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Colon V posted:Haley puts those ranks in Sleight of Hand to good use? () Sleight of Handjob, you might say?
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 11:24 |
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jng2058 posted:Precisely. Like the Big X said, "Be a vampire, or a ghost, or an immortal with a paint-by-numbers portrait in the rec room. Hell, even a brain-in-a-jar, in a pinch. Anything to avoid the Big Fire Below." drat, you. You made me go read a couple of comics, and they turned out to be the Xykon versus Mr. Stiffly ones. Poor Mr. Stiffly.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 14:07 |
Regarding the 'belkar dies in x days' thing. Is there any reason to be certain that the oracle wasn't making things up to make belkar's life just a little bit shittier? I get that the answers they pay for are accurate, or the oracle wouldn't have a business, but she was just flipping him poo poo when she said that.
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Javid posted:Regarding the 'belkar dies in x days' thing. Is there any reason to be certain that the oracle wasn't making things up to make belkar's life just a little bit shittier? I get that the answers they pay for are accurate, or the oracle wouldn't have a business, but she was just flipping him poo poo when she said that.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 14:24 |
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Javid posted:Regarding the 'belkar dies in x days' thing. Is there any reason to be certain that the oracle wasn't making things up to make belkar's life just a little bit shittier? I get that the answers they pay for are accurate, or the oracle wouldn't have a business, but she was just flipping him poo poo when she said that. It seems unlikely. The Oracle really has no reason to lie when telling the truth but obscuring it is way more of a dick move, and the Oracle loves dick moves.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 14:34 |
I'm imagining Belkar going out in a blaze of glory to save the world because he thinks he's dead anyway, and then the oracle's like "Hah! He was gonna die of old age surrounded by the greatest harem ever amassed by a halfling, until he did that. SUCKER!" THAT is a dick move.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 14:42 |
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Roy's the only partymember who heard the Oracle's prediction of Belkar's death, and he hasn't yet told Belkar. Edit: A dick move would be setting things up so Roy hesitates just a bit too long before attempting a risky rescue of Belkar because Roy knows he's doomed to die. maltesh fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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^^^ Well, nevermind then. The Oracle knew if Belkar thought he'd die, he'd go out in a blaze of glory, and therefore the prophecy would be true.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 14:51 |
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Did Roy remember the Oracle's prediction, though? Everything in the afterlife is a blur to him.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 15:11 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Did Roy remember the Oracle's prediction, though? Everything in the afterlife is a blur to him.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 15:34 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Did Roy remember the Oracle's prediction, though? Everything in the afterlife is a blur to him. But everything he saw while in ghost-form on the mortal plan was not a blur. Plus, the Oracle banished him back to the afterlife instead of making him go through the memory charm, so he retained the memory of everything he saw at the Oracle's place that time.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 16:17 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Did Roy remember the Oracle's prediction, though? Everything in the afterlife is a blur to him. Yes everything IN the afterlife is a blur the time spent on the material plane and at the view from above is still clear. edit Really should refresh before posting
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 16:22 |
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Speaking of Belkar (and Don't Split the Party spoilers), how many times has he saved Hinjo's life? I've only counted one so far, and he's supposed to save his life a second time, right?
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 17:25 |
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FYI, Rich finally gave an official explanation to how Familicide works:Rich Burlew posted:Step 1: Kill everyone with the original target's blood. This is a simple yes/no effect: Is a creature (the secondary target) related by blood to the original target at all, in any way? If yes, kill it. If no, move on. Number of generations or percentage of blood or direction doesn't matter.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 19:39 |
DaveWoo posted:FYI, Rich finally gave an official explanation to how Familicide works: TL;DR: A loving wizard did it. I love Burlew. And I want to punch the people that made him have to write that out rather than working on the next strip!
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 19:52 |
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ConfusedUs posted:TL;DR: A loving wizard did it. In every sense of that phrase.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 20:05 |
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That explanation satisfies me. Also: quote:The OOTS world is not ours, though. It was created fully populated, even with black dragons. So there could be 100 original black dragons who (as V noted) breed slowly over the relatively-short span of time the current world has been in existence, leading to one-quarter of them being wiped out. Bobulus posted:Silly D&D world solution: Gods created world with people preexisting on it, so there isn't a common ancestor. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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ConfusedUs posted:A loving wizard did it.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 20:18 |
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DaveWoo posted:FYI, Rich finally gave an official explanation to how Familicide works:
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 20:28 |
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I was under the impression that Burlew didn't read the forums. Or am I confusing him with another author? Edit: I guess I am totally wrong! Ashcans fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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Factor_VIII posted:If he was forced to write all that, then I guess that the shitstorm that strip generated on his forums was orders of magnitude worse than the response in this thread. Look at the top right corner of that link and you'll know all you need to about how bad it was.
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# ? Mar 8, 2012 20:31 |
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The thing is that is almost exactly how V described it before s/he cast the spell just minus their usual flowery speech, and a few elaborations.
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# ? Mar 9, 2012 00:55 |
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New comic: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0844.html
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 00:10 |
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"Soon an' 'is paladins..." Well played, Rich. Well played.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 00:10 |
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But the real reason it's not working is because it was an epic-level Death spell?
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 00:12 |
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Bless Burlew for pointing out that a character, being a character and not some sort of exposition robot, might say things in strange, incorrect, or incomplete ways when he explained Familicide. Write that down, everyone, and memorize it, and spread it around the drat Internet. e: really did you see that OoTS rip comic posted a couple pages back? The comic on display that day was seriously just the mage character giving a precise point by point overview of the Phantom Steed spell. For like fifteen panels or something. No punchline whatsoever. It was like a lecture or a really lazy ad. Do people really expect V to behave like that? SuperKlaus fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Mar 10, 2012 |
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pseudorandom name posted:"Soon an' 'is paladins..." Maybe I'm PBFing this but... I don't get it?
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 01:50 |
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I find the extremes of Durkon's accent amusing.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 02:39 |
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SuperKlaus posted:e: really did you see that OoTS rip comic posted a couple pages back? The comic on display that day was seriously just the mage character giving a precise point by point overview of the Phantom Steed spell. For like fifteen panels or something. No punchline whatsoever. It was like a lecture or a really lazy ad. Do people really expect V to behave like that? It's not exactly out of character, although Burlew got tired of the verbosity gag pretty quick. It was also pretty explicitly a gag since every character gets bored to tears/sleep by it.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 02:46 |
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SuperKlaus posted:Bless Burlew for pointing out that a character, being a character and not some sort of exposition robot, might say things in strange, incorrect, or incomplete ways when he explained Familicide. Write that down, everyone, and memorize it, and spread it around the drat Internet. Thunt does this every third page and it's hilariously dumb
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 02:46 |
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Doesn't ressurect take like ten minutes to cast? V runs down the stairs freaking out and no one cares enough to check for THAT long?
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 04:09 |
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greatn posted:Doesn't ressurect take like ten minutes to cast? V runs down the stairs freaking out and no one cares enough to check for THAT long? V's a respectable adult; she can do what she wants, and he'll come back when he wants to come back, so there's no point chasing her down. Except, of course, for the fact that he's lying unconscious in a pit, but the rest of the Order doesn't know that.
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DontMockMySmock posted:V's a respectable adult; she can do what she wants, and he'll come back when he wants to come back, so there's no point chasing her down. Except, of course, for the fact that he's lying unconscious in a pit, but the rest of the Order doesn't know that. Plus, she's an evoker. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone there assumes that if she runs into trouble, they'll soon be alerted to it's presence when poo poo starts exploding.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 04:15 |
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If they're absolutely insistent on raising one of the bodies, Malack's the only other candidate I can think of. Seeing as he worships a god of death and death tends to be viewed as an equalizer, I'd wager he's neutral-something. That would probably sound more enticing to a family of rogues and casters. I wouldn't be surprised if the Order moves on, Malack raises a body and gets all the information he needs, and the two groups collide in 50 strips from now. If the Draketooth family really is scrying on anyone who attempts to resurrect them, they might go for the guy who works with Penelope's widower-and-powerful-ruler-of-a-kingdom rather than the band of tools who already had a hand in the destruction of two gates.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 08:31 |
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TunaSpleen posted:If they're absolutely insistent on raising one of the bodies, Malack's the only other candidate I can think of. Seeing as he worships a god of death and death tends to be viewed as an equalizer, I'd wager he's neutral-something. That would probably sound more enticing to a family of rogues and casters. I wouldn't be surprised if the Order moves on, Malack raises a body and gets all the information he needs, and the two groups collide in 50 strips from now. If the Draketooth family really is scrying on anyone who attempts to resurrect them, they might go for the guy who works with Penelope's widower-and-powerful-ruler-of-a-kingdom rather than the band of tools who already had a hand in the destruction of two gates. If they're as paranoid as we think, they know Tarquin and anyone he has hanging around him are not the kind of people they want anywhere near the gate.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 08:34 |
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I'm kinda wondering if there aren't a bunch of Draketooths in the afterlife just now, looking at each other and going, okay, maybe figuring out how the hell this happened is more important that sticking to the old grudge. 24 dead and only 9 alignments, some of them have to have ended up together.
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 08:52 |
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Out of curiosity - if your Resurrection spell fails, do you just lose the spell slot or also the 10k of diamonds?
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# ? Mar 10, 2012 09:00 |
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NihilCredo posted:Out of curiosity - if your Resurrection spell fails, do you just lose the spell slot or also the 10k of diamonds? Well it didn't fail, the spell worked perfectly, only he's declining to come back.
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NihilCredo posted:Out of curiosity - if your Resurrection spell fails, do you just lose the spell slot or also the 10k of diamonds? I've seen it go either way in-game, but it was shown when they tried and failed to raise Lord Shojo that in the OotS universe, you do lose the diamonds. TunaSpleen posted:If they're absolutely insistent on raising one of the bodies, Malack's the only other candidate I can think of. Seeing as he worships a god of death and death tends to be viewed as an equalizer, I'd wager he's neutral-something. That would probably sound more enticing to a family of rogues and casters. I wouldn't be surprised if the Order moves on, Malack raises a body and gets all the information he needs, and the two groups collide in 50 strips from now. If the Draketooth family really is scrying on anyone who attempts to resurrect them, they might go for the guy who works with Penelope's widower-and-powerful-ruler-of-a-kingdom rather than the band of tools who already had a hand in the destruction of two gates. The problem with Malack would seem to be that he's a Cleric of the God of Death. I'm going to go ahead and guess that death is permanent for Clerics of Nergal. Otherwise, why would he make so much of a fuss about Malack's kids being dead? He could have raised them long since. Likewise, why hadn't they raised Penelope, if only to find out who killed her? No, I'm betting that Malack is barred from using any spell that would take people out of Nergal's Realm.
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jng2058 posted:No, I'm betting that Malack is barred from using any spell that would take people out of Nergal's Realm.
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