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2021-12-13, 03:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Incomplete plotlines...
Anyone else wonders what is going on in the place where the god moot was being held? what about the dwarven lands? what about the exiled paladins? I am sure we will return to those plotlines in some point in the future, but I really wonder where we will go.
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2021-12-13, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Upon gaining use of the Mechane this point was brought up, and the author was fairly clear that the main characters were not going to fly around completing every open quest like in a video game.
I would suspect that some of those dangling plot hooks become their own story, but I am betting we've seen the last of some.
As an example, if we never see a resolution of the Godsmoot, how will it matter to the story?
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2021-12-13, 09:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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well, the godsmoot determines if the deities give up... so... it need not be like a videogame, with the order of the stick finishing the plotlines, but with the plotlines finishing themselves and having lasting effect on the plot hook, while the author's art is intentionally simple, his comedy and story building is definitely complex and amazing.
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2021-12-13, 09:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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We never need to revisit the godsmoot. If the world continues, we know they voted no. If the world blows up suddenly from. Something we don't see, we know they voted yes. If the world blows up from other situations we do see, their vote is irrelevant.
We will likely never see the godsmoot again.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2021-12-13, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I think we'll get a shot of the gods cancelling it once the threat of the Snarl is over. And Hel's situation might get a reference given that she now has two vampire clerics to start her own church and solve her souls problem.
But none of those are really incomplete plotlines, they're just things that no longer concern the Order. The exiled Azurites have a new homeland. Tarquin is inconsequential to the main story, that's the whole point of why Elan called in a the Mechane crew. The Order showing up to deal with him just proves him right. The dwarven issue and the Godsmoot issues are both resolved with the Snarl.
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2021-12-13, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Quick note Azurite =/= paladins. Of the Azurites, Hinjo, O-Chul and Lien are the only paladins left. Kazumi and Daigo, for example, aren't paladins. (Meanwhile, Sir François, seen here, is a non-Azurite paladin).
Last we've heard of them, Hinjo learned of the Resistance's destruction and seemed like he decided to head for Kraagor's Gate?Forum Wisdom
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2021-12-13, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's not technically true. Many were away at the time of the battle, and out of those, we've only learned Thanh's fate.
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2021-12-13, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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We got semi-resolutions. Durkon's family and friends are hunting the vampires and the dwarves are taking anti-domination precautions while they work on getting the new table. The Godsmoot will continue indefinitely until that happens. And the whole point of Tarquin is that he'd fall off-screen because if he's relevant, he wins, but if he's a mere footnote, he loses.
There are several much more interesting, open things to resolve:
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2021-12-13, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 01:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 02:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Incomplete plotlines...
I think we'll see Tarquin again, though maybe in a scene with Ian and not with the Order. There's still the dangling question of what the secret plan is that Elan whispered to Ian.
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2021-12-13, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would be astonished if we saw Tarquin again. The conclusion to the Empire of Blood arc established that Tarquin isn't part of Elan's story and he's not relevant to the comic's narrative. Having the comic show what's going on with Tarquin or the efforts to overthrow him would invalidate that conclusion, and I can't think of anything that would justify doing so.
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2021-12-13, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Satisfy your curiosity by reading Good Deeds Gone Unpunished:
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2021-12-13, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-13, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.
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2021-12-13, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Incomplete plotlines...
The Empire of Blood is a part of Elan's story, but it's no the main story of the comic. It's likely to be something that gets addressed in an epilogue.
The one thing about it that might need to be checked up on is the Snarl coming out of the Girard's gate- but just like the other plot threads mentioned here, that will be taken care of by the resolution of the main plot. We don't need a whole storyline devoted to it.
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2021-12-13, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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An in-comic resolution to many of these issues would reduce the number of available plot hooks in the 'Stickverse Campaign Setting' that nobody is talking about publishing yet.
I say leave them dangling so Milton the quarter-dragon lizardfolk cleric that I just rolled up can undergo his apprenticeship with Myron before betraying him and feeding him to his one true queen after lacing the corpse with the most toxic substance known to dragons that he disguised as powdered sugar so that he is hailed as a hero by the populace and be too popular for any duly elected governmemt to ignore so he can whisper in the ears of whoever assumes control of the former Empire of Blood.
Wow, I've thought about that a bit too much. Anyway...
Campaign setting plot hooks. Let players tie up the unfinished storylines.
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2021-12-13, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-14, 04:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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You are reading a group of ten completely false words...
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2021-12-17, 05:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Long term stuff like the azurites' fate sounds like something that would be brought up in the epilogue (like setting the after-adventure bar-crawl in new-and-shiny-and-20%-bluer Azure city), and not during the story itself, where it would just grind the narration to a stop.
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2021-12-17, 05:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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