Durkon and Hilgya come to an understanding on Kudzu.
Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Durkon: Och, good, yer still 'ere.
Hilgya: Yeah, well, plate armor isn't really designed for quick breastfeeding.
- Panel 2
Durkon: Listen, Hilgya, I—
Hilgya: Forget it.
Durkon: Huh?
Hilgya: I know what you're about to ask me.
- Panel 3
Hilgya: You're going to ask me to come on your big heroic quest to save the world.
Hilgya: So I repeat: Forget it. It's not happening.
Hilgya: We're staying here and bugging out to another plane the moment you and your friends screw it up. I'm thinking Plane of Earth, but I'm flexible.
- Panel 4
Durkon: Good.
Hilgya: What?
- Panel 5
Durkon: I gotta mission from Thor now, bigger'n tha one b'fore. I'm na gonna be able ta concentrate if'n I'm worried aboot Kudzu.
Durkon: I'm na gonna lie an' say we couldnae use more magic power, but if yer na gonna come wit us, at least yer keepin' 'im safe.
- Panel 6
Durkon: I konw I can count on yer total willin'ness ta run at tha first sign o' trouble.
Hilgya: Well, one of us needs to model rational behavior for him.
- Panel 7
Kudzu: gwoo!
- Panel 8
Durkon: I'm gonna be part o' tha lad's life, ye know. When this all be done.
Durkon: We can work it out b'tween us or we can go ta tha Grand Arbiter, wha'ev'r ye want. But I'm na givin' up on 'im.
Hilgya: I know.
- Panel 9
Hilgya: He needs you to come back alive for that, you know.
Durkon: I know.
- Panel 10
beat
- Panel 11
Hilgya: Did your dumb drunk cloud god give you enough time to hold him before you go?
Durkon: Aye, if'n yer greedy selfish thief god'll let ye hand 'im off fer one minute.
Kudzu: gla!
- Panel 12
Durkon holds his son.
D&D Context[]
- The Plane of Earth is one of the Inner Planes in D&D cosmology. This organization of the multiverse was first put forth by Gary Gygax in Dragon #8 in 1977.