The story about Oona’s cousin is more foreshadowing evidence that Redcloak is not following the Dark One’s true plan.
Interesting that Redcloak and Roy have the same flaw; they both have a strong tendency to feel that what they assume is true is a fact and to dismiss any other possibilities. Roy, at least, has gotten somewhat better and is occasionally able to step back and check his assumptions. Redcloak is still stuck in this.
Yeah, Rich likes to portray the Lawful folks as thinking their opinions are facts.
Chronos is thinking that Oona is being very insightful.
“Oona is pretty sure she knows what little caped man would choose.”
Hmm…
Cruel Flippers of Entropy is now going to be the name of my bardcore covers band.
Making the subtext into text, I see.
The thought occurs to me: When Redcloak eventually dies, one way or another, if we see it happen in the strip… I think we might literally see him walking over the bridge from Right-All-Along into Doing-Very-Best-for-Goblins. Is real places! Is trying to go to villages! They are real!
And then he gets eaten by a dolphin.
The roaches are like a tiny red insectoid Statler and Waldorf.
Interesting development.
If he’s just doing Detect Evil, won’t Belkar mess up the scans? He’s not evil enough enough to “linger for days”, but the Order is much more recently in the area.
Won’t HE mess up his own scans?
He’s mostly been with Xykon in the maze, so that won’t matter.
The place is also packed full of monsters, and I’d expect at least some of them to evil and sufficiently powerful to register, too.
In the flashback Redcloak was using the spell to check if Xykon had been snooping in Redcloak’s room.
So I guess not.
The gap for a lingering aura is up to an hour for “Strong” evil and potentially six days for “Overwhelming”. I doubt Belkar, at his worst, even rose above “Moderate” which is in minutes. However, I had the impression that Team Evil has been here for a week or two at least so the best Redcloak could do is confirm doors they were in recently. Older ones would need to be rechecked for monsters since Xykon’s aura would have faded.
I see Oona has exited the save without noticing the trap. Even if Redcloak started using other detection magic to try to solve the marked door issue, it’s likely he’d skip that door since they just came out of it.
Belkar is just an ordinary evil creature, somewhere between 11 and 25 HD, so his aura is only moderate. Xykon is an undead of 21 or more HD, and Redcloak is a cleric of an evil deity of level 11 or higher, so both are overwhelming.
And about half a Kn.