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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    Not only that, but we know the spell exists in the OOTS-verse. As it was explicitly mentioned.

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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    Do you want to bet about it?

    The Sphynx Pox will play no role in the story, ever, and will never be mentioned again except as a passing commentary, and probably not even that.
    Absolutely. I’ll bet you 20 quatloos that Sphinx Pox will serve a story role larger than “passing commentary.” Deal?
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    The same cleric(s) who can't magically repair a broken wooden table.

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    That theory is postively absurd. Anyone with a lick of sense is aware that Jimmy will never, ever have polearms in his shop.
    Hence, you understood my comparison...
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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    Absolutely. I’ll bet you 20 quatloos that Sphinx Pox will serve a story role larger than “passing commentary.” Deal?
    Deal! Beam me up!

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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    I mean... this is a comic where Hilgya came back, Zz'dtri came back, Miko appeared on-panel long after her death, and even the nonsensical movie snacks interlude turned out to be significant.

    I can understand betting on "won't become a plot point". But betting on "not even mentioned again" seems to be a very, very long shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir_Norbert View Post
    I mean... this is a comic where Hilgya came back, Zz'dtri came back, Miko appeared on-panel long after her death, and even the nonsensical movie snacks interlude turned out to be significant.

    I can understand betting on "won't become a plot point". But betting on "not even mentioned again" seems to be a very, very long shot.
    But The Pilgrim bet on no more than passing mention, not “not even mentioned again”.
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    I recognize that Conservation of Detail is Overrated, but I find the event that I am using as evidence for my theory above important enough/given enough focus to qualify for what I call Elan’s Exception, “Who wastes perfectly good foreshadowing like that?”. Also I have never correctly predicted any event in any piece of media so take this theory with a grain of salt (I call this Peelee’s Ye Old Reminder).

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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    Do you want to bet about it?

    The Sphynx Pox will play no role in the story, ever, and will never be mentioned again except as a passing commentary, and probably not even that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir_Norbert View Post
    and even the nonsensical movie snacks interlude turned out to be significant.
    Significant is a strong word. It got a callback joke, but I wouldn't equate that to "it was foreshadowing the many previous worlds thing all along!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    Significant is a strong word. It got a callback joke, but I wouldn't equate that to "it was foreshadowing the many previous worlds thing all along!"
    It seemed so silly that no one in their right mind would call it "foreshadowing" even in hindsight.

    Nevertheless it was significant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WindStruck View Post
    It seemed so silly that no one in their right mind would call it "foreshadowing" even in hindsight.

    Nevertheless it was significant.
    I disagree. Snackworld hasn't affected the story in any way. The gags were cute, but it could just as easily have shown us Laser Snail and the other gritty cyberpunk animals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schroeswald View Post
    But The Pilgrim bet on no more than passing mention, not “not even mentioned again”.
    Yep. A callback joke to the readers who think it was significant, maybe. But, relevant to the plotline? Not in a comic were the outcome of characters is a result of their actions and choices, not of a random God planting a random ilness on some arbitrary desert gas station that only appeared in a bounus comic.
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    Remember that disease causes you to speak in rhyme. Until that happens it is a non factor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    That strikes me as very, very unlikely. That’s a Book 1-style stunt, not a Book 6-7 one. Specifying that everyone on the Mechane has a potentially deadly, infectious plague and then never mentioning it again would be both not a very good joke and, much more importantly, awful writing.

    I have much more faith in Rich than to assume he is such a dreadful writer.
    The strip that mentioned it also specified an incubation period long past the documented time frame to get to the expected climax of the story. (Something that could be further confirmed if, say, Team Evil finds the final gate at the end of this book.)

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    I can't tell if you're serious or not. I'm leaning towards...not?
    By all evidence, deuterio is reading an entirely different comic than everyone else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir_Norbert View Post
    I mean... this is a comic where Hilgya came back, Zz'dtri came back, Miko appeared on-panel long after her death, and even the nonsensical movie snacks interlude turned out to be significant.
    And don't forget the previously unnamed MontyPithoneske polearm shopkeeper who ended up being Jiminy, Haley's cousin.
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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    If they make a side trip to the astral plane that will effectively pause time
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    Quote Originally Posted by D.One View Post
    And don't forget the previously unnamed MontyPithoneske polearm shopkeeper who ended up being Jiminy, Haley's cousin.
    The movie snacks were not significant to the plot, and neither was Jiminy being the shopkeeper. The Pilgrim explained it perfectly (well, the part about the random God is less applicable here):

    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    Yep. A callback joke to the readers who think it was significant, maybe. But, relevant to the plotline? Not in a comic were the outcome of characters is a result of their actions and choices, not of a random God planting a random ilness on some arbitrary desert gas station that only appeared in a bounus comic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    The movie snacks were not significant to the plot, and neither was Jiminy being the shopkeeper. The Pilgrim explained it perfectly (well, the part about the random God is less applicable here):
    I agree with that. I don't really think suddenly Sphinx Pox will move the plot, even by one inch. I just don't think it will be forgotten, but it will probably get a comment in the lines of:

    "Thank Thor I'eve detected tha symptoms for Sphinx Pox and cur'd you'all"
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    We're underdogs, but we rise up to the challenge to be heroes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    By all evidence, deuterio is reading an entirely different comic than everyone else.
    I always thought Followers of the Bramble was far inferior to this comic, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by D.One View Post
    I agree with that. I don't really think suddenly Sphinx Pox will move the plot, even by one inch. I just don't think it will be forgotten, but it will probably get a comment in the lines of:

    "Thank Thor I'eve detected tha symptoms for Sphinx Pox and cur'd you'all"
    Yeah, very possible. It just seems like there's been some confusion lately about what's a callback and what is plot-relevant. (Geoff having a son who is his motivation to help Bozzok is plot-relevant. That son being the same guy from the polearm store isn't, unless him being Geoff's son affected his actions toward Roy in some way-- and from all available evidence, the existence of Monty Python had a greater effect on his behavior.)

    Quote Originally Posted by The Aboleth View Post
    I always thought Followers of the Bramble was far inferior to this comic, though.
    Oh, it is. Everyone is a Mary Sue, has plot armor, or is a plot-armored Mary Sue. People remember and forget they have powers as the story dictates. Nothing seems to happen for any rhyme or reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    Oh, it is. Everyone is a Mary Sue, has plot armor, or is a plot-armored Mary Sue. People remember and forget they have powers as the story dictates. Nothing seems to happen for any rhyme or reason.
    Oh, you must admit, since the their elven high mages learned how to mold plot into magic armors, their armies have been unstoppable.
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    Nothing seems to happen for any rhyme or reason.
    Oh good, at least they don't have the Sphinx Pox.
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    Oh good, at least they don't have the Sphinx Pox.
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    By all evidence, deuterio is reading an entirely different comic than everyone else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Oh good, at least they don't have the Sphinx Pox.
    Ahahah. Not often a forum joke makes me laugh out loud. Well done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    And it will never be mentioned again.

    It was an one-time joke. It belongs to the past now, together with Fyrion's son and Redcloak's niece.

    It's gone.
    I agree that Fyron's son is a never mentioned again, but I'd be genuinely shocked if Redcloak's Niece was a dropped plot thread. The utter insanity of some of the speculation about her has become a forum in-joke, but that doesn't mean she isn't going to be relevant in the future. Who wastes perfectly good foreshadowing like that?

    I could also easily see Sphinx Pox being the subject of a call-back joke, like the automated prayer system and sentient theater snacks wound up being. It's never going to be plot relevant, but that doesn't mean it can't come back as the subject of another joke.

    EDIT: And it turns out we agree about the Sphinx Pox being a call-back joke, so I didn't need to say anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BasiliskSoldier View Post
    I agree that Fyron's son is a never mentioned again, but I'd be genuinely shocked if Redcloak's Niece was a dropped plot thread.
    Wouldn't she have to be a plot thread first?
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    Default Re: So, about the Sphinx Pox

    My money is on brick joke/ callback. Fatal diseases seem a bit much to be handled off panel, even in D&D.

    Second bet is on some other complication happening to make the pox a bigger headache (maybe the Mechane abandons them to go off and get treated?)

    But what I'm really wondering is: What if you suck at riddles?

    Will the riddles be really obvious, or impossible (due to being malformed)? Does the pox itself grant the ability to improv riddles?

    What humorous things will Belkar say when he's talking in riddles? I'm picturing him (instead of saying "me") saying "what has two thumbs at looks like a tool shed?"

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    Who wastes perfectly good foreshadowing like that?
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    So, when the world or universe needs saving, they come
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    My money is on brick joke/ callback. Fatal diseases seem a bit much to be handled off panel, even in D&D.
    Even when the fix is merely a third level spell?
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