I think those are just artistic movement and ‘bonk’ swipes, not any kind of spell.
Ah, I thought he meant the first gate. After you blow up two or three cosmic barriers, one tends to lose track of who erected which one.
Haven’t we already seen consequences? Laurin nearly getting Snarl-zapped (and some nameless guards less lucky)? So if the Snarl is already aware of the open Gates, it seems likely that the Order’s work won’t be done with merely stopping Xykon/Redcloak.
That happened to Laurin so it wasn’t really a consequence for Roy.
Here’s what Burlew wrote:
Burlew seems to be making a point of Roy’s awareness of what he was doing. And there has been a progression in the destruction of the Gates. Redcloak destroyed the first one by accident. Elan destroyed the second one intentionally but he had no idea what he was destroying. Miko destroyed the third one intentionally and was aware the Gate was important but only had a limited awareness of what the Gate was doing. So Roy is the first person who destroyed a Gate in full awareness of that he was risking all of existence by doing so. But even Roy (and we readers) are not yet aware of the full truth behind the Gates and the Snarl. So maybe the destruction of the fifth and final Gate will be done by somebody who really understands what he’s doing. (And Burlew has shown he actually does plot out his future story lines in this detail.)
Just finished reading the Therkla side story from the Kickstarter program. Both hilarious and poignant.
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[li]The fetch quest line was, of course, very amusing.[/li][li]I can’t believe I didn’t get the Mik Guh Fan joke until the end with the symbol on it.[/li][li]And I just now got the “resisting poisons” tragic irony.[/li][li]Though the realization about the death prophecy was pretty clever.[/li][li]And I just now got the “hope nobody sees it coming” line. VERY clever.[/li][/ul]
That’s the mark of a great writer: there was just so much I didn’t realize until a second consideration.
Perhaps more as I think about it when I have time.
What I meant was that we saw a new loose end as a direct result of Roy’s decision. No matter what, the story now doesn’t end with beating up Xykon and going home. What Roy did has story-changing consequences and Laurin’s fate is just a symptom of that.
I only understood mik-guh-fan = mac-guf-fin when it was explained on the OOTS forum, but what does the symbol mean?
[spoiler]It’s the logo of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, relevant for obvious reasons.
ETA: Wait, I just realized that under these circumstances with this question, maybe it’s not so obvious. Hitchcock popularized the term.[/spoiler]
I got the email but can’t open the damn thing. I keep getting an ‘invalid registry’ message when I click on the file.
:smack:
I have to say, I loved seeing more of Sangwaan, as she’s one of my favorite minor characters.
“Let’s do that one.”
Haha! I liked this one. “Money!”
Does anyone else think it constitutes a small amount of character growth for Haley, that she just hastily tossed a huge sack of gold as payment? It obviously doesn’t service the strip as well, but I’d have expected her to pay exactly the right amount from reflex, or make a note to come back and settle the debt after dispatching Crystal.
At least it shows she is developing a better sense of priorities.
Say, if they have weapons that can harm a golem now, why didn’t they cut its head off?
Because hacking through a spine is harder than poking or slashing at softer tissue.
Because that would kill it, and it clearly has way too many hit points to die yet.
This is Haley we’re talking about; she probably did pay exactly the right amount.
The right amount for a couple of adamantine weapons was enough for the merchant couple to settle their debts and retire to the tropics?
Can we get a D&D expert to weigh in on that? I have no idea how much adamantine weapons are supposed to cost.
An adamantium weapon costs about 3,000 gold. In vacation terms, renting the most expensive suite in a luxury inn for one night costs ~30 gold.