Order of the Stick Trivia XXIV: What do I need a twenty for, anyway?

[Tubercular Ox]

Assuming Meta OQ, let's do a lighter one: show me a sentence that provides two different insults at the same time depending on how it is read.

Presume intentionality for all linguistically feasible disparagements.

OQ

[enq]

Find a paper/parchment/scroll on which only the title is readable, despite it seemingly having more text than that. We can see there is more, but we can't read a single letter of it.

[ZhonLord]

Find a paper/parchment/scroll on which only the title is readable, despite it seemingly having more text than that. We can see there is more, but we can't read a single letter of it.

does a name count as a title? I have a question if yes but I'm not 100% this qualifies.

[enq]

I like to think I made it clear we should get the impression there is more text on it, just not readable. So for that reason, that one doesn't count, but I would accept it as a title otherwise.

[Emberlily]

The moment V joins the running for Most Divorced character in the story, perhaps? If so, OQ

[enq]

That's exactly the one I had in mind, yes.

[ZhonLord]

I like to think I made it clear we should get the impression there is more text on it, just not readable.

There is theoretically more text on it because Elan opens it up to read. But, I definitely see how V's divorce papers fit better. Well found.


I'll take the OQ though! Show me an article of clothing which is ambiguous about which side of the body it is meant to be worn on.

[Metastachydium]

I'll take the OQ though! Show me an article of clothing which is ambiguous about which side of the body it is meant to be worn on.

Well, so long as it fits, I suppose… (Also, 401? Who are you and what have you done to ZhonLord?)

[Emberlily]

if you don't throw in some curveballs every deceptive gimmick becomes way too predictable

[Peelee]

You know what's unpredictable? Art. Find me a nice landscape painting.

[ZhonLord]

Well, so long as it fits, I suppose… (Also, 401? Who are you and what have you done to ZhonLord?)

It was one page prior to a question I used twice previously in short succession. The gimmick this time was sticking to the same region to see if people look elsewhere, and I was foiled - probably because I picked questions that were too easy this time XD

[Ruck]

Enq... I'm sorry to say you were on the right track in the first half, but lost it in the second.

And now time's up. The answer is, Elan was scared and angry about the harm Nale might do to his dear companion Banjo.

Damn, I was pretty confident it was about the Elan-and-Nale-in-Cliffport plot, but I was looking in the wrong places (the "Elan in jail" scenes).

[enq]

Yeah, I should have allowed that answer.

Question to y'all: Would you consider the cast page to be valid to use as an intended answer?

[Ruck]

Question to y'all: Would you consider the cast page to be valid to use as an intended answer?

Per the rules in the OP, I would not consider it a "canon online strip," so no. (And if we want to define that phrase, I'd say the "canon online strips" are the ones numbered and linked on this page.)

[enq]

Hold up, peelee has one going about a landscape painting.

Oh whoops, my bad. Delete the quote will you. Don't want to give people more than 48h for it when my turn comes.

[Peelee]

Oh whoops, my bad. Delete the quote will you. Don't want to give people more than 48h for it when my turn comes.

Get me some art and you can ask again soon as you like!

[Lord Torath]

Get me some art and you can ask again soon as you like!

Here's some art! Right over Serini's bed!

I don't have a question ready, so we can go with Enq's as soon as he checks back in. Or anyone else's, since I don't think you can call 'dibs' on a question.

Edit: Here's about the clearest shot we get of it, I think.

[Peelee]

Here's some art! Right over Serini's bed!

Yep! I figured of ZhonLord wasn't going to ask about a recent comic, someone ought to.

[enq]

Alright, claiming OQ.

Find me three different strips in which an OotS member thinks there is, or might be, a problem with the color of something. Different OotS member each time.

[Metastachydium]

Alright, claiming OQ.

Find me three different strips in which an OotS member thinks there is, or might be, a problem with the color of something. Different OotS member each time.

1. The boots were, like, lime green. (Which shouldn't be a problem, Haley.)
2. Dun, dun, DUN!
3. The hell that happened to her face, arguably. (What the hell do these people have with green?!)

[enq]

3. The hell that happened to her face, arguably. (What the hell do these people have with green?!)

Good one. I allow it.

If anyone wants something to do while waiting for the next question, there is one with V too (and it's not agreeing with Haley about the boots).

[Emberlily]

The double standards in who's allowed to dress in black without coming across as distressingly evil means this one also contains an example of someone saying a colour change shouldn't be a problem.

[ZhonLord]

Find me a king whose rulership lasted mere rounds at most.

[Tubercular Ox]

Find me a king whose rulership lasted mere rounds at most.

The King of All Roaches

OQ.

[Peelee]

The characters break the fourth wall a lot. Find me a single panel with the other three intact (that is, three walls or doors, all at 90° angles to the connecting one).

[b_jonas]

The characters break the fourth wall a lot. Find me a single panel with the other three intact (that is, three walls or doors, all at 90° angles to the connecting one).

Is it #518 last, Tsukiko cast electric orb on Haley, or does it need to be actual walls?

[Peelee]

Is it #518 last, Tsukiko cast electric orb on Haley, or does it need to be actual walls?

Actual walls. I only phrased your with "breaking the fourth wall" as wordplay. There is no fourth-wall breaking in the actual panel

[b_jonas]

Peelee: Hmm. It's not the house from #979 to #981 in the house where Crystal attacks Bozzok because we never see the wall opposite of the hole. Not the weapon shop in #976 either, there too we never see the wall opposite the hole.

Ok, so this one will be a stretch but it's all I have. #1271 2nd Sunny opens a hole on a wall of Serini's home, perhaps that counts as breaking one of the walls. Afterwards, #1279 4th shows the wall opposite of Serini's bed and #1280 shows the wall opposite the cupboards, so we know that all four boards exist. We can't tell if they're all completely intact, because we only see a small part of the wall opposite the bed, but I presume it is, otherwise I think they wouldn't bother opening a hole by magic in #1272. The problem is that you specified “a single panel with”.

[Metastachydium]

The characters break the fourth wall a lot. Find me a single panel with the other three intact (that is, three walls or doors, all at 90° angles to the connecting one).

Is it #518 last, Tsukiko cast electric orb on Haley, or does it need to be actual walls?

Peelee: Hmm. It's not the house from #979 to #981 in the house where Crystal attacks Bozzok because we never see the wall opposite of the hole. Not the weapon shop in #976 either, there too we never see the wall opposite the hole.

Ok, so this one will be a stretch but it's all I have. #1271 2nd Sunny opens a hole on a wall of Serini's home, perhaps that counts as breaking one of the walls. Afterwards, #1279 4th shows the wall opposite of Serini's bed and #1280 shows the wall opposite the cupboards, so we know that all four boards exist. We can't tell if they're all completely intact, because we only see a small part of the wall opposite the bed, but I presume it is, otherwise I think they wouldn't bother opening a hole by magic in #1272. The problem is that you specified “a single panel with”.

Am I missing something? Mr. Lee asked for intact walls and everybody's looking for broken ones instead.

[enq]

Yeah, I believe the answer is supposed to look like panel four here, except I don't count that door as a wall.

Ha, but this should work (several panels, #3 for example). OQ if correct.

(Whoops, doors were also a valid answer. I owe myself five minutes.)