are you going through amazon.com? I don't think it works if you're on, say, .co.uk. I have no idea where you're from, but I've seen this mentioned as a reason for this error
Wait, where did you see this? How can I check that this isn't true for me? Oh, I assume it's from when you want to make your pledge. Worked fine for me, I wonder what the issue is?
It turns out in 2007 I bloody signed up for Mechanical Turk (because I was curious and wanted to see how it worked) and that screwed up Amazon payments. The solution was to cancel the Amazon payments account and then open it again. Their support was actually quite helpful it was fixed in under an hour.
Ahhh yep. A plausible theory is that V killed them all with his familicide. He's Girard Draketooth after all. Plausible in that it fits with Rich's plotting style - it's a satisfying (if kinda horrible) development that will increase intra-party conflict and bring out previous developments. Having the in-play villains being responsible is a much cheaper option.
If they're actually dead to begin with, and that's not just a very clever illusion. They've all been pointing out how easy it's been.
How do you know it wasn't Xykon and Redcloak? Given the Tsukiko brutal ending, I wouldn't put it past them. Another option is that it was a mass suicide when OOTS triggered Girard's trap back in 695 They're not an illusion. Illusions don't smell.
I had assumed that the symbol on Girard's face was a dragon tattoo. I'm leaning illusion, why do the plates and food not have solid looking outlines? Weak reasoning I know, but either Rich just missed that detail or it has a purpose.
Credit where credit's due. Talk about unintended consequences. Link for those who don't remember the event.
So given that the Draketooth's have been dead for two weeks, who was scrying on the false gate location? My guess is whoever is left guarding Serini's gate. Also, I'm thinking that it was V who killed Tarquin's ninth wive (Penelope) since she would have been directly related to someone of the Black Dragon's bloodline. Tarquin says she died under mysterious circumstances, and the funeral was the previous week when they first met him. Timing should be just about right.
I had to re-read the familicide strip. Everyone related to the dragon would cover Draketooth and all of his descendants, and everyone related to *them* would cover most everyone else including all those kids in the compound, but unless this was a desert hill clan den of inbreeding there should be some people around who were just married into the family. Very minor nitpick aside, the scope of that spell was totally indiscriminate and also magic and it was a good thing I had to go back and reread it because my memory thought it was a lot more limited in scope than it actually turned out to be. Toying with ultimate power has consequences, V. Rich writes a damn epic comic.
The description of the spell is "Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead. Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead." The people who married into the family then had kids, so they were killed as direct relatives (parents) of somebody that directly shared the dragon's bloodline.
So Epic. The familicide comic was posted what, two years ago? I love nerding out on all the various references and tropes he puts in, but the kicker is that he's just such a good story-teller. I imagine that Rich's office has a giant whiteboard with plot lines charted all over it, with lines drawn on the wall connecting to ancillary whiteboards in other rooms.
That makes more sense than Nale having offed her or Tarquin getting bored with her (he hadn't traded up). The question I have now is when will V's contract be called in? He kinda owes 43 mins, 16 secs and it seems like the time for cashing in will be coming up soon, since the Linear Guild and Xykon are all headed to where V is now...
I think it was implied that it was Zz'dtri. Haha, awesome call. It would be perfect if in this case 'mysterious circumstances' wasn't actually code for 'murder by Tarquin'.
I assume you're talking about Penelope (Tarquin's wife). Nale mentions he didn't murder her, and Tarquin indicated he had not either in one of the strips around their Team up one. Edit: it happened in 821 - at the time I thought it meant that Tarquin's Cleric had done it given his reaction.
843 is up. V is trying to come to terms with being a mass murderer. And, well, there's the mysterious ending.
Not to be a dick, but if you could refrain from describing the new comic in the same post where you mention that the new comic is up it would be helpful.
Really? Some folks are a little too sensitive to possible spoilers. If you don't want anything spoiled, don't visit the thread until you're current on the comic. It's not like there is a time zone difference (live TV), or it takes a chunk of time to catch up (sports game). And its not like he mentioned how V's sex was revealed or some other huge plot info.
Is it really too much to ask not to give a summary of the comic in the same post you say a new one is up? I'm not super adverse to spoilers (or really adverse to them at all), but come on.
The problem is that the thread bumps aren't always indicative that there is a new comic up. It could just be a new post in an ongoing discussion about the previous comic. Not everyone checks everyday for a new comic or is on the mailing list or whatever. So there are people that would come here and rather see a simple "new comic up" or something like that as an indicator that they should go read the new one before they read further. Having anything spoilerish in the same post can potentially ruin the enjoyment. That said, I don't think the post above was all that spoilerish.
I have to side with Josh on this one. It takes all of two seconds to click your OOTS bookmark and check if a new strip is up before visiting this thread. A thread for discussion of a comic is going to be spoilerish for anyone who isn't current and I think that's how it ought to be.
