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#777 Jul 10 2017 at 7:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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She's giving him the cold shoulder.

I'll let myself out.
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#778 Jul 13 2017 at 12:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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Fun with toxoplasmosis...




...or something.
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#779 Jul 17 2017 at 12:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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And...the story foes to Hel.
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#780 Jul 17 2017 at 11:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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#781 Jul 21 2017 at 7:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Hel and Kaolian
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P-U-N-N-I-N-G!
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#782 Jul 21 2017 at 7:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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ZAM and technology-customer service-realistic expectations
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D-I-V-O-R-C-E!

EDIT: Rouge "t"

Edited, Jul 21st 2017 8:05pm by Bijou
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#783 Jul 31 2017 at 8:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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Zoom zoom zoom, four new chapters here, most of which involve opening a door and mild flashbacking.
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#784 Aug 04 2017 at 7:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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And an udder flashback slash origin story.

Went from no updates to ludicrous speed. If I wanted this kind of inconsistent pace I'd drive myself to work.

Edited, Aug 4th 2017 9:57am by lolgaxe
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#785 Aug 07 2017 at 9:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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Durkon, being gross.
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#786 Aug 16 2017 at 2:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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More

Silliness.
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#787 Aug 16 2017 at 7:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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That does bring up an uninteresting question about air rights. I mean, if one levitated soldier of an army is disenchanted and touches ground does that mean the whole army is seen as aggressors or just the one soldier?
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#788 Aug 19 2017 at 5:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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#789 Aug 21 2017 at 7:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, technically his addition was correct.
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#790 Aug 23 2017 at 8:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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I hear you knocking, but...
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#791 Aug 24 2017 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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Calling it. Best Buy Geek Squad.
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#792 Aug 26 2017 at 12:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Strange that the dwarven ladies (girls?) don't seem to have the dwarven accent, right?
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Strange that the dwarven ladies (girls?) don't seem to have the dwarven accent, right?
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#794 Aug 29 2017 at 9:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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In though the out back door.
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#795 Sep 06 2017 at 7:50 PM Rating: Excellent
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And now we get the rest of the story.

Interesting theories floating around on the site itself. I think a lot of folks are missing a key point though. Everyone blames Hurok for not telling Durkon about the prophesy, but by not telling Durkon it also means that the vampire formerly known as Durkon (aka: Greg), also doesn't know about it. Which, ironically, might just be the saving grace here. If we assume that "Death and Destruction to us all" isn't just a reference to a smallish number of Dwarves killed by Durkon and his vamps, but to the whole "vote to have everyone killed by the gods, which will result in all the Dwarves being sent (literally) to Hel", and "When next he returns home" does actually refer to his family home and not the Dwarven lands in general (which Hurok apparently did believe at the time of the prophesy), then what's happening right now isn't the fulfillment of the prophesy. Yet. But if Durkon enters his family home *then* the prophesy will happen.

If Darkon knew the prophesy, he'd make sure to meet it by going straight to Durkon's home. He doesn't, so he wont. Or at least, not directly. Roy and crew, knowing the prophesy now, might realize this and may take extra steps to make sure he doesn't go home. Not sure exactly how that'll play out, but I have a feeling it'll factor in at some point. The fact that Durkon's mother is still around and in the area does seem to suggest that there will be at least some form of family reunion in the works.

I like that the story has seriously picked up the pace recently. Waiting up to two weeks for an update was getting a bit tedious.
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And now we get the rest of the story.

Interesting theories floating around on the site itself. I think a lot of folks are missing a key point though. Everyone blames Hurok for not telling Durkon about the prophesy, but by not telling Durkon it also means that the vampire formerly known as Durkon (aka: Greg), also doesn't know about it. Which, ironically, might just be the saving grace here. If we assume that "Death and Destruction to us all" isn't just a reference to a smallish number of Dwarves killed by Durkon and his vamps, but to the whole "vote to have everyone killed by the gods, which will result in all the Dwarves being sent (literally) to Hel", and "When next he returns home" does actually refer to his family home and not the Dwarven lands in general (which Hurok apparently did believe at the time of the prophesy), then what's happening right now isn't the fulfillment of the prophesy. Yet. But if Durkon enters his family home *then* the prophesy will happen.

If Darkon knew the prophesy, he'd make sure to meet it by going straight to Durkon's home. He doesn't, so he wont. Or at least, not directly. Roy and crew, knowing the prophesy now, might realize this and may take extra steps to make sure he doesn't go home. Not sure exactly how that'll play out, but I have a feeling it'll factor in at some point. The fact that Durkon's mother is still around and in the area does seem to suggest that there will be at least some form of family reunion in the works.

I like that the story has seriously picked up the pace recently. Waiting up to two weeks for an update was getting a bit tedious.
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#797 Sep 07 2017 at 8:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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I like that the story has seriously picked up the pace recently. Waiting up to two weeks for an update was getting a bit tedious.
I wish it were a steady pace. I've stopped going to the page directly and just wait for links here because I got tired of checking once a week or so and either seeing nothing or five new strips.
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#798 Sep 07 2017 at 9:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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I like that the story has seriously picked up the pace recently. Waiting up to two weeks for an update was getting a bit tedious.
I wish it were a steady pace. I've stopped going to the page directly and just wait for links here because I got tired of checking once a week or so and either seeing nothing or five new strips "someone" rates up everybody posting in this thead.
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#799 Sep 10 2017 at 12:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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Prophecy, schmophecy!
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#800 Sep 11 2017 at 9:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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Interesting angle on what Odin's objective was here. As Roy mentions, if he actually wanted the world destroyed, he could have just voted "yes". He didn't. If he had not delivered the prophesy, Durkon would not have left the Dwarven lands in the first place, not become vampirized, and thus not returned to force the vote to result in the Dwarves all dying and going to Hel.

Of course, that misses a bigger piece of the puzzle. Redcloak's plan would have gone forward anyway. Without Durkon joining the Order, it's possible that they would have failed to prevent that plan (so far anyway). Of course, the risk there is a sequence of gates being destroyed (just as they have), which puts the Dwarves souls in danger (hence the prophesy). But if he doesn't do this, then the alternative is the Dark One being able to move a gate from the prime material plane to any other plane (like where the gods are). He plans to use this threat to get concessions, but the reality is that this would cause the snarl to cease to be something that just threatens the world of mortals, but now threatens everyone, everywhere. It's been pretty clearly established that the gods were safe on their home planes. Now they would not be.

Which is by far the worse outcome. In order of terribleness:

1. The gods destroy the world to prevent the snarl from escaping and unmaking everyone. Everyone on the world dies, but their souls go to their respective afterlives. And the Dwarves go to Hel. So... bad.

2. The gods don't destroy the world. The last gate is destroyed and the snarl escapes and unmakes everyone. Worse.

3. The Dark One succeeds, and shifts the gate to other planes. The snarl proceeds to eat the gods if they don't do what DO wants. Much worse.

4. The Dark One succeeds, and shifts the gate to other planes. Turns out he can't control the snarl, and once released in any fashion, it proceeds to eat the gods, and no longer stuck on one plane, proceeds to go on a muti-planar eating spree. Everyone and everything is unmade, everywhere. Not just "worse", but literally "the end".


Odin may not be acting like a jerk here, but taking a risky action that provides the best chance of avoiding that worst case scenario. Heck. It's entirely possible that he lied about what would actually happen, knowing that this lie would set in motion a series of events that will result in things "almost" going sideways, but turning out ok in the end.

From a meta storytelling point of view, it's clear that the gods aren't actually going to unmake the world, so Hel's plan will be foiled somehow (kinda got a whole book left to go here, right?). So the "prophesy" will somehow not be fulfilled (or will be so in a way that doesn't result in that end). But if, along the way, Odin's prophesy set in motion a series of events that allows the OOTS to foil both Xykon and Redcloak's plans, then it was the right call for him to make. At least that's my guess.

The one element that's missing is that the fact of being vampirized and returning home in this manner has to somehow be a key factor to the OOTS succeeding. Otherwise, why bother? Presumably Roy would have found some other willing cleric to join him on his adventures if Durkon hadn't been available (cause he never left the Dwarven lands). So it can't just be "having a decent cleric along for the ride" as the only effect of Odin's prophesy. Something has to come of this entire plot section that has a direct effect on the ultimate conflict between the OOTS and team evil. No clue at all what that may be at this point though.
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#801 Sep 12 2017 at 10:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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Adding link to new comic because gbaji dropped the ball.Smiley: tongue
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