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- Panel 1
Elan: What if... what if we have a bit where we need to get over a pit, right?
Elan: So Mimi makes herself into a basket and Sunny carries us in it, so it looks like a hot air balloon?
Roy: It's a funny image, but I don't see a pit. And I'm pretty sure we were jumping over pits on our own at the beginning of the story.
- Panel 2
Elan: Oh yeah. How about... Belkar and I could be drawing glasses and a mustache on one of the frozen
Elan: And you could be looking on in stern disapproval?
Roy: Again, that feels like the same sort of prank you guys were doing to me back then.
- Panel 3
Elan: Maybe we can frame it as an intentional callback.
Roy: At the cost of undercutting everyone's personal development since then?
Elan: *sigh* You're right.
- Panel 4
Elan: Oh! Oh! I've got it!
Elan: Haley could be doing the limbo under one of those danger reality threads, while I played music!
Elan: That's a good gag and it directly relates to the plot!
- Panel 5
Roy: Elan, please stop. We don't have time for this.
Elan: But we're almost at the Montage Event Horizon-
Elan: -the last point where we can reasonably slip in a series of purely visual joke before everything starts popping off!
- Panel 6
Roy: I don't know what to tell you.
Roy: Best I can say is that we started this page with a clean break, so maybe there will be a bonus page added back there.
Elan: True. I'm sure later we will have always just had a pretty funny joke.
- Panel 7
Elan: I'm just worried there won't be much for me to do from now on.
Elan: Once it gets started, the endgame has a tendency to play out all by itself.
- Panel 8
Elan: Strictly speaking, you don't need a bard to get you through the climax!
Haley: I know, honey, but I appreciate you being there anyway.
- Panel 9
Roy: Elan, I really don't think your contributions to the team are limited to your narrative understanding.
Roy: But if it'll make you feel better, we can have one more slapstick gag before we get to the serious stuff.
Elan: Really??
Roy: Really.
Serini: No, Starlight, not that-
- Panel 10
BONK!
- Panel 11
Elan: Whew! Thanks, Roy! That really takes the edge off!
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Roy promises "one more slapstick gag" in this strip, but the next strip opens with another slapstick gag.
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