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    This is a thread for posting anything and everything you might have not noticed your first time around, or even consecutive readings in the Order of the Stick Comic series! This could be a small realization like that Belkar has hair on his head and feet, or a huge revelation of some sort. Big or Small, we'd love to hear from you!

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    It feels good to stretch my legs in a new thread! I never noticed Elan's pun related to Sabine's race, just his complaint about his rapier.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaxzan Proditor View Post
    It feels good to stretch my legs in a new thread! I never noticed Elan's pun related to Sabine's race, just his complaint about his rapier.
    ...Woooow. I've always thought that was one of the strangest insults/taunts I've ever read. It never occured to me for a second that it was a pun.
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    Probably because most of Elan's puns aren't that subtle.

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    From that same comic, while I had been aware of that scene before, I never noticed until seeing it linked just now that Elan continues to ineffectually 'poke' Sabine twice more in the fourth panel.
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    When Tarquin says "Bring my accountant", I thought it was a funny way of showing he wasn't entirely proficient in sign language. But now I realize, Kilkil WAS his accountant.

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    Speaking of which, I never noticed that Tarquin grabs his whip out of the emergency bag on the dinosaur.
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    Quote Originally Posted by littlebum2002 View Post
    When Tarquin says "Bring my accountant", I thought it was a funny way of showing he wasn't entirely proficient in sign language. But now I realize, Kilkil WAS his accountant.
    I thought the joke there was more that Drow Sign Language (which, IIRC, is designed specifically for use in battle) has a way of saying "accountant".
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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    I thought the joke there was more that Drow Sign Language (which, IIRC, is designed specifically for use in battle) has a way of saying "accountant".
    Not to mention "drinking fountain"... How could Tarquin have made that mistake? Everyone knows Drow only use Expresso Machines...
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    The first time I read this strip it didn't click that Mobility is a prerequisite to Spring Attack.

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    And right now I am wondering if Tarquin's seed had Dodge, DEX 13+, and BAB 4+.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pyrous View Post
    The first time I read this strip it didn't click that Mobility is a prerequisite to Spring Attack.

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    And right now I am wondering if Tarquin's seed had Dodge, DEX 13+, and BAB 4+.
    On that same page I never noticed the third panel swinganamiss...
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    I got to suggest a strip name!

    And just in time. When I read #935 for the first time (and the second, and the third...), I missed that Vaarsuvius would have got the buffs from Elan's song as unlike Laurin and Tarquin, V isn't trying to murder anybody.

    EDIT: Oh, and in #936 you can see that Tarquin's fingers are indeed slipping: they've got little motion lines around them!
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    The words "fascist" and "fascism" are frequently spelled without the s in various strips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Shadow View Post
    Not to mention "drinking fountain"... How could Tarquin have made that mistake? Everyone knows Drow only use Expresso Machines...
    Espresso. From the Italian caffč espresso, meaning "pressed coffee."
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    Espresso. From the Italian caffč espresso, meaning "pressed coffee."
    Gah! I know that... *goes to beat up whoever Added it to Dictionary on his computer*

    I always forget without the wavy red line underneath it, though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Shadow View Post
    Gah! I know that... *goes to beat up whoever Added it to Dictionary on his computer*

    I always forget without the wavy red line underneath it, though...
    So you would say you.... never noticed the misspelling? :trollface:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Shadow View Post
    Gah! I know that... *goes to beat up whoever Added it to Dictionary on his computer*

    I always forget without the wavy red line underneath it, though...
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    Apart from #1008, the short legs thing was also mentioned in #453. Also Roy and Belkar seem to react similarly at least in one type of situation (#234 and #926)

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    One thing I noticed a while ago is that when Laurin teleports in 931 panel 6, she reappears in the background of the same panel.

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    In the last panel of strip 739, I just noticed the activity feed of Kotor, Paladin of Marduk went from "Smacking dragons, yo" to joining the group "Need a Rez." This is why you don't update your status in the middle of a battle.
    (Forgive me if that was pointed out before, but I haven't followed these threads for very long.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    Espresso. From the Italian caffč espresso, meaning "pressed coffee."
    Wow, I am Italian and I didn't know that... apparently you are right, but espresso also kinda conveys the meaning of something being made "at the moment, quickly and just for you" and that can't be a coincidence...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Draconium View Post
    In the last panel of strip 739, I just noticed the activity feed of Kotor, Paladin of Marduk went from "Smacking dragons, yo" to joining the group "Need a Rez." This is why you don't update your status in the middle of a battle.
    (Forgive me if that was pointed out before, but I haven't followed these threads for very long.)
    I'm quite sure someone linked it not long ago.
    I think that what's you are suppose to understand is that since Kotor updated his location Nyr-Azul was able to go there and avenge/help the dragons. 'cause he's a priest of Tiamat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quild View Post
    I'm quite sure someone linked it not long ago.
    I think that what's you are suppose to understand is that since Kotor updated his location Nyr-Azul was able to go there and avenge/help the dragons. 'cause he's a priest of Tiamat.
    I always just took it that Kotor smacked some dragons (yo) until he met one that smacked him back... much, much harder.
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    I wonder how many times this has been posted (or none if it was always obvious to everyone else) but whilst rereading issue #66 [in the digital version of DCF] I realised I never noticed that when Elan is casting the illusion to distract Thog, and he says "Yeah. I mean, it was that, or a litter of puppies, and I doubt a rampaging barbarian would have stopped for that!" that unbeknownst to Elan, Thog had spent the entirety of issue 51 talking about puppies and it would have indeed been the perfect illusion to stop him.

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    For me it was comic 532, when Roy wonders what was so important to Dorukan that he left a big gaping hole in his Cloister uber spell allowing summoning, and the final panel is Dorukan summoning a pretty blond lady having correctly set up all the romantic cliches of seduction (mood music, wine, rose petals on the bed).

    My first reading I assumed Dorukan was just a horny old bastard and the woman some random floozy. But after my re-read, prompted by getting the prequel volumes, made me realise how hideously wrong I was. That was Lirian, the love of his life. After reading Start of Darkness, you could make a case for Lirian and Dorukan having the strongest emotional romantic relationship in the whole OotS world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Paul View Post
    I always just took it that Kotor smacked some dragons (yo) until he met one that smacked him back... much, much harder.
    I agree with Quild...the fact that two priests of rival deities updated their locations at the same time and right before one of them died isn't a coincidence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildroses View Post
    For me it was comic 532, when Roy wonders what was so important to Dorukan that he left a big gaping hole in his Cloister uber spell allowing summoning, and the final panel is Dorukan summoning a pretty blond lady having correctly set up all the romantic cliches of seduction (mood music, wine, rose petals on the bed).

    My first reading I assumed Dorukan was just a horny old bastard and the woman some random floozy. But after my re-read, prompted by getting the prequel volumes, made me realise how hideously wrong I was. That was Lirian, the love of his life. After reading Start of Darkness, you could make a case for Lirian and Dorukan having the strongest emotional romantic relationship in the whole OotS world.
    Yeah, I had a similar experience.
    Obviously the joke works even without realizing it's Lirian, so it's an extra layer for those who have read SoD...

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    Not from the comic itself, but I only just now spotted Mr. Scruffy as a tribble in the Stick Trek wallpaper.
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    I only just spotted today that Tsukiko's slippers match her eyes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildroses View Post
    For me it was comic 532, when Roy wonders what was so important to Dorukan that he left a big gaping hole in his Cloister uber spell allowing summoning, and the final panel is Dorukan summoning a pretty blond lady having correctly set up all the romantic cliches of seduction (mood music, wine, rose petals on the bed).

    My first reading I assumed Dorukan was just a horny old bastard and the woman some random floozy. But after my re-read, prompted by getting the prequel volumes, made me realise how hideously wrong I was. That was Lirian, the love of his life. After reading Start of Darkness, you could make a case for Lirian and Dorukan having the strongest emotional romantic relationship in the whole OotS world.
    Huh, I noticed that it was Lirian immediately even without reading the prequel stories.

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