OOTS #602 - The Discussion Thread

[Tundar]

Pete is hillarious.

See you later!

[Egmorn]

Correct me if I am wrong (and sorry if it was already raised in this thread, I couldn't gather enough courage to read the whole thread), but the priest introduced himself by refusing to give his name...
Isn't it kind of like a suicide move for NPC to refuse a name...

Therefore, I don't think he will see a lot more strips.

[Ninja]

"No digestion without representation!"

Also, what's with Bozzok's shoes and all those shoelaces.....

[HOLEkevin]

Yeah, Pete's cracking me up, here. Not only does he sell OotS out, but he also sets up the "Nameless Cleric" of Loki, apparently just for fun.

He may be blind, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor.

[Ward.]

As cool as that cleric is, I hope he doesn't replace the Bman.

[OmegaDonut]

I know the amount of remains don't affect the casting time: I was just wondering if using it from a scroll would take 120 minutes due to the spell taking that long to cast when it's used normally.

Resurrection takes 10 minutes to cast, period. Where did 120 minutes come from?

[Bedinsis]

Good comic. I especially liked the exchange:

C: No, Pete, we're both completely nude. But come on in.
P: ...
P: Now that's just mean to an old blind man.

[StrykerX]

I hope the cleric doesnt die. I really like him even though hes only been in one strip so far. Well that and if he die, its gonna take something like 100 strips to resurect Roy.

I don't know... he has a Resurrection scroll, so depending on Haley's Use Magic Device skill his death might just mean a much cheaper revival.

[Mojique]

I hope the cleric joins the group. He is so... normal.

[DragonSlayerDan]

Nameless cleric wins, cool character.

[SmartAlec]

A neat touch that makes the Cleric seem rather shifty is that he apparently has great trouble making eye contact with anyone.

Funnily enough, the line that got me was "That was a cutaway panel, wasn't it?" I can hear the hysteria rising in his voice.

[Ron Miel]

Best comic in a while!

Prediction: Belkar gets de-cursed to help with the fighting, and ends up putting both of Pete's eyes out again.

Too obvious. I bet that Celia will be the one that stabs his eyes.

[DigoDragon]

Yeah, about the part of letting Belkar stew in his misery... might want to rethink that strategy Haley.

[Laurentio II]

Yeah, Pete's cracking me up, here. Not only does he sell OotS out, but he also sets up the "Nameless Cleric" of Loki, apparently just for fun.

He may be blind, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor.

The unnamed cleric is the one that regenerated his eyes time ago, in spite of the Guild's orders. This lead to Crystal having to poke them out a second time, and probably Pete didn't gave out the name at that time, in the hope of being able to contact the cleric at a second time.
Only that, now he doesn't need him anymore, and he is selling him.

What he gets is his eyes back. The Thieves' Guild own Greysky City--they can stop the local clerics regenerating his eyes, and they can put his eyes out again if he somehow gets them regenerated by someone else. I would assume his agreement here is "I get my eyes back and you let me keep them!".

He gets back the eyes that he lost for selling guild's secrets. Not a great profit, on the overall. What I'm saying is that he betrayed the guild, an old friend, and random people only to get back something that he had from the begin, and none the richer. Lame traitor, isn't it?
In tropes, this is the kind of person that is killed by the bad guys before the deal is closed, because is a lost cause to trust them further.

[SkredlitheOgre]

You know, it would be all well and good for the Unnamed Low-Key (awesome) Cleric to be able to remove the Belkster's curse and all, but Belkar is STILL inside a city, so even if the cleric CAN remove the curse, as soon as BMan starts attacking people, he's back to where he is right now, starting over with the projectile vomiting.

Here's what I'd like to see: Belkar KNOWS what activated his Curse, so he gets cured and starts 'attacking' inanimate objects, which in turn do damage to his foes.

'I critically hit that chair!' *chair his Crystal in the face*

StO.

*edit* I meant negate temporarily instead of remove, since he doesn't have the password

[Tempest Fennac]

Sorry about the typo, OmegaDonut (I meant to say 10 minutes).

[Neopolis]

Oh man, what a twist. I can't wait for 603 now.

[DigoDragon]

You know, it would be all well and good for the Unnamed Low-Key (awesome) Cleric to be able to remove the Belkster's curse and all, but Belkar is STILL inside a city, so even if the cleric CAN remove the curse, as soon as BMan starts attacking people, he's back to where he is right now, starting over with the projectile vomiting.

That may depend on whether "Remove Curse" actually Removes the mark or just the effects in this comic world. I believe in D&D 3.5 the spell would remove the mark completely.

Though if not you do have a pretty clever way around it.

[Shatteredtower]

So, instead of a strip that accomplishes three useful things (resurrect Roy, remove Belkar's curse, contact Durkon), we get another strip that ensures none of them happen, with a title that suggests the avenue by which they might be achieved is about to be shut off.

Before anything can happen. Again.

I don't mind that the showdown with the Greysky thieves' guild comes at an inconvenient moment, but it would be nice if it turns out to not be quite so wholeheartedly disruptive to progress.

[nowiwantmydmg]

Nice strip, Lots of good lines.

Makes me want MOAR.

[hamishspence]

I'm Guessing Rich houserules that the effects are a Curse, the Mark itself is not. the cleric can end effects, but without knowledge of password, cannot end Mark.

[synnerman]

This strip is full of "yay!" :)

[Sengoku]

The Nameless cleric reminds me Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs, for some things he says

[Infernal Badger]

I hope the cleric survives, he seems cool.
But I guess he better say his name, or his chances will be slim...

[Tohron]

Wonder if Varsuvius is going to show up just in time and resolve this plot arc too.

He seems to be doing that a lot lately.

[Warren Dew]

Nice to see someone with a goatee who isn't obviously evil.

I really like the cleric, but I suspect he's too normal to stick around for long.

[Ikialev]

So.

Only I thought that this guy looks like redcloak.?

[Querzis]

I don't know... he has a Resurrection scroll, so depending on Haley's Use Magic Device skill his death might just mean a much cheaper revival.

Look if she could have done that she would have done it a long time ago.

He gets back the eyes that he lost for selling guild's secrets. Not a great profit, on the overall. What I'm saying is that he betrayed the guild, an old friend, and random people only to get back something that he had from the begin, and none the richer. Lame traitor, isn't it?
In tropes, this is the kind of person that is killed by the bad guys before the deal is closed, because is a lost cause to trust them further.

As I already said, maybe he'll start regretting it when he rots in Carceri.

A neat touch that makes the Cleric seem rather shifty is that he apparently has great trouble making eye contact with anyone.

Lol, thats true, I didnt realize that.

Nice to see someone with a goatee who isn't obviously evil.

...Hinjo?

I really like the cleric, but I suspect he's too normal to stick around for long.

...Normal? We only saw him for one comic and hes already established as paranoid, really shifty and genre-savy. Haley look a lot more normal then him.

[Ave]

The cleric will die, because he didn't tell his name.

[Starscream]

Spotting the cutaway panel? That's like an Ambush Bug level 4th wall violation. I heartily approve!.