Funny you should say that…
Three hours ago Rich tweeted: “OOTS #1000 is coming later tonight.”
Also, he is making the 2 books “Dungeon Crawling Fools” and “On the Origin of PCs” available as PDFs, with plenty 'o features:
I see Start of Darkness didn’t make the cut. Wise move I say: it’s best to see how these do first. Anyway they cost $10 and $15.
Oh well in that case…
The Stick has updated episode 1000!
Just, ya know, maybe don’t click on that for, like, another two hours.
Cheater.
And it’s worth the wait!
Duh-duh-duh!
Now I suppose we’ll have to wait 6 months or so for the next strip.
This one’s a winner but damn it all if it’s a long wait for #1001! :mad:
Oh, yeah. It’s long and it’s meaty.
Now remind me of the prophecy. He will return bringing death? Well, that’s Death, there. Even if no one else dies, that part of the prophecy is fulfilled.
Was there something about destruction, or just death?
Well, the future of the world is, at this point in the story, pretty safe.
It’s how it gets there that’s the interesting part!
PS - I like Wrecan and he got a good line.
The prophecy was simply that Durkon would return to his beloved dwarven homelands posthumously. Sure seems satisfied to me.
Jesus, Durkoff has a goddess and (at least) two other vampire clerics in his corner. I don’t see how Roy isn’t toast very quickly.
Although the “Thundershield? Why do I know that name?” dwarf makes me wonder if Roy will get an unexpected ally somehow…
Phrasing!
That was the Oracle’s prophecy. Odin’s prophecy was that Durkon would bring death and destruction when he returned home.
Och! :smack: Well, mark that one as pretty much fulfilled too…
So the obvious assumption here is that Durkon raised the couple priests as thralls and they’d vote in favor of ending the world. I suppose that implies that the priests don’t actually cast their own proxies of their respective demigods? Because I’d assume that the thralls would now be priests of Hel. The other possibility is that, in the event of a tie vote, it’s left to a handful of mortals to break it based on their own non-divine decisions?
When Durkon fought Malack, he (sorta) said that Roy would be strong enough of will to resist Malack’s Domination. And Roy of course has his magic sword with the anti-undead properties. I would guess that his casting disruption trick works equally well on priests as it does on arcane casters. I’m still under the belief that being turned into a vampire doesn’t refill your spell slots in any way and the thrall priests are still depleted of any high level spells.
So how do you suppose Belkar gets back into this fight?
Angrily.
The correct answer was “sexy and shoeless”.
I assume he killed off the ones that would vote against him and left the others
Even if it was just Durkon as a non-vampire ; at these levels (and assuming full spell slots on Durkon) Roy would be toasty-toast - most Cleric fuck-you spells are Will based and Fighters just don’t do Will.
On the other hand, Durkon and his pals *are *vampires now. And Roy has learned that undead-gibbing feat to go with his undead-zappy family artefact 
I’m not sure Hel is really a factor though. She’s not really here for one thing ; and for another if she started taking an active part in the proceedings all the other gods might take it as their cue to go all Ragnarök up in this popsicle stand. Which doesn’t serve Hel’s purposes since it would disrupt the process of the moot, delay any planetary annihilation and possibly result in the destruction of Yes voters thereby nullifying her whole plan. Even if, looking back on it, the Yes side is packed to the brim with heavy hitters she can’t really take that chance.
Nah, the two he killed didn’t get a vote.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0995.html
Personally, I think he was just hungry.