Order of the Stick 540 is up

[Olaf the Stout]

I liked the "With my luck, the next gnome won't even HAVE any candy!" line. That was gold.

I hope they get around to raising Roy soon though. It would be nice to tie everything back together again.

And where's thog? We need more thog goodness!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Ipissimus]

Belkar is a sexy, shoeless, god of war.

Or maybe he's really a god of sexy shoeless war...

Ok, now that's an image I didn't really need in my head, so I'm sharing.

 

[MarkB]

Personally, I liked "She knows what's poisonous to dogs, but not that humans can't shoot lightning?"

 

[Fenes]

Killing gnomes is a good deed.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

I really don't get this glorification of the little creep.

Belkar moves the plot along. When everyone else is sitting around bickering about what to do with their captives, Belkar makes things happen. The afore mentioned captives either become slaves or corpses. This ties up silly loose ends.

It also probably helps that I can identify with him more than Celia or Miko or Hinjo or Durkon or any of the other Lawful Good characters. When God gives you lemons, you stab that smug bastard in the eye and call him Odin.

To quote something I read the other day "I know that violence isn't the right answer, I keep getting it wrong on purpose."

-TRRW

 

[Thanee]

He's chaotic evil and a player character. That explains everything!

Bye
Thanee

 

[paradox42]

I'm starting to think that the whole "Celia wonders why Haley can't shoot lightning" thing is a piece of foreshadowing. Remember the flap some months ago about the blurb Rich made about Haley and her fiendish Linear Guild opposite being "opposites in more ways than have yet been revealed?" Celia can see magic, and knew immediately about the Cloister spell over Azure City. What if her confusion regarding Haley is because she knows something about Haley that Haley herself doesn't?

 

[Sigdel]

Anyone else noticed that Belker killed the gnome and took his stuff?
I think it's a subtle 4e joke by Rich.

 

[drothgery]

That's because he is awesome. Full of awesome.

-TRRW

He's often funny. That in no way prevents him from being an evil little SOB who deserves to die.

 

[wingsandsword]

I'm starting to think that the whole "Celia wonders why Haley can't shoot lightning" thing is a piece of foreshadowing. Remember the flap some months ago about the blurb Rich made about Haley and her fiendish Linear Guild opposite being "opposites in more ways than have yet been revealed?" Celia can see magic, and knew immediately about the Cloister spell over Azure City. What if her confusion regarding Haley is because she knows something about Haley that Haley herself doesn't?

She also thought that Roy could have broken the talisman himself, so it seems more likely she assumed that all humans (or all sentient beings) could create small amounts of energy on demand.