Goblins VIII: This Thread Contains An Unexpected Variable

**Poil** · 2012-04-15, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)

Minmax needs a mount of some sort.

Originally Posted by Anteros

No. I tend to just skip through the Goblins parts these days. The main group is ok, but I honestly couldn't care less what happens to Dies and his group.

Especially not after the only cool character in that group got the finger, so to speak.

**Draconi Redfir** · 2012-04-16, 05:55 AM (ISO 8601)

last night i had a dream where Somehow Thunt snuck in the next update a fully-animated and voice-acted short film... i believe it had something to do with minmax living in an apartment.

Can't remember too much, but Minmax was able to remove Kin's coller without too much trouble aside from the occasional "don't touch me" freakout.

But it was animated and Minmax had a voice. it was pretty cool.

**The Glyphstone** · 2012-04-16, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)

Minmax, Forgath, and Kin in a wacky sitcom adventure? Horrifying.

**t209** · 2012-04-16, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by The Glyphstone

Minmax, Forgath, and Kin in a wacky sitcom adventure? Horrifying.

What's more worse? Becoming typical 80s Cartoon (Think Harry Patridge's saturday Morning cartoons).

**fwiffo** · 2012-04-17, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)

May I say that I found the writing in the last strip to be particularly scintillating. If I might quote...

* NNN.
* AAH!
* NO!
* NOOOOO!
* AAAAH!
* AH!

Good stuff, good stuff.

**Killer Angel** · 2012-04-17, 05:48 AM (ISO 8601)

I believe I'm sensing some sarcasm, here...

**Androgeus** · 2012-04-17, 05:56 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

I believe I'm sensing some sarcasm, here...

I think your sarcasm detector is broken, fwiffo's post is the most sincere post I've ever seen on the internet!

**VariaVespasa** · 2012-04-17, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)

Maybe his Fwiffo detector is broken?

**Maryring** · 2012-04-17, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

I believe I'm sensing some sarcasm, here...

I'm usually wrong about this stuff, but I don't think it's sarcasm you're supposed to be detecting there.

**Killer Angel** · 2012-04-17, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Maryring

I'm usually wrong about this stuff, but I don't think it's sarcasm you're supposed to be detecting there.

I was uncertain between sarcasm, trolling, or complete misunderstanding of the comic, so i went for the nicest route.

**fwiffo** · 2012-04-17, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

I was uncertain between sarcasm, trolling, or complete misunderstanding of the comic, so i went for the nicest route.

I'll go with trolling...

I'd think that is obvious, given as this is OOTS-hosted forum, where even the strips that focus on completely mindless hack and slash violence still produce classic well written lines.

**Killer Angel** · 2012-04-17, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)

I could say that Kin is usually very verbose, and the total lack of speech, togheter with the visions of GS, should depict her momentary mental break.
But I'll take for good the "trolling" declaration...

**Shadowbane** · 2012-04-17, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)

Woah. Did Minmax just...

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Rage?

**Marnath** · 2012-04-17, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)

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Well, that settles the issue of him being allowed to touch her. She's not swooning or anything, she's just scared stiff. Which is what I expected the answer might be.

**Barbarian MD** · 2012-04-17, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)

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So... Multiclassing or gestalt?

Highly unlikely, I know, but we're not entirely clear on what ways the maze gives characters that survive it more power. Probably just a level up, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.

**Hands_Of_Blue** · 2012-04-17, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Shadowbane

Woah. Did Minmax just...

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Rage?

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I'm going to assume it's the armour. Maybe the different colours give different bonuses theory is right and red lets him use rage. I dunno.

**Madara** · 2012-04-17, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)

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Place your bets! I'm gonna go with it being him Iron Heart Surging the trial itself

**John Cribati** · 2012-04-17, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)

I see two options:

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Multiclass to barbarian without telling anybody, or else he forgot that he did
The Armor has bonus-by-color, and Red=Rage

Both make an equal amount of sense.

**Marnath** · 2012-04-17, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Hands_Of_Blue

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I'm going to assume it's the armour. Maybe the different colours give different bonuses theory is right and red lets him use rage. I dunno.

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That seems plausible. I wonder what pink does then?

**fwiffo** · 2012-04-17, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

I could say that Kin is usually very verbose, and the total lack of speech, togheter with the visions of GS, should depict her momentary mental break.
But I'll take for good the "trolling" declaration...

Why, thank you, kind Sir. Would you like to analyze today's witty repartee? I shall reproduce it here for your convenience. Hope this is not a spoiler for anyone.

* RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHH!

**John Cribati** · 2012-04-17, 10:15 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by fwiffo

Why, thank you, kind Sir. Would you like to analyze today's witty repartee? I shall reproduce it here for your convenience. Hope this is not a spoiler for anyone.

* RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHH!

Obviously, this is Minmax shedding his humanity and acting on instinct, as he believes the "monsters" he always fights are wont to do. This shows his sympathy for kin, who he once viewed as a "monster" and his willingness to see her as human by sharing her alleged barbarism.

Or he's really, really angry.

**Mastikator** · 2012-04-17, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Marnath

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Well, that settles the issue of him being allowed to touch her. She's not swooning or anything, she's just scared stiff. Which is what I expected the answer might be.

Yes and it feels like a deus ex machina :/

**John Cribati** · 2012-04-17, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Mastikator

Yes and it feels like a deus ex machina :/

"Deus ex Machina is an outside force that solves a seemingly unsolvable problem in an extremely unlikely (and, usually, anticlimactic) way"

Kin freezing up due to post-traumatic stress is not unlikely. And it doesn't solve any problem and is not an outside force. That's 0/3 on the Deus Ex Machina scale.

**Marnath** · 2012-04-17, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Mastikator

Yes and it feels like a deus ex machina :/

I don't think you understand what deus ex machina is, then.

I've read from several people on the Goblins forum who experienced what Kin went through who generally agreed that hugging and not letting go of a person you really trust is one possible way to react to flashbacks of this type. Like what she's doing now.

**Anteros** · 2012-04-17, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)

Knowing Minmax, he probably traded his ability to wipe himself for the ability to rage or something.

**Traab** · 2012-04-17, 10:29 PM (ISO 8601)

His armor is clearly the second cousin of Klik. You will see him mentioning something about how he wont let fathers mate be killed.

Heh, yeah, im going with the one of two options, multiclassed to barbarian, or his armor has secret bonuses by color.

**Draconi Redfir** · 2012-04-17, 10:54 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Anteros

Knowing Minmax, he probably traded his ability to wipe himself for the ability to rage or something.

Or perhaps he traded his ability to swim or read/writer? :P

**Gnome Alone** · 2012-04-17, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)

It's also possible that it's not Rage per se, but he's just really really angry - when people get normal-angry in Goblins their eyes blank out all shiny-style. More angry means more flashy eyes?

**Douglas** · 2012-04-17, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Draconi Redfir

Or perhaps he traded his ability to swim or read/writer? :P

No, we already know he traded literacy for +1 to hit.

**The Linker** · 2012-04-17, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Marnath

That seems plausible. I wonder what pink does then?

Makes him look fabulous.

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