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Oh that's his punishment, isn't it? To die ingloriously out of combat, rendered even unable to quip effectively by riddles.
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We already had Belkar dying of a wasting disease (or close enough) and he only got stronger and more awesome from it. He'll be fine. Till he's not.
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Relax, y'all. I've took Burlew's cat hostage back in 2016 and given him an ultimatum. Belkar will be OK.
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Let us know if ya start talking in riddles in a few weeks.
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Eifert Posting posted:Relax, y'all. I've took Burlew's cat hostage back in 2016 and given him an ultimatum. Belkar will be OK. By the time Rich actually reaches the point where Belkar dies that cat will have died of old age and your threats will be useless.
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I'm glad that Hel is maintaining the tradition established by Thor, Odin, and Loki of the Northern Gods being essentially incompetent idiots.
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jng2058 posted:I'm glad that Hel is maintaining the tradition established by Thor, Odin, and Loki of the Northern Gods being essentially incompetent idiots. Loki seems okay tbh.
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Looking forward to the next year of giantitp posters fixating on this joke in the endless rotating Belkar Death Watch.
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Aw man, look at those sad dwarf-souls toiling for Hel 
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ESDK posted:Aw man, look at those sad dwarf-souls toiling for Hel Should have known better than to die of disease 
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I'd have expected a god of disease to just, you know, afflict people with divine boils or whatever? Like the times in the bible God smote huge groups with hemorrhoids or sudden infant death syndrome. I mean, she's a god, why does she need to follow the natural incubation period of a plague? When Thor hurls lightning he just does it, he doesn't stand around checking if there's enough static in the local clouds. No wonder she has no worshipers.
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Galvanik posted:I'd have expected a god of disease to just, you know, afflict people with divine boils or whatever? Like the times in the bible God smote huge groups with hemorrhoids or sudden infant death syndrome. I mean, she's a god, why does she need to follow the natural incubation period of a plague? When Thor hurls lightning he just does it, he doesn't stand around checking if there's enough static in the local clouds. Turns out she's Hela bad at her job. 
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Galvanik posted:I'd have expected a god of disease to just, you know, afflict people with divine boils or whatever? Like the times in the bible God smote huge groups with hemorrhoids or sudden infant death syndrome. I mean, she's a god, why does she need to follow the natural incubation period of a plague? When Thor hurls lightning he just does it, he doesn't stand around checking if there's enough static in the local clouds. They can only directly affect their domain within the boundaries of natural laws, and require clerics to affect the world directly
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Dias posted:Turns out she's Hela bad at her job. Na that's the Marvel version.
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ikanreed posted:They can only directly affect their domain within the boundaries of natural laws, and require clerics to affect the world directly Yeah, when Hel starts directly killing the people trying to stop her world destruction plot is when thor starts hammering any vamped dwarven clan leaders with lightning. The rules of when you're allowed to using your divine magic are on the net to Hel's benefit because there are frankly a lot more gods that don't want her to be queen of the northern gods than those who do. Even her dad is on her poo poo list right now!
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Also, it's a plot point that Hel's a pretty wimpy god, on account of having very few worshippers and/or dwarven souls to feed her divine power. Skulking and deal making are pretty much her only options.
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I feel like the god of giants could do better.
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Eifert Posting posted:I feel like the god of giants could do better. Eh, when most of your followers are designed to be killed by adventurers there's still only so much you can do.
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Shugojin posted:Eh, when most of your followers are designed to be killed by adventurers there's still only so much you can do. Redcloak is positively seething and he's not sure why.
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I still wonder if Rich will weasel his way out of the Belkar death thing. We already had one fake out with the vamping. It just somehow feels like the prophecy foreshadowing thing is too easy/obvious for Rich's tastes.
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ColdPie posted:I still wonder if Rich will weasel his way out of the Belkar death thing. We already had one fake out with the vamping. It just somehow feels like the prophecy foreshadowing thing is too easy/obvious for Rich's tastes. There is 100% going to be a twist. Belkar isn't going to die randomly to a generic random encounter or something and when/if he does die it's not going to be what Roy expects. Roy being aware of the prophecy means that it can't come true in his easily predicted way.
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The twist is that he's gonna "die" in the Shakespearean sense. 
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Belkar dies but then stabs a bunch of gods at a cruicial moment. He doesn't get resurrected or anything tho.
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Belkar will probably die and ascend to godhood to replace a god who is killed during a future plot even where it's god vs. god.
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The Midniter posted:Belkar will probably die and ascend to godhood to replace a god who is killed during a future plot even where it's god vs. god. Well, there is an entire pantheon that needs to be refilled. The EASTERN Pantheon. You know with gods like, Zeus, Aprodite and.....ARES, GOD OF WAR Although, Belkar is really less a God of War and a God of Stabbing things repeatedly.
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Jul 11, 2017 19:49
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The title is Sexy Shoeless God of War, thank you very much.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Although, Belkar is really less a God of War and a God of Stabbing things repeatedly. He'll have few things in his portfolio.
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Alright, calling it. In dealing with the Snarl, or the world within the snarl or whatever it is, they find the God Essences of the slain Eastern gods. Belkar gets his poo poo hosed up by...whatever, and etc etc etc, becomes a (minor?) god. or demigod. Those don't need to breathe.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Alright, calling it. If they don't all become gods of the new planet I want my money back.
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Jul 11, 2017 22:23
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I just want Elan's happy ending.
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Malpais Legate posted:I just want Elan's happy ending. We've had it.
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ZearothK posted:The title is Sexy Shoeless God of War, thank you very much. This is going to be The Twist, and I am so mad I didn't think of it until now.
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ZearothK posted:The title is Sexy Shoeless God of War, thank you very much. yeah, but as karmic justice, he'll become Belkar, Halfling God of Shoes.
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Mylan posted:yeah, but as karmic justice, he'll become Belkar, Halfling God of Shoes. Actually, what if he was the God of Shoes, cooking and cats.
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Rumda posted:We've had it. Please, that's as stupid a cop-out as the ones the oracle tried here
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Elan's character arc really was to gain the begrudging respect of his peers. Other than Durkon who may well have been vamped before seeing Elan's change for the partially useful he has that now even a little from Belkar. I can't really see anywhere else for Elan to go. Hell Elan even faced the fact that he loved stories more than he cared about people in the form of his father and realized that a strong narrative is a really bad thing to chain your entire life to.
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reignofevil posted:Elan's character arc really was to gain the begrudging respect of his peers. Other than Durkon who may well have been vamped before seeing Elan's change for the partially useful he has that now even a little from Belkar. I can't really see anywhere else for Elan to go. I was really struck by the fact that Roy told Elan to rest up along with V in the most recent strip. Before, Roy would only tell V and Durkon to rest up, because he didn't care what Elan did. But now he finally respects Elan's casting abilities enough to treat them like a strategic resource.
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Elan's magic works on Roy's true passion: Architecture.
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