Your bad sub plots (and secretly wanted sub plots) for OOTS

[Vulkan]

Alright now in this thread you post horrible sub plots and desired character development on purpose and while doing so actually hide some thing your embarrassed or shy to admit wanting.

:smallsigh: Miko is resurrected and becomes nothing more but just a recurring villain and comic foil.. You know despite the fact that wouldn't really work... There is a reason why I called this "Your bad sub plots for OOTS"

[Bavarian itP]

Attending a public science exhibit, Nale is bitten on the hand by a radioactive flumph accidentally irradiated by a particle beam, empowering Nale with the ability to hover at 2mph.

[Conuly]

Attending a public science exhibit, Nale is bitten on the hand by a radioactive flumph accidentally irradiated by a particle beam, empowering Nale with the ability to hover at 2mph.

...and will he develop a compelling need to run around the city and be fallen on?

[Turkish Delight]

Elan copes with discovering that Haley was once a man.

Would that still be as disturbing to people in a world with apparently easy access to really powerful polymorph spells and belts of gender bending?

[WildPyre]

V attends a convention of mathmagicians and we're all forced to watch as s/he sits through a lecture on geomemancy.

:roy: Why are we here again?

:vaarsuvius: I apologize... I had thought this to be pertaining to earth-based spells. It would seem I misread it.

[Haven]

Elan copes with discovering that Haley was once a man.

Would that still be as disturbing to people in a world with apparently easy access to really powerful polymorph spells and belts of gender bending?

Considering Elan was "curious (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0234.html)", I think it'd be more likely to be the other way around. And Haley does have her latent bisexuality and...wait, don't want to turn this into Crack Pairings Jr. Or do I?

[Deliverance]

The Creator of the Universe, in a fit of logic, realizes that there is no compelling reason why the mere existence of N devises that must not fall to Xykon should cause it to give Xykon contractual immortality and an iterating "nearly reached the goal, then the gate was destroyed" scenario for N-1 gates.

In a shock move, Xykon is defeated and utterly destroyed at Girard's gate without having to embarge on yet another doomed plan to seize Serini's/Kraagor's gate. Weakened after a furious assault by the entire order, Xykon is struck down by Elan standing grieving over Roy's few smoking remains and wielding the Greenhilt sword.

Redcloak and Varsuvius, hovering far over the battlefield, fight each other to a standstill in a duel of divine vs. arcane magic for the fate of Xykon's phylactery! Haley, attempting one last brilliant feat of acrobatics to save her friend manages to knock the phylactery flying but ends up landing in a pool of acid filled with aid breathing sharks! The phylactery traces a gentle curve and ends up accidentally eaten by the Monster in the Dark, its stomach processes the one thing capable of destroying the Phylactery despite its magical protections.

Redcloak is disintegrated! V burns out and crashes. The IFCC, ready to intervene and seize the day through their chosen tool, has their license to meddle revoked by their superiors! They are up for an alignment review on the serious charge of taking part of Non-cruel and Necessary Cooperation, and they just might not make it.

Without aid, V's magical ability burns out - nevermore will he raise as much as a single spark of magic.

It is a grand victory, but not one without cost.


What happens next:

Durkon collects Roys ashes and the Greenhilt sword, travels to visit Julia to bring her the good news, then heads for the dwarven homelands. As he is nearly in sight of his home, his heavy abuse of his liver finally catches up with him and he expires. Examining the body of the brave young dwarf, who ventured so far from home and died so pitifully, the high priest of Thor has a revelation and introduces light alcohol beer or, as the sceptics would have it, non-beer beer. The dwarven nation sinks into a profound misery and decline from which it will never arise, Durkon's homecoming having destroyed everything he loved.

V, seeking spiritual enlightenment to replace the magic he has lost, enters an Elvish monastery. He is accompanied by Blackwing, whom the elders insist is a fighment of his imagination, but being V, he knows better. He becomes a specialist in obscure and irrelevant bits of esoterica and eventually dies, unmourned and forgotten by all except by a few scholars as eccentric as himself.

Belkar, long dead in that unfortunate armadillo incident, fights his way up through the ranks of the hells eventually seizing a position as the shoeless demon-god of rampant slaughter. To "Belkar" an enemy enters the miltary vocabulary and while few worship him, all fear his deranged cult and his presence.

Haley is happy in her chaotic-goodish afterlife; It isn't all she expected, for she really didn't spend much time thinking about it while alive, but it is good enough and there's always an opportunity for a girl with ambition.

Roy's soul was utterly destroyed in the fight against Xykon. Not a trace of him remains save the ashes Durkon took north, he has died the ultimate death. If he had known that this would be the cost of defeating Xykon, he'd have done it anyway. Some sacrifices are worth making, even if they'll remain unknown and unappreciated.

Elan channels his grief at losing Haley into improving his music and becomes an accomplished bard. Settling down in the reconquered Azure City, he marries the chick who kissed him on new year's eve during the OOTS first visit. She has been through a dangerous time as a soldier, scuba diver, and lion tamer in the meanwhile, but she never forgot that handsome stranger. She loves puppets too. While he never forgets his first love or her perfect dramatic death, life goes on. Elan gets his happy ending, patriarch of a growing brood of master puppeteers, who in his twilight spread the joys of puppetry to far lands. :smallsmile:

Eugene Greenhilt, freed from the constraints of the magical oath he swore in a moment of drunkenness, is finally allowed into the lawful good afterlife. His record isn't perfect, but then, perfection is not required. If a few poor decisions, white lies told to children, or changing your mind would bar a man from being considered "good" or "lawful", there would be no reason for the whole alignment spectrum to begin with as everybody could be chunked into the "neutral" pile. He grieves for what seems like years but might be decades for his strange son, much beloved but never understood, with whom he had a most complex relationship, for the destruction of the soul is the worst thing he can contemplate. Finally getting over his excessive grief, he then devotes his full attention to something new that has caught his interest. As in life, so in death.

[WildPyre]

Woah that seems less a "Bad sub-plot" than it does "wild fan fiction" or "rampant dislike of the current direction and the sense that you could have done better".


That's... that's umm... I'm not sure what that is.

[Swordpriest]

Woah that seems less a "Bad sub-plot" than it does "wild fan fiction" or "rampant dislike of the current direction and the sense that you could have done better".


That's... that's umm... I'm not sure what that is.

I would characterize it as "odd but interesting," myself. :smallsmile:

[Zxo]

Right-Eye gets resurrected. :smallsmile: He's one of my favourite characters.

[Vulkan]

Can halflings and elves mate?

Yea you know where I'm going with this.

[Closak]

Spike the lizardman attacks the order because he's been tricked into thinking they are out to get him and he decides to launch a pre-emptive strike.
He also brings his friends.

Chaos ensues as one level 13 lizardman and a bunch of crazies tries to kill the order.

In the ensuing battle V get's his/her skull split wide open by a Really Freaking Big Sword That Requires A Strenght Score Of 18 To Even Lift (tm) effectively killing him/her.

Durkon meanwhile get's buried alive under a lot of dirt and falling trees.

And Belkar get's his head chopped of by Spike.

Elan get's shot repeadetedly and is incapacitated by a arrow lodged in his brain.

By the end only Roy and Haley are still standing, the other members of the order being either knocked out or dead.

Then it turns out Spike is alive and just entered his "OMGWTHBBQ MURDER" berserk mode.

Roy get's his jugular vein torn right out of his neck, then stabbed multiple times until there isn't a single spot on his body that isn't filled with stab wounds.

Spike exits the berserk mode, and falls over, leaving only Haley still standing.

Then Xykon teleports in and nukes her.


THE END.

[Draconi Redfir]

the V and o'chul traveling with the order turn out to be Hobgoblins under illusions sent by Redclaok. the real V/o-chul are now i the captivity of Redcloak, with Xylon non the wiser. Redcloak eventually kills O-chul out of mercy after he cotracts terrible ganggreen, and he takes V as his mate and the two have a scorcerer daughter.

then eavrything Water smurf has written about her comes true :smallbiggrin:

[Debatra]

:eek: ........... Closak, you have problems.

[Closak]

I am aware of that yes.

[licoot]

The reason Durkon had to leave his homelands was because he had an affair with a tree, causeing his deep fear of them.

[Zanaril]

Can halflings and elves mate?

:belkar: We could have fun finding out.

[licoot]

In the ensuing battle V get's his/her skull split wide open by a Really Freaking Big Sword That Requires A Strenght Score Of 18 To Even Lift (tm) effectively killing him/her...

...And Belkar get's his head chopped of by Spike.

Elan get's shot repeadetedly and is incapacitated by a arrow lodged in his brain...

...Roy get's his jugular vein torn right out of his neck, then stabbed multiple times until there isn't a single spot on his body that isn't filled with stab wounds.


EWW:eek::biggrin:

[Closak]

Yes, Spike is...pretty violent when pissed off at someone.

Just ask the poor fool who made the mistake of throwing him of a mountain once.

...Why am i talking so much about a character i read about in a Fanfic?

[Draconi Redfir]

same reasion i mentione Tiasaal.


we are both mentally unstable :smallbiggrin:

[WreckedElf]

It seems that some people took sub plots to mean, drastic turn of events for the whole cast. I sense some latent feelings of violence towards the characters here...

Anywho... how about the Flumphs get revenge by wearing spiked helmets.

Tsukiko ends up dating the reanimated yet still sentient undead corpse of Belkar... They later marry in a service conducted by undead Durkon.

Xykon pursues his secret ambition of using his mastery of dark magics to brew such an potent unholy cup of coffee that even an undead lich with no tongue can taste it!

Elan, by luck, out tricks Girard with an illusion, leading to a long running fued in which the over-paranoid Girard is convinced that Elan is a powerful illusionist and deciever who is merely pretending to be dumb and using epic magic to hide his true powers. This of course leads to a confusing scene where Elan, Nale, and Girard (disguised as Nale via illusion), and Sabine (disguised as Elan via shapeshifting) are all trying to find Haley who went into hiding to escape the imposter-elan overdose.

The elves liberate Azule City, then decide to keep it for themselves, naming it Verde Town. Just because.

... That's all I got right now.

[Murdim]

A cosmic imbroglio, caused by the ongoing weakening of the fabric of reality, sends our hapless heroes (and Belkar (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndZoidberg)) to a very famous but unrelated "Gate"... namely, Baldur's Gate, in the distant plane of Toril. Hilarity ensues as they encounter another wacky, mid-level, mostly Good-aligned, six-person adventuring party, on a quest to save countless lives from a Chaotic Evil, charismatic, mass-murdering, power-hungry maniac.
I totally ship Belkar with Minsc and Boo, and Imoen with Elan and Haley. Yes, both of them, in both cases.

[Vulkan]

The Drow returns for vengeance on V... A umm vendetta if you would

[Deliverance]

That's... that's umm... I'm not sure what that is.
Try "silly thread hijacking after reading way too many forum threads where people analyze the characters actions in order to arrive at conclusions that support their preexisting prejudices" - that's the mood I was in at the time, at any rate. :smallbiggrin:

So for my sub-plot, I chose the ending. Admit it - wouldn't it be interesting if the OOTS didn't end the way everybody is expecting based on the heavy hints, oracular utterances, and adherance to conventions that Rich make heavy use of? It might not end us as satisfying a story, which is why I expect Rich to continue trudging on through the plot as he has until now, but it sure is interesting to contemplate. :smallsmile:

[Water-Smurf]

the V and o'chul traveling with the order turn out to be Hobgoblins under illusions sent by Redclaok. the real V/o-chul are now i the captivity of Redcloak, with Xylon non the wiser. Redcloak eventually kills O-chul out of mercy after he cotracts terrible ganggreen, and he takes V as his mate and the two have a scorcerer daughter.

then eavrything Water smurf has written about her comes true :smallbiggrin:

Maybe you don't want everything to come true...

Well, since my fanfiction coming true has already been entered, I'll have to think of another subplot. :smalltongue:

Like V and Belkar having a stormy affair ending with triplets after a failed protection spell (maybe he should have told her that his family had triplets for five successive generations :smallwink: ) and, when Belkar is destroyed by the Snarl, Vaarsuvius grieves and moves to the outskirts of the elven land to raise the children alone, only visited when Haley, Elan, Roy, and/or Durkon stops by or Inkyrius drops the kids off for the weekend, which Vaarsuvius managed to haggle out of the court. The Order has an annual reunion in the land that both Gobbotopia and the Azurites claim, and it was during the tenth one that Hinjo convinces Roy to drag the rest of the Order to a negotiation with the goblin people over the fair distribution of fertile land and Vaarsuvius starts talking with Redcloak. They have a long-distance relationship for a few years until Redcloak asks Vaarsuvius to marry him, prompting his retirement from the spotlight and he moves in with his fiancé, taking a more removed but still active role in goblin rights. After another few years, Vaarsuvius becomes pregnant again. By the time she is done having children, she has three by Belkar and four by Redcloak, all of which go out into the world to become successful casters and civil rights activists. While Belkar is never forgotten, Redcloak and Vaarsuvius stay happily married until his death, him having given up his cloak to another cleric after his children were grown and he finally retired completely. Vaarsuvius dies only a couple weeks later.

Done! :D

[Debatra]

*snip*

...*sniff* It's beautiful!



:smalltongue: In all seriousness, it's a good one.

EDIT: As for me, I'd like to see Belkar remember the k-

:vaarsuvius: Ahem. :smallmad:

Er... "the Event". Then do it again, sober this time.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Can halflings and elves mate?

Yea you know where I'm going with this.

The offspring of an elf and halfling would be an elfling.

Then you cross one of them with a giant...

When single shines the triple sun...

Yes, I know. I'm doing database upgrades at the moment and it is affecting my mind.