OOTS #918 - The Discussion Thread

[shadowpriest]

Ta ta for now! awesome Giant!

[Kurashima]

I do see someone who LOOKS a little like Nale in the box, but to be honest, hes a lot more Chaotic Evil than Lawful Evil, so he shouldnt be there, assuming Director Lee only takes in the Lawful Evil dead.

Elan's song just needs to add the line "Dad, Dad, Dad, are you Mad, Mad, Mad?"

[Great Dane]

Does Elan have many spells left? Perhaps a few heals in his back pocket?

[Flame of Anor]

Alright! Finally Vaarsuvius can kick some assistants of Tarquin!

[AKA_Bait]

I think it was an orc with a beard.

Agreed. Orc with a beard. Although a beard might suit Thog, it's not him. Also, I for one do not think Thog is dead.

[Xelbiuj]

Oh dang, now for the ridiculous speculation on who's in the box. . .

[Aard_Rinn]

Poor Tarquin... His friend is giving him such a weirded out look.

[LadyEowyn]

Another comic!

Still no resolution!

Aww, I wanna know what's gonna happen! The tension is getting to me! [/whine]

[Henry the 57th]

Huzzah! V to the rescue!

Also, love the IFCC.

[Xelbiuj]

Just to preempt people, not Thog isn't in there. He's not lawful.

[Crod]

Hahaha! Gotta love the reaction of the soldiers to Elan making an entrance in the fight.

[AKA_Bait]

Poor Tarquin... His friend is giving him such a weirded out look.

Well, you have to admit that the other members of his adventuring group are probably wondering just what the heck he's doing right now. This is one big minion waste for no purpose other than Tarquin's own personal goals.

[Zea mays]

I love all the little continuity nods in these strips. Sabine having to cleaning up after her tantrum is just, well, neat.

[mhsmith]

Poor bad guys, forced to work for Tarquin under threat of their family's demise, and then sent to hell on their death.

Well, considering the inbox wasn't chock full of his soldiers (after all a LOT of them have already died), I'm not sure this is the way it actually worked for them all.

[NihhusHuotAliro]

You clean that place, Sabine! You show them how good a cleaner you are! Cleany cleany cleannity clean clean clean CLEAN!

[xyzchyx]

Since the army is clearly reluctant to harm Elan, it seems that the wisest thing for Elan to do (pardon the implied contradiction there) is to act as a human shield for Roy... at least until Tarquin changes his mind about wanting to keep Elan alive.

Of course, if or when Tarquin has changed his mind about wanting to keep Elan alive, there's no need for him to be sending in his troops to continually get slaughtered by Roy when the entire motivation for him doing so in the first place was only to get Roy out of the way to make Elan the leader.

But hey... again, that would be the smart thing to do... and this is Elan we're talking about.

[AKA_Bait]

Well, considering the inbox wasn't chock full of his soldiers (after all a LOT of them have already died), I'm not sure this is the way it actually worked for them all.

I'd think lots of his soldiers were Neutral, as that's the default for humans.

[Arrowstorm122]

"rub, rub, rub, rub my father's face in my uselessness" and Lee's inbox were hilarious.

[internisus]

1) Defying his father by playing a useless support role! Love it!

2) Really glad to get such a strong confirmation that the IFCC will be borrowing V, presumably, two more times. I have to admit that I was a little disappointed when all they wanted to do was to hold her there; maybe next time they will do something more overtly nefarious.

3) TTFN!

[Haluesen]

Woot! Heh I like the break from serious revelations (unless you were surprised by the idea of Tarquin threatening his soldiers' families), and more on just comedy. The Giant is good at making a balance of the two.

Go Elan! Stick it to Tarquin!

And now to see what V does...I hope for a grand display of power, but with the guilt and worry that V have I can't be sure that is what will happen. I guess we'll just have to see.

[drazen]

Does Elan have many spells left? Perhaps a few heals in his back pocket?

Nope, he punned "Of *coarse* I'm out of healing spells" when fighting the Silicon Elemental.

I'm unclear on why he has so few spells left, though. All he's cast today that I can remember are Silent Image, Mass Cure Light Wounds, and Song of Freedom. Unless his goofy songs count (search the canyon, rub in his uselessness)

[Syncrogti]

HAHA yeah! this one rocks. the bad guys are scared of what Tarquin will do to their families.

[mistformsquirrl]

After all the tension in the last few strips, I needed a good laugh - this will suffice >_>b

[Gift Jeraff]

Now that s/he's more familiar with the subject, I expect V to give 'em hell.

[Joe the Rat]

wait, was there a Thog in the inbox of the final panel?

That certainly looks like a shirtless half-orc in the pile, but there's a couple of other light greens in there too. Only problem is that unless they get all IFCC-business related deaths, Thog shouldn't be going to Lee. As a Barbarian, Thog can't be Lawful.

[Kish]

Poor Tarquin... His friend is giving him such a weirded out look.

If his friend was giving him a Meteor Swarm [in a sensitive area], it would be better than he deserved.

[Sian]

Sabine having to cleaning up after her tantrum is just, well, neat.

If i were to guess she's collecting the disintegrated Nale for future resurrection

[internisus]

"Knock em dead, elf."

I love how Sabine and V sort of bonded in that bar in Azure City, so she is the one member of the Order for whom Sabine might feel any kind of friendship. Excellent confluence of events that they would also spend this time together, and I do hope she joins forces with our heroes in the name of vengeance, although defying the IFCC to do so will certainly be her Shakespearean demise.

[Pip]

I love all the little continuity nods in these strips. Sabine having to cleaning up after her tantrum is just, well, neat.

Is she cleaning, or is she trying to gather up the dust that is all that is left of Nale?

[Morty]

I don't think Nale's absence in the bin is a definitive proof that he wasn't Lawful Evil in life. It's doubtful that Director Lee gets every Lawful Evil soul that vacates its body.