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Tiler Kiwi posted:i hope the blimp ride goes on for another year I don't think your mom will last that long
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Jun 19, 2017 15:08
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NihilCredo posted:I don't think your mom will last that long   But in all seriousness, I like Bandana. I don't like Andy. I don't like that the crew was dumb enough to follow Andy because she got frustrated and spoke up. But I'm okay with the extended action from the mountain pass fight leading to a short mutiny.
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Jun 19, 2017 16:34
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rocketrobot posted:I don't like that the crew was dumb enough to follow Andy because she got frustrated and spoke up. But I'm okay with the extended action from the mountain pass fight leading to a short mutiny. At the the time they were in the middle of chaos, Bandana was unconscious, and Andy was giving orders. Going along with it for a while wasn't that bad. Once Bandana woke up they switched to her side and untied her right quick. D&D still has 6 second combat rounds, right? The whole mutiny lasted a couple minutes.
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Jun 19, 2017 16:42
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Facebook Aunt posted:D&D still has 6 second combat rounds, right? The whole mutiny lasted a couple minutes.
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Jun 19, 2017 16:48
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Facebook Aunt posted:At the the time they were in the middle of chaos, Bandana was unconscious, and Andy was giving orders. Going along with it for a while wasn't that bad. Once Bandana woke up they switched to her side and untied her right quick. *Unconscious due to getting wrenched by Andy
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Jun 19, 2017 16:49
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I still think Andy was in the right in the beginning of the mutiny. It really felt like a DM panic that the NPC wasn't being perceived how they wanted so we got the 'I just don't like you being in charge' instead of 'you changed our job description and are now getting us killed'.
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Jun 19, 2017 20:15
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World Famous W posted:I still think Andy was in the right in the beginning of the mutiny. It really felt like a DM panic that the NPC wasn't being perceived how they wanted so we got the 'I just don't like you being in charge' instead of 'you changed our job description and are now getting us killed'. From the very start it was "you're going to get us killed by actually following the pass instead of charging off into the deathtrap mountains!"
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Jun 19, 2017 21:51
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For real, Andi was being Wrong and Dumb from the start.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:57
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reignonyourparade posted:From the very start it was "you're going to get us killed by actually following the pass instead of charging off into the deathtrap mountains!"
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Jun 19, 2017 22:05
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World Famous W posted:Vampire allowed on board. Yet this didn't really come up during the battle with the giants. It was all about the course Bandanna was ordering.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:18
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World Famous W posted:Vampire allowed on board. Eh. The vampire was escorted by high level adventurers, confined to a small area, and Nokrud didn't even try anything until he managed to lose all of the escorting spellcasters. The risk to the crew was minimal.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:43
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The vampire stuff and not feeling committed to the overall mission just built tension and mistrust of the captain among the crew which contributed to the overall breakdown of cohesion when the ambush put them under stress. It wasn't like the mutiny was a particularly deliberate or well-thought-out affair, the engineer basically just snapped then panicked to fill the void while the crew did whatever they could to not all die. If they'd trusted her more like they trusted Scoundrel, they'd probably have assumed she knew what she was doing leading them down the pass. It's basically just an arc about Bandana growing into the role of captain and winning the confidence of the crew after their initial skepticism of her taking over for Scoundrel, but since they're not the stars of the comic and such an arc doesn't necessarily contribute a lot when their overall plot role has mostly been to ferry the heroes around, it's a bit distracting. It might've helped if there were a smaller, better-defined set of crew-members we were introduced to from the start since apart from Bandana and Andi the rest are basically filler. Seeing three of them getting cut down didn't really hit that hard.
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Jun 21, 2017 01:04
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Rich tried to do the same thing he did with the police officers in that one town but that poo poo was lightning in a bottle
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Jun 21, 2017 01:15
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Reminder that a Julio Scoundrel backer story is (at some point) coming and you better believe we'll see the airship crew again.
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Calaveron posted:Rich tried to do the same thing he did with the police officers in that one town but that poo poo was lightning in a bottle The police guys had for them that they were parodies of the generic characters from dozens upon dozens of cop shows, so in a way readers were already familiar with them.
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Jun 21, 2017 10:54
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NihilCredo posted:I don't think your mom will last that long yowza
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Jun 22, 2017 05:24
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New one!
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Jun 24, 2017 15:33
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I would like to see that B-Plot.
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Jun 24, 2017 15:39
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I'm really starting to buy the "Rich is as tired of this miniarc as we are" theory.
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Jun 24, 2017 16:02
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PMush Perfect posted:I'm really starting to buy the "Rich is as tired of this miniarc as we are" theory. Much more believeable than Belkar's version of events, though equally as satisfying.
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Jun 24, 2017 16:08
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He really should loop a rope around the pommel.
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Jun 24, 2017 20:11
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Typoed his main elf's name!
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Jun 24, 2017 20:28
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Colonial Air Force posted:Typoed his main elf's name! Au contraire; that is actually V's identical twin sibling, who made a secret arrangement with Roy to swap places with V for secretive purposes.
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Jun 24, 2017 23:58
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Eifert Posting posted:He really should loop a rope around the pommel. I was thinking earlier today about people complaining that Roy should just buy a locking gauntlet already to stop stuff like this from happening... and then it occurred to me, even if he did that, Rich would just have something end up hacking Roy's hand (or even his whole arm) off and he'd still lose the sword anyway.
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W.T. Fits posted:I was thinking earlier today about people complaining that Roy should just buy a locking gauntlet already to stop stuff like this from happening... and then it occurred to me, even if he did that, Rich would just have something end up hacking Roy's hand (or even his whole arm) off and he'd still lose the sword anyway. Much later, people would complain that Roy should just pay the mecha-cthonian's to install a locking chain on his robo-arm already. And they'd have a point.
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Jun 25, 2017 01:32
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Schwarzwald posted:Much later, people would complain that Roy should just pay the mecha-cthonian's to install a locking chain on his robo-arm already. What he really needs is to master the art of greatsword shotput and get returning on that sucker.
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Jun 25, 2017 02:00
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Avoiding a really tedious subplot is a surprisingly good way to demonstrate how useful V has become now that they've focused on utility.
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I had a dream last night that Rich posted up like 3 strips together at once, and they were goddamn HILARIOUS. Like, cackling out loud funny.
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Jun 25, 2017 16:06
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my dreams are way fuckin cooler than this guy
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I feel like the point of the airship arc is to show how far the party has come. At the beginning of the comic they were bumbling around in a dungeon, failing Listen checks and running away from goblins. And in an interpersonal sense, they all had emotional issues they were trying to resolve. The airship crew are there to parallel the old party, with weird issues (I hate you for babysitting me!) and screw-ups on what should be relatively easy tasks. Meanwhile, the actual Order itself is flying around killing dozens of frost giants with class levels and being generally emotionally healthy people working together as a cohesive team. This arc is to establish that they're finally ready to actually beat Xykon (and confront the Snarl). It's dissatisfying on its own, but it's not meant to stand on its own. It's the climb at the beginning of the roller coaster. "Kinda anti-climactic, I guess. But everything that's not the climax is supposed to be, a little."
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Instead of this whole airship arc we should have just had flashback cutaways to O'chul being awesome at various points in time. In fact why can't that just be every strip.
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Jun 25, 2017 23:41
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O'chul is too o'cool for o'school. I don't know how O'chul is supposed to be pronounced.
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Jun 26, 2017 01:48
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Hate-Senpai posted:O'chul is too o'cool for o'school. Imagine a sneezing sound, then add an l.
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Jun 26, 2017 03:26
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Top o' the mornin', lads, I'm called O'chul!
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Jun 26, 2017 05:26
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Surprise twist, O'Chul rhymes with Opal
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Jun 26, 2017 07:17
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In my head it rhymes with Oh School or Oh Jewel.
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Zoe posted:In my head it rhymes with Oh School or Oh Jewel.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:38
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Zoe posted:In my head it rhymes with Oh School or Oh Jewel. same
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Zoe posted:In my head it rhymes with Oh School or Oh Jewel. This is Correct
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