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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Glemp » Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:28 pm

C&P'ing backgrounds, he's okay with and has done for a very long time. It's characters Thunt has a policy of never copying, since it looks...limited, as they're more unique.

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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by WearsHats » Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:36 pm

Yeah. He used to be against C&P for everything. Quality above all else. Then he realized that it does actually look better for static objects. The wall isn't usually supposed to look different from one panel to the next, so redrawing it is not only unnecessary but it introduces minor errors and inconsistencies. People, on the other hand, move. Having them be perfectly 100% still, even from one second to the next, isn't right.

For the upcoming page, there's a static background (I think a doorway) behind them for most of the page. So he will be C&Ping that. (But, of course, that just means he'll spend more time making the one image look better and more detailed before he goes around C&Ping it.)
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by 0z79 » Sat Nov 26, 2016 4:08 pm

Hjerne wrote:Big Ears seer. Fumbles chief. Between two and four pages of argument about how Fumbles isn't chief material countered with how the seer is never wrong.
And those pages will be spaced out over eight months.

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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Krulle » Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:47 am

Plus some months in between when we follow the other groups of storytelling.

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I was wondering as the pencilled page had no cracks for background, then the coloured page did have, which I just found a weird order when copy-pasting background.
But then, drawing in layers does allow to do things like that...
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Insane Kitty » Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:34 am

What would happen if their chief ceremony made MM chief?
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by WearsHats » Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:55 pm

The teller is their priest. The chiefing ceremony is a direct call for divine guidance. It seems really unlikely that the god of goblins would pick Minmax as the chief of a goblin clan, not least because he's not a member of the clan.

That said, the call for guidance is not binding. The teller is free to pick someone else. It's only advice. But it's usually not a good idea to reject or overrule your god's advice.

So if the god said to pick Minmax, they could pick someone else. But if they chose to pick Minmax, they'd have to live with it.
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by RocketScientist » Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:30 pm

I vote for Fumbles as Teller and Thaco as Chief. If their god says he has to be Chief, what happens if he says no?

Do they know their teller is dead? I'm drawing a blank. Was it Forgath who killed her? If so, was Minmax there?

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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by WearsHats » Sun Nov 27, 2016 4:26 pm

Yes, it was Forgath.

http://www.goblinscomic.org/12192005/

If you look on the next page, you'll see Minmax and Fumbles were there. I assume the rest of the GAP knows.

As for the chiefing ceremony, it's like I said. Thunt has talked about this on the livestream. The ceremony asks for divine guidance, but they're free to ignore the advice. The clan makes its own decisions. For example, IIRC, divine guidance said Thaco would make the better chief, but Y&B chose Chief anyway. Their god does not want or expect absolute obedience.
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by hypothetical » Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:09 pm

It's just logical that Vorpal becomes the Teller. Oracles are known for being eccentric, and Vorpal sure is that.

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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Morgaln » Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:44 pm

RocketScientist wrote:I vote for Fumbles as Teller and Thaco as Chief. If their god says he has to be Chief, what happens if he says no?

Do they know their teller is dead? I'm drawing a blank. Was it Forgath who killed her? If so, was Minmax there?
I assume the same thing would happen as the last time their god said it has to be Thaco and the teller chose someone else instead: nothing at all...

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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Never Finishes Anyth » Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:01 pm

WearsHats wrote:The call for guidance is not binding. The teller is free to pick someone else. It's only advice. But it's usually not a good idea to reject or overrule your god's advice.

So if the god said to pick Minmax, they could pick someone else. But if they chose to pick Minmax, they'd have to live with it.
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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Krulle » Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:11 am

A small reminder:

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Wouldn't it be perfect timing for Thunt to bring a new page on 17th of December, with the election of a new chief, as a commemoration of Chief?
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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Gift Fastidious » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:49 pm

I'm almost surprised that neither electing a new chief nor electing a new teller requires intervention of some position that normally stays at the village rather than the warcamp, but I guess it makes sense in a war-centric society.

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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Glemp » Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:27 pm

IIRC, normally the Teller does stay at the village?

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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Krulle » Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:13 am

Then why was Young and Beautiful in the war camp?
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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by nikohl » Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:35 am

I think the rule was "no women in the warcamp unless they're spellcasters", I don't remember if there was another bit about the teller usually staying behind - I'm too tired to faff around looking in the archives!

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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Krulle » Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:03 am

nikohl wrote:I think the rule was "no women in the warcamp unless they're spellcasters", I don't remember if there was another bit about the teller usually staying behind - I'm too tired to faff around looking in the archives!
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But I did not find any reference to fortune tellers to stay in the village and not join the war camp.
Y&B explaining why warcamps are created at all.
Y&B has been member of three earlier warcamps, so apparently it's not that uncommon, at least not for her, to be part of the warcamp. And she also confesses being a coward, not doing the fighting.
The sign of the Statue Garden actually implies, that the fortune teller usually does form part of the war camp.
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Re: 19 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Davis8488 » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:36 pm

Sessine wrote:Exactly! That's why I think he should be the Teller. He has been preparing for this his whole life. He's had a critical opinion of everybody's name, forever. Now he finally gets the chance to do it right. :lol:
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Re: 24 Nov 2016: mixing realities...

Post by Krulle » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:48 pm

The the teller "Old-and-Beautiful" was right.
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