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Meh, Durkon isn't out yet. More than likely he will either return to being a mortal Dwarf or undermine the Linear Guild til his dying day... Well the day he gets returned to death...
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This bums me out. I'll probably be drawn into reading a bit longer, just to see how it turns out. But my incentive to keep up with it has died with my favorite character.
You wouldn't say that if he was zombified instead, would you?
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This bums me out. I'll probably be drawn into reading a bit longer, just to see how it turns out. But my incentive to keep up with it has died with my favorite character.You wouldn't say that if he was zombified instead, would you?
Actually, even more so. In Burlew's world so far, zombies haven't been known for their witty conversation. So I wouldn't even have the hope of any good one liners.
But, as I said, I'll probably keep up with it a bit longer. But a large part of the joy is gone.
And do I see a trip to the dwarven lands in the near future? The oracle did say he would return posthumously.
True, true...
This is what happens when you split the party.
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They even had a whole album telling them not to.
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In addition to the EXCELLENT plot stuff going on, the last panels of 879 hold a special meaning for me. A few years ago I stepped out of a gaming session for some fresh air and fainted. Fell face first on the sidewalk and broke a few teeth, and needed a couple of stitches on my chin. A week later I picked up the "-1" and "0" books, and was planning on reading them after dinner. However, during my meal my jaw got stuck OPEN! I rode off to the emergency room and the doctors and interns on duty took turns trying to pop my jaw back into place. But it wasn't dislocated, it was broken! My girlfriend showed up to the hospital later, and I was able to lay there, jaw stuck open and read OOtS. After some morphine and events that I was awake for but don't remember, I woke up the next day with my jaw finally shut...WIRED shut.
Over the next couple of months my days were filled with surgery, super jaw wiring, dental visits, and pain. I could hardly do anything, but my girlfriend had gotten me a few of the Order of the Stick Books. My otherwise miserable days were made a little brighter by escaping into the OOtS world.
When I see Belker on the floor like that with a "thunk!", I can't help but feel like that panel was written for me. I'm sure it is just a classic fall gag, but it means so much to me. The whole thing means so much to me.
Thanks Rich Burlew! For everything!
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Ouch :/
I'm glad the 'not believing Belkin' got wrapped up in one post; the events are traumatic enough without having additional levels of mistrust and denial wrapped around.
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This shook me enough that I was on the verge of tears. That is powerful art to make a grown man shed tears on the fate of a simple stick figure.
The dwarven lands will rue the day they sent Durkon away.
And I think Malack is in for a severe disappointment when he releases him. "Engage as peers" indeed.
" He really turned undead" :-))
I can't help but think of Dominic Deegan... Which reminds me. I need to catch up on that.
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I keep trying to contribute something to my response to what's been happening the past few strips, and I can't really get past "holy s&#$!"
How about "No!!!!!! Not Durkon!!!!!!"?
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Vampires can be destroyed with a stake. A stake is made of wood. Wood comes from trees. TREEVENGE!
Oh dang... Durkon's fear of trees should have just went up...
Sweet...
Thanks Rich Burlew! For everything!
Rich is a master story teller and has a phd in the plot twist doesn't he?
Yes. Yes, he does. or even something beyond a phd.
V needs to get his/her act together and beat down the LG. A few more levels could open up access to Wish, which could be used for a Resurrection. They've got the diamonds, after all.
They're still using 3.5, however, so that means he's got to use Experience Points instead, specifically 5,000 XP, which is actually a bigger deal even at that level than even in PF.
So... you know... it's still difficult.
I might expect him to go for the third-edition components like Liquid Pain or Distilled Joy to help augment his spellcasting. What would be pretty hilarious, is if he used his newfound powers of good by distilling some excess joy from his allies. So, you know, still using them. But considering how little such stuff would be able to contribute to (two to three XP each, compared to 5,000), they'll have to do a lot of "joy-ing", which... doesn't actually sound like something they'd object to.
Either that or hook stuff up to Belker when he's getting away with something or killing things*. That's probably a ton of doses right there.
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EDIT: correct the spoiler tag
Now I have a vision of Belkar wearing monk robes (in a Western European sense of holy hermit-priest) who rejects violence and changed his name as part of atonment, so there is no more Belkar Bitterleaf...
That reminds me of something...
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That reminds me of something...
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Priceless...
That reminds me of something...
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It didn't take that long. You made it in less than half an hour :P
It didn't take that long. You made it in less than half an hour :PThat reminds me of something...
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No, I'm pretty sure it was closer to four! ;D
This comic is awesome.
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Tarquin awesomely talkative as usual.
Too much great texts to spoiler-quote.
Tarquin... Priceless...
Even before reading the comic, the title and Nale's expression had me smiling.
Pathfinder imps don't have teleport without error anymore. :-(
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If he did I missed it. What do you think he revealed?Did Rich just make the big reveal?
Last panel. Imp's word balloon!
Other characters constantly refer to V as he/him or she/her, even within the party. Having another character attempt to guess or make an assumption of V's gender is far from new.
they've stated a few times that any use of pronoun by a character is that characters interpretation.
Considering the imp didn't even see varsuvius pee because they were using invisibility, i don't think the imp has any more information than we do.
*sob!*
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A better question at this point is "Who is granting the dwarf-vampire's spells?"
I think Thor would react poorly to one of his priest conjuring a fiendish creature.
Or at least curious as to why they summoned it.
However, it didn't look like Thor was paying much attention to Durkon at the moment, anyway, as seen a few strips ago.