Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1, Page 1
Nale: Well, not that this wasn't a fun reunion, but we're no closer to forging the connection with the Giant Blood Fountain.
Thog: thog knows how to make one of those. thog needs axe and person with a neck.
Sabine: Actually, can I have a word in private, babe?
- Panel 2, Page 1
Thog: oh! it's time for thog to play the face-other-direction-and-pretend-not-to-hear-squishy-noises game!
Nale: Ha, not this time, apparently, but not for lack of trying on my part.
- Panel 3, Page 1
Sabine: Hey, OK, so, do you remember what my bosses said about opening the link?
Nale: Yes? It was less than an hour ago.
- Panel 4, Page 1
Nero: Once you're both back in the material world, use this dagger to make a blood sacrifice.
Cedrik: The victim must be a servant that has helped you achieve success in the past.
Lee: And don't try to loophole it by cutting up your best boots or whatever. It needs to bleed, that's why it's a blood sacrifice.
- Panel 5, Page 1
Sabine: I'll be honest, I was feeling pretty bad about this.
Sabine: But apparently, he'll be excited to see the big dog again, so it's win-win all around.
- Panel 6, Page 1
Nale: ...
Nale: You want me to sacrifice Thog?!?
- Panel 7, Page 1
Sabine: Oh! Was that a mistake? I'm sorry, I just thought-
Sabine: I mean, we always do plans like that, where we expect him getting killed in the process, so I figured...
Nale: No, you're right. We do always make plans like that. You didn't do anything wrong.
- Panel 8, Page 1
Nale: But Thog is my oldest ally- my oldest friend- and for some reason, he's always had my back.
Nale: I think...maybe it's time I started having his. Or at least, not sticking a knife in it.
- Panel 9, Page 1
Nale: That sort of loyalty is something I used to reject as being silly and weak, precisely because it was a lesson my father tried to teach me.
Nale: But being free from his grasp means not reflexively rejecting a good idea just because he had it first.
- Panel 10, Page 1
Nale: Besides, I have a different idea.
Nale: Sacrifice a servant, and it has to bleed, right?
- Panel 11, Page 1
Nale hold up the blade.
- Panel 12, Page 1
SKLRTCH!
Sabine: *gasp!*
- Panel 1, Page 2
Nale stab himself in the face.
Nale: Nnnnngh!
- Panel 2, Page 2
Nale: There.
Nale: Done.
- Panel 3, Page 2
Sabine: Oh, Nale...
Nale: My face has served me well in the past-
Nale: -but no one will ever mistake me for Elan ever again.
- Panel 4, Page 2
Nale: Or a magically de-aged Tarquin.
Nale: Which I know sounds like it wouldn't be a thing someone meeting me for the first time should assume, but it's happened to me twice.
- Panel 5, Page 2
Beat
- Panel 6, Page 2
Nale: Huh. I don't feel any different.
Sabine: Maybe it didn't work?
Nale: I guess. Maybe I didn't go deep enough to guarantee a permanent-
- Panel 7, Page 2
Souls suddenly erupt from the ground, engulfing Nale. BWOMMM!
D&D Context[]
Trivia[]
- This is the latest appearance of:
- Cedrik, Lee, and Nero, the Directors of the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission. They first appeared in #380 and have made twenty-nine appearances.
- The fourth panel shows Nero pulling up his sleeve as he reaches into the fountain, revealing that he has green skin and that the Directors have been wearing red gloves.
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