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2012-04-22, 11:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
So, the only thing required for us to confuse one character for another is to obscure their face, pretty much. But, does this apply to the characters in comic too? I mean, Thog is GREEN. They (or at least Durkon) should be able to notice that his arms/hands/legs/whatever isn't. Is Tarquin wearing full body armor head to toe, not just helmet + chest armor? Wouldn't that be kind of weird for a barbarian? Did Thog wear gauntlets and such before?
Or is this and actual OotSverse thing. Like, if Halley put on a helmet and Elan's clothes nobody would know it was her.
As an aside: why is the Order even bothering to gang up on him? I mean, Elan could scare him off with some trivial illusion or trick all by himself. It's how they've dealt with Thog pretty much every time before.
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2012-04-22, 11:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
It's a stick-figure comic. "Thog's" arms and legs are two-dimensional lines, with no obvious way to distinguish them from those of the real Thog.
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2012-04-22, 11:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
I'm going to assume that the characters wear pants, and not merely square rectangles upon their asses.
Headcanon: characters have sleeves and pant legs, they're all on their arms/legs and not actually drawn because that would not look as good.
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2012-04-23, 12:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0675.html
just assume hes wearing gloves, long sleeves and pants
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2012-04-23, 12:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
And if Haley put on Elan's clothes and a helmet, she MIGHT look like Elan... Elan with boobs who has a suuden desire to wear a helmet, that is
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2012-04-23, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
and the voice...if the bubble over the head is white, means everybody has the same voice.
size, voice, skin color, talking too much for thog, riding a pterodactil (is thog proficient in that?)...lots of clues there.
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2012-04-23, 12:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Yeah I think that the characters see each other legs as thin black lines. Since they seem to work as one. See Belkar cutting a ninjas leg off with a knife. In one swing.
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2012-04-23, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dominion of Canadia
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2012-04-23, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-23, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Remember that the OOTS has just had two acid bubbles dropped on them and they are now fighting for their life. It's likely their brains are entirely taken up with surviving for the next few combat rounds and they're too busy to notice fine detail.
I expect that if they engage "Thog" for any significant number of combat rounds they will eventually twig that something is amiss. A round is 6 seconds. So far they've been engaged for -- three rounds? Four? Two acid blobs and a wind attack to prevent them flying? This is the first round they've encountered "Thog" up close , so figure they've had less than twelve seconds all told to figure it out.
I don't think it's unreasonable for them to have been taken in by the deception up to this point. They didn't have the benefit of seeing the disguise being put on as we did, and they aren't sitting in front of a computer with all the time to spot fine details. They're fighting for their lives.
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2012-04-23, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-23, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-23, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Obviously, he intended to pretend to be Thog for quite awhile, and had the foresight to paint his arms and legs green beforehand to make his disguise more convincing.
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2012-04-23, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
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2012-04-23, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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"I'm particularly fond of our priesthood of the Benefactor, since our main duties seem to be sitting around and pretending that the Benefactor doesn't exist. When we're not stealing things, that is."
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2012-04-23, 05:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-23, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
its possible hell block elans puns while being completely in character
of course the awesomeness of that would make most readers head explode
most likely hell be more worried about blocking/dodging roy belkar and durkon that he would put elans rapier on the bottom of the list
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2012-04-23, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-24, 12:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Other characters can't even tell that Haley's wearing pants.
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2012-04-24, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Read Terry Pratchett's Masquarade. It's one of the Discworld novels, this time about opera. He comments (in ways only Terry can) about the "disguises" used in opera. A single, tiny mask, no changes in clothing, but NOBODY can identify the person thus disguised.
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2012-04-24, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2012-04-24, 02:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Well, technically there's been remarks at various points in the comics to the effect that Clark also changes his voice and mannerisms while in his civilian dress, but that just reinforces what Surfing HalfOrc was saying: Slight obscuring of face + acting = disguise.
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2012-04-24, 07:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
You know, I read an issue of Superman comics way back in the 1970's that explained how that worked...
Superman had a new villain in town, whose name I forgot, but his power was that of super hypnosis. He would enter a bank, play this record he had strapped to his chest, then everyone would obey him and carry the loot out to his car.
Superman had to build a giant TV, then fly it over the city, whereupon he hypnotized everyone in Metropolis to NOT be hypnotized. But when "Clark Kent" put on his glasses, everyone recognized him as Superman, wearing glasses.
It turned out that Superman had also been hypnotizing everyone using the power of the Kryptonian lenses in his glasses, which he salvaged from the rocket ship that had brought him to earth.
In the end, Superman had to undo his "Don't be hypnotized" hypnosis so that everyone would then be hypnotized into seeing Clark Kent once Superman put his glasses back on.Thanks to Ceika (X2), Yeril, Holammer and Dr. Bath for the Avatars!
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2012-04-24, 09:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Oh, come on. Shrek is green, and Fiona couldn't tell until he took off his helm, remember?
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2012-04-24, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-24, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-24, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-24, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-24, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-thog is hurting my thinky spot.
Since we're quoting other books and stuff I guess I can mention this...
in "alloy of law" wayne remarks that 80% of a good disguise is about voice and mannerism. When entering the ccity, he even spend a couple of weeks just listening to peopel and learning the different speeches of places and social calsses, and he pulls some really neat trick after.
So, Tarquin got thog's mannerism right, and he probably even got a good imitation of the voice.
Add that the oots are figthing and may not be prone to noticing some fine details, it's perfectly believableIn memory of Evisceratus: he dreamed of a better world, but he lacked the class levels to make the dream come true.
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2012-04-24, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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