More of a side quest.
I don’t have a Monster Manual handy - what are those things?
I think they’re Thri-Kreen, from the Expanded Psionic Handbook and Monster Manual II.
Ooh! Maybe we’ll finally find out whether the OotS world has psionics!
This would make sense, since they are generally desert creatures. They were a major race in the Dark Sun setting, for instance.
“Stupid, entirely justified comeuppance!” - ROFL
I have to say, the fact that Belkar even understands the *concept *of justice represents a huge amount of progress.
Fixed link.
Why does Elan think V is half-camel? Is he just being silly, or am I missing a pun here?
It’s from waaay back in Comic #87. That’s why V calls Elan a “bottomless pit of self-reference”–'cuz he’s always referring to obscure stuff from earlier in the comic.
Never mind…pedescribe beat me to it. 
Hey, look who’s in the bathroom line ahead of Haley!
Who?
“I Think I Can” could still conceivably have been fiction within that world, just like we could have a story about a psion in our world. The more conclusive evidence is the psionic blue Redcloak used to interrogate O-chul.
Also, in “On the Origin of PCs,” a psion is among those auditioning to join the party.
A pixie with a resemblance to Celia, but isn’t her?
The snake haired woman from the Blind Date marathon?
Good catch, but yes, the pixie with the resemblance to Celia… who is normal pixie sized. I find that interesting.
I thought Celia was a sylph.
I guess I glossed over this reading it before, but Redcloak is offered an “18th level Incarnum user” but prefers a magic 8 ball. I’m not very knowledgeable about D&D, but I looked it up and it seemed like Incarnum had some useful powers. Why such a brusque dismissal?
It’s a joke. The stuff in Magic of Incarnum was received, by and large, with astounding indifference by D&D fans. Thus, Redcloak humorously rates it as less useful than the Magic 8-Ball and the fortune cookies.