Calder prepares himself for a quick meal.
Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
The panel shows Calder blasting himself and the Order with his fire breath.
Calder: Your one redeeming quality, Serini, is that you are ultimately so small-
- Panel 2
The panel shows Calder tossing the now tiny Bloodfeast into his mouth
Calder: -that I do not risk spoiling my appetite with a little snack first.
- Panel 3
The panel cuts to an enraged Beklar, still hanging on to Calder with his knife.
Belkar: HEY! Spit him out!
Belkar: If you swallow him whole, I'm just going to cut open your esophagus and fish him out anyway!
- Panel 4
The panel zooms out to show Calder twisting his neck to dodge Roy's sword being thrown while two of Haley's arrows hit him in the neck and the nose.
Calder: No need to worry, then.
Calder: I chew my food thoroughly.
- Panel 5
The panel shifts to a burnt and injured Vaarsuvius, clearly struggling to stand and weakly lifting their arm to cast a spell. An empty potion bottle is lying at their feet.
Vaarsuvius: Greater... Dispel Magic.
- Panel 6
The panel shows Vaarsuvius's magical aura penetrating Calder's mouth and enveloping Bloodfeast behind his teeth
Bloodfeast: Gyyaa! Gyyaa!
- Panel 7
The panel zooms in further on Bloodfeast, showing the pink magical aura growing more lively
Bloodfeast: ...Gyyaa?
- Panel 8
The panel zooms out fully showing Bloodfeast having been turned back into a full-sized Allosaurus while in Calder's mouth, nearly choking him. PONK!
Calder: LGLRNK!
D&D Context[]
- The breath weapon of an Ancient Red Dragon like Calder deals 20d10 points of Fire damage, with an average of 110 points of damage. However, Red Dragons themselves are immune to Fire damage, allowing Calder to blast himself with it in Panel 1 without damaging himself.
- The spell Vaarsuvius casts is Greater Dispel Magic, which adds a +20 to their dispel check instead of the +10 the non-Greater version of the spell gives.
- The spell Vaarsuvius dispels was Baleful Polymorph, a 5th level spell that allows the caster to turn a creature into a small creature with 1 HD or less. The effect is permanent, until dispelled.
Trivia[]
- The green potion Vaarsuvius had in their hands in the previous strip is shown empty on the ground, implying they drank it.
- This is the latest (and likely final) appeareance of the Polymorphed lizard form of Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator. He was turned into a lizard in #926 by Miron Shewdanker, 11 real-time years before this strip, and appeared in that form in a total of 34 strips.