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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 913 Independent
« Reply #105 on: August 26, 2013, 10:40:43 am »

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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 913 Independent
« Reply #106 on: August 26, 2013, 12:23:07 pm »

So, Sabine v. Tarquin in about twelve hours, then.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 913 Independent
« Reply #107 on: August 26, 2013, 05:53:13 pm »

New update? Yep.

Sabine is mad.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #108 on: August 27, 2013, 05:53:55 am »

I like how the Fiends' plasma TV is blood plasma.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 913 Independent
« Reply #109 on: August 27, 2013, 05:56:59 am »

So, Sabine v. Tarquin in about twelve hours, then.
I have a distinct feeling Tarquin would win. He's far more genre savvy than Sabine is, and so is probably expecting it and has prepared for it.
The way he said he expected no-one to actually love Nale might betray the fact that he doesn't know Sabine actually loves him.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #110 on: August 27, 2013, 03:26:00 pm »

Well, seems he wants Sabine with him in a hurry.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 915 Custom Framing While You Wait
« Reply #111 on: August 29, 2013, 09:48:15 am »

New one is up again.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #112 on: August 29, 2013, 09:53:46 am »

Tarquin is the best Lawful Evil character in history.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #114 on: August 29, 2013, 06:13:04 pm »

I can say with some confidence that in absence of anything else about the comic, it would be worth reading just for Tarquin.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 913 Independent
« Reply #115 on: August 30, 2013, 11:20:21 am »

So, Sabine v. Tarquin in about twelve hours, then.
I have a distinct feeling Tarquin would win. He's far more genre savvy than Sabine is, and so is probably expecting it and has prepared for it.
Not sure on that, since the last thing he said is tempting fate for that. Although, I don't doubt Tarquin has means of dealing with energy drain. Maybe some Sabine-on-Lauren action instead? And yes, this being Sabine, it can be either sexy or violent(both is an option).

Contingency on (true) resurrection triggering when your undead self is destroyed. Bam, raised yourself.

That's a hell of a contingency plan. Can you loop those together?
Technically, you can, except that one's on the Cleric list and one's on the Sorcerer/Wizard list. This can be avoided with a scroll of Contingency and a good Spellcraft check, or, for cheesier methods, use a quirk in the rules where a Cleric (with the Scribe Scroll feat) can scribe a divine scroll of an arcane spell if he has someone else cast the spell for him.
Nope. Contigency can cast 6th level spells at most(and require you to be at least 18th level for that, barring possibly Heighten Spell). Resurrection is 7th level, True is 9th.

Possibly a Clone spell would work, which Vaarsuvius might be able to cast. Granted, it takes 2d4 months(time they probably don't have) to grow but also may or may not require them to destroy the vampire(the SRD just says they revive upon death, or immediately if already dead. The soul might not be "available", though).

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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #116 on: August 30, 2013, 12:42:55 pm »

Well if he's been alive as a vampire that long, he's probably burnt through his cosmic lifestrand (exceeded his maximum age), so no more resurrections. I'm pretty sure cloning doesn't work at that point either. It's possible Malack researched some sort of epic level way of keeping himself in the game, but I don't think any of the regular ways of coming back will work.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #117 on: August 30, 2013, 02:58:28 pm »

Also keep in mind that (as mentioned by malack in comic 874) even if he was brought back to life somehow it wouldn't be resurrecting him, since he no longer is the person he was when he was turned by over 200 years.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 914 Last in the Coffin
« Reply #118 on: September 01, 2013, 11:36:14 am »

Gah, sorry about missing that update. Vacation + computer issues means I won't be on top of things very much.

Nope. Contigency can cast 6th level spells at most(and require you to be at least 18th level for that, barring possibly Heighten Spell). Resurrection is 7th level, True is 9th.

Ah, you're right, I missed that part.
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Re: The new Order of the Stick thread: 916 Executive Order
« Reply #119 on: September 03, 2013, 08:15:48 am »

New one up. I'm guessing Vaarsuvius will solve this somehow.
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