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  1. 1. What Gender do you think Varsuvius is?

  2. 2. Which Order Member is your Favorite?



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Just found this thread - good to see other 17th Sharders are OOtS fans too. :-)

 

I've never played D&D, so it has been fun learning all the jargon (XP, NPC, etc.) as well as enjoying the story.

 

I'm waiting for Belkar to join the current fight. IMO the real Durkon has to reappear soon - this vampire thing has been going on for quite a while.

 

Do you think we'll we ever find out what the "monster" under the pink kitty umbrella is?

Posted

Just found this thread - good to see other 17th Sharders are OOtS fans too. :-)

 

I've never played D&D, so it has been fun learning all the jargon (XP, NPC, etc.) as well as enjoying the story.

 

I'm waiting for Belkar to join the current fight. IMO the real Durkon has to reappear soon - this vampire thing has been going on for quite a while.

 

Do you think we'll we ever find out what the "monster" under the pink kitty umbrella is?

 

Yep, I'm over Durkula.  Come on, Belkar!  Is now your time to go out in a blaze of shoeless glory?

 

We will; Rich has said as much.  He has plans for exactly what the Monster in the Darkness is and does, but I expect we won't see it until the end of Book 7.  So it's gonna be a few more years.

Posted

Reading this, it's nice to know that a few of the things that have confused me (Shadow monster under the umbrella, V's gender) are universal and intended mysteries.

Posted

Where's a sexy shoeless god of war when you need one?

 

Actually, I'm very curious how this fight will be resolved. Belkar dropping in out of the blue might seem Deus ex Machina-ey, especially since (as far as we know) he's still alive, so he can't get through the Anti-Life Sheel anyway...

Posted

Ooooh - what about Crystal? Is there a way for her to show up? She's not alive, though her focus is pretty much just Haley.

 

Also, IIRC, whatever is inhabiting Durkon is/was a shaman, but since he's there as Thor's representative, maybe there will be some kind of technicality that will get him booted out?

 

Or maybe Thor himself can solve the problem. Wasn't he chatting with Hel when Durkon died still praying to him? -  so this whole thing is knid of his fault.

 

Really hoping for a new strip this week. :-)

Posted (edited)

Monday morning & 1012 is up.

 

Looks like some of your guesses were spot-on!

 

I'm thinking, though - Durkon was Thor's cleric, but Durkula is actually there representing Hel.

 

So Thor still could send a representative, right? ... and break the tie? He'd probably want to do it just to thward Hel.

 

Better yet, our own Durkon is [1] not alive, [2] already inside the antilife shell, and [3] would surely be happy to cast Thor's No vote.

 

I'm thinking it's time for the real dwarf to come forth. :-)

 

[* Edited to get rid of auto-symbols when I wanted ordinals...]

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Posted

1015 is out!

 

He's baaaaaack!

 

Also, "I'm not emotioanlly equipped to deal with bad things happening to good people". That is some surprisingly insight from the sexy shoeless god of war.

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Strip 1022! Roy broke a stick.

He broke. A. STICK.

They must be declaring war on this fandom. Quick, assemble the stick-a-paults!

Posted

Strip 1022! Roy broke a stick.

He broke. A. STICK.

They must be declaring war on this fandom. Quick, assemble the stick-a-paults!

 

Dangit, why do these always seem to go up while I'm at work?

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I'm sorry to say that the stick-a-paults proved faulty, seeing as how they were made of investiture and cookies.

 

...GiantIP may have gotten away with stick-breaking this time, but we will have revenge...

Posted

I'm sorry to say that the stick-a-paults proved faulty, seeing as how they were made of investiture and cookies.

 

...GiantIP may have gotten away with stick-breaking this time, but we will have revenge...

 

But it wasn't Stick.  It was his eeeevil alter-ego, NecromancyStick.

Posted

But it wasn't Stick.  It was his eeeevil alter-ego, NecromancyStick.

Oh. Maybe I shouldn't have invested in all those catapults, then.

Posted

In case anyone didn't already know...

 

The most recent comic, "Mark of Distinction," is a tribute to a member of the Giant in the Playground forums who passed away in 2013. Rich Burlew asked this member's wife whether there was anything he could do, and she told him that her husband had always wanted to see a walk-in character with his screen name in an Order of the Stick comic.

 

This member went by the name Wrecan. He was, among other things, known for starting a massive project to count the number of strips every single OotS character appeared in, which is why the comic version of him apparently "likes counting things" enough to leave notes in the margins keeping track of how often different legacy bearers are mentioned.

 

Just thought you'd all want to know who this strip was a tribute to.

Posted

I admit, I didn't know that.

(To be honest, I thought the counting things was just a side character quirk, possibly like...uh...that kid in Elantris whose name I can never remember).

This adds a new dimension to Roy's "Wish I had known you better" line though...

Posted

Does anyone know how long it's been in universe since the Pyramid blew up? I'm trying to figure out how long Xykon's been at the last gate, since he teleported directly there.

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Does anyone know how long it's been in universe since the Pyramid blew up? I'm trying to figure out how long Xykon's been at the last gate, since he teleported directly there.

 

I'm really not sure.  That'd be a good question to search for/ask on the GitP forums.

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1028! I hope there's not a mutiny before the Order reaches the dwarven lands. We the fans really do not need more stalling right now.

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