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I'm pretty sure there'll have been a valid reason for Elan to get an eyepatch, even if he was healed of it afterwards. I also think that the reason will be explained in a book rather than in the main strip. It's just a hunch, but I think the missing 3 months would make a good 'not-main-plot' storyline to stick its own book. (He can't do 'origins' forever, after all)
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Didn't someone already mention the practical purpose of an eyepatch?
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Noonsaliwah posted:I'm pretty sure there'll have been a valid reason for Elan to get an eyepatch, even if he was healed of it afterwards. I also think that the reason will be explained in a book rather than in the main strip. It's just a hunch, but I think the missing 3 months would make a good 'not-main-plot' storyline to stick its own book. (He can't do 'origins' forever, after all) I might be convinced of this if A) everyone would kill him for keeping major plot of the protaganists in the books, and B) he said when he announced his new schedule due to his health he wouldn't be taking on anymore side projects or books like that while he's not healthy.
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He also said there was one more in the works that'll be finished.
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I like how hinjo gets increasingly pissed off in each of his meetings with their 'allies'. You can tell it was starting to wear on Elan, too.
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Well, Elan looks like he's crying from both eyes, so the right eye at the least has some functionality, and is... uh, there.
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greatn posted:Well, Elan looks like he's crying from both eyes, so the right eye at the least has some functionality, and is... uh, there. Maybe all that's left are his tear ducts. 
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It's up! It's up!  Eypatch answers revealed!e: curses ^^^^^
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That one was, uh... kind of boring.
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I think it was mostly Burlew's way of telling us that we're going to have two separate plotlines for the forseeable future. And I can't wait for the strip where it's revealed that Belkar is using Roy's severed, hollowed-out head as a hat. After all, we're pretty much on-board with the idea that a significant piece of the body is just as good as the whole actual body, for Mark Of Justice purposes. And what piece is more significant than the head? And it's Belkar's style, anyway.
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Yeah. I think it's going to be a long time before everybody is back together, if ever. Though I hope he at least reunites some of them soon, as having three separate plotlines running simultaneously could get pretty annoying. Though he hasn't really started on the main story arc yet, so it's kind of hard to predict where he's going to go with this.
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I've been playing the new Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion, and it touches on Atheism in D&D (as the thread was discussing earlier) and I think I can understand it somewhat better now. It's not so much that the Faithless don't believe in Gods. They know they exist. They just believe the gods aren't doing them any good. Which makes sense to me.
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But that's not Atheism, that's more akin to apathy.
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Gyges posted:But that's not Atheism, that's more akin to apathy. Apatheism.
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Gyges posted:But that's not Atheism, that's more akin to apathy. Sure it is, they don't believe the gods are dieties worth worshipping. In a D&D sense that can make it atheism. I know Kelemvor exists but I met him as a mortal and he was a big fat jerk, so technically I don't "believe" in him. It's hard to relate it to real world stuff since Gods don't exist here and we can't walk up to them, talk to them and label them as "dick".
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Phylodox posted:Apatheism. All hail mighty Apathos!
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I guess that this answers the question of what that cloistering spell did.
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New strip up. site is getting hammered so I'd advise clicking this instead:
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Hmm the dialogue seems a tad forced so far, but I think I'd rather get plot dumped than have it slowly spooled out anyways.
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terminal mehmet posted:New strip up. site is getting hammered so I'd advise clicking this instead: A lot of set up with a nice little punch line. I'm digging it.
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DAMNIT SHOW ME BELKAR! I love that murderous little bastard.
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Redcloak is going to be so pissed off when he finds out that his long-lost ninja niece had the hots for Elan. You know, if my conjecture is right.
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NutShellBill posted:Redcloak is going to be so pissed off when he finds out that his long-lost ninja niece had the hots for Elan. I don't think the Ominous Red Text is coming from Redcloak
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Read Start of Darkness, that's what I'm referencing. I think She's Right-Eye's daughter that he managed to smuggle away to a mysterious location . Or maybe just some random green alien chick for the Star Trek joke. But I maintain that I'm right the first time.
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terminal mehmet posted:New strip up. site is getting hammered so I'd advise clicking this instead:
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NutShellBill posted:Read Start of Darkness, that's what I'm referencing. I think She's Right-Eye's daughter that he managed to smuggle away to a mysterious location . I sincerely doubt this is the case, since disloyal or not, Kubota is still a lord of Azure City. I cant see him going to hide his single remaining family member with the same people who slaughtered the rest. Her skin is probably just some sort of ninja thing and not goblinhood.
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The Werle posted:I sincerely doubt this is the case, since disloyal or not, Kubota is still a lord of Azure City. I cant see him going to hide his single remaining family member with the same people who slaughtered the rest. Her skin is probably just some sort of ninja thing and not goblinhood. True, but it depends on how many ressources Right-Eye had at his disposal. It's hard to imagine that he had the time or luxury of choosing a nice Goblin family, and he even chews out Redcloak for this in SOD, lamenting that he has no idea where she is, saying that she could with humans, or worse. Kabuto doesn't seem like a Good Samaritan, but he does seem the type to train a disposable assassin/slave. I guess this ninja could just be a disposable goon, but it seems odd that Burlew would have her show up twice beforehand unless there was something to it.
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The Werle posted:Her skin is probably just some sort of ninja thing and not goblinhood. Her name is Therkla and she looks like she has green skin. Seems to me she's probably a half-orc like Thog.
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Phylodox posted:Her name is Therkla and she looks like she has green skin. Seems to me she's probably a half-orc like Thog. The coloring would be about right for it, good call.
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Phylodox posted:Her name is Therkla and she looks like she has green skin. Seems to me she's probably a half-orc like Thog. The coloring is right, but do the women get all the brains or something? Thog was depicted as being roughly a three-year old who could be pointed in the right direction for things like cake and shininess. Doesn't really fit with her dialogue there
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wodin posted:The coloring is right, but do the women get all the brains or something? Thog was depicted as being roughly a three-year old who could be pointed in the right direction for things like cake and shininess. Doesn't really fit with her dialogue there Thog is a Fighter/Barbarian, so Intelligence is going to be his dump stat. INT is more important for Rogues, Ninjas, and other skill-monkey classes. And why are we spoilering this branch of speculation again? Wonder what Therkla's dump stat is. Charisma? 
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What's with all the non-spoiler spoilers? Anyway, Thog's intellect is just due to him being Roy's evil opposite, Roy being a potential wizard and having an MBA and all. The new ninja woman could easily eat the -2 to Int as a Half-Orc and still be smart.
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IMJack posted:Wonder what Therkla's dump stat is. Charisma? Judging by how easily she falls for an enemy, Wisdom.
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IMJack posted:Wonder what Therkla's dump stat is. Charisma? Wait, who's Therkla?
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Schwarzwald posted:Wait, who's Therkla? Ninja girl in the last strip. I think...
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It's possible she's an undeadified Haley.
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Dr. Ron Paul posted:It's possible she's an undeadified Haley. No it's not. How could it be? She was on the ships in the original evac.
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