OotS #462

[freyar]

The what?

 

[tvknight415]

Oh fuuuuuuuuudddddddddggggggggggggge!

 

[Mouseferatu]

The gem is the gate.

The gem is not the gate.

The stake is not the power.

To Serve Man is a cookbook.

The Towers are the playas.

Soylent Green is people.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

This is my boomstick.















I'm sorry. I have no idea what just happened to me. Somebody stop me.

 

[dmccoy1693]

No it's not.

"...to the smallest breach, in the skies above Azure City. It was so tiny that Dorukan and Lirian were capable of using a singel gemstone to seal it."

So the gate is inside the gem, but is not the gem itself. What will be the result of Miko breaking the seal? Tune in Friday to find out!

I took that strip to mean, and still believe it to mean, that the gem is the gate. The breaches are sealed by the gates. As such, the gem is the gate for this breach. Plus, you can see the breach through the gem. If the gem wasn't there, the breach would be plainly exposed.

 

[Balgus]

Ah, I liked the strip.
And I liked Xykon and Redcloak when they believed they had failed. Xykons "luckily-not-last-words" sounded as if he and Redcloak were really close and just not two evil masterminds with similar goals...

I liked this one too.. but I am torn between them really having a connection to wher Xykon needs Redcloak and was just protecting him to protect himself... but the line "hey redcloak... we really had a shot at the prize there for a minte, didnt we?" really showed that they were more equals than I originally thought. It almost makes me feel bad for them...

And the three concurrent games idea - genius... the only problem is tha he has to run the game every night and for ten minutes..

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

He went to destroy it when the Sapphire Guard was having its collective butt handed to it by a gleeful Xykon. At that moment, he perceived his choices to be: (a) destroy the gate, or (b) let Xykon take control of it.

Actually, I think he succumbed to a suggestion from Xykon to do it.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Reading some old strips looks like you're right; the guard knows about the gates. I'm not sure if they all know about what they do.

Miko is (was) the highest leveled paladin of the GUard - she almost certainly knows as much if not more than Hinjo

 

[Knight Otu]

What makes you think this is a "resolution"? No the PC's haven't "resolved" the action -- YET. And neither did Miko. This is not a story resolution by any stretch. This is called a complication. If you are thinking about this in literative story terms, this is a "plot point".

Nothing to do with climaxes or resolutions.

I concur. About the only thing that got better for the OOTS is that Hinjo now has more reasons to stick with them without neglecting his duties. The Hobgoblin/Undead army might now leave the city again, but it does not seem like it was meaningfully weakened. On the other hand, a potential force for good (the paladins) has been almost eradicated, twice over, the Snarl's prison has been weakened again (that might just be the final drop in the barrel before bad things (TM) happen), Roy is dead, Azure City was conquered, establishing the power of Xykon's army, the Linear Guild is on the loose again, aiming for a fourth Gate, and Xykon will be after a new gate as well (I don't remember off-hand if they'll go for the same gate or not). Nothing got easier here, and stopping two parties from manipulating the gates (when the OOTS doesn't even know yet that one of them is there) has become more urgent, if anything.

 

[Drowbane]

Ahh, that was great! I can't wait to see where this leads. Soon is my hero

Btw, if you observe the evidence (namely the oracle) you knew Azure's gate gets destroyed. Otherwise Xykon wouldn't need the next one (or would he?).

I tend to think of Redcloak as a very trusted minion. _Why_ a power-mad CE lich trusts him is another question (maybe answered in the new book). And _why_ Redcloak doesn't just break the phylactery when he clearly gets fed up with Xykon and seems ready to take over is also.

I tend to think of Xykon as a barely trusted Cohort who is allowed to think he is Boss.

 

[Pbartender]

I took that strip to mean, and still believe it to mean, that the gem is the gate. The breaches are sealed by the gates. As such, the gem is the gate for this breach. Plus, you can see the breach through the gem. If the gem wasn't there, the breach would be plainly exposed.

Eh, poor semantics... I was referring to the "breach" as the "gate".

Whatever.