The Order of the Stick

I remember them!

Nobody has mentioned Mr Scruffy pitching in with the concealment in typical cat-fashion. I'm not happy. -_-

Tarquin just referred to Xykon as a "sub-boss." Big, big, big mistake, guy.

Yup — that and getting his name wrong? Biggest death flag he could hoist. And, he doesn't even know it.

Why, Xykon gets pissed when his name is misspoken? If so, what an hypocrite.

It's from start of darkness. He can tell if you spell it with a Z.

Characters in OOTS can not only hear each other speak, but can read speech bubbles.

The mini-debtate between Tarquin and Elan wasn't so much Evil vs Good as Law vs Chaos.

Yup. see HERE

Loved the Redblade reference.

Ironic that one of the move Genre Savvy characters in the comic can still be so blind.

Hah, love the that Rob and Murkon are those two uber-adventurers who didn't get hired because Roy met Belkar and Elan first. We've got to see a brief Hero of Another Story cameo from them one of these days...

BTW, does anyone know what the hell happened to TV Tropes yesterday?

edited 6th Sep '13 11:30:34 AM by johnnye

The thread for it is/was in Wiki Talk. A server had a brainderp or something, and an upgrade was or wasn't involved.

...now I have an idea for a powerful eldritch being who is summoned whenever its name is spoken, but only when it is mispronounced, because it is SO ANNOYING WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT, ARRRGH.

That just makes me think of this.

^^And it's name is really simple.

I think Goblins sort of did that one already...

Did it? I don't remember that. When?

, :D

Of the "its name is really simple" variety, starting here.

I don't think Adannor meant 'so simple it's inevitable'. :P

Yeah, I meant so simple that it's hard to mispronounce it.

Reminds me of the "Going Out for an English" sketch on Goodness Gracious Me (parodying obnoxious English diners in Indian restaurants), where the customers repeatedly mispronounce the waiter's name — 'James'.

So. Chances of Tarquin not dying an ignominious, pointless and humiliating death are starting to approach zero. Shame.

And the funniest thing is that he should have seen it coming. His entire plan starts from the principle that a villain's master scheme will always be foiled by a hero in the most dramatic way possible, and yet it never occurs to him that his actual evil plan - to rule with an iron fist, live like a god and then go out in a blaze of glory - will be what gets foiled.

We've seen Tarquin specifically lampshade the Unspoken Plan Guarantee... and yet he's perfectly happy to explain his underlying master plan to Elan.

...Course, that might just be Dangerously Genre-Savvy conflicting with Contractual Genre Blindness again; savvy or not, he's still the villain and explaining your scheme is something a villain just has to do.

Man, the amount of doublethink running through that guy's head must be painful.

"I think I'm giving myself a migraine trying to understand the level of willful ignorance that requires!"

edited 8th Sep '13 4:21:54 AM by johnnye