24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

[Glemp]

C&P'ing backgrounds, he's okay with and has done for a very long time. It's characters Thunt has a policy of never copying, since it looks...limited, as they're more unique.

[WearsHats]

Yeah. He used to be against C&P for everything. Quality above all else. Then he realized that it does actually look better for static objects. The wall isn't usually supposed to look different from one panel to the next, so redrawing it is not only unnecessary but it introduces minor errors and inconsistencies. People, on the other hand, move. Having them be perfectly 100% still, even from one second to the next, isn't right.

For the upcoming page, there's a static background (I think a doorway) behind them for most of the page. So he will be C&Ping that. (But, of course, that just means he'll spend more time making the one image look better and more detailed before he goes around C&Ping it.)

[0z79]

Big Ears seer. Fumbles chief. Between two and four pages of argument about how Fumbles isn't chief material countered with how the seer is never wrong.

And those pages will be spaced out over eight months.

[Krulle]

Plus some months in between when we follow the other groups of storytelling.

Thanks WearsHats and Glemp.
I was wondering as the pencilled page had no cracks for background, then the coloured page did have, which I just found a weird order when copy-pasting background.
But then, drawing in layers does allow to do things like that...

[Insane Kitty]

What would happen if their chief ceremony made MM chief?

[WearsHats]

The teller is their priest. The chiefing ceremony is a direct call for divine guidance. It seems really unlikely that the god of goblins would pick Minmax as the chief of a goblin clan, not least because he's not a member of the clan.

That said, the call for guidance is not binding. The teller is free to pick someone else. It's only advice. But it's usually not a good idea to reject or overrule your god's advice.

So if the god said to pick Minmax, they could pick someone else. But if they chose to pick Minmax, they'd have to live with it.

[RocketScientist]

I vote for Fumbles as Teller and Thaco as Chief. If their god says he has to be Chief, what happens if he says no?

Do they know their teller is dead? I'm drawing a blank. Was it Forgath who killed her? If so, was Minmax there?

[WearsHats]

Yes, it was Forgath.

http://www.goblinscomic.org/12192005/

If you look on the next page, you'll see Minmax and Fumbles were there. I assume the rest of the GAP knows.

As for the chiefing ceremony, it's like I said. Thunt has talked about this on the livestream. The ceremony asks for divine guidance, but they're free to ignore the advice. The clan makes its own decisions. For example, IIRC, divine guidance said Thaco would make the better chief, but Y&B chose Chief anyway. Their god does not want or expect absolute obedience.

[hypothetical]

It's just logical that Vorpal becomes the Teller. Oracles are known for being eccentric, and Vorpal sure is that.

#BigEarsForChief2016

[Morgaln]

I vote for Fumbles as Teller and Thaco as Chief. If their god says he has to be Chief, what happens if he says no?

Do they know their teller is dead? I'm drawing a blank. Was it Forgath who killed her? If so, was Minmax there?

I assume the same thing would happen as the last time their god said it has to be Thaco and the teller chose someone else instead: nothing at all...

[Never Finishes Anyth]

The call for guidance is not binding. The teller is free to pick someone else. It's only advice. But it's usually not a good idea to reject or overrule your god's advice.

So if the god said to pick Minmax, they could pick someone else. But if they chose to pick Minmax, they'd have to live with it.

Sort of like our electoral college here in the U.S.A.

[Krulle]

A small reminder:


(click image for blog post; click here for the comic of 17 December 2010)


Wouldn't it be perfect timing for Thunt to bring a new page on 17th of December, with the election of a new chief, as a commemoration of Chief?

If anyone is interested in baking a cake (or something) with a -10 on it and taking a picture, IÔÇÖll gladly post those up here on the site. RIP Chief.

[Gift Fastidious]

I'm almost surprised that neither electing a new chief nor electing a new teller requires intervention of some position that normally stays at the village rather than the warcamp, but I guess it makes sense in a war-centric society.

[Glemp]

IIRC, normally the Teller does stay at the village?

[Krulle]

Then why was Young and Beautiful in the war camp?

[nikohl]

I think the rule was "no women in the warcamp unless they're spellcasters", I don't remember if there was another bit about the teller usually staying behind - I'm too tired to faff around looking in the archives!

[Krulle]

I think the rule was "no women in the warcamp unless they're spellcasters", I don't remember if there was another bit about the teller usually staying behind - I'm too tired to faff around looking in the archives!

Added one for you.



But I did not find any reference to fortune tellers to stay in the village and not join the war camp.
Y&B explaining why warcamps are created at all.
Y&B has been member of three earlier warcamps, so apparently it's not that uncommon, at least not for her, to be part of the warcamp. And she also confesses being a coward, not doing the fighting.
The sign of the Statue Garden actually implies, that the fortune teller usually does form part of the war camp.

[Davis8488]

Exactly! That's why I think he should be the Teller. He has been preparing for this his whole life. He's had a critical opinion of everybody's name, forever. Now he finally gets the chance to do it right.

Can you imagine Complains reacting to the names Fumbles comes up with?

[Krulle]

The the teller "Old-and-Beautiful" was right.
Nomen est omen.