The OotS thread

[Ender]

I knew one was up and got to read it (parallel hosting) but for some reason the site won't load for me. The entire thing just stalls out.

[SAMAS]

"Hey now, let's not be hasty."

[Lord of the Abyss]

619 up !

[Ender]

620

Psychological warfare rules.

[Vehrec]

621

Wherein a great deal of money is spent, and Haley Starshine freaks out. Also, I'm just blown away by today's Erfworld as well.

[CaptainChewbacca]

OOTS 622

Demonstrates everything that is awesome and godlike about this webcomic, especially the final panel.

[consequences]

623

Well darn.

[Molyneux]

623

Well darn.

Well...
...
Damn.

I can give the elf a little bit of slack for going to pieces, then, I guess. V was completely out of magic when that happened, too, if I remember correctly...it's not even a matter of bravery or cowardice.

[Ender]

Character development plus making the fools on the BBS shut up at the same time. I approve.

[Crom]

It certainly gives some much-needed context for V's radical change of character.

[Ender]

It certainly gives some much-needed context for V's radical change of character.

oh yeah. It isn't that V is refusing to trance because he is driven to win, it's that V can't trance because of the nightmares. His ego has led him to come up with rationalizations, and his guilt to push himself to such extremes to make sure it doesn't happen again. V just went from "new party asshole" to "guy you feel sorry for"

[Molyneux]

It certainly gives some much-needed context for V's radical change of character.

oh yeah. It isn't that V is refusing to trance because he is driven to win, it's that V can't trance because of the nightmares. His ego has led him to come up with rationalizations, and his guilt to push himself to such extremes to make sure it doesn't happen again. V just went from "new party asshole" to "guy you feel sorry for"

...who is still something of an asshole, to be fair.
And "he"?

[Crom]

Would it be fair to say that V is suffering from PTSD? From what I can tell from the series, that was the first major battle for the entire OotS, and V suffered the worst conditions out of the surviving party members.

[Venator]

And "he"?

Oh dear, not again... given that they've used pronouns interchangeably in the comic itself, I really don't think there's a set answer.

Would it be fair to say that V is suffering from PTSD? From what I can tell from the series, that was the first major battle for the entire OotS, and V suffered the worst conditions out of the surviving party members.

It's a fair guess; watching people begging for help (and subsequently getting mutilated) while unable to do anything has got to screw up the psyche.

[Lord of the Abyss]

Would it be fair to say that V is suffering from PTSD? From what I can tell from the series, that was the first major battle for the entire OotS, and V suffered the worst conditions out of the surviving party members.

It's a fair guess; watching people begging for help (and subsequently getting mutilated) while unable to do anything has got to screw up the psyche.

Also, V has always been quite proud of his/her magic. Having it run out while people beg him/her to help them with it, and calling it useless when they die as V watches has to twist the knife.

[Ender]

It certainly gives some much-needed context for V's radical change of character.

oh yeah. It isn't that V is refusing to trance because he is driven to win, it's that V can't trance because of the nightmares. His ego has led him to come up with rationalizations, and his guilt to push himself to such extremes to make sure it doesn't happen again. V just went from "new party asshole" to "guy you feel sorry for"

...who is still something of an asshole, to be fair.
And "he"?

In the english language it is grammatically correct to use the masculine pronoun when speaking of someone of an indeterminate gender.

[consequences]

624

[LadyTevar]

V goes invisible when using the bathroom, just because it annoyed Belkar

[Lord of the Abyss]

Hah !


"Bugsby's Expressive Single Digit !"

* Flip ! *

[Vehrec]

625 in which offers are made and considered. And virgin's blood is dismissed as a spell component because it would take too long to aquire.

[The Grim Squeaker]

"First rule of being 18 inches tall:
Find someone more powerful than you and glue their lips to your ass"

[Duckie]

I wonder if your own blood can be used if you are a virgin. No wonder why stereotypical wizards never get laid.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I used to have a mage in AD&D who was a former evil Wizard, who got transformed into an infant, and started getting his memories back, so we had a pre-teen who knew lots of destructive magic....

of course this was in the same party as "Godfather Kobald", the Galapagas Tortis Druid, and a bunch of other wierdos.

[Murazor]

626 in which a ghost from the past shows up to bite V in the ass.

[McC]

The server reliability is horrifyingly bad, and has been for quite a while now (as in weeks, not hours). Does Rich know of that issue and is he doing anything about it? It's ridiculous.