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2009-02-18, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
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2009-02-18, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Dear Powers!
Don't you see?
Spending all this time debating the alignments... how can you?
For Pete's sake... Vaarsuvius is about to accept to a pre-approved CREDIT CARD OFFER!!!
Oh, the humanity! The absolute horror! The bone-chillingly slimy evil...!
Pray, Brethren! Pray for salvation! Dave Ramsey, preserve us!
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2009-02-18, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Maybe I'm reaching, but does anybody else think that - considering the music references - the IFCC is a play on the RIAA / MPAA organisations?
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2009-02-18, 11:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
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2009-02-19, 12:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
The end is near
And then we burn out........AND FADE AWAY!!!
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2009-02-19, 12:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 12:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
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2009-02-19, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Nice catch. Yeup, we have a perfect match. And note the context with that comic. I wonder the deal will play out, considering what they're after and what V is after. Heck, I wonder how the deal will play out anyway. What exactly will V give in return, what form will the power come in? Oh the anticipation.
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2009-02-19, 12:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Well, that answers a couple of lingering questions about the Fiends in the OotS. There is indeed a Blood War, and so the same major distinction between demons and devils as in basic D&D. But Sabine reports to neither side, but rather to a trio of fiends who are trying to unite their races. Interesting.
Well, looks like we may indeed be seeing the much-anticipated Four WordsTM and V's acquisition of complete and total ultimate arcane power within the next few strips. I look forward to seeing exactly how this plays out.
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2009-02-19, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
There aren't really any exclusive or original ideas on TVTropes. That's kind of the point.
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2009-02-19, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
yugoloths were 3.5, 3.0, and possibly 2nd ed as well- Daemon is their name in even earlier editions- but the term isn't used in 3.0 and 3.5
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2009-02-19, 01:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Thank You! I was trying to find some hidden meaning when you said all their names together "'Lean era,' said Rick," "Lean Eros Head-Wreck," or something like that.
I'm also hoping that since these are Sabine's superiors, that we bring her and the rest of the Linear Guild into this...maybe even a segue into something about Hilgya or Nale's Father.Last edited by Raging Gene Ray; 2009-02-19 at 01:43 AM.
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2009-02-19, 01:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Even so, isn't there a 'no coercion' clause in the whole selling your soul deal? If I'm not mistaken, it's one of the few conditions that can allow such a deal to be made invalid.
While Sabine and Nale did not intend to make the Order kill a dragon and earn its mother's wrath, their actions still ended up causing it, and through that causing the circumstances that will/might force V to accept this deal. A lawyer may consider that coercion or otherwise illegal interference. A stretch, of course, but a potential loophole nonetheless.Last edited by Kaytara; 2009-02-19 at 01:43 AM.
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2009-02-19, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 02:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 03:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Petty squabbles between fiends have taken far too much fiendish effort away from the greater Evil. Hooray for the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission! If they handle Faustian devil contracts for high-profile costumers like Vaarsuvius, then they must be bigger than Qarr's lack of knowledge on them makes them seem.
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2009-02-19, 03:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
"The right four words at the right time to the right being for all the wrong reasons"
It depends on it being for all the wrong reasons aswell though and surely saving your family is for the right reason? Unless the dragon just wanted V to suffer the agonny of thinking hir family were all dead and the dragon never planned on actually carrying out the plan. This would mean that V had sold hir soul for nothing although se would still think se had done it for the right reasons. I the end I would say probably not.Avatar by me...yup that's how good my drawing is. As in not very good.
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2009-02-19, 04:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Am I the only one who first thought of this (non-OOtS-) strip* when reading the word "daemon"? And of course this one, which also shows some possible way out for V...
*Reading through the other posts, these sound unfortunately much more logical**
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2009-02-19, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 05:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Go on V...give in to the surprisingly multi-coloured darkside...
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2009-02-19, 05:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 06:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
hey,
i didnt see it posted in the forums yet...
im neither native english speaking nor am i into D&D and im just guessing i must miss out a joke in this strip...
the purple dude of the ifcc says in his first picture: "I just transferred my consciousness from hte Lower Planes and boy, are my arms tired!"
there must be sense somewhere in this sentence.. but for me its just nonesense right now
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2009-02-19, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
It's an extremely corny old joke. A bad stand-up comedian - or indeed a businessman who thinks it a good idea to begin some speech or presentation with a joke - might start by saying something like 'So, I just flew in from Boston - and boy, are my arms tired!' The implication being that he's been flapping them all the way.
To me, the fact that someone would actually make that awful joke is more than enough evidence that they are utterly and irredeemably evil.
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2009-02-19, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
Not sure if the Giant had anything else in mind when he picked these names, but I thought it might be interesting to point out that legendary actor Christopher Lee played both "Nero the Magician" in the 1960 film The Hands of Orlac and a character named "Cedric" (with a "c", instead of a "k") in the 1992 film Jackpot.
Neither of these are films that most people would know, however, so Giant probably wasn't shooting for these. It's probably just an interesting coincidence.
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2009-02-19, 07:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
While these are certainly the same folk we saw back here, anyone else notice they seem a little shorter now?
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2009-02-19, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
I am ashamed that another one of the typical footnotes hasn't appeared yet. You know, the one that goes something like "Void in Delaware and Rhode Island".
Also, we need Lee, Nero, and Cedrik smileys.Last edited by ref; 2009-02-19 at 07:10 AM.
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2009-02-19, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-02-19, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #632 - The Discussion Thread
We know for a fact that Sabine deals in souls (and gets commission, apparently). Maybe she set the whole order up with pre-approved offers just in case?
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