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2019-04-02, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spaniard here, and delighted that you are bringing this piece from our childhood to the board :) thank you!
A few notes to complement:
1. el Coco is always hidden in the shadows. Let it be the dark basement, behind heavy furniture or under an odd umbrella... waiting for the misbehaving children
2. el Coco is not supposed to talk... just to come and take you for a late evening snack! Hence quite surprising if it has MITD loquacity
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But he has now lampshaded several times that the MitD is smaller than its species, so there actually are clues that the size shown in the comic should be disregarded. I am pretty convinced that it's larger than medium, and while I personally don't believe it could grow to be gargantuan (or larger), I wouldn't cry foul either if it turned out to have such a species.
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A few notes to complement:
1. el Coco is always hidden in the shadows. Let it be the dark basement, behind heavy furniture or under an odd umbrella... waiting for the misbehaving children
2. el Coco is not supposed to talk... just to come and take you for a late evening snack! Hence quite surprising if it has MITD loquacity
2) Exactly - MitD is surprising to everyone who sees him for the first time, but is familiar with his species
So, what remains is to find either a proof or a contradiction to Coco's great strength.
I didn't find it in the wiki. Maybe you, as someone familiar with original stories, can help here?Last edited by Edreyn; 2019-04-02 at 01:46 PM.
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And has been mentioned repeatedly, given the behavior of MitD, he's probably some sort of juvenile/adolescent of his species, as opposed to a small child or newborn, so we should expect the difference between his current size and his full-grown adult size to be roughly proportional to whatever that would be.
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Which has already been said that it could easily be one size category based on D&D giants, real snakes and the general opinion that imaginary monsters may work differently, so now the discussion is going in circles and I will stop here. Besides, his small size may be because he's a child, but that needs not be the only reason. He could be a dungeonbred child for example, and already two size categories are possible.
Regarding Kish's second suggestion, I am still interested in whether there is actually a creature which would enter the FBS category if we change that.Ares - Music and sounds system for roleplaying
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Both of these are plausible courses of actions, I don't think O-Chul or Lien will die though. Either way, if someone so much as slaps O-Chul, MitD will probably make them dead quite soon. Or Soon, if the case may be.
(No significance in that last line, just puns)An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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Interestingly enough, I had considered putting that in as another example, but I feel like that might be a little too dark for OOTS. Not that it’s impossible for major characters to die, of course, but I lean towards it being unlikely.
That, on the other hand, I could see, and it might give this thread some nice material.
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I don't think O-Chul or Lien will die, though I can't rule it out. I have long had my money on MitD's reveal being to save O-Chul's life.
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Also interesting from the link to El Coco is a link to the Peluda from french folklore, which is also a decent candidate. I need to look into it more (probably next week), but some of its abilities:
- Immense strength (it makes a river split just by stomping)
- Near invulnerability (it is impervious to damage except for cutting off its tail which kills it)
- Weird looking (I forget exactly, but its a bunch of things stuck together. Its also covered with tentacles)
- Dangerous in a bunch of ways: fire breath, poisonous stingers which it can shoot from its tentacles, and maybe acid breath
If it had a good Escape answer I’d be proposing it as an FBS candidate.
Edit - As a side-note, I think the discussion around MitD’s size is actually proving very fruitful. In time, there are a couple other points I hope we can similarly discuss, but I don’t want to sidetrack us.Last edited by Crusher; 2019-04-02 at 05:13 PM.
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Spoiler: Notes to self before I forgetThe change in the shape of the eyes is at #109
ETA: #117: bigger than goblin's eyes
ETA2: #181: the young black dragon wouldn't fit under the umbrella
ETA3: #202: Miko, Detect Evil, Blue eyes
ETA4: #208: Miko, Detect Evil, Black eyes
[strike]ETA5: #214: Ogre's eyes are wider apart than human's ones[/strike]
ETA5: #281: Miko, Detect Evil, Blue eyes, failure(lead)
ETA6: #475: two Haleys barely fit under the umbrella
ETA7: #477: stomp shape + didn't know he could do something he'd already done onceLast edited by Jineon; 2019-04-04 at 11:49 AM.
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The problem with MitD being a creature of folklore is that it will make people go "-Que?" at the time of reveal. I really doubt that was the idea. Of course, Americans have a tendency of assuming the generality of their culture so it could very well be something from American folklore.
It is most likely MitD is a D&D creature, with a possibility for something from popular culture.
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It really isn't. 5 de Mayo is not a pan-Mexican celebration. It is not their independence day, or anything like that.
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2019-04-03, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can't see how MitD being a recognizable creature means anything, given that there aren't really any recognizable creatures that are a) super strong, b) capable of the escape, and c), as small (and possibly as young) as MitD is indicated to be. Besides, how many people outside of this forum are familiar with the appearances of any of the FBS candidates? The fact that we still don't exactly know what the worm was that Hel provided her priest with on #1158 (and most of us certainly couldn't be able to identify it without the aid of whichever Monster's Manual provided its stablock) should be indication enough that recognizability isn't a factor in the reveal that Rich has in mind.
Also, I don't feel like the general ignorance Americans possess of other culture's folklore has anything to do with the choice Rich made for who MitD is. I'm inclined to agree that it will be a D&D creature, though that's no more a con for El Coco as it is for the Carbosilicate Amorph.
On a different note, I feel like O-Chul might survive after MitD reveals himself. It would make sense for him to have an "Aha!" moment, and reveal for the readers (or potentially to the Order and/or Lien) what MitD actually is. At least, it makes sense to me!feed the crows
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A D&D monster is more probable simply because of the setting of the work and little more. There are mythological entities so obscure that they would not be probable since not even Rich would have heard of them, but for the most part lots of things are fair game. For all we know, Rich went on an encyclopedia binge a week before deciding on MitD and dug up some relatively unusual lore that contained what he chose MitD to be.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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Wait...MITD HATES being in the shadows. He wants nothing more then to leave them.Last edited by Edreyn; 2019-04-05 at 04:01 PM.
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If you want to gender the words, remember that every word in Spanish has a gender, including the articles. It should be "female la Coca."