OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread

[Riftwolf]

Just a quick thought; what if the reason for the orange-blue gap is because of the stoning?
Like an Elder inadvertently breaks dwarven law and gets stoned, for some trivial reason like pouring the milk first when making tea. Rather than stop the whole meeting, the council wheel the offender past the blue barrier so the cleric can break enchantment or whatever. Because the offender didn't pass the orange barrier they don't count as having left the meeting or having their vote annulled, and after the brief recess the dwarf is free to return to the meeting, assuming they learn to put the tea-bag in first.
The UK doesn't have a US style Constitution, but if we get round to writing one, Tea-bag First will be in the top five Amendments.

[KorvinStarmast]

Please don't reference old Allman Brothers tunes. Duane's death is still too recent.

That lyric is from Sweet Home Alabama, by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ronnie van Zandt's death in a plane crash was a bit over 40 years ago. Duane died in a motorcycle crash at a crossroad some years before that. Sweet Melissa still makes me cry.

(FWIW, I saw a Skynyrd concert about five years ago where Johnnie led the band whose only original member, Rossington, was still playing guitar).

There are 106 miles to the north pole, the Mechane's got a full balloon of helium, there is half a ration of holy ale, it's underground and Blackwing's wearing sunglasses.

Wins thread.
PS: who has the pack of smokes?

[danielxcutter]

Heh, someone mentioned it on TvTropes, but Jenna and Thirden have hippie outfits because Durkon was "stoned".

[redemedic]

I still live. This comic helps me go from day to day. "I can't die today! What if Rich posts another strip tomorrow?"

[woweedd]

I still live. This comic helps me go from day to day. "I can't die today! What if Rich posts another strip tomorrow?"

I'm not joking, you might want to talk to a therapist.

[Rogar Demonblud]

So what happened to Durkon's hammer? Where is it now?

Presumably in the hands of whoever picked it up. There's only about thirty characters not in scene.

[Malloon]

No, no...Richie Havens to honor the 50th anniversary of Woodstock Rockstock... "FREEDOM"!

That's what I thought of immediately too. Great song. FREEDOM!

[Tarjei]

New comic is up.

Erm... Apparently it is and I'm guessing the Song of Freedom is featured, but...

For some reason, I can't view -any- image files on the site at all. Any guesses as to why that is? Been like that since the newest comic popped up. (And no, I still haven't had a chance to read it myself. Hence the guess about SoF.)

[Dion]

Also - gotta love the quick-change rocker clothes for the song. Is there a specific band he's parodying?

I think it’s a parody of the “Freedom Rock” commercials from the 80s.

I’ll see if I can pull up a YouTube link...

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio

[Rogar Demonblud]

Erm... Apparently it is and I'm guessing the Song of Freedom is featured, but...

For some reason, I can't view -any- image files on the site at all. Any guesses as to why that is? Been like that since the newest comic popped up. (And no, I still haven't had a chance to read it myself. Hence the guess about SoF.)

Probably better to ask in the Board Issues forum.

[Breccia]

"Freedom, freedom, freedom, you gotta give what you take ..."

Thor knows you was just a young dwarf,
Didn't know what you wanted to doooooooo
You were every one-armed ma's pride and joy,
And I guess it was enough for you
To join the church? Thrown out in the lurch?
Brand new armor and a quest to search
For a lich with a fighter huuuuu....
(...man)

But today the way you played the game was not the same,
No way!
And we got to get you freeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think there's something that you know,
I think there's a path you had to show,
There's something deep inside of you,
There's rules you stuck to true,
Take back your flesh from petrify,
Take back your hammer from the sky,

While the laws should always be spoken,
Sometimes, like ceilings, they have to be broken!

All we have to dooooo, now,
Is take these stone and make you move, somehow.
All we have to tellllllll,
Is that you belong to Thor, and you don't belong to Hel!
Yeah yeah!

Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!

That's what you get!
That's what you get!
That's what you...what?

No.

...don't let the sun go down, Loki?

No.

Careless whiskers?

We are done here.

[Squire Doodad]

Thor knows you was just a young dwarf,
Didn't know what you wanted to doooooooo
You were every one-armed ma's pride and joy,
And I guess it was enough for you
To join the church? Thrown out in the lurch?
Brand new armor and a quest to search
For a lich with a fighter huuuuu....
(...man)

But today the way you played the game was not the same,
No way!
And we got to get you freeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think there's something that you know,
I think there's a path you had to show,
There's something deep inside of you,
There's rules you stuck to true,
Take back your flesh from petrify,
Take back your hammer from the sky,

While the laws should always be spoken,
Sometimes, like ceilings, they have to be broken!

All we have to dooooo, now,
Is take these stone and make you move, somehow.
All we have to tellllllll,
Is that you belong to Thor, and you don't belong to Hel!
Yeah yeah!

Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!

That's what you get!
That's what you get!
That's what you...what?

No.

...don't let the sun go down, Loki?

No.

Careless whiskers?

We are done here.

...
Beautiful. Just...so...beautiful

[Ruck]

See, Peelee, Breccia gets it.

So what happened to Durkons hammer? Where is it now?

Hammerspace, obviously.

[Peelee]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio

IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK?!?

See, Peelee, Breccia gets it.

You better think, think about what you're trying to do to me. Yeah, think. Let your mind go, let yourself be free.

[TheNecrocomicon]

Thor knows you was just a young dwarf,
Didn't know what you wanted to doooooooo
You were every one-armed ma's pride and joy,
And I guess it was enough for you
To join the church? Thrown out in the lurch?
Brand new armor and a quest to search
For a lich with a fighter huuuuu....
(...man)

But today the way you played the game was not the same,
No way!
And we got to get you freeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think there's something that you know,
I think there's a path you had to show,
There's something deep inside of you,
There's rules you stuck to true,
Take back your flesh from petrify,
Take back your hammer from the sky,

While the laws should always be spoken,
Sometimes, like ceilings, they have to be broken!

All we have to dooooo, now,
Is take these stone and make you move, somehow.
All we have to tellllllll,
Is that you belong to Thor, and you don't belong to Hel!
Yeah yeah!

Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!

That's what you get!
That's what you get!
That's what you...what?

No.

...don't let the sun go down, Loki?

No.

Careless whiskers?

We are done here.

To its (il)logical conclusion ... impressive. Most impressive.

[Wizard_Lizard]

Thor knows you was just a young dwarf,
Didn't know what you wanted to doooooooo
You were every one-armed ma's pride and joy,
And I guess it was enough for you
To join the church? Thrown out in the lurch?
Brand new armor and a quest to search
For a lich with a fighter huuuuu....
(...man)

But today the way you played the game was not the same,
No way!
And we got to get you freeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think there's something that you know,
I think there's a path you had to show,
There's something deep inside of you,
There's rules you stuck to true,
Take back your flesh from petrify,
Take back your hammer from the sky,

While the laws should always be spoken,
Sometimes, like ceilings, they have to be broken!

All we have to dooooo, now,
Is take these stone and make you move, somehow.
All we have to tellllllll,
Is that you belong to Thor, and you don't belong to Hel!
Yeah yeah!

Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
We gotta sing it for Durkon's sake!

That's what you get!
That's what you get!
That's what you...what?

No.

...don't let the sun go down, Loki?

No.

Careless whiskers?

We are done here.

I... I have no words...

[Jannoire]

Just a quick thought; what if the reason for the orange-blue gap is because of the stoning?
Like an Elder inadvertently breaks dwarven law and gets stoned, for some trivial reason like pouring the milk first when making tea. Rather than stop the whole meeting, the council wheel the offender past the blue barrier so the cleric can break enchantment or whatever. Because the offender didn't pass the orange barrier they don't count as having left the meeting or having their vote annulled, and after the brief recess the dwarf is free to return to the meeting, assuming they learn to put the tea-bag in first.
The UK doesn't have a US style Constitution, but if we get round to writing one, Tea-bag First will be in the top five Amendments.

I guess, drinking tea instead of beer would be against the law as well...

Wins thread.
PS: who has the pack of smokes?

Thanks. ^^
I thought hard on the smokes, but no major character who was shown smoking came to my mind.
Lien smoked in the Gdgu, but she's not around.

Hammerspace, obviously.

So, when is the hammer?

Edit : most favorite discussion thread, ever!

[jwhouk]

STOP!



...Hammer time.


(Dohm-da-da-dom, da-dom, da-dom) "Can't touch this..."

[Schroeswald]

Thanks. ^^
I thought hard on the smokes, but no major character who was shown smoking came to my mind.
Lien smoked in the Gdgu, but she's not around.

Curly smoked away.

[KorvinStarmast]

Curly smoked away.

Curly the Vampire who war running away from Hilgya? (So "smoked" means going into mist form? )

[Schroeswald]

Curly the Vampire who war running away from Hilgya? (So "smoked" means going into mist form? )

Eh, it’s close enough for me to make a joke about it.

[KorvinStarmast]

Eh, it’s close enough for me to make a joke about it.

Just noted the white text ...

[bunsen_h]

Curly the Vampire who war running away from Hilgya? (So "smoked" means going into mist form? )

Out of curiosity, can a vampire in mist / smoke form kill someone by asphyxiation?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Not by RAW. They can neither attack nor be attacked (except for exceptions A, B, C, 5, 6, Sigma, Tau, etc).

[bunsen_h]

I was looking at Belkar's reaction in panel 7 of strip 1175 -- I'm sorry, but I don't yet have the standing to post links -- to Curly misting out, and wondering if someone who's already having breathing difficulty might be pushed over the edge by having to breathe diluted vampire along with the air. From which it might follow that a vampire might be able to sort of concentrate itself in mist form in someone's lungs. It wouldn't be an attack, exactly, but might cause harm sort-of-mundanely.

But if The Rules say otherwise, I won't dispute the point. Can mist-form vampire be bottled, or otherwise partitioned and contained? I can imagine that "vampire mist" might be a useful potion ingredient or useful for other magical purposes.

[Fyraltari]

That's not Curly, that's the Likeable Deathworm poofing out of this plane of existence. Curly already passed through, as evidenced by her trail above Elan's head in the panel directly to the left.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Yes. Trapping the mist in a forcecage box or resilient shield are two popular ways of locking the vampire down, either to wait out the two hours before dissolution after dropping them to 0HP or just run out the clock until dawn.

[bunsen_h]

That's not Curly, that's the Likeable Deathworm poofing out of this plane of existence. Curly already passed through, as evidenced by her trail above Elan's head in the panel directly to the left.

Ah, got it. I'd misinterpreted the dark-violet smoke from the Deathworm as being the mist form of Curly. In retrospect, that doesn't make sense.

Yes. Trapping the mist in a forcecage box or resilient shield are two popular ways of locking the vampire down, either to wait out the two hours before dissolution after dropping them to 0HP or just run out the clock until dawn.

Perhaps I was unclear. Is it possible to split that mist into multiple parts? Though if all of the mist simply goes away after a couple of hours, it may not be practically relevant. Unless it's possible to do some kind of stasis on the bottle? I remember, back in the day, having a magic user set up an about-to-detonate device, getting a gelatinous cube to surround that, then using Sepia Snake Sigil (IIRC) to get a temporal stasis on the gelatinous cube. It was a doomsday device, of sorts.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Dividing the mist into parts isn't possible by the rules. As for the other part of your post, sounds like using an iron flask.

[Fish]

In other words, how much mist can Miss Mistform miss if Miss Mistform must miss mist?

Miss Mistform can miss as much mist as Miss Mistform must miss if Miss Mistform’s mist must be mussed.