Order of the Stick

[RocketScientist]

Update:

1272 - Relative Progress

I completely forgot we were in contact with her. I blame the pace of updates. Yeah, that's it.

[RocketScientist]

New Update:

1273 - Clearly They Do Not

Not as much update as I would've expected after a month. I hope Rich is OK.

[Hope_Caswell]

Perhaps later this year we'll hear about the continuing adventures of Sir Thumb in the Land of Lingering Stiffness....

[RocketScientist]

Update:

1274 - Better Than One

[Krulle]

"Backup Greenhilt brain".

Nice jab between siblings, love it.
Gonna steal it.

[Krulle]

Update:

1275 - Must Have Been Some Magic

OK, that is going fast.

Copying here, as RS accidentally linked in the worng thread...

And yes. Open door, walk through the dungeon, done, get out, next door.
They'll catch up soon. And then they'll find out the dungeons are just a distraction so nobody searches for traps/portals, although the closeness of doors to each other actually makes the use of portals a necessity to create room for actual dungeons.

[RocketScientist]

Oops! Sorry about that. I edited the erroneous post.

[Krulle]

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1276.html
A Bit Too Revealing


Oh yeah, don't forget to call in!


Also: no problem.
It's so quiet here, I wonder if we should continue discussing here, although you guys sometimes point me to something I missed.

[RocketScientist]

Can't bards cast speak with animals? /confused

I pop into the GitP forums once in a great while, but it's way too busy over there to keep up with. There seems to be no middle ground, sadly.

[Krulle]

yeah, GitP is a bit too much for me as well.

I sincerely hope Elli finds this community worthwhile to be advertised on her site again.
It had the right balance between activity and focus.

I check the twitter threads on the updates, sometimes the comments there are a good pointer for me.
( https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/1 ... 0278910979 for the current page)
So, to make me look like someone with a good memory:
Belkar's wish of page 0916 got fulfilled.
yes, that's stolen from the twitter thread

Can't bards cast speak with animals? /confused

Likely, but why would he? The chameleon/lizard would need to grab Elan's attention and keep it for the bard to cast that spell, if he even prepared it.
So, it's likely to go without any notice.

[RocketScientist]

yeah, GitP is a bit too much for me as well.

I sincerely hope Elli finds this community worthwhile to be advertised on her site again.
It had the right balance between activity and focus.

That would be great.

I check the twitter threads on the updates, sometimes the comments there are a good pointer for me.
( https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/1 ... 0278910979 for the current page)
So, to make me look like someone with a good memory:
Belkar's wish of page 0916 got fulfilled.
yes, that's stolen from the twitter thread

Nice one! Some day I may have to go back and reread that whole comic. I've forgotten a LOT that's happened.

Can't bards cast speak with animals? /confused

Likely, but why would he? The chameleon/lizard would need to grab Elan's attention and keep it for the bard to cast that spell, if he even prepared it.
So, it's likely to go without any notice.

Good point.

[Krulle]

Page 1277 - ETA


I don't get the reference of a gauntlet?
you must be in every finger?

How would/could such a mechanism work?

[edit]

What is a gauntlet, for non-native english speakers?

In this context, an endurance test.

And I concur with the follwing, so I'm copying that over as well:

Serini's defenses are pretty crazy, I love it. Not only would intruders have to be sufficiently powerful to override the defenses, they have to have a TON of patience to clear EVERY door. Which I assume resets at set intervals too due to what Oona said about monsters respawning.

[RocketScientist]

So can *we* get to the final dungeon without exploring them all? Or do we have to stop them before they get there?

[Krulle]

I could only speculate about this, but "we" have access to Serini, who seems to be the most knowledgeable character regarding this dungeon.

Let's see if the next page includes this question.

[Krulle]

Update notification!
Page 1278 - Taint of Magic



so many word-plays...

[edit]Second to last panel's [/edit] Last speech bubble by itself too, took me a bit to realise that one...

[RocketScientist]

[RocketScientist]

Update:

1279 - Post Mortem

[RocketScientist]

Another Update:

1280 - Another Helping

Inflation

[RocketScientist]

1281 - But It Gets Better Every Generation

I don't get the title.

[Bapuvitttssf]

I don't get the title.

I think it refers to image-generating AIs such as Stable Diffusion, which are quite weak when generating hands and the correct number of fingers, but as other AIs in other fields, it progresses with each version (or generation).
Example of said Stable Diffusion generated images:

[RocketScientist]

Ah, OK. That makes sense. Thanks.