OotS #466

[paradox42]

I would be somewhat disappointed to see Roy raised. Letting him remain dead (or better yet, Undead!) would help show that the OotS is a D&Dish party, there is no "main character" and anybody could be next.

You must play in one of those weirdo games that don't allow Raise Dead magic then. Every D&D party I've seen, except those in low-level games (which OotS clearly is not), brings back a dead party member at the earliest opportunity. Actually, I even had a 1st-level party do this in one of my games; the party basically went around until they got the diamonds for the spell (being based in a large city meant finding a priest to cast it was not a problem), and until that happened the player had a new PC to use as a temporary replacement. The fact that this replacement was a priest of the same religion that eventually raised the dead PC was actually coincidental, but did help with the roleplaying side of things.

Also, I like the idea of Hinjo joining the OotS, and I can't really see the OotS with both Hinjo and Roy... too similiar?

Maybe OotS needs to do the same thing as that 1st-level party above for some reason, and Roy's player is temporarily playing Hinjo.

 

[Superj3nius]

well I have this feeling that roys fairy girl-friend or the lawyers are going to get pulled into this somehow. now i am cool with miko dying and no one resurecting her but roy come on he deserves to get resurected.
though if roy doesnt come back i think Durkno will take his place

 

[Mouseferatu]

I don't see Redcloak replacing Roy, but I do see him as a future "bad-guy-gone-good," or at least allying with the OotS against a common foe. Sooner or later Xykon's mistreatment of him, and especially his people, is going to push him over the edge.

Don't see it, myself. Redcloak's goals are way too antithetical to the Order's. I can see him becoming the strip's main villain, over Xykon, but I don't see them working together.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I would be somewhat disappointed to see Roy raised. Letting him remain dead (or better yet, Undead!) would help show that the OotS is a D&Dish party, there is no "main character" and anybody could be next. Also, I like the idea of Hinjo joining the OotS, and I can't really see the OotS with both Hinjo and Roy... too similiar?

See, I'd be very disappointed if he wasn't raised. Roy's too much the heart of the team--and the heart of the plot--to stay dead. (He's also my favorite character.)

I think the team, and the strip, could survive the loss and replacement of any other character more easily, and more smoothly, than the permanent loss of Roy.

 

[Victim]

I would be somewhat disappointed to see Roy raised. Letting him remain dead (or better yet, Undead!) would help show that the OotS is a D&Dish party, there is no "main character" and anybody could be next. Also, I like the idea of Hinjo joining the OotS, and I can't really see the OotS with both Hinjo and Roy... too similiar?

Well, in a DnDish party, characters get raised, especially at the rough level of the OotS. Durkon can cast the spells himself; he just needs to get the material component - which he doesn't have as discussed by V and Belkar following his bid to get to kill him.

 

[Infernal Teddy]

See, I'd be very disappointed if he wasn't raised. Roy's too much the heart of the team--and the heart of the plot--to stay dead. (He's also my favorite character.)

I think the team, and the strip, could survive the loss and replacement of any other character more easily, and more smoothly, than the permanent loss of Roy.

I'm with Ari.

However... what if the Guy under the Brolli is in fact The Rodent of the Dark himself?

 

[Slife]

As an aside, Stephen Brust was complaining on his blog that he wasn't getting any work done because OOtS wasn't updated.

I'm not surprised that he reads the comic...

Oh, and only three chapters left in the novel? Yay!

 

[LoneWolf23]

Don't see it, myself. Redcloak's goals are way too antithetical to the Order's. I can see him becoming the strip's main villain, over Xykon, but I don't see them working together.

Yeah. Especially since, as far as Redcloak's personal viewpoint is concerned, he is the hero of the goblin people, and the Order are just tools of the oppressive anti-goblin establishment or something..

 

[PrinceXaxor]

Only 10,000? That's over 9,000, you know.

More funny in this one. Still want to get back to the Order and have them take action.

 

[WarlockLord]

I know, this is childish. And late. But...

WOOHOO! MIKO'S DEAD! YES! YES! YES!

But I like Redcloak. Now is there any chance of him slaughtering the annoying Goth chick?