The Order of the Stick

Getting killed by the Snarl doesn't erase your memory of a person. It erases their soul.

Ah. Got it. That makes sense. I definitely had a sense of that in relation to Belkar-death theories, but for some reason I had gotten the impression that the members of the Scribble remembered that Kraagor was important to them but couldn't remember anything else about him.

Kraagor's sacrifice is forgotten in the sense that the Order of the Scribble could not tell anyone else about it, not in any sort of memory magic thing.

I mean there is still the matter of Serini's partner. That person could be a member of the Holey brotherhood.

Or I could be wrong.

I'm ready to accept it, but lets see how this plays out.

"It's a bloody winter wonderland out there and I don't have internal heating" isn't enough? I wish I had that sort of cloak and I'm in Louisiana.

Seriously, it's often thirty degrees down here.

Rob, you stuck to your guns this far. And if you're right, I'll be the first to congratulate you for your miracle guess.

Edited by fredhot16 on Feb 19th 2021 at 8:27:31 AM

Hmmm... its probably just a coincidence, but it occurs to me that there WAS another character who turned up in a similar cloak to that worn by Belkar and Serini, among the Sapphire Guard who got killed by Xykon's superball gambit, and as far as I can tell we never actually got a look at their arms to see if they were in proportion with their supposed height. Given how this was the same arc that introduced the idea of "cloaked halfling on stilts"...

Like I said, like 99% certain its just a coincidence, and apologies if anyone brought it up before and it was already dismissed or jossed. I just wanted to briefly bring it up just on the astronomically low chance it does turn out to be relevant to what's going on somehow. x3

So I'm looking at the YMMV, and...I don't think Tarquin and Malack are exactly Ensemble Darkhorses? They're the major villains for almost an entire book.

Would Hilgya and Redcloak fit under Base-Breaking characters as well? For the former, there were HUGE forum battles on whether she was evil or not, and the latter's always been a topic of intense discussion especially since 1209.

I admit. I'm still hoping. Like, it hasn't been disproven yet

We knew Serini was going to show up at some point. Now all that's left is her buddy.

Looking more closer, the only similarity to the Holey Brotherhood is the bluish hood. The guy in the crayon comic wears a purple robe and a blue hooded cape, while Serini wore a bluish-purple hooded cloak. But yeah, in searching for the character who had appeared in only one comic so far, I got the impression that it might be a good guess. I wonder who that character will be. Definitely not Serini, because she appeared in 2 of the crayon comics.

"Minion" rather than "buddy". Whoever it is called her Boss when they darted the paladins.

Maybe an underling or henchman. That sounds more rogue-ish. She's definitely not evil overlordy enough for minions.

Underling, lackey, henchman, minion... underlackey-henchminion...

Ward. Sidekick. Adorable orphan.

Meatshield. Stepstool. Potion tester.

Are we supposed to recognize that dude with a green hand?

She's almost certainly Serini Toormuck, from the Order of the Scribble.

It bugs me a little that Serini has red hair. Unholey Sisterhood over here has almost certainly greyed over the years, but it looks like there's a faint yellowness that makes her hair feel like it greyed from blonde.

But that might just be my eyes playing tricks on me 'cause I'm not used to pure white hair on characters. This is almost certainly Serini.

What, we're debating whether it's Serini now? Who the heck else could it be? She had to put in an appearance sooner or later, alive or dead, since this is the Gate that she built and defended.

Edited by Fighteer on Feb 22nd 2021 at 1:55:43 PM

It is your eyes playing tricks on you, maybe due to the surroundings. Checking it, her hair is straight #FFFFFF, no tint at all.

Her hair was brown anyway, though the crayons make it look more ruddy.

Wait, that’s a thing you can do? (Checking the exact code for a colour on your screen?)

If you import it into a functional-enough image editor, sure.

There is probably some kind of tool that offers that functionality in-browser, but I just copied the image file from the site and pasted it into Paint.NET. (You could also use a screenshot, in most cases.) Then I used the eyedropper tool on her hair to check the hex, and used the magic wand at zero tolerance to check that her hair was all that exact hex. And it was, barring the antialiasing of the lines at the edges. The same for the hair on her feet, incidentally.

Edited by RaichuKFM on Feb 22nd 2021 at 5:27:36 AM

You can just open the image in Paint or any other image editor, select the color with the pipette and see what it is. Though there are also softwares that are basically a pipette for anywhere on your screen.

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Edited by Aetol on Feb 22nd 2021 at 11:27:56 AM