OotS #702 Is Up

[Greylock]

Giant In the Playground Games

:salute:

 

[Nifft]

Cute, rather than hilarious.

I wonder if I'm missing stuff by not having the books.

Cheers, -- N

 

[FireLance]

After some straining of eyes, I think the text reads:
[SBLOCK]In the unholy eyes of the Dark One, no land is more blessed and fortunate than the nation of Gobbotopia. Founded in late 1184 by the high priest of the Dark One, the nation is largely regarded as being the most powerful, influential, and generally interesting country ever.

While the majority of Gobbotopia's population is composed of the three goblinoid races (goblins, bugbears, and hobgoblins, with the latter forming 95% of its permanent inhabitants), the nation's borders are open to all disenfranchised humanoids and thus supports growing communities of orcs, ogres, xvarts, gnolls (including flinds), trolls, lycanthropes, minotaurs, orogs, medusas, sligs, grimlocks, lamias, hill giants, ettins, yakfolk, ettercaps, half-orcs, half- (visible text ends)[/SBLOCK]

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I think this is pretty close...
[SBLOCK]Gobbotopia
National Bird: Turkey Vulture
National Flower: Yellow Musk Creeper
National Sport: Red Rover
National Motto: "Screw you, suckers, it's OUR turn now!"

In the Unholy eyes of the Dark One, no land is more blessed and fortunate than the nation of Gobbotopia. Founded in late 1184 by the High Priest of the Dark One, the nation is largely regarded as being the most powerful, influential and generally interesting country ever.

While the majority of Gobbotopia's population is composed of the three gobloid races (goblins, bugbears and hobgoblins, with the latter comprising 93% of its permanent habitants), the nation's borders are open to all disenfranchised humanoids and thus supports growing minorities of orcs, ogres, xvarts, gnolls (including flinds), trolls, lycanthropes, minotaurs, orogs, medusas, sligs, grimlocks, lamiae, hill giants, ???, yakfolk, ettercaps?, half-orcs, half-...

National Anthem
O, say can you see
in the darkness of night
Who so proudly we killed
at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose blue shirts and bright swords
through the perilous fight
O'er the parapets we saw
and to whom we gave a reaming[/SBLOCK]

 

[freyar]

Wow, is Redcloak defying Xykon the way I think he is?

 

[Remus Lupin]

I also note that we now have a point in time: In a week it will be a year since Azure City was conquored. What kind of a lifespan does that give Belkar?

 

[Pseudonym]

I liked the two hobgoblins back and forth about Cliffport.

 

[Nyeshet]

Wow, is Redcloak defying Xykon the way I think he is?

Probably not. He has not regenerated his eye despite easily being able to do so. Also, he speaks of the 'special project' in the past tense, suggesting that it has ended (and thus that Xykon has his phylactery again - or has given up on finding it, which I find virtually impossible to believe). Thus I tend to think that Redcloak and Xykon are getting ready to head out again, and Redcloak is stabilizing the home base before leaving.

I also note that we now have a point in time: In a week it will be a year since Azure City was conquered. What kind of a lifespan does that give Belkar?

As for Belkar, it was foretold that he would die before the end of the year; as we do not know when the year ends we have no way of knowing how much longer he has to live - just that it will be less than a year after the prophesy was spoken.

 

[Remus Lupin]

But if the prophecy was given before they arrived at Azure city, and the goblins have occupied Azure city for almost a year, then Belkar's clock must be just about up, right?

Or maybe the Oracle was just screwing with them.

 

[Rabulias]

Well, the OotS fled from Azure City in strip 483 (Giant In the Playground Games).

The Oracle made his prediction about Belkar in strip 572 (Giant In the Playground Games)

It was New Year's Eve (in Azure City, at least; maybe they use a different calendar?) in strip 316 (Giant In the Playground Games), but I think the Oracle meant within a year, not based on a calendar.