THE OotS Thread, Part IV.

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Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.

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Seems to me Durkula just made a very Roy like mistake, thinking he already knows all the answers.
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1112 is up.

Some vampires get better hosts...

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1113 is up.

Exposition-y but interesting.
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I like her chances too.
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1114 is up (at last).

nice race, have to think about integrating that into my next campaign somehow.

"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."

"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin

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The last Monster for Every Season paper miniatures pack came out last week for the Kickstarter backers, and since that's done, 1115 is up.
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Subtle, Belkar, subtle.
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1116 is up, and this is already not going the way Durkula thought it would. :lol:
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Sound tactic.

Send in hordes of summoned creatures to soak up the damage from the traps.

I'd follow up with Command Undead (cleric of Loki), Sunlight spell (Cleric of Thor), and Prismatic Spray. Follow that up with Flame Strikes, and of course

Evard's Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion.
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Loki is Chaotic Neutral in this setting, so his clerics get to choose whether to turn or rebuke/command undead, and Hilgya chose the former, since she used it on the vampires earlier.
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I never cease to get a kick out of the neverending number of uses for Roy's useless bag of tricks.
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I'm a bit unclear on how the little random creatures were helping; it seems like the giant colorful giraffe-monsters were doing most of the work there?
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Simon_Jester wrote: ↑2018-04-09 08:24am I'm a bit unclear on how the little random creatures were helping; it seems like the giant colorful giraffe-monsters were doing most of the work there?
I think they're mostly a joke, with a bit of 'every little bit helps' maybe they die after a hit, but they soak up that hit, or give a flanking bonus someone else can take advantage of.
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Simon_Jester wrote: ↑2018-04-09 08:24am I'm a bit unclear on how the little random creatures were helping; it seems like the giant colorful giraffe-monsters were doing most of the work there?
I think someone on Reddit said that Roy is able to influence the creatures, who in turn can influence the giraffes
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Ah.

How do the little creatures influence the giraffes, though?
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The cleric summoned the giraffes, according to dialogue. The bag of tricks obviously provided small animal jockeys...
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It's been pointed out that Durkon has been dead for 5 years.

Man.
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Lonestar wrote: ↑2018-04-10 08:57pm It's been pointed out that Durkon has been dead for 5 years.
Huh? Care to elaborate?
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LaCroix wrote: ↑2018-04-11 04:03am
Lonestar wrote: ↑2018-04-10 08:57pm It's been pointed out that Durkon has been dead for 5 years.
Huh? Care to elaborate?
Out of universe, I assume. Long, slowly updated comic is long and slowly updated.
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oh... riiight...

Wow...
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1117 is up.
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Having a secret Cleric is working out better than planned.
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Is there any way we can parse things so that Durkon was holding them back all this time?

Maybe having to make do without a cleric for a while forced the rest of the Order of the Stick to start thinking a bit more carefully about risk minimization and exploiting their advantages instead of just barging into things?
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No longer missing the forest for the trees, as it were?
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