OotS #711: The Rouge's Guild

[Theo R Cwithin]

OotS #711 is up.

(Yes I spelled the title correctly.)

 

[Nymrohd]

OK when I have to work on that Avon case study for HR management, I am using this as my joke source.

 

[coyote6]

That was fun. I wonder if we're going to get an "information gathering" strip for each member?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Heh, my mom sells that junk.

 

[RangerWickett]

Just curious, I get the 'Avon' connection, but is 'Aton' a reference to anything in particular from 1e?

 

[On Puget Sound]

Egyptian sun god, so some desert connection (symbol was a sun-disk, referred to in the comic). The focus of a concerted attempt by Akhenaten to turn Egypt into a monotheistic nation. It proved so unpopular that shortly after Akhenaten's death Aten went from being the only officially worshipped god to being neglected and forgotten.

I suspect it was chosen here for the spelling synchronicity, though.

 

[LoneWolf23]

I'm expecting that while it seems like the members of the Order are hitting nothing but dead ends in their investigations, later on bits and pieces of what they've come across will end up giving clues to the location of the Gate.

In Haley's case, who's to say one of those Gatekeepers doesn't buy Aton-brand moisturizer, for those dusty tunnels?

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

In Haley's case, who's to say one of those Gatekeepers doesn't buy Aton-brand moisturizer, for those dusty tunnels?

I wonder what Aton™ brand moisturizer would do to a lich...

 

[Orius]

Egyptian sun god, so some desert connection (symbol was a sun-disk, referred to in the comic). The focus of a concerted attempt by Akhenaten to turn Egypt into a monotheistic nation. It proved so unpopular that shortly after Akhenaten's death Aten went from being the only officially worshipped god to being neglected and forgotten.

I suspect it was chosen here for the spelling synchronicity, though.

Yeah, that's what it looks like, some unholy combination of Aten and Avon.

 

[MarkB]

who's to say one of those Gatekeepers doesn't buy Aton-brand moisturizer, for those dusty tunnels?

I don't think it's meant to be applied internally.