Dvalin refuses to cast the tie-breaking vote without consulting the Council of Clans.
Cast[]
- Roy Greenhilt ◀ ▶
- Durkon Thundershield (as vampire) ◀ ▶
- High Priests of the Northern Pantheon
- "Durkon" ◀ ▶
- High Priestess of Odin (also possessed) ◀ ▶
- High Priestess of Freya ◀ ▶
- High Priestess Rubyrock (possessed) ◀ ▶
- High Priest of Mani ◀ ▶
- High Priest of Freyr ◀ ▶
- High Priest of Heimdall ◀ ▶
- High Priest of Loki ◀ ▶
- Gods of the Asgardian Pantheon
- Veldrina ◀ ▶
- Gontor Hammerfell (as vampire and in gaseous form) ◀ ▶
- Representative of the Southern Pantheon ◀ ▶
- High Priests of the Northern Demigods
- Demigods of the Asgardian Pantheon
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Veldrina: So, wait... Hermod was only the sixth vote. Who's left?
High Priestess of Freya: Dvalin.
High Priest of Freyr: What? No!
Representative of the Southern Pantheon: Why? What's wrong with Dvalin? Is he an ally of Hel's?
High Priest of Mani: Not at all, but... well, you'll see.
- Panel 2
Odin: Dvalin, First King of the Dwarves—you are the last of the Northern Gods remaining. How do you vote?
Dvalin: Lord Odin, I have no desire to see my people condemned to Hel's care.
- Panel 3
Dvalin: However, I cannot vote at this time. I must consult the dwarven Council of Clans before coming to any decision.
- Panel 4
Roy: You've got to be kidding me!! Now the tiebreaker needs a tiebreaker?!?
"Durkon": I'm told he's never cast his vote without polling them first.
- Panel 5
Thor: King Davlin [sic], please! You can end this right now!
Dvalin: When I was a mortal monarch, I swore an oath to obey the will of the Council on issues affecting all the clans.
Dvalin: That promise still stands despite my subsequent death and deification.
- Panel 6
High Priestess of Odin: Then this convocation shall pause while the clans are assembled and polled. Let the proxies be dismissed until such time.
- Panel 7
Hel: I suppose I will need to wait a bit longer. See you soon, Father—when we meet to create the next world.
Hel: My world!
Loki: Yeah, yeah.
High Priestess of Odin: Let all who have a formal role remain sequestrated here, so as to not influence the outcome.
High Priestess of Odin: No attendee shall pass through this hall's arches until this issue is resolved!
- Panel 8
Veldrina: What is she saying? Is she saying we all have to stay here? For how long?
High Priestess of Freya: Until the heads of the dwarven clans can assemble their council and vote.
High Priest of Freyr: Last time this happened, it took two days.
High Priest of Mani: I bring snacks now, just in case.
- Panel 9
Gontor Hammerfell's mist form sneaks into the antilife shell behind Roy.
Roy: Ok... well... that's not... too bad, I guess.
Roy: He can't have prepared this spell enough times to hide in there for two days.
Roy: And even if he did, if standing there is what it takes to keep the world from blowing up...
- Panel 10
Roy: Because let's be honest, there's no way a bunch of dwarven bigwigs vote to hand over their race to Hel, right?
Gontor Hammerfell: Master! I brought the teleport orb so we can escape and dominate all the dwarven elders!
"Durkon": I should be mad at you for spilling that, but your timing there was just so perfect.
Trivia[]
- The title could be an oblique reference to the song King of Wishful Thinking from the soundtrack of the 1990 film Pretty Woman. The song peaked a #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- Alternatively, it could be a more obscure reference to the song Concrete by Tennessee indie rock band, The Features, the first line of which is, "I am the king of indecision".
- In panel 5, Dvalin is misspelled as “Davlin”.