Haley, V, and Belkar find Serini's secret lair.
Cast[]
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Lien attempts to get out of the chains that bind her in Serini's base. O-Chul watches, still bound.'
Lien: Almost... got it...
- Panel 2
Serini appears suddenly using her wand, startling the Paladins. POP!
Lien: Aaaah!
Serini: Calm down. I got no time for your lame-ass escape attempt.
- Panel 3
Serini hops from the ledge the Paladins are kept on, down to her wardrobe.
Serini: These adventurers are a little bit trickier than I thought they'd be, but nothing I can't handle.
Serini: Just need to dig deeper into my bag of tricks. Get out some stuff I was saving for a rainy day.-
Serini: And a new crossbow, can't forget that.
- Panel 4
O-Chul: If the Order is more powerful than you judged them to be, why can you not believe they are strong enough to defeat Xyon?
O-Chul: Then none of us would need to be fighting each other!
- Panel 5
Serini: You don't understand. Xykon is unbeatable, period!
Serini: He beat Dorukan and Lirian!
- Panel 6
Lien: And you! You think he's unbeatable just because he beat you!
- Panel 7
Serini takes off her magical glasses.
Serini: Of course I think that! He ripped me apart like I was a bundle of twigs!
Serini Dor and Liri were so much better than me, and he killed them both!
- Panel 8
A patch of the ceiling glows pink. Serini talks from off-panel.
Serini: I'm only alive because I wasn't important enough for him to make sure I was dead!
- Panel 9
A hole appears in the ceiling of Serini's base. Belkar, Haley and Vaarsuvius drop in through it, Vaarsuvius flying.
Belkar: Fire in the hole!
Belkar: Meaning me. I'm fire.
- Panel 10
Haley and Belkar touch down to the ground behind Serini.
Serini: Aww, damn it! How did they get in here so quick?
- Panel 11
Haley: Serini, just stop this and let us talk to oh my gods is that Lien? And O-Chul?
Haley: You're the one who captured the paladins?!? Ugh, you totally suck, lady!
- Panel 12
Lien: Should we be worried that it's only half the team?
O-Chul: No, no. I've done this before with just the wizard.
O-Chul: Five stars, would be rescued by again.
D&D Context[]
- Serini uses a "teleportation wand", perhaps enchanted with Dimension Door, to enter her base.
- Haley, Belkar, and Vaarsuvius made use of a scroll of Passwall that V brought out in the previous episode.
Trivia[]
- When the comic was released, "Dorukan" in panel 5 was initially misspelled "Dorukon". This was quickly fixed.
- Lirian and Dorukan were defeated by Xykon during the events of Start of Darkness.
- O-Chul is referring to the events that took place from "Two Eyes in the Dark", when Vaarsuvius stormed Xykon's tower while they were empowered by the Soul Splice, to "The Path of Least Expectation", where O-Chul and Vaarsuvius manage to escape Xykon's grasp (with the unknown help from the Monster in the Darkness).
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