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    And yet again, the unholy abomination rides bare-back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onigame View Post
    On strip #1044 Bandana mentions "Passage Pass", which is redundant because "Pass" and "Passage" mean the same thing. What I only noticed on the second read-through is that she mentions "Fissure Gap", which is exactly the same thing. In real life, people wouldn't name things redundantly like that. Except the River Avon, or the La Brea Tar Pits, or Table Mesa... okay, fine, I guess it only happens if you're in the Milky Way Galaxy.
    Yeah, that's actually pretty common in the real world: Nile and Indus both mean river; Mississippi means big river; Rhine and Rhone both mean flow, i.e., river. The Sahara and the Arabian Deserts are both technically the Desert Desert. Alps means mountains. A lot of the names of geographic features started out as common nouns. I just figured that the people in the Stickverse don't speak English, and the software that Burlew has been using to translate their language into English doesn't recognize place-names as proper nouns, so it just translates them literally.

    On topic, I only noticed that the flag of Gobbotopia in 702 has a brown star for the bugbears after I read 1038.

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    ...Huh. The green star is the goblins, the orange star the hobgoblins, and the purple one TDO then. Neat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddstar View Post
    On topic, I only noticed that the flag of Gobbotopia in 702 has a brown star for the bugbears after I read 1038.
    I never noticed this either!

    Rereading some of the archive today, and this is a small one, but I only just now noticed that it was Blackwing talking in panel 3 of #903. I always thought it was just V talking aloud, didn't notice Blackwing was contributing.
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    I never noticed Kudzu reaching for Hilgya's dangling braid in panel 2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onigame View Post
    On strip #1044 Bandana mentions "Passage Pass", which is redundant because "Pass" and "Passage" mean the same thing. What I only noticed on the second read-through is that she mentions "Fissure Gap", which is exactly the same thing. In real life, people wouldn't name things redundantly like that. Except the River Avon, or the La Brea Tar Pits, or Table Mesa... okay, fine, I guess it only happens if you're in the Milky Way Galaxy.
    A lot of OOTS locations are named like this. (Remember the time we spent in the Wooden Forest?)

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    I feel like it's been pointed out a lot, but in this strip Redcloak is actually tugging his cloak over the phylactery in the last panel. Which begs the question why he put it on his left side of his belt and it somehow migrated to his right...?

    Also, in the next strip in the second panel the wights are just standing there, close to Tsukiko. I found that detail pretty creepy.

    Second page, third panel, one of the crewmembers has an O-Chul-esque scar over his face.

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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    I feel like it's been pointed out a lot, but in this strip Redcloak is actually tugging his cloak over the phylactery in the last panel. Which begs the question why he put it on his left side of his belt and it somehow migrated to his right...?
    He handled it with his right hand and so put it on the right side of his belt. Noticing the possible danger he both cast with his right hand and hid the phylactery with his remaining (left) hand putting it on the left side of his cloak.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    He handled it with his right hand and so put it on the right side of his belt. Noticing the possible danger he both cast with his right hand and hid the phylactery with his remaining (left) hand putting it on the left side of his cloak.
    But in the penultimate panel it's seen that the phylactery hangs off on his right side of his belt. And later he takes out the phylactery from his right side too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    But in the penultimate panel it's seen that the phylactery hangs off on his right side of his belt. And later he takes out the phylactery from his right side too.
    Maybe he just reached that far behind his back?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Maybe he just reached that far behind his back?
    And he did the entire thing behind the cloak?

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    Tsukiko has problems finding “secret doors” that are literally in front of her. Even if she knew that was the phylactery - remember, it was originally Redcloak’s holy symbol, so outwardly it would likely look as a normal symbol of such - she probably would have failed the Spot check to notice it in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by danielxcutter View Post
    Tsukiko has problems finding “secret doors” that are literally in front of her. Even if she knew that was the phylactery - remember, it was originally Redcloak’s holy symbol, so outwardly it would likely look as a normal symbol of such - she probably would have failed the Spot check to notice it in the first place.
    Good point.

    Also...for the whole "Durkon destroying the oak table," was the table the third ring of defense? I can't find if they ever explicitly confirm it or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    Also...for the whole "Durkon destroying the oak table," was the table the third ring of defense? I can't find if they ever explicitly confirm it or not.
    No, the first ring of defence was the outside of the cave - a narrow bridge over a chasm. Second was the first barrier (anti-magic) with soldiers behind it. And the third the last barrier, that turned you to stone if you broke the rules.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    No, the first ring of defence was the outside of the cave - a narrow bridge over a chasm. Second was the first barrier (anti-magic) with soldiers behind it. And the third the last barrier, that turned you to stone if you broke the rules.

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    1) Orange Barrier that keeps foreigners, magic and foreign magic away.

    2) Guards in the stairway.

    3) Blue Barrier to prevent foul play.
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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    And he did the entire thing behind the cloak?

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    His pants clearly only have one back pocket, on the right side. Since he readied his magic in his dominant hand first, he was forced to twist a bit to put the phylactery in his back pocket with his only remaining free hand. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it, no matter how little sense modern pants pocket on medieval/Renaissance-esque armor makes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey Watcher View Post
    At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it, no matter how little sense modern pants pocket on medieval/Renaissance-esque armor makes.
    How else would a heavily-armored spellcaster be expected to have ready access to their spell components and focuses?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Alternatively:

    1) Orange Barrier that keeps foreigners, magic and foreign magic away.

    2) Guards in the stairway.

    3) Blue Barrier to prevent foul play.
    Thats how I would call it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey Watcher View Post
    His pants clearly only have one back pocket, on the right side. Since he readied his magic in his dominant hand first, he was forced to twist a bit to put the phylactery in his back pocket with his only remaining free hand. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it, no matter how little sense modern pants pocket on medieval/Renaissance-esque armor makes.
    But...why? Also he's just hanging it on his belt. And I'm surprised he didn't tuck it away before teleporting back to a place he knows that Xykon and Tsukiko could be watching.

    Good thing the hobgoblin 'janitor' had more than one pocket then, or else Tsukiko would have found something else along with a key.

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    No, the first ring of defence was the outside of the cave - a narrow bridge over a chasm. Second was the first barrier (anti-magic) with soldiers behind it. And the third the last barrier, that turned you to stone if you broke the rules.

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    Alternatively:

    1) Orange Barrier that keeps foreigners, magic and foreign magic away.

    2) Guards in the stairway.

    3) Blue Barrier to prevent foul play.
    Is there a comic strip where this is concretely mention? I thought the oak table might've been the "ring of defense" Durkon was talking about due to

    a) it's a ring

    b) the amount of rule-fu Durkon used meant only people familiar with the laws could use it to maximum effect. Durkon? Read that green book front and back. Gontor? Maybe skipped it over. Voila, Durkon wins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    Is there a comic strip where this is concretely mention?
    No, but for my part, this one says they are in the middle chamber and talks about the inner chamber being the meeting room, which implies an outer chamber as well, neatly matching Durkon's words of three rings of defence. It also explains the lack of safety handrails in the bridge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    No, but for my part, this one says they are in the middle chamber and talks about the inner chamber being the meeting room, which implies an outer chamber as well, neatly matching Durkon's words of three rings of defence. It also explains the lack of safety handrails in the bridge.

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    Why would dwarves worry about railings? Proper folk are very Stable and will never go over the edge. It's the flighty leaf-eared ones who do silly things like that.

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    I never noticed that dwarves studied under the Imperial School of Civil Engineering at Coruscant.
    Please, they obviously studied at Narvi’s School of Architecture, Sculpture and Smithing in Moria. They are dwarves after all.
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    Why would dwarves worry about railings? Proper folk are very Stable and will never go over the edge. It's the flighty leaf-eared ones who do silly things like that.
    Because tripping due to aching joints and falling to your death is not a honorable death.

    And yes, I think you're not being serious, but the bridge is wide enough it is not dangerous for a few individuals in a small group. But it is a great defensive setup if a mob is clamoring for a representative government.

    First ring of defence: anti-armies
    Second ring of defence: anti-magic & foreigners
    Third ring of defence: anti-antics

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    Because tripping due to aching joints and falling to your death is not a honorable death.

    And yes, I think you're not being serious, but the bridge is wide enough it is not dangerous for a few individuals in a small group. But it is a great defensive setup if a mob is clamoring for a representative government.

    First ring of defence: anti-armies
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    Unless the armies ride single file to hide their numbers!
    That'd be the intelligent thing to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    Unless the armies ride single file to hide their numbers!
    Come to think of it, gaderffii do (vaguely) resemble urgroshes....Maybe dwarves are a (distant) offshoot of the Sand People?
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    I only noticed the... black thingies in the background on panel one of this page.

    I tried to figure out what it was by reading through earlier pages and later pages but alas, I failed.

    My best guesses is that it is either more, smaller pieces of the zombie dragon also falling to the ground or shots from the catapults in the distance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bedinsis View Post
    I only noticed the... black thingies in the background on panel one of this page.

    I tried to figure out what it was by reading through earlier pages and later pages but alas, I failed.

    My best guesses is that it is either more, smaller pieces of the zombie dragon also falling to the ground or shots from the catapults in the distance.
    Looks like arrows to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bedinsis View Post
    I only noticed the... black thingies in the background on panel one of this page.

    I tried to figure out what it was by reading through earlier pages and later pages but alas, I failed.

    My best guesses is that it is either more, smaller pieces of the zombie dragon also falling to the ground or shots from the catapults in the distance.
    You mean the arrows?
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