall.
Then again, no one would expect V to pull the Dominate trick on Yukyuk.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Kuroimaken
I am SO very glad Z wasn't smart enough to prepare Wind Wall.
Then again, no one would expect V to pull the Dominate trick on Yukyuk.
I think a few people were expecting it, but so few it didn't catch on around the forum.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
Huh. I wonder which spell V used to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment. If it was Break Enchantment itself, then V's getting Elan out of the fight was either solely motivated by a desire to mobilize Durkon, or solely motivated by a desire to get rid of Elan (whether to ensure his safety or remove him as a distraction), or both. Though one wonders why, if V used Break Enchantment to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment, she didn't use it to un-petrify Haley. If, as might more likely be the case, V used Dispel Magic to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment, one wonders how many Dispels she prepared today. She already counterspelled twice that we saw (the Baleful Polymorph and above the arena in 798) and this is her third. She might very well be running low on Dispels by now.
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Originally Posted by
Aldrakan
I do wonder how (s)he's holding Yuk Yuk like that. Obviously he's lighter than a human, but V's strength score can't be very high. With the recent focus on support magic would (s)he have Bull's Strength prepared?
As far as we've seen, carrying capacity is usually ignored when a character's in flight.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Kuroimaken
I am SO very glad Z wasn't smart enough to prepare Wind Wall.
Then again, no one would expect V to pull the Dominate trick on Yukyuk.
Except for half this forum.:smallamused:
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
This is why I love Vaarsuvius. :smallbiggrin: Fantastic comic.
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Now that is how you use an Intelligence score of 18 :smallbiggrin: Well done, V!
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Seven hells YEEEESSSSSS :smallbiggrin:
That should show the complainers that think the OotS can never do anything right!
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
monkeyboyinc
Is the speak-bubble for Z in panel 3 supposed to be black like that?
I don't think so.
Normally V's last panels are too smug for my taste, but this one was brilliant. But I think things are starting too look too uphill for the OOTS. Maybe Durkon's opposite will do for the Linear Guild what Durkon does for the OOTS. (Everything.)
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Very nice. I didn't see that one coming, though V has made good use of suggestion type spells before.
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Oh yeah, go V! That was wonderful!
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V-, you are awesum! And your reasoning, impeccable.
Way to go, Rich. Pure win, as is so often the case.
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Oh dats funnay. Dat's reely funnay. Yiiisss.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
monkeyboyinc
Is the speak-bubble for Z in panel 3 supposed to be black like that?
Fixed, along with the previously noted lack of the verb "to be."
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
Think V's comment about there being a new member was a poke at us? I hope so.
And there's this weird glitch that happens every now and then #799, still considers itself latest, unless you go to another strip, where it then says 800 is new.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
zimmerwald1915
Huh. I wonder which spell V used to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment. If it was Break Enchantment itself, then V's getting Elan out of the fight was either solely motivated by a desire to mobilize Durkon, or solely motivated by a desire to get rid of Elan (whether to ensure his safety or remove him as a distraction), or both. Though one wonders why, if V used Break Enchantment to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment, she didn't use it to un-petrify Haley. If, as might more likely be the case, V used Dispel Magic to counterspell Z's Break Enchantment, one wonders how many Dispels she prepared today. She already counterspelled twice that we saw (the Baleful Polymorph and above the arena in 798) and this is her third. She might very well be running low on Dispels by now.
Hm. Good chance that it WAS Break Enchantment.
I'm not up to snuff on counterspelling mechanics, because I don't remember using them that often, but I DO know that Break Enchantment takes one minute to cast. A minute that V probably didn't have, specially considering that the enemy party was giving chase already. Counterspelling, on the other hand, defaults to a standard action.
...that reminds me, how the heck did Z fire off Break Enchantment that quickly? It can't be quickened.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Kuroimaken
Hm. Good chance that it WAS Break Enchantment.
I'm not up to snuff on counterspelling mechanics, because I don't remember using them that often, but I DO know that Break Enchantment takes one minute to cast. A minute that V probably didn't have, specially considering that the enemy party was giving chase already. Counterspelling, on the other hand, defaults to a standard action.
...that reminds me, how the heck did Z fire off Break Enchantment that quickly? It can't be quickened.
I think he applied the Comedic Spell metamagic.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Kuroimaken
...that reminds me, how the heck did Z fire off Break Enchantment that quickly? It can't be quickened.
He did it by virtue of the author not reading the casting time when he was writing the strip.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
The Glyphstone
I think he applied the Comedic Spell metamagic.
That takes 4 fictional feats to get though!
Edit: Ninja'd. By the Giant! Bo YAH!
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MoonCat
Think V's comment about there being a new member was a poke at us? I hope so.
And there's this weird glitch that happens every now and then #799, still considers itself latest, unless you go to another strip, where it then says 800 is new.
For me its when you click the Comics, stories, Gaming or Shop. The forum and news pages are fine though.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Mutant Sheep
That takes 4 fictional feats to get though!
Yeah, but those feats are also prerequisites for Improved Hilarity anyways, so it's not a total loss.
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Re: OOTS #800 - The Discussion Thread
Wouldn't Dispel magic release Yuk Yuk? You would think Z would have prepared that one. Anyway, awesome way to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.