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RE: white specs in the water...Duv does have feathers..
regarding KOre being the BBEG...not sure if we can establish that. He's definitely a fearsome foe, and is going to be a "Big Deal," but I don't think the comic has established a definite main plot yet, and the closest is has come is the Duv "goblins must take their rightful place in the world" plot we have going on with Dies
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Morquard
So unless the goblins are all really tall for small size and Biscuit is really small for large size, I don't see it.
The female goblins all seem to be much taller than the other goblins to me, aside from the old teller.
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Is it just me, or were the odds that that orc would fall on Duv really, really low?
That's like, something I'd expect to find in OOtS, not Goblins.
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Biscuit jumped off the cliff at the exact same place Duv fell off it, AND he has a lot of surface area. The odds aren't all that bad.
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nonamearisto
Is it just me, or were the odds that that orc would fall on Duv really, really low?
That's like, something I'd expect to find in OOtS, not Goblins.
Improbable isn't the same thing as impossible
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It's not so much that, so much as in which comic it happened. Improbably and comically falling on things seems to be an OOtS thing more. Still, I guess it has no monopoly on that. :smallsmile:
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The Linker
Eh, Grem's up there with nothing but allies now. I'm expecting they'll be able to come over and bind his wounds now -- there's a few healing potions scattered around where Biscuit just was. Or it's possible the trauma of removing the giant axe taking residence in his torso will be too much. It's up to the plot.
As for the cra-sploosh... I'm hoping Duv's not dead. That'd probably be lame. But I'll have to see how it's handled.
The image I'm seeing in the future of Biscuit noticing Fox bleeding out and giving her a healing potion with a 'ptoo' is great, though.
I now have a picture of Biscut giving Fox a literal "kiss of life" to pass some healing potion to her, unable to just open his mouth due to risk of it all spilling out.
Thank you for that.
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nonamearisto
Is it just me, or were the odds that that orc would fall on Duv really, really low?
That's like, something I'd expect to find in OOtS, not Goblins.
It's a well known fact that when it comes to drama, improbable events are actually more likely to happen. OOtS may have done a good job pointing that out, but it's basically true in nearly every story.
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TrinityGrace
It's a well known fact that when it comes to drama, improbable events are actually more likely to happen. OOtS may have done a good job pointing that out, but it's basically true in nearly every story.
I guess so. Elan said something about that when a million to one was a sure thing. Not every story operates like that, but enough do.
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TrinityGrace
It's a well known fact that when it comes to drama, improbable events are actually more likely to happen. OOtS may have done a good job pointing that out, but it's basically true in nearly every story.
As well as in any real life events people care to retell.
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"And then, suddenly, nothing unusual happened!"
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nonamearisto
I guess so. Elan said something about that when a million to one was a sure thing. Not every story operates like that, but enough do.
Thats a Terry Pratchett Discworld thing originally (or at least predating oots)- Million to one shots crop up nine times in ten.
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VariaVespasa
Well "orcs" IS an anagram of "rocs", after all. The k is silent, of course... :P
Unless they be proper orks! WWWWAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
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VariaVespasa
Thats a Terry Pratchett Discworld thing originally (or at least predating oots)- Million to one shots crop up nine times in ten.
I'd even say it goes back to "Never tell me the odds!"
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Marnath
That looks like a really poorly made graphic to me, considering that the maximum for medium and the minimum for large are both 8 feet, not 8 feet and like 12 feet or whatever that's supposed to be. If you want to see the real rules for size, they're
here.
*scratchhead* How exactly are the numbers giving in your table any different than those in my graphic?
4-8 for medium, 8-16 for large...
The first black figure is the minimum for medium, the grey beside it is average for medium (6 ft), it's not the max or anything. And the next black one is max for medium and min for large...
And so on. One size category goes from black to black.
Anyway according to your table, small is 2-4 ft tall, and large is 8-16. That's 3 and 12 on average or a factor of 4.
As I said unless Biscuit is really small for Large size and the goblins tall for Small size, I don't see it...
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Sholos
Unless they be proper orks! WWWWAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
Orks are Fungi, who wants to be part Slime Mold :smalltongue:
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Starbuck_II
Orks are Fungi, who wants to be part Slime Mold :smalltongue:
Aww, but slime molds are beautiful....
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VariaVespasa
Thats a Terry Pratchett Discworld thing originally (or at least predating oots)- Million to one shots crop up nine times in ten.
For the old West End Games Star Wars roleplaying game, there was a Rebel Special Ops book that included a glossary of amusing spec-ops slang. There were various sarcastic names for missions of increasing difficulty, culminating in the mission where the odds of survival were one in a million. It's name was the "Skywalker Special".
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Maybe Duv is a half/quarter-flumpf. That could explain it too.
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Draconi Redfir
I now have a picture of Biscut giving Fox a literal "kiss of life" to pass some healing potion to her, unable to just open his mouth due to risk of it all spilling out.
Thank you for that.
Perfect.
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VariaVespasa
Well "orcs" IS an anagram of "rocs", after all. The k is silent, of course... :P
IN ORC LANGUAGE, NOTHING IS SILENT.
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Technically speaking, that falling damage should have offed both of them.
Unless one had class levels, or that cliff wasn't nearly as high as it looked.
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Acanous
Technically speaking, that falling damage should have offed both of them.
Unless one had class levels, or that cliff wasn't nearly as high as it looked.
Wait, Goblins didn't strictly adhere to the rules of D&D? Le Gasp!
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I know, right?!
Although, the white splatter when Biscuit landed may be indicative of a dead winged goblin. The water may break Biscuit's fall, and he could always have nat 20'd an acrobatics to lower the damage >.>
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The Glyphstone
Wait, Goblins didn't strictly adhere to the rules of D&D? Le Gasp!
+1, also, on the Dnd douchebaggery side, we have no idea how many HP a special breed of Large Orc has, especially since he's spent the last howevermany years with a certain demon :D
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Acanous
Although, the white splatter when Biscuit landed may be indicative of a dead winged goblin.
That's the second time I've seen this crazy theory. Duv is not made of paste! If those were chunks of goblin, they'd be red. Thunt does not censor his gore. :smallamused:
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Morph Bark
Perfect.
IN ORC LANGUAGE, NOTHING IS SILENT.
There are silent letters in orc language, but that's only because they're intended to be pronounced by hitting the nearest person in the face. The language is very nuanced. On the bright side, this fact has made the orcish debate the favorite sport of the race! Nothing punctuates a proper rebuttal by kicking someone in the ass.
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The Linker
Thunt does not censor his gore. :smallamused:
He even advice the reader, about the scenes of extreme violence. (although it's written with a small font size... :smalltongue:)
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The Linker
That's the second time I've seen this crazy theory. Duv is not made of paste! If those were chunks of goblin, they'd be red. Thunt does not censor his gore. :smallamused:
But it's a lot easier for feathers from a wing to fly away than the goblin body exploding into 100 pieces.
However I guess we'll better wait till next comic to see how this turned out.
Of course, considering how much Thunt's likes cliffhangers... this could have been the last comic of this arc for the next two years. Almost all characters in negative HP, and those that aren't are still severely wounded and might bleed out any moment too.
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TrinityGrace
OH YEAH!!! I think I may have called it.
Bah! I say. You are a latecomer. :smallbiggrin:
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Stegyre
Bah! I say. You are a latecomer. :smallbiggrin:
Well he didn't really look "desperate" to me; I read it as more of a "screw this, I'm outta here", less because he didn't feel able to take the Vipers (there's no way he doesn't have Great Cleave, and I'd bet he could do it even with unarmed strikes), but simply because it would be too much bother to hobble around with one leg when he could just quit the battlefield (and feel no sense of loss for the missed goblin-mashing opportunity).