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2017-07-20, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
Well, that's messed-up.
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2017-07-20, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
Yes, they refresh spells at dusk.
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2017-07-20, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ugh. It disgusts my vampire-hunting soul to see these bloodsuckers have free reign to murder people.
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2017-07-20, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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True, but drinking those who would vote 'no' will just increase the chances of Hel winning, and if Greg has learnt the fast turning spell they might be able to get around with vamping some of them and then pretending that no, really, they are on the same side.
The bonus with the priests being the ones being killed, even that phrase should never be uttered, is that they don't actually affect the result. At the moment nothing will change one way or the other no matter how many priests are drained, this changes as soon as the representatives are targeted (although I understand Greg wouldn't want to drain any before knowing what their vote would be).
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2017-07-20, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
A real shame it isn't him, too.
Yeah, the exile scene left a bitter taste. I know throwing D. out could be justified and he was trying to save his people (in a pretty stupid way, though. Trying to break a prophecy with an exile? Especially a prophecy about the return of a destroyer?), but nobody forced him to be such a callous douchebag while doing it.
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2017-07-20, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
The guys who will vote here are not priests, but political leaders, unprotected by the rules of the godsmoot.
And as a general principle, a vampire priest drinking the blood of another priests seems to be a traditional diet and not a taboo in the OOTS world ^^
(See Malack vs Durkon, and HPoH against the Thor priests and the entire order of stone)
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2017-07-20, 10:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
That'll just cause problems for her due to Greg's actions. I wasn't referring to Priests though
True, but if Greg has at least semi-reliable access to mind reading he could potentially keep killing replacements until he had a majority. Honestly, I'm just surprised he isn't already in the meeting place.
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2017-07-20, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hel: "Thrym has failed to stop the dwarf's allies."
I'm not good at this corner-case grammar, but that sounds to me like "Durkon's allies" not "allies of the dwarves." Which is an interesting emphasis. It implies that, in the back of her mind, Hel still regards Durkon as a gamepiece.
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2017-07-20, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
He is at the meeting place (Firmament). There is a certain degree of urgency to this scheme: Greg is powerful, but if the dwarves become aware of his actions, he will be destroyed in short order. From the moment he attacked the firmament priests, he is on a race against the clock: when other priests learn of this, they will attack and Greg will lose. He needs Dvalin to vote before then. Delaying the vote by killing representatives is against his interests.
Metatextually, too, we are on a race against time in this book. Rich is not going to slow down the action while clan representatives get re-elected.
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2017-07-20, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's sad indictment of the dwarves that their priesthood can be taken down so easily. Even worse, by undead.
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2017-07-20, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do not underestimate the power of surprise. Also, Firmament is hardly the place where you'd expect to find the most powerful priests (it's not the dwarven capital). It does have a major temple of Thor (which explains Blue Hat), but otherwise, I'd expect low-level priests. So Greg only had to make sure that the Thor guy went down (and yet he managed to outlast all others)
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2017-07-20, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Knowing that the people killed by vampires are trapped in their bodies makes this even worse.
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2017-07-20, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, Phrynglsnyx was a serious contender, too. As were Nokrud and Durkula.
Though, Undurkon has won the competition, by virtue of being the first one mentioned (*leftmost, the first to cross the finishing line) in #1030.participate in fan translations of OotS to your native language:
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2017-07-20, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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One thing I'm wondering is this: Thrym, as a demigod, had at least one cleric outside his high priest (explicitly stated to be his strongest) capable of 6th-level spells. I wonder how many more a bona fide god like Thor would have?
We've also seen a decent-sized city this book that had no priests capable of casting 7th-level spells. I think that's still a very rare level of power in this world, and you can't expect folks like that to just be on scene when disaster strikes.
Man, I want to know weird stuff about the spellcaster demographics of the OOTS world more than is actually reasonable. Definitely more than needed to enjoy the story.Even the wind will know agony.
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2017-07-20, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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The forum culture is ironic, considering Rich's disregard for such things.
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2017-07-20, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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The last few strips were a beautifully crafted segue from the Mechane to the HPoH & his minions.
That was very nicely done.
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2017-07-20, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
I think it's supposed to be "King Ask-For-The-Will-of-the-Council" guy's allies (in that he doesn't want to sign over all the dwarves' souls to Hel, and Roy & all are trying to help) since he was a Dwarf who ascended to Godhood, but it could also be the High Priest of Thor I guess.
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2017-07-20, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1084 - The Discussion Thread
I'd have said the bonus is that when the order turns up, tells everyone what's going on and Durkula and co get confronted, there's less clerics around that can throw things like Turn Undead (which, depending on the levels of clerics around, might not affect Durkula, but could well affect others) and Cure Wound Spells at them.
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2017-07-20, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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And here is his replacement receiving the message and preparing to write back (flashback).
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2017-07-20, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, now I'm thirsty.
And wow. Thrym should really learn when it is time to shut up.
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2017-07-20, 11:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm surprised Hel is apparently so strict about her regularly scheduled check-ins. I'd have just waited to call her until the, uh..static,had subsided. Maybe show off some of the new ranks.
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2017-07-20, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-07-20, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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