The Belkar/Durkon deaths don’t really worry me too much. In a world with Resurrection/Raise Dead/Wish spells, death is (more or less) temporary. Durkon’s prophecy was that he wouldn’t return to his homeland alive…which doesn’t preclude his body being returned to his temple’s high priest for Resurrection. And as for Belkar…I don’t know. I can see him cheating death (actually, I can see him backstabbing Death and stealing his scythe and cloak). I’m willing to bet that at the end of Book 5 they’ll all be alive or at least plausibly revivable.
I wouldn’t be suprised if Belkar pulled a Screw Destiny and stayed alive just out of spite.
Roy: Uh, Belkar, weren’t you supposed to be dead for several strips already?
Belkar: waves daggers Just try and do something about it.
Back on topic, poor V still can’t catch a break.
The bauble thing is just a nod to ravens having a penchant for shiny objects, right?
Not in a wider sense. V is a classic tragic hero, which means that he’ll at least be ruined if not dead.
That seems to be the case, yes.
See, that’s just not nice. It’s late, I’m tired, I should already be asleep, and that’s going to be problematic if I spend the next three DAYS following one tvtropes link after another.
Just one more and I’ll turn off the laptop …
Umm, I htink Elan got his happy ending somewhere between strip 400 and strip 401, if you catch my drift. 
And probably on several subsequent occasions.
They do say that “whoever the gods want to destroy, they first make mad” - and V’s got a big headstart there
Whew! I have finally read everything there is to read online about OOTS (help me out and let me pretend there is no such thing as a GitP forum, 'kay?) I’ve seen all these OOTS threads before, but I always thought it was a TV show or something and wasn’t particularly interested. Then someone at the Giraffe boards posted about a webcomic they loved, and I thought to myself, “what the heck? I’ve got a couple of hours to kill.” That was about a week ago, and I’ve spent every spare moment (i.e. those not devoted to sleep, work, or the beginning-to-end Lost marathon my brother and I are conducting) reading the entire comic, the 2000+ post original thread, this thread, the one at 'Raffe, and anything else I could find. It was amazing. I am definitely buying all the books! I want this to be a cartoon and a video game. I added it to my RSS feed. And now… I have to wait for new strips to come out like everyone else instead of having 600-odd strips to plow through in one sitting? Damn it, cruel fate!
Another one snared…excellent! Bwahahahahaaaa!
New strip up
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0680.html
And an old plot thread has officially been picked up.
Logically, if the kingdom is that messed up that it doesn’t exist anymore, then Haley’s dad’s ransom is probably null and void by now. Either someone else took him prisoner (and doesn’t know about or plan on honoring the ransom), set him free, or just killed him. But the Elan in me thinks it wouldn’t be resolved that way…
I have to admit, when I read the title, I expected to see Explosive Runes. Love the Roy/Belkar interaction offstage!
Haley’s new character design is really bothering me. I think it’s the fact that her cleavage looks really awkward on Burlew’s basic model.
New strip is up. Strip 681
They’re coming quick.
Seriously! I didn’t even check it this morning. This whole “frequent updates” thing is pretty cool.
The message boards reminded me that the little old lady in the flashback may be a sweet little old lady, but she’s a sweet little old lady who lives in Greysky City, which makes Haley’s dad’s warnings all too reasonable. Nice touch there.
Or, for that matter, might be a creepy 30-something man with a bunch of ranks in the Disguise skill.
OK, after seeing this thread, I decided to check out this OOTS thingy.
That was a few weeks ago. Now I’m up to speed.