JoeGKushner
First Post
Good story but I'm hoping that with V at this new power level we're going to see the Order of the Stick actually become the Order of the Stick again.
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WhatGravitas
Explorer
The problem is that V never wanted the power to help the OotS, he uses as an excuse, as a rationalisation, why he clings to the power. He's totally going down the "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"-path.
Cheers, LT.
Bullgrit
Adventurer
The stick on the ground in the first and second panels -- can someone with the book at hand check to see if it looks exactly like the stick that gave Elan the idea to name the group Order of the Stick? Forshadowing of the group getting back together? Or am I overanalyzing a random element?
Bullgrit
Bullgrit
dmccoy1693
Adventurer
I don't think so. Actually, I don't think I've ever been more certain about the party never getting back together than I am after this strip. At the very least, V won't be rejoining, ever. She always viewed the rest of the party (save Roy and Hailey) as a complete waste of her time. She'd sooner kill Belkar than ever fight on the same side as him again. She's to proud to say she's sorry to Elan. She's never going to be able to rejoin her family again as a member of it. She has no where to go, except to become a more powerful villian than all members of Team Evil combined. She'll destroy them all and finally become worse than they. She'll continue the work started by Redcload/Xykon of finding a gate and performing some ritual for disgustingly obscene arcane power once she is no longer able to maintain the sould slice.
V is now the strip's new main Villian.
mhensley
First Post
That would seriously suck and make the strip too much of a downer IMO.
Starbuck_II
First Post
Um, Objection!
She did humble herself to Elan and said she was sorry: she wouldd even help train him.
But he decided he didn't want to be a wizard anyway.
dmccoy1693
Adventurer
I was referring to this strip.
"I am more certain than ever that it is YOU whom I must shun."
"You and the idiot bard have become the metaphorical albatros ... without which my magical instincts will more readily find Miss Starshine and ... Roy."
She's not going to go back from that level of pride and say she's sorry.
dmccoy1693
Adventurer
Even if Belkar was her undead minion?
EDIT: Anyone else notice they are not speaking Elven anymore?
No, but if s/he find Roy and Haley and brings them back, s/he will not ask for forgiviness, but stand pride and say that s/he just made everything by herself. S/he wiil just stay mum about the situation and carry the truth as a new burden.
