# 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:** 311
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6203 "2019-10-16T23:49:00Z")
In cervisia veritas is what you want. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6204 "2019-10-17T00:02:52Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > With their Con scores, how much beer would it take to get them this snozzered? I’m thinking maybe Andre the Giant levels of drinking, or at least Bukowski. It’s dwarven beer. Doesn’t take as much as you’d think. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6205 "2019-10-17T01:00:12Z")
Yeah, I was expecting mention of the prophesy, too. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6206 "2019-10-17T09:19:17Z")
That is some big-ass foreshadowing right there. I hope Roy hadn’t actually completely tuned out listening to Belkar; doing some shopping for useful magical items could pay off big for him in the final showdown with Xykon. And yeah, I was expecting that was a lead up to Roy’s blurting out the death prophecy. It feels wrong not to clue Belkar in on that before his end. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6207 "2019-10-17T11:22:50Z")
Wouldn’t it be “in cervisiam veritas”? Accusative case? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6208 "2019-10-17T12:31:40Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Per Google, “Cervisia”, though I’ve seen Cerevisia. No idea how it should be conjugated. I got “fermentum” as well. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6209 "2019-10-17T12:42:07Z")
I like the way Mr Scruffy gives them the eye half way through. “Why you being all shouty? Interrupting my quality sleep time” _continues napping_ ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6210 "2019-10-17T22:22:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wouldn’t it be “in cervisiam veritas”? Accusative case? I thought so, but try googling that phrase and you’ll only get a couple hundred hits. You’d figure if it were correct, it’d get tens of thousands at least. I also found out that _in_ can take the ablative case depending on meaning, something I didn’t know since I had remembered from Latin class way too many years ago that it took the accusative. ---
**Author:** ![sps49sd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@sps49sd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sps49sd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6211 "2019-10-18T06:22:26Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > …(I didn’t want to bump the thread, and get everyone’s hopes up. “Yay, new strip!” “Oh, it’s just people wondering where it is…(pout, shuffle away.)”) I did not think about bumping making people think there was an update. “At times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you are not thinking about others and only thinking about yourself.” Sorry about that! ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6212 "2019-10-18T09:01:35Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I thought so, but try googling that phrase and you’ll only get a couple hundred hits. You’d figure if it were correct, it’d get tens of thousands at least. I also found out that _in_ can take the ablative case depending on meaning, something I didn’t know since I had remembered from Latin class way too many years ago that it took the accusative. In + accusative means “Into”. Belkar and Roy are fairly drunk but they’re not swimming about in a vat of the stuff. In + ablative means “In” in the sense that’s wanted here. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6213 "2019-10-18T10:45:30Z")
> [@sps49sd](#): > > I did not think about bumping making people think there was an update. “At times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you are not thinking about others and only thinking about yourself.” > > Sorry about that! No worries. I think we’ve all done it; I know I have. I’m sure I’ll do it again, when I see something in their forums I don’t think we’ve covered. Used to not be a problem when Burlew actually updated the strip. For some wistfulness, go to the [OOTS wiki](https://oots.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page), and check out the publication dates for strips in, say, _War and XPs_, and compare it to this book’s. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6214 "2019-10-21T15:00:06Z")
[1183: Expendable Resources](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1183.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6215 "2019-10-21T15:02:13Z")
Now, we’re getting somewhere. Wonder who the vessel is? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6216 "2019-10-21T15:37:23Z")
Ooooh. Finally. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6217 "2019-10-21T15:47:29Z")
Well that puts paid to any speculation that the fiends were working toward Hel’s plan. Apparently there’s an entirely different Earth-shattering kaboom being planned. Wasn’t Sabine off working against Tarquin when we last saw her? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6218 "2019-10-21T17:01:54Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Now, we’re getting somewhere. Wonder who the vessel is? Probably just Random Unnamed Shnook #371. Someone we’ve never met, know nothing about, whose only function is to die. I will however predict what he is a vessel for. The resurrection of Nale ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6219 "2019-10-21T17:07:16Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Probably just Random Unnamed Shnook #371. Someone we’ve never met, know nothing about, whose only function is to die. > > I will however predict what he is a vessel for… That would be a neat trick. How do you think Burlew plans on pulling that off, given True Rez isn’t a thing? Some sort of soul trapping or Magic Jar type possession? Being able to do that would get Sabine to willingly do anything the Directors had in mind. Like many at the GITP forums, I too like the way the new art style changed up the look of Hell and the Directors. Still no end black border for the book. How many more strips do we think it’ll take before that happens? He doesn’t have that much more time before Xmas, given printing, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Calavera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calavera/32/70_2.png) [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6220 "2019-10-21T17:07:26Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Probably just Random Unnamed Shnook #371. Someone we’ve never met, know nothing about, whose only function is to die. > > I will however predict what he is a vessel for. > > The resurrection of Nale I hope not. Nale should be D-E-D-D dedd. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6221 "2019-10-21T17:13:47Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > That would be a neat trick. How do you think Burlew plans on pulling that off, given True Rez isn’t a thing? Some sort of soul trapping or Magic Jar type possession? Being able to do that would get Sabine to willingly do anything the Directors had in mind. Crystal came back in a unique form, and Nale’s soul would certainly have ended up in Lee’s inbox. It could happen. > [@](#): > > Still no end black border for the book. How many more strips do we think it’ll take before that happens? He doesn’t have that much more time before Xmas, given printing, etc… One big one, or maybe two if he has yet another dramatic cliffhanger to drop. And then nothing until January at the earliest, I’m guessing. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755/6222 "2019-10-21T23:13:34Z")
> [@Calavera](#): > > I hope not. Nale should be D-E-D-D dedd. I agree. We’re approaching the endgame here - some plot threads should remained tied off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755.md?page=310) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-6-discussion-thread/682755.md?page=312)