Order of the Stick: How long will they put up with Miko?

[diaglo]

I loved the little bitty scene in the first panel in #250 where the King of Nowhere & his entourage are looking at the burned-out inn in shock and horror.

that's the King of Somewhere.

 

[cmanos]

I realized I've never seen a Paladin played to be as much of an egotistical, condescending, downright jerk, a person who is as much a nemesis to the party as the lich they are fighting.

Damn, you're missing out. I know someone who plays a harsher paladin than Miko.

 

[NexH]

The evilness of Roy's action was such that, had he died on the spot after what he said, his soul would've drifted to Agathys, the sixth layer of Carceri, immediately...

Well, perhaps not, but still...

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Who went after the OotS since they allowed people to believe they were royality.

...which wouldn't have been a problem if there hadn't been any bad guys trying to murder the royalty. Fault: assassins.

EDIT: This example is a bit much for ENWorld, right or wrong. -Henry


edit: also, what's the problem with letting the innkeeper believe they were royalty? It's not like they weren't going to pay for all the peeled grapes. They had a huge pile of treasure until the assassins exploded it, and could have afforded to buy the freakin' inn if they had wanted to. Actually, if the innkeeper wants, he can probably spend a few months gathering up the coins launched into the vicinity by the explosion and retire.

Just because they were assassins does not take away OotS guilt.

Just because the OotS accidentally arranged for the assassins to try to kill them rather than the real king doesn't take away the assassins' guilt.

 

[iwatt]

The evilness of Roy's action was such that, had he died on the spot after what he said, his soul would've drifted to Agathys, the sixth layer of Carceri, immediately...

Well, perhaps not, but still...

evilness?

He just was honest. He just removed his testosterone fueled blinders and saw that Miko was not the stick figure for him.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Perhaps the destruction of the inn would not have happened if the OotS had not been posing as royalty, but had they not, the real King of Nowhere would probably been assasinated and a war started. Their doing something "evil" and selfish led to a greater good being done; something that "black and white" viewing paladins have trouble reconciling.

As for the future of Miko, I predict that the OotS continues on with her, but they slowly rub off on her a bit. Once they get back to her lands to stand trial, she will end up defending them...while pointing out their myriad flaws of course.

Now that Roy's no longer being dragged around by his codpiece (ahem), I see no reason for them to humour her any further. She's obviously more trouble than she's worth, no matter how interesting it might be for the wizard to find out about this whole "reality breaking down" thing. Roy's got better things to do, like reforge his sword, and if they hadn't let the paladin drag them all over creation, they'd still have their dragon treasure.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Here is Miko summed up quickly:

Pretty much. Her only redeeming quality seems to be that Roy can't pick up a social disease from her.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Look at the expression on Miko's face the last 3 panels. I've got a gut feeling she might be in for a little introspection, and, just possibly, a sphincterstick loosening.

Isn't introspection against the paladin code of conduct?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I could see them continuing to the "judgement", but on the terms they should have set to begin with - "no, we aren't your prisoners, you are guiding us to your boss so we can let him know his precious gate was in the hands of a lich, and btw, who builds a self destrct into something that its a crime to destroy?" By going along with the "prisoner" angle, they just let her superiority complex run unchecked.

 

[Bullgrit]

Her only redeeming quality seems to be that Roy can't pick up a social disease from her.

Now *that* is a good sales pitch for recruiting new candidates for paladinhood. Nothing in the code about celebacy.

Bullgrit