# Order of the Stick book 7 discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438 "2020-02-03T17:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 120
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2384 "2025-04-21T16:07:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So, Nate And his good twin Etan ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2385 "2025-04-21T20:04:05Z")
😛 pblpblp! ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2386 "2025-04-22T00:56:13Z")
“You couldn’t have made the portal open closer to the ground?” “Of course I could have.” ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2387 "2025-04-22T09:46:03Z")
I feel the Giant missed a trick. The five prisoners should have been: a soldier, a clown, a ballerina, a tramp and a Scotsman. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2388 "2025-04-22T12:39:24Z")
I understood that reference but sometimes simpler is better. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2389 "2025-04-23T21:00:58Z")
I think this strip illustrates the fatal flaw with the Directors’ master plan. They can’t reform the Multiverse so that evil gets rewarded and good gets punished. The reason why the Lower Planes are torture is precisely because they’re full of evil people, and the the Upper Planes are paradisical because they’re full of good people. Put all the good people in a place like the Abyss, and they will help each other out of the holes, and find ways to keep others from falling in, and so on. And put all the evil people in a place like Celestia, and they’ll fight on the mountainside. If, that is, that actually is the Directors’ master plan. I think it far more likely that they’re just plain lying. Oh, they probably do want to overthrow the gods, but about the rest of it. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2390 "2025-04-30T12:30:21Z")
1324 - [Damned Red Tape](https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1324.html) ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2391 "2025-04-30T12:53:51Z")
So Nale’s going to be turned into a Pit Fiend or something? A short-term Pit Fiend, or “pit-stop fiend”, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2392 "2025-04-30T13:12:11Z")
Huh about 10 days between strips this month, Burlew’s best pace in quite a number of years actually. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2393 "2025-04-30T13:16:20Z")
Yeah, i was shocked to see a new one today. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2394 "2025-04-30T17:06:51Z")
So Nale will be a buffed Lesser Demon. Honestly, that’s a plausible step: there’s no reason why eg a 200hp spined devil should be automatically disallowed, at least for main characters. Maybe there should be a burst of light when they lose hp or something to signal their greater stature. I see that torture and suffering in hell fulfills an important role in the wider economy of the gods. I recall a similar world system in the early issues of the comic book _Spawn_. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2395 "2025-04-30T17:37:01Z")
“Should I assume they’re going to monologue about what that does?” “Pretty safe bet, yeah.” Pure gold. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2396 "2025-04-30T17:55:02Z")
So the gods get their nourishment if you’re good and they get nourishment out of your torture if you’re bad. Yup. The gods don’t come off as good guys under this system. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2397 "2025-04-30T18:01:30Z")
I’m assuming the tortured soul energy is only consumed by the evil gods. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2398 "2025-04-30T19:46:26Z")
That would make sense. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2399 "2025-05-01T06:52:35Z")
Is that a sword in the fountain in panel 4? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2400 "2025-05-01T09:12:43Z")
It does resemble one, but the part on the right looks like a hook rather than a normal hilt. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2401 "2025-05-01T09:37:19Z")
I think that’s the effect of the water rippling. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2402 "2025-05-01T09:41:09Z")
Don’t think so. I expanded the image and it’s definitely not part of the ripple. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438/2403 "2025-05-01T09:47:45Z")
I just assumed it was a weird crinkly hilt because it’s an evil sword in an evil fountain. No sign yet of a evil lady turning up to lob it at Nale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-of-the-stick-book-7-discussion-thread/847438.md?page=121)