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2013-02-22, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-22, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-22, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
I think some people are interpreting the last page as Belkar burning down and looting the town once he realises the fire service is gone, and thus can't prevent it. I took it to mean that he extorted them out of all their money by threatening to burn the town down, in a kind of "Nice town you have here, shame if something were to happen to it" way.
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2013-02-22, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2013-02-22, 06:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2008
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- Brazil
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Power equals power
The hero of any story can defy danger - but only a special hero can defy stories themselves.
Avatar by Ceika. She's great .
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2013-02-22, 07:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
I assume this is a canon story? I recall a line somewhere of the Giant potentially writing a kickstarter story with "Belkar being Belkar, continuity be darned".
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2013-02-22, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2009
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- The land of corn
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Yes, it is.
I do have a question for Rich. I'm currently taking a graduate course on comics and will probably be taking a segment of Order of the Stick for my final paper later this semester. I'm wondering if I would be permitted to use this story as the focus of a scholarly paper (and by necessity reproduce it for my professor). Fully understandable if I'm not, as I'm debating and leaning slightly toward a portion of Start of Darkness.
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2013-02-22, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Iowa City, IA
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2013-02-22, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2009
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- Birmingham, AL
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2013-02-22, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-23, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mobile, AL
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
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2013-02-23, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
I'm not a native, so the station[e/a]ry joke was lost on me on first read-through. Thanks for pointing it out in this thread.
The peddler though... he sells bicycles... is this a reference to "black market" or "pedals"? Or am I missing something again?
Anyhow, great story. I thought I called the twist early. And I was STILL extremely surprised just HOW evilly twisted it was.
And I'm grateful that Belkar spared the town from burning. After robbing/extorting them, of course.
And the slavery really begs for another back(ers) story. I already see that there is a timeline in Belkars adventures
- leaving his home village
- slavery deals with Buggy Lou / being enslaved and killing his former comrades?
- Uncivic servitude
- jailed in Origins
- Online comicsparticipate in fan translations of OotS to your native language:
English transcript, Deutsche Übersetzung
(links to dormant projects from others: Traduzione italiano,
Traducción español, Tradução em português, Traductions françaises [- trois fois!], מסדר המקלתרגום עברית )
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2013-02-23, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Stationary means both "standing still" and "paper". So he calls it a stationary store, which Belkar takes to mean a store that is standing still. When he asks don't all stores stand still, the tailor replies "not the peddler".
A peddler is normally a wandering merchant, not a store. So someone selling from a cart, basically. But the joke is that he sells bicycles, which one rides by peddling. So it's a series of puns.
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2013-02-23, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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- Pennsylvania
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
I took it as he extorted them... and then burned it down anyways. I mean, he's already known to be a fan of burning things even if it's not the best idea because it'd be funny. Remember the bandit camp way back when?
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2013-02-23, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2013-02-23, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
The prison was full of British officers who had sworn to die, rather than be captured.
Avatar by Rich Burlew: The Giant Stuck It To Me!
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2013-02-23, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Belkar did not actually burn the town down. If he had, I would have shown smoking ruins or the like to make that clear.
Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
~~You can also support The Order of the Stick and the GITP forum at Patreon.~~
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2013-02-23, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2013-02-23, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Iowa City, IA
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2013-02-23, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
That was great! And yeah, I don't really blame Belkar either, those two had it coming.
One joke I didn't get:
"Does the gentleman like the style?"
"Sure, especially if she's good with her-"
"I meant the style of the clothing, sir."
"Oh!"
Does "style" have some other meaning I don't know?Plague Doctor by Crimmy
Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)
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2013-02-23, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-23, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
Plague Doctor by Crimmy
Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)
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2013-02-23, 06:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-23, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mehville
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2013-02-23, 11:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Iiked the story in general, but I only really started enjoying it after reading the big twist at the end. That was just brilliant.
Were the names "Brint" and "Shart" references to something? They seemed very odd to me.
Also, since people have been mentioning their favorite lines, mine would have to be from the deputy mayor, right after discussing why they call the giant acid-spewing bug an ankheg - "Sadly, that's not specific enough in this region" It's pretty subtle, but really implies how much life would suck for an average peasant in a D&D campaign.Ahhh, the overconfident, smug smirk. When done right, it's almost an art form.
Hey, I'm an artist now!
I'd make a plug for Teutonic Knight here for providing the sweet avatar. Really, I would. But I just can't find a witty way to express my admiration.
Shame, really.
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2013-02-24, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
I dunno about "Brint", but "Shart" references a symptom of intestinal distress, where flatulence (a fart) might come with an extra prize (****).
And Belkar's threat to the village reminds me of an episode of Oglaf, where a village tries to get out of paying a promised reward to Grier:
"The village is poor!"
"The village is flammable."Last edited by LibraryOgre; 2013-02-24 at 02:59 PM.
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2013-02-24, 02:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-24, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS Kickstarter Bonus PDFs: The Discussion Thread *Unmarked spoilers*
The prison was full of British officers who had sworn to die, rather than be captured.
Avatar by Rich Burlew: The Giant Stuck It To Me!
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2013-02-24, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-02-24, 08:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, no doubt, Oglaf is fantastic. Just thought that anyone unfamiliar with it might appreciate being warned they were about to click through to a page full of cartoon dong. After all, kids read this comic.