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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
MReav
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Well, "Greenhilt" name is based on his family sword, perhaps "Draketooth" indicated he has Dragon ancestry.
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Or, one of Girard's ancestors may have slain a dragon, taken one of its teeth as a trophy, and passed it down through the family.
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Sewblon
How does Roy know that Girard is keeping an eye on that spot at all? The illusion said that it is a completely random spot in the middle of the worlds largest desert.
Because Girard was expecting Soon to move on his gate, and even bet money on when it would happen. He'd surely have something set up to signal him if the trap goes off, and to verify that it was Soon so that he could cash in on his bet with Serini.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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SoC175
Has anyone of the OOtS ever seen the ghost-paladin?
No, but O-Chul was there, I'm thinking he told them about Soon. I had that same thought at first!
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
DBear
How long is Elan's message going to last in the bleedin' desert? :smallyuk: A decent wind will obliterate the message.
A few minutes. Long enough for Girard to cast Greater Scrying.
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ThePhantasm
something seemed off - the pacing or something.
Indeed, this was different. Something was off. Didn't perturb me much, though. Had nice humor.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Heehee. V and Blackwing are quickly becoming my favorite characters. I still love Elan though.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
I'm not sure which part of this strip I liked more- Elan's spelling or Belkar calling V out on blowing him up.
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Pointing the Stick at Creative English and Mad Bombers.
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Originally Posted by
infiniteviking
"Originally Posted by Wou
Anyone noticed tha Elan is using the stick from OotS "coat of arms"? :P"
...Good grief, it's The Stick! :D
Has anyone else noticed that it still has its single leaf?
Not bad for a stick that has been transported most likely in a bag of holding since the start of the adventure, across continents.
Maaaaaaaaaaaybe it's a magic stick. Eternally living. Special powers even - as well as being useful as a giant writing implement.
Any ideas?
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awibs
Hell, even for authors of the written word, I can't see why one has to hold them to higher standards of consistent spelling than Shakespear :P
Ok. You got me. I know you're being clever - I'm not just sure HOW clever. As my dad told his English teacher "I wouldn't have any trouble creating rhymes in sonnets either if I just made up the words like Shakespeare did."
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Originally Posted by
madtinker
"Originally Posted by V
As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."
Please, please, please make this a t-shirt!
That's terrorist talk, that is! ;-)
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Huh. The bird is pretty useful after all.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Zevox
No, but it's certainly more powerful than mundane items.
Zevox
I have to disagree. Enough mundane explosives can match any magical spell under Dungeons and Dragons rules. Even epic ones.
EDIT: For damage, that is.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Awesome. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this comic. :smallcool:
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Shale
Indeed. For instance, you could have social disputes with cockroaches. Or fire elementals.
Given the other team's penchant for Element Elementals, I'd wager "Ionizing Radiation Elementals" instead of plain old "Fire"
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Haven't read the whole thread, so maybe someone's pointed it out already, but there's a spelling mistake in the second panel. "vis-à-vis" should be spelled that way, not with an 'á'.
It probably won't matter to most readers anyway (English speakers) but it still should be corrected before going in print.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Fantastic. Last three panels are simply wonderful.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
I'd like to make a precision about one of the French expression V used in that comic. Actually it's vis-à-vis, rather than á. This caracter (á) doesn't exist in French..
Also.. this was a nice strip! ^^
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
[QUOTE=Razaele;7584052]"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."
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T-Shirt! T-Shirt!:vaarsuvius:
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Surprised that it wasn't brought up in the strip itself, but the fact that Roy was the only one hurt by the explosion lends credence to the theory that the spell only targeted those of Lawful alignment.
Also, V's line is going into my Cool Quotes file.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
V is being healed from explosion damage in the first panel. Haley presumably used Evasion.
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I'm thinking of a formula for V's theory. X=the size of the explosion* and n=number of social situations it can solve. I'm thinking X to the nth power
*i.e. radius/diameter (whatever you use to measure sphere volumes)
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...:smallredface:
Eh what do I know? I suck at math:smallsmile::smalltongue:
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Fjolnir
So we're not looking at the "epic Chaos Hammer" theory? I think that would explain the "LG Roy gets tossed, N V gets injured, the 2 CG characters survive unscathed at ground zero" idea, especially since Chaos Hammer has will for half, and half damage to non lawful, non chaotic people...
if everyone makes their save (roy is implied to have very good wisdom, will is the good save for wizards) this would make sense.
This has merit, seeing as the intent of the blast was to fry Paladins. Though their saves should be pretty beefy too.
EDIT - it occurs to me that Girard may have researched an epic spell specifically to slay Soon and only Soon, everyone else whose name is not Soon Kim in the blast radius takes half damage or something... the splash damage / imprecision of the blast being part of the DC offset for building the spell.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Nice one Rich!:smalltongue:
And just to let you know on the off chance that you read this, I finally received the 4th book and just read through all the extra features you added; commentary and all.
(Chances aren't high that you will notice this post out of all the many, but some of your recent talk in the commentary led me to believe that you do read through this once in a while. So it I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.)
Anyways, I will be looking for those special things you mentioned. And thank you very much for getting me involved in D&D and online web comics.
So again,
Thank you Rich!:smallsmile:
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Trixie
Seriously, the only lynchpin of their argument fell apart like a house made from cards :smalltongue:
Really? I thought the lynchpin of the argument against Girard was that he was utterly and entirely wrong about Soon, and I don't think V surviving that explosion disproves that in any way...
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Am I the only one who realized that V is channeling Black Mage a bit there in the last couple pannels?
"For every problem, there is a proportionally large Hadoken." - Black Mage
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Nice to see Blackwing acting as V's adviser. Good comic. :smallsmile:
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Well, as I see it we are stuck with these theories as being plausible.
1) Plot armor
2) Girard seriously miscalculated the strength of explosion needed
3) The spell deteriorated.
4) It's a ruse, designed to persuade the uninformed to look elsewhere.
If the 4th theory is correct, then the other members of the Order of the Scribble - or anyone sent by them (but unfortunately not necessarily those sent by third-generation heirs) - would see through the ruse and be of sufficiently high level to not be overly troubled by the explosion.
Uninformed gate-seekers, who survive the explosion, will presumably either continue looking in OTHER parts of the desert (and Girard has been notified and will be scrying) or head for Serini's gate (and Serini has been notified and will be scrying).
Oh, and by the way... krak-a-thoom
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Perhaps we're looking at this the wrong way.
Maybe the explosion was only designed to irritate and inconvenience Soon? You have something that is splashy and impressive, but not designed to melt the desert, and anything that happens to standing nearby, into glass.
Paladins can't survive on faith alone. Imagine all of the supplies any sizable force would need to bring with them being consumed in a fiery blast, along with the injuring or killing of mounts. I'm not terribly familiar with the rules for paladin mounts, but not every paladins has a mount suitable for desert travel(evidenced by the shark-mounted paladin from Azure City). Those animals, along with pack animals, at the very least would try to escape, if not be killed. Injured paladin mounts would be dismissed. Lower-leveled characters would have taken damage from the blast and would need healing.
We now have a force of exhausted paladins, stranded in the desert with no supplies and limited mobility.
The blast would also act a beacon for raiders, scavengers, and desert predators.
No doubt Soon and many paladins would get out of the desert alive, but it would take much longer than it did getting there. There would definitely be casualties. Furthermore, Soon would be enraged because he would know that it all played out exactly like Girard wanted it to happen.
Girard can scry them at his leisure and enjoy Soon's struggles, not to mention giving him even more time to prepare for Soon's arrival. Soon has to march home first, and then find Girard's Gate, wherever it actually is.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Another great one.
I love the fact that Elan made a keyboard typo - dropping the shift key on one of the exclamation marks to leave a '1' - even though he was writing in the sand with a stick. Nice touch, though I can't help suspecting the giant does this sort of thing just to see how long til someone notices :smallsmile:
hehe, and worth noting that at least two people noticed before I did :smalltongue:
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
Excellent strip. Some of the lines these characters get are fantastic.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Trixie
Yes, even MS, as it happened to hit spliced/buffed V.
I didn't think the soul splice gave V anything but spells. I took Xykon's "Your soul shenanigans were real flashy, but they had one weakness: they were shackled to your lame mid-level ass" and "I used to think spells equalled power too..... You know what does equal power? Power." to mean that V might have gotten ultimate arcana power (in the form of spells), but that s/he hadn't got any other kinds of power (hp, saves, BAB, skills, ability scores) to go with it. Of course, V would probably still have been buffed with protective spells, but not enough to compensate. Plus, as Shale said, s/he also took one after the souls had left.
Good strip btw. I second (or whatever number we're on) the request for a T-shirt quoting V.
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Keld Denar
Am I the only one who realized that V is channeling Black Mage a bit there in the last couple pannels?
"For every problem, there is a proportionally large Hadoken." - Black Mage
Notice how Belkar smiles? That's not because he likes violence (he does), but because he knows that V is doing the same thing that he's doing - pretending not to think violence is the first and best solution.
Oh, and also: "And if that don't work? Use more gun fireball"
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Re: OOTS #696 - The Discussion Thread
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Originally Posted by
Keld Denar
Am I the only one who realized that V is channeling Black Mage a bit there in the last couple pannels?
"For every problem, there is a proportionally large Hadoken." - Black Mage
V has been chanelling BM for a while.
"The universe hates me"? Who else do we know who says that?
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Haha, I love V's expression in the last panel :smallbiggrin: