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Danzou posted:I love the joke about it having "Exactly the same scratches. Exactly as I remembered it" when the panel depicts the usual MSpaint-level dongles. chances are this is the end of the chapter.
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I'm willing to bet that the comic's going to end on Strip 1000, or right around there. What with Rich mentioning that the halfway point is "firmly in the horizon", with Belkar's seven weeks quickly running short, and with the plot arches for every major character bearing down all at once. Either the strip will end right around 1,000 or there will be one last major twist near there (perhaps involving what's inside the rift), and then we'll have the last-last book after. How many pages ARE left in this book, anyways?
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Jan 26, 2012 03:45
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HKR posted:chances are this is the end of the chapter.
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Jan 26, 2012 03:50
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I can't see a halfway decent ending in time for #1000. There's 169 strips left, and about 169 strips ago was Roy's resurrection - i.e. in that period we've had the adventures in the Empire of Blood and little else. Finishing the showdown at Girard's Gate, and maybe a few sidetracks (adventures of O-Chul and Sea Paladin, if I can hope!) seems like a more realistic target for the turn of the 'millennium'. How long will be left afterwards depends entirely on how many plot points get resolved there.
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Jan 26, 2012 04:36
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Danzou posted:I love the joke about it having "Exactly the same scratches. Exactly as I remembered it" when the panel depicts the usual MSpaint-level dongles. I can't help but wonder if the fact that the new one seems to be intact, while the old one had part of the necklace snapped off, is going to be a problem when he tries to pass this one off as the original.
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Jan 26, 2012 05:43
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Redcloak's a master of impassive calm. He wants Jirix alive, but he's not panicking or anything at the sight of Xykon choking him out or anything. Just knows he needs to present Xykon with what he wants in his own time and the problem will resolve itself.
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Sefer posted:I can't help but wonder if the fact that the new one seems to be intact, while the old one had part of the necklace snapped off, is going to be a problem when he tries to pass this one off as the original. While it's as simple as saying "I had one of our craftsmen fix the chain before I brought it down", I can't help but think you might be on to something.
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Niton posted:While it's as simple as saying "I had one of our craftsmen fix the chain before I brought it down", I can't help but think you might be on to something. Zetetica posted:If he were to mess anything up, it would probably be because of the beating and explosive runes the phylactery took after Redcloak had already teleported away. "He what." And then Redcloak realizes that girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Jan 26, 2012 |
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Jan 26, 2012 07:50
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Colon V posted:"Well bring him here, he did it wrong." If he were to mess anything up, it would probably be because of the beating and explosive runes the phylactery took after Redcloak had already teleported away.
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Jan 26, 2012 08:57
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Colon V posted:"Well bring him here, he did it wrong." except that it was redcloak who always wore the holy symbol and knows it's every detail.
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Colon V posted:And then Redcloak realizes that I doubt there was any damage, with the number of protective spells on the amulet. The scratches were probably from before the amulet was made into a phylactery. Besides, it's not like Xykon got a good look at it after the Explosive Runes had a go at it.
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Jan 26, 2012 10:47
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Wait a minute "Red eye"? That's a new one
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MikeJF posted:I doubt there was any damage, with the number of protective spells on the amulet. The scratches were probably from before the amulet was made into a phylactery.  Seems to me these two panels can be read just as easily as "I was so upset I can barely remember those instants" or "I was so upset, those instants are burned in my mind". So I think Rich is in the enviable position where the result will make sense regardless of whether he has Xykon notice the chain or not.
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Alchenar posted:Wait a minute He almost called him redcloak but changed it at the last second. I swear are people usually this inattentive? Are you the same guy who thought Redcloaks spell was interrupted by the crash in the following panel?
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Affi posted:He almost called him redcloak but changed it at the last second. I swear are people usually this inattentive? Are you the same guy who thought Redcloaks spell was interrupted by the crash in the following panel? That doesn't seem obvious at all.
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Affi posted:He almost called him redcloak but changed it at the last second. I swear are people usually this inattentive? Are you the same guy who thought Redcloaks spell was interrupted by the crash in the following panel? Nah. If that were the case, there'd be a space after the -.
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Wili posted:I have to say that it is pretty convenient the way all the goblins that knew of Redcloack's incredibly risky plan keep getting killed by other people just as they outlive their usefulness.
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You guys are probably over-thinking this whole chain thing. It's a holy symbol, Redcloak wears it around his neck. Of course he'd get it repaired. In fact, the chain being breakable suggests it's separate from the phylactery, like a lot of necklaces. I doubt the chain is supposed to be significant beyond "it lets Redcloak wear the thing around his neck."
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Pretty sure the main reason the chain's broken is that it allows readers to see clearly which pendant Redcloak hides. ... not that it isn't perfectly logical which one he would hide, but, y'know, GiantITP forums.
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It may or may not even be broken, it may just have a clasp that's unclasped but we can't see that level of detail because Order of the Stick. Seriously overthinking this.
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Jan 26, 2012 19:17
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Wait, what IS that necklace, anyway? Have we seen it mentioned before?
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Cabbit posted:His soul isn't in there now. His soul retreats there when his undead body is destroyed, then proceeds to regenerate a new one for his soul to inhabit. So it's like a portable Zero Room? 
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Danzou posted:Wait, what IS that necklace, anyway? Have we seen it mentioned before? It's...Redcloak's holy symbol, which doubles as Xykon's phylactery. The entire reason anyone cares about it.  Or rather, it's a replica Redcloak is planning to hand off while he keeps the REAL phylactery on his person for later leverage.
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Jan 26, 2012 19:26
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Danzou posted:Wait, what IS that necklace, anyway? Have we seen it mentioned before? What gate? :mitdsay: The amulet has been adressed as a plot point like 5 times now.
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Captain Oblivious posted:It's...Redcloak's holy symbol, which doubles as Xykon's phylactery. His what? e: sorry, His what? edit no 2: my, it was awfully convenient that Redcloak lost an eye and had to wear an eyepatch right when his next sequence of strips was going to be mainly him alone with a number of identically drawn goblins. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jan 26, 2012 |
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Alchenar posted:edit no 2: my, it was awfully convenient that Redcloak lost an eye and had to wear an eyepatch right when his next sequence of strips was going to be mainly him alone with a number of identically drawn goblins.  You mean the hobgoblins? Who are orange? girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jan 26, 2012 |
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Jan 26, 2012 20:50
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Colon V posted:
Yes this will matter loads in the black and white printed comic.
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Jan 26, 2012 21:11
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The books are color.
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Jan 26, 2012 21:15
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But I watch the comic on a monochrome display! Hobgoblins? WTF is going on?? (Actually in b/w the hobos have much lighter skin than gobbos, so it'd work.)
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I'm... uh... orange-green colorblind? Yeah. I have no idea what's going on at all.
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Alchenar posted:my, it was awfully convenient that Redcloak lost an eye and had to wear an eyepatch right when his next sequence of strips was going to be mainly him alone with a number of identically drawn goblins.
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FMguru posted:If only he had some signature piece of clothing that he always wore so you'd always know which goblin was him.
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Jan 26, 2012 23:21
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Day 5 and we're past $180k. If this keeps up, the entire series will probably be back in print.
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He's raised so much with this Kickstaters, and is using the Kickstarter Rewards as a pre-order system so heavily, its going to almost have been easier if he just announced every book was available for pre-order on his normal store, without exact shipping dates. (as in, 1000 pre-orders = a print run, etc) Kinda funny. In a week its going to slow down, but he still will have to wait a month do any of this stuff.
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Going to throw in 10 bux so that I get the PDF, i'd give him more but i'm planning on buying every book he makes and I think that is enough.
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Affi posted:Going to throw in 10 bux so that I get the PDF, i'd give him more but i'm planning on buying every book he makes and I think that is enough. Already threw in $10 for the opposite reason...I already HAVE all the books.
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I've put myself down for the print-only books: Start of Darkness, On the Origin of PCs and ... the other one. I've not been able to find them over here in the UK otherwise, so I'm pretty pleased by this whole thing. Problem is that they're for my girlfriend's birthday, but I'm not sure I'll be able to keep them a surprise if he happens to send out the PDFs of all the comics before the middle of June.
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I kind of want to get all the books but despite the explanation of the costs I still balk at the prices, telling myself that the archive on the website itself is unlikely to vanish. Do the main strip compilations have much in the way of new material in them that could be considered essential reading?
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They have bonus strips and author commentary, but nothing that's essential for understanding the plot. I'm going to get the War n XPs preorder. I enjoy reading authors insights and the bonus strips never detract from the strip. Plus I can still read OOTS in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
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Outside of the fact that buying the books is a nice way to support the whole project, I have to agree that there's nothing mission critical in the books. But the bonus strips are often fun, adding details to characters who don't get much love in the main strip or patching over holes in the narrative that Rich discovered after the strips went up the first time. For instance, he adds a several page sequence where Haley, Belkar, and the Greysky Thieves' Guild break into the golem-maker's castle in Don't Split the Party. That's pretty fun on its own, especially the Haley-Crystal bits. But it's equally interesting to read the author's notes that explain a lot of why he does what he does. The Greysky Heist sequence, for example, was included because of fan reaction to Haley killing Crystal as "murder", which wasn't how he wanted it to feel. So he added a sequence in the book where Crystal, under Bozzak's orders, is trying to bump Haley off in a way that won't make Belkar suspicious because while they're perfectly willing to betray and murder Haley, they're terrified of Belkar. Under that context, then, Haley ambushing Crystal is more about self-defense than it is pre-meditated murder. And the physical books are full of material like that. Both in the new strips but especially in the author's notes, where Rich talks quite frankly about the decisions he made, which ones worked and which one didn't, and his best guesses as to why. So yeah, there's nothing you need to have, but reading in book form is a more complete experience, especially if you're interested in the whys and hows, as I am.
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