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2019-07-31, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
i only recently noticed the green thing attatched to Big Ear's hand. wasn't sure what it was.
did some digging, it's the magic shield that gives an armor bonus.
guess fumbles didn't hold on to itAvy by Thormag
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2019-07-31, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Someone's an optimist.
Nah, at least half the party will be horribly mutilated and/or killed before they narrowly escape with Kore still pursuing them.
With the golem becauseturnlimits are for PCshe gets a turn for every soul he has eaten.
On a second thought, I prefer your version."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2019-07-31, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I'm thinking about that poor demon that made a deal with Dies Horribly. Had she done it with Kore...
They could throw the helmet into the crevice, just to see what happens. But, if they were able to make Kore wear it, he would spend two turns immobile. Even flatfooted, maybe, and the golem is already damaged.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-07-31, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Magical items typically resize to fit the creature putting it on. The problem with Ears is that it is (re)sized to fit his head, because that's the part that would be wearing the item. That doesn't take ears into account so they're still getting in the way. That shouldn't be an issue with Kore. But putting an item on an enemy seems pretty tricky to begin with so that won't necessarily help all that much.
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2019-08-01, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I knew Big Ears wasn't going to be able to pound Kore into paste with the golem. But I figured it would be because he'd have another crisis of faith.
Glad to see it was because the helmet wouldn't fit.
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2019-08-01, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
If the helmet doesn't fit, you mustn't rage quit!
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-08-01, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
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2019-08-02, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-02, 07:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I don't see how putting the helmet on Kore would even help. He already knows what it does by this point, so any confusion you caused him would be extremely short lived.
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2019-08-02, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-08-02, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-08-02, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-02, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-08-02, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
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2019-08-02, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
maybe he made a trade:
be unkillable till all evil is destroyed for the price of his „detect evil at will“* my emphasis
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Things that don't kill me make me strong
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2019-08-02, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Tried and proven Conan's school of fencing.
That being said while they do have a knack for solid tactical plans utilising local environment and available resources (here with the golem, Thaco vs Goblinslayer) as well as winging it on the fly (the rope trick with the axe for example), they might not have a well thought out plan B for the current situation - even plan A was certainly rushed, since Kore was pretty close already.In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2019-08-04, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
So... what are the chances Big Ears are gonna cut of his own ears in order to be able to use the helmet?
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2019-08-04, 07:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-08-04, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Hello world. . .
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2019-08-05, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Yet we see him monologue several times trying to justify himself that X is evil and so must be destroyed.
Also when he met Kin he actually engaged in discussion instead of just attacking first and seemed willing to just let her go for a moment.
Kore's mind is pretty messed up basically. Heck, the place where his brain should be is just a glowing something covered in screaming souls. That can't be good for healthy sanity.
In the other hand as they say sanity is for the weak, and Kore's basically the strongest character in the main story so far.
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2019-08-05, 04:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Kore had cast Detect Evil long ago, and since then he assumes that anything he detects (that is to say, anything that he sees, hears, smells, touches, or tastes) is evil.
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2019-08-05, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Kore seems to be basically the avatar of the worldview that the comic as a whole is subverting -- if you look like a human, you are one of the good guys, and humanoids (in the AD&D sense) and monsters are inherently the evil-doers. When he saw from-waist-up-human Kin in a fog bank, he saw a human, and thus good and was frankly overly trusting. If an entity is a humanoid, or seen working with them, they are othered, and thus evil. I'm frankly, not that sold on Kore as a big bad villain ('he's such a badass, he only has one little lightning-bolt shaped eyehole to see through, and is otherwise completely metal-encased. I mean, he even has a tower shield... on rollers!" is cartoonish in my book, not badass), but he is a pretty consistent in his characterization. He's not insane, he's racism writ large.
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2019-08-05, 08:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
* my emphasis
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2019-08-05, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Did you forgot that the first time Kore shows up, he murders a dwarf kid?
Or how more recently Kore promised to go murder a whole dwarf clan after he's finished with the goblins?
Looking human or even like a fellow dwarf won't save you from Kore's fury.
But Kin in specific wasn't instantly targeted for murder like many dwarves were. And she has green hair. That's not natural human hair color.
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2019-08-05, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I guess that isn't explicitly included in "or seen working with them," since the kid is a little young to be working, but I thought that the point was clear. It's specifically mentioned in the comic where he does this, that it is the kids being tainted by its exposure to the humanoids that makes him needing to be slain.
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2019-08-05, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
The thing is, it all followed a chain of logic for Kore. The dwarf kid was killed because he was "tainted by evil" since he had grown up with monsters. Then when forgath, another dwarf of the same clan actually fought against him to protect goblins he reasoned the entire dwarf clan must be corrupted. Not exactly "once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is conspiracy" but close. With Kin he had no frame of reference, he saw a "human" female who had not yet dont anything to be labeled as evil. He doesnt just kill everything in line of sight, thats mainly monsters, he waits for proof of evil before killing off anything else. Unfortunately the bar of evil is very very low for him.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-08-05, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-08-05, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
So Goblins and MinMax could open the passage. He didn't miss them. He was shooting them for being EVIL, by associating with Goblins (i.e. fighting each other). Forgath knew Kore can't be reasoned with.
Kore would kill Idle for either A) being EVIL due to being non-human B) for allowing herself to become non-human. Bumper would be killed for associating with Idle.
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2019-08-05, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
That being said, I wonder what kores response would have been had minmax and forgath been actively fighting the goblins when he showed up? Would he have worked with them to wipe out the GAP then moved on? Killed them too?
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-08-05, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Not even that. The orc told him the child was kidnapped.
Are you really going to bet on "the cursed scourge of the realm" accidentally shooting you?
Also, Kore totally shot first.
They were fighting them when he showed up. If the GAP could hear Chief scream, Kore could hear them yelling and fighting.Forum Wisdom
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