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2023-12-06, 07:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
My biggest issue w this idea is that it prioritises The Clues as meaningful Ends in their own way rather than fun details. the closer to the story the climax is, the less space (emotionally or chronologically) there is to take a pause and go "hey readers, do you remember this detail of a clue from 4 books ago? we're going to explicitly draw attention to make sure you see everything that was going on behind the curtain back then" for something as secondary to a secondary character as The Guessing Game. we may see high strength on display, or telekinesis, or something that can explain it, but if the term "lightest hit" (or other overt callback) came up I'd be sincerely surprised.
I believe the reveal of the monster is going to give us a lot of answers to mysteries, but I don't think there's any reason to assume anything will get directly called attention to, except probably the Escape scene since that one was the most plot relevant and also the one that's going to be the biggest mystery for someone who doesn't know D&D and can't assume things happen just bc the monster is very strong (tower scene, earthquake, etc)
I feel a lil like a killjoy when I make a post thats thrust is "the guessing game isn't that important to order of the stick as a story" in the guessing game thread... but I do think it's important to keep in mind w all these sorta things! if for no other reason than to minimize the chances of disappointment I suppose
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2023-12-06, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
On the contrary! First, not a killjoy. Getting some perspective on the fact that MitD is a secondary character is crucial to properly gauging clues and their relationship to the story.
Second, this is not in fact a guessing thread. It's an analysis thread. The guessing is so secondary to its function I never even considered keeping records of who said what, and only because Crusher stepped up does this thread even keep such records.
So please do not feel bad at all.
As to the reveal, I suspect we won't even get an explanation for the escape. At best, I think MitD's species might get a shout-out (although maybe only in the strip title), and he will let those that care do the footwork. He's just not important enough to warrant even a panel or two of explaining what he can do, because the story doesn't do that for anyone. Big blue guy can open his mouth and spew lightning? Unexplained. That's just what big blue guy does. Story has already established anyone can have weird powers. And MitD already has demonstrated teleportation, so there is no need to tell us he can, much less how.
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2023-12-06, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
I should add that, while I'm familiar with the general idea, I did not realize anyone, anywhere, associated it specifically with kebab, rather than any sort of food that might give you indigestion or acid reflux.
I think you're 100% correct and I see no reason to believe the story is going to pause so Rich can explain how MitD did any of the things he did.
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2023-12-06, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
My personal expectation is that when the reveal happens, we will get a name drop and maybe a basic explanation of the limits of his powers so people don't expect him to solve the conflict. Anything else will be our job to research if we care that much.
“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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2023-12-06, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
Urban legend!?! According to a researcher in Montreal, “Spicy food… might cause nightmares.” So it hasn’t been disproven!
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/c...ares-1c8388656
Edit - I got the quote wrong but I’ll leave it. He qualifies it more than that.Last edited by Crusher; 2023-12-07 at 12:09 AM.
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2023-12-06, 11:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
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If you can read this you are too close.
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2023-12-07, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
Decades ago. it used to be melted cheese. May be an urban legend, may be particularly British.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...u-vivid-dreamsLast edited by halfeye; 2023-12-07 at 12:44 AM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2023-12-07, 02:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
It's less unusual for Oona who lives in the arctic. The arctic bugbear community can't keep ordinary animals like chicken or sheep because the animals have nothing to graze on and they can't grow crops to feed them. So they have to hunt for magical cold-resistant game like Porgs.
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2023-12-07, 09:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, I’m sorry. I forgot I made that argument once. But I think y’all are underestimating the importance of the Monster in the Dark.
First, read the story as a story. In nearly every scene, the Monster in the Dark is portrayed as Great Power with Great Irresponsibility. Then O-Chul asks it to take responsibility for its actions. You do not have to be a fan of Spider-Man to see where that story is going, and it’s not there yet. The best is yet to come.
Second, look outside the hutch for a second. Three of the last four strips have at least implied an undepicted monster. Every time, someone has asked if it’s the Monster in the Dark. It’s been a different person each time, and it’s yet to be someone I remember posting before. What is happening here? People are coming out of hiatus to beg for closure on the Monster in the Dark storyline? Name another secondary character with this kind of anticipation.
And what do these people want? Is it what stats justify the Monster in the Dark’s past actions, or is it a climax to the character arc Rich has been building up for twenty years?TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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2023-12-07, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
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I would place the resolution of MitD's story just above that of Vaarsivius. The only difference is that there are clues dribbling out about MitD that can be analyzed and argued over. Nothing new has come out about Belkar since he killed The Oracle.
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2023-12-07, 09:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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2023-12-07, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dude, I literally invoked funny hair guy from History Channel there! But dreams and free association are curious things that do draw on what is perceived and experienced, so… (Anyhow, still a better clue than "Ridiziak and Eriaxnikol didn't go all "you like you did yesterday, you're neiuther cool nor our friend anymore!!")
I know there's more to get to, but I'm getting ready to travel today so I likely won't have time. Or for a few days. Which I'm sure will cause great dismay in all the posters in this thread.
I can attest that it's still a thing, and well outside Britain at that!
I'm with Ruck on that. The Bugbears will eat anything they can get their hairy hands on (including the posion berries, occasionally, if Oona's to be believed) but the Remorhaz is somewhat poorly suited for serving as kebab meet. It weighs almost 5 metric tons, so lugging it back home whole is a hurdle, but it produces heat so intense that it can't even be cut up without the risk of destroying the implememnts used for that nefore it's let to cool down for a long, long time.
That going by the picture, most of those 4 odd tons of stuff are not even edible and being able to survive its own heat should make cooking it tricky only exacerbate the issue.
Nope. It doesn't. But the Snarl is apparently made of that stuff (just as everything else, but hey).
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2023-12-07, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
On the other hand, remorhaz kebab will be really, really hot.
Damnit, I shouldn't have mentioned Rennbuu. Now he's coloring all my posts.
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2023-12-07, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
Soon may the Remorhaz come, to bring us heat so we're not numbed. One day when the coolin' is done we'll take our kebab and go.
TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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2023-12-07, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
But at what cost? The song is in my head now, and I keep picturing the tribe dancing around the corpse, celebrating life giving heat. They play games to see who can stand the closest without taking damage. Little children scoop snow in their hands and bring it to the body so they can watch it melt in their hands. Old women chastise their families for not taking advantage of the chance for hot baths, and young adults hover in the corner, talking about which warrior is the best and arguing over who is going to make kebab for them.
TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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2023-12-07, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
Rennbuu, the Lord of Colors, is a slaad lord. He looks like a slaad in all the rainbow's colors, and he has the power to change the color of stuff at will. When he uses this power on a slaad, it will not only change color, but also be transformed into the respective caste-species. Obviously, low-ranked slaadi tend to flock to him in the hope of being transformed into more powerful shapes, while the stronger ones usually avoid him for fear of being demoted. I originally brought him up as a joke because of the unlikely possibility that he changed a newborn slaad into a white one.
As you can see, he's also really annoying, but that is tautological with "slaad lord".
And with that, the joke has probably overstayed its welcome and I should stop before I get a warning for overuse of formating.Last edited by Tzardok; 2023-12-07 at 12:48 PM.
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2023-12-07, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wait what? I thought Remorhaz was an ice monster, so cold that it freezes everyone who goes near. Apparently it's the fire monster. What is the ice variant called then?
Update: no look, I remembered right: Remorhaz is the cold one.Last edited by b_jonas; 2023-12-07 at 01:35 PM.
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2023-12-07, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-07, 01:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's a very hot monster that lives in arctic conditions - the immense amount of heat it produces is an adaptation to those conditions.
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2023-12-07, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable
I am not convinced that this is an "extended childhood" thing. The MitD is saying they literally forgot they have a name. Either they've been around a very, very long time--so long that they don't remember what their name was or if they even had one--or something else happened that caused them to forget it. (I have faith that this won't turn out to be an amnesia trope).
And I am also not convinced that childlike == childhood.Last edited by Sky_Schemer; 2023-12-07 at 05:07 PM. Reason: stupid typos
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2023-12-08, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-09, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I mostly agree with this. We’ve been told in a variety of ways MitD is a non-standard member of its species, and while he acts fairly child-like or at least immature, it very much feels like something is up with him that’s well beyond him merely being an immature member of his species.
Specifically what, I have no idea. The only thing I can think of that’s directly referenced in-comic is “he’s an outsider who was incompletely mind-wiped” for some reason. Would explain why he doesn’t behave like a regular “X”, but wouldn’t explain why he’s small or various other things."You are what you do. Choose again and change." - Miles Vorkosigan
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2023-12-10, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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He also likes dwarf porn, which is not very child friendly.
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2023-12-10, 05:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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