Yes. The corpse cannot lie, so either it be the case, or Girard had them raised to not be entirely aware of where it was, in which case it answers with the closest knowledge it has to hand.
Also, O-Chul. He's powerful and wise and friends with MitD. And he knows how to be a paladin without being Miko.
No (it was a cheap joke)
and Redcloak--the one with depth.
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I don't think the Gate is between any pair of buttcheeks. I think that the Draketooth corpse was being a smart-ass. (No pun intended.)
So my vote is No.
Also, I vote for . Yay for goblins!
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Yes. The corpse cannot lie, so either it be the case, or Girard had them raised to not be entirely aware of where it was, in which case it answers with the closest knowledge it has to hand.
Also, O-Chul. He's powerful and wise and friends with MitD. And he knows how to be a paladin without being Miko.
O-Chul's match is later on; this is Redcloak v MitD
When Durkon cast 'Speak With Dead' on a male Draketooth corpse, he politely informed the Order that the gate lay between Girard's buttcheeks. While this is probably untrue in a literal sense, do you think the gate will be resting in between Girard's buttcheeks in a metaphorical sense, or some other kind of semantic loophole which makes his answer technically true? Yes or No?
Gonna have to go with no on that.
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For our Bonus Question, I'm introducing the 'Favourite NPC tournament.' Basically I just went to the 'Number of Character Appearances' thread, picked the 16 most frequent non-pc characters, and put them in random order. Most votes goes through to the second round, standard tournament stuff. The first match up is...
Redcloak Monster in the Darkness
MitD is a better person, but Redcloak's a more compelling character to me. Gotta give it to .
Reader Poll for #845
When Durkon cast 'Speak With Dead' on a male Draketooth corpse, he politely informed the Order that the gate lay between Girard's buttcheeks. While this is probably untrue in a literal sense, do you think the gate will be resting in between Girard's buttcheeks in a metaphorical sense, or some other kind of semantic loophole which makes his answer technically true? Yes or No?
Um, no. That's not even an opinion question, that's just a terrible misreading of the strip. That was the dead person using the wording of Roy's question against him, answering a completely different question than Roy intended by taking the word "rift" to mean "butthole." Technically true, but unrelated to the rift in reality that Roy was actually asking about.
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For our Bonus Question, I'm introducing the 'Favourite NPC tournament.' Basically I just went to the 'Number of Character Appearances' thread, picked the 16 most frequent non-pc characters, and put them in random order. Most votes goes through to the second round, standard tournament stuff. The first match up is...
Redcloak Monster in the Darkness
Team Evil explodes! Have at it folks.
, of course.
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For favourite NPC, my vote goes to the MitD, because he so clearly has a good heart and is so naively sweet, and his interactions in particular with O-Chul are adorable. I'm very much anticipating seeing where his plot arc ends up.
Not that I don't like Redcloak as a character as well, but it bothers me a bit that, in a lot of media/fandoms, simple goodness is valued a lot less than perceived badassery.
Um, no. That's not even an opinion question, that's just a terrible misreading of the strip. That was the dead person using the wording of Roy's question against him, answering a completely different question than Roy intended by taking the word "rift" to mean "butthole." Technically true, but unrelated to the rift in reality that Roy was actually asking about.
There has been discussion (and in the 845 thread) on this, and the poll is here to 'gauge reader opinions' - since there haven't been any 'revelations' in the recent comic, that's what was chosen (I can't speak for oppyu here, but that's my guess anyway). And as you can see, many people have answered yes to this question. While I agree with you in saying that the joke is just a joke and there's no other meaning for the Draketooths ass humour, I still think it's a reasonable question to ask in the poll, and not a 'terrible misreading'.
No. It's a punch line. It doesn't seem like foreshadowing as it isn't delivered like Rich usually delivers foreshadowing.
Gotta go with MitD.
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Not that I don't like Redcloak as a character as well, but it bothers me a bit that, in a lot of media/fandoms, simple goodness is valued a lot less than perceived badassery.
If you have read SoD, then you have seen the complex and quite tragic side to RC, and this is probably why he is liked, no because he is badass (which, considering his recent scene with Tsusiko, he definitely is).
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Will Vaarsuvius be the first to tell the Order about Familicide? Yes: 8 - 47.05% No: 9 - 52.94%
Chaotic: 4 - 25% Lawful: 4 - 25% Neutral: 8 - 50%
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Reader Poll for #845
When Durkon cast 'Speak With Dead' on a male Draketooth corpse, he politely informed the Order that the gate lay between Girard's buttcheeks. While this is probably untrue in a literal sense, do you think the gate will be resting in between Girard's buttcheeks in a metaphorical sense, or some other kind of semantic loophole which makes his answer technically true? Yes or No?
No, it's probably an intentional and mildly amusing misinterpretation. There is, I guess, a possibility of Girard sitting on top of the gate though.
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For our Bonus Question, I'm introducing the 'Favourite NPC tournament.' Basically I just went to the 'Number of Character Appearances' thread, picked the 16 most frequent non-pc characters, and put them in random order. Most votes goes through to the second round, standard tournament stuff. The first match up is...
Reader Poll for #845
When Durkon cast 'Speak With Dead' on a male Draketooth corpse, he politely informed the Order that the gate lay between Girard's buttcheeks. While this is probably untrue in a literal sense, do you think the gate will be resting in between Girard's buttcheeks in a metaphorical sense, or some other kind of semantic loophole which makes his answer technically true? Yes or No?
Going with yes, with a side bet that the gate is the statue of Girard with the rift between the cheeks.
And while I feel terrible that only one of these two can advance in the tournament, Redcloak is by far more compelling, even if I spend much more time wondering what MITD is than I do trying to work out RC's plan.
Redcloak.
While in theory MitD is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, we don't know what he can do, eps. since RC seems to be leveling and he is not. That, and I am not sure that MitD would know what to do in a mano-y-mano contest. I think that RC would likely pull out all the stops before MitD would, and that should give RC the win.
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Redcloak.
While in theory MitD is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, we don't know what he can do, eps. since RC seems to be leveling and he is not. That, and I am not sure that MitD would know what to do in a mano-y-mano contest. I think that RC would likely pull out all the stops before MitD would, and that should give RC the win.
It's a favorite NPC contest, not a "Who would win in a fight?" type thing.
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It's a favorite NPC contest, not a "Who would win in a fight?" type thing.
My apologies. Sleep deprivation seems to make me miss some very important points...
In that case.... I think I still need to go with Redcloak. He is one of my favorite NPCs to read since he has a much more developed back-story and apparent character development. While I will probably like MitD more (he seems nicer and I like nice characters) should he get as much quality airtime, right now his development has been much more limited (in my opinion) and as a consequence is less interesting to me.
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Reader Poll for #845
Does Girard's gate lie in between Girard's buttcheeks, either literally, metaphorically, semantically or through some other loophole? Yes: 8 - 34.78% No: 15 - 65.21%
: 16 - 76.19% : 5 - 23.80%
Reader Poll for #846
The Order just found a corpse. Is that corpse Girard Draketooth? Yes or No?
Yes, the corpse is Girard. The prospect that there's a twist to this is not entirely out of the question considering the corpse's deliberately cryptic wording and the illusionist thing... but I just don't see it as that likely.
For the characters, I'm tempted to go with Celia just to counteract her hatedom (which I am not among), but in the end I still do prefer Hinjo.
(Also, can you make those smileys bigger somehow? They were a little hard to make out compared to the forum-standard ones from last time).
Yes it seems likely that the corpse really is Girard. If nothing else, we'd have to explain what the corpse could have meant by "Beneath his own feet" if it isn't.
And I'll take Hinjo.
Both these characters are not my favorites, but I don't hate them, either. They're just kinda vanilla, but at least Hinjo has a cool dog.
Edit: Oh man, I totally forgot! The joke about Hinjo's junk is the best joke in the entire comic! Definitely Hinjo.
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I see no reason to believe the corpse isn't Girard, given it fits the answer given by the Speak With Dead spell.
As for characters, eh, not a big fan of either, but I guess Hinjo will do.
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Because he's an actual character in the comic, rather than having been a glorified recurring joke for 3/4 of his existence.
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