Makes me wonder if Burlew ever played Mafia.
Has it ever been established whether or not Elan knows Vaarsuvius’ gender? It’s clear that Roy, Belkar, Durkon, and most other characters don’t and that Haley almost certainly does. But I could see Elan being either way - plausibly knowing or not knowing.
I think V’s sexuality is essentially quantum in nature, making it impossible to actually “know” what his/her gender is.
S/He’s only attracted to boxed half-zombie cats? I had no idea the V-person was so kinky…
I’m confused. Didn’t the Order of the Crayon discover all the rifts by adventuring together? Then why would Soon need the coordinates – he’d already been there. Granted, he may not have been the navigator in the party and all the desert does look the same.
And how’d they find all the rifts in the first place? There must be some method of scrying for them.
Girard Draketooth, the guy who left the exploding magical trap was the guy who made the maps, and even mocks “Soon” over it in #694 in the last panel.
Exactly. It all looks the same, and the dunes shift about over time. He wouldn’t be able to find the exac t spot again without the exact co-ordinates. Best he could get is to remember that it was X days travel in a particular direction, which might get the location to within 30 miles or so.
I musta [del]missed[/del] forgotten that part. Where and how does she indicate that she may know??
I don’t think she does, really, though it’s possible Little Nemo is inferring it from the fact that Haley and Vaarsuvius are usually paired together in sleeping quarters?
Me, I’m not so sure. V is cagey enough that s/he’d probably sleep fully clothed.
She’s never explicitly said so, but given that they’ve shared rooms together, it seems like a reasonable assumption.
Hmmm. Now that she and Elan have gotten frisky I’d imagine V will be rooming with someone else . . . if s/he wants to get any sleep, that is.
It’s just a nitpick, but V doesn’t sleep. Elves trance.
Haley is closer to Vaarsuvius than anyone else is. She knew the other big secret about Vaarsuvius; that he/she was married and acted like it was no secret. And Haley had never made any mention of being confused over Vaarsuvius’ gender that I recall. Pretty much every other major character has, with the exception of Elan - which prompted my question.
Yay, new strip
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0698.html
Nice! The team is working so well together, and even Belkar’s crass perspective adds something of substance to the planning. I love the names of the various countries on the map. (‘Empire of Blood,’ ‘Empire of Sweat,’ ‘Empire of Tears.’) So is that Girard a-scryin’ at the end, and will he see/believe the message they wrote in the sand for him?
“I would have noticed it earlier, but I do not normally pay attention to pronouns.”
Beautiful. I <3 Rich Burlew.
Wonder if Girard recognizes Soon’s cat?
It wasn’t Soon’s, it was Shojo’s, who was never a Paladin. And Soon was probably dead long before Mr Scruffy was born.
Elanasaurus Rex. Heh.
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Best part of the map? The Elven lands are separated from the human lands by the ‘Go Away Mountains’.