Order of the Stick Trivia XIX: It's Always the Demon Roaches

[martianmister]

Now I'm confused. Giving villainous monologue to yourself is a good grooming regimen?

[Ruck]

Now I'm confused. Giving villainous monologue to yourself is a good grooming regimen?

Yeah, I think that hint indicated that some part of the actual grooming was the answer. Also, if someone posts the correct comic, they've answered correctly, even if they don't give the exact answer you're looking for.

[Lord Torath]

Yeah, I think that hint indicated that some part of the actual grooming was the answer. Also, if someone posts the correct comic, they've answered correctly, even if they don't give the exact answer you're looking for.

Bah! You dang kids with your new-fangled "close-enough-is-good-enough" triva contests! In my day, we had to trudge uphill two miles in 10 inches of slush both ways to reach our trivia contests! And that's the way it was, and we liked it. WE LOVED IT!

Edit:
Just a reminder (new page and all), here is our current question:

Who says 'four words' in a conversation about V, totally unaware of V's prophecy?

Time for a hint?

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Maybe a little rewording helps:
Who used four words to convince someone else to be content with considerably less than ultimate arcane power?

[Personification]

We are now in "give us the answer" range.

[B. Dandelion]

Who says 'four words' in a conversation about V, totally unaware of V's prophecy?

Time for a hint?

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Maybe a little rewording helps:
Who used four words to convince someone else to be content with considerably less than ultimate arcane power?

It's Sabine, persuading Nale to find an evil opposite for V at the magic academy. The four words in question being "out of fudge ripple".

OQ.

[Aveline]

Taking OQ. Find Haley with a visible stripe of color down the parting of her hair.

[Ron Miel]

Black hair, red roots


find two tetrahedrons.

[b_jonas]

find two tetrahedrons.

The strip with Elanasaurus shows the one tetrahedron twice. Does that count? #121 only has one.

[Ron Miel]

Yeah, those are the correct answers. Your question.

[D.One]

Find me a green, a blue and a red(ish) auras in the same strip, and that are not divine quiddities.

[NoHaxJustPi]

Find me a green, a blue and a red(ish) auras in the same strip, and that are not divine quiddities.

1018, priests casting Flame Strike, Mass Cure Serious Wounds, and Mass Resist Fire.

[Caerulea]

If you don't want to ask the next question, it's helpful to put "OQ" or "Open Question" so that we can move forward. If you do want to ask a question, let us know.

Otherwise:

What has four different coloured stars?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

What has four different coloured stars?

Gobbotopia's flag.

What has over a dozen stars (other than the sky)?

Grey Wolf

[D.One]

1018, priests casting Flame Strike, Mass Cure Serious Wounds, and Mass Resist Fire.

In fact I was thinking more about this strip.

[NoHaxJustPi]

What led me to that strip was that after checking the vampire-fighting strips, i thought that maybe auras while casting Summon Proxy would be the colors, so i went to the Godsmoot strips.

[b_jonas]

What has over a dozen stars (other than the sky)?

The clothing of Elanicalicus, mighty wizard, in #127.

Find two strips each showing a proper bed with legs and a mattress.

So #227 doesn't count, no matter how comfy those sofas are, because there's no mattress. #336 doesn't count because Elan is sleeping on the floor. #14 also doesn't count because Roy is also sleeping in a bedroll on the floor.

Update: there are in fact at least four strips matching, but I asked for two and won't change the question now.

[Ruck]

The clothing of Elanicalicus, mighty wizard, in #127.

Find two strips each showing a proper bed with legs and a mattress.

So #227 doesn't count, no matter how comfy those sofas are, because there's no mattress. #336 doesn't count because Elan is sleeping on the floor. #14 also doesn't count because Roy is also sleeping in a bedroll on the floor.

401 and 402.

Who gives what a three-star rating?

[b_jonas]

Ruck: correct. Another possibility is #123.

Who gives what a three-star rating?

I thought that was the vampire Ponchula in #1129 about someone's blood, but apparently no.

[Ron Miel]

401 and 402.

Who gives what a three-star rating?

Belkar and the cell.


Find someone misquoting Roosevelt.

[Ruck]

Belkar and the cell.


Find someone misquoting Roosevelt.

I don't know for sure if any of them qualifies, but Elan mangles a lot of famous quotations in this speech. (OQ if correct.)

[Ron Miel]

It isn't what I'm thinking of. I'm not aware of any of those words coming from Roosevelt.

[Ruck]

It isn't what I'm thinking of. I'm not aware of any of those words coming from Roosevelt.

Is it too soon to specify which Roosevelt?

[ti'esar]

It's the hobgoblin saying he's afraid of fear itself.

OQ if correct.

[Ron Miel]

Not the one I was thinking of, but it works.

Since it's an OQ, I'll ask again.

Find a different strip with a different person citing a different quote by a different Roosevelt.

[b_jonas]

Find a different strip with a different person citing a different quote by a different Roosevelt.

Oh very well. That previous quote about fear is attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt, so we probably have to look for something by Theodore Roosevelt. The closest I've found is #334: Roy says to Elan “that happy ending of yours will be more satisfying when you end up earning it on your own.” Theodore Roosevelt said “Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.” There's probably something better said by some dwarf somewhere, but I won't try to find it now. Perhaps you'll tell us what you had in mind. OQ.

[B. Dandelion]

I figure there's a zero percent chance the quote in question is anything other than the one that directly references a stick. I mean, no way the Order of the Stick passed up a chance to riff on that one.

Aha, found it!

: "Speak softly and beware of big sticks."

Okay, earlier we had somebody giving out a three-star review, can you find someone who gives out four stars?

[NoHaxJustPi]

343, Sabine after draining Roy
OQ

[bc56]

Find something that takes three hours.

[Lord Torath]

Find something that takes three hours.

...a three hour tour...
...a three hour tour...

I'll, uh, let myself out.

Actually, I found the Answer:

Reporting to your Fiendish Over/Underlords takes three hours. Well, if you add the time required to permit four bouts of sex and run miscellaneous errands in there as well.

What's an exception to the "casket" rule?

[Caerulea]

What's an exception to the "casket" rule?

On a related note, what is the casket rule? Unless that is answered in comic.