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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I think the Monster in the Dark is a Hunting Horror, aka the Haunter of the Dark, from d20 Call of Cthulhu, printed in 2002.
In this scene, we see a Monster in the Dark with visible yellow eyes, prepared to kill on the order of an evil sorcerer. It has an alien nature that fails to understand how humanoids think.
The Hunting Horror is a Haunter of the Dark with visible yellow eyes, prepared to kill on the order of an evil sorcerer. It also has an alien nature that fails to understand how humanoids think.
The Hunting Horror has an eldritch abomination in its background. Rich’s story has the Snarl, which is an abomination and a horror that is more real than the gods that fear it.
It is a child because the Hunting Horror is Huge and Rich needed to shrink it.
It tells a story of ambiguous alignment because Call of Cthulhu monsters don't have a printed alignment
It has a fish out of water personality because it is an alien creature that is supposed to find us as strange as we find it
It accepts Xykon as an authority figure (which it sometimes rebels against) because that is the role it has in Call of Cthulhu: serving evil sorcerers.
In Call of Cthulhu, it is possible to do magic by manipulating the fabric of reality directly. In Rich’s story, gods are shown to do this by pulling threads.
The Hunting Horror is a Dragon. Dragons have a type and if Rich reveals a Dragon, the audience will wait to see what type of Dragon it is. This lets the Monster in the Dark be both familiar (a Dragon) and not (a Hunting Horror).
Spoiler: Circus SceneA sanity check is the best explanation for the Circus Scene. A Hunting Horror forces a sanity check on everyone that looks at it.
- Goblins (and Liches) are immune to sanity checks
- Repeated exposure creates immunity, so the circus workers are immune.
- Adventurer levels optionally grant sanity resistance, so any audience members that look like adventurers may have protection.
- If you do the math, after 14 generic NPCs make sanity checks, on average 1.8 of them suffer temporary insanity.
- Throwing up on the spot and refusing to look at the monster are both possible temporary insanities.
Of course the Hunting Horror has high Charisma, so it can be beautiful, and coming from another realm makes it hard to recognize.
Spoiler: Escape SceneA Call of Cthulhu spell is the best explanation for the Escape Scene. A Hunting Horror has premium access to Call of Cthulhu spells because it is printed in the same book.
Call of Cthulhu spells are built off of template spells printed in the book. A Call of Cthulhu spell cannot have the same name as its template spell, and must differ from its template spell in one or two small ways.
Call of Cthulhu spells must have an aura of mystery and strangeness, and are never easy, mechanical, mundane, or safe.
The template spell is Word of Recall. It is renamed to Escape, it picks a sanctuary for you at the time the spell is cast, and it excludes the caster. Otherwise it is the same.
The audience finds it mysterious and strange because teleport effects do not work that way in D&D, and its use as part of the climax of DStP is not easy, mechanical, mundane, or safe. Rich underlines this when the Monster in the Dark fails to activate it later.
You're not supposed to figure this out until after you've figured out it's a Hunting Horror.
Spoiler: Tower SceneAll the rules the thread invented to rewrite how monsters can use their abilities can be replaced by a single rule: Rich can activate an ability a monster is not aware of without the monster choosing it.
It preserves the story: The Monster in the Dark is still trying to hit lightly.
It preserves the guessing game: Monsters are not being rewritten on the fly.
It unravels how Rich can tell a story about abilities a monster isn’t aware enough to choose.
The Tower Scene should never have been more complicated than this:
A Hunting Horror uses its Deflect Harm SLA to nullify all damage from successful attacks.
The best weapon a Hunting Horror has for hitting lightly is a wing slap from its lone wing. With no arms and no legs, it would look like it’s hitting Miko with a baseball bat, thus it knocks Miko far away.
Rich can use True Strike and/or Power Attack to sell this hit, if he wants.
Spoiler: Thirteen Reasons to Believe (Spooky!)One. Gates in Call of Cthulhu are circles or patterns on the ground that take you from one place to another.
Two. It can Roar for sonic damage in a 50 foot cone.
Three. It has a feat free to take Shock Wave, which lets it knock down foes and damage structures in a 100’ radius by hitting the ground with its tail.
Four. It moves at a 30’ Slither, in non-Euclidean paths, per its description
Five. It can use the Fist of Yog-Sothoth, which can push a creature but not hold it.
Six. It can use the Grasp of Cthulhu, which can hold a creature but not move it.
Seven. It has a Ravenous Maw with Improved Grab, and it can Masticate for automatic damage to anything held.
Eight. It has a Tail-Tentacle with Improved Grab, and it can Constrict for automatic damage to anything held.
With no arms, no legs, and no other attacks with Improved Grab, this is the only way it can play with its toys. Both Masticate and Constrict can pierce a phylactery’s hardness.
Nine. It is a legless dragon seen in a nightmare, per its description.
Ten. It is a minor character in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, where it is tasked by its master to kill the denizens of a flourishing underground civilization, made up of interconnected caves and mines. Sadly, the book calls them ghouls instead of dwarves, but Xykon is confused.
Eleven. It can use an Evil Eye and bestow a curse just by focusing on a target and hoping, but it can’t bestow a blessing.
Twelve. (Start of Darkness, pg 50) It stinks, making people queasy or nauseated, depending on their save. Its smell is never mentioned again, but the means for curbing it are.
Thirteen. (also Start of Darkness Page 96) The Monster in the Dark is not a summoned monster, but a Hunting Horror’s summon spell specifies that it devours its victims. The only character that does more devouring than the Monster in the Dark is the Snarl.
Spoiler: Light Damage to the ExteriorA Hunting Horror takes damage from the light. Rich doesn’t care about the damage, but he likes to tell a story. Every time the Monster in the Dark has a chance to be in the light, but isn’t, Rich is adding to a story about its relationship with the light, which is: It likes the light, but it takes damage from it.
It has fast healing 10 and cannot be harmed by any light less than true daylight. It can spend up to 40 minutes in true daylight, after which it needs to rest for 2 minutes in darkness to fully recover. It can cast darkness at will as an SLA, so it may trigger reflexively.Last edited by Tubercular Ox; 2024-04-14 at 10:42 AM.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
The only way i can be disappointed is if it is entirely irrelevant to the story.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
MitD XVIII: Now able to vote for its own title
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2023-02-25, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Okay, officially adding my vote to You Might Want to Begin to Prepare Yourself for Disappointment It's a barrel of monkeys.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Not to quibble, but this current version of the thread launched when, I believe, #1269 was the current strip. So, 6-7 strips. I suspect the next one will last longer than this one, and one never knows what the strip-rate will be, but I suspect the next version of this thread will not be the last one.
Edit - Somewhere I have a spreadsheet with the duration (and length. They haven't varied a ton, but its by more than I expected, anyway) of all the MitD threads but I can't find it. However, I'm moderately confident this was the 3rd fastest thread.Last edited by Crusher; 2023-02-25 at 11:59 PM.
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2023-02-26, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Again, just because you imagine something as potentially plausible doesn't mean I think it is. Consider how specifically you have to parse Rich's words into a very specific and unintuitive meaning for this to fit. Is it reasonably plausible or logical, or is it something you have to dig for a really specific interpretation of the words in order to make fit?
Okay, so for the fourth time or so, if Xykon created MitD, who is MitD's father and why does he remember him the way he does?
And if you read from the perspective of "Not everything Rich said about the strip before he actually figured out the plot is canon," it makes a lot more sense. I do not think "Xykon created the creature" fits "Redcloak met and discovered the creature, recruited him, then Xykon met him, with absolutely no indicators of any prior relationship between the two."
Yes, I am putting weight on the comment that explains the process of creating the story; you seem to think I am putting weight on the number 100 specifically. I am putting more weight on the comments written after the story was figured out than I am on the comments written when the story was still considered a gag-a-day strip, and whether or not you can contort the latter into an anything-is-possible interpretation that fits, does not mean that interpretation is the most plausible or even a relatively likely interpretation.
And I think everything we've seen since contradicts the April 2004 comment and suggests it was made at a time Rich hadn't figured out the details or story for MitD, when MitD was just "a mystery that would never be resolved." I think this is really obvious and requires a lot of contortions to think otherwise.
I don't think that's true-- indeed, whenever I sit down to think about the topic, I find myself thinking that one answer is more and more obviously correct the more I think about it-- but I can't say that it's an invalid position. Maybe there's something out there no one has unearthed that's a better fit; the unearthing part is not my field of expertise.
I guess for now I'll vote for You Might Want to Begin to Prepare Yourself for Disappointment, but I haven't found / thought of anything I really love yet.
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2023-02-26, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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2023-02-26, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
You're missing the difference between "be longer" and "last longer." Crusher isn't saying some threads are 50 pages and some are 60; they're saying some threads are 5 months and some are 7.
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2023-02-26, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I fully agree with Ox there: Crusher said "duration of threads AND length of threads".
The only viable hypotheses would be at first sight 1) that some threads got locked up for being a (nonmagical) dumpster fire (at <50 pages), and the staff eventually allowed a new thread to open later; and 2) that in the early days of the forum, the standard "restart a new thread for the same topic when you hit exactly 50 pages" wasn't yet in force.
Otherwise, duration of threads varies (from a few months to maybe year(s)) but length of threads does not (50 pages).Last edited by lio45; 2023-02-26 at 10:57 AM.
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2023-02-26, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Ok - so you don't think it is even 'potentially' possible for Xykon to have created the creature, previously you said close to 100% now you seem to be at 100% - fair enough, but I am not asking you to think anything else you can (and likely should) think whatever you like.
Consider how specifically you have to parse Rich's words into a very specific and unintuitive meaning for this to fit. Is it reasonably plausible or logical, or is it something you have to dig for a really specific interpretation of the words in order to make fit?
For the record if The Giant decided to answer this with 'there was a whatever, Xykon kept it in the darkness, therefore Xykon created a whatever in the darkness' I think that would be perfectly suitable for the words he used and may have been the basis for some of the rest of the creatures development.
Okay, so for the fourth time or so, if Xykon created MitD, who is MitD's father and why does he remember him the way he does?
And if you read from the perspective of "Not everything Rich said about the strip before he actually figured out the plot is canon," it makes a lot more sense.
...anything-is-possible interpretation that fits, does not mean that interpretation is the most plausible or even a relatively likely interpretation.
All I am saying is 'here is a comment, it seems to indicate a thought process, that thought process may have evolved into the story' if it did so then I have no idea how that evolution might have been but for instance:
Random Thought Process: 'Xykon created the creature? nah don't like that, but it was said ... out if for instance Xykon put the creature in the darkness so he created (in a manner of speaking) 'the creaure in the darkness' (hmm like that as an idea), but what does that do to the story, what is the creature without the darkness, why does it stay there, what is the relationship with Xykon, etc etc etc'.
If that or some varient of it was the thought process The Giant had then the comment is relevant to the formation of the story but is not relevant to what the creature is.
I am also content to think that the Giant made the comment ignored it and the rest of the thought process for the story occured without it.
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Apologies I think I might have isolated the issue we are having, you said:
To which I said:
My mistake - whether something is relevant and whether something is worth considering are different metrics and I should not have put them beside one another.Last edited by dancrilis; 2023-02-26 at 11:06 AM.
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2023-02-26, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I've yet to see dancrilis ask you to think otherwise, from my point of view he's just standing up for the right for alternate hypotheses to exist.
And to quote lio45:
IOW taking objections to contortions seriously shuts down the entire thread for everyone. It's better to let people have their premises and ask them to go nuts. I bet dancrilis wouldn't last long if you just asked him where he was going with this.TinyMushroom drew my avatarSpoiler: A shaggy dog storyAn evil sorcerer in command of a dark cult is trying to unleash a god-killing abomination more real than the gods themselves. At his side, yellow eyes revealed a Haunter of the Dark. The evil sorcerer ordered it to kill.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
You think the MitD remembers Xykon eating a lot?
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2023-02-26, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I don't particularly think anything on this (kindof the point I had been trying to make - seemingly amazingly unsuccessfully), I was asked 'what about X' and I gave a potential answer to X if X had been Y I would have given a potential answer to Y even if that answer was absolutely disconnected to the answer to X and if I was asked to answer both at once I could have given an answer XY which would be neither X or Y.
I made the point above - although more potentially insulting then actually insulting.
Some suggesting that may fit the same theme - (but dealing with expectation rather then disappointment) - hopefully without the same potential for insult (all taken from the statements within the comic none dealing with the creature itself unfortunately).
1. What should we expect next?
2. It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention.
3. I do not expect any success.
4. I should have expected as much.
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2023-02-26, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I will absolutely add a vote for, "It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention."
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Sorry, was out all day and didn't check in. This answer is actually the closest to what I meant and I should have been more specific.
I tracked both chronological duration (this is what I meant when I said "third fastest") as well as number of strips covered (which I'm moderately confident this was by far the fewest. Chronologically this thread was fast, but I don't think it was a huge outlier compared with some early ones. But strips tended to come faster then so each thread covered more).
However, I did also check # of pages and # of posts in each thread (50 posts/page iirc) and those have varied a bit. I don't think a thread has ever been entirely locked to flame-wars or whatever (and the old threads weren't always locked when the new ones launched). But they certainly have been closed slightly early (say, page 48 or 49).
GW can correct me if I'm off-base on this, but I think the system wasn't *quite* as thoroughly ironed out in the earlier days, so if you got a situation where the next thread's name was decided early and posting was really slow because nothing was going on for an extended period of time, the next thread might get launched a little early. Then we might have two threads for a bit and the old one would eventually just drop off the front page due to lack of use.
We also had a few threads go to page 51 or 52 (or at least past 2500 posts which I didn't realize was possible but apparently is, or at least used to be) which happened when there was a ton of activity going on in the midst of a change-over and the old thread wasn't locked right away.
Edit - Also, I'm casting a vote for MitD XVIII: It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention. Which imo is one of the best proposals I've ever seen because not only is it funny on its own, its also even funnier because of how *hilariously* inaccurate it is.Last edited by Crusher; 2023-02-26 at 04:57 PM.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2023-02-26, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
30. It can be set up to 50 in the preferences, but the limit of #pages is established on the basis of 30, so as a curator I keep it at 30.
No, I've always closed the threads because we were close to 50; not because of perceived slowness of posting. I do try to wait until the last possible moment, but sometimes if I have the time and predict I won't in the near future, I am liable to do the heavy lifting of starting a new thread a bit early, so as to prevent risking doing it a bit late. And the reason ultimately is that once a thread was closed by a mod because of length before I had started the new one and it was immensely painful to pull out the OPs (mod had to PM me the text & bbcode in like 8 PMs, because the PM character limit is like half of the post limit), and I'm keen on never repeating that situation if I can possibly avoid it.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Well, then, I'll just say that I don't think it's relevant or worth considering. The evidence in support of it is one very flimsy piece of evidence, a comment made 19 years ago; the evidence against it is voluminous and in both the strip itself and follow-up comments, and it very likely renders the former piece of evidence irrelevant.
Well, I'm just "standing up for the right" to call a hypothesis flimsy, poorly supported, and highly unlikely if I think it is those things. I don't think every hypothesis is worth seriously considering; I don't think I'm under any obligation to treat implausible hypotheses as legitimate.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
First off, to me, the question of "Who is the best silver dragon?" ALWAYS has "Peelee" as the best answer.
Second, since you implicitly asked, I did have a methodology for determining the best one, because of course I did. How else would I decide? It was:
Three primary opportunities for points:
- That I meant "duration" to cover chronological duration, and also
- # of strips
- "Length" referred to # of posts in the thread, and I gave modest extra credit for realizing that me saying "...its by more than I expected, anyway" meant that not all the threads had exactly 50 pages
No one referred to all three points in a post, but multiple posts mentioned two of the points. Yours was the most concise, which was good! However, Lio45 was the only one to speculate on the "not all threads had exactly 50 pages" extra credit bit, and also provided the most detailed answer. Concise is great, but depth of on-point detail in *this* context? Huge.
Edit - Thank you. Even as I was typing that I was fairly sure I was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what the right answer was. So I stuck with it in hopes I was wrong about being wrong.Last edited by Crusher; 2023-02-26 at 08:47 PM.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Fair enough but presumedly you did consider it before deciding it was not relevant or worth further consideration (or maybe not).
For instance, I think the following comment (cut ot highlight the element I am referring to) has likely little relevance on The Giant's writing today (or for a long time) except to act as a potential statement relating to how the world (in-universe) may function relating to alignment (and even that is dubious), but still think it is likely worth consideration for any who haven't seen it in case they come to different conclusions.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
I'll vote for MitD XVIII: It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
Voting for MitD XVIII: It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
The thing is, dancrilis...he said his concept of what the creature in the darkness was was "a mystery I would never reveal" until "around strip #100" and for the creature's "first two or three appearances." I am not seeing any way to get to "so, this thing he said when the most recent strip was #57 and the creature had appeared exactly twice counts as after that." It's championing an utterly selective form of hyperliteralism: this (that Xykon created whatever that is in the shadows) matters because he once said it and the part where he said it doesn't apply now, doesn't matter even though he said it.
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Re: MitD XVII: [Y]ou were quite clear. I was just being pedantic
MitD XVIII: It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention.
Add to my votes, please.