Order of the Stick #407!

[Nifft]

The venerable
lord, and his throne, both cleft by ...
her Improved Sunder?!?

-- N

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yay, lay down the godsmack! How's it feel to be a fighte3r without feats? get 'er, Belkar!

Sad about Shojo, though.

Edit: So what are my odds on Miko joining either Xykon or the Linear Guild?

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

After that, I could only think of the chants from the original ECW era. I'd repeat them but they're full of expletives / colorful metaphors.

 

[wingsandsword]

Yay, lay down the godsmack! How's it feel to be a fighte3r without feats? get 'er, Belkar!

Sad about Shojo, though.

Edit: So what are my odds on Miko joining either Xykon or the Linear Guild?

Xykon is unlikely, since all this was about assuming Shojo was working for him. In her twisted mind, Roy and Shojo are in cahoots with him, she's not about to go working for him just because her Paladin's License had "Revoked" stamped on it by her entire pantheon at once.

The Linear Guild however. . .is a whole other deal. The LG is being held extrajudicially, with no trial or formal charges, so Miko may well think that their imprisonment is another of Shojo's crimes that needs to be undone. She could come to their "rescue" and free them, and Sabine is right there to help guide Miko to a new understanding of how she can get her Paladin abilities back (see also: "peaceful contact with an evil outsider") and a new outlet for her hatred of the OotS.

 

[frankthedm]

The view is (most plausibly) based on the reasonably expected consequences of one's actions; you don't hold bizarre flukes against someone.

Actually a Good character would hold the bizarre fluke against themself and try to make amends for it even though they did not intend for such to happen.

 

[Nifft]

Evil is easy:
sacrifice anyone. But
Good? Only yourself.

C, -- N

 

[paradox42]

Must slay the traitor!
I know what Shojo's up to!
Killing him solves...
Oops.

-Hyp.

The color completely makes this one. Hypersmurf wins the thread!

 

[blargney the second]

Congratulations, Hypersmurf! *applause*

 

[ForceUser]

FWIW I would consider Miko to be a particularly well-roleplayed paladin. I would admire and encourage a player who managed to act out a role of a PC on the edge, teetering and tottering towards it, rather than just automatically filling the cookie-cutter role that might be expected of them.

Cheers

That's a fine way to read it. But it's also fair to acknowledge that Miko is despised by many readers (myself included) because she has embodied what is frustrating about poorly-RPed paladins for many D&D fans -- the arrogance and high-handedness and so on. I've often felt that to RP a paladin well, one must start with humility. That's the archetype in my mind, the humble pious knight. And while there are a thousand valid deviations from the archetype, I read Hinjo as a fulfillment of it, and Miko as the antithesis that drives frustrated DMs to ban paladins from their games.

 

[PallidPatience]

That's the way I see it, too. Miko is the kind of paladin that gets offed by the party.

My way is correct
Why do you have that dagger?
Ow, you're stabbing me!