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2012-06-26, 03:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
How is possible that V got healed in the next-to-last panel? I don't like this strip that much. Nale looks like he is deliberately wasting Malack's mummies (he certainly does not give a damn about them), Sabine is useless as is most of the time. We don't even know if the pit mummy functions or not, because they have X all the time.
No, obviously I do not 100% know what is going on in the Giant's mind and do not actually know with 100% certainty that V is on a redemption arc, but everything s/he has done since the awful Familicide action has indicated a deep sense of regret and desire to be a better person, which indicates via foreshadowing and subtext that this is the direction the story's going.
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2012-06-26, 03:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 04:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 04:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Okaaay...
Anyone want to take bets on whether that mummy will follow Vaarsuvius into the passwall?
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2012-06-26, 05:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Art error. It happens sometimes.
Nale looks like he is deliberately wasting Malack's mummies (he certainly does not give a damn about them)
Sabine is useless as is most of the time.
We don't even know if the pit mummy functions or not, because they have X all the time.
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2012-06-26, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
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2012-06-26, 05:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
And here I thought I would be the first to point it out
Still, we are already at page 3, so compliments to the giant for excellent storytelling, no one noticed it for the first two pages, and I needed four readings to notice it, too!
I hope this one will get fixed, like Xykon after the Sunburst.participate in fan translations of OotS to your native language:
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2012-06-26, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Interesting strip.
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2012-06-26, 07:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
So....
Is Z calling the trap before the mummy springs it? Unclear.
The trap apparently does less than ~55 hp of damage (given the mummy is still alive), which means that V was probably not as wounded as we thought. Maybe a lot of cosmetic damage.
Mummy rot is a curse, not a disease. Personally, I think it would take an attempt on the mummy's part, not just falling. It isn't a "touch" thing.
Looks like V failed her will save... if so, it is pretty impressive she was able to cast a spell. Probably just Giant ignoring the details here for the sake of the story.
So now that V is running away really fast, she can run right into the next trap!
Also, V did not commit genocide. There are still black dragons left, but she did kill about 1/3rd of them as I recall.
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2012-06-26, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Good comic.
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2012-06-26, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
You think, "Oh woe is me, the genocide spell I cast accidentally hit mostly-humans and I should have anticipated that possibility" shows that Vaarsuvius is moving in the direction of, "Oh woe is me, I cast a genocide spell"?
I sure don't. I care a great deal about the direction the story's going; to be precise, his/her blubbering about having accidentally killed the Draketooths has me concerned that those of us who want Vaarsuvius to pay for his/her actions are going to be fobbed off with, "S/he feels guilty for something connected to the Familicide! That makes up for the fact that s/he will never acknowledge that what s/he was trying to do was a horrific Xykon-level atrocity, unintended consequences be damned!"Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2012-06-26, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Run V run!
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2012-06-26, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 07:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
But you don't KNOW that will be the case at all. The Giant has repeatedly drawn our attention to the horrors of familicide before we knew it killed non-dragons.
No one here thinks V is fine and dandy, but the people who show up in every single discussion to say "GOOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR V TO SUFFER IN A MILLION WAYS" are adding nothing we don't already know.
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2012-06-26, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
An update! Huzzah!
I feel for V. V needs time to process emotions and come to terms with everything that has happened, but time is something V does not have right now. Hopefully V can get a grip and go for the pity party and / or grief counseling when there isn't a gate to be saved or a band of mummies and linear guild types ready to kill V and those who depend on V.
Really, it IS a good question ... is the party better off if V is in it, given V has that twenty minutes of his life sold to fiends at the worst possible moment? But that's a question to be resolved later, when there is leisure for thinking.
Respectfully,
Brian P.
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2012-06-26, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 08:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
5 gp says that Vaarsuvius messes up the ambush while trying to "help".
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2012-06-26, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Also wiping out the whole family that are defending the gates and currently used as a weapon against them.
I am thinking this whole plot is started by a vengeance.
Part Split because the death of a dwarven barbarian.
Because of it three (four if this goes really badly) gates fell and a city fell along with the resistance (that cause me to break down).
Because of this plot quarter of dragons, a family (led by a man who was angry with an asian paladin and plan to blew him to holy bits) and many other families perishes.
If Draketooths lives, will they still help since they are abit xenophobic.Badly drawn helmet avatar drawn by me.
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2012-06-26, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Well, the passwall probably made a tunnel about 20 feet long, based on V's level. If there's another space within 20 feet on the other end, V will emerge there. If not, he'll be popped back into the pit when the spell ends.
My hunch is that there will be a space on the other end, possibly with some important clue or even the gate itself.Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-06-26, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Another great comic! I love how V has "Quickened Expeditious Retreat" prepared because it is completely consistent with the ongoing joke of how OOTS always runs away from threats!
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2012-06-26, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
I'd hoped there would be some folks here who would reconize the reference.
The story of Planescape Torment is a remarkable piece of work, although you only really get the best out of it if you have high wisdom and intelligence (charisma's also worthwhile), making wizards the best class for getting the most out of the game. I wasn't so fond of some of the gameplay, especially the combat, but the story and characters were more than good enough to make up for that. But yeah, the Nameless One screwed up big time, and the entire game is about him learning that, and deciding that he really needs to just stop screwing up any more and find a way to accept what should have come to him in the first place.I am... no one.
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2012-06-26, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-26, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Wow, V memorizes Passwall every day... Quickened Expeditious Retreat also says a lot about where V is right now. V needs to research a teleport that is not opposed to V's schools. I mean there is no reason why teleport couldnt be cast in a different manner under different schools.
Oh and fleeing from a mummy when you are alone is not a bad idea, especially with V's con score.
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Oh and I wonder how many san points V just lost.... V didnt have a whole lot of san left anyway at this measure... If this were CoC the GM would probably be asking for V's character sheet.Last edited by silvadel; 2012-06-26 at 09:16 AM.
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2012-06-26, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
The title is great and fitting title for its content, it is just so perfect for it. And that line "your fault" was definitely the best part of this black comedy act.
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2012-06-26, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Oh and I wonder how many san points V just lost.... V didnt have a whole lot of san left anyway at this measure... If this were CoC the GM would probably be asking for V's character sheet. Maybe V can research a teleport spell just using V's Mythos rating.
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2012-06-26, 09:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #857 - The Discussion Thread
Yes, being trapped in a 6 foot by 6 foot room with something that can give you mummy rot is pretty deadly for anyone without Remove Curse and Cure Disease on their spell list -- which means anyone but a cleric. So getting the hell out of Dodge was actually a good option, probably.
The OotS methods of dealing with threads is subtly but hilariously noted with the Passwall and Quickened Expeditious Retreat, though. "Run away!"Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark