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2016-02-29, 12:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
Belkar's been wearing gloves since they arrived at the Peak.
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2016-02-29, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-02-29, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I guess I'd noticed it in the background but never consciously realized it until recently:
Vaarsuvius wears hir hair in a headband, up until the point ve becomes Darth Vaarsuvius and lets it fly loose. When V loses the soul splices and returns to the party, ve ties up hir hair in a ponytail, as it's been from there on out.
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2016-02-29, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
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2016-02-29, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2016-02-29, 08:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-02-29, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I never noticed until this strip that Belkar lost his daggers while fighting HPoH.
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2016-03-01, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Boy, Nale's "How's the family?" to Malack in #811 takes on a whole new meaning once you find out what he did to them (not to mention what he means by "family.")
I've always been curious, in #906 when Nale tells Malack he's been planning this since he was nine years old, is it because of something Malack did or just an illustration of how Nale is consumed by hate?
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2016-03-02, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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We don't know - it's been theorized on the forum that it's something relatively minor that Malack did, since Nale is synonymous with taking disproportionate revenge for quasi-imagined slights.
I never before noticed that Belkar suggests Miko take a bath when they first arrive at the hotel. He must have been planning on a "Haley special" with his good friend Roland Itiative while Miko was without all her magical items and weapons/armor.
It does raise the interesting question of whether Belkar would have managed it before the rest of the Order was alerted...even without magical items I'm betting a Monk/Paladin would be pretty tough to take down quickly.
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2016-03-02, 03:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
It looks like a bad moment to do that: Belkar's strength was in dragging Miko in a number of traps and ambushes, and pulling her sense of honour to damage herself. And his nose is pretty delicate. So he might simply have had his personal interest in mind ("save the nose"), but he might also have wanted to steal stuff from her and attack her thereafter.
My point is that, in general, an enclosed space looks like a bad place for attacking Miko.
EDIT: Or maybe he wanted a chance to "study his prey"Last edited by Vinyadan; 2016-03-02 at 03:45 AM.
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2016-03-02, 05:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Belkar has a very good sense of smell and Miko has been living in the open and piously avoiding inns for a long time.
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2016-03-02, 07:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, commenting on people's bad smell is one of Belkar's longest-running gags. I think it was just that.
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2016-03-02, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
It could've been some combination.
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2016-03-02, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Makes sense, and I think it's one of those things that's better we don't know. Nale is very much the Iago of this story; hating just to hate, with every slight real or imagined a flimsy pretext for doing so.
I lean towards the "she smells bad" theory because Belkar's goal was never to kill Miko; it was to get her to murder him and thus lose her paladin powers.Last edited by Ruck; 2016-03-02 at 04:13 PM.
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2016-03-02, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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So on Pompey's summoned fiendish centipedes... are those antennae, or horns (as on some other fiendish animals)?
That's what he was trying to do later, but I'm not sure I'd give Belkar credit (or "credit") for that much foresight.
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2016-03-02, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I'm going to guess antennae, largely because I'd have expected to see horns from an overhead perspective. Though there could be small horns on the ends of the antennae, I suppose; "claws appearing at the ends of tentacles" is valid for half-fiends, after all.
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2016-03-02, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Makes sense, and I think it's one of those things that's better we don't know. Nale is very much the Iago of this story; hating just to hate, with every slight real or imagined a flimsy pretext for doing so.plagiarizedadapted, Iago was as big a hero as Othello. The Venetian Senate shafted him for political reasons (Othello was an expensive mercenary), but it was pointed out that the war couldn't have been won without both of them.
The war was against Genoa, btw, so it makes sense to cut it if your audience barely understands Italian geography and has no grasp of the local politics.
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2016-03-02, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-02, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-02, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd go so far as to say that one of the reasons Shakespeare's plays stand the test of time is that they don't get bogged down in the specifics of their time. Six hundred years later, no one much knows or cares about Genoan politics of the era, but we'll always have malicious people, people who destroy their lives out of jealousy (or some other tragic flaw), etc.
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2016-03-03, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Well, I couldn't possibly solve this mystery! Can you??"Last edited by blunk; 2016-03-03 at 01:06 AM.
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2016-03-03, 01:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-03, 01:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-03, 02:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-03, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-04, 07:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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A disturbance in the Force prompted me to read Larry Gardener and the Angry Half-Orc again... where I discovered that Nale quotes Han Solo's line from "A New Hope" ("Sorry about the mess") while standing over Larry's corpse.
It's particularly appropriate, seeing as Nale is part rogue, and "rogue" is synonymous with "scoundrel".
EDIT: And, while reading the strip with me, my daughter pointed out that Nale could be seen as a stick-figure ringer for Harry Potter's nemesis, Malefoy, as seen in the films. Bonus points to the Giant for that one.Last edited by Darth Paul; 2016-03-04 at 07:43 PM.
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2016-03-07, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-07, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I never noticed that the HPoT has a scar on her face.
It's not as obvious as O-Chul's or that one bandit leader so I didn't think anything of it.
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2016-03-07, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-07, 06:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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