The Order of the Stick Megathread

[Locke cole]

But if you take that tactic, you have to be careful, because "The dead... are not... silent."

[Loyal]

Killing them quickly is less likely to allow them to form a memory of the invaders then tying them up, letting them panic for awhile, and then letting their memory adjust to remember what everyone looked like and, perhaps, what they were doing and saying that might give a clue.

Honestly, people? It's a war. The hobgoblin couple in question, while in love and probably drunk, were still enemy soldiers. Leaving them alive under any circumstance would be a suicidally stupid bit of mercy, given the tenuous position the resistance holds in the city.

[Aerozord]

besides this is DnD. Not like murder is perminant. Yes they can ressurect them for questioning but they can raise them period.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

besides this is DnD. Not like murder is perminant. Yes they can ressurect them for questioning but they can raise them period.

Except the goblins are under the sway of a psychopathic lich who would rather they be raised as undead and, in the event that someone properly resurrected them, would probably just kill them again and then have them raised as ghouls because, in his mind, they deserve it for dying in the first place.

It ain't easy being green.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by phil_

Except the goblins are under the sway of a psychopathic lich who would rather they be raised as undead and, in the event that someone properly resurrected them, would probably just kill them again and then have them raised as ghouls because, in his mind, they deserve it for dying in the first place.

It ain't easy being green.

well technically they aren't green. And I was talking in more of a general sense. Death is cheap, so I doubt it crossed their minds. Besides they tossed a goblin prisoner off a building. Couple would be just as legit

[edit]Anyways if they suspect they wont be raised, then its better they are killed then risk informing people that way too. If they thought they would be raised then killing them is not really a moral dilema

[Odjn]

They're probably level 1. Can't be raised (I think).

[Locke cole]

New comic

Some interesting stuff, but I was most interested in finding out that that ritual Xykon's been having Tsukiko look at appears to be half-arcane, half-divine.

If that means what I think it does, things are going to get far, far worse for Redcloak once Xykon learns what that ritual does.

[Jagos]

... How so?

He's part divine and I know RC hasn't been forthright with info (SoD) but he's kept his part of the bargain where he hasn't tried (openly) to cross Xykon.

[Locke cole]

The entire reason Xykon signed on with Redcloak is because he told him that the ritual would allow them to control the Snarl, and use it to take over the world.

He is not going to be happy if he finds out that Redcloak was lying to him, and that the ritual won't let them control the Snarl, only choose where its prison opens. Xykon will not be happy to learn that he's spent all this time chasing after a way for the goblin god to get leverage over the rest of the pantheon.

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

ressurect them for questioning

One of the clerics they have running around has got to be able to simply Speak With Dead.

e: if it's just information they're after, that is. Naturally these two are going to end up joining the Ghoul Squad either way.