Cast[]
- Order of the Stick
- Order of the Scribble
- Sapphire Guard
- Sunny ◀ ▶
- Minrah Shaleshoe ◀ ▶
- Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator ◀ ▶
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Haley: Huh. That is...a plan, isn’t it? I guess I should commend you on fitting in with our bad ideas.
Vaarsuvius: You do seem to have intuited the exact range of options we are typically foolish enough to consider.
Minrah: Um thanks? I guess?
Belkar: Hey, any chance you can all stop doing that thing where you all talk without explicitly explaining what’s going on?
Belkar: Some of us get by on our dashing good looks rather than our brains.
Elan: You too?
- Panel 2
Minrah: Oh, I’m sorry, Belkar. You’re right, I was being rude. Bloodfeast is your dinosaur friend, after all.
Belkar: Uh, well... OK, then. So spit it out.
- Panel 3
Minrah: The idea is this:
Minrah: Sunny uses their eye-beam to petrify Bloodfeast, then Vaarsuvius casts Shrink Item on him.
Minrah: Since he’ll be made of stone, it should make him tiny so you can carry him with you.
- Panel 4
Belkar: You want to intentionally turn Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator to stone?!?
Minrah: Yes! I mean, no, I don’t want to. But that’s the best plan we have right now.
- Panel 5
Roy: If we get to the last room and there’s enough space, we can turn him back to help us defend the Gate.
Roy: Otherwise, we’ll do it when we leave the dungeon.
Roy: If we win.
Roy: If we don’t, he’ll probably outlast all of us anyway.
- Panel 6
Belkar: I suppose that makes sense. What’s the catch?
Roy: The catch?
Roy: The catch is everything we just said. It’s basically 100% catch. He’ll be tiny and stone and not able to help out.
Roy: The only upside is it might work.
- Panel 7
Sunny: Hey, so... how come nobody’s asking me if I’m OK with this?
Durkon: I dinnae rememb’r ye balkin’ when ye turn’d me ta stone back ‘n tha caves.
- Panel 8
Sunny: Yeah, but like...only because I know Mom carries around an herbal antidote. You were never going to stay stone for long.
Sunny: I’m not really comfortable with the idea of doing it to someone long term. Or even semi-long term.
- Panel 9
Belkar: The creepy ball of eyes makes a good point. What if the rest of you get killed and I’m stuck with a stone dinosaur?
Roy: That’s not- I don’t think that’s necessarily the direction-
Elan: If Serini has an antidote, she can just give it to you!
- Panel 10
Sunny: Oh, that’s a great idea! I’d feel a lot better about it, in that case.
Serini: Hold on, I’ve only got one dose on me and I need to keep it available just in case.
Serini: That stuff doesn’t just grow on trees, you know.
- Panel 11
Sunny: Um...
Serini: No, those are deciduous shrubs and you know that!
D&D Context[]
Trivia[]
- The title makes a reference to the last panel's punchline (roses being deciduous shrubs)
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