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*** [[It Got Worse|To make things worse]], Haley doesn't even ''have'' most of {{spoiler|her past few years' worth of loot}} any more, having lost {{spoiler|most of a dragon's hoard [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0245.html in a fire]}}. Just to break even, she'd have to {{spoiler|steal twice that much all over again and give it all to the Guild -- half belonging to the Guild outright, and the rest paying off her debt to them}}. Haley's solution? {{spoiler|Desert the guild all over again, killing [[Evil Counterpart|Crystal]] while she's at it,}} when the Order gets together again.

** Girard, one of the {{spoiler|creators of the Gates}}, was paranoid that his former associate {{spoiler|and fellow Gate-maker Soon}} would break their vow and try to interfere with {{spoiler|the Gates}}. So he gave {{spoiler|Soon, and nearly everyone else,}} the wrong coordinates, booby-trapped the decoy area, and gave the real location to the one person he trusted, {{spoiler|Serini}}. Thing is, his associate never broke his word, being a [[Honor Before Reason|paladin]]. When the decoy area is approached years later by the Order of the Stick to try and defend it from [[Big Bad|Xykon]], they're almost killed by Girard's paranoia and have no idea where the real location is. And guess who has his bony hands on {{spoiler|Serini's diary}}?

{{quote|'''Lirian:''' Even if you locate them, my friends will stop you from {{spoiler|conquering the other four Gates.}}

''([[Beat Panel]])''

** Vaarsuvius, while drunk on {{spoiler|the power of three epic evil spellcasters}}, defeats a black dragon that was menacing [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her]] family. He/she casts {{spoiler|the genocidal spell ''Familicide'' on the dragon, exterminating the dragon's entire bloodline}}. Later it's revealed that {{spoiler|Girard Draketooth, the epic-level illusionist that is charged with protecting one of the all-important Gates,}} was the grandson of a relative of said dragon. Thus he and his family {{spoiler|were wiped out by the spell, leaving the Gate defenseless}}.

* In the first chapter of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony helps a lost [[Living Shadow|Shadow-Man]] return to his [[The Lost Woods|forest home]], by assembling a Robot to escort him there (since the rules prohibited Annie from going herself). She also tells Robot that he only has to return to the Court afterwards if he wants to, so he decides to go exploring the woods. Several chapters later, Robot returns, [[Demonic Possession|possessed]] by another, violent and malicious shadow-creature, and the process of stopping the shadow results in Robot getting impaled on a [[BFS]] and deactivated. A few chapters later, Annie finds out that the people of the forest have not been on good terms with the Court for the past decade, and that they [[Magic Versus Science|hate technology on principle]]. Nice job completely screwing over your friend ''and'' causing a diplomatic crisis, hero.

* During the "Sin City" (no, [[Sin City|not that one]]) [[Story Arc|arc]] of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', Dominic reveals to The Infernomancer that the demon lord he was supposedly bound to serve didn't have control over him, meaning he didn't have to follow any orders. The Infernomancer's response? "Now I get to kill you the way I've always wanted to -- ''slowly!''"

** Not to mention the "War In Hell" arc, where Dominic helps out Karnak the whole time only to realize he probably shouldn't have been helping Karnak this whole time.