The Order discovers one of Serini's cost-cutting measures.
Cast[]
- Order of the Stick
- Order of the Scribble
- Sapphire Guard
- Sunny ◀ ▶
- Mimi ◀ ▶
- Mr. Scruffy ◀ ▶
- Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator ◀ ▶
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
The panel shows Serini, Mimi, O-Chul, Elan, and Haley standing around the start of the walkway, with Sunny having already started to cross it while Serini points downwards off the walkway.
Serini: Sunny, wait, we're not going across.
Serini: We actually want to go over the edge and down off the path.
- Panel 2
The panel shows Sunny, Serini, Mimi, O-Chul, and Belkar on the walkway, with the Mimic giving a thumbs-up to Serini's question as O-Chul peers down over the walkway's edge.
Serini: Mimi, can you handle being a ladder that long?
O-Chul: What is...?
- Panel 3
The panel focuses on Belkar and O-Chul, with the halfling jumping off the walkway backwards while holding Bloodfeast and Mr. Scruffy against himself.
Belkar: I'm not waiting for the Goo Girl when I've got Feather Fall. See you at the bottom, ladder losers.
O-Chul: Belkar, wait!
- Panel 4
The panel shows Mimi, O-Chul, and Serini.
O-Chul: Toormuck, is that what I think it is down there?
Serini: I'm not a psion! How should I know what you think it is?
O-Chul: I think it's a giant sea of acid!!
- Panel 5
The panel shows Belkar in mid-fall, holding Bloodfeast and Mr. Scruffy against his body.
Belkar: Excuse me?
- Panel 6
The panel shows the supports for the walkway, emerging from a green liquid.
Serini: (off-panel) Oh yeah, that does sound familiar.
- Panel 7
The panel shifts back to Belkar still in mid-fall, now holding the two animals against his head while they are squirming in his hands. gyaa! mrawr! mrawr!
Belkar: Both of you stay still!
Belkar: I'll try to tread water but I'm too dynamic of a character to do it for long!
- Panel 8
The panel shows Serini pointing at Sunny while Durkon and O-Chul run towards the walkway's edge.
Serini: Sunny! Telekinesis!
Durkon: Na time! Mass Resist Acid!
- Panel 9
The panel shows Durkon's spell engulfing Belkar and the animals still in mid-fall, but now only slightly above the green liquid covering the floor.
- Panel 10
The panel shifts back to the group on the walkway, showing Durkon's spell engulf them.
O-Chul: Whew!
Durkon: Tha good news's tha now we're all protect'd, so we can-
Serini: No, wait, now I remember. It's just a few inches of water with green dye in it.
- Panel 11
The panel shows Belkar standing in the green liquid, looking down at it while still holding Bloodfeast and Mr. Scruffy against his head.
- Panel 12
The panel shifts back to the walkway again, with O-Chul and Durkon glaring at Serini while Roy has a confused expression.
Serini: It tricks intruders into wasting spells without giving them a hazard they can push the monsters into.
Serini: Definitely not 'cause I spent this room's whole budget on the walkway, I don't even know who told you that.
D&D Context[]
- Resist Acid is a special case of Resist Energy, which gives one creature protection against one of the five damage types (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic) for ten minutes per caster level, reducing the damage they take from the chosen type by 10. The Mass version divides the protection among a number of creatures in ten-minute intervals.
- Belkar possesses a ring of Feather Fall, slowing any fall he takes to a descent speed of 60 feet per round and ensuring he takes no fall damage upon landing.
- Psions, particularly Telepath psions, are known for their abundance of mind-reading and mind-affecting abilities, such as the powers Read Thoughts and Mind Probe. Within the OOTS world, Laurin Shattersmith, a member of Tarquin's Vector Legion, is a prominent and powerful Psion.