Meh. You could have independently targetting particle beam phalanxes, tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, sonic electronic ball breakers, nukes, knives, sharp sticks AND thermobaric bombs.
I don’t think that’s gonna help you any when your mind goes on long duration holidays after coming in contact with something that doesn’t make any sense and is abjectly alien to you, from any perception and in any possible way you could ever come up with.
From the other side of the globe.
Or else you can just cross the streams.
Chuck Norris, is that you…?
Now, back at comic #646 of “The Order of the Stick”…
There is one aspect of this reunion that comes to my mind. What if…
Elan begins explaining his adventures to Haley, telling her everything that befell him while they were apart from each other…
…and then, of course, comes to the point when Therkla entered the scene…
…and then, given that Elan is -let’s be frank- not exactly the sharpest X-acto knife in the drawer, he manages to bungle the delivery in such a glorious way that he makes Haley believe that he actually was having some hot Bard-on-Half-Orc action?
After all, there is the precedent of Samantha…
dun dun dun, perhaps?
Meh. I live in the Midwest. No matter which way he starts on the US buffet line, Cthulhu will inevitably start on the East Coast or the West Coast. No way he’ll be up to eating anything more after trying to digest NY or LA.
If he starts on the East Coast, he’ll hit the hotdish in Ohio and Michigan before he reaches Chicago. No one can eat anything once they’ve finished hotdish. He’ll need at least a week to digest.
By my figuring, at that rate it’d take him about a thousand years to finish off the entire population of the planet. Assuming, of course, that we didn’t just keep reproducing, which of course we would. Honestly, as cosmic apocalyptic cataclysms go, that’s not all that bad.
And jayjay, where in Ohio does one find hotdish? In the Cleveland area, at least, it’s always casserole. I thought hotdish was just Minnesota and Wisconsin?
Semantics! It’s all hotdish, no matter what Ohioahns and Michiganders call it.
I will grant you that nothing’s going to stop him ultimately until he hits the lutefisk, so Illinois and Wisconsin are doomed no matter what.
You think lutefisk is going to stop him? You fool! Where do you think lutefisk comes from in the first place?
Innsmouth brand lutefisk - so good, our customers give it three thumbs up!
The very idea of Innsmouth fishmen serving up lutefisk… seems rather… incestuous? cannibalistic? ichthy icky, regardless. Now there’s horror some overgrown calamari can’t measure up to.
makes note to avoid the Innsmouth caviar
And you just don’t want to know about the Innsmouth tartar sauce.
Really.
Your figuring is off - you forgot about the star-spawn sleeping alongside ol’ Mean and Green. The poor babies have to eat their veggies and humies, if they want to grow as big as Daddy one day.
Anyone have their stats at hand ? 
Don’t be silly. Of course I have their stats at hand. You never know when an RPG will suddenly break out and you have to prepared for these things.
For clarification, the ‘kick reason to the curb’ line is from the current holder of ‘most awesome Anime ever’, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan. It’s by Gainax, and the best way to describe it is both as ‘The Anti-Evangelion’ and ‘a love story to 30+ years of robot fighting action.’
If you’re not familiar with it, you probably should be.
New one up - and it seems as though JoseB might have nailed it.
Oh, and Wind Walk *is *the most awesome cleric spell ever.
Sorry I disagree entirely with your post.
First, the maturation of Elan and Haley have been major themes for a while and their character arcs since the separation has been about that. To suddenly go to such high school dramatics would be a step backward for both of them. I suspect we’ll see a joke along those lines next strip but that’s as far as it’ll go.
Second, the most awesome cleric spell ever is clearly Weather Control. It’s chock full of potential as Durkon has demonstrated.
Speaking of spells…
Is it me or is Durkon the truly gifted spellcaster in the Order of the Stick?
Sure, V can get crazy with the spells but Durkon seems to have a deeper, more subtle grasp of what he can and can’t do with his spells and when he uses one it’s pretty damn spectacular.
V = Flashy
D = Effective
Vaarsuvius is clearly a spell caster who thinks along the lines of Xykon: find which one does the most damage and use it over and over. S/he is clearly capable of more subtle planning with spells (see the coaching of Elan on more effective illusion use, for example) but chooses to hit things as hard as possible until they fall down. If V could get that power obsession under control then s/he’d be much more dangerous and effective. Of course we’ve just had a long section demonstrating how far this flaw has taken V.
It’s not just the spells. Durkon is probably the most mature and stable member of the Order period. Roy comes in a close second. I can’t really think of any example of poor judgment on Durkon’s part in the entire run of the strip. Even Roy has had his moments of “D’oh!” Rich really portrays Durkon as making good use of his Wisdom score.
Agreed. Look at his decision to surrender to Miko.