Ambassador Gourntonk Memorial Thread

[Gift Jeraff]

To the (lizard)man with the monocle and deadpan poker face~

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0742.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0744.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0754.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0775.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0784.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0816.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0915.html


Rest in Peace

[NihhusHuotAliro]

Heck yes.

May he get his own spin off, and become as popular as That Guy With A Halberd.

Please, fandom, please...

[Zmeoaice]

:smallfrown:

Sensitive information indeed. Too bad the empress was a moron. Hopefully the spies will leak this information somehow.

[hopeful1212]

My personal hope is that the Empress isn't as stupid as she seems. That it's some kind of act or something and she's already onto Tarquin.

But in all likelihood she really is that stupid. :smallmad:

[The Pilgrim]

Mmmh... was there a drop of blood in Catgirl's dagger?

She is planning on resurrecting him later! She is double-crossing Tarquin!

Yes I'm being sarcastic. Do you really have any doubt about it?

[Warren Dew]

In a way, it was kind of nice that he got to play more of a part than just being a background character. Not that it was nice for him, of course.

[Armaius]

Alas, poor Gourntuck! I knew him well: a lizard
of infinite taste, of most excellent fancy: he hath
worn a monocle a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here sit those scales that I have seen I know
not how oft. Where be your diplomacy now? your
politics? your clever words? your flashes of insight,
that were wont to set the table to discussion? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

[martianmister]

Silly Gourntonk, when you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

[NihhusHuotAliro]

Silly Gourntonk, when you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

He wasn't playing at thrones; he was just an ambassador delivering a crucial message to help depose the mendacious Tarquin for the good of all the unnamed people who suffer under his unctuous rule.

This isn't political, this isn't international subterfuge, this is simply trying to do your duty and getting straight up murdered for it. This otiose game to which you refer cares nothing for the common nameless peasants crushed in a cavalcade of pointless war.

Only a pettifogging person would see a connection between what Gourntonk was doing and the Westerosi scumbag cutthroat politics.

If only Gourntonk had rolled better, he might have detected the treacherous ambuscade in its inchoate stages.

I guess that game of thrones is concomitant with politics and death, so I understand the association.

[Burner28]

His monocle was pretty neat, at least.

[Caex]

He seemed to be simply interesting background for the local political scene, and while this latest development doesn't rule that out (Team Tarquin taking on Reptilia as the next step in their conquests could very well just be more interesting background events), he went out showing himself to be up to something more than ambassadorial prattling. Also, apparently a sick monocle doesn't preclude skill with a sap.


He wasn't playing at thrones; he was just an ambassador delivering a crucial message to help depose the mendacious Tarquin for the good of all the unnamed people who suffer under his unctuous rule.

This isn't political, this isn't international subterfuge, this is simply trying to do your duty and getting straight up murdered for it. This otiose game to which you refer cares nothing for the common nameless peasants crushed in a cavalcade of pointless war.

Only a pettifogging person would see a connection between what Gourntonk was doing and the Westerosi scumbag cutthroat politics.

If only Gourntonk had rolled better, he might have detected the treacherous ambuscade in its inchoate stages.

I guess that game of thrones is concomitant with politics and death, so I understand the association.

I understand what you're getting at here, but his actions were, by the very definition of the term, political, and by attempting to work in secret to alert the head of another nation that members of her leadership were in cahoots with the leadership of other nations, they were also technically subterfuge.

Further, now that I'm thinking about it, it actually does remind me a little of (GoT spoilers) when Ned Stark sent word to Stannis to claim his rightful crown, since King Robert had no true heirs; this message was intercepted and ultimately cost Ned his head. That was political, subterfuge,and just, and had a similar outcome. It's not a perfect parallel, of course, but I hope you see what I'm saying.

Side note: your avatar is really cool.

[ti'esar]

As a self-evident fan of lizardfolk (especially nattily attired ones), I'll miss him. Though admittedly not that much.

[gerryq]

As a self-evident fan of lizardfolk (especially nattily attired ones), I'll miss him. Though admittedly not that much.

You'll be back daily.

[martianmister]

He wasn't playing at thrones; he was just an ambassador delivering a crucial message to help depose the mendacious Tarquin for the good of all the unnamed people who suffer under his unctuous rule.

You sound like he's some sort of hero who opposes Tarquin because of his evil ways. There is no reason to assume he's not some evil player.

[Warren Dew]

You sound like he's some sort of hero who opposes Tarquin because of his evil ways. There is no reason to assume he's not some evil player.
I doubt he was the principal at all. He was just delivering a message from the rulers of Reptilia, who were trying to do a favor for the Empress of Blood by warning her of a disloyal advisor, likely hoping for good relations in return.

The good of the common folk isn't likely to have had much to do with any of it.

[Finagle]

We still never found out what it was that he wanted to discuss, that was so important that it was for Her Majesty's earholes only. A dangling plot point.

[Zmeoaice]

We still never found out what it was that he wanted to discuss, that was so important that it was for Her Majesty's earholes only. A dangling plot point.

It's probably that Tarquin has been talking with Catgirl and Laurin even though the EoB and EoS are enemies.

[Kish]

We still never found out what it was that he wanted to discuss, that was so important that it was for Her Majesty's earholes only. A dangling plot point.
...huh? Yes we did, he got through telling her nearly all of it. That Tarquin had been conspiring with the Weeping King's advisors, in what, considering the declared enmity between the empires of Blood and Tears, appeared to be/technically was treason.

[Agnostik]

I will commemorate every anniversary of his death by wearing a monocle and not wearing pants.

[Bulldog Psion]

I will commemorate every anniversary of his death by wearing a monocle and not wearing pants.

Half-invisible, eh?

[Bird]

"Ambassador Gourntonk Memorial Thread."

OotS really does have the best fans.

[Sir_Leorik]

He had good taste in both clothing and eye wear, and for that the webcomic is lessened by his death. :smallfrown:

[Agnostik]

Half-invisible, eh?Yeah, 50% concealment is an added bonus. :smallamused:

[TheTeaMustFlow]

Since he had a monocle and was posh, i always thought of him as having a (upper-class) English accent. So I must weep for the tragic passing of one of my honourary countrymen.

*Insert traditional burial-at-sea speech, The Last Post, and broadside salute here.*

[DolGrenn]

May his legacy live on well past the current plot arc. :smallfrown:

[Solse]

Mmmh... was there a drop of blood in Catgirl's dagger?

She is planning on resurrecting him later! She is double-crossing Tarquin!


As everybody's favorite spoony bard would say:
"DUNN DUNN DUNNH!!!!!!!!"

[Olinser]

Nobody refers to him as Gourntonk.

Let Monocle Lizard Guy be enshrined next to Wizard Guy and That Guy With The Halberd for all eternity!

[Zmeoaice]

Nobody refers to him as Gourntonk.

Let Monocle Lizard Guy be enshrined next to Wizard Guy and That Guy With The Halberd for all eternity!

Tarquin calls him by his name in the comic he's introduced.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0742.html

[martianmister]

Tarquin calls him by his name in the comic he's introduced.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0742.html

He means fandom.