When a webcomic updates but you don't want to make a huge deal out of it, what you do

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I thought wisdom and intel were kind of requirements for a priest build?

Anyways, I'm sure this whole thing is for naught. They wouldn't set up this plot point just to go "nope vampire failed, moving on." Plus since he is now "dead" and it was said that he'd return home post humorously I suspect the group will be hitting the Dwarven homelands before we get any real resolution here.

Heh. "post humorously."

[Amake]

Wisdom is the only stat that matters for divine spellcasting bandaids. Of course a very high Wis can substitute for Int in some respects, but it's not a flawless process. . .

[Menarker]

It is also possible that this "cleric" is a Favored Soul class, which gets its power from Charisma instead (something which Veldrina seems to have in spades). It's basically what you get if Elan actually tried to be a cleric in any plausible fashion, instead of just being a worshipper of a puppet.

... And now I'm curious about the sort of schenanigans that Elan would get into if he met her. That Wrecan guy seems to behave as if Veldrina was his own Elan...

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Menarker

It is also possible that this "cleric" is a Favored Soul class, which gets its power from Charisma instead (something which Veldrina seems to have in spades). It's basically what you get if Elan actually tried to be a cleric in any plausible fashion, instead of just being a worshipper of a puppet.

... And now I'm curious about the sort of schenanigans that Elan would get into if he met her. That Wrecan guy seems to behave as if Veldrina was his own Elan...

This is what I was thinking as well.

Of course, if that's the case, the lack of wings indicates limits on her level, so she's unlikely to be able to raise Durkon... which should be perfect for the vampire's plans. Hm.

[Flarecobra]

And apperentally this elf cleric is a fan-made character..

[Menarker]

Back when I ran the Kickstarter campaign, the top reward was a walk-on cameo for a D&D character of your creation. It's taken a while, but today I fulfilled that reward in strip #986. Veldrina the elven priestess is the creation of one of my loyal backers and has been included here at their request. In fact, upon hearing the character's description for the first time, I immediately decided to slot her into an existing spot in the upcoming story where a divine caster would make the most sense, so she will be sticking around a bit more than the one page that was paid for. It just took a long time to get to this specific point in the narrative, though luckily the backer has been very gracious and patient for this entire time. So enjoy the first-ever fan-created OOTS character for however long she's here.

I also fulfilled another promise with today's strip, if a less joyous one. Mark Monack, who went by the screen name "Wrecan," was a pillar of the message board community for many years. He was, among his other roles, the founder of one of the forum's odder traditions: counting the number of strips each character appears in, a project that continues many years after he began it. When he passed in 2013, I asked his wife Jodie if there was anything I could do to help out. She told me he would have loved nothing more than to have a walk-on character named Wrecan in OOTS. Now, there is one.

Pretty much.

EDIT: And it turns out that the Favored Soul thing is correct!

[Bum Bill Bee]

Hello guys, I'd like to make an announcemnt: I've just gotten all caught up with Sluggy Freelance!

Which I had started to read in March.

While also juggling Problem Sleuth and Homestuck which I had started on 2 months later and am still working on.

SOMEONE GIVE ME A MEDAL FOR BEING SO NIFFTY!

[mauve]

Re: Gunnerkrigg-- WHAAAAAT.

[Bum Bill Bee]

In Sinfest:

Its now official that Monique is lesbians with that one devl girl. I find myself rather disappointed. I wanted them to be BFFs. Oh and Miko now has zero identidy outside of being a Monique worshipper fangirl.

And I'm starting to really get tired of the pop-eyed expressions he's doing in nearly every comic now. When did he start doing that even?

[Amake]

I'm hypothesizing the haircut disconnected Annie from the fire spirit part of her and/or her aetheric body. It would explain why she's been more stoic than usual I guess. Maybe causing the disconnect was even Tony's purpose, and will turn out to have saved her life, though that seems overly anticlimactic.

Her parts seem to be on the same side and to have a plan anyway, so I'm happy.

What I want to know is if the fire thing has physical presence. The empty white room could be either drawn that way for deliberate ambiguity or built that way to keep it from burning, but I'm inclined to think it's the latter given Siddall's track record of abstract art.

In conclusion, what a time to be alive.