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    Belkar's been wearing gloves since they arrived at the Peak.
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    I'm on the mobile site, so can't change my outdated signature! If I could I'd admit culpability for Phyrnglsnyx. And the result of my 'press the middle button fifteen times' (which is 'I am a beautiful person who is the best way to stop a siege rhino.').
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    I guess I'd noticed it in the background but never consciously realized it until recently:

    Vaarsuvius wears hir hair in a headband, up until the point ve becomes Darth Vaarsuvius and lets it fly loose. When V loses the soul splices and returns to the party, ve ties up hir hair in a ponytail, as it's been from there on out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    Vaarsuvius wears hir hair in a headband, up until the point ve becomes Darth Vaarsuvius and lets it fly loose. When V loses the soul splices and returns to the party, ve ties up hir hair in a ponytail, as it's been from there on out.
    Also, during their rematch, V has longer hair than before, whereas Z has shorter hair than before. Neither wears their headband any more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurald Galain View Post
    Also, during their rematch, V has longer hair than before, whereas Z has shorter hair than before. Neither wears their headband any more.
    Well, V kind of does. I believe they use their headband to keep their hair tied back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurald Galain View Post
    Also, during their rematch, V has longer hair than before, whereas Z has shorter hair than before. Neither wears their headband any more.
    Ooh, that's interesting, and i'd never really noticed or thought about it. Makes for a neat visual contrast when they fight again.

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    I never noticed until this strip that Belkar lost his daggers while fighting HPoH.
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    Boy, Nale's "How's the family?" to Malack in #811 takes on a whole new meaning once you find out what he did to them (not to mention what he means by "family.")

    I've always been curious, in #906 when Nale tells Malack he's been planning this since he was nine years old, is it because of something Malack did or just an illustration of how Nale is consumed by hate?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    Boy, Nale's "How's the family?" to Malack in #811 takes on a whole new meaning once you find out what he did to them (not to mention what he means by "family.")

    I've always been curious, in #906 when Nale tells Malack he's been planning this since he was nine years old, is it because of something Malack did or just an illustration of how Nale is consumed by hate?
    We don't know - it's been theorized on the forum that it's something relatively minor that Malack did, since Nale is synonymous with taking disproportionate revenge for quasi-imagined slights.

    I never before noticed that Belkar suggests Miko take a bath when they first arrive at the hotel. He must have been planning on a "Haley special" with his good friend Roland Itiative while Miko was without all her magical items and weapons/armor.

    It does raise the interesting question of whether Belkar would have managed it before the rest of the Order was alerted...even without magical items I'm betting a Monk/Paladin would be pretty tough to take down quickly.

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    It looks like a bad moment to do that: Belkar's strength was in dragging Miko in a number of traps and ambushes, and pulling her sense of honour to damage herself. And his nose is pretty delicate. So he might simply have had his personal interest in mind ("save the nose"), but he might also have wanted to steal stuff from her and attack her thereafter.
    My point is that, in general, an enclosed space looks like a bad place for attacking Miko.

    EDIT: Or maybe he wanted a chance to "study his prey"
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    Belkar has a very good sense of smell and Miko has been living in the open and piously avoiding inns for a long time.
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    Yeah, commenting on people's bad smell is one of Belkar's longest-running gags. I think it was just that.

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    It could've been some combination.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodin View Post
    We don't know - it's been theorized on the forum that it's something relatively minor that Malack did, since Nale is synonymous with taking disproportionate revenge for quasi-imagined slights.
    Makes sense, and I think it's one of those things that's better we don't know. Nale is very much the Iago of this story; hating just to hate, with every slight real or imagined a flimsy pretext for doing so.

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    I never before noticed that Belkar suggests Miko take a bath when they first arrive at the hotel. He must have been planning on a "Haley special" with his good friend Roland Itiative while Miko was without all her magical items and weapons/armor.

    It does raise the interesting question of whether Belkar would have managed it before the rest of the Order was alerted...even without magical items I'm betting a Monk/Paladin would be pretty tough to take down quickly.
    I lean towards the "she smells bad" theory because Belkar's goal was never to kill Miko; it was to get her to murder him and thus lose her paladin powers.
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    So on Pompey's summoned fiendish centipedes... are those antennae, or horns (as on some other fiendish animals)?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    I lean towards the "she smells bad" theory because Belkar's goal was never to kill Miko; it was to get her to murder him and thus lose her paladin powers.
    That's what he was trying to do later, but I'm not sure I'd give Belkar credit (or "credit") for that much foresight.
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    I'm going to guess antennae, largely because I'd have expected to see horns from an overhead perspective. Though there could be small horns on the ends of the antennae, I suppose; "claws appearing at the ends of tentacles" is valid for half-fiends, after all.
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    Makes sense, and I think it's one of those things that's better we don't know. Nale is very much the Iago of this story; hating just to hate, with every slight real or imagined a flimsy pretext for doing so.
    You know, if you read the original play Shakespeare plagiarized adapted, Iago was as big a hero as Othello. The Venetian Senate shafted him for political reasons (Othello was an expensive mercenary), but it was pointed out that the war couldn't have been won without both of them.

    The war was against Genoa, btw, so it makes sense to cut it if your audience barely understands Italian geography and has no grasp of the local politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    That's what he was trying to do later, but I'm not sure I'd give Belkar credit (or "credit") for that much foresight.
    In that case, "take a bath because you smell bad" requires even less foresight than "take a bath so I can kill you while you're defenseless (and assuming no one in the party would try to stop me)."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    You know, if you read the original play Shakespeare plagiarized adapted, Iago was as big a hero as Othello. The Venetian Senate shafted him for political reasons (Othello was an expensive mercenary), but it was pointed out that the war couldn't have been won without both of them.

    The war was against Genoa, btw, so it makes sense to cut it if your audience barely understands Italian geography and has no grasp of the local politics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    You know, if you read the original play Shakespeare plagiarized adapted, Iago was as big a hero as Othello. The Venetian Senate shafted him for political reasons (Othello was an expensive mercenary), but it was pointed out that the war couldn't have been won without both of them.

    The war was against Genoa, btw, so it makes sense to cut it if your audience barely understands Italian geography and has no grasp of the local politics.
    I'd go so far as to say that one of the reasons Shakespeare's plays stand the test of time is that they don't get bogged down in the specifics of their time. Six hundred years later, no one much knows or cares about Genoan politics of the era, but we'll always have malicious people, people who destroy their lives out of jealousy (or some other tragic flaw), etc.

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    Well, that's intended, but he really is talking to Roy, just that we are in Roy's viewpoint there.
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    "Yeah, sure. I mean, it's my job, right?"
    I appreciate that your approximate quote means you probably didn't have to click the link

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    Quote Originally Posted by blunk View Post
    I appreciate that your approximate quote means you probably didn't have to click the link
    You are correct! Even after I posted it I was like "Wait, isn't it 'I'll give it a shot' or something?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    That's what he was trying to do later, but I'm not sure I'd give Belkar credit (or "credit") for that much foresight.
    Plus, there's a good chance that if she associates with me, she'll lose all of her paladin powers. And that would be just too funny not to try.

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    A disturbance in the Force prompted me to read Larry Gardener and the Angry Half-Orc again... where I discovered that Nale quotes Han Solo's line from "A New Hope" ("Sorry about the mess") while standing over Larry's corpse.

    It's particularly appropriate, seeing as Nale is part rogue, and "rogue" is synonymous with "scoundrel".

    EDIT: And, while reading the strip with me, my daughter pointed out that Nale could be seen as a stick-figure ringer for Harry Potter's nemesis, Malefoy, as seen in the films. Bonus points to the Giant for that one.
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    Only now have I noticed that Lien is referring to panel 2. I always ignored part 1 of Quarr's baloon there, and that he had implied using Charm Monster many times.
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    I never noticed that the HPoT has a scar on her face.
    It's not as obvious as O-Chul's or that one bandit leader so I didn't think anything of it.

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    Technically, doesn't Banjo simply not trigger any detection at all there?
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