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2019-04-12, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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It is not a gate!
That's the reason Monster in The Darkness don't perceives it as a gate!
It sees things that we mere humans, or demihumans, or even powerful lich sorcerer can not.
But what is it then?Last edited by RedGem; 2019-04-12 at 01:31 AM.
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2019-04-12, 01:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
It is a containment unit inteded to fix a wound within the fabric of reality to imprison a deicidal abomination. It was never meant to be open and therefore isn't a gate at all.
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2019-04-12, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-12, 09:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
It's 20 feet tall, it has hinges and handles, it can be opened and closed and it's made out of wood. How exactly does that not fit the definition of gate?
Answer: MitD is used to magic gates that are a simple hole in space. He's not aware of other meanings
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2019-04-12, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-12, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nah, I think it was ther to stop the zombies from wandering into it.
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2019-04-12, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
Spoiler: Dungeon Crawlin' Fools bonus stripsXykon said "we" put the wooden doors over the entrance to keep zombies from wandering in. The then-current "Chief Gate Inspector" is also able to move towards a "purple swirly energy thing" through the gate before he's killed, so presumably the gate does function as a portal in some capacity.
My personal theory is that the Gates act as a sort of safety valve, diffusing whatever analog of pressure exists in transplanar physics; to both keep the existing rifts from growing and to mitigate the development of new rifts.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2019-04-12, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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5th panel. Not the Snarl, though.
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2019-04-12, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-12, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
I reckon the MITD is able to get into and out of places at will; it doesn’t seem to have any trouble escaping its cage whenever it wants to. Maybe it’s a higher-dimensional being intruding into the Stick universe or something. In any case, it might not perceive the gate because it doesn’t bother noticing mundane things like walls or doors.
Such a power to get into and out of things might be related to the Escape! scene with V and O-Chul.
I also note that the graveyard of worlds on the Astral Plane also had a barrier around it. Maybe the MITD came from there, or went into there somehow. Dunno how that would work, or why, but Thor was so certain nothing could get past the barrier, he’s just got to be wrong. And the MITD knows the Astral Plane.The Giant says: Yes, I am aware TV Tropes exists as a website. ... No, I have never decided to do something in the comic because it was listed on TV Tropes. I don't use it as a checklist for ideas ... and I have never intentionally referenced it in any way.
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2019-04-12, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
It's a door.
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2019-04-13, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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The answer to the Gate issue is that MitD leveled up sometime between Book 1 and Book 3. Before that specific level, the version of MitD's species that Rich is using has the attention span of a drunk peanut suspended in morphine. After that, it becomes their normal attention span. Since he didn't learn about it before, MitD did not know about the gate when the joke was made later on. Then on, he knows about the gate.
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2019-04-15, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, there is a certain cartoon quality to not noticing doors. Or not noticing their absence, a la Wile E coyote, who could never escape into the painted train tunnel when he needed to. Maybe the MitD is a ‘toon.
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2019-04-20, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: It is not a gate!
That's no gate...
It's a death star!
But seriously, the gate doesn't seem to open both ways, and therefore may not count as a gate under MitD's logic.
OR the situation that I prefer is that maybe MitD just isn't that observant.