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2008-10-08, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't know about a Fiend Binder demon, but whatever. It still doesn't seem likely that V will pick Quarr as his assistant/familiar, because he's too smart for that. On the other hand, Blackwing (who?) has been kinda useless, so maybe that.
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2008-10-08, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
(paraphrased)Woo! Comic up at 1111 hours (11:11am)!
The chance of the comic being posted at 11:11 (somewhere) is much higher than 1 in 720 = 0.1% (let's assume 12 hour time).
There are a lot of "integer" timezones 25, I believe, and a bunch of "half" timezones. There is at least 1 crazy "quarter" timezone (in the middle of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, if I hadn't just driven through it and seen the sign I wouldn't have believed it. Australian Central Western Standard Time” (ACWST), or GMT +8:45. http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/?p=104. I've lived in Australia for 37 years and never heard of it until last month).
Which means if Rich posts at x:11, x:41 in ANY hour it will be 11:11 somewhere in the world. Which is 24 chances in 720 (25 if you count ACWST).
Thus, ladies and gentlemen I present the odds for OOTS posting at 11:11 is in fact 3.5%.
Which means it should have occurred about 20 or 21 times already.Disable signatures here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/profi...do=editoptions
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2008-10-08, 07:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
*Cough*, heh.
This makes a lot more sense than the lich theory actually, which the current comic explodes ("Trancing is not biologically required for elves"), and it provides V a real agent who could probably deliver on promises of power...for a price.
I did think though that there would be a confrontation between V and the paladins to necessitate him leaving. Oh well, after all she's not an antagonist just yet, but yeah there was no way V would stick around and I'm not surprised Elan and Durkon got kicked to the curb.
Originally Posted by factotum
Or as his boss put it much more bluntly: "POWER!!....UNLIMITED POWER!"
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2008-10-08, 07:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
This is going to have...consequences. Can't wait for the next strip.
How to Play Rogues Properly:
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2008-10-08, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Well well...Looks to be that V is suffering from just a titch of pride. Of course, that's how he's always acted, to be honest. He knows he's the most powerful person in the group, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. He can't contact Haley, but to be honest, that dos'nt matter. If someone told him that he couldn't have a cookie, then sealed them away, he would probaly have gone just as nuts to PROVE that he was the best. He has to be number one, no matter what, and any evidence that he is not can be safely ignored.
On another note, He is going to get a reaming from Haley for just leaving the boat.
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2008-10-08, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Ugh, we're getting even more side-tracked with group split-ups instead of getting the gang back together? :/
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2008-10-08, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Aw Man....
If you like comics where practically nothing changes from strip 1, you're probably better off reading... I don't know, some other webcomic.
Here's what I think will happen:
SpoilerStrip changes back to Haley and co., who are in deep trouble with the Thieves' guild. Things escalate, and when it seems all hope is lost, V appears and saves the day.
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2008-10-08, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-10-08, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
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2008-10-08, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
The political reference was brilliant :) Well done giant, well done.
"Gotcha Questions" hahaha.
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2008-10-08, 08:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
I like how Elan is developing from an idiot bard to an actually very cool character. As far as I recall, he used his bluff skill for the first time.
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2008-10-08, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
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2008-10-08, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Funny comic, but if panel 6 of Elan/Hinjo is a subtle dig on the current US political situation, I have to say I'm disappointed with the Giant for the first time in many comics. Board ban aside, I come here to laugh and escape the real world, not be reminded of it.
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2008-10-08, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Actually I think it was very mature. V just committed cold blooded murder and threatened to do the same to Elan for the slimmest of reasons. V is making snap irrational judgements and backing them up with murderous power. She has become psychotically dangerous, but unlike Belkar V is beyond any means of control. In Elan's eye's V is, morally, now no better than Belkar - possibly even worse, but being far more powerful is too inherently dangerous to keep around.
I think Elan can see that V has fallen too far and has become unreachable. Nothing Elan can say will make a difference anyway and trying to stop her would only likely get Elan and Durkon killed. Maybe just maybe, it is better that V does leave, now she has fallen so far and become so irrationally uncontrollably dangerous.
Elan probably just saved his and Durkon's lives.
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2008-10-08, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
I can see one good thing coming from all this..
The group will be getting Kubota's kick ass gear back! Woohoo!
There is no way Lien can miss heavy purple armor that'd sink like an anchor into the ocean floor during her body-search.
I'd like to see Durkon slip into the stuff personally... although he'd probably have to dye it to fit dwarven achromatic tastes =/
And then we've got the boots, and possibly magic rings and amulets if they're not too small to find.
At the very least its 10s of thousands of gold worth of treasure towards the "True Resurrection Of Roy" fund.
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2008-10-08, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Avatar by KwarkpuddingThe subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
Whoever makes shoddy beer, shall be thrown into manure - town law from Gdańsk, XIth century.
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2008-10-08, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Incompetency and incapability are two different issues. V is capable, but he's been failing for a while now, depending on sheer luck and determination to get him through. See: Pit Fiend Fight.
He's intelligent, but his relatively low Wisdom score is fairly obvious repeatedly (Iron Mage is a good example!) and it's been thrown into sharp note on the boat.
And even if she was anything like you describe, she'd still be able to research a spell that could get her to Haley eventually, at the speed of plot.
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2008-10-08, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Perfect. Now we'll have a few more alignment discussions of action vs intent.
Sadly, V transforming into an undead skeletal mage would be the ultimate finger to the debates on V's gender since there will be nothing left to determine it by unless you're into analysing cheek and pelvic bones.
Few things are as gender ambigous as a stick figure skeleton...The hippies wanted peace and love.
We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. - Alice Cooper
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2008-10-08, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Hmm -- Elan said -- have a nice trip -- after the prior thing it kind of reminds me of Coneheads...
When we take over the world you will be on the protected roles and come to no harm.
I mean if Haley were to end up dead and V were to find that out -- especially if it was fresh(got here just a little too late due to the bumblings of Hinjo and friends) I could REALLY see eVil.
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2008-10-08, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Well, Kubata's armor is probably down there; might be interesting to see what happens if its found.
Also, I don't think the "gotcha" reference is specific to Palin - she's hardly the first person to accuse the media of playing gotcha....
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2008-10-08, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
*crosses fingers and hopes for the encounter between Vaarsuvius and Quarr to end in some sort of a farce - like V not noticing the imp for tiredness, or whatever*
Because there are things in the wizard's handbooks which are written in the blood of utter fools, and dealing with devils is one of them.
*is also kind of hoping that V is finally going to have a breakdown, somewhere no one can see the elf - sometimes these things can heal*
Though I doubt it, really - sometimes having too much willpower and perseverance is deadly.There are thousands of good reasons magic doesn't rule the world. They're called mages. - Slightly misquoted Pratchett
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2008-10-08, 08:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
What, you mean the Pit Fiend that she completely and utterly defeated? I think she'd probably worked out the risks of her plan. She has only been failing at finding Haley, and that's been because of the Cloister spell.
Well after Haley/Celia have things more or less wrapped up, I'm certain, and then he can burden THEIR group instead of Hinjo.
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2008-10-08, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
You misplaced your descriptors there - you mean barely defeated. The chance that all of those spells worked on a pit fiend of that power is fairly astronomical between saves, SR, and Prismatic Spray's inherent randomness. There's luck in strategy, and then there's sheer dumb luck.
She has only been failing at finding Haley, and that's been because of the Cloister spell.
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2008-10-08, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
Well this is something I didn't predict. V on his own with an imp around isn't good. Because the imp isn't going to temp with 'come over to the dark side'. He's not even going to tempt with power. "Hey, I can see you're powerful... look at what you did to my poker bud... why you can do anything... oh? You're doing research... huh... well I'd be glad to help."
I feel like I'm missing a page or two, though. I don't know WHY V is so enamored of Haley and Roy and not Durkon and Elan. Forcing Elan and Durkon to leave would be something I could expect. But going on his own and abandoning two members of the stick to whatever fate is another.
Anywho... upcoming splash page!
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2008-10-08, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #599 - The Discussion Thread
I wonder what Roy would do if he were offered true ressurection from an evil unknown source anyway?