OOTS #603 - The Discussion Thread

[RMS Oceanic]

I think Bozzok gave his crew the old "Make sure you attack the good guy...er girl one at a time" speech.

It's a set of stairs inside a house, it's not like he can order a full cavalry charge.

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Best way to start the day! An action packed OOTS! Does your body good!

[Kurald Galain]

The irony is that Durkon would have had a teleporting wizard around if somebody had bothered to raise him from the dead...

[Laurentio II]

It's a set of stairs inside a house, it's not like he can order a full cavalry charge.

And having archers covering the melee one is totally out of thieves mentality, I suppose.
I'm the only one to notice that they are in a fully lighted underground, in a place that is supposedly secret and held by a blind guy? Should not be at least partially dark, allowing thieves to crawl in?
No, thieves charge frontally, one by one, on a ranged defender.

[Adeptus]

Brilliant comic today Giant!

[Pepz]

Loved it :) good job to the cleric for surviving yet another strip

[Killer Munchkin]

I'm very afraid that Haley is going to run out of arrows....

[Blaznak]

This was an excellent comic. One of the singularly best in, like, forever. I felt the character development, dialogue, reactions to environment, etc. were just dead on. Good job!

Later...

[turkishproverb]

Now THAT was interesting. love the reason she got over hurting people she grew up with.

I'm hoping DUrkon didn't take more ranks in knowledge religion, as he might ignore a cleric of Loki giving that spell. :P

[Coke_Can64]

Yay, go Haley!

Even if the priest removes the curse off Belkar, don't D&D doors lock both ways? (I'm guessing that Belkar doesn't have diddly-squat in lockpicking)

[Parlik]

Celia: I thought you said this would be hard for you.
Haley: Yeah that was before I remembered that everyone I grew up with is an *******.

Heh I just love that part of it. I just know I am going to quote that over and over.

[Zar Peter]

The last two panels are great. Made me nearly laugh loud at work.

Awesome Comic!

[Maryring]

That was a very good comic.

[TerrickTerran]

And having archers covering the melee one is totally out of thieves mentality, I suppose.
I'm the only one to notice that they are in a fully lighted underground, in a place that is supposedly secret and held by a blind guy? Should not be at least partially dark, allowing thieves to crawl in?
No, thieves charge frontally, one by one, on a ranged defender.

That's why this particular one is threatening to break my mind..along with that apparently Haley has an unlimited amount of arrows if she can hold off all these rogues for 100 rounds. (Of course since it only seems to take two arrows to kill anyone no matter their level, I guess that's moot)

[Parlik]

That's why this particular one is threatening to break my mind..along with that apparently Haley has an unlimited amount of arrows if she can hold off all these rogues for 100 rounds. (Of course since it only seems to take two arrows to kill anyone no matter their level, I guess that's moot)

Well assuming Haley is pure Rogue and 13th level? Each of those two arrows would have +7d6 on them from the sneak attack, and that is before adding potential feats, bonuses and crits, so we are talking at least 16d6 damage here (not sure what kind of bow she is using so is sticking with d6), which is an average of 56 points of damage, so yeah those two arrows should hurt.

[XenoGeno]

Somewhat amusingly, my dog is named Toby. But yeah, good strip, nice to get some action again, etc.

[Laurentio II]

Somewhat amusingly, my dog is named Toby. But yeah, good strip, nice to get some action again, etc.

And he helds the local men fighting ring? Heartless beast!

[nosignal]

And having archers covering the melee one is totally out of thieves mentality, I suppose.
I'm the only one to notice that they are in a fully lighted underground, in a place that is supposedly secret and held by a blind guy? Should not be at least partially dark, allowing thieves to crawl in?
No, thieves charge frontally, one by one, on a ranged defender.

Well, to be fair we've only seen ONE thief "charge frontally". There are dozens more.

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Maybe the lower level mooks were ordered to charge in just to expend Haley's arrows. The rest are probably planning something more devious to trap/kill our heroes, though Crystal seems like the trigger-happy type.

I predict some taunting and possibly gas grenades(?) to smoke them out.

Fingers-crossed for some Mr. Scruffy action.

[Raz_Fox]

I forgot about that - Outsiders can't be raised. Uh-oh. This spells trouble - if not right here, right now then sometime in the future that's going to come back to bite Roy+Celia.

Meanwhile, Haley's got to be careful. If she's using up the awesome now, how will she use it when the real battle comes?

I can't wait for the next strip!

[Vulion]

All right, some good ol' Oots action!

[Oslecamo]

It's a set of stairs inside a house, it's not like he can order a full cavalry charge.

They're a guild of theives, since when do thieves charge head on against a target?

Anyway, great comic.

Thief leader: My mooks will cover up the sun!
Haley:Then I will shoot them in the shade.

[Moonshadow]

No matter, Haley has Many Shot >_>;

[Belkster11]

Wait, Celia has lightning, right? All Haley has to tell her is: "Celia, shoot them with your lightening. They're--"

Oh...right...This is a sylph who stopped the tracks just to look for a discarded chocolate bar on the off chance some puppy would devour it.

Yeah...I think Haley should say: "Celia, tell the cleric to heal Belkar!"

But the cleric may not know the password...

Yeah...they're royally screwed...

[Platinum_Mongoose]

Nice touch, keeping the Sending message to 25 words exactly.

[RebelRogue]

I love that the Sending is exactly 25 words long... Also, it's good to see Haley kick som ass(holes)!

[Maurice]

I think the thing about outsiders not being able to be raised is a big, fat tell. Celia's going to step in when Haley starts to get overwhelmed during the big fight, and she's going to get killed. And once she does, they're going to trade her body to Grubwiggler for Roy's golem, since she can't use it anymore and there's no need to get anyone else killed storming the castle if they can resolve things nonviolently.

It kind of fits with the whole film noir vibe of this sidetrack. "Forget it, Roy, it's Greysky City."

[HOLEkevin]

OMG! I had exactly the same reaction when I went to my first High School reunion!

[T.D.O.W.]

Well, to be fair we've only seen ONE thief "charge frontally". There are dozens more.

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Maybe the lower level mooks were ordered to charge in just to expend Haley's arrows. The rest are probably planning something more devious to trap/kill our heroes, though Crystal seems like the trigger-happy type.

I'm vaguely reminded of the climactic Crazy 88s battle in Kill Bill.
Though there are no doubt many better-apt cinematic comparisons...

[SwordOfUriel]

True Resurrection would bring her back! Or Limited Wish...

And V strikes me as someone who would be gunning for Limited Wish...

[Lance]

"Yeah, that was before I remembered everyone I grew up with was an *******." Fantastic.

Waiiiit... ******* is used in the comic, but it is censored on the boards?

How's that work?

LOL! You have now entered... the Erfworld Zone. :D

(Dee Dee doo doo, Dee Dee doo doo, Dee Dee doo doo...)