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2024-05-09, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Was panel 326 a spoiler?
I really don't know if this ever came up, but in strip 326 there was a young goblin getting old and telling his story.
According to Races of Faerun, "Goblinoids are pressed into service as adults at just 10 years of age" and "they rarely live to be older than 40".
Even if that goblin were 15 when young and 30 when old, it would mean 15 years have passed.
Since 15 years are a lot more than what I would expect it needs for the current events to unfold, it might mean that the world will indeed be saved.Last edited by noce; 2024-05-09 at 09:28 AM.
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2024-05-09, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Yeah. It's also a spoiler that current world won't end.
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2024-05-09, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
That is the strip #326. It's foreshadowing, not spoiler.
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2024-05-09, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
To be fair, we don't know that's its the same world. Perhaps the world is destroyed but a large portion of the population is evacuated to the planet in the rift, for example.
But I guess we do know that some goblins survive.
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2024-05-09, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
It was actually only a few months between the two panels, the stress of running a business aged him quickly.
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2024-05-09, 10:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
You speak as a wise man speaks, Master Baggins, but I'm not sure that line of work was quite as tough as that.
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2024-05-09, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Rich explicitly notes in the WXP commentary that Elan's "happy ending" prophecy was specifically meant as a way to tell readers "don't worry, folks, it might get a little scary but it'll all be okay" in light of how several other prophecies were extremely ominous. It's not impossible that Goblin Dan may have been meant to serve a similar purpose.
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2024-05-09, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Yeah, there is also Oracle prophecy that suppose go camu up few years later.
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2024-05-09, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Well, it's a spoiler that the world doesn't explode, which... yeah? I mean, it's a story, I doubt very much if it's gonna end with the Snarl killing everyone.
But even if the story WERE to end that way, Goblin Dan is a one-off (two-off!) joke meant to make you laugh, not necessarily be taken seriously by the narrative.>>softly open our mouths in the cold
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2024-05-18, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
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2024-05-19, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Considering the purpose of Elan's prophecy, if the panel is a spoiler, it's a small one. The information it reveals is not part of a plot twist, and is shown to the audience literally five strips later.
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2024-05-20, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
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2024-05-22, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Fun fact: I'm pretty sure my first created thread on the forum was on this exact topic, almost 10 years ago!
However, whereas you floated it as a genuine question, I was much more insufferable about dropping the earth-shattering "cool secret" I'd found and got shot down / clowned on by most commenters.
One of them said something like "You're not special. Somebody 'discovers' this realization and posts a pointless thread about it every few months."
So...welcome to the Society of Intermittent Pointless Goblin Dan Prophets, I guess!
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2024-05-23, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
Fourth, it looks like. For reference.
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2024-05-24, 08:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-06-01, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Was panel 326 a spoiler?
That's because he's been dead for almost half a century at this point.
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