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Raenir Salazar posted:Looks like they're making resting/preparing spells for another round with Xykon when Team Evil exits? Nah. We saw Redcloak preparing cleric spells a while back. There's no hand glowiness involved. That's definitely a spell being cast, with a long cast time. Like Sending and its 10 minute cast time.
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This also reads to me like Rich apologizing for things in the earlier books that he now finds problematic (mostly around gender issues), and/or the general weakness of the earlier stripS.
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Mar 27, 2021 00:44
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Nah. We saw Redcloak preparing cleric spells a while back. There's no hand glowiness involved. That's definitely a spell being cast, with a long cast time. Like Sending and its 10 minute cast time. He could be calling his mother.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:39
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Mar 27, 2021 01:42
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Boy, I really hope we don't wind up in some sort of situation where the amnesia potion reverses all of this character growth.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:10
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oobey posted:Boy, I really hope we don't wind up in some sort of situation where the amnesia potion reverses all of this character growth.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:18
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PMush Perfect posted:You know, the amnesia potions hitting them, and the character growth (and their trust in each other) somehow actually surviving that would be a pretty good way for Serini to end up convinced that this band of dipshits might actually be kind of special. I had the same thought.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:45
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The fight between Serini and the Order is going to be exactly like the second fight between the Order and Miko, isn't it? (as in, it gets completely redacted and the story cuts to the Order in chains)
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Mar 27, 2021 02:49
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My guess is that the amnesia potion is the way that Belkar draws his last breath. He doesn't die, he just ceases to be Belkar.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:56
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They'd already been hit by the amnesia potion and this is their second time through.
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Mar 27, 2021 04:53
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Random Stranger posted:Oh poo poo. Emotional resolution. Somebody is about to die. Yes. Probably Belkar.
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Mar 27, 2021 05:17
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So, where are y'all getting the idea that this potion will wipe their memories completely blank? She already said, to the Paladins, that it'll make them forget the last week or two, and they'll go back and report everything is fine and good with Kraagor's Gate.
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Mar 27, 2021 05:31
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I think that it's really nice that the team has had so much growth as a team and individually, although it's interesting that Roy has kinda grown more emotionally distant even as he learned more of how to respect the rest and use them to their best potential. Vaarsuvius went from being too good for adventuring to humbly serving in any way possible. Elan went from being a dumb annoying kid to being the most self-aware of the entire party to the point of being a savant. Belkar started genuinely caring about things, and he's on the precipice of even greater change. Haley opened up and solved basically all of her plot threads. We know that the order of the scribble hated eachother's guts by the end, but we don't really know much of how, and Team Evil has a pretty stable working relationship regardless of whatever resentment. There's even a whole mutual dependency going on.
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Mar 27, 2021 05:37
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think that it's really nice that the team has had so much growth as a team and individually, although it's interesting that Roy has kinda grown more emotionally distant even as he learned more of how to respect the rest and use them to their best potential. This is the inevitable fate of every Leader, and along on top of Roy's anguish over Durkula, I fully expect Roy to have to make some extremely difficult decisions about the party, and possibly being forced into dropping his distance-persona, prior to the comic's end.
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Mar 27, 2021 05:41
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Team Evil however has a large stable of secrets and plots interwoven over top of each other with "break glass in case of wrong turn" written on them that will all go off and catastrophically fail and destroy themselves and that is the only endgame that works.
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Mar 27, 2021 05:42
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Belkar ascends and becomes a Sexy Shoeless God of War. His unique quiddity saves the day.
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Sure, the Dark One had to do a whole drenched in blood song and dance. But the Elven gods didn't rise in blood, so it doesn't need to be done that way. (Though Belkar has by himself killed thousands of sapient beings and is pretty drenched in blood.) Elves have racial gods. Goblinoids have a racial god. Even dwarfs have a racial god despite being all-in on the Northern Pantheon. If there are enough race specific gods in the universe, eventually it fills in space with the idea that all people should have their own racial god and leaves a Halfling God shaped hole in the world.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Sure, the Dark One had to do a whole drenched in blood song and dance. But the Elven gods didn't rise in blood, so it doesn't need to be done that way. (Though Belkar has by himself killed thousands of sapient beings and is pretty drenched in blood.) Would you say that they’ve been... short-changed?
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Mar 27, 2021 06:14
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Belkar apologized, you all saw it, he's going to heaven now. Probably soon?
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Mar 27, 2021 08:27
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, where are y'all getting the idea that this potion will wipe their memories completely blank? Tbf the doses for a human vs a hobbit are probably pretty different but yeah very clearly all the character growth isnt gonna be erased
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Mar 27, 2021 12:36
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I have to wonder what the limits of the potion are - it sounds like it can implant false memories rather than just wiping back? Otherwise they'd go back to observing.
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MikeJF posted:I have to wonder what the limits of the potion are - it sounds like it can implant false memories rather than just wiping back? Otherwise they'd go back to observing. Maybe it's like the Memory charm from the Oracle Valley. It just erases certain details and then your mind backfills it all.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:03
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It'd have to be pretty heavy to get the order to just up and leave this situation they've been building to for a year.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:05
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What do you mean dwarves have a racial god? Thor's not specifically dwarven. And I imagine that even if a dwarf became a follower of another pantheon, the deal would be the same. Maybe they'd have to be extra careful because their new god wouldn't be as used to arguing with Hel for their soul.
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Dvalin is a god who was the first king of the dwarves, his vote was the linchpin of the whole Nokrud plan. https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1016.html
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, where are y'all getting the idea that this potion will wipe their memories completely blank? Honestly, the way the story cut from "This is a potion that erases memories," to, "Gee we sure have built a lot of memories together huh."
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Mar 27, 2021 16:58
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Mystic Mongol posted:Honestly, the way the story cut from "This is a potion that erases memories," to, "Gee we sure have built a lot of memories together huh." Plausible, but also would Serini have left them still sitting there ready to jump Xykon?
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SKULL.GIF posted:Plausible, but also would Serini have left them still sitting there ready to jump Xykon? They're not going anywhere.
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, where are y'all getting the idea that this potion will wipe their memories completely blank? Yeah but a good chunk of their growth has taken place over the last week or so.
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Who What Now posted:Yeah but a good chunk of their growth has taken place over the last week or so. How long did it take them to travel from the Dwarven lands to the North Pole?
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Who What Now posted:Yeah but a good chunk of their growth has taken place over the last week or so. Growth happens whether you remember certain things or not. Belkar wouldn't revert back to Mr. Stabbinton if you erased the last few months of memories. Might slip a bit, but the growth would still be there.
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sirtommygunn posted:Dvalin is a god who was the first king of the dwarves, his vote was the linchpin of the whole Nokrud plan. https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1016.html
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Bell_ posted:I wasn't expecting a two and half hour binge when I was already planning to visit a friend, but I guess that happened thanks to this link. Honestly, I've come to accept that is always what's going to happen when I click an old Order of the Stick link.
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ZearothK posted:Honestly, I've come to accept that is always what's going to happen when I click an old Order of the Stick link. 
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ZearothK posted:Honestly, I've come to accept that is always what's going to happen when I click an old Order of the Stick link. I noticed that when Belkar looked at the tracks at that ledge, there were proper halfling feet and ridiculous little wizard slippers. Serini has an accomplice who has yet to reveal themself. Based on the orange speech bubble when she was abducting Lien and Ochull, I can conclude it was either the Oracle (working for Tiamat) or another Kobold.
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covidstomper58 posted:I noticed that when Belkar looked at the tracks at that ledge, there were proper halfling feet and ridiculous little wizard slippers. Serini has an accomplice who has yet to reveal themself. Based on the orange speech bubble when she was abducting Lien and Ochull, I can conclude it was either the Oracle (working for Tiamat) or another Kobold. I figured the "ridiculous wizard slippers" were Vaarsuvius's and that Belkar was describing their own footprints alongside the paladins' armored boot prints.
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If it's a kobold and Belkar doesn't murder it for fun, that'll be a major revelation.
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Mar 30, 2021 02:58
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I forget; are kobolds Belkar's favored enemy, or have they just been a random running gag? I remember someone having Favored Enemy come up, but nothing else about it right now.
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TheAceOfLungs posted:I forget; are kobolds Belkar's favored enemy, or have they just been a random running gag? I remember someone having Favored Enemy come up, but nothing else about it right now. You get multiple favored enemies as you level up in Ranger. Belkar has at least three. One of them is definitely undead, dunno about the others. Humanoid (Human) is a likely bet.
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Wasn't he excited to use favoured enemy against the giants? Or rather the giant vampire? So that's probably one of them. Edit: Oh wait no maybe you're right and it was the undead bit.
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