OOTS #942 - The Discussion Thread

[TechnoScrabble]

You've gotta be kitten me...

The cat was Ian's son all along!

[Shale]

Is it just me, or does Jiminy have a feminine body? And why would a picture of his parents be in the polearm shop?

It's Jiminy's shop. The adventurer is just some random woman - Ivy has a caucasian skin tone in the flashback, there's no way their kid would have skin that dark.

[Wou]

Took me a while to realize Jiminy is the shopkeeper, not the adventurer

[Edhelras]

Ah - I really HOPED that the picture of Geoff and Ivy would be there, when I looked back on the original comic. What a foreshadowing that would've been!

[Gift Jeraff]

Typo in bottom-left panel: wouldn've

Great comic, though. But I would've thought at this point Rich would stop giving new characters/items green magic auras, lest there be more confusion about Zz'dtri's scrying spell.

[Porthos]

Holy Brick Joke, Batman!

[raymundo]

No surprise with Geoff, but that's what I call an EPIC CALLBACK!

[Hopeless]

I thought I recognised that vendor!

Then again maybe it was the polearm that proved pivotal.... especially as he still doesn't have any!

[Rodin]

I knew it! Thought I was going crazy there for a little bit.

[Menarker]

So how was he able to smuggle a sending wand in the first place and keep it secret for so long?

He lost his leg during the arena since he wasn't as good as Ian at dodging. That means at the moment when he would have the opportunity to have a peg leg in the first place, he was already imprisoned under Tarquin's control, which has a pretty effective prison system (even considering that fact that Geoff was partly responsible for getting Ian back in every time he managed to get out).

While we know that the Thieves' Guild has an agreement to pay gold to the empire to hold them in place, there was no mention about providing the snitch with equipment (or that there was a snitch to begin with). So Geoff was supposably without anyone he could contact for magic items at the time...

[Morty]

I guess the Giant decided to one-up Brian Clevinger... his brick joke was only nine years in the making.

[The Giant]

Boz is the wrong shade of green and Crystal's skin is off.

Sometimes, the colors on things change. This may be due to the fact that I no longer like the color I made the thing the first time it was seen, or it may be because my new system is still making the colors different when I save to PNG.

Also, what's with Aunt Ivy's hair? Is it white with a green visor thing?

Yup.

[Shale]

So how was he able to smuggle a sending wand in the first place and keep it secret for so long?

He lost his leg during the arena since he wasn't as good as Ian at dodging. That means at the moment when he would have the opportunity to have a peg leg in the first place, he was already imprisoned under Tarquin's control, which has a pretty effective prison system (even considering that fact that Geoff was partly responsible for getting Ian back in every time he managed to get out).

He never said he lost his leg in the arena because he wasn't good at dodging. He said he wasn't good at dodging and pointed at the peg leg, which could just as easily mean that he can't dodge as well because of the missing limb.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

I thought That Guy With A Halberd would be in this one. I'm sad now.

[Osiris]

Sorry about this Giant, but is Jiminy (Male) supposed to be wearing ladies's armor? Jiminy is, I believe, a man, and therefore does not have those.

EDIT: Epic derp, Jiminy is the Salesman, not the buyer! I can't believe I didn't realize that!

[Menarker]

It's kinda interesting to note that there is an actual female version of Roy going through the same miseries as our protagonist fighter in this world even if only as a joke. =3

[Prospekt]

So how was he able to smuggle a sending wand in the first place and keep it secret for so long?

He lost his leg during the arena since he wasn't as good as Ian at dodging. That means at the moment when he would have the opportunity to have a peg leg in the first place, he was already imprisoned under Tarquin's control, which has a pretty effective prison system (even considering that fact that Geoff was partly responsible for getting Ian back in every time he managed to get out).

While we know that the Thieves' Guild has an agreement to pay gold to the empire to hold them in place, there was no mention about providing the snitch with equipment (or that there was a snitch to begin with). So Geoff was supposably without anyone he could contact for magic items at the time...

Except he has the pegleg in this strip's flashback, which was clearly before the whole arena situation.

[ellindsey]

He lost his leg during the arena since he wasn't as good as Ian at dodging.

Panel 9 shows him setting up the deal with Bozzok, already having the pegleg. Presumably this took place before he was ever in the arena.

[Agnostik]

I smell a spinoff!

No, wait. That's not a spinoff. I gotta go.

[ellindsey]

Sorry about this Giant, but is Jiminy (Male) supposed to be wearing ladies's armor? Jiminy is, I believe, a man, and therefore does not have those.

Jiminy is the shopkeeper, not the customer.

[Bilbo27]

I am going to bet he is still most definitely out of pole arms of any sort.

[Menarker]

He never said he lost his leg in the arena because he wasn't good at dodging. He said he wasn't good at dodging and pointed at the peg leg, which could just as easily mean that he can't dodge as well because of the missing limb.

But if he had a peg-leg in the first place, then it would beg the question of WHY is he considered bad at dodging then.

I mean, you say he already had a peg-leg and THEN they send him to the arena in a life/death battle? For which it seems he had not have lost any other limb or severe injuries since then? That would imply that he was fairly GOOD at dodging since even with the peg-leg, he made it through relatively unscathed during the few matches they needed to endure to before they found out about how to abuse the "list rule".

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Didn't catch that flashback bit. Sorry.

[Gift Jeraff]

Actually, he didn't say he was bad at dodging, just that Ian is better.

[Shale]

Maybe he just had some closer scrapes with death than Ian did. He could get stabbed a bunch of times without losing a limb.

And just because he's not as good as a (presumably high-level, high-Dex) Thief doesn't mean he's bad.

[Arrowstorm122]

I guess we'll see the Thieves Guild coming down on them at the North Pole then.

[zql]

He lost his leg during the arena since he wasn't as good as Ian at dodging.

Nope, if you look the flashback panel in this strip, he already have a wooden leg.

edit: ninj'd so badly


that cat got a nice art update

[Muenster Man]

Wow, that was a great callback. And it looks like the forum was right about the whole Geoff and Ivy thing.

[Mike Havran]

I immediately went to check out #136 whether the picture was there. It wasn't but would that be awesome.

Still, more plot threads are tied up.

[Sniffnoy]

One thing is really confusing here: Why is Geoff suddenly caught now? Presumably he kept pretty good secrecy before; what causes him to bungle it up just now? It's really not clear.

[Bulldog Psion]

Well, that wrapped up the Geoff and Ivy treachery thing neatly in one strip. And the return of the halberd seller is bizarre but hilarious. Who would have thought that Roy was being driven crazy by Haley's cousin way back when?