# Order of the Stick - Book 5 Discussion Thread

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**Created:** [August 31, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-5-discussion-thread/508323 "2009-08-31T04:09:26Z")\
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> [@Strinka](#):
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> Even more unbelievably, it’s actually been three years. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504715)’s the thread that part of the story was discussed. The day of the strip with the familicide was [March 20th, 2009](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10955212&postcount=302).

Hmm…looks like there were some perceptive people back then.

> [@Order of the Stick General Discussion Thread (Open Spoilers and Speculation)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-general-discussion-thread-open-spoilers-and-speculation/484096/307):
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> I’m guessing this is where Vaarsuvius learns the soon-to-be-classic lesson: “Don’t indiscriminately kill off all living relatives of a dragon, in a campaign world where dragons and humanoids are capable of interbreeding.”

> [@Order of the Stick General Discussion Thread (Open Spoilers and Speculation)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-general-discussion-thread-open-spoilers-and-speculation/484096/309):
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> Don’t sorcerors of all races in D&D have their magical abilities as a result of draconic blood somewhere in their ancestral line? I wonder how many elven or human sorcerors V just murdered?

> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> It’s not even the most extreme example. _Menage a 3_ has been running since May of 2008. But the events in the strip have all occurred within a two month period.

Yeah, and El Goonish Shive has been running 10 years over a six month period. (And how long has QC progressed in-story?) Crazy stuff.

Hmm…I wonder how much in-comic time _Mary Worth_ has progressed over its decades-long run.

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