Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

[Shhalahr Windrider]

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in 550, MiTD says no-one round here uses their real names anyway. The two peole who he meets most are Xykon (can't ember what it used to be, but he changed it after killing the prof-X expy) and Readcloak (not his real name)

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Xykon’s real name is never mentioned. Nor is Redcloak’s.

[Flame of Anor]

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Xykon’s real name is never mentioned. Nor is Redcloak’s.

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Or Right-Eye's.

[St Fan]

Oh boy... okay, I can understand having missed it till now cause she's rather pale and transluscent, but...

Haley's Self-Loathing Alter Ego has an eyebrow piercing.

[Roland Itiative]

When Redcloak was talking to the mirror in 701, he wasn't just talking to himself. He was seeing Right Eye in the reflection, as the mirror makes his eye-patch appear to be on the right eye.

[Flame of Anor]

When Redcloak was talking to the mirror in 701, he wasn't just talking to himself. He was seeing Right Eye in the reflection, as the mirror makes his eye-patch appear to be on the right eye.

You mean his left eye, but yes, you're absolutely right. I love that little reference--the comic makes sense for everyone, but SoD readers get the deeper meaning.

[ti'esar]

On a less significant note from that same strip, I just now noticed that one of the goblins in the second-to-last panel has the same light green skin color as the koalinths in 823. He doesn't have the webbed ears and probably isn't meant to be one, but it's still interesting to see.

[martianmister]

On a less significant note from that same strip, I just now noticed that one of the goblins in the second-to-last panel has the same light green skin color as the koalinths in 823. He doesn't have the webbed ears and probably isn't meant to be one, but it's still interesting to see.

He's a Half-goblin/Half-hobgoblin and isn't same colour as koalinths.

[Dark Elf Bard]

I dissagree. He certainly looks like a koalinth.

[Ron Miel]

Can Koalinths survive on land?

As for the colour, the koalinths are shown underwater. The colour is affected. See how the hobgoblin cleric is a duller shade of orange than the ones on land. I don't think we can judge the species from colour alone.

[Gift Jeraff]

Koalinths first appeared in a bonus strip and their ears look as they do in #823 (though they are lacking gills). No reason to assume he changed their ears to look terrestrial in #701 and then changed it back for no reason. I'm going either with half-goblin/half-hobgoblin, half-koalinth/half-other-goblinoid, or some other form of mixed heritage.

[ti'esar]

Can Koalinths survive on land?

As for the colour, the koalinths are shown underwater. The colour is affected. See how the hobgoblin cleric is a duller shade of orange than the ones on land. I don't think we can judge the species from colour alone.

If you look in the first panel, there's a number of figures around the water, but not under it, with the same skin color (as opposed to the darker green goblins that can also be seen).

[Firemeier]

A little toying around in paint shows that the mixed-race goblin has a darker skin tone than both the Koalinths in the water and out of the water:


Note that the middle circle is similar to the right one but not identical in color. It's not a Koalinth; it's the happy offspring of some goblin/hobgoblin mingling.

[Flame of Anor]

In the penultimate panel of 821, Tarquin's dimmer makes its return.

[Pory]

I never noticed Belkar's small sized dagger in the first panel of the very first stript. It is small sized, then it grows the next time it appears just to shrinks again when it's "upgraded"

[Onyavar]

Hi. I never noticed that the "Jokes you didn't get" thread disappeared, where I wanted to ask my question. Then I searched the whole #761 thread for the meaning of the joke in first panel here,, consulted several online dictionaries, and finally got the joke when I consulted my printed dictionary. Good one, the semantics of the english language continue to surprise me.

[Flame of Anor]

Hi. I never noticed that the "Jokes you didn't get" thread disappeared, where I wanted to ask my question. Then I searched the whole #761 thread for the meaning of the joke in first panel here,, consulted several online dictionaries, and finally got the joke when I consulted my printed dictionary. Good one, the semantics of the english language continue to surprise me.

It's not really a joke, though, is it? Just Elan mistaking a word for a similar-sounding word in a mildly humorous manner.

@V: yes, that's what I meant

[The Linker]

Er, what's your definition of a joke, then? It was something written with literally no other purpose than to provoke laughter or amusement. Even if it failed for you, personally, it doesn't make it not a joke, just not a good one.

Edit: Wait, I think I see what you're saying. No, Elan wasn't purposefully telling a joke, but it still falls under the definition; rather, it was Rich Burlew who was telling the joke. It was a joke, but it wasn't one in-universe.

[bertoltus]

I just noticed that Haley kind of foresaw the end of the resistance at some point in the future: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0527.html

[Spacewolf]

I never noticed the warning in panel 4

[Peelee]

I never noticed the warning in panel 4

....Holy crap that is brilliant!

[Willis888]

When Roy puts on Xykon's crown, the very next thing he says is, "Strange though, it doesn't feel quite right."

[Hardcore]

Yeah, but has nothing to do with the crown.

[Ferreroni]

In Strip #632 i never noticed the Archfiends names reflect their alingnment
LEE (Lawful Evil)
NERO (Neutral Evil)
CEDRICK (Chaotic Evil)

And from the way those cards are arranged, i would say that the orange one is Lee the devil, the yellow one is Nero the Daemon and the purple one is Cedrick the Demon. You can even guess the soul splices alingnment: Haerta, covered in purple, is Chaotic evil, Ganoron is Lawful evil and Jephton is neutral evil.

[Gift Jeraff]

Lee was revealed to be the yellow one in a later strip. Nero was confirmed to be purple and Cedrik to be orange in the commentary.

[Ferreroni]

So i guess i screwed up the cards arrangement. but the name thing still stands.

[Flame of Anor]

Lee was revealed to be the yellow one in a later strip. Nero was confirmed to be purple and Cedrik to be orange in the commentary.

That's odd, because Ganonron is summoned with orange magic and Jephton by yellow, but it would make more sense for a guy with vast armies to be Lawful and a "master of arcane flexibility" to be Chaotic.

[Lvl45DM!]

That's odd, because Ganonron is summoned with orange magic and Jephton by yellow, but it would make more sense for a guy with vast armies to be Lawful and a "master of arcane flexibility" to be Chaotic.

Off topic but this is not how alignment works. Also Chaotic orc armies have leaders who are presumably Chaotic and the arcane flexbility is in reference to the fact that as a sorceror Jephton can select spells on the go

[The Linker]

[...]the arcane flexbility is in reference to the fact that as a sorceror Jephton can select spells on the go

Yes, I'm sure he knew that. He was just saying it would be more fitting for the master of arcane flexibility to be chaotic. He never said it was impossible or even improbable that Jephton would not be Chaotic.

[bertoltus]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0635.html

"Tear down creation, just to see if you can!"

Sounds pretty chaotic to me.

[Dalenthas]

In 830, Redcloak mentions that he used Command Undead when he entered the room. In 828 his hand glows with power twice without a spell name being called. He's using Command Undead.