OOTS #1279 - The Discussion Thread

[The Giant]

New comic is up.

[enq]

Fair warning, we will have to have an OotS Trivia question about strips in which Roy doesn't use utensils.

Frankly, it should count as chaotic to eat out of the bowl.

[Peelee]

The title for this one was fantastic.

[ZhonLord]

Fair warning, we will have to have an OotS Trivia question about strips in which Roy doesn't use utensils.

Frankly, it should count as chaotic to eat out of the bowl.

It's not like the mimics can become small eating implements, like they can extra stools. Besides, would you really WANT to eat using a mimic-spoon?

[Lord Torath]

Poor Sunny! And the poor postal worker as well.

Thanks, Rich!

[X-tra]

Fantastic as always!

Though I do not post often here, I feel like I should point out the very minor typo on panel 7, in Roy's speech bubble. "[...] for us to enter then final dungeon."

"Then" should be "the" there, right?

[enq]

It's not like the mimics can become small eating implements, like they can extra stools. Besides, would you really WANT to eat using a mimic-spoon?

Come now, Serini has like a dozen bowls but no spoons? I am unable to suspend my disbelief.

Oh also, she says her memory is perfect, but that's not what she said here. Call her out on it, Haley!

[Deuce]

At night, the ice weasels come . . .

Great reference

[Coppercloud]

I wasn't expecting the phrase "asking if your booty got trolled" would appear in my favorite comic. I'd wager no one has ever asked that exact question in the history of civilization, but I don't own any quatloo to bet.
I have a feeling Serini not having checked on her Gate in years is going to be a plot point. Maybe it was somehow already destroyed, or someone already went there and... I don't know, but I can't wait to find out!
Also, I'm afraid I don't get the title. Does it refer to the mailman? Never mind, I get it now. And I feel kind of stupid, especially since the pun works in French (my first language) too.

[Psyren]

I wish I had room for "Why are you like this? Just take your damn soup" in my sig

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...Come to think of it, hasn't the downfall of most of the Scribble defenses been not keeping up with the rules times?

[Peelee]

...Come to think of it, hasn't the downfall of most of the Scribble defenses been not keeping up with the rules times?

I don't think even knowing what was happening as it happened would have helped the Draketeeth. And the Sapphire Guard had pretty good modern intel.

[Tzardok]

I don't think even knowing what was happening as it happened would have helped the Draketeeth. And the Sapphire Guard had pretty good modern intel.

Also, Familicide is propably one of these old spells that haven't been seen in ages, or something like that. Can't imagine Haerta being a newly dead soul without anything being mentioned about it.

[Doug Lampert]

Belkar, he's like this because he's been associating with you for a couple of years and it's started to wear off.

Either that, or he was a pedant prior to meeting you. But where's the fun in that?

[Coyote0715]

At night, the ice weasels come . . .

Great reference

The Far Side?

[hamishspence]

Interesting to see how it works - just stasis traps everywhere.

[Ivrytwr]

Hee-hee-hee "Post Mortem"
And ice weasels!
Thanks Giant.
A lot of info and a lot of funny.

[Precure]

Similar feel to this strip:

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0757.html

[Psyren]

I don't think even knowing what was happening as it happened would have helped the Draketeeth. And the Sapphire Guard had pretty good modern intel.

Well... they had great passable intel from the outside, but where they failed was managing their internal affairs. Not just the mental state of their high-ranking members like Miko (though that certainly didn't help), but also the relations among their nobility that Shojo only barely kept in line through faking senility, despite the cosmic importance of the rulers' mission.

[Peelee]

Well... they had great passable intel from the outside, but where they failed was managing their internal affairs. Not just the mental state of their high-ranking members like Miko (though that certainly didn't help), but also the relations among their nobility that Shojo only barely kept in line through faking senility, despite the cosmic importance of the rulers' mission.

And yet they imprisoned Miko once she was shown to be a danger, and also still were able to rebuff and destroy Xykon and Redcloak had she not escaped.

[Psyren]

And yet they imprisoned Miko once she was shown to be a danger, and also still were able to rebuff and destroy Xykon and Redcloak had she not escaped.

They got closer than the others for sure.

[Connington]

Five gold says that the fact that nobody has laid eyes on the Gate since sealing it up is going to be relevant before the end of the book.

[herrhauptmann]

Random thought.

Why not just pop up and throw a dispel magic at Xykon et al. As the lowest level active spell, it should disappear first; then even if they finish the gauntlet it won't matter since one or more of the marks are gone.

[Metastachydium]

1. Now I'm wondering if the unreasonable amount of glee I'm feeling right now at the expense of all those wonderful people who suggested back when that [engage malicious paraphrasis mode] "Serini is a rogue, so it would make sense for her to build defenses auto-beaten by rogues" just standard issue bad Schadenfreude, or some egregiously bad sort?
2. Were she alive and, um, not NG, Lirian would be so proud of Sunny for feeding postpeople (useless paraphernalia of this overrated thing called "civilization", I say!) to those poor weasels! And Leeky would certainly be proud.

Come now, Serini has like a dozen bowls but no spoons? I am unable to suspend my disbelief.

Maybe those are Belkar's stuff? That wouldn't surprise me for a second.

Random thought.

Why not just pop up and throw a dispel magic at Xykon et al. As the lowest level active spell, it should disappear first; then even if they finish the gauntlet it won't matter since one or more of the marks are gone.

Do we know that the effect is not instantaneous? (Because if it can just be effortlessly dispelled, the good guys… Might have a problem.)

[Wintermoot]

Random thought.

Why not just pop up and throw a dispel magic at Xykon et al. As the lowest level active spell, it should disappear first; then even if they finish the gauntlet it won't matter since one or more of the marks are gone.

Although the core spell used by the tattoo trap is probably arcane mark (0th level), the trap upcasts it with a 9th level slot specifically to circumvent this apparent defect.

[Peelee]

Random thought.

Why not just pop up and throw a dispel magic at Xykon et al. As the lowest level active spell, it should disappear first; then even if they finish the gauntlet it won't matter since one or more of the marks are gone.

And you think that wouldn't be suspicious at all?

[MReav]

Man, people with cold resistance must be pretty expensive if they send someone who would freeze to death before they'd hire one of them.

[Crusher]

Belkar really is always the most fun.

[Metastachydium]

Man, people with cold resistance must be pretty expensive if they send someone who would freeze to death before they'd hire one of them.

Maybe the local postal service is just… Evil, or something? (Also, they apparently don't actually maintain a presence in the general area, seeing how they sent a human.)

[Rinazina]

Greenhilt, please, don't bring V to the final dungeon, or the IFCC would screw up.
keep hir outside as a distraction, bomb the dudes with spells and waste spell slots, but please, don't bring hir to the mcguffin shelter.

[Reboot]

Man, people with cold resistance must be pretty expensive if they send someone who would freeze to death before they'd hire one of them.

Eh, they were walking along with the letter in-hand as if about to hand it to someone, not the position of someone expecting to freeze solid/to death. They probably got hit with something like a cone of cold by a passing wizard who thought they were a random encounter :p