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Thread: A thread of loose ends
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2024-05-12, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A thread of loose ends
Also, there's a big difference between "Characters who are starting a new story arc will go to a place they haven't been before" and "The climax of a story will suddenly shift location to a place with no obvious dramatic significance." Usually, when the Oots goes to a place as part of an adventure, they finish the adventure there before leaving. But I doubt that anyone would have argued it was unlikely for the Order to go to anywhere in particular as part of a side adventure between gates.
The better analogy here would be "Before it turned out that all of Girard's descendants were dead there was no plot-relevant reason to move the climax of the story arc to the Empire of Tears... and so they didn't."
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2024-05-13, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sure. It's also, incidentally, a good thing that we have been in agreement as far as that is concerned from the get-go.
Well. As someone who's very uncomfortable at a number of levels with the current state of affairs as regards the Azurite/Goblinoid conflict, despite rooting for Project Gobbotopia to succeed in a comparable number of ways, I must concede that point has a punch to it.
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2024-05-13, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, if Cloistering the fortress prevents Xykon from getting there, that would be a good reason to think he didn't do it, right?
And if it *doesn't* prevent him from getting there (like, he can port to a quarter mile away and fly in), then it doesn't really stop the scenario from happening, right?
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2024-05-13, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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It prevents Xykon (and everyone else) from getting there though the vast majority of magical means. Nothing indicates it would prevent his soul from going back to the phylactery if his body was destroyed. So there's every reason to believe he did it and no reason to believe he didn't.
Going by how he described the fortress, i highly doubt anyone, even Xykon, can just "fly in". And even if he could, again, how would anyone follow him? Teleport is an escape spell, and nobody has ever demonstrated any ability to follow a teleporter in the strip to date.
And, again, no reason for Xykon to go there even if he thinks he is about to he defeated and wants to run somewhere else when he can go to any random spot anywhere to recuperate just as well, since, again, teleport is a "get out of danger free" card.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-05-14, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yes good point.
Redcloak’s arc is unlikely to be resolved by anything other than a major dolphin attack on the bridge. Chomp chomp chomp!
Yep, I agree. I don’t think Rich is going to end decades of work with a near literal dei ex machina.
As others have said, there’s no reason why Roy and Xykon can’t have a climatic duel at Kragor’s (Serini’s?) Gate, and no narrative reason for it to be at the Astral Fortress. Any other reason for anywhere other than the Gate is pretty weak, it could only really serve to seperate Roy from the rest of the Order, and Rich could achieve that somehow at Kragor’s Gate.
Will Roy fight Xykon one on one at some point? Probably, otherwise the Spell Splinter will be wasted foreshadowing and Elan will cry. And if he didn’t use it Roy will not be able to rub it in Eugene’s face that a fighter stopped epic level magic.Last edited by No good @ names; 2024-05-14 at 04:26 AM.
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2024-05-14, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A thread of loose ends
Psions provably exist. Trace Teleport is a psionic ability. There's no reason to think Rich house ruled it out of the comic.
(Not that Xykon's astral fortress is a loose end in any way; I look forward to reading confused "wait why did Rich never do anything with Xykon's astral fortress?" posts after the comic has ended.)Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2024-05-14, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-14, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-14, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-14, 03:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why? If he can access it any other way, then so can others, which defeats the entire purpose of the fortress. The only reason he'd have to access it would be to move the phylactery somewhere else, in which case he can access it easier than anyone else by the way phylacteries work.
Or, i suppose, he could want to put something else there as well, but more things being there only increases the odds people would want to look for them, which again decreases the value of the fortress. Doubly so when he is clearly capable of creating it so he can do it again for other things if he really needs to.
Anyway, fact is there's no practical or egotistical reason for him to ever want to go there unless he wants to move the phylactery out, in which case he has a foolproof and simple way to get directly to it which is impossible for anyone else to follow.
Oh come on. Those are all just Redcloak's neice at different points in the time stream.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-05-14 at 03:59 PM.
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2024-05-14, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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It all makes sense now! Redcloak's Niece is the monster that invaded Xykon's Astral Fortress, and she will reveal herself as the Terrasque as the Stickworld collapses. She will then eat The Snarl and become the most real of all the gods but with Laurin's psyonic powers.
What an epic beginning to the next thirty-year Stickverse based comic about Elan's Happy Ending!
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Roy will be Xykon's Final Boss
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2024-05-16, 06:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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I might be dumb here or referring to something else, but I thought Minrah's secret is that she's gay and dwarves are very traditionalist so she hides it - which is why Thor makes sure to tell her it's ok by him, because he's not a homophobe.
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2024-05-16, 07:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 07:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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My headcanon is that she wrote self-insert romance fanfics about Thor when she was a teen, and has been worrying over people being judgemental about it ever since she became a cleric ^^
But I don't see it being a loose end. Minrah's secret sounds deeply personal, and it is hers only to share or keep, after all. All that matters is that she feared others' reactions, and Thor is completely cool about it and won't rat her out. It establishes him as an overall nice person far more efficiently than his alignment would ever do. :)Last edited by Kardwill; 2024-05-16 at 08:00 AM.
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2024-05-16, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Durkon's mother tells him she wants him to bring home a nice girl or boy - she doesn't seem to care which. That seems to imply the dwarves are not particularly judgemental of homosexuals. Have to see if I can track down that strip. - Edit: See DM91365's post below, where he found the strip.
As far as Minrah's secret, I don't recall any hints other than it's something she doesn't want Durkon to know about.Last edited by Lord Torath; 2024-05-16 at 12:59 PM.
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2024-05-16, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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I always thought Minrah's Secret was a blank space into which readers could write their own hangups. The absence of a reveal would be necessary, in this case.
And it can't be that bad; we've already had a character admit to being skilled in macrame.
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2024-05-16, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2024-05-16 at 10:03 AM.
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2024-05-16, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sneaky, sure, but I took the bait:
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0983.htmlThis space for rent.
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2024-05-16, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Warhammer 40,000 Campaign Skirmish Game: Warpstrike
My Spelljammer stuff (including an orbit tracker), 2E AD&D spreadsheet, and Vault of the Drow maps are available in my Dropbox. Feel free to use or not use it as you see fit!
Thri-Kreen Ranger/Psionicist by me, based off of Rich's A Monster for Every Season