OotS #656 Is Up

[Leatherhead]

So does V escape or is redemption in the cards?

I kind of like the dispel magic on the amulet and o-chul smashing it idea..... so it probably won't happen.

More waiting.........

V isn't getting out of there without getting more messed up. At the very least the scenario is going to cause a traumatic deja vu moment with O-Chul dieing while V is helplessly standing there invisible, just like before.

 

[Orius]

That or Xykon has extreme ADD. Which strikes me as pretty likely.

Probably.

I don't think O-Chul's dead. First no X's. Second, I don't think Xykon actually wants to kill him. He probably doesn't see him as a threat, and he gets too much entertainment out of torturing him.

 

[Baron Opal]

V isn't getting out of there without getting more messed up. At the very least the scenario is going to cause a traumatic deja vu moment with O-Chul dieing while V is helplessly standing there invisible, just like before.

Yeah, V is on a one-way ticket to PTSD-land if he wasn't already there.

There's a quote I found interesting, "if the elf dies here it's all been a waste of time." The three fiends need him alive.

 

[wedgeski]

There's a quote I found interesting, "if the elf dies here it's all been a waste of time." The three fiends need him alive.

Well, yeah. Remember that they get to assume control of V for exactly as long as he maintained the Soul Splice, and he's not much good to them in that capacity if he's being-alive-challenged.

 

[Quartz]

3 hit, with the 4th possibly obscured on the other side of ochul's face. #3 is drawn dimmer to represent it is toward the back of the cluster from the viewer's angle.

I took it as the highlighted / front two missing.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Well, yeah. Remember that they get to assume control of V for exactly as long as he maintained the Soul Splice, and he's not much good to them in that capacity if he's being-alive-challenged.

You know, there's the wide-spread assumption, and I don't know where it came from, that the fiends are somehow entitled to V's body. But that's not the deal they struck at all. They each get custody of V's SOUL for as long as the splice remained. But there's nothing I saw in the agreement to suggest that they have any rights over his body.

Of course, what it means to have custody of his soul is a matter that has yet to be understood. I suspect though that it won't involve V relinquishing his willpower or giving up his body to a fiend.

 

[Remus Lupin]

I think I just killed another thread.

But seriously, did I miss a big plot point? Do we have reason to think the infernals can take over V's body?

 

[wingsandsword]

I think I just killed another thread.

But seriously, did I miss a big plot point? Do we have reason to think the infernals can take over V's body?

V has just lost the soul splices, his debt to them is now at a fixed amount. If he dies now they still get his soul for the same amount of time, but he's dead. The IFCC seems to believe that all they have done is for naught if he dies now, so they still want him alive for their plans.

They need him alive for their plans, not just his soul.

 

[Urbannen]

Well sure, if V is dead, he can't act directly on the mortal plane.

Looking at the strip again, I have to guess that V doesn't have Feather Fall prepared (gasp!). It would have made more sense for her to jump invisibly out of the hole in the tower wall than to run for the stairs.

BTW, the illustrations portray invisible V's expression of horror really well.

 

[aboyd]

What level is O-Chul anyway? If he is 12th level and has a Con of 18 (I think we have to assume it's at least that much), his average hit points would be 118.5.

Rich has said that O-Chul's Constitution is mid-twenties. Someone on Rich's forums contested that, saying that an NPC at level 16 couldn't get a Constitution that high, or that it would have required a ridiculous chain of magical items/coincidences. Nonetheless, Rich did it anyway. I suspect Rich does enjoy writing about the D&D system, but I also suspect he wouldn't allow himself to be slavishly bound to it. Just a guess.