The Order of the Stick Megathread

[MFD]

I think the big thing about the pacing is that he's doing book pacing, not webcomic pacing, and that's been happening for awhile now. Similar complaints plagued the internet updates that became the first half of "Don't Split the Party."

[Aerozord]

lets see, this current thread started 8 months ago, and we have only gone through 40 strips by then. In that time period the only thing thats really happened is "they found out the gate wasn't there".

[Meister]

Roy got resurrected, V had a ton of character development between his return to the party and his way of dealing with divorce, we got a glimpse of Tiamat's involvement in matters, we learned the Linear Guild are unwilling minions of the fiends, we learned about Elven special ops head towards Azure City, there's a ritual of some sort Xykon is after, and the Goblins founded their own nation.

and there's also the whole thing about another world in the dimensional rift that might turn the entire story on its head or something insignificant like that

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Meister

Roy got resurrected

true, though I kind of excluded that since both the resurrection and re-unification of the group was more the culmination of the previous arc.

Originally Posted by Meister

Roy got resurrected, V had a ton of character development between his return to the party and his way of dealing with divorce

I meant advancement in the plot, this doesn't move the story forward

Originally Posted by Meister

we got a glimpse of Tiamat's involvement in matters

no we found out that Tiamat was upset at the death of so many dragons, which was more of a joke then a plot point

Originally Posted by Meister

we learned the Linear Guild are unwilling minions of the fiends

learned about that before that point when she ran off to inform them about the gates in the first place

Originally Posted by Meister

we learned about Elven special ops head towards Azure City,

all we learned was that they exist, we got five panels about them and then, nothing for 7 months

Originally Posted by Meister

there's a ritual of some sort Xykon is after

No evidence that this is significant. Sure there are lots of rituals he researches on a regular basis. But lets assume you are right, no telling how long before that is in any way significant

Originally Posted by Meister

the Goblins founded their own nation.

We already discussed how no one really cares about this so I wont repeat it

Originally Posted by Meister

and there's also the whole thing about another world in the dimensional rift that might turn the entire story on its head or something insignificant like that

That is currently, like the Elven task force, currently just abit of foreshadowing and has yet to move the plot ahead

This is still moving far too slow. It took us well over a month just to get from "doesn't look like the gate is in this giant desert" to "yup the gate isn't in this giant desert"

[Meister]

Sure we don't know yet how or if any of that is significant but it all happened. (The Linear Guild one, though, true, not exactly news. Forgot all about that, my bad.)

but yeah the ritual will probably turn out to be Unseen Skull Polish Servant and the Elves will be killed by guards at the city gates and I'll be sure to check with the What We Care About Comittee next time I'm about to waste time on finding a particular plot point interesting

[Jagos]

Wait... Team Evil is at a conflict that could destroy the unity that's been ready to boil over.

First, knowing that Redcloak is all for the goblins in this regard puts him toward a fall. Xykon is less trusting of his minion, giving Tsukiko a chance to come up as a character. This may be foreshadowing but it's hardly insignificant when it all comes toward the next gate.

[Loyal]

I don't think Xykon's ever "trusted" Redcloak, per se.

Besides, after the incident with Redcloak's brother, I really don't think Xykon believes Redcloak has the balls to defy him when it comes down to it.

[edit] Hell, he probably believes that Redcloak merely thinks of "gobbotopia" as a little side-project that Redcloak had taken up just to pass the time.

[Aerozord]

its less about lacking the balls, and more about the fact Xykon is ALOT more powerful. But how Xykon feels, if I had to guess, he just simply doesn't care. He knows Redcloak needs him and wont do anything until thats changed. It is probably a realistic evil alliance. They both know the other is only helping for his own reasons and can be counted on until that changes. So its less about trust, and more about logic

[Nuklear Waste]

More Jirix, more crayons, first appearance of the Dark One online, Xykon mysteriously disappeared again, and apparently Rich didn't listen to Master Fyron's lessons in image resolution...

Oh yeah, and something about Redcloak and his god.

EDIT: Aw, my lame image joke won't make any sense now. :\

[Aerozord]

I always assumed all that religious talk from Redcloak was pure propganda, I mean it still is as he didn't realize it, but his god does in fact approve and support what he's doing