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ikanreed posted:In my defense I was really up my own rear end about my clever idea at the time I will be yoinking this for any future apologies I need to make.
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New strip: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1203.html iirc Belkar was originally completely incapable of tracking, so it's interesting to see that he has put some effort into learning it since.
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Nice to see a dead character again.
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If they’re playing Go, then Who’s on first?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nice to see a dead character again. Aw I missed that on my first reading.
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Goddamnit Elan
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Slashrat posted:New strip: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1203.html maybe there is some time fuckery going on since he appears to see the party's footprints
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poly and open-minded posted:maybe there is some time fuckery going on since he appears to see the party's footprints He sees the party's footprints because the party is there right now walking all over the place and creating new footprints.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nice to see a dead character again. rocketrobot posted:Aw I missed that on my first reading. Edit: oh wait now I see
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Proper halfling bare feet he says? In an area created by a legendary halfling?
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May 25, 2020 20:25
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In contrast to ridiculous little wizard slippers.
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Every Elan gag is kind of wistful, in that who knows how many more we'll get. Any one could concievably be the last.
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Slashrat posted:New strip: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1203.html https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0213.html Yeah, that's right. Alternately, tracking uses your Wisdom modifier, and Belkar has probably put some points into his Wisdom score since his Mark of Justice went off, so it could also be due to that.
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Belkar is by far one of my favorite "has learnt and grown" character arcs from any webcomic
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Ponsonby Britt posted:https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0213.html It's definitely mostly conscious effort (aka skill points), since his wisdom score at the start of the strip was 10 at most (it wasn't high enough to cast level 1 ranger spells until he got buffed with owl's wisdom) and even blowing every ability score increase on wisdom since wouldn't make him a better tracker than half the rest of the party.
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Slashrat posted:It's definitely mostly conscious effort (aka skill points), since his wisdom score at the start of the strip was 10 at most (it wasn't high enough to cast level 1 ranger spells until he got buffed with owl's wisdom) and even blowing every ability score increase on wisdom since wouldn't make him a better tracker than half the rest of the party. That, and he hasn't cast any Ranger spells since. Endure Elements and Jump seem like things Belkar would probably be all over.
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my dad posted:Goddamnit Elan Elan absolutely did this on purpose.
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ikanreed posted:It don't stack But it does allow easier access to the jugular.
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Darth TNT posted:But it does allow easier access to the jugular. I think he meant with the ring belkar's presumably still using. I wonder if it's not just a dungeon level but a whole dungeon through a portal or something behind each door.
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There's mention of the entire area being "extradimensional stone" or somesuch. Could be that every door leads into a giant Bag Of Holding-type dungeon in a box.
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That would open the fun possibility that the gate is actually hidden behind one of the doors. Not through one of them, but actually physically on the other side of one of the rifts in spacetime that lead into these dungeon caves. All the trickery of the cup game with the added security of still having to find which door the gate is behind.
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The doors are part of an elaborate combination lock and you have to open the right ones and keep them open in order to open the way to the gate
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Shugojin posted:The doors are part of an elaborate combination lock and you have to open the right ones and keep them open in order to open the way to the gate Ah, another dungeon designed by Westwood Associates.
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I'd always figured that the rift was hidden somewhere else entirely (like in or under the statue), but Roy raised the very fair point that Redcloak was part of the search party and also the one who'd pulled a shell game earlier, so he'd definitely have explored any such venue.
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The halfling rogue from Order of the scribble is still alive, right? Could Belkar have seen her tracks (proper bare halfling feet) and just been too dumb to realize he hadn't stepped there yet?
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ConfusedUs posted:The halfling rogue from Order of the scribble is still alive, right? Belkar isn't particularly stupid, just impulsive and lacking in wisdom. Plus, as I'm sure he would put it. "Belkar *knows* the ladies."
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ConfusedUs posted:The halfling rogue from Order of the scribble is still alive, right? Unknown at this time. Halflings live about 150ish years, so if she's still alive, she's probably very, very old. Shojo met Soon as a child, so it's possible she's still around.
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ConfusedUs posted:The halfling rogue from Order of the scribble is still alive, right? Serini Toormuck. A few dozen pages back I hypothesized that she is the dart-throwing person.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Unknown at this time. Halflings live about 150ish years, so if she's still alive, she's probably very, very old. Shojo met Soon as a child, so it's possible she's still around. There's also the matter of how exactly Xykon got ahold of her diary.
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Hmm, would it be possible that Serini has fallen onto team "destroy the world, save the souls?" I'd be interesting if she was one of those wanting the gates destroyed.
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Gynovore posted:Serini Toormuck. A few dozen pages back I hypothesized that she is the dart-throwing person. seems a high percentage guess, since she's both powerful, not yet seen and interested.
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She's probably dead, but it's possible that she started a group like Draketooth's to watch over the gate.
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I think a lot hinges on how exactly Xykon and Redcloak got Serini's diary in the first place. That is, after all, how they've been getting around to all the Gates.
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jng2058 posted:I think a lot hinges on how exactly Xykon and Redcloak got Serini's diary in the first place. That is, after all, how they've been getting around to all the Gates.
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ultrafilter posted:She's probably dead, but it's possible that she started a group like Draketooth's to watch over the gate. She might not be, Dorukan wasn't by the beginning of the comic and he was just a bog standard human.
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The diary was in dorukans tower library iirc
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Daikloktos posted:Oh, I assumed that was explained in Start of Darkness and nobody ever mentions that bit to the non-buyers There's almost no context to it in SoD either. Xykon just disappears from the plot for a while, and when he comes back he has the diary. It's referred to in dialogue twice: Xykon posted:I found the location of one of the other gates--in the diary of a halfling woman, oddly enough. Xykon posted:I read every page of that insipid diary I swiped. (It wasn't in Dorukan's library, since Xykon had it for years before he was able to get into Dorukan's dungeon.)
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Xykon recovered the diary here but there's no information as to how he found it in the first place.
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I've decided who the big player we only saw for one frame was. The cult of the hole who thinks the snarl deserves to exist
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