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Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:37 pm
by Krulle
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I wonder how much Thor let that "slip"...
I mean he was very accepting of the "knows about it"....
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:07 pm
by RocketScientist
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 4:29 am
by Glemp
Krulle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:37 pm
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I wonder how much Thor let that "slip"...
I mean he was very accepting of the "knows about it"....
It's going to be hilarious, because
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The phylactary hidden in there is 100% fake, so Xykon's going to retreat there and Redcloak 'll simply bring the real one out of his pocket or something.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:51 pm
by redfeather
A very cool representation of the entire Great Wheel without mentioning it, and I also really liked the lampshading of Githyanki and Astral Dreadnoughts and so forth, none of which we're allowed to have in OOTS.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:15 pm
by Dradouggon
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:18 am
by Krulle
1139 - To Remember Them By
Nice effect when reading and then scrolling down (it fit perfect for me).
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Next question for me would be, how old our world is, and how old the previous world got, before the Snarl got that one
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:02 am
by M0rtimer
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"Actually, you're two years over the last time! You're not gonna beat #1746 though- That one was a record winner."
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:30 pm
by redfeather
Mind...blown.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:30 pm
by RocketScientist
Ho. Ly. Sh--.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:56 am
by Glemp
Awesome shot. Surprised they don't get mixed up.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:39 am
by redfeather
Krulle wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:18 am
Next question for me would be, how old our world is, and how old the previous world got, before the Snarl got that one
Asked and answered!
1140 - Better Left in the Past
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So it turns out that strip 301 is canon...perhaps we may see the adventures of Sir Thumb yet....
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:40 pm
by RocketScientist
Well spotted.
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"I avenge thee, Milk Dudes!"
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:40 am
by Glemp
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I wish Rich had asked some guest artists to draw some alt-universe panels, since Thor mentioned being stick-figure as something they picked out at the start. I also wonder why Hel is so bent on getting revenge for being locked out of the souls from one world if she's got the ones from worlds that have been prematurely terminated before. I mean, has she been falling for the same trick over and over again up until now?
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:09 am
by redfeather
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Glemp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:40 amI also wonder why Hel is so bent on getting revenge for being locked out of the souls from
one world if she's got the ones from worlds that have been prematurely terminated before. I mean, has she been falling for the same trick over and over again up until now?
I would presume that Hel's bet is specific to the OOTS's world in particular.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:04 pm
by Glemp
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redfeather wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:09 am
Glemp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:40 amI also wonder why Hel is so bent on getting revenge for being locked out of the souls from
one world if she's got the ones from worlds that have been prematurely terminated before. I mean, has she been falling for the same trick over and over again up until now?
I would presume that Hel's bet is specific to the OOTS's world in particular.
Well...exactly. So why is she so bent out of shape from losing the souls of one world, when in all likelihood that world's going to end
anyway (I mean thousands if not millions have ended before it) and her bet will expire then? What's another hundred years in this world, to a god that's lived through the thousands it takes to start and end a universe (assuming that the Gods create humans and other races and animals and planets and all that directly instead of waiting the millennia for it all to happen by itself)?
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:11 pm
by M0rtimer
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I mean, by that logic... What's the point of Loki tricking her in the first place?
It might only last for one iteration if that, but she gets her "up yours" revenge against Loki- That's pretty much what it all comes down to.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:00 am
by Krulle
And she gets the souls, not that Snarl....
Maybe a god is as powerful as the amount of devotion collected to that God?
So, more souls make a god stronger, compared to others....
(pretty common idea among fantasy settings)
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:52 am
by M0rtimer
Hasn't that actually been confirmed in comic before? At the whole part where Loki tricks Hel?
He basically asks her whether souls or worship is more important for power, and she replies the answer is obviously souls. It's why she agrees to get default dominion over all dwarves (with exceptions she should have clearly gotten in writing) but no other default followers in the first place.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:53 am
by Krulle
But then, that explains why in every iteration she tries to collect all souls, otherwise the Snarl would get them...
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:37 am
by Glemp
But every god does that. Thor explicitly says that this is why they terminate worlds before they fail naturally, so they can collect their worshippers' souls.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:31 pm
by redfeather
I find myself wondering whether the gods are creating new souls every time they reinvent the world, or if they keep using the same ones over and over. What do they do if the world population varies wildly from one creation to the next? "Gritty cyberpunk" world probably has a much higher populace than a quasi-medieval setting suitable for D&D, since cyberpunk tends to assume world population rates comparable to our own modern age, while D&D usually sits pretty close to our actual Dark Ages total (likely pre-Black Death, what with all the demihumans, but still, a factor of 100 if not 1000 smaller than what we have today).
Glemp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:04 pm
Well...exactly. So why is she so bent out of shape from losing the souls of one world, when in all likelihood that world's going to end
anyway (I mean thousands if not millions have ended before it) and her bet will expire then? What's another hundred years in this world, to a god that's lived through the thousands it takes to start and end a universe (assuming that the Gods create humans and other races and animals and planets and all that directly instead of waiting the millennia for it all to happen by itself)?
Just because you're eternal doesn't mean that waiting for thousands of years doesn't suck. I mean, we live for an average of about 4 million minutes (according to my quick cocktail-napkin math, which may be completely wrong), yet the idea of spending 20 of those minutes sitting in a dentist's office or something is enough to burn our toast.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 2:09 pm
by redfeather
1141 - Advanced Color Theory
Not a fan of this one. This might be useful context for a few people who started reading after book 2 and didn't want to go back, but otherwise we pretty much know all this stuff in general, and having it spelled out more specifically ends up seeming less like "fleshing out the backstory" and more like "showing how the sausage is made". I didn't need this level of awkward, super-obvious detail about things that were better left unexplained. There's a nice twist at the end, but otherwise I could have really done without most of this update. And by now I'm getting VERY impatient about what's going on with the rest of the Order.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:49 am
by Krulle
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Well, I did not mind the explanation, as it makes this book stand-alone,and provides the information why this reiteration of worlds is special, as it ceated a new colour in the crayon-box.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:46 am
by Glemp
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Wait, so when was the colour thing explained? Shojo didn't elaborate it in his crayon-o-vision.
Re: Order of the Stick
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:09 am
by RocketScientist
Glemp wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:46 am
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Wait, so when was the colour thing explained? Shojo didn't elaborate it in his crayon-o-vision.
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Idk. I even have the first two prequel books, and it was news to me.