The OotS Thread III

[FaxModem1]

I imagine one of Xykon's tantrums is about to erupt.

[Mr Bean]

I imagine one of Xykon's tantrums is about to erupt.

I imagine the reverse. I see him being shocked into respect for Drakentooth or alternatively being amazed at how convincing that illusion was. Man this Drakentooth guy has class! Touch his pyramid and bam giant explosion. I never even thought about that.

Redclock I want all of my lairs rigged to explode within the hour!

[Simon_Jester]

What prophecy? The one the kobold made, about Xykon visiting Girard's gate before Kraagor's?

[Crazedwraith]

Yeah Roy's very specifically worded prophecy about which gate Xykon would be within a certain distance from next. Draketooth's or Kraagor's. (Xykon was actually going to Soon's at the time but Roy had overlooked that one)

edit: I checked the Relevant Strip and its within a 1000 foot which seems legit.

[Bedlam]

I imagine one of Xykon's tantrums is about to erupt.

I imagine the reverse. I see him being shocked into respect for Drakentooth or alternatively being amazed at how convincing that illusion was. Man this Drakentooth guy has class! Touch his pyramid and bam giant explosion. I never even thought about that.

Redclock I want all of my lairs rigged to explode within the hour!

I see the first being most likely, I would not like to be Redcloak now.

I imagine Xykon would blame the delay caused by the loss of the phylactery for the loss of the gate.

[Gaidin]

Ha ha. That title I'd actually forgotten the prophecy that was why they were there. But of course xykon had to arrive before it got blown up. Otherwise paradox.

Can never understand this. Prophecies always seem to be based on current information, but once characters start actively acting with regards to them, that information changes. How would that be a paradox if that changes things enough quickly enough that the gate's simply destroyed soon enough that Xykon simply doesn't get there in time. And they don't exactly have fast moving information technology. Xykon could simply not be actively scrying, not know things are destroyed, and appear after things are destroyed, and according to the words of the prophecy, is still within 1000 feet of the location next.

[Crazedwraith]

The Oracle seems to have been 100% accurate so far. So it seems to me his prophecies actually take into account the effect telling people them.

[Gaidin]

Well I'm not really contesting that, but I've seen it go both ways in stories and the comic could've played that thing off as a forked prophecy. If the Order acted fast enough, it changed things and forced Xykon to go to the other gate first. No paradox, just a change of situation. Or just as I said, that location may just still be known as Girard's Gate for years to come anyway, making it a legitimate outcome regardless of if the gate or pyramid is there anyway.

[Irbis]

900 is up, BTW.
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I am not sure if I get the 'never mind' reply, though.

[Terralthra]

900 is up, BTW.
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I am not sure if I get the 'never mind' reply, though.

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Monster in the Dark clearly does not know what a pelvis is.

[Esquire]

Heh, apparently the roaches have turned archaeologist.

[Ahriman238]

Heh, the demon roaches and their tiny fridge stole the show.

Now, do we have a grudge match in the crater, or a race to Kraagor/Nerini's Gate?

[Crazedwraith]

Maybe they'd jump through the rift to escape, that'd be a game changer.

[Lord Relvenous]

Anyone have any idea what spell Roy just took to the face?

[Mr Bean]

Anyone have any idea what spell Roy just took to the face?

Disintegrate
Green ray? View of Roy's skeleton? Disintegrate.

[Ahriman238]

Disintegrate. That's how it's been shown throughout the comic.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

[Ralin]

Maybe they'd jump through the rift to escape, that'd be a game changer.

I'd say it's almost a certainty. Probably just as Xykon becomes undistracted.

[Kuja]

I still think we're going to see Team Tarquin show up at the exact wrong moment for Xykon to get furious.

[Irbis]

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Monster in the Dark clearly does not know what a pelvis is.

But technically, there is left and right pelvis. It's made of 2 bones joined by ligament, so you could argue MitD is correct... Even if in broken clock sort of way.

[Spekio]

Maybe they'd jump through the rift to escape, that'd be a game changer.

Redcloak sent prisioners down the rift, and they ceased to exist, if I recall correctly.

[Crazedwraith]

I think he just threatened to do that. Then he gave up on it after threatening to do so didn't get O-Chul to spill.

[Spekio]

I think he just threatened to do that. Then he gave up on it after threatening to do so didn't get O-Chul to spill.

Just re-read the relevant strips, and you are right.

[Irbis]

Better question is why not a single goblin that was about to throw the prisoners into the rift (physically, meaning they had to be pretty much next to it) mentioned he saw planet inside to Redcloak.

[Kuja]

I don't think anybody got close enough to the rift to spot the planet except for Blackwing. Everybody else just saw the standard 'seething chaos of an open hole in reality' type stuff.

[Lord of the Abyss]

The relevant comic is here. And yeah, there isn't anything visible but the seething chaos. And here is Blackwing looking is; even he's getting only a narrow peek surrounded by the chaos. It seems that you need to be both close and at the right angle to see into the rift. Which also helps explain why Redcloak isn't saying "There's an ocean in there?!"