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2019-07-29, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
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2019-07-29, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
I just fail my moral check and I don't know what's gonna happen.
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2019-07-29, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh no! I'm pretty sure that Team Thundershield has a trick up their sleeve, but this is dire.
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2019-07-29, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Well. That’s concerning.
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2019-07-29, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Bwahahaha, "oh wait, I can move".
Interestingly, this strip suggests that if Hel hadn't tried to tamper with the vote, she might well have got the result she wanted. I'm sure the irony won't escape Loki.ungelic is us
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2019-07-29, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Spoiler1) It's a returning hammer.
2) If he hit it "just like yer Pa did", then the ceiling is about to collapse on them.
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2019-07-29, 08:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Yikes! Well, looks like book 6 is also gonna be the LAST book too!
I (and others) had thought of the "break the ceiling to let in the sunlight", but yeah, I figured that would be enough to stone whoever did it.Last edited by Stabbey; 2019-07-29 at 08:40 AM.
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2019-07-29, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Well I expected that about the Destruction of Public Property. Less so the vampire remembering he had three rounds to move OUT of the sunlight.
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2019-07-29, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Only possibilities I see:
One, ceiling collapses via returning hammer.
Two, Durkon's entire clan rushes in and every one of them destroys the ceiling with their combined efforts.
Three, Dvalin can see in through the crack in the ceiling (loophole) and invalidates the vote.
Four, Rich wants the ultimate downer ending and the world is destroyed.
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2019-07-29, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
I can't help thinking that this might have been part of the plan, since the hammer is expected to return. Maybe the entire ceiling will be demolished at that point.
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2019-07-29, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Yep. Ask these dwarves if they'd sacrifice for the greater good, and a non-insignificant portion of them will vote "of course" based on their cultural inertia. Even politicians.
Enough of them to be a majority? Impossible to say, of course. And it is not hard to imagine that Hel, too self-centered to really understanding dwarves, might have gone for what seem to be a surer bet.
But it does highlight that the usual votes are so insignificant that the domination didn't really concern them before now. It seems it would usually not matter that half the council was under vampire domination, if all they were doing was voting on flower arrangements for some festival or the like.
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2019-07-29, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Well, on the upside being turned to stone drastically increases your changes of surviving a ceiling collapse.
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2019-07-29, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
There is no way that Durkon and his Ma are stupid enough to assume single hole in the ceiling would be enough to kill the vampires.
They both look like they know exactly what they are doing.
I am going for option a):
The returning hammer will collapse the ceiling, killing all vampires.
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also "you know where tha hit it" clearly implies that he wants to achieve more then just a simple hole.Last edited by Myta; 2019-07-29 at 08:46 AM.
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2019-07-29, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Looks like it's up to Sigdi to save the day.
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2019-07-29, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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That balding dwarf in the purple shirt in panel one--his hair is a bird. Just wanted to point that out.
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2019-07-29, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-29, 08:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
My bet is on returning hammer + collapsible ceiling OR Dispel magic from outside of the chamber as we have a nice sky window for it now. The barier prevents casting from inside of the barier if i understand the wording right.
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2019-07-29, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
"Just like yer Pa did" also points in that direction. He was a sapper who found a weak spot to cause a collapse.
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2019-07-29, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, that could've gone better...
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2019-07-29, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Something big is gonna happen... Well... bigger, given the situation.
I'm excited
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2019-07-29, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-29, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Yeah, I'm going with "the Elders probably aren't that stupid, but they never expected for their votes to matter for something remotely this important" too.
And hey, even if they thought it was hypothetical at first, some dwarves would rather sacrifice their own eternal rewards if the other option was oblivion for all - that's kinda admirable, the thought itself if not it's actual repercussions in this specific case.
...I sure hope whatever Durkon has in mind, it doesn't end up killing everyone in the room. I guess that most of them are wealthy enough for their families raise them, though.Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2019-07-29, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
I feel bad for Durkon, he's spent so much of the past few stories immobilsed, hahaha.
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2019-07-29, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-29, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Dammit, we'd just gotten that cleric repaired!
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2019-07-29, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Does V know Stone to Flesh?
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2019-07-29, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1172 - The Discussion Thread
Durkon makes a fine statue.
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2019-07-29, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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