Serini has been brought down to earth.
Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Serini Toormuck hits the ground, with Haley on top of her. THUNK!
Serini: Unnnh!
Elan: Neutralize Poison!
The spell's blue aura engulfs Vaarsuvius.
Belkar: I don't really feel that action scenes add much.
- Panel 2
Sunny, their central eye closed again, fires an orange beam downwards with one of their smaller eyes.
Sunny: Let go of my mother!!
- Panel 3
The orange beam hits Haley, charming her. Serini is smiling beneath her.
Haley: Yes, of course. I will do that, because we are good friends now.
- Panel 4
Haley: I do, however, need to first be certain that this invisible squirming thing i'm holding is, in fact your mother.
Haley: There's no definite way for me to determine that, and I'd hate to do anything that wasn't explicitly what you asked.
Serini: Get off me!!
Haley: Quiet, unidentified creature.
- Panel 5
Elan helps Vaarsuvius stand up.
Elan: She's fighting the charm! V, do something before she runs out of barely plausible loopholes!
Haley (off-panel): Also, did you mean "let go" physically, or in the broader emotional sense? Because I would argue-
- Panel 6
Vaarsuvius: Dis...
Vaarsuvius: ...pel
Vaarsuvius: Magic.
The spell breaks the effects on Vaarsuvius, Elan, Haley and Belkar, as well as removing Serini's invisibility.
Haley: Oh good. That one was gonna be a stretch, even for me.
- Panel 7
Belkar points at Serini with his right hand.
Belkar: You're a halfling?? What the hell happened to your voice?
Serini: I don't know, what the hell happened to your face?
Belkar: Yeah, that was my next question.
- Panel 8
Haley: Wait, wasn't this whole place built by a halfling? That's you, right?
Serini: Look at you, Little Miss Detective. Someone get this woman a tweed cap and a pipe.
- Panel 9
Vaarsuvius walks up to Serini.
Vaarsuvius: Serini Toormuck, we are the Order of the-
Serini: I know who you are, you absolute dunce-waffle!! You've been cold calling me for weeks!
- Panel 10
Flashback to Vaarsuvius contacting Serini via Sending while she is watering some plants.
Vaarsuvius (via Sending): Order of the Stick to Serini Toormuck: We are working to safeguard your colleagues'-
- Panel 11
Flashback to Vaarsuvius contacting Serini via Sending while the latter sleeps in bed and is woken up.
Vaarsuvius (via Sending): Order of the Stick to Serini Toormuck:
- Panel 12
Flashback to Vaarsuvius contacting Serini via Sending while the latter is sitting on the toilet, reading something that looks like a newspaper and looking irritated.
Vaarsuvius (via Sending): Order of the Stick to-
- Panel 13
Serini: I'm not exactly on a high fiber diet up here, you know!
Serini: At my age, a girl's gonna focus!
Belkar: Our elders really do hold the wisdom of our people.
D&D Context[]
- Neutralize Poison is a 4th level spell for bards which works as the name of the spell suggests.
- V takes longer to cast Dispel Magic due to the slowing effect they are under.
- In the flashback panels, V uses the 5th level spell Sending to contact Serini. If the recipient of a Sending does not respond, the caster has no way to know if the message was received.
Trivia[]
- In Panel 8, Serini references Sherlock Holmes with his pipe and deerstalker cap.