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2012-09-12, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
I have to admit, i don't get the joke in the title. Obviously, everyone is looking to regroup - but what's the joke?
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2012-09-12, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Well, I'm not really sure how it's funny, either. It's a reference to the video game message "looking for group" (LFG) but I don't see how that's supposed to elicit a laugh, myself.
Mind you, I enjoy the strip, but I'm not sure why the title is supposed to be funny (or even if it is supposed to be).Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-09-12, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Too bad an illusion would've done jack squat, considering Tarquin's nifty ring.
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2012-09-12, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
I don't know why, but something about Tar. patting Zz' with the ointment makes me go, "awww, cute!"
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2012-09-12, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Love how Tarquin is still convinced Elan is very powerful and an asset to his team.
Father's pride, I guess.
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2012-09-12, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Oh look, Tarquin having just the right tools to solve everything. Yawn.
Oh, and I think Tarquin meant "tissue paper".Last edited by Mantine; 2012-09-12 at 12:42 PM.
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2012-09-12, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
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2012-09-12, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
I feel the same way generally but a fighter carrying some sort of healing potion and a back up weapon is hardly deus ex machina.
At least Rich had him leave it with the dino instead of on his persons where he would have just used the whip to grab his axe.
Hopefully Tarq will die alone, forgotten and in an anti-climatic fashion. An off screen death, maybe getting stuck in a trap then forgotten for 20 strips, only to have it pan back to his skeleton, would be perfectly poetic and just.
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2012-09-12, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
This comic made me feel a bit young and/or not as into the hobby as I had thought. I started D&D with Baldur's Gate and only got into the paper version with 3.0, and I had never heard the term Keoghtum before.
Interesting comic otherwise. Elan's reaction at the end reflected my own surprise. Of course, dramatically, this probably means that the Order will suffer a major reversal of some kind. Or maybe they'll have to team up with Tarquin to protect themselves from Xykon. It would be hilarious if Tarquin died a heroe's death saving both his children after all his speeches about how he wants to be the villain and enjoy his life until his own son overthrows him in climactic fashion.
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2012-09-12, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Elan seems particularly perceptive in this one.
Many thanks to Ceika for my Avatar
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2012-09-12, 02:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
At least now I can get back to enjoying my glass of elven wine in peace and quiet, without being called on to intervene in someone else's problems.
Clang, clang, clang goes the trolley! Ring, ring, ring goes the bell! Git away from me, ye daft fool!
*sigh*
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2012-09-12, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Well, I'm not really sure how it's funny, either. It's a reference to the video game message "looking for group" (LFG) but I don't see how that's supposed to elicit a laugh, myself.
Mind you, I enjoy the strip, but I'm not sure why the title is supposed to be funny (or even if it is supposed to be).
It's a shout out to another webcomic. Comic artists do that from time to time.
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2012-09-12, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Keoghtum's ointment is the canon name. The SRD can't use "product identity", you see, which means that monsters like Beholders are omitted from its list and it can't use the names of specific D&D characters in the descriptions of spells or items. So Keoghtum's ointment becomes a more generic Restorative ointment, and we get artifacts like "The Saint's Mace", and the spell names are bereft of references to Tenser or Bigby. This occasionally causes confusion between people that use the SRD almost exclusively and those that don't.
That ointment is handy to have, although not very cost effective at all. You're much better off loading up on a much larger number of scrolls and potions for the same price. Still, having several healing options in one package that even the fighter can use to help his companions is alluring to some, and in low-magic campaigns, it means you can make a healing item with just Craft Wondrous Item and not have to worry about wands or scrolls or potions.
I guess that another way that the ointment is genuinely superior to potions of equivalent effect is that it doesn't necessarily require your character to do anything to receive the effect. You could command your hireling or your Unseen Servant to smear the stuff on you while you spent your own action casting a spell, rather then wasting a Standard Action on swigging some potion just to mitigate the enemies debuff.Last edited by SlyJohnny; 2012-09-12 at 02:30 PM.
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2012-09-12, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
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2012-09-12, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
That strategy won't help if you're trying to avoid being sacrificed to an orc god.
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2012-09-12, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Thanks for the explanations on the title. I had not heard of that one.
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2012-09-12, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
I also like how disappointed Tarquin was at Nale. He really was testing him, and Nale fell short.
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2012-09-12, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Oh, and btw... Tarquin has started giving orders to his "idiot son".
And Nale is too shaken (and alone) to protest (for now).
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2012-09-12, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Mostly a filler/exposition strip. That's the frustrating thing about this format - it's like reading a book that's released one page at a time. Hopefully things will start progressing soon (i.e.: movement forward in the V arc, something of interest happening with Malack, and Xykon and Redcloack and the MitD showing up). The whole battle was interesting in showing how the Order has improved, but it hasn't actually moved the plot forward at all.
Tarquin is once again prepared for everything. I'm okay with that provided that he is defeated by the end of this book and actually makes one or more visible and clear mistakes.
EDIT: Oh, and between the ancient pyramid and the whip, I'm expecting at least one Indiana Jones reference before this arc ends.Last edited by LadyEowyn; 2012-09-12 at 04:22 PM.
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2012-09-12, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-12, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #863 - The Discussion Thread
Last edited by SoC175; 2012-09-12 at 04:24 PM.