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* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
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* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority AsskickingLeadsToLeadership society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
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** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
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** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike [[YouALLLookFamiliar not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
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* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
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* KnightTemplar: KnightTemplar:
** Gin-Jun, if not an outrightBloodKnight.BloodKnight.
** Averted with Miko, who is not yet the fanatic she will become one day, even asking Gin-Jun how to separate the good hobgoblins from the evil ones. At the end of the story, O-Chul inadvertedly starts her down the path that will lead her to [[spoiler:her fall and death.]]
** Gin-Jun, if not an outright
** Averted with Miko, who is not yet the fanatic she will become one day, even asking Gin-Jun how to separate the good hobgoblins from the evil ones. At the end of the story, O-Chul inadvertedly starts her down the path that will lead her to [[spoiler:her fall and death.]]
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* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Gin-Jun's dismissal from the Sapphire Guard. He may have been challenged to an honour duel, but he still attacked an unarmed man, and the paladin code makes no exceptions for dueling.
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** This is set up by the {{Rules Lawyer}}ing employed to set the duel up in the first place: O-Chul can't challenge Gin-Jun himself because the higher-caste combatant could simply appoint a champion. So he gets Hinjo to make the challenge, and appoint him.
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** This is set up by the {{Rules Lawyer}}ing employed to set the duel up in the first place: O-Chul can't challenge Gin-Jun himself because the higher-caste combatant could simply appoint a champion. So he gets Hinjo to make the challenge, and appoint him.
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* TurnTheOtherCheekTurnTheOtherCheek: O-Chul refuses to draw his sword against Gin-Jun, eventually throwing it out of the ring to make his point.
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* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
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The third "prequel" book in the ''Order of the Stick'' continuity (actually including stories from 12 years before the main comic up to contemporaneous with ''Recap/BloodRunsInTheFamily''). The book compiles two stories previously released only to Kickstarter backers, along with three all-new stories. The title plays on the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in ''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
The compiled stories are:
'''That's the Spirit:''' Kazumi and Daigo find a lost soul in need of their help on their new island home.\\
'''Scruff and Tumble:''' Surviving alone behind enemy lines, Mr. Scruffy searches for food.\\
'''Spoiler Alert:''' Therkla is tasked to retrieve a priceless artifact, but she's not even supposed to be here today.\\
'''Pier Pressure:''' Young Lien comes face to face with a sinister choice.\\
'''How the Paladin Got His Scar:''' Before he joined the Sapphire Guard, Captain O-Chul led a ragtag team to stop a bloody war of retribution.
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!!!Contains the following tropes:
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[[folder:How the Paladin Got His Scar]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted.
* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until he doesn't.]]
* TheCaptain: O-Chul, although his unit is destroyed at the start of the story.
* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
* CombatByChampion: Invoked by O-Chul to avoid a war. During the duel itself, he [[TurnTheOtherCheek Turns the Other Cheek]] in order to force Gin-Jun to either [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath hear him out]] or break his paladin oaths by attacking an unarmed man.
* DisneyDeath: Complete with a fake-out GraveMarkingScene -- Zhou's got a new job as a gravedigger.
* EnsignNewbie: Hinjo fills the role of the naive aristocrat on the front lines, but he has no official authority over O-Chul.
* EveryScarHasAStory: And this is it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The fight with the ettin foreshadows that the solution to the conflict between the hobgoblins and humans will ultimately be to "cut off the violent head" and leave more peaceful ones in charge. ''Unlike'' with the ettin, this seems to actually work.
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: the hobgoblin cleric's favourite tactic to get his dimmer superiors to go through with his ideas.
* GoThroughMe:
-->'''O-Chul:''' A lot of people are going to get hurt tomorrow. All we can do is stand in the way of that and say, "Not them. Me. If you need to hurt someone, hurt me."
* InternalReformist: O-Chul ultimately requests to become one of these for the Sapphire Guard, after Shojo refuses to disband them.
* JustFollowingOrders: The majority of the Sapphire Guard pretty much get a pass for obeying Gin-Jun even when he was giving grossly immoral orders and, as we eventually find out, their code of conduct allows for a principled AntiMutiny. Somewhat justified by the fact that their leader was misrepresenting the intelligence they were operating under.
* KlingonPromotion: The hobgoblin cleric kills his boss, main rival and all the other hobgoblins in the throne room in order to take his place as the new Supreme Leader.
* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The new hobgoblin Supreme Leader is a ManipulativeBastard and a [[PoisonIsEvil poisoner]]... but he's not openly warlike. This is good enough for O-Chul, at least.
* LoopholeAbuse: Gin-Jun's dismissal from the Sapphire Guard. He may have been challenged to an honour duel, but he still attacked an unarmed man, and the paladin code makes no exceptions for dueling.
* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
* LovableCoward: Zhou is let off numerous times for her cowardice -- even to the point of deserting her unit in battle -- because O-Chul believes she can be taught to be better. She eventually takes a wound defending him that conveniently enough gets her honorably discharged from the army.
* MartialPacifist: O-Chul's usual style, though he turns into a downright SuicidalPacifist when he concocts a XanatosGambit to lose Gin-Jun the support of the other paladins.
* NoNameGiven: A number of major characters, most notably the hobgoblin [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] and his CoDragons, a general and a cleric.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The hobgoblin cleric doesn't really have a hunch, he just wanted to look non-threatening so he wouldn't be challenged to combat.
* OneManArmy: O-Chul eventually routs a hobgoblin attack single-handed after the rest of his unit dies in a LastStand. This only makes him more determined to prevent further violence.
* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: O-Chul's goal is to stop a war between humans and hobgoblins, although this is mostly being stirred up by the Sapphire Guard's extrajudicial raiding.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The poisoned [[TrademarkFavouriteFood gouda]] that [[spoiler:the new Supreme Leader uses to poison the old one and his Dragon.]]
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
* SenselessSacrifice: Discussed, but O-Chul believes his risking his life was worth the stake.
* TurnTheOtherCheek
* UselessSpleen: Subverted. Zhou loses hers, but rather than AmusingInjuries it gets her [[CareerEndingInjury discharged from the army]], and she mentions having to take medicine for the rest of her life.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: While Gin-Jun is peacefully removed from power, he won't take a hint and keeps fighting, letting the heretofore-antagonistic Miko be the one to kill him. The hobgoblin leader, however, is straight-up assassinated by one of his own to end the conflict.
* WouldHurtAChild: Gin-Jun comes up with some truly impressive rationalisations for how the killing of hobgoblin women and children can be acceptable within the paladin oaths.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: The planetar outright refuses Gin-Jun's more openly genocidal requests, but still agrees to assist ''him'' in carrying them out.
* XanatosGambit: O-Chul's plan is to attempt to talk sense into Gin-Jun and the paladins while unarmed in a duel of honour -- either he succeeds, or Gin-Jun kills him and falls. Luckily there's a slim third option -- that he's attacked and only maimed, for which Gin-Jun can be booted from the Sapphire Guard.
* YouShallNotPass: the very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
[[/folder]]
Each story focuses on a character from Azure City, most of whom were introduced in ''Recap/WarAndXPs''.
The compiled stories are:
'''That's the Spirit:''' Kazumi and Daigo find a lost soul in need of their help on their new island home.\\
'''Scruff and Tumble:''' Surviving alone behind enemy lines, Mr. Scruffy searches for food.\\
'''Spoiler Alert:''' Therkla is tasked to retrieve a priceless artifact, but she's not even supposed to be here today.\\
'''Pier Pressure:''' Young Lien comes face to face with a sinister choice.\\
'''How the Paladin Got His Scar:''' Before he joined the Sapphire Guard, Captain O-Chul led a ragtag team to stop a bloody war of retribution.
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!!!Contains the following tropes:
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[[folder:How the Paladin Got His Scar]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with. Saha sees the trope coming, but assumes O-Chul is the determined and good-hearted army sergeant in the story, rather than the sickly young bandit that man adopted.
* BeneathSuspicion: One of the hobgoblins uses GladYouThoughtOfIt and [[spoiler:ObfuscatingDisability]] to seem like a ProfessionalButtKisser. [[spoiler:Until he doesn't.]]
* TheCaptain: O-Chul, although his unit is destroyed at the start of the story.
* ChessmasterSidekick: The smarter & more manipulative of the Supreme Leader's two dragons has his boss and opposite number wrapped around his finger. He seems to be TheCreon who as a NonActionGuy isn't suited to the hobbos' usual AsskickingEqualsAuthority society, but turns out to be TheStarscream who was just biding his time.
* CombatByChampion: Invoked by O-Chul to avoid a war. During the duel itself, he [[TurnTheOtherCheek Turns the Other Cheek]] in order to force Gin-Jun to either [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath hear him out]] or break his paladin oaths by attacking an unarmed man.
* DisneyDeath: Complete with a fake-out GraveMarkingScene -- Zhou's got a new job as a gravedigger.
* EnsignNewbie: Hinjo fills the role of the naive aristocrat on the front lines, but he has no official authority over O-Chul.
* EveryScarHasAStory: And this is it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The fight with the ettin foreshadows that the solution to the conflict between the hobgoblins and humans will ultimately be to "cut off the violent head" and leave more peaceful ones in charge. ''Unlike'' with the ettin, this seems to actually work.
** The new Supreme Leader mentions that he has plans to greatly expand the hobgoblin presence in the Southern Mountains. It's [[YouAllLookAlike not clear]] whether he's the ''same'' [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] who Redcloak meets in ''Recap/NoCureForThePaladinBlues'', but by that time there are 88 legions of them.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: the hobgoblin cleric's favourite tactic to get his dimmer superiors to go through with his ideas.
* GoThroughMe:
-->'''O-Chul:''' A lot of people are going to get hurt tomorrow. All we can do is stand in the way of that and say, "Not them. Me. If you need to hurt someone, hurt me."
* InternalReformist: O-Chul ultimately requests to become one of these for the Sapphire Guard, after Shojo refuses to disband them.
* JustFollowingOrders: The majority of the Sapphire Guard pretty much get a pass for obeying Gin-Jun even when he was giving grossly immoral orders and, as we eventually find out, their code of conduct allows for a principled AntiMutiny. Somewhat justified by the fact that their leader was misrepresenting the intelligence they were operating under.
* KlingonPromotion: The hobgoblin cleric kills his boss, main rival and all the other hobgoblins in the throne room in order to take his place as the new Supreme Leader.
* KnightTemplar: Gin-Jun, if not an outright BloodKnight.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The new hobgoblin Supreme Leader is a ManipulativeBastard and a [[PoisonIsEvil poisoner]]... but he's not openly warlike. This is good enough for O-Chul, at least.
* LoopholeAbuse: Gin-Jun's dismissal from the Sapphire Guard. He may have been challenged to an honour duel, but he still attacked an unarmed man, and the paladin code makes no exceptions for dueling.
* GraveMarkingScene: O-Chul visits a graveyard after [[spoiler:Zhou's apparent death]] and starts [[TalkingToTheDead talking to one of the graves]]. [[spoiler:She's standing inside the hole, having become a gravedigger after her discharge from the army]].
* LovableCoward: Zhou is let off numerous times for her cowardice -- even to the point of deserting her unit in battle -- because O-Chul believes she can be taught to be better. She eventually takes a wound defending him that conveniently enough gets her honorably discharged from the army.
* MartialPacifist: O-Chul's usual style, though he turns into a downright SuicidalPacifist when he concocts a XanatosGambit to lose Gin-Jun the support of the other paladins.
* NoNameGiven: A number of major characters, most notably the hobgoblin [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Supreme Leader]] and his CoDragons, a general and a cleric.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The hobgoblin cleric doesn't really have a hunch, he just wanted to look non-threatening so he wouldn't be challenged to combat.
* OneManArmy: O-Chul eventually routs a hobgoblin attack single-handed after the rest of his unit dies in a LastStand. This only makes him more determined to prevent further violence.
* TheParagon: O-Chul inspires two level-headed lieutenants to depose their warlike superiors, the paladins (and Lord Shojo) to take the oaths of the Sapphire Guard seriously, teaches Hinjo about leadership and inspires him to join the paladins, and shows several hobgoblins that humans aren't all bad. Unfortunately he also inadvertently starts Miko down the path to becoming a KnightTemplar.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: O-Chul's goal is to stop a war between humans and hobgoblins, although this is mostly being stirred up by the Sapphire Guard's extrajudicial raiding.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The poisoned [[TrademarkFavouriteFood gouda]] that [[spoiler:the new Supreme Leader uses to poison the old one and his Dragon.]]
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Played with a couple of times.
** ZigZagged: O-Chul and Sato use LoopholeAbuse to kick Gin-Jun out of the Sapphire Guard -- he's challenged to single combat, which his feudal sense of honour demands he accept... except dueling is against both the secular laws of Azure City and, when he attacks O-Chul after he's thrown away his sword, a breach of his paladin oaths.
** The hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric uses ObfuscatingDisability to pass beneath the notice of his stronger rivals until he sees his chance to poison them all and blame it on the humans; however, since he intends to maintain the peace, the Azurites consider him to be an improvement over his BloodKnight predecessor.
* SenselessSacrifice: Discussed, but O-Chul believes his risking his life was worth the stake.
* TurnTheOtherCheek
* UselessSpleen: Subverted. Zhou loses hers, but rather than AmusingInjuries it gets her [[CareerEndingInjury discharged from the army]], and she mentions having to take medicine for the rest of her life.
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: While Gin-Jun is peacefully removed from power, he won't take a hint and keeps fighting, letting the heretofore-antagonistic Miko be the one to kill him. The hobgoblin leader, however, is straight-up assassinated by one of his own to end the conflict.
* WouldHurtAChild: Gin-Jun comes up with some truly impressive rationalisations for how the killing of hobgoblin women and children can be acceptable within the paladin oaths.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: The planetar outright refuses Gin-Jun's more openly genocidal requests, but still agrees to assist ''him'' in carrying them out.
* XanatosGambit: O-Chul's plan is to attempt to talk sense into Gin-Jun and the paladins while unarmed in a duel of honour -- either he succeeds, or Gin-Jun kills him and falls. Luckily there's a slim third option -- that he's attacked and only maimed, for which Gin-Jun can be booted from the Sapphire Guard.
* YouShallNotPass: the very first scene. Later O-Chul repeats this against the paladins.
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