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    Default Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Since Xyklon, One Eye, Ooona, and Griyview are all dead where does the Order go from here? Obviously they need to confront the Snag but isn't Odin's plan somewhat screwed now that the reddish mantle is destroyed?

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    I think Rey should use his Green Flame Blade on the Snag. It has it coming for biting Cragger!
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    Player: Bob twists the vault door super hard, that should open it.
    DM: Why would you think that?
    Player: Well, Bob thinks it. And since Bob has high Int and Wis, and a lot of points in Dungeoneering, he would probably know a thing or two about how to open vault doors.
    Ah yes, the Dungeon-Kruger effect.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    I don't think anyone had noticed the foreshadowing in Redcroak's name.
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    78 more pages of filler, then on the next round strip number, 1300, Nurse Hailey wakes up Ray, who has fallen aesleep in his wheelchair while on the yard of the mental asylum. Everything we have read was just the product of his inner delusions. The nurse ushers him back into the compound, pushing the wheelchair. Closing Credits.
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by EyethatBinds View Post
    Since Xyklon, One Eye, Ooona, and Griyview are all dead
    Is this a bit?

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    Is this a bit?
    Now that all the villains are irrefutably dead, did their names ever even matter?

    No, they did not matter. The world is saved. The heroes can go home. The end.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    I think Rey should use his Green Flame Blade on the Snag. It has it coming for biting Cragger!
    Of course! Because Green is the fifth quiddichy.
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Now they need to contact Jetix since he's current high priest of dark one due to being Radcloak's second in command. Then they can make an agreement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck View Post
    Is this a bit?
    No, it's a bot. One of those predictive text ones, except this one predicts storylines. At the expense of names.

    I think Rey should use his Green Flame Blade on the Snag. It has it coming for biting Cragger!
    This one's my favorite

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    For your information, in Spain the equivalent of April's Fool Day is celebrated on December 28th.

    You are a week early, but you are quite close.

    Merry christmas to everyone, BTW.
    Life is like a ladder in a henhouse; it is short, but full of guano.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    78 more pages of filler, then on the next round strip number, 1300, Nurse Hailey wakes up Ray, who has fallen aesleep in his wheelchair while on the yard of the mental asylum. Everything we have read was just the product of his inner delusions. The nurse ushers him back into the compound, pushing the wheelchair. Closing Credits.
    I think Elan should be the nurse
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dion View Post
    Now that all the villains are irrefutably dead, did their names ever even matter?

    No, they did not matter. The world is saved. The heroes can go home. The end.
    This guy gets it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Albion View Post
    I think Elan should be the nurse
    élan is not a nurse, but I think he has a friend named Bingo who dresses up as one sometimes! Maybe it can do the honors.
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    Player: Bob twists the vault door super hard, that should open it.
    DM: Why would you think that?
    Player: Well, Bob thinks it. And since Bob has high Int and Wis, and a lot of points in Dungeoneering, he would probably know a thing or two about how to open vault doors.
    Ah yes, the Dungeon-Kruger effect.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    élan is not a nurse, but I think he has a friend named Bingo who dresses up as one sometimes! Maybe it can do the honors.
    Hm. How about Thin Joe, the paladin? He's got healing powers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metastachydium View Post
    Hm. How about Thin Joe, the paladin? He's got healing powers.
    Poor Thin Joe. He suffocated when Huple’s cat slept on his face.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Albion View Post
    I think Elan should be the nurse
    Ethan doesn't exists, he is a figment of Ray's mind. He's his imaginary friend, a projection of Ray's inner child. Initially, Ray rejects him because he refuses to acknowledge he has traumas related to his childhood. Later he learns to accept this part of himself and embrances him. It's better explained in Ray's file in the mental asylum archives, which includes the case study performed by the Chief Physician, Dr. Durkan.
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    I think after buying our interest for years the author is just going to do some unconvincing lame arse pull, where "they're not really dead"
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
    Elan doesn't exists, he is a figment of Ray's mind. He's his imaginary friend, a projection of Ray's inner child.
    Ethan must be real, because otherwise who is worshipping Biggles the Clown?

    Puppets can't just play ukuleles by themselves.
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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by jayem View Post
    I think after buying our interest for years the author is just going to do some unconvincing lame arse pull, where "they're not really dead"
    That would be a pretty lame twist, even for our dear old author Keith Baker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dion View Post
    Ethan must be real, because otherwise who is worshipping Biggles the Clown?

    Puppets can't just play ukuleles by themselves.
    Biggles represents in Ray's mind precisely what he misses from his childhood. Probably a sled, or a teddy bear. Or a monkey with an ukeleke. Ethan being the personification of Ray's childhood, he is therefore attached to the totem and worshipping it.

    Ray won't be able to escape his inner labyrinth until he embrances Biggles. Before that, he needed to start taking Ethan seriously, which he now has.

    Roy has also come to terms with Belker, who is the personification of whoever originially took the original object from him, maybe a school bully who stole his toy, or a small brother who broke it while playing.

    Ray is just one more step away from solving the riddle in his mind. Embrance Biggles, Save the World.
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    I admit it... I'm lost.
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    With the death of Redclock, there is no goblin who can cast 9th level spells. The gods' plan is ruined.

    But then Vaarsuvius1 sees a doily, and with ultimate arcane power, is able to attack and defeat the Snail directly.

    Ray dies in the final battle, and in lieu of paradise, is given a picture of his father Euchene's face when Euchene first heard that Ray was going up but he wasn't.

    Eglan and Tarbin have a final conclusive battle. The Empress of Brood tells Eglan to strike down his father and take his place by her side, but Tarbin kills her, but is mortally wounded in the process, surviving just long enough to hear Eglan singing his new song about the battle, which will make Tarbin a legend. Specifically, Eglan sings about the epic battle between Eglan and the Empress, in which Tarbin appears only once, in a single quick mention as one of the Empress's flunkies. In the pullback, we see Tarbin's long-lost sled Rusebud.

    During the battle, the two big secrets are finally revealed, and we see the Master in the Dankness's gender and Vaarsuvius's species.

    On his way home with Haley, Eclan complains that without his best buddy Ray, he didn't really get a happy ending. Harley tries to cheer him up, but Eglan is inconsolable.

    The final panel reveals that on the road in front of them, they are about to find a whistle.



    1Well, there was no point misspelling that name.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Well, HPoP died last book. And Voorsovias now keeps Ravenwing visible at all times, which will make defeating Xylon super easy. Plus, the Order has Maxrah helping them. And Jake 'the mauler' Smith is not coming back. So, it seems that just defeating enemies is not a challenge for the Order of the Branch.

    The real question is how Elen is going to stop Romulus McElensFather from being remembered as the villain of an awesome story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 137ben View Post
    The real question is how Elen is going to stop Romulus McElensFather from being remembered as the villain of an awesome story.
    He's a bard. He decides how the guy will be remembered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay R View Post
    He's a bard. He decides how the guy will be remembered.
    Dunno about that. He couldn't even stop Belkar from remembering who was holding the bottle of a healing potion.

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    78 more pages of filler, then on the next round strip number, 1300, Nurse Hailey wakes up Ray, who has fallen aesleep in his wheelchair while on the yard of the mental asylum. Everything we have read was just the product of his inner delusions. The nurse ushers him back into the compound, pushing the wheelchair. Closing Credits.
    And who MitD is in this theory?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edreyn View Post
    And who MitD is in this theory?
    A Tarrasque.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edreyn View Post
    And who MitD is in this theory?
    Remember how the Being of Pure Low was just Rob's father, Yu Jin behind an illusion? That's what the Munster is: Yu Jin behind an illusion. Rob's subconscious makes active attempt at incorporating his figure into the mental narrative under various guises.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edreyn View Post
    And who MitD is in this theory?
    MitD is something without a defined shape, hidden in the shadows, that wants to get out but is constantly repressed from doing so.

    It's clear that MitD repressents Ray's most deep, hidden and self-supressed issue. An issue that provokes so much fear in Ray that he doesn't even dares to give it a form.

    Naturally, MitD has a childish nature, as the repressed issue is undoubtely linked to some traumatic experiencie in Ray's childhood. A different, more sinister traumatic event than the one Biggles represents.

    MitD gets treated by O'Chtul, who is clearly a personification of a therapist, who has been able to pierce deeper in Ray's subconscious than Dr. Dorkan.

    MitD is yet another piece in the puzzle that is Ray's broken mind. The final piece. But Ray can't adress it until he has resolved the upper layer first: Biggles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Precure View Post
    A Tarrasque.
    No, the MitD is Snarl Jr!

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    Default Re: Well, now that the villains ae dead, what's next?

    Quote Originally Posted by EyethatBinds View Post
    Since Xyklon, One Eye, Ooona, and Griyview are all dead where does the Order go from here? Obviously they need to confront the Snag but isn't Odin's plan somewhat screwed now that the reddish mantle is destroyed?
    Personally, and please bear with me if this theory is crazy af to you, personally I believe they are not dead and that that runic line was actually the gate they have been searching for all the time.

    Wich would also explain why Roy's blade vanished when it entered the field and then re-apeared when it got pulled out again. If this was some kind of dissintegration-field the sword would have gone pzorch permanently.

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