Order of the Stick Trivia XXI: Find Me an Epic Thread!

[enq]

Link the strips you lazy gits.

[JNinja]

Link the strips you lazy gits.

Halfling drop soup- https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0279.html

When you shoot the messenger - https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0563.html

By looking these up, I claim the unspoken OQ: find me someone who doesn’t not accept responsibility.

[Lord Torath]

Who asks for being tortured by red glowing iron?

Anything's better than talking to my dad!

Back to your regularly-scheduled question:

OQ: find me someone who doesn’t not accept responsibility.

[Peelee]

By looking these up, I claim the unspoken OQ

I like your style.

[JNinja]

I like your style.

Why thank you 😉

[enq]

By looking these up, I claim the unspoken OQ: find me someone who doesn’t not accept responsibility.

Turning this double negative into finding someone who accepts responsibility, like Thog in the last panel, would be too easy I guess?

[JNinja]

Turning this double negative into finding someone who accepts responsibility, like Thog in the last panel, would be too easy I guess?

You are correct - that would be too easy.

It is literally a double negative, and also belongs in the category of “things I never noticed” because I only just noticed it on my last read-through, that they’re pretending to deny responsibility while actually accepting it.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Halfling drop soup- https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0279.html

When you shoot the messenger - https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0563.html

By looking these up, I claim the unspoken OQ: find me someone who doesn’t not accept responsibility.

Ye olde management.

I don't have any great questions off the top of my head, so let's go with: who's up for a game of Parcheesi?

[enq]

Roy and Belkar, and presumably Durkon.

Find me three scenarios in which a circumstance bonus might or does take effect. Must be according to the characters in the strips.

[Rogan]

Link the strips you lazy gits.

Roy and Belkar, and presumably Durkon.

Find me three scenarios in which a circumstance bonus might or does take effect. Must be according to the characters in the strips.

I remain lazy! One of those situations should be when Haley unlocks the Azure city jail cell. For love can grant a circumstance bonus.

[b_jonas]

enq: One is easy because it's one of the big MitD strips: #476 1st panel, Belkar cooks stew to the MitD. The second is #524 16th panel, Haley disguises Belkar as Lord Shojo, Haley says that “I'm just glad having the real Mr. Scruffy gave you such a good circumstance bonus to your Disguise check to look like him.”

Rogan points out that the third one is #262, Haley picks the jail cell's lock, Vaarsuvius says that Haley received a circumstance bonus.

I wouldn't have easily found this last one on my own. I would have looked around in various strips, perhaps find #360 8th. Then after a while I would have searched the trivia threads for “circumstance” and slapped my head for not doing it earlier, because there are about twenty hits and more than half are asking for a circumstance bonus, and the answer given is generally love (2455961, 2802069, 3792825, 7334636, 9495070, 11097650, 11432852, 20517853), and some of the rests of the matches are still about #262 just asked backwards. Most of these questions were posted after #524 was published, and it's a valid answer for those questions, yet everyone only finds #262, and occasionally #476 or #360. It's almost like those poosters also just search the threads for previous instances of the same question, which is why they find the same answers. Well, today I learned about another frequently repeated question.

OQ.

PS. Ron Miel re thread title: I think we can wait a few more pages, but I'll just suggest the same titles as last time, with the number bumped.

[enq]

Find me three people saying that someone else isn't as important as they think they are.

[enq]

There are four good answers I have in mind. The lines are spoken by Nale, Julio, Durkula and The Oracle.

Spoiler: Additional hints

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To Julia, Tarquin, Durkon and about (but not to) Roy, respectively.

[enq]

Nale to Julia
Julio to Tarquin
Durkula to Durkon
Oracle about Roy

OQ.

[enq]

Find me three strips in which an OotS member's weapon gets broken. Must be a different weapon owner each time.

[Yxylu]

Find me three strips in which an OotS member's weapon gets broken. Must be a different weapon owner each time.

Elan, early on.
Roy, rather famously.
Haley, quite a bit later.

Find Roy holding Mr. Scruffy.

Spoiler: Early clue

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Roy is in turn being carried, as the Order is retreating.

[enq]

Well, with that hint... just one strip behind one of my answers. OQ.

[Ruck]

I'll take the OQ: What doesn't even crack the top ten dumbest things someone has heard all day?

[Yxylu]

I'll take the OQ: What doesn't even crack the top ten dumbest things someone has heard all day?

By context, I guess it’s that no one is going to be smooching.

Find be a comic that has 7 panels with no characters in them. For these purposes, a character is someone or something that is or was at some point alive. Corpses count; pictures and statues and such don’t (unless it’s actually a petrified character (the comic I have in mind does not have a petrified character)).

Spoiler: Some hints

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I have a tendency to ask really specific questions based on weird things I see in comics. Rather than have it get hung up for two days if this is too hard to find, here are a couple of clues, intended to be read in order:

Spoiler: Clue 1

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This comic has exactly two named characters.

Spoiler: Clue 2

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Only one character has any lines.

Spoiler: Clue 3

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The other character vanishes in the third panel (poof!).

Spoiler: Clue 4

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The speaking character is Xykon.

[b_jonas]

a character is someone or something that is or was at some point alive. [/spoiler]

Oh great. So now we may have to learn about which undead or constructs are created from the bodies of living creatures and which aren't.

[Rogan]

Find be a comic that has 7 panels with no characters in them. For these purposes, a character is someone or something that is or was at some point alive. Corpses count; pictures and statues and such don’t (unless it’s actually a petrified character (the comic I have in mind does not have a petrified character)).

If someone is invisible, is he in the comic?

Don't like this answer, but worth a try.

This one is much better!

What might be too obvious?

[Yxylu]

If someone is invisible, is he in the comic?

Don't like this answer, but worth a try.

This one is much better!

What might be too obvious?

That’s the one I had in mind. Invisible characters are still there, our stupid eyes just aren’t good enough to see them.

Clouds tasting like vanilla would be too obvious.

Show me an instance of Vaarsuvius casting the same spell twice in one panel. Alternatively, find Vaarsuvius shouting the name of a single spell twice in the same panel. (It’s not obvious if there’s actual casting going on.)

[b_jonas]

Yxylu: #145 2nd panel, Vaarsuvius casts two fireballs. OQ.

[Kornaki]

Find a horse tail spilling into the border between strips

[enq]

Oh, actually only had to go back two strips for that. Panel 4.

Find me two occasions of an OotS member being compared to a real world celebrity. Or three, if you can.

For the purposes of this question, any real word individual who gets named is a celebrity.

[Mike Havran]

Roy is Lou Ferrigno, Belkar is Chuck Norris and V is George Mallory

OQ

[Rogan]

Find someone who doesn't belong to the Greenhilt family who talks about new and exiting ways.

[Mike Havran]

Find someone who doesn't belong to the Greenhilt family who talks about new and exiting ways.

Does Haley count?

If so, find an instance of scrying on someone who does not exist.

[Rogan]

Does Haley count?

If so, find an instance of scrying on someone who does not exist.

She certainly counts. In fact, it was the solution I had in mind.

Does the hinjoker exist?

If he doesn't exist, find me three different Chars disappearing with a "pop" sound effect.

[Yxylu]

She certainly counts. In fact, it was the solution I had in mind.

Does the hinjoker exist?

If he doesn't exist, find me three different Chars disappearing with a "pop" sound effect.

A two-fer with Qarr and Nale.
The very first disappearance.

OQ