Elan's warning

[DnDgeek13]

remember here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0663.html) when elan warn O-chul that saying certain stuff will fget you killed?

i was reading through the archive and i found that here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0360.html) it shows what would happen if elan was right.

just noticing

[Acero]

Elan apparently learns from past experiences....
I didn't know that

[Tannhaeuser]

Is it experience, or just bardic intuition?

[Berserk Monk]

remember here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0663.html) when elan warn O-chul that saying certain stuff will fget you killed?

i was reading through the archive and i found that here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0360.html) it shows what would happen if elan was right.

just noticing

Um, is there anything to this thread?

[Puns de León]

Is it experience, or just bardic intuition?

It IS bardic intuition; it cannot be experience, as Elan was unconscious at the time of the Chief's death.

[LurkerInPlayground]

Yeah, but O-Chul has a name.

Thus, the power of plot makes him immune.

[Ehra]

Um, is there anything to this thread?

Is there anything to this post?

[Herald Alberich]

Yeah, but O-Chul has a name.

Thus, the power of plot makes him immune.

It drastically increases his chances of survival, but this gnome (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0539.html) had a name too, while the Cleric (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0602.html) of Loki (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0612.html) did not.

[OITS]

Has anybody read the title of #0663?

"Or Mention That He's Getting Too Old for This"

(just to ensure that everbody gets this joke ;) )

[Katana_Geldar]

That's right, Elan's just Dangerously Genre Savvy.

[Silverraptor]

Um, is there anything to this thread?

Is there anything to this post?

Oh! Ninja'd!

[King of Nowhere]

Yeah, but O-Chul has a name.

Thus, the power of plot makes him immune.

It's not about having a nam, but about having the specific name "O-Chul"

[Watcher]

*points at this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0478.html) strip, too*

[Goosefarble]

Yeah, but O-Chul has a name.

Thus, the power of plot makes him immune.

Tell that to Sangwaan. :smallfrown:

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Tell that to Sangwaan. :smallfrown:

Why would Sangwaan be imune to anything in the plot? She's an NPC, and almost by definition expendable!

Only one character has enough plot armor to make it to the end of the strip in one piece, and that is Elan. Haley gets some cover since she's dating Elan, but the rest? Two are just running out the clock (Belkar and Durkon), one has already been dead for nine months (Roy), and one may well be in huge trouble with the Queen of Dragons (Vaarsuvius)!

Roy dying to save everyone else? Common enough element in heroic fiction.
Vaarsuvius being killed by a major BBEG for the BBEG's own reasons? Also common enough. Neither is completely doomed at this moment, but if either Roy of V perma-die I wouldn't be suprized in the least.

[Tannhaeuser]

Only one character has enough plot armor to make it to the end of the strip in one piece, and that is Elan.

I am not sure even about Elan. The Oracle said there will be a happy ending, "for [Elan] at least." Elan, I think, could die entirely happily, knowing that he had helped save his friends and/or the world—so his ending would be happy for him, at least, though it would make Haley, Roy, Durkon, probably Vaarsuvius, and me completely miserable.

[Watcher]

I don't think Haley being miserable would be a happy ending for Elan.

[Katana_Geldar]

Somehow a happy ending for Elan puts me in mind of him and Haley going off into the sunset.

[Querzis]

There is also this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0458.html).

You know, I just realized that everytime things like this work, it involve one of the two brothers. Otherwise tropes or 'dangerous words' like that are usually totally subverted in this comic. The twins arent just Genre Savy, they expect those tropes to happen so much that it automatically happen around them no matter what.

And now I'm sad because after reading that comic again, I realize this is the last time we saw the Linear Guild :smallfrown:. I miss Nale, Thog and Sabine so much, every dialog between Nale and Thog were pure comedy gold and all the dialog and the romance between Nale and Sabine was so evil and cute at the same time. I want my Linear Guild back.

[Katana_Geldar]

Somehow, given the hints of the three fiends, I think we'll be seeing them VERY soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if the OOTS ran into them on the western continent

[Tannhaeuser]

I don't think Haley being miserable would be a happy ending for Elan.

That is a very good point, and I certainly hope you are right and I am wrong. On the other hand, Elan is not really the kind of person to think that far ahead; just saving her life might be enough for him to die happily.

[Zolkabro]

A really happy ending for Elan would be Banjo getting acknowleged as a proper diety.

[Tannhaeuser]

A really happy ending for Elan would be Banjo getting acknowleged as a proper deity.

Well, Banjo has been acknowledged as a deity -- whether a proper one or not I suppose depends on your opinion of orcs (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0561.html).

[Heroic]

Is it experience, or just bardic intuition?

Bardic intuition, definately.

[the_tick_rules]

Elan knows his dramatics.

[Ted The Bug]

Anyone who waits for an explosion before jumping (IE Dorukan's Gate) knows that whenever you draw attention to something, something dramatic happens.

[Morquard]

Only one character has enough plot armor to make it to the end of the strip in one piece, and that is Elan.

I disagree. Oracle said he'd have a happy ending.

Tragic version: Haley dies, Elan is miserable. He dies too shortly afterwards, meets Haley in the afterlife. Happy ending.

Bardic version: Elan goes out so heroicly, that he'll live forever in stories and bard tales. What happier ending could there be for a bard?

Thats just two versions that Elan could very well interpret as happy ending, which has him dead.

[Tannhaeuser]

Dude, post 16. No Kill Stealing!

:xykon:


Actually, I was just looking for an opportunity to use that line.