Bandana explains dwarven concepts of territorial rights.
Cast[]
- Roy Greenhilt ◀ ▶
- Bandana Secundus ◀ ▶
- The Flumphs ◀
- Three Dwarves
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
The Mechane flies over Firmament at night.
- Panel 2
Roy: Is it going to be a problem with the dwarves that we're flying over their land?
Bandana: Nah. We do it all the time.
- Panel 3
Bandana: The dwarves control the mountains and the tunnels, and all the doors into them—
Bandana: —but they don't treat the sky above as part of their official territory or nothin'.
- Panel 4
Bandana: As long as the Mechane don't touch the ground, they won't bother us none.
Roy: Huh. Interesting. I wonder if that means—
- Panel 5
Cut to three dwarves encountering a pair of flumphs.
Dwarf #1: Let 'em thru, lass. Nuthin' we can do.
Dwarf #2: But Sarge—!
Flumph: Why can't more places we visit treat us this well?
- Panel 6
Cut back to the Mechane.
Roy: And couldn't an invader technically levitate their whole army over the—
Bandana: How the heck should I know?
Bandana: They fight trees! Dwarves're nuts!
D&D Context[]
- The Flumph is a D&D monster which is capable of hovering by expelling a jet of air under its jellyfish-like body. Thus when traveling through dwarven lands, it would not touch the ground.
Trivia[]
- This is the latest appearance of the pair of Flumphs thus far in the comic. They appeared in thirteen strips overall, mostly as part of the running gag. They first appeared as part of Dorukan's bestiary of 1st and 2nd edition monsters in #55, "One for the Old-Schoolers". Flumphs are a classic, if oft-maligned, monster from the 1981 Fiend Folio reference for AD&D (1st edition) which have been updated for all subsequent editions.