The Order Of The Stick: January

[evileeyore]

Cry havoc and let lose the Dachsunds of War!!

I laughed, I cried, it was a moment not soon forgotten...

[bedbugsareyummy]

He came, he saw, he rode on the daschund.


As long as we're mangling quotes :-/
Or was that a quote from somewhere?Sounds like it.

[L_Opoponax]

To the tune of "City of New Orleans":

Ridin' on a dachshund in a forest
My feet are nearly draggin' on the ground
My companions, they're ridin' great big horses
And I'm a little too close to that liquid comin' down...

[Adghar]

DOWN AT THE ENGLISH FAIR,
ONE EVENING IT WAS THERE,
I HEARD A SHOWMAN SHOUTING,
UNDERNEATH THE FLAIR.


I'VE GOT A LOVELY BUNCH OF DACH-UH-SUNDS,
THERE THEY ARE ALL STANDING IN A ROW.
BIG ONES, SMALL ONES, SOME AS BIG AS YOUR BODY,
GIVE THEM A PAT, A FLICK OF THE REINS,
THAT'S WHAT THE SHOWMAN SAID.

[bedbugsareyummy]

Ride, ride, ride, ride the great long daschund!

[Persephone]

He came, he saw, he rode on the daschund.


As long as we're mangling quotes :-/
Or was that a quote from somewhere?Sounds like it.

Spoken by Mark Antony in Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar". Act iii. Sc. 1, line 298

In context:

http://www.bartleby.com/70/4031.html

Antony is addressing Caesar's bloody corpse:

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood;
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,
Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue,
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war;
All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds:
And Cæsar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.


I'm a Shakespeare fan . . . ;)



Persephone

[pumpkinetics]

If Roy's world is spinning, the Giant must be turning into a good artist, and the board must have reasonably social people!!!

(No offense to anyone)

[SumGuy]

Goat hearding?

Goat hearding?!

What kind of self respecting fighter...jeeze!

[Aidan305]

Yay. Go Elan.

[Kish]

It occurs to me that Elan might be a better bard if he hadn't spent quite so many skill points on cross-class skills.

It also occurs to me that since Belkar was able to ride his dog without trouble in #140, he might have at least one rank in Ride too--that, or it's so docile that it's easy to ride, the perfect mount for a certain kind of halfling, but exactly the opposite of what Belkar wanted.

[Aedan]

Goat hearding?

Goat hearding?!

What kind of self respecting fighter...jeeze!

Hey, it might come in handy!

[Aidan305]

It occurs to me that Elan might be a better bard if he hadn't spent quite so many skill points on cross-class skills.

Who says he's not a good bard?

It also occurs to me that since Belkar was able to ride his dog without trouble in #140, he might have at least one rank in Ride too--that, or it's so docile that it's easy to ride, the perfect mount for a certain kind of halfling, but exactly the opposite of what Belkar wanted.

Ride can be used untrained

[Tarlonniel]

Fantastic Mr. Ed reference! ;D

[Meagen]

Yay for cross-class skills.

Yeah, I had some trouble with them too... My first Ranger in NWN wasted all her skill points on cross-class Open Lock and Disable Trap. I don't think I had more than 6 points in any other skills at level 14. This was before I found out about the concept of multiclassing... I multiclassed to a rogue for the next 4 levels but it didn't help much.

Poor Roy. Pity he didn't study Cat Herding, it would help him more with this bunch...

[WhiteMonkey]

What happened to Elans boots??
You know, the ones he got... 'Cause he's not wearing them.

[White Blade]

"are you feeling Okay? I'm really worried about you"
"GAHH"
"Got you sucker"
"And yet, I find it oddly comforting"
Dude this one rocks so hard oh the head pain from the rocks falling on my head, I love this one its better then the rest of them save the first few banjo the clown ones...

[Starbuck_II]

Elan proves to be more of a man than Roy. Good job, I knew he had it in him. ;D

Wonder if Belkar is still gonna be a Barb...or is he?

[WhiteMonkey]

But more importantly... what happened to Elans boots?

[TO_Incognito]

I hypothesize that wherever we find the Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity, there we shall find the boots.

[pumpkinetics]

And roy will find some amazing use for the bag of tricks.

[Wanderer]

Bury the enemy in a swarm of useless animals!

Or you could use it for trap detection. Almost as good as sending your teammates first to set off all the traps.

[Callista]

Hmm... Maybe some BBEG has a deadly phobia of mice...

[ShneekeyTheLost]

At least now we know why the bard, with more skill points than anyone in the group except the rogue, is totally clueless on just about everything... he's sunk all his points into cross class skills! Not only does he exchange them at at 2:1 ratio, but most of them are completely pointless for a bard to have (which is why they are cross class in the first place). The odd thing is, he would have to seriously work at it to blow all his points on cross class skills, seeing as how he is a bard, which has just as versitile a skill range as rogues do.

[Aidan305]

Or you could use it for trap detection. Almost as good as sending your teammates first to set off all the traps.

But what about the druids with the big pointy sticks?

[Ronfar]

Small nitpick:

If there is a pommel on the saddle, then these must be Western style saddles. This is a bit of an anachronism, as it seems to me that mideval settings would feature English-style riding, which uses saddles which do not have pommels.

Then again, this is The Order of the Stick, so I suppose I shouldn't care.

- Doug

[garand]

Right. There shouldn't be a pommel on the saddle. That makes no sense. Its an anachronism to the nth degree.

Oh and what's with these elves and halflings and dwarves and liches and ogres and goblins and spellcasters and dragons and chimerae and quests to find starmetal and ghosts and tiny villages with shops for everything you could think of conveniently located near terribly evil dungeons ...

In other words:

I think someone missed the point.

;) :) 8)

[Aidan305]

Not really. He was nitpicking.

[L_Opoponax]

Small nitpick:

If there is a pommel on the saddle, then these must be Western style saddles. This is a bit of an anachronism, as it seems to me that mideval settings would feature English-style riding, which uses saddles which do not have pommels.

Then again, this is The Order of the Stick, so I suppose I shouldn't care.

- Doug

:o ??? falls on the floor, laughing hysterically
The modern 'English style' saddle is just that -- modern. Used by fancy-ass prancers and fox-hunters, not dudes with swords who want to stay in the saddle after they swing their weapons. :P Do a google, dude!

[Sebastian]

And right when you think this strip is just fun and games the Giant reveal that it has also a fiendish plot. (one that make even more sense of that of many D&D adventures, actually)

[pumpkinetics]

Awww... Thog doesn't get to keep his puppy...