# Order of the Stick - Book 6 Discussion Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755 "2014-03-03T16:07:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 124
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2461 "2016-02-23T09:49:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A very touching comic, to anyone who’s been active on the GiantITP boards. Though the gag about “I like counting things” took me a few moments. An explanation for those of us who don’t peruse the GITP board, please. What did he count? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2462 "2016-02-23T09:54:36Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > An explanation for those of us who don’t peruse the GITP board, please. What did he count? There’s a really long series of running threads over there documenting the number of times each character appears in the strip. The real wrecan started the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2463 "2016-02-23T10:02:02Z")
He started counting the [appearances of each character.](http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?26675-Number-of-Character-Appearances-%28Improved!%29) What he started is [still going](http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?276152-Number-of-Character-Appearances-V). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2464 "2016-02-23T11:03:35Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > An explanation for those of us who don’t peruse the GITP board, please. What did he count? It’s probably worth reposting this newspost for context: > [@](#): > > 5/18/2015 > > Back when I ran the Kickstarter campaign, the top reward was a walk-on cameo for a D&D character of your creation. It’s taken a while, but today I fulfilled that reward in strip #986. Veldrina the elven priestess is the creation of one of my loyal backers and has been included here at their request. In fact, upon hearing the character’s description for the first time, I immediately decided to slot her into an existing spot in the upcoming story where a divine caster would make the most sense, so she will be sticking around a bit more than the one page that was paid for. It just took a long time to get to this specific point in the narrative, though luckily the backer has been very gracious and patient for this entire time. So enjoy the first-ever fan-created OOTS character for however long she’s here. > > I also fulfilled another promise with today’s strip, if a less joyous one. Mark Monack, who went by the screen name “Wrecan,” was a pillar of the message board community for many years. He was, among his other roles, the founder of one of the forum’s odder traditions: counting the number of strips each character appears in, a project that continues many years after he began it. When he passed in 2013, I asked his wife Jodie if there was anything I could do to help out. She told me he would have loved nothing more than to have a walk-on character named Wrecan in OOTS. Now, there is one. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2465 "2016-02-29T15:02:24Z")
[1026](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1026.html) Go Belkar! (go get your daggers, that is :D) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2466 "2016-02-29T15:21:46Z")
Looks like Roy’s got the green flame thing figured out. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2467 "2016-02-29T15:22:27Z")
Spoiler alert. I love that sexy, shoeless god-of-war. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2468 "2016-03-01T11:28:12Z")
He seems much less evil, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2469 "2016-03-01T12:50:34Z")
And now he’s going to die. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2470 "2016-03-01T13:03:20Z")
Sometimes when you set out to pretend to undergo character growth, the person you’re really fooling is yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2471 "2016-03-01T13:21:05Z")
It is indeed a slippery slope to the path of righteousness. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2472 "2016-03-01T15:20:11Z")
He probably should have been a lot more careful about who he was associating with. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2473 "2016-03-07T12:37:58Z")
**[1027 Because Reasons](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1027.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2474 "2016-03-07T14:42:55Z")
Nice to see lots of character arc work here - Roy, Belkar and Elan in one go (and of course Durkon tangentially). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2475 "2016-03-07T14:56:42Z")
Well, I do appreciate that we’re getting regular Monday updates. I kinda wish he would keep to this schedule. When he gets a bunch of work in, just save them and keep doing Monday updates so he has a few ready for when he can’t work. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2476 "2016-03-07T15:16:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Nice to see lots of character arc work here - Roy, Belkar and Elan in one go (and of course Durkon tangentially). And Banjo! Don’t forget Banjo. I was pleased to see that loose end tied off. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2477 "2016-03-07T15:41:49Z")
I got whooshed. Why was Elan starting to freak out? 'Cause Roy was acting too considerate (and thus, out of character)? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2478 "2016-03-07T15:43:34Z")
Because he was talking as if Banjo is real. It’s okay for Elan to stick to the joke, because he’s the bard and is comic relief. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2479 "2016-03-07T15:45:00Z")
So, we weren’t quite done with the “forum ‘plothole’ filling” pages yet. I wonder if those are easier to script. Or if it’s harder because he needs to integrate them into his outline. I still wonder how Belkar got back in. Did V pick him up, since he couldn’t get through the gate? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/2480 "2016-03-07T15:48:24Z")
Elan is a lot more self-aware than he looks. I mean, he’s no brain cleric (or rocket wizard), but a lot of the time he plays the fool because he feels it’s his job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755.md?page=125)