1. 2014-08-27, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #151
    halfeye
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    Default Re: MitD VIII: Everything we know about MITD (but were afraid Tarrasque)

    Quote Originally Posted by Quartz View Post
    I've just been rereading strip #55. If Xykon had hired Nale & co to retrieve the Talisman, wouldn't that be a pointer to the MITD being a monster from a previous edition?
    Xykon hired me to kill you, unaware that the Talisman for which I searched lay in his dungeon.
    So, he didn't hire Nale to find the Talisman.

    strip 57

    Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
    Does it matter? He didn't hire the Linear Guild to retrieve the talisman; he hired them to kill the Order of the Stick. Nale said Xykon didn't even know the talisman Nale sought was in his dungeon; taking as read that Nale doesn't actually know what Xykon does or doesn't know, that still rules out Xykon having mentioned the talisman to Nale.
    I'm not the first to say so either.
    Last edited by halfeye; 2014-08-27 at 04:58 PM.
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