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2019-01-24, 11:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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- In a castle under the sea
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
1. Tsukiko would need to dig her legs out of the rubble and then stitch both halves together. Who does she look like, Grubwilliger?
2. I'm pretty sure that was a joke at the expense of people who had already assumed Miko would be raised as a powerful undead.
3. I wouldn't call her an annoying character, any more than Belkar or the Monster in the Darkness are. All three would be annoying to know in person (for very different reasons, of course), but the ways they annoy others are designed to create drama, comedy, or both. The reason I'd give for Miko not coming back is something more like "Her story was complete". Her intolerance and paranoia lead her to suspect a larger and larger conspiracy until she murdered her master and doomed her city (not at the same time), and never realized how her ironclad beliefs were blinding her to the truth. She couldn't atone because she never realized she was doing something wrong.
I'd like to apologize in advance if I started a multi-page flame war over Miko.
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2019-01-25, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2015
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Attention LotR fans
Spoiler: LotRThe scouring of the Shire never happened. That's right. After reading books I, II, and III, I stopped reading when the One Ring was thrown into Mount Doom. The story ends there. Nothing worthwhile happened afterwards. Middle-Earth was saved.
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2019-01-25, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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- In a castle under the sea
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2019-01-25, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-01-25, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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- In a castle under the sea
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
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2019-01-25, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2018
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
How about stitching the centaur's top half to Miko's top half and its bottom half to her bottom half?
Last edited by Resileaf; 2019-01-25 at 01:03 PM.
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2019-01-25, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
I like where this is going.
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-01-25, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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- Lake Wobegon
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2019-01-25, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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- In a castle under the sea
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
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2019-01-25, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
There doesn’t need to be a twist the order could just elect not to resurrect him. Honestly if the world is saved would bringing him back be beneficial? He’s still a CE murderious psycho.
How’s this for a twist, The world is saved the order is preparing to disband. Everyone’s talking about what are you going to do now. Belkar says how he’s going to track down all the people who annoyed him but he missed the chance to kill. And Roy kills Belkar in the middle of his speech.Nale is no more, he has ceased to be, his hit points have dropped to negative ten, all he was is now dust in the wind, he is not Daniel Jackson dead, he is not Kenny dead, he is final dead, he will not pass through death's revolving door, his fate will not be undone because the executives renewed his show for another season. His time had run out, his string of fate has been cut, the blood on the knife has been wiped. He is an Ex-Nale! Now can we please resume watching the Order save the world.
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2019-01-25, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2013
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- Italy, Turin
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Then the next time Roy meets the Burocratic Deva, he'll be ready for a trip to True Neutral afterlifes for let's see.... all the eternity?
Then there is no way that Durkon leaves Belkar alone. Belkar saved Durkon from Greg. Durkon would save Belkar for everything he can, we can be sure about it. If Belkar will stay dead is only because Durkon cannot resurrect him, or if Belkar himself refuse the resurrection. Or Belkar won't die at all, in Oracle's face
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2019-01-25, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2018
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2019-01-25, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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- Lake Wobegon
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Something something preemptive action something something immanent threat
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2019-01-25, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-01-25, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Nale is no more, he has ceased to be, his hit points have dropped to negative ten, all he was is now dust in the wind, he is not Daniel Jackson dead, he is not Kenny dead, he is final dead, he will not pass through death's revolving door, his fate will not be undone because the executives renewed his show for another season. His time had run out, his string of fate has been cut, the blood on the knife has been wiped. He is an Ex-Nale! Now can we please resume watching the Order save the world.
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2019-01-25, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2013
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- Italy, Turin
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Killing someone for something that he did not can't be a good act. For what we know, in the next 5 minutes a random O-Chul spawns and talks him into lawfull good.
Actually, Roy did point this out to the Deva, he said something like "unless you want me to murder him while he sleep"; the Deva said that it isn't what they want.
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2019-01-25, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2015
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- Texas
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2019-01-25, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Maybe this will cheer you up, then.
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-01-25, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2009
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- Birmingham, AL
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-01-25, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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- In a castle under the sea
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Leaving Elan to die after he ran off to try and help people gets you chucked into True Neutral. Killing Belkar if he makes it clear that's the only way to stop him from killing other people...is literally what the Order does to goblins and thieves and vampires and stuff, only to a major character.
I don't think Belkar would make that kind of speech, and I don't think he'd want to do that anymore, but if he did make that speech and his heart was in it, killing him would be slightly more justified than killing Thog.
The only way to expect the unexpected is to expect to see something you don't expect. (By definition.) Therefore, if you expect any specific unexpected thing, you're not expecting the unexpected—you're just explaining a low-probability event.
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2019-01-25, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2009
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- Birmingham, AL
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2019-01-26, 04:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2010
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- Denmark
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
- I thought the Snarl might be a myth.
- I thought the Eastern Gods might still be alive.
- I thought that Elan might defeat Tarquin as a storyteller by narrating him into a position that wasn't cool.
- I thought that Trigak might re - (no.)
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2019-01-26, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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- Beverly, MA, USA
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
I haven't made many false predictions over the years - I learned early on not to expect any specific plot development, because Rich very rarely does something particularly predictable. I do remember, though, reading a prediction that V's mate might show up as an antagonist looking to hunt the party down and thinking "huh, that seems prescient! I bet that happens." Naturally, it didn't, and now I feel rather stupid for ever thinking it was a plausible theory. Of course, it was like ten years ago, when I was in high school, so there's that.
Last edited by Emanick; 2019-01-26 at 05:03 AM.
Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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2019-01-26, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
Now I started to wonder if Belkar's analysis about Shojo's failed Resurrection may foreshadow his eventual fate. Maybe he will end up in an afterlife he doesn't want to leave?
Consider that a prediction that can still fail to come true. :)
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2019-01-26, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2012
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- Czech Republic
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
During the hiatus after strip 873, I thought Malack and Vaarsuvius will meet deep in the bowels of the Girard's pyramid, but will not duel since V didn't know Malack joined the Guild and Malack will not care about Nale's plan. They discover the Gate together while Roy and the rest of the Order overcomes Girard's master illusions upstairs, and somehow end up destroying it just after Xykon arrives and starts to enter the pyramid.
There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.
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2019-01-26, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
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2019-01-26, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2019
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
I thought [Oona] the masked figure would capture O-chul and Lien, but they'd kill [her] and use her mount to fly to the Gates.
I mean, who doesn't want to see two paladins riding a sonic reptillian unicorn?
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2019-02-07, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Turkey
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2019-02-07, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2009
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- Birmingham, AL
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
"Famous" is relative. For instance, I never heard of that before you mentioned it. I know it as the memory aide (despite also knowing that's bunk), which it's also famous for. And considering V and Blackwing's relationship at the time, it makes sense to reference that. A viagra joke would be out of nowhere and make no sense whatsoever.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-02-07, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2018
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Re: Plot twists you thought would happen (but totally didn’t)
I feel like we've moved past the point where "just leave Belkar dead" is something the Order would actually do.
Yes, he's still evil, but at this point I feel like that he's not faking improving has been impressed upon at least Roy and Durkon, if not the others (yet). I've thought for awhile that his death would at least resonate with them on an emotional level.
So while I don't think it would actually be wrong to leave Belkar dead given everything he's done, I imagine there actually will be a concrete reason it just isn't possible for them to do anything about it.Last edited by Rrmcklin; 2019-02-07 at 05:11 PM.