Thor discusses different previous worlds, and how he arrived in the Order of the Stick type universe.
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Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Minrah: Holy You... Look at 'em all!
Durkon: Thar're millions o' 'em. Mebbe billions! More'n c'n be counted!
Thor: Moments like this, I'm a little jealous of your mortal limitations.
- Panel 2
Thor: I can count them.
Thor: I remember everyone who's ever worshipped me.
- Panel 3
Thor: Some of those worlds, we saved—by which I mean, we killed everyone but cashed out their souls before the end.
Thor: Others we didn't.
Thor: And of course, we tried different things every time.
- Panel 4
Thor: That one was a gritty cyberpunk world. The one next to it was talking animals.
Thor: And the one behind it was gritty cyberpunk talking animals.
Thor: Your time was too short, Laser-Snail.
- Panel 5
Thor: Heck, one time we even tried a world with sentient movie theater snacks!
- Panel 6
Flashback to that world
Soda: Enjoy 32 oz. of vengeance—
Soda bisects Pizza with a "SLICE!"
Soda: —served ice cold!
- Panel 7
Thor: I mean, obviously we were scraping the bottom of the idea barrel when we came up with "self-aware stick figure fantasy parody."
Durkon: I wanna be offended by tha, but it explains so much.
- Panel 8
Thor: We've gotten better at extending the time each world survives. We're up to a few thousand years each, give or take.
Thor: But then rifts open, every time, and the Snarl starts reaching out and destroying stuff.
- Panel 9
Durkon: So then...thar's no point. Tha cycle'll keep goin' ferever. It's inevitable.
Durkon: Yer tellin' us we're just wastin' our time fightin' aginst it.
- Panel 10
Thor: What? No! The exact opposite!
Thor: I wanted you to fully appreciate the scale of the problem—and the once-in-an-eternity opportunity that your specific world has given us to change things—
Thor: —maybe forever!
- Panel 11
Thor: It would be a real jerk move on my part to bring you all the way out here just to rub your face in the futility of it all.
Thor: What kind of deity do you think I am?
- Panel 12
Durkon: Ye did almost give me friend Elan a colon tumor wit yer automated prayer system.
Thor: And you "almost" didn't bring that up, but here we are.
Trivia[]
- Thor's reference to Laser-Snail may be to an alternate incarnation of The Snail, the villain from the Dragon magazine Order of the Stick comics.
- Durkon brings up the colon tumor, a reference to ThorPrayer® from #7, "ThorPrayer" and #40 The Gods Must be Busy.
- This is the only other appearance of Pizza and Soda in the main comic. They also appear in #301, "A Brief Intermission". This time, Soda gets revenge on Pizza for killing Milk Dudes in their earlier appearance. They also appear in a bonus strip in Blood Runs in the Family.