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someonenonotyou
2008-10-23, 12:00 PM
Im not sure if this has been brought up before but don't think it has but when i was rereading
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0507.html in this comic :durkon: says "Izzit just me, or do we get attacked WAY to often?
:vaarsuvius: I belive thats why there dubbed "Random Encounters" rather than "Satistcally Probale Encounters"
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0145.html
But acording to this comic we know that "Random Encounters" are Satistcally Probale Encounters" and there should have been only one Encounter

batsofchaos
2008-10-23, 12:05 PM
The theory that a group gets attacked once and only once by a random encounter while on the way from point A to point B requires the travellers to have a point B that they are headed towards. At the point where this comic occurs, the fleet is fairly adrift with no solidified point B to get to, so it could be likely that the rule of one random encounter isn't in effect.

Also, rule of funny can get overridden by rule of plot just as often as the opposite is true.

Linkavitch
2008-10-23, 01:41 PM
Also, I thought that the 'Izzit' would have been debated, but then it could of just been :durkon:'s accent.

amanamana
2008-10-23, 02:05 PM
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0509.html

You can see by this one that they were not random encounters, because the imp had charmed the monsters into attacking.

JT Jag
2008-10-23, 02:16 PM
*sucker-punches the TC*

THERE ARE NO PLOTHOLES

*drags the TC to the Rehabilitator*

Ron Miel
2008-10-23, 02:48 PM
Im not sure if this has been brought up before but don't think it has but when i was rereading
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0507.html in this comic :durkon: says "Izzit just me, or do we get attacked WAY to often?
:vaarsuvius: I belive thats why there dubbed "Random Encounters" rather than "Satistcally Probale Encounters"
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0145.html
But acording to this comic we know that "Random Encounters" are Satistcally Probale Encounters" and there should have been only one Encounter

No, there's no mistake there. Durkon knows that there should have been only one random encounter. But there have been many, hence his statement that they get attacked too often.

NerfTW
2008-10-25, 10:37 AM
Don't be literal with the jokes. The one random encounter per trip was a joke. They are free to ignore it for the sake of another joke about "statistically probable encounters".

donkyhotay
2008-10-27, 01:09 PM
There are no mistakes or plot holes, anything that appears to be one is actually because a wizard did it. (c;

Enlong
2008-10-27, 02:15 PM
Also, V's theory of Random Encounters still holds true.


Given that the lands... ...are nondescript and no plot related villains are involved.

Kubota and Qarr are/were plot related.

Warlord JK
2008-11-04, 12:01 AM
These aren't random encounters. The bad guys are making the trolls attack and the other monsters.