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2019-01-27, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
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2019-01-29, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Doubt that Forgath's death will be permanent since there wasn't a lot of screaming unless that happens in the next update.
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2019-01-29, 06:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-29, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-04, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
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2019-02-04, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I like the art on this one.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-02-05, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
It amuses me that it kind of looks like he is yelling Allah in the last panel.
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2019-02-05, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Because of course the dwarf only poison is like doing shots of hydrochloric acid. Wait, let me guess again, his klik parts will keep him alive longer meaning his pain is going to be horribly brutal. Couldnt he get a coup de grace from bowst or something? Like lie down on his stomach, let bowst chop off his head, no pain, then rezz him? Why take screaming death weed poison?
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Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-02-05, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-02-05, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-05, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Because he said it isn't going to work. He's (in his own mind) not going to be successfully resurrected. He just took a poison which will kill him (for good) and he's scared. Now there's nothing he can do but dread the oncoming (darkness? What does the afterlife look like in his religion?).
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2019-02-05, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
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2019-02-05, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I wonder if the whole "how to die" lesson by Idle will come up to calm him down.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-02-05, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-05, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-06, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I used to say that Thunt had a solid writing, but I'm just not seeing it here.
Idle's a dwarf, out of the blue. So we're suppose to think Forgath might die here.
Which is... Well... Kinda the point of poisoning him. I mean, the plan is to have him die and then being resurrected.
Which is a loophole to the prophecy. Which reminds a lot of Dies Horribly...
If Forgath was to die this way, it would make a poor story.
If Forgath does not die this way, this waste of time has little interest.Last edited by Quild; 2019-02-06 at 05:38 PM.
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2019-02-07, 01:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Yeah, I'm not sure why Forgath thinking about the prophecy makes him think the plan will fail. He already knows he's going to die, so if it's the prophesied death, good, that means he doesn't have to worry about a second one.
I agree that I don't get the point of "revealing" that Idle was a dwarf all along. It could have been revealed way earlier. As it is, it looks like the author just came up with it at the last minute, which is the opposite of how Thunt writes.
And why get poisoned when Bowst is used to executing people painlessly, as others have pointed out here?
The whole thing seems like a stretch from several directions to make it fit somehow. I hope it has a conclusion that explains it all after the fact, otherwise the lack of foreshadowing makes it anticlimactic. Had we known Idle was a dwarf earlier, or had it been a secret but little hints were there for us to figure it out (if that's the case, I missed them, but I'd be happy to be wrong) it would be a lot more satisfying.
Also, Forgath is the one that ate the poison so really, he killed himself. Which still qualifies as being killed by a dwarf so the whole thing about Idle being a dwarf is useless in the first place for the prophecy.
And there is another part of the prophecy about the snake being someone's prey and friends becoming enemies, which makes me think this isn't the prophesied death anyway.
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2019-02-07, 01:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
maybe they figured Bowst couldn't just cut forgath's head off since he's so much Klik now, and he might have Klik sections inside / around his neck that wouldn't be cut-able?
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2019-02-07, 05:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
The foreshadowing was really thin, but there was a bit ot it:
Second panel, Iddle is slipping that she's more connection to dwarf culture than we can think (It can be interpreted as "I've known dwarves and they taught me some things", but that's the whole point of hint like that: double reading.)
But that's it, that's all I found here.
Still, it was the 10th page of the 29 pages of 2018, so we might tell that Iddle's hidden race was planned for at least 9 months.
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2019-02-07, 06:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I'm fairly confident that Idle's race was planned all along. This whole thing was probably planned all along. It's just so poorly written and conveyed that it feels cheap.
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2019-02-07, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
My best guess is that Thunt 'Shyamalaned' himself -- we all suspect the prophecy is going to have a twist, so he's got to have a twist, but a twist you're expecting is very hard to make interesting. Plus, with everyone looking for it, making the twist be truly surprising, but not 'didn't see coming because it was based on information audience couldn't know' and thus seem cheap, is super hard. So he's kind of getting rid of the prophecy in a 'good enough' way.
Which is another way of saying I agree this is bad writing and a lower part of the story, effectiveness-wise, I just think Thunt is ripping off a Band-Aid and hoping to get the pain over quickly.Last edited by Willie the Duck; 2019-02-07 at 09:34 AM.
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2019-02-07, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Idle's race didn't need to be hidden. Once Forgath survived Kore, it became clear that we couldn't clearly pin the prophecy on any particular dwarf any more. It had already defied expectations once.
I think that the larger weakness is the choice to convey so much info about Forgath's death through exposition, instead of making it visible: the exposition about how Forgath could become infected, and the exposition about Idle being a dwarf.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-02-07, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
He should have revealed her species sooner that is what makes the scene feel clunky imo. Or you know just do the "he killed himself and he is a dwarf" thing someone brought up, that was a nice idea.
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2019-02-07, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
maybe the idea is that we all thought he'd finish this thing with Idle and Bowst and eventually get a rematch with Kore and loose even harder, but the twist is that's never going to happen?
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2019-02-07, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-09, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
Hm, maybe, but it would have been nice for it to be considered before the poison option, which is presented like Idle's last resort that she carries around but somehow becomes the first option for Forgath suddenly?
That's good, I'm glad this line is here, but I still don't think that's enough. Maybe an earlier mention of Idle's clan (not as her clan, just existing) and the rivalry with Forgath's, or something about how dwarves can identify each other's clans at first glance would have helped too.
Oh, I'm absolutely sure it was completely planned all along.
EDIT: But if nothing else, this gives us valuable information about prophecies. Forgath didn't go "Well, the fortune teller didn't say I'd be killed by a weird bunny-looking creature so it can't be you" so the prophecies must be given to fortune tellers by words in this world? Although Fumbles did react with the one he channeled with sympathy for Minmax, which implies he knows more. Hmm.Last edited by Lissou; 2019-02-09 at 10:22 AM.
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2019-02-09, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
I think that a Dwarf being worried about dwarven politics and another Dwarf answering "those are dwarven politics, no one cares about them" in such an obvious tone is very weird. Wouldn't the other dwarf know? And how can no dwarf care about dwarven politics? Forgath is chaotic good, so he could just have said that he has never cared about them. And, even weirder, DimMax knew it?
So, writingwise, Bunny needed a reason to hide her race from Forgath, but it had to be a reason that wouldn't be a big deal once Forgath found out the truth. My alternative would have been to have a dwarf (Bunny) steal a significant item (how about the helmet?) from Forgath while he was in Brassmoon. Flash forward, and Forgath meets the polymorphed Bunny... who is wearing his helmet. At this point, there can be reasonable doubt about whether Bunny is lying when she claims to be an elf who bought the helmet from a dwarf on the road. The point is that Bunny, who would normally try to avoid Forgath, now needs him long-term to cast remove curse. After the fight with the beast, there should be a reasonable discussion about how to kill Forgath (good thinking about the klick parts not being easily cut and possibly prolonging the agony); at this point, Bunny mercifully hands out the dwarf-killing plant, thus admitting her identity as the thief, which would be a character growth moment for both her and, to a smaller extent, Forgath.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-02-09, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
THunt made a Pokemon Go comic some time ago. I think it's pretty great.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2019-02-12, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
New page.
SpoilerSo, is that a good death?Posting from France
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2019-02-12, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVII: The shocking end of the story arc
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”