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    1. I love Lien, yet again. <3
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    I love how absolutely fed up everybody looks by the end. They have each Had It with dealing with this bull.
    As have some of the readers.
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    I'm rather fond of Haley coming to the sensible conclusion that she has nothing to lose by not backing down.
    Haley being smart has been on display since Elan's instrument went floating off ... enjoying this, given how many thieves and rogues I've played over the years.
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    It's Opposite Monday! Belkar tries to de-escalate while Haley dares today's adversary to jump! Oh, and Lien yeets her paladin mount.
    The bolded part. Almost vertigo inducing.

    As to Serini's reply at the end, she may think that razer-go is an idiomatic phrase among Azurites...

    Pro Tip For Serini (from another oldster): when you decide to play the bluff game, know who you are trying to bluff. Underestimating the opposition in the game of bluff and counterbluff can get really expensive when you are at the poker table. Likewise in other scenarios.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Pro Tip For Serini (from another oldster): when you decide to play the bluff game, know who you are trying to bluff. Underestimating the opposition in the game of bluff and counterbluff can get really expensive when you are at the poker table. Likewise in other scenarios.
    Has it cost her anything? She managed to stall her pursuers, at least.

    I guess it cost her awareness of what Lien was up to, but that's it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bacon Elemental View Post
    Also I cant help but notice that flying V actually did go feet-on-the-floor when Serini demanded it, the only member of the group who did any of her demands.
    Might be why V leaves the bluff game up to Haley: V is a bit more of a blunt instrument, in style and approach.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    As have some of the readers.
    Yeah! This Azurite trial Halley's aphasia Roy's afterlife Azurites at sea Godsmoot Andi/Bandanna airship Dwarven council Serini plotline has gone on too far too long!
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    I'm fairly sure that Serini being annoying as all hell is literally the point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hurkyl View Post
    Has it cost her anything? She managed to stall her pursuers, at least.

    I guess it cost her awareness of what Lien was up to, but that's it.
    She didn't gain much, either, though. It's not like she stopped being cornered and (Haley and V's earliest comments aside) the Order wasn't going to bring any lasting harm to her anyway.

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    Default Re: OOTS #1250 - The Discussion Thread

    you imagine the day order of the stick becomes a cartoon?

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    I just wanna compliment the art upgrage on razor. Looks gorgeous. I hope we'll see Argent in the new style at some point too.

    Windstriker is most likely out of the question, though.

    Edit: Unless O-Chul gets him as a mount?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Draconi Redfir View Post
    i feel like throwing a giant shark at a cauldron of memory-erasure-juice might be a bad thing?
    Unless every single character on the page decides to keep their mouths open and happily drink all the potion that falls on them, the memory-erasure juice is not gonna have any effect.
    It's a potion, it only takes effect when you drink it.

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    I think potions can be used as splash weapons actually.
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    So either Serini slips and falls into a vat of memory ereasin potion or she get eaten ? ... I'll take eithr or both. (Yeah, I'm soeey but this whole thing feel like such a distraction... Hoping it'll go,somwhere very interesting but...I'm not torn up if it send up,there.)
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    It looks like Razor is angled to knock Sirini off the edge of the cauldron but away from the vat of bubbling amnesia. He doesn’t need to move around on land if he already has her in his jaws - he just needs to incapacitate her for half a round so she can’t pull any more tricks.

    I wonder what Haley or Roy’s endgame here will be regarding the entire affair. She’s a Hero (tm) who has essentially declared war on you due to overwhelming fear of a common enemy. If she can’t be convinced to aid, or to qt least step away from the fight, and she’s too epic leveled to be captured effectively for long term, what options will the Order even have here?

    On a meta level, I don’t think it would really fit the narrative if she joins the party in the actual fight against Team Xykon. This is Roy’s personal journey after all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danielxcutter View Post
    Thank you Lien, everyone is Friggin DoneTM with Serini being as humanly frustrating as possible without being actually Evil and I don't think a shark to the face will actually kill her anyways.
    Technically the back of her head. Otherwise agreed

    Quote Originally Posted by Hurkyl View Post
    I beg to differ:
    I mean, yeah they'd rather just catch and talk to her, but if she's willing to unalive her memories over this then Haley's ultimatum (we're absolutely not surrendering you twit) is definitely the stronger here. All that would do is put the Order right back where they started, except without the vague threat of her popping up to poison them randomly anymore once they tuck her blank slate into bed with some oatmeal.
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    It seems to me that bluffing is pretty much Serini's go-to solution as she employs it immediately when pressured. I wonder if her ''Hey! Let's calm down!'' speech to the Scribblers is from the same cauldron and she was hiding up something back there, as well.

    And I'm looking forward to see her getting a hefty helping of Azurite ROM NOM NOM dish as well
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    The Pokemon ball is a nice choice for a Paladin casting calling their mount.

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    Upon reaching 5th level, a paladin gains the service of an unusually intelligent, strong, and loyal steed to serve her in her crusade against evil. This mount is usually a heavy warhorse (for a Medium paladin) or a warpony (for a Small paladin).

    Once per day, as a full-round action, a paladin may magically call her mount from the celestial realms in which it resides. This ability is the equivalent of a spell of a level equal to one-third the paladin’s level. The mount immediately appears adjacent to the paladin and remains for 2 hours per paladin level; it may be dismissed at any time as a free action. The mount is the same creature each time it is summoned, though the paladin may release a particular mount from service.

    Each time the mount is called, it appears in full health, regardless of any damage it may have taken previously. The mount also appears wearing or carrying any gear it had when it was last dismissed. Calling a mount is a conjuration (calling) effect.

    Should the paladin’s mount die, it immediately disappears, leaving behind any equipment it was carrying. The paladin may not summon another mount for thirty days or until she gains a paladin level, whichever comes first, even if the mount is somehow returned from the dead. During this thirty-day period, the paladin takes a -1 penalty on attack and weapon damage rolls.
    Lien may take a hit for 30 days unless she dismisses her mount before it suffocates. OTOH, I think that cauldron is going to be spilled rather thoroughly.
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    That shark? Is me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elros View Post
    I never thought I would see a "bluff off," and I am not eager to see it again.
    Serini is making no sense, and I have no idea where this is going. Seems like an odd cliffhanger.
    Also, where does Lien keep the Pokeball?
    See previous post: the Pokeball is humor. A paladin can summon their mount from celestial realms as a full round action, no material, verbal, or somatic components mentioned.

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    I always want more Lien. Today is a good day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    In Order of the Stick, shark jumps you!
    You're thinking of Azure City.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Might be why V leaves the bluff game up to Haley: V is a bit more of a blunt instrument, in style and approach.
    I'm waiting for V to Disintegrate the paladins free.

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    Conjecture: Serini is actually winning the bluff-off here.

    Because she is not actually bluffing about the potion. She is stalling by bluffing about the potion.

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    What's a Ray-zergo?
    With the pokeball and the question Serini is giving off powerful "every old person in tv" energy. Like my grandma trying to understand pokemon when I was 12.
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    I'm waiting for V to Disintegrate the paladins free.
    I'll take that bet. V will charge to disintegrate the paladins.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    I'll take that bet. V will charge to disintegrate the paladins.
    Don't forget that (as we all know,) V is at least 21st level. I'm sure they'll open with a Hellball.

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    I expected Serini to lose her memory but not in a million years would I have expected a shark to be involved in the whole thing.
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    Other way around, the shark is doing the jumping.
    In OOTSworld, shark jumps you!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Paul View Post
    In OOTSworld, shark jumps you!!
    Second verse, same as the first.
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    You're thinking of Azure City.
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    And this is why Sharknado is a favourite movie for me.

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    "Don't tell me what to do, you patronizing twit!"

    She really doesn't have any self-awareness anymore, does she?

    I am very much enjoying Haley wield her +5 knife of BS cutting, especially with the Occam's Razor enchantment she's got on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
    In Order of the Stick, shark jumps you!
    beat me to it, but I was busy getting from there to here.

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