Re: Order of the Stick
About the level of Moustache Dude (aka Thanh): When Tsukiko threatened to make him play pattycake with the wight, the Azurite hiding in the crate with Haley said that he "won't make it to the end of the second line before he's a lifeless husk".
When playing pattycake, you alternately clap your own hands together, and slap the hand of the person you're playing with, while singing the following song. I'll use round brackets () to represent syllables on which you clap your own hands, and square brackets [] for syllables on which you touch your partner:
(Patty)-[cake] (patty)-[cake], (bake)-[er's] (man) []
(Bake) [me] (a cake) [as] (fast) [as you] (can) []
Every time Thanh touches the wight (represented by square brackets [] in the text above), he loses a level. There are eight such touches in the first two lines - so, if Thanh "won't make it to the end of the second line", we know that he must have no more than seven levels to lose.
As Inu said, we know that he's over level four, because he was able to turn a wight. So, we can confidently state that his level is somewhere in the range 5-7.
(Hey - who would have thought that a knowledge of children's nursery rhymes would be useful here?)
