OotS #661 is up!

[Sammael]

Cloister should block that.

*shrug* V's master is an epic spellcaster.

 

[blargney the second]

Cloister doesn't block summoning spells.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Slight bit of calculation. Xykon is either atleast 27th level (with full ranks in Knowledge (arcana) or is atleast 21st level but also has a 30+ in Cha. He cast 3 10th level spell slots (Superb Dispelling, Still Meotor Swarm, and Maximized Energy Drain). Only way to be able to do that is by being able to either have 30+ ranks in knowledge arcane or to just have the normal 2 from Improved Spell Capacity feat (with 20+ ranks in knowledge arcane) and an additional spell slot from a high Cha (in this case 30+).

 

[Celebrim]

I'd long held the opinion that the thing in the box was an Abomination, but increasingly - especially with this strip - that seems unlikely.

Abominations are always evil. O-Chul, being a Paladin, would be able to sense the inherent evil of the creature, but that's not O-Chul's response to the creature. O-Chul instead senses basic goodness and free will, or at least the capacity for basic goodness and free will.

Abominations are pitiful creatues, but they seem sorta beyond redemption and beyond the capacity to do good.

The thing in the box no longer seems that way.

 

[Nymrohd]

Slight bit of calculation. Xykon is either atleast 27th level (with full ranks in Knowledge (arcana) or is atleast 21st level but also has a 30+ in Cha. He cast 3 10th level spell slots (Superb Dispelling, Still Meotor Swarm, and Maximized Energy Drain). Only way to be able to do that is by being able to either have 30+ ranks in knowledge arcane or to just have the normal 2 from Improved Spell Capacity feat (with 20+ ranks in knowledge arcane) and an additional spell slot from a high Cha (in this case 30+).

Superb Dispelling is an epic spell which comes from his epic spell slots. Maximized Energy Drain is a 12th level spell. Thus Xykon is probably a single class epic sorcerer and has at least 4 epic feats which would put him to level 26 unless he maximized the energy drain another way; Sudden Maximize for instance. That would drop him to level 23.

 

[Dausuul]

Something somebody else made up?

Let's see... That rules out:

*Things that actually exist
*Things Rich Burlew made up

That does not rule out:

*Pretty much anything

Leaves things quite wide open, actually.

The category of "things Rich Burlew made up" actually includes a lot of the speculated possibilities; for instance, the "baby Snarl" theory, which I would otherwise find quite convincing.

 

[Ravellion]

Using the SRD, I compiled a partial list of monsters that have teleport and might fit the MitD evidence. At first I thought he was psionic since Stomp is a psionic power and it looks like he used it when Haley and Belkar retreived Roy's corpse.

Hunefer - epic undead with teleport but much too smart
Phrenic template - add psionics to non-psionic race
Elder Titan - epic creature that can teleport but also too smart
IeShay - Elf-like fey that's too smart but has a teleport and charm monster as a gaze attack
Abomination - epic outsider that has spell like abilities and can be any size. They link has a few examples but if you mix and match Anaxim and Xixecal you can get MitD. In addition, "All abominations are born directly (or indirectly) from a god and some lesser creature (or idea), but none are favored, wanted, or loved."

I'm tending towards an abomination of some kind but we'll have to see more to be sure.

I also think it is an abomination. Perhaps also why the goblins weren't scared of it: it is descendant from a goblin god?

 

[Leatherhead]

It occurs to me that Redcloak, who (it's implied) knows what the MitD is, says he spent a long time trying to figure out if they were even using psionics in this campaign. Which he would know, if MitD were a psionic monster.

So I'm thinking not.

Which strip was this in?

 

[Savage Wombat]

#546.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I love how it never crosses O'Chul's mind to leave V behind. V went back for O'Chul, true, but V was invisible at the time.

O'Chul is awesome.

O'Chul is the true, lawful good paladin that Miko could never be