[Webcomic] The Order of the Stick thread
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Soliloquy
Do please remember that we're in the hideout for a master of illusions, folks.
This is true, but Belkar did smell it miles away.
EDIT: And just 3 comics ago, he specifically said the smell wasn't rotting corpses.
figmentPez
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It's the desert and windy. They're mummified corpses, not rotting.
It's true, that is a technicality. My personal theory right now has to do with the limits of racial ability. Since everyone in the Draketooth clan is human, they tried to make it smell like rotting corpses with illusion, but they just couldn't quite get the smell right enough to fool halflings, since their human senses aren't up to par.
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Soliloquy
My personal theory:
The corpses are real, but they're not the corpses of the people they're looking for. Draketooth is smart enough to know that people are going to be looking for illusions, so this master trickster set up a deception that isn't reliant on illusion magic.
The order will try to dispel an illusion, but it won't work, so they'll assume that everyone they were looking for is dead -- just like Draketooth would want them to.
The corpses are real, but they're not the corpses of the people they're looking for. Draketooth is smart enough to know that people are going to be looking for illusions, so this master trickster set up a deception that isn't reliant on illusion magic.
The order will try to dispel an illusion, but it won't work, so they'll assume that everyone they were looking for is dead -- just like Draketooth would want them to.
In all honesty, the corpses are probably the people who built the pyramid/temple thingy and this is the result of the "after party" celebrating it's completion. Draketooth just spiked the food/punch to ensure none of them would rat out where the temple was.
North_Ranger
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Nope, those are Draketooths (Draketeeth?). They have squiggly tattoos...
It wouldn't be out of the question. Dragons take humaniod lovers all the time, thanks to their polymorphing ability/spell ability. Hell, in 3.0/3.5, it's all but stated that a lot of sorcerers (especially kobald ones) could trace their ancestry to a dragon. It's one of the reasons sorcerers can become Dragon Disciples.
Considering the purple-ish face tattoo, I'm inclined to say that's probably the case.
If so, nice job breaking it, V.
If so, nice job breaking it, V.
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Soliloquy
Draketooth... well, crap. That would make sense.
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Soliloquy
What's even worse for V is that, well... we have a pretty good hint that there's somebody left.
That's Zzd'tri and the Linear Guild.
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Soliloquy
Ah, you're right. Missed that detail.
North_Ranger
Staff member
Holy crap on a stick o.0
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Soliloquy
Who knew that indiscriminately killing the entire lineage of an ancient black dragon could have far-reaching consequences?
Not V, that's for sure.
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Soliloquy
Pfft. V hasn't even told them that the rift doesn't contain a snarl.
Me too! Estimated delivery time: April 2012.
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Overflight
Man, V is NOT having a good day.
...then again, considering not long ago he forced a Kobold into reenacting Human Centipede with a cat, I'm not feeling TOO sorry for him.
...then again, considering not long ago he forced a Kobold into reenacting Human Centipede with a cat, I'm not feeling TOO sorry for him.
