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Thread: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
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2019-04-23, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-23, 12:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Sorry, bets must be on individual characters!
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Well, you certainly can bet on characters that are already dead -- it's been done before. (There's a joke bet on Miko...) I don't think "soul being destroyed counts as a death" is in the rules right now but, well, I'd count it, and I could add it if people think it really needs to be.The Order of the Stick death pool thread -- place your bets! (Yes, it's still ongoing and maintained.)
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2019-04-23, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Alright than.
A million Quatloos that Roy dies next comic
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A million Quatloos that Miko dies next comicA diamond necklace played the pawn
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2019-04-24, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
The Order of the Stick death pool thread -- place your bets! (Yes, it's still ongoing and maintained.)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
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2019-04-24, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Is Rich a character in his own comic? I vaguely recall him appearing at one point, but I can't recall where - perhaps the aside when he cut his thumb?
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2019-04-25, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Yup, the appearances thread list it as his sole appearance: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0864.html
I think I have to rule that in-comic-Rich isn't a significant enough character to qualify for an exception to the "at least 10 appearances" rule, sorry.The Order of the Stick death pool thread -- place your bets! (Yes, it's still ongoing and maintained.)
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2019-04-26, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
My avatar was made by a very lovely chap by the name of smutmulch. That was very cool of them.
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2019-04-26, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
You can only bet points, kinglinus! And Sniffnoy isn't a character in the comic at all!
kinglinus, this is not 'nam, this is the OOTS Death Pool. There are rules.Last edited by Aquillion; 2019-04-26 at 01:56 PM.
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A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
My avatar was made by a very lovely chap by the name of smutmulch. That was very cool of them.
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2019-04-28, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Persia isn't a character in the comic!
I'm not sure there's a specific rule against negative bets, but generally speaking bets have to be framed in "bet on character X" - you can't just bet on them "for the next comic", since you're not allowed to change your bet until they or someone else dies. Also, you don't lose your bet if you get it wrong, so you wouldn't gain anything from eg. a negative bet on Elan.
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2019-04-29, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Fine, I bet π-30^2 points.
A diamond necklace played the pawn
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To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
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2019-06-07, 11:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Welp, nobody bet on Kandro, but (to my surprise) he has enough appearances to count! So, nobody gets points, but bets may now be changed.
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
It looks (as of #1167) like we're starting the sequence where Durkon will be heading to the council chamber and break the ceiling to let sunlight in and destroy all the vampires. Now I have to decide which of the remaining four vampires will die first, to maximize my points. Sandy is damaged here and is in the way of the fighters, but he also seems tough.
I change my bet to the vampire dwarf with blue curly hair and blue robe, whose unholy symbol has a yellow outline, aka Curly, who has speaking role in #1157. She's had enough apparences according to the counting thread.Last edited by b_jonas; 2019-06-17 at 03:10 PM.
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OK, so, for the longest time, I thought that Tarquin's death would be announced kind of offhandedly, as if he were a minor character in a Shakespeare play.
Now, I'm pretty much convinced that he won't even get that much closure. Call me impatient, but we're nearing the end of the story. It doesn't look like there will be an opportunity for that to be announced offhand.
I'm changing my vote to Sigdi Thundershield, aka Durkon's mother. She has the advantage of being a character who probably wouldn't want to be resurrected.
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The Exarch is going to die. Like, soon. I will wager half a ball of yarn.
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2019-08-09, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Exarch, who was once Gontor, is dead! Points have been awarded! Bets may be changed!
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2019-08-09, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Yep, Gontor as a vampire is destroyed in #1174. Several people bet on him. The other two vampires are still undead, but not for long I think. I hope they won't just get destroyed off panel, with their body never seen.
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2019-08-09, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Risky bet because it may not be confirmed onscreen for awhile, if at all, but for at least ten strips from #1174, I'll vote on The Frontarchess (The vampire at the Godsmoot who became High Priestess on a technicality when Durkon needed to teleport out but Hel still required her High Priestess to be present for her vote to count.)
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2019-08-10, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Sniffnoy: I'll need a judgement from you here. In #1175 last panel, Hel says “I still have one left.” Does this mean that we've learned about the death of Sandy (the unnamed vampire) in this strip? If so, that would be the death of another significant character, you'd have to award points, and people could change bets again.
Also, I think the Giant Death Worm had 9 apperances so far, so if he died here, that'd be two short of counting.
FlawedParadigm: yes, in fact I've already betted on her.Last edited by b_jonas; 2019-08-14 at 02:27 PM.
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2019-08-17, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-18, 02:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, geez, hoo boy. Good question, good catch; I didn't even think of this. Honestly, I'm kind of wondering if I should have counted deaths back at #1122 (or #1123 or whatever), where it seems to have been implied that they killed all the remaining vampires present except the few shown still alive and the ones who were sent off earlier. Well, it's too late to go back and do that now; fortunately I don't think it would have resulted in any points anyway.
Anyway, yeah, I'll count this as points for Sandy. Good catch, I don't think I would've caught that on my own.
OK, bets may now be changed. I'll go update the first post shortly.The Order of the Stick death pool thread -- place your bets! (Yes, it's still ongoing and maintained.)
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2019-09-01, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Question. If a character was turned to stone, and then the statue is shattered to pieces, then would that immediately count as the death of the character, or only later if the comic explicitly confirms that it can't be fixed? In particular, do we know if the the Make Whole spell can fix a broken petrified person in principle, and whether a petrified dwarf is small enough to be in the size limit of that spell? I don't think this is likely to come up in the comic, but it could, so it would be best to decide in advance. Durkon is the third character who's turned to stone (though Celia may not count because she didn't have enough appearances yet when she was petrified.)
Background: in the ending a certain other fantasy movie that isn't based on D&D, a villain is turned to stone and then broken to small pieces, and I claimed that that just makes way for a sequel because an ally can fix the statue any time and revive him, whereas other viewers claimed that the villain is dead for good and can't be revived. There need not be a definite answer for that movie, but in this case Sniffnoy can at least tell what he would score this thread if that happened in an OotS strip.
As a bonus question, if we found out that Girard was turned into stone before he died of old age, disguised as a monument on his coffin, and the coffin contained someone else's bones, so that Girard's relatives could revive him in an emergency, then would that mean that he died in the explosion at #899, and would this count as a death during the time of the main comic for the purposes of this thread, so that we could change votes when we learn about this? Girard had more than 10 appearances according to the Wrecan thread.Last edited by b_jonas; 2019-09-01 at 09:29 AM.
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2019-09-12, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
I think I'd count that, yeah. Not sure I want to bother putting that in the "rulings" section in the first post because this is entirely hypothetical so far. Also, hopefully if this were to occur the comic might clarify... although it likely wouldn't do so within the same strip. So, uh, I'd count it but might have to be prepared to revert if the comic made it clear that this is not "dead"? I think that's the best answer I can give.
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Wow, a second point! Wa hey!
OK, now I'm really sure there won't be any more deaths before the end of the book (which will end with Team Evil finding the Gate, of course...) So I could just leave it, but then I'll have no bets running at all, and if a random unexpected thing happens, I could lose out!
So, take a wild shot in the dark - just in case the book ends with them all on the Mechane heading further north, and the cliffhanger is not the Gate, but the Mechane getting attacked by, I dunno, a surprise entry by a new faction of chaotic space monkeys led by Recloak's niece, I'm going to bet upon a known member of the Mechane's crew dieing in the sudden attack. Not Andi or Bandana.... so another visually well known crew member to be killed to provide shock value?
My new bet is on Felix!Geez, what is it with that guy and needing to figure out all the fiddly little details?
I know, right? It's called "Suspension of Disbelief"...
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2019-09-16, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS death pool (thread #4)
Re #1180. I think Curly got away. But an adventuring people should have no more than 6 adventurers, so
I'm changing my bet back to Belkar.
I can change because I bet on Curly before #1175.Last edited by b_jonas; 2019-09-16 at 10:22 AM.