What's gonna happen with Miko?

[brehobit]

Well, we had the "should Miko have fallen" poll, so now the "What will Rich have her do next" poll :

 

[Nightfall]

We could always hope she decides to retrain herself as a monk maybe. Monk/ninja!

 

[Felix]

Nah, she and Haley have too much in common: she'd be a Monk/Pirate.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

The hand wave of a simple atonement spell, like so often happens in home games.

 

[Nightfall]

Eric,

It's rarely that simple in my games.

Felix,

Maybe but I think then if that happens she should take the same Pr-class as Elan.

 

[Unkabear]

Though I think she will find atonement I think it would be better if she found the Blackguard and Xykon's service.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

I was torn between what I want and what I think will happen. But I don't know. Honestly, Miko becoming a blackguard might well cause me to quit reading the strip as much as I thoroughly enjoy it.

I mean, if I want to see evil get the better of people, I'll go outside into the real world. Or else I'll open a newspaper or turn on the television and watch the news.

I know what people are going to say ... that if there isn't a possibility of bad things happening then the game isn't real. But I don't game to experience real life. I game to get something real life doesn't often give: a happy ending and something that when I go to sleep I can think positively about. I just hope Rich thinks long and hard about what he's doing.

And, I know I'm in the minority with this opinion. But I don't care. That's how I feel about gaming. I don't need to watch evil get the best of people when I game. I don't need too much real life in my OotS, either.

Sure, evil can challenge and make a showing (like LotR), but in the end I want the ring destroyed. I want Tanis Half-elven to save the day. And I want Miko to admit what she did was wrong and be forgiven and rise to a newer height of glory than she ever could have gone without understanding her major character flaw.

Edit: And, for what it is worth, I don't agree with the "humor" tag used for this thread. I don't think OotS has been particularily humorous in the past two strips. Rich's tenor has changed. But that's just me!

 

[AFGNCAAP]

I think she's been developed too much as a character for her to die outright: I'll think she'll stick around in one form or another, most likely as a sort of adversary to the OotS.

Because of that, I think she'll go evil. ATM, I think she feels everything she believed in is a lie. Her rage got the better of her, and she lost her powers. However, I can see Miko even being mad at the gods, or somehow being persuaded that they're fallible (which is a nice job for Xykon), and thus embracing the Dark Side--er, I mean, going Blackguard.

And, I think she could accept the "idea" of the fallibility of the gods, esp. regarding the issue of the Snarl (since it was the gods who created that menace in the first place).

 

[delericho]

I have no idea.

 

[AuraSeer]

Rich has been foreshadowing Miko's fallen paladin angle for about eighty billion years, so it's about time for that arc to come to a head. She's going to turn blackguard-- and even then, she'll be the most boring character in the strip.