Order of the Stick - Book 6 Discussion Thread

In cervisia veritas

is what you want.

It’s dwarven beer. Doesn’t take as much as you’d think.

Yeah, I was expecting mention of the prophesy, too.

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.

Wouldn’t it be “in cervisiam veritas”? Accusative case?

I got “fermentum” as well.

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

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.

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!

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.

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, and check out the publication dates for strips in, say, War and XPs, and compare it to this book’s.

1183: Expendable Resources

Now, we’re getting somewhere. Wonder who the vessel is?

Ooooh. Finally.

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?

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

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…

I hope not. Nale should be D-E-D-D dedd.

Crystal came back in a unique form, and Nale’s soul would certainly have ended up in Lee’s inbox. It could happen.

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.

I agree. We’re approaching the endgame here - some plot threads should remained tied off.